Our mind is the most powerful weapon. One of this ability is helping to heal our body. How, you ask?

It’s simply the way you think can change the way you feel.

In a contest between the mind and body, it is the former that triumphs over the latter:  Mind over body all day, every day and twice on Sunday.

It then follows that the mind is so powerful that it can heal the body. The mind can also be used to overcome and contain anxiety, amongst many other things that it can achieve. This post will hold your hand and take you on the easy step by step process of healing meditation.

The mind doesn’t automatically summon its power at the point of crisis. It is a deliberate effort to engage that amazing ability of the mind. The mind taps into that special ability to self-heal through the process of meditation.

Meditation is the mental practice of getting to a heightened spiritual level training his attention on a specific subject for a few minutes.

The main idea is using meditation to transform the mind, which in turn transforms the body.

In our case, it will be about how to use the mind to get to the level where we can apply healing to the part of the body that needs it. But a bit about meditation.

There are two major types of meditation:-

• Passive meditation
• Active meditation.

Passive meditation is the kind where you focus on your breathing that seeks to clear the mind and offer tranquillity.

Active meditation, on the other hand, is not aimed at emptying the mind but on straining it intently on a particular subject for a few minutes.

Active meditation brings positive change in our bodies and lives by extension. It can be channelled and used as the key to unlocking the doors of your mind for healing.

This post will dwell on it and is going to teach you how to use it (active meditation) to deal with anxiety and heal your body.

• Meditation enhances discipline
• It makes one happier and healthier
• It slows down the ageing process
• It provides emotional stability
• It makes you reach a point of the highest consciousness
• It generally makes one a calmer person
• It enhances sound sleep for proper functions of the body
• It enhances a better understanding of self
• It leads to better concentration
• It helps reduce stress
• It enhances energy gain.

The self-healing meditation process involves visualizing a corrective attendance on the issue on the part of your body that is injured or that which needs healing.

Let’s take an instance where you have a headache. Here is the process of applying meditation to self-heal it.

• Get yourself to a quiet space that has little or no chance of distraction.
• Take a minute and focus on the head or part of it that is paining.
• Now close your eyes and direct your mental attention on the spot of the head that is emanating the pain.
• Then imagine your immune system as an army of soldiers marching towards the spot on the head that the pain is emanating from and attending to it. Give “them” a minute to finish up and then see them march off as the grip of the pain eases off.

If you are having pain in any other area of your body, you can visualize your immune system as a legion of firefighters marching around your body but towards the area that is experiencing pain. Then visualize the firefighters pouring a cooling viscous liquid on the pain area. You can further visualize the pain area change color from red (pain) and darkening as it smoulders to signify the cooling and, thus, painlessness.

Another approach that can be combined or applied in alternation to the above is the use of speech. You speak aloud about what you want that part of the body that is in pain should hear. Still on headache, as an example again, you can say “ Enough now Head, stop that banging. I need you to stop that. I need you to ease up and be still, Now!!!”

Our bodies and by extension, parts of them are amazingly able to hear and obey what we tell them. So when you tell it something enough times and with the fitting conviction, it will hear you enough to believe you enough to enable you to get the desired result.

M​editation is the buffer against stress. When you meditate you use the breathing techniques. That helps your body to lower blood pressure and also can increase the antioxidant level, protecting you from oxidative stress.

Meditation helps you find your inner self and peace. It can boost your happiness and can give you the strength to demolish your problems.

Meditation can boost essential brain chemicals such as serotonin and endorphins. It also increases your body’s production of human growth hormone (HGH) and reduces cortisol.

Studies show that meditators were essentially telling their body to stress less and age more slowly.

They will be more effective if you believe they work. When the mind is believing in the effect of the medicament you get, it makes it work. That is called the placebo effect. For example, if you give someone just a sugar cube. Say this is one magical sweet cube and will make you happy. Not because of the effect of the sugar, but because they will believe in your words.

S​leeping well is so important for feeling refreshed.

It’s easy to make it possible using just one little trick. Before you go to bed write 3 things you are grateful for. Feelings of thankfulness right before you fall asleep will increase the chances you’ll get a good night’s rest.

When you imagine a picture, the optic cortex is activated in the same way as when you really see the vista. That’s why if you imagine something you desire it will help you feel better and keep you on your journey.

“​The world survived, because of laughter”.

If you want feel-good laugh more. To reduce heart disease all it needs is laughing. Research shows laughter decreases stress hormones, increases ‘good’ cholesterol, and reduces artery inflammatory.

Laughing is the best medicine and the positive effects last for 24 hours. And don’t forget to put one big smile.

Believe is something powerful it can help you go on. And can make you stronger. for example, if you believe in yourself you can do everything and nothing will stop you. Studies show if you believe in your life is meaningful you will live healthier and longer.

Usually, we listen to music to validate how we feel. That’s why we play sad songs after a breakup. But to use music therapeutically, you need to listen to songs that make you feel the way you want.

Think about it when you are at the gym put the headphones. Then you are listening to music that motivates and makes you feel stronger.

Anxiety is associated with many maladies, e.g. digestive issues, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, high blood pressure, and heart attack. To keep it in check and through a process that is within your control is a good idea.

Here is the meditation process to help overcome anxiety-

• Find a quiet and solitary space free of interference and settle
• Allow yourself to accept whatever is overwhelming you
• Sit and then take deep breaths as you let your mind relax until you get to that comfortable mental state of mind
• Create a mental picture a calming environment. This environment may be an arboretum or the beach.
• Whenever your mind wanders off, steer it back to the above environment.
• As you focus on this environment, let your mind lead you to the redemption that you desire.

The intended result of this is to help you to learn to be more accepting of the challenges that upset your mind. Gradually, your attitude towards the challenges changes to that of calmness and understanding to leave no room for anxiety.

This anxiety targeting meditation process should take an average of between 15-20 minutes and should be practiced daily at least once a day.

Guided meditation for healing is a worthy route to consider when starting out. You are spoilt for choice on the great amounts of online content (audio and video) available for free for a small fee will guide you through the process of healing meditation.

One thing to note is that the meditation gets to be more effective when practiced regularly, so take it upon yourself to never skip a session.

Meditation as a habit has its many benefits besides the above. Here is a general list of other benefits of meditation.

We have seen the great power of active meditation to self-heal and deal with anxiety. It is time to have the habit of meditating whenever you are faced with the challenges.

This website is a treasure box of information on the many ways that meditation can be used to better your life.

You can learn more about the Ultimate Chakra Meditation to Active Each of Your 7 Chakras here

Hope this was helpful. If you know other methods share in the comments. We are open to hearing them. how to meditate