Meditation practice may help us to restore the right inward measure.

We as human beings all aspire yet often struggle with living a life of ‘ease’- of contentment- of fulfillment- and of completeness. Living a life with ‘dis-ease’ seems to be at the core of our existence. Our ‘storylines’ dictate conscious and unconscious imperatives to constantly strive for more and more… driving, neurotic compulsions to live outside of our true nature. As a result, we eventually lose mindful attention and ultimately become disconnected from ourselves- our minds- our bodies- our spirits. We are no longer listening to what our bodies may be telling us, and it is through this disconnection- this denigrated state of mind & quality of heart- which may eventually lead to dis-regulation (i.e. imbalance)- to disorder, and ultimately to disease.

It is this fundamental state of mind and quality of heart which has been raising significant interest in the community of integrative practitioners- and how it relates to a non-conventional, participative approach in the healing process- providing patients with insights, education, practical tools, and techniques to re-attend and re-connect- to uncover and transform one’s natural state of ‘ease’ and right inward measure to heal- and to come to understand that one is not their illness, and that he/she is simply challenged by the experience of the illness, imbalance, or disruption.

A mindful outlook and mindful intelligence centers upon a purposeful intent to help enlighten and awaken people to living without the suffering of ‘dis-ease’- and to move away from their often incessant and unwavering compulsions to remain attached to their objects of attention. Many Eastern cultures, and particularly Buddhists have recognized ‘attachment‘ as the seed of human suffering.

Meditation practice is a medium for liberation- for freeing us from our habitual thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and resulting attachments about who we are and about what we are in relation to ourselves- to others- and to our experiences. The practice becomes fundamental to transforming a state of mind, a quality of heart, and a life of ‘dis-ease’ to one with ‘ease’- to uncovering and reconnecting with what some teachers refer to as the ‘primary self’, the ‘original mind’- a spaciousness, an awareness where enlightenment and natural healing powers already exist. It becomes our purposeful intent to dismantle our habitual thinking and conditioning, and to transcend our own self-imposed limitations to live detached from living fully and completely.

Some day, the world of medicine may unequivocally come to look at meditation practice as a way not only to help the healing process, but a way to optimize it…

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