Self-healing meditation

Years ago, following my cancer diagnosis, I came across this healing meditation by Dr Brian Weiss. Over the years I have been adapting, modifying and adding to it as I grow as a spiritual being and discover more of the hidden treasures of my inner self. It has in fact evolved with me. When I do this meditation, I feel I am in Heaven. I rise above my limited physical being and transcend to a higher realm.

For optimal results, I advise doing it in nature, in a park or even in your garden and try to look toward the sunlight while doing it. If not, you can always do it inside your home, sitting in a cross-legged position, or even laying on bed but try to not to fall asleep. Initially, I did it in a sitting position (cross-legged). As my health improved over the years, and my body was reinvigorated with life, I started doing it in a standing position in a park or my garden, integrating with it some chakra clearing learnt from my yoga teacher.

Meditation

Find a peaceful, quiet spot next to a solitary tree, preferably an old mature tree. My favourite place is under three willow trees on the creek bank near my house, which are frequently featured in my posts. You can either stand amid the dangling tree branches like I do, or lean back on the tree trunk, or hug it. Try to touch the tree fully or partially for a deeper connection with it and its earthly energy. Let the swaying leaves of this ancient mother caress your face and body as they rustle gently in the breeze and be present to this magical moment.

Stand barefoot with legs firmly planted in the ground and arms stretched down, with open hands facing out in a receiving gesture.

Close your eyes and look up, visualise a shimmering, golden ray of sunlight (or draw it from the sun if it is shining) or white light descending from above, penetrating your body through your crown chakra.

Imagine the light spreading through your head, filling every corner, nook and crevasse of your head, cleansing any negative energy and healing every cell, fibre and tissue and reinvigorating it with life.

While doing that, focus the light on your third eye chakra (the space between the eyebrows), for a few seconds and see this light intensify. Picture the chakra swirling in deep indigo colour entangled with the white light of the crown chakra (the crown chakra can also be represented by purple).

Continue scanning your body with the light, moving it to your neck, letting it suffuse every inch of your neck. While there, focus the energy on your throat chakra, visualise the turquoise blue colour of the chakra spiralling dynamically, restoring and rejuvenating your whole neck area.

Move the light down to your upper back, shoulders, arms, hands and let it flood these areas with healing, let it cure every ailment you have by concentrating the heat/energy and breathing light into that particular part.

As the light descends to your chest, imagine it clearing every disease, blockage, angst and troubles you have, physical and emotional. Bring the emerald green colour of your heart chakra into your vision and experience the sublime fusion of the white and green colours permeating your heart and chest area. Let your heart beat with vigour and joy and imagine it pumping this divine light into your whole body, up and down, to every cell, organ and part of your body, healing and mending it. Now hold this thought in this sacred spot for a while.

Bring your attention now to your feet as they touch the ground, plant them firmly in and deepen your connection with Mother Earth. Feel its heartbeat reverberate through your being and picture your feet growing roots. See the roots grow larger and stronger as they thrust their way through the earth’s crust and move deeper to its core. Draw its primordial energy of fire and heat in a fiery red light from its pulsating heart to you, through your roots and feet.

If you are hugging or leaning on a tree trunk, supported by its mighty force, let the tree roots embrace and hold your roots. The sensation of your roots interlaced and entwined with the tree roots is breathtaking, and you can amplify it by seeing the two propelling their way through the many layers of the earth to reach its core.

Now visualise the light travelling up through your feet to your ankles, calves, knees, thighs, and groin, infusing every cell, muscle and tissue with light and healing. Feel the fiery red light of Mother Earth nourishing and grounding you as it fills your root chakra at the base of your spine. Imagine the fiery red colour of the root chakra twirling in a circular motion, see it flooding your abdomen and vibrating through your legs, centring and rebalancing you and cleansing any negativity or insecurities you have.

Now witness the light as it travels up to your stomach area activating the sacral chakra, just below the navel. See the wheel spinning and the bright orange colour flooding every organ, gland and cell in this area, relieving any pain you have and removing any discomfort or disease.

Watch the vibrant orange colour become lighter and morph into bright yellow as it rises to the solar plexus chakra, above the navel, swirling exuberantly, clearing any blockages and invigorating every part of this area.

Move your light now to the heart chakra in the chest region, the centre of your being where you have been holding your divine white light from above, visualise the yellow colour morphing into green, growing in intensity and vivacity and blending with the celestial light. As the earthly light meets the unearthly, an explosion of exquisite colour and light permeates through the centre of your being channelling pure, divine love beyond measure. So powerful and intense, this divine love fills your heart and consumes your whole being, expanding to a degree where your body can no longer hold it inside. the light radiates out in every direction to all humans/beings, across the divide to the entire Universe: the individual and the collective consciousness reuniting.

Let this omnipresent, all-consuming light hold you, cocoon you. Bathe in its purity and divinity for a few minutes. Once you feel you have had enough, draw it back inside to the centre of your heart and send it upwards to your throat chakra, third eye and finally to your crown chakra, releasing it back to the divine.

Stay in stillness for a few minutes after this and let your body and whole being absorb this ethereal experience. You will observe how blissful and peaceful you feel, so light and weightless. Enjoy the after-effects of this elevating, recharging and healing meditation.