has anyone ever... used meditation and metaphysical imagery for healing?

[LadyDracona1984]

used meditation and metaphysical iamgery for healing? it's just an idea i'm having and i'm wondering if anyone else has had it or used it before me?

situation: my arthritis is flaring and i feel like someone has stuck a knife in my knee so i was thinking of going into a meditation state pulling said knife out of knee and imagining the wound healing in order to get rid of the pain... only i'm not sure how well it would work cause i've never read anything about that kind fo healing....

any advice?

[Viseux]

Yes, Yes, Yes!

It does work and you can do it just as you have explained it.

I often use the same technique on exactly the same problem and it works!

I also have cartilage damage so I often also imagine workers inside my knees smoothing the surfaces.

Blessings,
Viseux

[LadyDracona1984]

cool!!! what i thought was an original though wasn't and it actually works!! sweetness!!! so gonna have to try that this afternoon after classes (right now too much to do to get a proper meditation done grr... )

and it is very sad i'm happy about an unoriginal thought... yeah....


_wth_

[ShamanFeather]

Another good thing to try is if you work well with color is to imagine the pain leaving (which is usually red to me but sometimes is dark or even yellow depending on what kind) and another color entering. Lots of times green for general healing, blue for fever and soothing inflamation, white is a good all purpose.

If you get into color healing ted andrews has a very good book on it.

[arctic splash]

Working with colours is a good way to get into visualisation. Here's a good basic description of colours and their healing properties: http://www.crystalinks.com/colors.html.

There are two forms of visualisation that I'm aware of. In the first, you visualise the virus or the pain and then imagine it being conquered and disappearing and your becoming whole again. In the second, you simply visualise yourself as whole and already healed, without first imagining the ailment. One of these might work better for you than the other.

I had warts in the worst place -- on the palm of my hands -- for years. I decided to spend a few minutes every day telling them to go away. I would imagine them getting smaller and weaker. Maybe three or four days after I started this, I looked at my hand, and they were completely gone!

So, it does work...

[Ron]

Well I do. :) Usually I warm up with physical techniques, then I "trance out" (a new term which I have just coined lol, whereby a meditative state is enduced) and go through the metaphysical imagery.

:) I use it for muscle pain, also for cuts and wounds on others, as well as myself.

I wonder if I could use this to scratch my back. :lol: Golly, I'm a lazy wanker.

[LadyDracona1984]

now you guys got me on research mode (thanks for the website by the way) so i'm gonna be spending all night researching versus doing this instead of homework that i have due in two weeks... oh what am i complaining about....

here's to reasearch!

[Syrena]

Oh yes, I have used color healing with meditations, and also affirmations from Louise L. Haye's book, "Heal Your Body".

[blueiris]

Yes, it can work. I use it sometimes because I have really terrible chronic headaches, and on occasion it does work. I just imagine the headache being pulled out and dissolving into nothingness. I would at least try it, it can't hurt right?

[starfish]

Wow, what an interesting thread!

I have to most highly recommend reading Brandon Bays book The Journey, or listen to her tape that guides you through the meditations. She had a football sized tumor in her belly, and through visualizations she cured herself. She now uses this meditation to help thousands of other people heal. It is really an amazing story.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind also says that by visualizing and telling your body that you are perfectly whole and healthy several times a day will make it so.

Using visualizations of the cancer being destroyed has been shown to be one of the most powerful ways to heal from cancer.

I just came back from a Vipassana meditation center, and just by focusing ony the sensations of the body, all of the negative emotions and habits are gently released permanently. Very powerful.

Belleruth Naparstek sells beautiful guided visualization cd's for almost all ailments.

[Teresa]

:crystalba It works Great!

[Kalika]

Yes, I've used it before... actually, quite often, because I have (well, used to have) severe migraines.

Having a visual on the pain helps the process, like you said, imagining pulling the "knife" out of your knee.

Also, visualizing the area filling with a healing white (or whatever color you may find soothing) light after you have removed the source of the pain, has always seemed to help me also.

Good luck!

Kalika

[Tranquility]

This is to a much smaller extent to some of the otehr posts, but I normally will use visualizations to relieve pain such as with stomach aches that can be really painful, headaches, etc. I Just visualize placing a poultice on the afflicted place, and then after focusing energy into the area, a while light comes and sweeps away the pain. In a matter of 5 minutes I can normally relieve a stomach ache to nothing.

[Ninyve]

awesome thread... i'm going to have to try this... hurt my back gardening the other day

what other visualisations do people use?

[rosewoodsea]

for the book reference :muwaha: And Tranquility...Thanks for the truly great quotes!!!!!!!!

[lilacsky]

hello everyone,
I have a few things to add here,
I think affirmations are just as effective as visualizations, perhaps they take longer, but if you are focused on yourintent while your repeat them, you are bound to see results from it within a matter of time.
In fact I recite simple affirmations daily, just to keep my subconscious clear on what it is that I am seeking or needing more of in my life.
I would suggest a trying a few for a month, repear them everyday and say them with as much feeling as possible, and also you can visualize while you say them, which combined can create even faster results,here are a few...
"I am healthy and painfree"
"I am strong and healthy"
"I am happy,healthy and a free of pain"
envison your desired result as it is!
Act as if you are allready pain free and you shall be!
that go's with any affirmations you choose to do, if we act as if we all ready have these things, we will!
another thing I do is take baths, the heat is known to break up tension in the muscles,I take very hot baths, and let the steam take my pain away, as its evaporating into the air, I focus on my healthy body, this has saved me several times, no matter what the cause of pain was,
hope that was helpful for you!

Lilacsky

[Psyche Ague]

That's how I heal normally. Pain is just energy, like everything else and magick just manipulates that energy that is all around us.