Meeting Aesclepius

Meeting Aesclepius

Going within is a treat to visit quiet and calming nature that is our home and destiny of our strivings. Our subtle mind or Aesclepius utilizes visuals to access the wise healer that is waiting for us to share insights into integral health and happiness. We see a wise individual who we respect and honor. This time instead of PERSON I know, I will create one and image their face, persona, and intelligence that I can utilize to help me find peace, happiness, wholeness and universal love for all things. I will observe while listening to the ocean waves. My experience is soothing, tranquil and calming until directed on the next phenomena. I get to sit in communion with this wise person and feel them of their quality and characteristics of presence. All that is universal is exchanged and felt during this bonding. What I see is a gentle person who is neither male nor female but a glowing light that burns bright with love, kindness and wisdom. These types of mental practice have been like mini-vacations/retreats that have kept me from over-reacting in many situations that I used to succumb (anger, frustration, and impatience) to in the past. By imaging a loving person, I have become that person. When I feel negative feelings and emotions, I can steer away by thinking of grandma, mother or my great-father figure I created to help guild me to surer grounds, safety and clearer thought.

Personal evolution and experience is walking the walk and talking the talk. “The ability to see the divine in everyone and treat each individual as though he or she were Christ or the Buddha himself can transform the suffering of illness into grace of healing” (Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok, Marc S. Micozzi, 2005). We must all connect and become equal human-beings and share the experience of the journey that disease can empower us to discover, as a team. Both practitioner and patient can benefit from the grace of the healing process and spiritual opening that that entails to transcend our worldly existence into higher consciousness and personal witnessing. Professionals have the responsibility to challenge themselves to seek personal development to help steer the patient on their journey and mentor them with guidance, wisdom and personal knowledge. This experience gives credit and insight into the practice of self-discipline and personal conquest of self into spiritual, psychological and physical development. My journey has been an evolving process that started with physical fitness and has graduated into nutrition, meditation, yoga, and mental imagery practices. I continue to strive to add more dimensions to my skills and to seek knowledge, truth and wisdom for the rest of my life. Daily mental practice is a part of my being, as is hiking, fishing and other physical activity that connects me to nature and the universal oneness I have discovered.  

Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok, Marc S. Micozzi. (2005). Consciousness & Healing. St. Louis: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.