In clinical cases, we often find that the same type of illness is being treated differently by different doctors, since they have different perspectives and experiences, the treatments can be distinctly dissimilar (especially in Traditional Chinese Medicine); but according to the patients’ results, all these treatments can be effective. Why is this so?
Thus we have a theory: There isn’t only one way to treat any one type of illness. An illness could be cured using different treatments. The important thing is that every healer has to have experienced the treatment themselves, so that they have experience with it and think it is the most effective. So fortunately, most of the diseases have a very high chance to be healed, and many different methods to cure them.
On the clinical cases we’ve also discovered some facts:
1. Some of the diseases can only be controlled, but not completely healed; and yet, there are some patients who are healed completely.
2. Some of the diseases require a longer time period to heal; and yet some patients are healed in a very short period of time.
3. Some doctors are very confident of healing some diseases completely, yet some patients are not healed even if the doctor is using every method he can.
In which case, besides the methods of healing that we are familiar with, there might be some other areas that need to be discussed.
Since we were little, often we were crammed with a belief: “When you are sick, you have to go see the doctor, take some medicine or receive some shots, so that you can be cured.” Slowly, it has become our unwavering “belief” that is deeply ingrained in our sub-consciousness. And because of that belief, whenever we get sick, we have to look for medical resources, including seeing a doctor, take medicine, and getting shots…etc.
However, in the medical world, there is a fact that hardly anybody is willing to talk about, and that is: Every life form has a strong ability to heal itself. This self-healing ability far exceeds the modern, scientific healing methods that we are familiar with. But why is it that we still take medicine and seek doctors when we are sick?
This is the matter of the “belief” that we talked about earlier. Since we believe that “When we are sick, we need to see the doctor and take medicine in order to get better”. We have suppressed the body’s ability to heal itself. I believe that “when my body gets sick, if I don’t do anything about it or take anything for it, it is impossible to get better”, this belief has caused the suppression of the self-healing ability. Only when after we have done something about it (such as seeing a doctor, taking some medicine), this “belief” can be satisfied, our sub-consciousness can be satisfied, and then our self-heal ability can thus be given permission to take action, and our illness can march rapidly towards complete cure. This is also why even the therapies that are held in disdain by “Scientific people”, such as “taking worshipped dust, drinking charged water” can also actually cure diseases. This is because of a belief that “I have done what I think I should do, so my illness should get better”.
So in the process of healing diseases, there is a very important key point, which is, “the patient believes: ‘my illness will be cured’.” Thus in the process of “healing the illness”, the doctor cleverly using this belief, allowing the patient to believe that ‘their illness will be cured’ even when they first meet and communicate with each other, the process of the patient’s self-healing ability will officially start. So healing does not happen after we have done something (such as taking medicine, getting shots); it happens at the very moment the patient walks into the clinic, motivated by the doctor’s words and behaviors. Another very important cause for the patient’s belief of “I will be cured”, is that the healer (the doctor) believes that the patient will be cured; with that kind of confidence in his/her words and behaviors, that “un-debatable” kind of presence in the prescriptions, will allow the patient to be mostly cured by the time he or she leaves the clinic.
So within the education involved in becoming a doctor, even though a lot of the emphasis is on gaining intellectual knowledge, and through this massive gain of knowledge, the doctor will be more confident. If combined with a lot of clinical experiences, then as a result the doctor that has greater experience in healing. Or the doctor has more patients who turn out to exhibit a higher complete cure rate in the treatments he or she provides. Yet for the healer, it takes the accumulation of the time and confidence.
However, just like what I have mentioned above, we can break the limitation of needing to take time to accumulate clinical experiences in order to enhance the effect of the cure. Starting from “I really hope the person sitting in front of me can be cured”, to “believe that you will be cured”, to the strong intention of “you are actually whole and complete in the first place”, and to actually have the direct experience of it, which doesn’t have to be limited in time.
When treating a patient, the doctor will often be facing a dilemma: “Considering this patient’s issue, my treatment can make him 60% better; but if I told him that he could get 100% cured, then he could probably get up to 80% better. If I told him that his illness can only be 20% cured, he might get 40% better.” As a doctor, the choice will be: “Shall I tell the patient that he can get 100% cured or just 20%?”
If the doctor chooses to tell his patient that he can be 100% cured, but the patient ends up with 80%, even though it is a better result than what is originally expected the patient might blame the doctor because he isn’t 100% cured. The doctor might even be involved in medical dispute. If the doctor tells the patient that he can only be 20% cured, and he ends up with 40%, it is better than the patient’s expectation, then this doctor can probably gain some appreciation and gratitude. If it were you, what kind of doctor would you like to be?
A problem has developed in the modern clinical medical education that the general public might not be aware of; within the education of becoming a doctor, their priority isn’t to cure the diseases, but the prior and the foremost is to protect themselves first, to prevent medical disputes. So a lot of the patients might discover that when going to the hospital, before they treat the actual discomfort, there are lots of health checks involved, a lot of forms to sign, which causes more worries and anxiety with one’s own body and future. And after going through all kinds of medical departments and health checks, the doctor tells you, all the results are normal, everything is fine; well, it means that everything is fine with the doctor: ‘I have given you all the checks that it is required of me to do, legal-wise there is no way you could sue me.’ “But doctor, why am I still in pain?” This is a common drama that plays out in the hospital.
A true healer has to play this role well; it has to be about the goal of curing the illness most effectively. The intention of “I strongly want the person sitting in front of me to be cured completely” is very important. This is a healer’s most basic intention to begin with. Coming from that foundation and seeking the methods, the skills, the prescriptions to build up one’s own experience, and enhance one’s confidence, one can achieve the goal of perfect healing.
In my own experience, if you have such a strong intention, the universe will help you; unending resources of creativity and healing methods will come to you. A lot of the very effective methods in clinical cases can’t be found in textbooks. From “I want you to get better” to the experience and the confident presence of “you will get better”, will more so allow the patient to believe that he or she will be completely cured.
So for true healing to occur, there are a few principle points that needs to be noticed:
1. The person being healed has satisfied his sub-conscious belief on how the healing of his disease should occur.
2. The person being healed beliefs that he or she will be healed (most important).
3. The healer believes that the patient will be healed (truly believes from the inside).
4. Appropriate skills or medicines will allow the patient’s symptoms to be relieved more rapidly, which enhance the confident of “I will be healed”.
Even though there are many diseases that we believe can be completely cured, some of the same diseases or some new diseases are constantly reoccurring, or just simply taking a very long time to heal? There are more and more hospitals being built, more and more methods of treatment being discovered, the outlays of medical insurance are getting higher and higher, but why is it so? What is the cause of the diseases? How do we achieve perfect health?
Very often we’ve heard these kinds of questions:
1. Why is it that my kid catches colds so often? Is it related to his physical state?
2. Is my physical state more towards cold or heat? What should I eat to be healthy?
3. I’ve followed all the things that the doctor tells me not to eat, but why is it that my uric acid is still so high?
4. I am into healthy diets, I am wise with the food that I eat, so why am I still getting sick so often?
5. I am already a vegetarian, why is my level of cholesterol is still above average?
6. Doctor, why is my illness feeling better when I take medicine, yet it reoccurs very rapidly when I stop?
7. Why am I getting sick? What do I do to get better?
Often we have an answer in our belief: “find the cause, and get rid of it, then the illness will be cured.” This belief involves two steps: 1. Find the cause. 2. Get rid of the cause.
The strongest specialty of western medicine is “diagnosis”. Most of the development of medical resources, and most of the presentations of dissertations by research groups, are all focusing on how to diagnose a disease rapidly, accurately and as early as possible. In recent years we’ve discovered that in the perspective of the general public, to make a judgment of whether a hospital is of a high quality or not is often based on whether the hospital has more advanced, high quality and expensive devices for diagnosis. A lot of patients have been to hospital for the sole reason of wanting to find out “what kind of disease have I got?”
However, we discover that for most of the chronic diseases, the most common results that people get after a series of the most advanced health checks are:
1. Indefinable cause. Can’t find the reasons. Everything is normal. You can only try to control the symptoms for the rest of your life. For example: high blood pressure.
2. It has something to do with the immune system. There can be certain degree of control but it can’t be completely cured. For example: Authorities, asthma, nasal allergies… etc.
3. It has something to with aging, thus can’t be resolved. You can only control the symptoms. For example: Parkinsons, Alzheime´rs.
We can’t help asking the question: Is the final diagnosis of the modern medicine really the root-cause of the diseases?
Is “incurable” the final judgment?
Actually we’ve discovered that the real cause of most chronic diseases starts from within, and not from some superficial reason, such as physical or chemical reactions of the body that are measured by scientific examinations. The fear, the anxiety and the depression that we feel within are often the cause of the unhealthiness; it’s just a shame that scientific devices can’t measure these causes. Lately there have been many people who have come up with the idea that perfect health of “body, heart and soul” can actually count as real health; which means that there has been some people, who have noticed the deeper cause that effects human health, and thus there appear to be a lot of “alternatives’ to deal with the areas that the modern medicine can’t reach. These are focused on the mind and the heart, and not just this body. Thus are directly looking into the root-cause of unhealthiness.
Just like what is mentioned earlier, during the process of healing a disease, there is a very important key point, which is the issue of beliefs. The belief that “I will be cured” allows the healing to make progress. It is because deep inside our heart and mind we have let go and relaxed about the illness (since I have done the things that I think will make me better anyways), and thus we’ve discovered in clinical cases, that when the mind and body is in the state of the most relaxation, the healing will take progress in the most perfect state, and the self-heal ability of the body can be achieved at it’s best state. This state is far more efficient than any treatment of physics or drugs. It is the guidance on how to lead the body and the mind to the real state of “relaxation”. It is one of the most important reasons for directly achieving health.
The opposite of “relaxation” is “tension”. A lot of people think that when “I am now retired”, “I am no longer working”, “I am on vacation”, I should be relaxed. Or when “I am stressed at work”, “I’m taking shifts at my work, my biological clock is inverted day and night, I’m tired”, “I have to work for more than 12 hours a day, how can I relax?” Actually the state of “relaxation” and “tension” does not refer to whether your physical body is engaged in busy-ness or tiredness, but all about one’s inner state of “letting go” or “holding on”. “Relaxation” and “tension” are often times caused by the “holding on” or “letting go” of the thoughts in the mind. And the things that we are not aware that we are holding on to are often the positions that our mind think´s is right. For example: “I should be drinking X c.c. amount of water”, “I should intake X calories of food per day”, “I need to sweat when I exercise in order to have a real physical effect”, “I should sleep by this time or X amount of hours per day to achieve standard health”, “I have diabetes, My uric acid and cholesterol levels are too high; I should be strictly controlling my diet in order to heal”… etc. Those what we think are the “right” beliefs or those that we think are the “wrong” beliefs, such as “it’s better to be a vegetarian, but I am still eating meat”, “smoking is bad, drinking is bad, but I am still smoking and drinking”, often puts us in a state of tension that we are not even aware of.
Having said that, at any time when we let go of the concepts of the mind, simultaneously we’ve entered the state of “relaxation”, which at the same time allows the body and the mind to enter the deepest state of healing. And when we hold onto any thought in our mind, we’ve entered the state of “tension”, which is the state where our body is being controlled by our mind, and not able to freely reveal it’s own ability to heal. So “relaxation” and “tension” happen within a thought in an instant, and not something you need to work hard to achieve (all the hard work will put you in a state of “tension”). Just like what Buddhism says, “A moment of being aware of a thought results in Buddha nature; a moment of being lost in thoughts results in ignorance”. Healing-wise, “a moment of letting go of the thoughts results in health, a moment of holding onto the thoughts results in illness”, it’s the same fact.
“Relaxation” is everyone’s natural state in the first place. Just like the natural tendency of the body is to heal itself. When we are at work, we desire to get off work. When there is a holiday, we desire to go out in nature and walk around. This is our nature to want to seek the essence of “relaxation”, want to achieve the inner joy and silence. It is just that for a very long time we’ve identified with our thoughts; we get used to the concept of “I think therefore I am”, “I am my thoughts”, and the natural tendency of the mind is to go towards endless seeking in order to achieve its right to be the master. The mind knows that within ourselves, we desire relaxation and calmness. But the mind leads us to achieve the “joy and peace” from the outside (from taking a trip, shopping, sports…), and yet the outside will never be the source of our joy. The fleeting, temporary peace of the outside is often the main cause of your endless busy-ness.
The Truth is, the only thing that prevent us from experiencing real relaxation and real joy, is only a thought, a concept, an action that the mind does not want to let go of. The moment when the mind stops, eternal joy, infinite peace and relaxation are naturally revealed.
So the real relaxation, the achievement of real health is not that complicated. It is not to be achieved by the details that the mind believes it’s about (what do I eat, how to I exercise, how to I sleep… etc.), but just simply by letting go of all of those concepts; let go of the concepts of what is “right” or the concept of “I might have done something wrong”, simply come back to your true nature, allowing your outer senses (All things you can sense with your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and intention, include your whole body) to happen in every present moment, letting go of the judgments and attachments. In other words, to simply let go of your mind (thoughts), and easily put your attention on that quiet, peaceful place, the present, and you can immediately experience true relaxation and self-healing.
Maybe for decades we’ve been in the habit of “thinking” to stabilizing the existence of “the small self”. This life-long habit might not be easy to get rid of in a very short time, even though it seems like it should be easy. This is why a lot of the people who are involved in spiritual practices have spent so many years, even a lifetime, trying to seek for the existence of the “True Self”, trying to experience the real joy and relaxation. But just like what we’ve mentioned earlier, the real joy and relaxation is what you have in the first place. To seek it intentionally (which is what the mind likes doing) will often push you away from it. To truly experience “it”, simply and easily, so simply that all you need to do is to let go of every thought that exists in the present moment, allowing every moment as it is. From this stage, you will be able to truly experience relaxation. This is the nature that you are born with. This is what you have in the first place. It is available in every moment for you to experience it, use it, and enjoy it. Just like a great Teacher MSI once said, “Life is meant to be lived in Eternal Joy, Infinite Freedom, Unconditional Love and Unbounded Awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point of being born human”.
The perfect health of body, heart and soul is the nature of everyone, and it is the perfection and the freedom that rise from our heart within. It is something you’ve always had all along. It is never separate from you. By you recognize it again, gently put your attention on it, instantaneously you are able to experience true relaxation and silence; experience the wholeness and the completion that you already are. And for the concept of healing, it no longer exists at this moment. It is the natural state that everyone should have, without a doubt.
On the clinical cases we’ve also discovered some facts:
1. Some of the diseases can only be controlled, but not completely healed; and yet, there are some patients who are healed completely.
2. Some of the diseases require a longer time period to heal; and yet some patients are healed in a very short period of time.
3. Some doctors are very confident of healing some diseases completely, yet some patients are not healed even if the doctor is using every method he can.
In which case, besides the methods of healing that we are familiar with, there might be some other areas that need to be discussed.
Since we were little, often we were crammed with a belief: “When you are sick, you have to go see the doctor, take some medicine or receive some shots, so that you can be cured.” Slowly, it has become our unwavering “belief” that is deeply ingrained in our sub-consciousness. And because of that belief, whenever we get sick, we have to look for medical resources, including seeing a doctor, take medicine, and getting shots…etc.
However, in the medical world, there is a fact that hardly anybody is willing to talk about, and that is: Every life form has a strong ability to heal itself. This self-healing ability far exceeds the modern, scientific healing methods that we are familiar with. But why is it that we still take medicine and seek doctors when we are sick?
This is the matter of the “belief” that we talked about earlier. Since we believe that “When we are sick, we need to see the doctor and take medicine in order to get better”. We have suppressed the body’s ability to heal itself. I believe that “when my body gets sick, if I don’t do anything about it or take anything for it, it is impossible to get better”, this belief has caused the suppression of the self-healing ability. Only when after we have done something about it (such as seeing a doctor, taking some medicine), this “belief” can be satisfied, our sub-consciousness can be satisfied, and then our self-heal ability can thus be given permission to take action, and our illness can march rapidly towards complete cure. This is also why even the therapies that are held in disdain by “Scientific people”, such as “taking worshipped dust, drinking charged water” can also actually cure diseases. This is because of a belief that “I have done what I think I should do, so my illness should get better”.
So in the process of healing diseases, there is a very important key point, which is, “the patient believes: ‘my illness will be cured’.” Thus in the process of “healing the illness”, the doctor cleverly using this belief, allowing the patient to believe that ‘their illness will be cured’ even when they first meet and communicate with each other, the process of the patient’s self-healing ability will officially start. So healing does not happen after we have done something (such as taking medicine, getting shots); it happens at the very moment the patient walks into the clinic, motivated by the doctor’s words and behaviors. Another very important cause for the patient’s belief of “I will be cured”, is that the healer (the doctor) believes that the patient will be cured; with that kind of confidence in his/her words and behaviors, that “un-debatable” kind of presence in the prescriptions, will allow the patient to be mostly cured by the time he or she leaves the clinic.
So within the education involved in becoming a doctor, even though a lot of the emphasis is on gaining intellectual knowledge, and through this massive gain of knowledge, the doctor will be more confident. If combined with a lot of clinical experiences, then as a result the doctor that has greater experience in healing. Or the doctor has more patients who turn out to exhibit a higher complete cure rate in the treatments he or she provides. Yet for the healer, it takes the accumulation of the time and confidence.
However, just like what I have mentioned above, we can break the limitation of needing to take time to accumulate clinical experiences in order to enhance the effect of the cure. Starting from “I really hope the person sitting in front of me can be cured”, to “believe that you will be cured”, to the strong intention of “you are actually whole and complete in the first place”, and to actually have the direct experience of it, which doesn’t have to be limited in time.
When treating a patient, the doctor will often be facing a dilemma: “Considering this patient’s issue, my treatment can make him 60% better; but if I told him that he could get 100% cured, then he could probably get up to 80% better. If I told him that his illness can only be 20% cured, he might get 40% better.” As a doctor, the choice will be: “Shall I tell the patient that he can get 100% cured or just 20%?”
If the doctor chooses to tell his patient that he can be 100% cured, but the patient ends up with 80%, even though it is a better result than what is originally expected the patient might blame the doctor because he isn’t 100% cured. The doctor might even be involved in medical dispute. If the doctor tells the patient that he can only be 20% cured, and he ends up with 40%, it is better than the patient’s expectation, then this doctor can probably gain some appreciation and gratitude. If it were you, what kind of doctor would you like to be?
A problem has developed in the modern clinical medical education that the general public might not be aware of; within the education of becoming a doctor, their priority isn’t to cure the diseases, but the prior and the foremost is to protect themselves first, to prevent medical disputes. So a lot of the patients might discover that when going to the hospital, before they treat the actual discomfort, there are lots of health checks involved, a lot of forms to sign, which causes more worries and anxiety with one’s own body and future. And after going through all kinds of medical departments and health checks, the doctor tells you, all the results are normal, everything is fine; well, it means that everything is fine with the doctor: ‘I have given you all the checks that it is required of me to do, legal-wise there is no way you could sue me.’ “But doctor, why am I still in pain?” This is a common drama that plays out in the hospital.
A true healer has to play this role well; it has to be about the goal of curing the illness most effectively. The intention of “I strongly want the person sitting in front of me to be cured completely” is very important. This is a healer’s most basic intention to begin with. Coming from that foundation and seeking the methods, the skills, the prescriptions to build up one’s own experience, and enhance one’s confidence, one can achieve the goal of perfect healing.
In my own experience, if you have such a strong intention, the universe will help you; unending resources of creativity and healing methods will come to you. A lot of the very effective methods in clinical cases can’t be found in textbooks. From “I want you to get better” to the experience and the confident presence of “you will get better”, will more so allow the patient to believe that he or she will be completely cured.
So for true healing to occur, there are a few principle points that needs to be noticed:
1. The person being healed has satisfied his sub-conscious belief on how the healing of his disease should occur.
2. The person being healed beliefs that he or she will be healed (most important).
3. The healer believes that the patient will be healed (truly believes from the inside).
4. Appropriate skills or medicines will allow the patient’s symptoms to be relieved more rapidly, which enhance the confident of “I will be healed”.
Even though there are many diseases that we believe can be completely cured, some of the same diseases or some new diseases are constantly reoccurring, or just simply taking a very long time to heal? There are more and more hospitals being built, more and more methods of treatment being discovered, the outlays of medical insurance are getting higher and higher, but why is it so? What is the cause of the diseases? How do we achieve perfect health?
Very often we’ve heard these kinds of questions:
1. Why is it that my kid catches colds so often? Is it related to his physical state?
2. Is my physical state more towards cold or heat? What should I eat to be healthy?
3. I’ve followed all the things that the doctor tells me not to eat, but why is it that my uric acid is still so high?
4. I am into healthy diets, I am wise with the food that I eat, so why am I still getting sick so often?
5. I am already a vegetarian, why is my level of cholesterol is still above average?
6. Doctor, why is my illness feeling better when I take medicine, yet it reoccurs very rapidly when I stop?
7. Why am I getting sick? What do I do to get better?
Often we have an answer in our belief: “find the cause, and get rid of it, then the illness will be cured.” This belief involves two steps: 1. Find the cause. 2. Get rid of the cause.
The strongest specialty of western medicine is “diagnosis”. Most of the development of medical resources, and most of the presentations of dissertations by research groups, are all focusing on how to diagnose a disease rapidly, accurately and as early as possible. In recent years we’ve discovered that in the perspective of the general public, to make a judgment of whether a hospital is of a high quality or not is often based on whether the hospital has more advanced, high quality and expensive devices for diagnosis. A lot of patients have been to hospital for the sole reason of wanting to find out “what kind of disease have I got?”
However, we discover that for most of the chronic diseases, the most common results that people get after a series of the most advanced health checks are:
1. Indefinable cause. Can’t find the reasons. Everything is normal. You can only try to control the symptoms for the rest of your life. For example: high blood pressure.
2. It has something to do with the immune system. There can be certain degree of control but it can’t be completely cured. For example: Authorities, asthma, nasal allergies… etc.
3. It has something to with aging, thus can’t be resolved. You can only control the symptoms. For example: Parkinsons, Alzheime´rs.
We can’t help asking the question: Is the final diagnosis of the modern medicine really the root-cause of the diseases?
Is “incurable” the final judgment?
Actually we’ve discovered that the real cause of most chronic diseases starts from within, and not from some superficial reason, such as physical or chemical reactions of the body that are measured by scientific examinations. The fear, the anxiety and the depression that we feel within are often the cause of the unhealthiness; it’s just a shame that scientific devices can’t measure these causes. Lately there have been many people who have come up with the idea that perfect health of “body, heart and soul” can actually count as real health; which means that there has been some people, who have noticed the deeper cause that effects human health, and thus there appear to be a lot of “alternatives’ to deal with the areas that the modern medicine can’t reach. These are focused on the mind and the heart, and not just this body. Thus are directly looking into the root-cause of unhealthiness.
Just like what is mentioned earlier, during the process of healing a disease, there is a very important key point, which is the issue of beliefs. The belief that “I will be cured” allows the healing to make progress. It is because deep inside our heart and mind we have let go and relaxed about the illness (since I have done the things that I think will make me better anyways), and thus we’ve discovered in clinical cases, that when the mind and body is in the state of the most relaxation, the healing will take progress in the most perfect state, and the self-heal ability of the body can be achieved at it’s best state. This state is far more efficient than any treatment of physics or drugs. It is the guidance on how to lead the body and the mind to the real state of “relaxation”. It is one of the most important reasons for directly achieving health.
The opposite of “relaxation” is “tension”. A lot of people think that when “I am now retired”, “I am no longer working”, “I am on vacation”, I should be relaxed. Or when “I am stressed at work”, “I’m taking shifts at my work, my biological clock is inverted day and night, I’m tired”, “I have to work for more than 12 hours a day, how can I relax?” Actually the state of “relaxation” and “tension” does not refer to whether your physical body is engaged in busy-ness or tiredness, but all about one’s inner state of “letting go” or “holding on”. “Relaxation” and “tension” are often times caused by the “holding on” or “letting go” of the thoughts in the mind. And the things that we are not aware that we are holding on to are often the positions that our mind think´s is right. For example: “I should be drinking X c.c. amount of water”, “I should intake X calories of food per day”, “I need to sweat when I exercise in order to have a real physical effect”, “I should sleep by this time or X amount of hours per day to achieve standard health”, “I have diabetes, My uric acid and cholesterol levels are too high; I should be strictly controlling my diet in order to heal”… etc. Those what we think are the “right” beliefs or those that we think are the “wrong” beliefs, such as “it’s better to be a vegetarian, but I am still eating meat”, “smoking is bad, drinking is bad, but I am still smoking and drinking”, often puts us in a state of tension that we are not even aware of.
Having said that, at any time when we let go of the concepts of the mind, simultaneously we’ve entered the state of “relaxation”, which at the same time allows the body and the mind to enter the deepest state of healing. And when we hold onto any thought in our mind, we’ve entered the state of “tension”, which is the state where our body is being controlled by our mind, and not able to freely reveal it’s own ability to heal. So “relaxation” and “tension” happen within a thought in an instant, and not something you need to work hard to achieve (all the hard work will put you in a state of “tension”). Just like what Buddhism says, “A moment of being aware of a thought results in Buddha nature; a moment of being lost in thoughts results in ignorance”. Healing-wise, “a moment of letting go of the thoughts results in health, a moment of holding onto the thoughts results in illness”, it’s the same fact.
“Relaxation” is everyone’s natural state in the first place. Just like the natural tendency of the body is to heal itself. When we are at work, we desire to get off work. When there is a holiday, we desire to go out in nature and walk around. This is our nature to want to seek the essence of “relaxation”, want to achieve the inner joy and silence. It is just that for a very long time we’ve identified with our thoughts; we get used to the concept of “I think therefore I am”, “I am my thoughts”, and the natural tendency of the mind is to go towards endless seeking in order to achieve its right to be the master. The mind knows that within ourselves, we desire relaxation and calmness. But the mind leads us to achieve the “joy and peace” from the outside (from taking a trip, shopping, sports…), and yet the outside will never be the source of our joy. The fleeting, temporary peace of the outside is often the main cause of your endless busy-ness.
The Truth is, the only thing that prevent us from experiencing real relaxation and real joy, is only a thought, a concept, an action that the mind does not want to let go of. The moment when the mind stops, eternal joy, infinite peace and relaxation are naturally revealed.
So the real relaxation, the achievement of real health is not that complicated. It is not to be achieved by the details that the mind believes it’s about (what do I eat, how to I exercise, how to I sleep… etc.), but just simply by letting go of all of those concepts; let go of the concepts of what is “right” or the concept of “I might have done something wrong”, simply come back to your true nature, allowing your outer senses (All things you can sense with your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and intention, include your whole body) to happen in every present moment, letting go of the judgments and attachments. In other words, to simply let go of your mind (thoughts), and easily put your attention on that quiet, peaceful place, the present, and you can immediately experience true relaxation and self-healing.
Maybe for decades we’ve been in the habit of “thinking” to stabilizing the existence of “the small self”. This life-long habit might not be easy to get rid of in a very short time, even though it seems like it should be easy. This is why a lot of the people who are involved in spiritual practices have spent so many years, even a lifetime, trying to seek for the existence of the “True Self”, trying to experience the real joy and relaxation. But just like what we’ve mentioned earlier, the real joy and relaxation is what you have in the first place. To seek it intentionally (which is what the mind likes doing) will often push you away from it. To truly experience “it”, simply and easily, so simply that all you need to do is to let go of every thought that exists in the present moment, allowing every moment as it is. From this stage, you will be able to truly experience relaxation. This is the nature that you are born with. This is what you have in the first place. It is available in every moment for you to experience it, use it, and enjoy it. Just like a great Teacher MSI once said, “Life is meant to be lived in Eternal Joy, Infinite Freedom, Unconditional Love and Unbounded Awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point of being born human”.
The perfect health of body, heart and soul is the nature of everyone, and it is the perfection and the freedom that rise from our heart within. It is something you’ve always had all along. It is never separate from you. By you recognize it again, gently put your attention on it, instantaneously you are able to experience true relaxation and silence; experience the wholeness and the completion that you already are. And for the concept of healing, it no longer exists at this moment. It is the natural state that everyone should have, without a doubt.