I have been following Dr Joe Dispenza’s work for a while. Recently, I tuned in live to Dr Joe sharing some scientific data & research on the health benefits of meditation. I am a bit of a self-development junkie, definitely a spirit junkie, with a touch of science geek thrown in for good measure & I love Dr Joe’s work, it fascinates me & I have learnt a lot from him.
I believe a lot of what I have learnt from him has helped in my own spiritual, mental, emotional & physical healing. As Dr Joe says himself: understand the what & the why & the how will just come.
I now have a strong belief & scientific understanding in how & why the body can heal itself. This is important to me because I have a chronic lung complaint & have had ¼ of left lung removed. I also figure if people can heal themselves from chronic illnesses, surely I can heal my body from the menopause. And even if I can’t but I’m in love with life, then that, my friends, is good enough thank you very much!
But then it got me thinking about the power of meditation & yoga to help balance the Autonomic Nervous System, activating the parasympathetic nervous system. The rest & digest response, which promotes healing, growth, creation, helping the body & mind to restore, revive, rejuvenate. I wondered if yoga & meditation might have a positive impact on Covid somehow.
Just before Christmas Dr Joe announced he was going live to share the results of a scientific study he & a team of Dr’s & Scientists had done accessing the impact of meditation on Covid. Bingo…now I’d know if what I postulated that yoga & meditation & mindfulness helped with Covid was true.
Although my beliefs have changed with my understanding so has my body & my health. Despite having a chronic lung condition, I have not been sick at all throughout the pandemic & I put this down to my daily practices keeping my ANS (autonomic nervous system) in balance & alignment. Both my kids have had Covid & still I have remained fit & healthy.
So I tuned into Dr Joe in anticipation & it was beyond awesome – the research is staggering: meditators, novice or experienced, have a lower rate of Covid, the symptoms of the virus aren’t so severe & are less likely to result in long Covid. This was the largest study ever done across the globe.
As scientists they delved deeper to find out why & discovered that meditator’s produce a protein which stops the virus from being absorbed by our body’s cells, which means we can’t get infected by the virus. It was fascinating.
The thing is, the benefits are available to anyone, you don’t have to devote hours to your meditation practice or be a long-term meditator. In Dr Joe’s studies, the novice meditators had bigger explosions up & downgrading proteins by their meditations. I’ve seen shifts in my clients in weeks. One of my clients commits to ½ hour of yoga 5 days a week & it has significantly changed her life – she is sleeping better than she ever has.
What I also thought was interesting is that people reported improvements in brain fog, fatigue, some of the symptoms of the menopause.
After the big reveal, Dr Joe lead us in a beautiful heart mind resonance meditation. When the heart & mind are in coherence we are no longer operating in survival but closer to the Quantum realm, consciousness, a realm of energy, frequency & information.
During the meditation I felt a divine connection to source, to an unconditional love, a deep sense of trust, faith & belief. It was such a beautiful & blissful experience. I felt spacious, expansive & connected. Time seemed to stand still but flew by.
I didn’t want to come out of the meditation, it was such a beautifully blissful experience & I had this profound sense of trust & belief.
Having devoted the past year to improving my scientific understanding behind how yoga & mindfulness ‘work’, I have a much deeper understanding of energy, the Quantum realm, the Autonomic Nervous System, stress, epigenetics, neuroplasticity & neuroscience…no PhD expert but I am intrigued & fascinated by everything I learn.
I have always had an inner belief that my practices have a subtle but ultimately profound impact on my life. They have helped me through numerous overseas relocations, major lung surgery, hospitalisation for my mental health, divorce & most recently the menopause.
Having a deep understanding of what & why, ultimately that’s how I had the deeply profound & mystical experience. I wasn’t trying to create it, I let go & welcomed it in.
It was such a beautiful experience, I hadn’t then ‘expected’ to struggle through the following week. Silly little set-backs, which I have become much more comfortable flipping into opportunities & possibilities, were hitting me harder than usual. I couldn’t work out what they were trying to tell me: I DO believe, I DO trust the process; I believe that The Universe is creating space with these supposed set-backs for something new to come through. But despite this knowing & belief, they still seemed to trip me up.
This year, I have decided to balance my scientific understanding by deepening my spiritual practices. I have joined a spiritual community across the globe devoted to a year long spiritual journey. It’s beautiful community, supportive, open, compassionate & kind. Some are already reporting amazing shifts, miracles, it’s astonishing. Since I know understand the science behind this now, I am delighted for them.
But despite feeling like I am in the right place, ready to receive, doing all the things I should be doing, I felt blocked somehow. Well of course there’s the obvious: the ‘should’ & the ‘doing’! If you try too hard to control or force something to happen, of course you just strangle all the energy out of it evolving as it should.
I was reminded by one teacher – don’t compare yourself – yes of course! I was definitely getting in my own way, because there is no need to compare, we are all on our own journeys.
Later I was listening to a teaching & was reminded how when we up our spiritual practice, the ego often comes back harder, trying to get our attention to drop us back into fear & doubt, because that feels ‘safer’ to the ego. When we are about to change, the ego gets a bit agg-y.
Bingo! No wonder I have been feeling that nagging sense of fear & doubt creeping in. I’d had that beautiful experience a week before in my meditation, a deep sense of trust & faith, a deep belief, so the ole ego reared up with the old narratives to suck me back into the old paradigm of fear & doubt instead.
Awareness is always the first step in change. But there was one more step to clear my blocks. My daughter got a positive covid test result at the weekend. I was busy & felt guilty that I couldn’t cancel anything to be more supportive & I could feel an energetic drain & the resulting sense of overwhelm.
As a HSP I tend to be aware of other people’s energies, which coupled with my Human Design makes me susceptible to picking up this energy. The energetic drain I felt was because of course, my daughter’s body is fighting a virus, she is in survival mode, drawing from her own energetic field. And possibly even mine. So I gathered us all together for an energy clearing meditation.
These little insights might not seem much to you, but they are tiny little miraculous moments of awareness, clarity & something imperceptibly starts to shift.
Literally an hour later I popped in to see a friend to drop something off for her & within ½ hour had secured a new client!
And that’s the magic of meditation!
