Healing Mantra

Don't store it negative...Leave it positive

Michael A. Singer

This is the mantra I have been reciting lately during some of my meditations. 

I am opening.

I am releasing.

I am cleansing.

I am healing.

I am allowing.

I am embracing.

I am touching the joy

of Shakti within me.

opening...releasing

cleansing...healing

allowing...embracing

touching joy...touching Shakti.

Bizarre? Maybe but this is what it translates to for me: 

I am opening:  I am not closing to anything out there. I am staying open. I am learning to be nonreactive and nonresistant. 

I am releasing: I am letting go of all that I was clinging to that does not serve my higher purpose, especially the negative.

I am cleansing: I am purifying...cleansing out the samskaras. I see how they are clouding my vision and impacting my approach to Life. 

I am healing: I know that by cleansing out what was making me sick, I am healing at the deepest level.

I am allowing: I am allowing Life to do what it does...to flow through...I am not resisting what unfolds in any given moment. I am not pushing away, which equates to stuffing and storing anymore. I am also allowing the stuffed and stored stuff to rise into my conscious awareness. I am not resisting any of it.  I am not pushing it back down.

I am embracing: I am looking at all of me and all of Life with compassionate eyes: the "good", the "bad", and the "ugly". I am not judging or resisting the uncomfortable that Life gives me in any given moment.  I am embracing it for its learning potential. I am not condeming the pain I have stuffed and stored. I am embracing it as it emerges and  I gently release it.  I am not beating up my ego as it slowly crumbles in front of me...I am lovingly holding it like a mother holds a child before sending the immature child off. 

I am touching the shakti:This is one of the few manifestation visualizations I will use. I visualize and make the intention  of myself touching Shakti...the joy I was born with. When the channeles within this human are open, cleansed, and healed, Yoga teaches that Shakti can flow.)

to flow freely within: I am seeing that all the things I once looked for out there: freedom from suffering, peace, joy, love, are and have always been in this human I call "me".  I just didn't know it because of the blockages I stuffed on top of it, because of this "me"I built that is always in the way.  Shakti can flow freely once I let go of all that which is in the way. Shakti can flow freely. I can finally be free.

Still pretty bizarre to ya? Maybe... and that is okay. You see they are all just words and concepts. The experience of healing they point to is what is important. 

All is well.