The Women's Organisation of the Malankara Orthodox Church - 'Marthamariam Samajam' invited me for a talk on Holistic Healing in their Global conference held at Pothanpuram(Pampady) Kottayam, Kerala from27-29 April 2016. This blog is a reflection on the experience of this talk.
Around one thousand and five hundred women had gathered in the hall. They were all gathered in the name of Holy Mary m/o Jesus to a spend time in study , meditation and empower themselves. Health and healing is central to the Church's mission.
The listeners wanted an experiential session on Holistic Healing. I started off with a brief description and thrust areas of Holistic Healing practices.
Spiritual awareness, personal reflection and forgiveness practice, mental relaxation and awareness of Body - mind connection are central to Holistic healing. These together maybe understood as practice of Love. We learned about Love as defined by Dr. Scott Peck
Love has been defined by Dr. Scott Peck in his book 'Road Less Travelled' as "the willingness to grow and let others grow". This in other words is 'Discipline'.The four elements of this kind of love in discipline are
1. Learning to delay gratification 2. Taking responsibility 3. Learning to be truthful to oneself and 4. Achieving balance in all of the above.
Personal reflection was practiced based on this understanding to become aware of any lovelessness in our hearts. The participants practiced making a note of this awareness and decided to discard it from their lives. Symbolically it was practiced by writing it on paper and destroying the same.
Awareness of the Positive energy of the Holy Spirit was practiced by reflecting on the positive qualities in others and placing the positive thoughts in the space of the discarded negative thoughts.
This was followed by two minutes relaxation of the body and aligning the relaxed body to the mind.
The session was concluded with a reaffirmation that these practices can be initiated by each one and practiced again and again for long standing benefits and experience of 'Abundant Living' .
I enjoyed going through this experiential process. many of the participants met me personally outside the session to inform me that it was a great experience and new learning!
Around one thousand and five hundred women had gathered in the hall. They were all gathered in the name of Holy Mary m/o Jesus to a spend time in study , meditation and empower themselves. Health and healing is central to the Church's mission.
The listeners wanted an experiential session on Holistic Healing. I started off with a brief description and thrust areas of Holistic Healing practices.
Spiritual awareness, personal reflection and forgiveness practice, mental relaxation and awareness of Body - mind connection are central to Holistic healing. These together maybe understood as practice of Love. We learned about Love as defined by Dr. Scott Peck
Love has been defined by Dr. Scott Peck in his book 'Road Less Travelled' as "the willingness to grow and let others grow". This in other words is 'Discipline'.The four elements of this kind of love in discipline are
1. Learning to delay gratification 2. Taking responsibility 3. Learning to be truthful to oneself and 4. Achieving balance in all of the above.
Personal reflection was practiced based on this understanding to become aware of any lovelessness in our hearts. The participants practiced making a note of this awareness and decided to discard it from their lives. Symbolically it was practiced by writing it on paper and destroying the same.
Awareness of the Positive energy of the Holy Spirit was practiced by reflecting on the positive qualities in others and placing the positive thoughts in the space of the discarded negative thoughts.
This was followed by two minutes relaxation of the body and aligning the relaxed body to the mind.
The session was concluded with a reaffirmation that these practices can be initiated by each one and practiced again and again for long standing benefits and experience of 'Abundant Living' .
I enjoyed going through this experiential process. many of the participants met me personally outside the session to inform me that it was a great experience and new learning!
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