'Every Moment Counts'

Interview by Mary Talbot

Most Westerners don't think of themselves as having healing energy. What is it, and why do we have such a hard time getting at it?
Healing energy is positive energy--the energy of peace and joy in our minds and bodies. I think we feel our energy every day, but unfortunately it is not positive most of the time. When we wake up, there is the energy of worries, of anger, of frustration, of rushing. We think about what problems we have to face today, or that we have to get up and make breakfast. We express those energies, but they are not healthy.

How can you access healing energy without lots of training or meditation experience?
A good way to begin cultivating positive energy is, instead of jumping up and rushing into the day, to take a few minutes to lie on the bed and relax and feel the warmth and peacefulness in the body. First, feel in the warmth and peacefulness in the air, then in the upper body, then in the arms, the abdomen, the legs and feet, and then again in the whole body. Feel the aura of peacefulness and warmth like a tent around the body. Then try to feel the whole room filled with that depth energy of peacefulness and the warmth. Let the mind feel the warmth and peacefulness of the body. Morning is the best time because that's when the energy of the body and mind is calm. During sleep, there's a semi-unconscious union of body and mind. When the mind becomes fully awake, that union usually dissolves--we become disconnected from the body.

But if you can enjoy the peaceful energies created by the union of the mind and body and the awareness of that--really experience it, feel it--that is an amazing source of healing. Try to be one with that peace without grasping it, without being excited. Relax for a minute or two without any thinking. Then get up. If you do that, the whole day will start with peaceful and healing energies.

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