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(Fight
against Cancer with your Mind Power)
(Based
on the teachings of our most revered Paramahamsa Swami Satyananda &
Paramahamsa Swami Niranjananda)
Yoga
Nidra as a precondition
"These
instructions are given to you as if an instructor is talking to you. Preferably
take a print out & ask someone close to you to read the instructions
step by step when you are lying in savasana"
- Lie down
in Savasana with the body stretched out feet apart, arms beside the
body with palms turned upwards and the eyes closed. Head in straight
line with the body. Now totally and completely relax each and every
part of the body.
- Make all
necessary adjustments so that you are as comfortable as possible and
once you have adjusted the posture of your body there must be no physical
movement either consciously or unconsciously.
- Remember
that you are about to practice Yoga Nidra. Yoga Nidra means psychic
sleep. It is a state of sleep in which body and mind relax completely
and the sub-conscious remains active.
- Now is
the time to make resolution or "sankalpa". The resolution
(or) sankalpa which is positive in thought. Repeat the resolution
three times mentally like "I will fight against cancer with my
mind power". Be consistent, plan the resolve at one place and do
not change it. Certainly the resolve becomes true if the soul is perfect.
Repeat the resolve with feeling and awareness.
- You should
only maintain the awareness of hearing and feeling. The body sleeps,
mind is at rest and consciousness is active. You must remain alert,
so that you do not fall asleep. Say to yourself mentally, "I will
remain wide awake".
- Take a
deep breath, As you breath-in
feel the coolness and calmness spreading
throughout the body. And, as you breath-out
, feel the worries
flowing out of you. Become aware of your body and relax completely.
- Make yourself
physically calm and steady. Feel that the legs are relaxed; trunk, arms
and head are relaxed.
- Develop
the awareness of body on right side from the top of the head to toes.
Complete awareness of whole body. Relax your whole body mentally. Relax
yourself mentally.
- Relax
yourself by breathing normally and becoming aware of breath as it moves
between navel and throat. Awareness of your natural breath. No forceful
breathing. Do not try to breath long and deep. You simply have to follow
natural flow and breath. The normal breath between navel and throat.
Continue like this becoming more relaxed, more calm and at peace with
yourself.
- Now we
are going to rotate awareness from one part of the body to another.
The consciousness moves around the body.
- Just follow
the instructions mentally.
- There
should be no physical movement. Mentally repeat what is said and visualise
the organ by becoming aware. In this way we shall go through each and
every body part systematically while the consciousness moves around
the body. You do not have to concentrate deeply on any specific part,
but simply let your mind move from one part to the other according to
the instructions. Do not sleep.
- Right
hand thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger,
4 fingers and thumb together, palm, back of hand, wrist, lower arm,
elbow, upper arm, whole of right hand, arm pit, shoulder, collar bone,
shoulder blade, side of the neck, chest, lung, liver, abdomen, whole
of chest and abdomen, the middle trunk on the right hand side. Waist,
hip, thigh, knee, calf muscle, ankle, heel, sole, right big toe, and
2nd toe, 3rd toe, 4th toe, 5th toe, 5 toes togetherwhole of right leg
from hips to toes. Awareness of whole right side.
- Bring
your awareness to left side of the body. Left hand thumb, index finger,middle
finger, ring finger, little finger, 4 fingers and thumb together, palm,
back of hand, wrist, lower arm, elbow, upper arm, whole of left hand,
arm pit, shoulder, collar bone, shoulder blade, side of the neck chest,
lung, heart, stomach, intestines, abdomen, whole of chest and abdomen,
the middle trunk on the left hand side, Waist, hip, thigh, knee, calf
muscle, ankle, heel, sole, left big toe, and 2nd toe, 3rd toe, 4th toe,
5th toe, 5 toes together whole of left leg from hips to toes. Awareness
of whole left side of the body.
- Bring
your awareness to the back of your body. Right buttock, left buttock,
and right back. Left back, waist, right shoulder blade, left shoulder
blade, spinal cord, back of neck, crown of head, and the whole of the
back side.
- Now become
aware of head, right temple, left temple, forehead, right ear, left
ear, right eye-brow, left eye-brow, eye brow centre, right eye, left
eye, nose, right nostril, left nostril, tip of nose, right cheek, left
cheek, upper lip, lower lip, chin, whole of the face and head. Now rotate
your awareness over the whole body. Whole right hand, whole left hand,
chest, abdomen, whole right leg, whole left leg. whole of the back,
whole of the front and the whole body.
- Visualise
the whole body. Intensify the awareness and again visualise the whole
body.
- Become
aware of meeting points between the body and floor. Feel the meeting
points between the body and floor. Feel the floor holding you, like
a baby in arms.
- Now concentrate
on your body, as if, seeing it from outside. Look at your body as an
object a reflection in an imaginary mirror. You are looking at your
own reflection in the mirror and see that you are lying on the floor.
Your feet, legs, hands, arms, chest, abdomen, feet, clothing, face,
hair, everything are reflected in that mirror. Awareness of whole body
as an object. Do not sleep.
- Ask yourself
"what am I thinking". Do not think, but become aware of spontaneous
thought process. Maintain total awareness of any thought that is passing
through visible frame of consciousness.
- Normally
you walk forward in time. This time try and walk backwards by remembering
your past. You are going in to the deeper recesses of consciousness.
- Try to
remember in the reverse order from now till the time you got up in the
morning. You have to go back in time, as if you are watching a film
running reverse.
- Remember
back to the start of Yoga Nidra practice. Then recall what you were
doing half-an-hour before that. Remember the important objects, events,
feeling in that time.
- Then keep
on preceding in half-an-hour or one-hour stages to the time you woke
up this morning stage by stage, with full awareness.
- Visualise
and recall what you were doing, thinking & feeling.
- Do not
dwell upon any particular event, moment, just like a film rewinding.
Take your consciousness back in time to the time you woke up this morning.
- Bring
your awareness to the present and make sure that you are not sleeping.
Do not sleep.
Chidakasa
Dharana (Therapeutic
Imagery)
- The instructor
will name a few objects and you should try to imagine them for exploring
different senses such as sight, sound, smell, touch, taste, temperature
and kinaesthetic sense. You should spend 10-15 seconds on each item,
as best as you can. Do not concentrate on any particular object, but
keep moving.
- Visualise
the shape of a circle......the shape of a triangle.......the shape of
a square.........
- It can
be useful, when you evoke sound sense to surround yourself with an imaginary
mist. Now you imagine the ring of your telephone..........
- Now slowly
invoke smell of jasmine..........
- Gradually
imagine the taste of toothpaste.....
- Let other
sensory images fade as you turn your attention to those of touch sense
of contact area of the body on ground (in Savasana).......
- Imagine
sensations of heat and cold by feeling your own breath. INHALE - COOL
AIR.............
EXHALE - WARM AIR.........
- Feel the
sense of body movement by imagining yourself engaged in a form of activity
like stirring syrup or shaking hands.
- Now the
following mental exercise will give all sense modalities whatever we
practiced so far and help to build a bright mental image.
- Take a
fruit that you like, say an orange. Feel its texture...weight...size...notice
its shape...colour and surface markings...is it firm or soft?...smell
it...then dig your nail into the peel and begin to tear it off. Listen
to the faint sound of the tearing. As you peel the orange, notice how
the flesh gets exposed here and there, releasing a new smell. Separate
the segments and put one in your mouth...bite through its juicy flesh...feel
the sensation of the juice running over your tongue...recognize the
taste of orange...
- Now explore
a sense of killing cancer cells with your own defence system.
Below given options are according to the type of cancer...........
Option
1:
Hips and lower part of the body:
Visualise
the entire lower part of the body from below hips to toes.
Your cancerous condition may be located either in the hips or genital
organs or ovaries or cervix or uterus or prostrate and so on.
Option
2:
Abdominal Organs:
Visualise
the entire abdominal area of the body from above hips to chest.
Your cancerous condition may be located either in the abdomen or stomach
or pancreas or liver or gall bladder or colon, intestines, or kidneys
and so on.
Option
3:
Chest area:
Visualise
the entire chest area of the body from abdomen to neck.
Your cancerous condition may be located either in the chest, lungs, breast
and so on.
Option
4:
Head & Neck:
Visualise
all the organs and parts located in the head, neck and spinal cord then
brain.
Your cancerous condition may be located either in the head, brain or neck
and so on.
-----------------COMMON
INSTRUCTIONS----------------
- Understand
the organs involved and type of cells you should imagine for a therapeutic
session.
- Visualise
the cancer cells and surrounding healthy cells.
- Differentiate
cancer cells from the healthy cells by feeling its size, shape, texture,
colour, and its outline.
- Cancer
cells are irregular in shape, size and texture dark dull coloured.
- Healthy
cells are rich in blood supply with radiant energy and fully functional.
- Believe
that there is some accumulation of morbid or foreign material within
the cancer cells and disease forces are influencing them.
- Now imagine
your own vital energy (known as Prana Shakti) and your own defence system
or immunity called white blood cells or WBC as powerful tools, which
are slowly directed towards the afflicted organs with cancer. The healing
forces within your body are fighting against cancer cells and finally
healing forces win over the evil forces of disease.
- Your own
defence system in the form of fishes is eating away all the cancer cells.
At the end of this session you feel the part afflicted with cancer becomes
fresh and sparkling, fully vascularized with a glow of fresh bio-energy.
Termination:
- Imagine
the cancerous organ peacefully sleeping and relaxing.
- Now feel
the whole body relaxing once again.
- Now relax
all your efforts and bring your attention to natural breath. The natural
breath moving in and out of nostrils. The natural breath flowing in
and out of nostril.
- Maintain
awareness of breath and at the same time develop awareness of physical
relaxation, awareness of physical existence.
- Become
aware of the physical existence of the body and visualise the body lying
on the floor.
- Visualise
the body on the floor and experience the body on the floor.
Externalise the mind though the body. Be still, quiet, until the attention
is completely externalised.
- Slowly
move the toes, fingers, legs, the arms, head from side to side.
Move the body and stretch yourself.
- Take your
time, there is no hurry and when you are sure that you are fully awake
gently sit up and slowly open your eyes.
- The practice
is complete
Print
this document for regular practice
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