Health Weblog » healing http://www.healthweblog.info Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:36:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Healing Ourselves, Healing The Planet http://www.healthweblog.info/healing/healing-ourselves-healing-the-planet http://www.healthweblog.info/healing/healing-ourselves-healing-the-planet#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:50:29 +0000 admin http://www.healthweblog.info/?p=38 It seems that the world is noisier now than it has ever been, in some cities and countries reaching almost intolerable decibels.  Around the world wars have increased, and the eruption of guns firing and bombs detonating fill the air. The intense and angry shouts of conflicting political and religious zealots merge into inarticulate racket. Everything is faster, noisier, and more “extreme.” What doesn’t annoy our ears, offends our eyes. Billboards, once just unsightly, now digitally light up the night with advertisements. Intrusive advertisements sail across our computer monitors like phantoms, and then stop, concealing our ability to read more relevant words beneath them. Too often, what we see is horrifying. The media presents filmed reports, over and over again, of acts of violence and horrific events that have caused pain and suffering. Where can we go to find peace? How can we get there from here? Peace can be found within each of us, at the still, quiet core of our being. And we can find it through meditation.

By closing our eyes and turning away from the world, we find what seemed impossible and elusive, but was always there…peace. As we slow the pace of our breathing and allow our body to let go of stress and anxiety… we find peace. As we slow the crazy pace of our thoughts, until they seem to gently drift, like falling leaves, and then settle into quietness…we find peace.

This type of meditation enlivens every cell, fiber, and tissue of our being. Therefore, this type of meditation can be healing. This type of meditation stops the jabber of our mind. Therefore, this type of meditation can be revealing.

The stressful conditions of body and mind disappear when we meditate in this way, and many times they do not come back when we open our eyes and face the world again. The peace that we have experienced within transforms into the peace of our actions in the world.

It is, perhaps, more vital than ever for each of us to meditate — to heal ourselves and, therefore, to heal the world.

Technorati Tags: , , ,

]]> http://www.healthweblog.info/healing/healing-ourselves-healing-the-planet/feed 0