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.

Many unresolved issues are actually held in the form of tension or discomfort that is held in the body.  The subconscious holds the past that has not been healed.  The body is a kind of storage for the subconscious to keep things that have not been completed in our lives.  That is why in meditation we may discover pain from this, welcome it and use it to release the original hurt.

When we are able to release, we start to gain insight into what we might have been holding and how it has appeared in our lives.  If we have an ongoing pain in our right shoulder, we may find through meditation the source of this was based in a childhood experience with our father.  We are given a way to gain insight into ourselves through this childhood reflection from the father.  The real issue is not based on what the father did, really.  Rather, it is a reflection of something that existed within ourselves.

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 with emotional pain is similar.  We will be free to notice the process if we really notice and stay with the experience of emotional pain in our bodies, if we can feel this and try to be patient with it. This includes coping with anxiety and depression.

We aren’t able to sit and meditate whenever we experience uncomfortable emotions or feelings.  The practice of regular meditation can give us the ability to be in the moment of each experience in our lives as it happens, and this can give us great personal power. You can also look to learn yoga for stress relief.