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The practice of body-centered meditation will probably make us aware of aches and pains we hadn’t noticed before.  These feelings could be powerful or mild.  A pain in a certain area of the body will naturally make us want to stop or change it, or just get away from it.  Unless this pain is connected to a very specific problem, like a knee injury, it could actually present us with an opportunity for growth and healing if we can choose to release it. Let this be your beginners guide to meditation.

The symptoms of pain and tension could be showing us a place where the body has been holding onto some incomplete issue that was not resolved in our past and is left in the subconscious, waiting to be healed.  The body is the repository of the subconscious, where the unresolved or unhealed “past” is stored, or held.  In this way the body holds our past unresolved issues.  Meditation, therefore, holds the possibility of giving us a chance to become aware of pain, stay with it and use it to find resolution in the release of it.

We may gain insight into what we were holding and how it came to be visible to us as we experience release.  If we have an ongoing pain in a place like our right shoulder, we may be able to find the source through meditating and becoming conscious of something from childhood connected to our father.  This memory of a childhood reflection related to the father can be the vehicle for giving us some insight into the self.  The real issue is not what the father’s actions were at all.  He serves as the reflection of something that already existed within the self.

We may draw some understanding from this insight about a childhood experience about a pattern that has persisted in our relationships with men.  We may notice a way of relating, or not relating to men.  In the end we will understand this as a distortion of our masculine polarity.  We will see, through examining the source of problems in the past in our lives, that the issues relating to masculinity were influenced by imprinting from the father, and to the feminine, by imprinting from the mother.  They are the basis for the reflection and imprinting that occurs in our lives, and following the laws of sympathetic attraction will pull us to the parent that will enable us to work out the karma we’re meant to focus on in our lives.

The case is the same for emotional pain.  If we really allow ourselves to experience our emotions in our bodies, to be present to ourselves and honor what is happening, we will be able to notice what develops during this process. This includes coping with anxiety and depression.

Whenever we experience any discomfort either physically or emotionally, we can’t take the time to just sit and meditate.  However, the practice of meditation will enhance our ability to really be available to the experiences we have in the rest of our lives that may be challenging, and through this we can become empowered. You can also look to learn yoga for stress relief.