Healing by Listening to the Body at Zero Point: A healing experience

Today, I am sharing with you an early experience in healing that I had sometime in September 2016 when I had just started experimenting with this healing method (Healing by listening to the Body).

I was traveling to Gandhidham in Gujarat by train for conducting a Training workshop at Adani Ports. A lady of age Approx 50-55 sitting in my compartment appeared to be in pain and was searching for something in her luggage. after a while, I asked her about it, she said that she was suffering from Varicose Veins and that she had severe pain in her leg. She was searching for her tablets but it seems she had forgotten to carry them.

Since she was in pain, I mentioned to her about the treatment that I do and that I could try it on her leg. To be on the safer side, I warned her that I had never used this on Varicose Veins and wasn’t sure if it would work at all, however was going to give a sincere attempt. She agreed and I started moving my palms 8-10 inches above her leg kept trying to sense the communication from her leg. Soon I started feeling strong vibrations in my palms and continued the treatment for a total of 5 minutes. When I looked at her and asked her to check, she was looking relieved and told me that the pain had completely vanished. She almost considered it to be Miracle.

I was surprised too and happy that it had worked especially since this was a very initial state of my healing trials by this particular method.

While this was going on, a gentleman who was sleeping on a lower berth in our compartment suddenly got up and asked me if I could  help him. He had overheard what all had happened and wanted me to help him with his back pain. when I asked him about it, he told me that he was from Tanzania and was traveling to Gandhidham for some personal work. He told me that he had severe pain in his lower back and it was so intense that he was unable to stand comfortably even for a minute or two without intense pain. This was  happening for a long time and no doctor was successful in treating this condition.

I told him that I was myself a novice at this method and wasn’t sure if it would work for him. He requested me to try and I agreed. After about 5-7 minutes of treatment he suddenly burped and for me this was an indication that some Vatha that was stuck in his lower back had probably moved out. I told him that this was a good sign and continued the healing for 5 minutes more. In all after 10-12 minutes, I asked him to check and he was shocked to find that the pain was almost gone and he was able to stand properly after a very very long time.

He was so delighted that he started walking around the compartment excited like a small child and told me that he had not walked this much since a very long time.

What happened now was even more surprising. A short while ago, this very man had got into an argument with a lady. She was asking him to shift to her upper berth and give her his lower berth. He had refused stating that it was impossible for him to move up. He soon agreed to shift to the top berth and comfortably could climb up without any pain. In the morning, he came down and sat beside me and told me that I definitely had special magical powers. I told him that this was something that each one of us could do if we wanted and if we learnt this simple technique.

My own confidence in the technique was now growing. During that visit at the Adani township, I also helped 10-15 more people with the healing technique and almost everyone experienced significant relief. I will share one more very interesting experience about a Frozen shoulder case, however, in another post. Till then Good Bye !!

Healing by Listening to the Body at Zero Point : Principle & Method

A very powerful way of healing is by simply listening to the body’s energy field while at the Zero point state of Mind (A Mindless State). However, instead of using our ears as an input device, this listening has to be done by using our palms and our eyes as input and feedback sensing devices. Once we develop sensitivity of our palms, it is very easy to pick up and receive signals that are being transmitted by an ailing body. Our eyes simultaneously catch the healing indicators to guide us through the process.

Listening can be therapeutic is something that we all know. However what we are probably not aware of is that this applies to our body illnesses as well and if we intently listen to the complaints of the body, then the body has the ability to heal itself by creating a balance of energy and order.

In my experience, this listening process almost immediately triggers a flow in the body and probably starts correcting Vatha Imbalance or Blocks. For those who are not aware of Vatha, Vatha as per Ayurveda, is the force that creates various types of flow in the body. There are five different Primary flow systems and then further secondary flow systems in the body which regulate the flow of blood, urine, digestive juices, saliva, sweat, tears, gas, toxins, nutrients, nerve impulses etc etc. across the body.  (I will explain this later in a separate post about Vatha and its importance in our body)

A block in any particular flow system  creates a disease and then puts the other flow systems into imbalance. This healing method can trigger a corrective action and bring the body into balance.

In this method, I simply bring my entire attention to my palms and hold my palms near the ailing person’s body at a distance of anything between 1-3 feet. Then in my mind, I request the other’s body to tell me whats wrong and that I’m there to listen to it. Normally, in about 10-15 seconds, my palms are able to catch signals and these signals are in the form of various feelings that I feel on the skin of my palms. Paying attention to the feelings deeply anchors me to the present moment (NOW) thereby creating the Zero point state of mind ( A No mind state) . In this state, healing spontaneously takes place to restore energy and order wherever you intend to or wherever required by the body.

The feeling that I get on my plans typically is like vibrations, heat or cold, air flow, tingling, pinching, twitching, magnetic push or pull, or anything that feels different to the palm.

I keep listening to the body that I am treating through my palms and keep moving my palms around as if I am rotating a radio knob and trying to catch a radio station. The moment I get a signal, I stop my palms there and intently listen to the signals while moving my palms in a random clockwise or anti clockwise motion or for that matter any random motion.

After a few moments, I intuitively shift my palms to a new position where I get a signal and then do the same as mentioned above. Simultaneously I keep my awareness on the body of the person who I’m treating to check for healing indications which usually start happening inside the other’s body.  People tell me that they have started feeling movement, vibrations, flow, tingling, pins and needles inside their body. Very often I can see twitching or jerking of their fingers or other body parts, which indicates that the healing has started.

Basically, how I think this works is that during the listening process our mind automatically gets into a deeply silent state, commonly called the Zero point i.e. A mindless state of Pure Awareness. This state of awareness and oneness of spirit opens up a portal where our intention of healing manifests into a instant corrective action that is done by the body being healed. It connects the ailing body to the universe and thereby can access the infinite healing potential of the universe. In this method, we as a healer are practically doing nothing apart from Listening. Everything that is required is done by the universe and the body that’s being healed.

I do the above for anything between 5-7 minutes and then ask the person to check if there is any change in the symptoms. Very often, in just 5 minutes, people suffering from joint pain report significant reduction of pain or ease of movement of limbs. I have used this method to treat various issues with such as back pain, knee pain, neck pain, problems with the digestive system,  injuries, Pain, Headaches or Migraine, Sprains, diabetes, constipation, dental pain, earache etc. Basically I try it on whatever comes my way and watch for results.

I must say, I have been lucky to have experienced some amazing results which I will write about it in later posts.

The only requirement to use this technique is the ability of one’s palms to catch the signals of a body. To check if your palms are sensitive, I suggest that you could just hold your palms in front of each other and check if you feel any sensations between them.

If you don’t feel anything, I will help you in activating your palms. You can contact me on my email sachin.karve@gmail.com or call me on my cell number 9819858269.  I have assisted a lot of people on phone and since then, they have been successfully healing themselves and others.

Heart Energy Healing: My very first experience in Healing

This was in July 2016, I was returning from Bhuj in Gujarat after conducting a 2-Day Training workshop for Adani Ports at Mundra.

Surprisingly, for the earlier 4-5 days, my mind was consistently in a very silent state. I was almost floating in a state of Pure awareness several times in a day.

I had read that a state of Pure awareness can be helpful for healing and had  read about Heart energy healing somewhere on the internet in the past. I wanted to try it out however, was apprehensive since I thought that such abilities of healing people were possessed by very few people who had attained something spiritually, and I wouldn’t be able to do it.

I was determined to try this on someone but wasn’t sure how an opportunity would come my way. Surprisingly the universe presented someone who badly needed healing the same day that I reached home.

The lady who works at my home as a House help, came in asking for a week’s leave since her doctor had told her that her condition was serious and had asked here to take complete bed rest for a few days. On further inquiry she told that she had extremely severe pain in her lower back. She was unable to bend and was also unable to walk properly due to the pain. Sadly, she had hidden this from us for more than a week and had silently continued her work even when she was suffering in severe pain.

While she was just about to leave, I casually mentioned to her that I would like to try a particular treatment on her which could help her provided it worked. I told her that I would not need to touch her and would do it from a distance of about 2-4 feet. I was hoping that she would agree and luckily she did. I made her sit in a comfortable position and sat a few feet behind her with my attention fully focused on her lower back and then I started sending Heart Energy to her back. (Refer to my earlier post on Heart Energy Healing to know how this is done)

In about 3-4 minutes, she said that she could feel very strong vibrations in her lower back.  The vibrations were radiating from her lower back inwards and upwards. She felt as if something was actually moving inside. This response from her, gave me the confidence that the treatment was indeed working. After 5 minutes, I asked her to stand up and check. To her surprise, she could stand properly and the pain was gone almost 90% . She couldn’t believe this and then tried twisting her spine a bit to see if it pained now. Then I asked her to check if she could bend and to her amazement she was able to bend in front as well as sideways without any discomfort.

A day later I again did a 5-10 minute healing session for her and her remaining discomfort too vanished. She was able to work normally as if nothing had happened.  These days, whenever she has any such problems, she knows that she can get relief in minutes.

That particular day I saw her getting completely cured with just 5 minutes of treatment. It was a very special day for me and it’s been 3 years since then with hundreds of such experiences in healing people.

 

 

Heart Energy Healing: An Extremely Powerful Healing Method

The ability to heal ourselves as well as others is a very important skill to possess. It is usually felt that only certain people are born with such divine abilities and it is not something with every human can do. I too lived with the same belief. However, what happened in the last 3 years completely changed this belief, especially after I ended up helping more than 500 people in healing themselves using 2-3 different techniques which I think can be learnt by any human on this earth.

Of the above mentioned techniques, the one that this post is focused on is the one that uses Heart Energy for Healing. We could simply call it Heart Energy Healing. While reading more about such kind of healing, I realized that this method makes use of the Electro-Magnetic energy of the heart in order to heal oneself and others.  This is a Scalar energy form and can be transmitted in any direction and over distance without losing its intensity/ power. I have used this over distance, tried putting this into metal objects such as coins and it still works. It’s simply magical in nature.

Over the last 3 years, I have used this method of healing on more than 200 people with amazing results. some of the experiences are nothing less than miracles. This method of healing is very simple to understand and practice and practically anyone can start doing this in 5 minutes after a little bit of practice.

The essentials for using this method are as below:

  1. A high level of Awareness/ Consciousness of our body.
  2. Deep Breathing – Inhalation and exhalation
  3. A very deep sense of Love in the heart so as to amplify the energy
  4. An intention of healing the person but a mind that’s completely silent and not attached to the outcome
  5. Sending Heart Energy from the Heart Chakra (Anahat Chakra) for Healing
  6. Keen observation of what’s happening to the person being treated (Registers or Changes)

According to me, the only 2 points which are a bit challenging for many of us are points 1 and 4. I was able to get control of these just in a few days of practice.  However, let me tell you that for me, results came actually in the very first trial that I did on a lady who had severe back pain. With just 5-7 minutes of treatment, she was completely cured. I believe that you too in your first attempt could get such results. The technique itself is so powerful. Exciting isn’t it.

Now, here’s the process which you follow:

  1. Sit in front of the person you wish to heal. (Remember that you are not healing. The universal energy of love is doing the healing through you as a medium)
  2. Keep breathing in and out normally and with every inhalation and exhalation, become fully aware of your body right from the tip of your toes to your head and the tip of your fingers. An easy way to do this is that as you inhale, take your awareness (attention) from tip of your toes to the head, and as you exhale, take your awareness from the head to the tip of your fingers.
  3. Now, bring in a very strong feeling of love in your heart (Somewhere at the center of the chest, nest to the physical heart lies the Heart Chakra (Vortex) . Imagine as if it is full with love. This is the love that we feel about any person, animal, say a small kitten or puppy, a baby or for our loved ones. Just feel the feeling of love in the heart region. Feel a sense of unity between you and the other person.
  4. With an intention to heal, (but no attachment to outcome), as you exhale, send a stream of Heart Energy to the part that needs healing. Imagine a stream of yellowish white or golden light going from your heart to the affected part. for example, if you are healing someone with joint pain, send the energy to the joint.  You would need to breathe a bot deeper than normal and then with every exhale send heart energy.  Do this with every exhale for the next 5 minutes. Make sure you maintain the body awareness while you do this. The body awareness will also help to in achieving a silent state of Mind.
  5. Observe if the person being treated is feeling any change happening inside his/her body. Often, people report a feeling of heaviness. lightness, tingling sensations, pins and needles, flow inside, burps, heat or cold feeling etc. Watch that since these are the registers that indicate that change has started happening inside.
  6. Do this for 5 minutes or till the time you are comfortable. Often people feel a bit hyperventilated if they breathe too deep. If that is happening to you, do not breathe too deep. Breathe normally. Rest of the process will remain same.
  7. A good idea is to first check the level of pain/ discomfort on a 1-10 scale (1=nothing, 10= severe) . Then after the treatment, again check if there is any change in the level of pain. Very often, you might notice a change. in most cases, i have found that people report next day that they have significant relief or have completely got cured. It probably depends on the person’s body- i.e. it’s  ability to initiate healing and also on the intensity of the problem.
  8. Do a repeat session for 5-7 minutes next day if the person reports an improvement.

In this technique, I have observed that the body uses the energy int he best way that it feels right. I was once treating a person for a finger injury and next day he reported that his finger was much better but what was most surprising that his tooth which was very painful for several days had suddenly stopped paining that night.  Note that I wasn’t even aware of this tooth pain while I was doing healing for him.  So trust that the body is intelligent enough to decide where to use the available energy.

Try this once, and trust me, there will be no looking back. The same method is use while treating ourselves. The power of our Heart Energy is so amazing. It brings in surprises practically every time.  Try it and share your experiences with me on sachin.karve@gmail.com . Feel free to write to me if you need any further guidance. Happy Healing !!

Our Body: A fantastic tool for the Journey towards Enlightenment

Enlightenment is something that everyone seeks. Or at least those who have risen above the basic needs such as Food, Shelter, Clothing, Money, Safety, Job & Position, Security, Social needs etc..

There are different ways towards enlightenment mentioned in ancient books such as 1. Bhakti Marg (Devotion and Surrender to Divine ), 2. Karma Marg ( Focusing on Doing or Action ) and 3. Yoga Marg (Achieving Unity ‘YoG’ using the Physical Body) and different people follow different paths according to their choice.

We must understand that all these paths lead to the same place. i.e. ‘Awakening’ or ‘Enlightenment’  where we can experience the Non Dual Spirit and energy that flows through each one of us, where the Illusion of physical reality ‘Maya’ no longer exists and we identify ourselves as Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey.  (And Not Human Beings on a Spiritual Journey) .

From whatever I have learnt and experienced over the years, I have understood that a very effective tool that is present with us all the time is our Body.  After my awakening experience through a grounding exercise years ago, (about which I have written in a separate post recently) , over the years, I realized that the key to awakening is Pure Awareness and that anything which can help us become deeply aware / conscious in the present moment can be a door to enlightenment.

Luckily our body is with us all the time and therefore is available for us to anchor on at our will, practically 24×7. Becoming deeply aware of our body just for a week’s duration can bring about a powerful shift in our consciousness. It is easier said than done, since holding our awareness to our body even for a minute at a time is very difficult, since the mind keeps jumping around from thought to thought and very soon the awareness is gone.

With several things around us to distract our minds these days, it becomes even more challenging to maintain body awareness for a long duration. If we can simply maintain our attention to our body, breath or any action that we are performing using our body, that is good enough to take us to a deep feeling of joy and eternal bliss (Sat-Chit-Anand)

As an action point, starting from this moment, try to maintain full body awareness as long as you can. Catch yourself losing awareness and pull yourself back even if you have to do this several times a day. For a while or few days, you might feel nothing different apart from a little bit of calmness and some joy. I have observed that there’s a particular threshold point or a tipping point  and once you cross that, then the change in your consciousness will become very strong evident and noticeable to you.

You might suddenly start feeling a deep calmness, stillness and unbound Joy coming from within. For no reason, you will be happy, and will have a smile on your face. Just by looking at you, people will realize that something within you has changed.

 

 

Meditation Method 3: Heart Rhythm Meditation

Heart Rhythm Meditation is a very powerful way of using our own heartbeat as a stimulus for us to anchor our attention on.

We have discussed earlier that meditation is all about developing our awareness and anchoring it on to the present moment. Our mind. like a ship tends to drift here and there as per the thought waves that touch it. One way of keeping it steady is to anchor it to the ocean bed which never moves.

In order to achieve this anchoring, we need to identify something what is always in the present moment and no where else. One such thing is our body. However, being aware of our body is a bit tricky since we tend to lose awareness quickly. Better than the body is breath since it is continuously happening …Best is the Heartbeat since this pulse is available to us continuously and once we become aware of our heart beat, it is easy to achieve full body awareness since the pulse is something that is felt all over our body. Apart from the Heart region i.e. Chest, we can strongly feel our pulse at following places :

  1. Neck i.e. Carotid Artery Pulse
  2.  Inner arm i.e. Below the bicep muscle: Called Brachial artery
  3.  Wrist : Radial Artery
  4. Groin : Femoral Artery
  5. Behind our Knee : Popliteal Artery
  6. Behind our Ankle: Tibial Artery
  7. Dorsum of our foot : Dorsal Pedis Artery.

Apart from these there are many other places where we can feel the heart pulse.  In fact, if you strongly press two of your fingers together, after a minute or so, you will start feeling pulsations there.

In Heart Rhythm Meditation, we become fully aware of our heart beat and maintain this awareness on the entire body along with the breath. In a short while, we start becoming aware of the pulsations happening all over the body and soon the feeling becomes fairly intense. My personal experience is that at this stage my body start feeling as if it is weightless and floating. There’s a deep sense of peace, calmness and stillness, despite being with the continuous pulsations of the heart. The mind feels completely silent – almost absent.

For catching the pulse, one could use the point at the wrist where it is easy to use fingers of one hand and hold the pulse of the other hand. I had once also purchased a very basic stethoscope to listen to the heart beat.  Listening to the heart beat using a stethoscope is an amazing experience.

With Heart Rhythm Meditation, I suggest that you breathe normally and calmly instead of following any particular breath count Such as Breathe In-Hold in-Breathe Our – Hold Out.  This often distracts me from the Heart Rhythm count, so I avoid it.

I recommend doing the Heart Rhythm meditation daily for 5-10 minutes or till the time you are comfortable. This has great benefits both at a physical level as well as an emotional level.

 

Meditation Method 2: Walking With Full body Awareness

Walking meditation is a less known but very effective way of achieving a meditative state. The advantage that we get in this method is that since the body is in a dynamic state, the level of awareness that we can achieve is higher as compared to when we are sitting or lying down.

Since this method is all about awareness of our connection with the earth, it is better if we avoid wearing any kind of footwear while doing this. Best would be to walk bare feet and have a surface that is different than normal. for example, it would be beneficial to walk on a slightly rough surface, or a lawn or sea shore. That way, being conscious of the feelings or sensations of our feet becomes easier.

In  walking meditation, we first relax ourselves, calm down if we are worked up  and then start by simply being mindful of our breath as we walk very slowly and gently. After doing this for a few minutes. we simply need to become aware of our feet as they touch the ground. Feel the sole touching the ground below and be aware of this feeling.

Now, while you are aware of your feet, be aware of your breath as well. No need to synchronize your breath with the walking rhythm. Just being aware is good enough. Initially try to walk as slowly as possible, being aware of every micro movement. Be aware of the pressure on your heel, toes and feet. Be aware as the pressure sifts from one leg to the other as you walk and be aware of your entire body as it moves to the next position.  Remember that this has to be done very very slowly.  Normally, your mind will be completely blank if you are fully aware of your feet and body. However, if you realize that suddenly, your mind has got engaged in a certain thought or emotion, then just stop for a while. be completely steady and pay careful attention to the thought till it subsides.  then continue with the walking meditation.

You can keep your hands to the sides and be aware as they sway back and forth as you walk. After a while, I normally start feeling some sensations in my hands, such as tingling or certain vibrations.  I keep myself aware of whatever is happening, which further takes me into deeper states of Mindful walking.

Within 5 minutes, you might feel a shift in consciousness. Continue for 5 minutes more.  Doing this for at least 10 minutes or more at a time is recommended.

Mindful walking can help us in bringing in a lot of peace and can get rid of negative emotions such as sorrow, anxiety, worries, anger, stress etc. Since, we are being grounded to the earth, it also helps in getting rid of any physical ailments by getting the negative energy that’s inside the body out by passing it down into the loving mother earth.

If done properly and regularly, you will possibly just walk your way to enlightenment !!

Not getting results: Change your Approach

During school days, we all were taught the importance of perseverance and the need to keep trying despite failure. We all have learnt that successful people are those who kept trying in spite of failing several times. Every time they would fail, they would get up and try again.

‘If you fail once, then keep trying’ is what we have been taught. However, what they probably forgot to emphasize on in school is the fact that while we certainly must try again, we must essentially do something different, or in a different direction.

Very often we fail, not because we do not have the ability to succeed or the effort is falling short, but just because some parameter in the equation for success is not right. Changing this parameter can get us to success. Often, either we need to change the inputs or else change the process.  In either case, a change is required.

A common mistake made by people is that they keep trying in exactly the same way as before and expect better results than before. This would not happen. Principles of science tell us that if we keep doing the same things as before, we will keep getting the same results as before. So if we want a different result, we need to do something different.

I was once visiting the office of a client and came across a lovely quote on a wall hanging behind the Manager’s chair. It was about the definition of insanity and it read.. “Insanity is the process of doing the same things over and over again but expecting a different result every time” . Unfortunately we have a lot of insane people around who keep doing same things as before and then keep wondering why they are unable to achieve success in life.

 

My Awakening Experience through a Grounding Exercise

Several years ago, (around the year 1997-98), I experienced a very powerful awakening experience while doing a particular grounding meditation exercise. In this post, I am sharing this experience, and my learning and observations from this.

I was trying out a ‘grounding’ exercises mentioned on a certain website. I was sitting in front of my PC, reading out the explanation displayed on screen and following the steps. Basically, it involved visualizing cosmic energy from the sun, coming down from the cosmos, getting into the body through my crown chakra, and then going down through my spine and my feet straight upto the bottom of the earth. Then the energy would come back up the same route and create a cycle / Loop.  The Heart chakra then opened and white light from the Heart Chakra (Anahata Chakra) formed a cover around my body. It was a detailed exercise and I was intensely doing it. Suddenly something magical happened, and it came as a shock.

I felt as if all my body weight was gone. It seemed as if I had dissolved in the surrounding ether. It is very difficult to describe the feeling that I experienced, since there was a paradox in it. I had become light just like a feather, but at the same time heavier than anything else. I was smaller than the smallest, at the same time bigger than anything around. I felt as if I did not finish anywhere.

There was a tremendous unbound love that I felt all around myself, and I suddenly realized that everything around me was “ME”. The feeling of boundaries did not exist. The PC in front was Me, the Chair below was Me, the Bed next to me was Me, and same was the state of everything in that room.

Miles below me there was nothing, and miles above me there was nothing. I was floating in the air, and I didn’t have any weight either. I realized that while I had completely lost myself,  it was just me and me all over  …everywhere. The feeling was amazingly wonderful, but the moment, I felt the loss of boundaries, the loss of my body limits, and then suddenly my insecure self probably felt that I had lost myself and I got pulled out of that state back into my earlier level of consciousness.

There again I was in front of my PC. However, now the PC seemed different from me, same was with the bed, the walls and everything around. I was now aware of my body. The unity had gone. There was a slight feeling of lightness, but not floating as before. I was reeling from the intense experience. Thinking nothing. Just sitting on the chair dumbfound as if struck by lightening.

The strongest realization of this experience, was the fact that ‘I’ was not my body, and that ‘I’ was also not my thoughts and feelings. I was certainly something much more and beyond these. I realized that in this universe there was indeed no Duality. Everything was one, and the feeling of being separate or duality was simply an illusion created by the mind.

I never thought that Spiritual grounding could be so amazing. This experience made me realize that ‘I’ was something beyond ‘my mind’ and ‘my thoughts’ and ‘my body’. Today I live my life with an understanding that everyone around me, including you and all those who are reading this blog are Me and Me itself. We all are made of the same divine spirit and consciousness that runs through the entire universe. There is nothing called Living and Non-Living. Everything around me is living and is united with my Spirit or Soul.

Meditation Method 1: Attentive Eating

In my earlier post, I have given an overview of my understanding of Meditation and  a list of 5 simple methods that one can use to mediate. In this post, I am giving details on the first method, called Attentive Eating.

Attentive Eating: An effective way to achieve a Meditative state:  In this, what we simply need to do is that whenever we eat, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner, we completely immerse ourselves in the process of eating.

Giving attention to anything is said to change its nature and behavior. The Double Slit experiment gives us proof of this. When a quantum “observer” is watching, Quantum mechanics states that particles can also behave as waves. … In other words, when under observation, electrons are being “forced” to behave like particles and not like waves. Thus the mere act of observation affects the experimental findings. Therefore, the impact of Attention, Awareness and Observation is established beyond doubt.

Here’s what I do…..    While I eat, I become completely attentive, aware and observing the process. I am never engaged simultaneously in chatting, talking on the mobile, watching TV, nothing. The only thing that exists is the divine presence of my food and my self.  Then as I eat, I bring my awareness to the taste, touch and smell of food as I pick it, chew it and swallow. I chew food till the time it becomes liquid in my mouth and only then swallow it. I slow down the process of eating by 10-20% observing the entire process as it happens. I simultaneously maintain awareness of my entire body as I eat.

I do not engage in formal prayer at home, or in a temple, however, I consider the process of eating as a form of prayer and uniting with the divine.  While eating, my mind is completely silent. It is not judging the food, neither assessing whether the taste is good or bad. I’m just eating it with a smile, being grateful and thankful to the universe for making food available to me multiple times every day. I consume it knowing that the atoms and molecules in it are very soon going to be ‘me’ when they get into my cells and my bloodstream.

If we do this just for 3-4 days, for every meal that we have, we suddenly start  experiencing a shift happening deep inside us the moment we sit for eating food and then this state continues for hours even after we are done with our lunch or dinner.

The greatest benefit of this method is that unlike other methods, we do not need to spare time for this separately apart from our daily routine. We regularly eat at least 3 times a day, and therefore every day presents us with at least three opportunities for deeply engaging in this wonderful eating meditation.

A direct benefit of this meditation is that our digestion of food improves drastically, more saliva is secreted since our mind is involved in the food and the process of eating.  We must understand that saliva is not secreted due to chewing, it is secreted when the mind is involved with food, even if it is at a thought level. I’m sure you would have experienced salivation even when you think of certain foods, say a lemon, raw mango etc. while these are not even in front of you.

The brain also gets the feeling of satisfaction sooner and so we don’t keep eating more than what we require, thereby avoiding getting overweight. Also, we are able to eat lesser to get the same amount of energy and nutrition as before. One must understand that digestion is an extremely energy consuming process. if we eat more than what the body requires, then in effect, we are putting in extra energy to digest the extra food consumed which the body actually doesn’t need and will later just store it as extra fat which we will end up carrying around us all the time, thus requiring extra energy. One must avoid this situation for sure.

Attentive eating, according to me is the easiest form of meditation. I highly recommend this method to everyone and especially those who find other forms of meditation difficult.

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