I’m sitting here devouring some phenomenally delicious oatmeal right now! Mmmmmmm. I prepared it with golden raisins and organic raw pumpkin seeds (pepitas) and some raw honey.

Well I have just returned from yet another amazing and healing spiritual weekend at the College of Metaphysics. The weekend was focused on being still minded as much as possible. What I realized over the weekend is that once we can effectively still our minds, miraculous healing begins to occur naturally in the body! Truly. I have been practicing and learning how to still my mind for months now through meditation and concentration exercises. It is NOT an easy thing to learn and can sometimes take many years of practice to achieve to any great extent. However, being up at the college surrounded by other still minded people and beautiful nature made it a lot easier to maintain for longer periods of time. I (and the other participants) did have to face some inner unproductive thoughts for a time on Saturday. I also had to consciously stop myself from intellectualizing about all of the experiences I was having! We began our stillness on Friday night at 11pm and continued through Sunday morning until after our last meditation, around 9:30am or so. We also juice fasted during that time which I know helped my body’s healing.

The weekend consisted of four still-minded meditations (three on Saturday, one on Sunday), led by a spiritual teacher who has mastered a still mind, meaning he can go still as often as he wants for as long as he wants. Being in the presence of someone like that during meditation causes major healing and profound things to happen. During the first session, I began to notice my head starting to move on its own. I was a little resistant at first but it persisted and my head/shoulders began gently stretching. I realized after a time that my body was stretching and relaxing intuitively and clearing up energy blocks. Not only that but a deep blissful inner rhythmic breathing began on its own. It was as though I was being breathed through Spirit. (Actually, that is indeed what was happening!)

Throughout each meditation, the stretching, moving, breathing and inner bliss persisted. Sunday morning’s meditation was particularly powerful and I experienced my Kundalini energy rising like fire through several (but not all) of my chakras. That was one of the most intense, blissful and powerful things I have ever experienced! Upon asking the spiritual teacher later why and how it happened, I learned that the stillness of mind caused it. Basically, our real and natural state is stillness and bliss. And when we consciously still the mind, our spiritual Self can take over our bodies and heal us. So, in quieting my thoughts, I allowed my body to systematically release old thought patterns that were causing pain in my shoulders and neck and other areas of the body. After the Kundalini experience, my body continued to stretch, flex, move and breath in ways that felt amazingly healing. (This has continued actually since arriving home – it begins anytime I relax and breathe deeply). My entire body feels changed after the weekend and I’ve begun losing weight rather rapidly. I feel intuitively that I released much of what was causing my body to retain excess weight and water, so it’s now normalizing itself quickly. I’ll keep you all posted on the weight loss!

Also since arriving home, my appetite has changed. I am less hungry and only interested in natural and nutritious food. I am also asking my intuition what it wants to eat and actually went shopping intuitively at Whole Foods last night. I asked my inner Self, “what should I get that will be wholesome, nourishing and healing for my body, mind and spirit?” I felt guided to pick up some clementines, organic bananas, green vegetable juice, carrot juice and some organic fuji apples along with a few other things. I’ve also slowed down my eating process, take more time between bites and concentrate on feeling love and gratitude while eating. I have a feeling that this process will completely change my body for the better, along with the stretching, stillness and healing still occurring. I’ll keep you all informed! Because if (or more accurately, when ) this truly causes significant weight loss only with effort on my part of stilling my mind, following intuitive eating choices and allowing natural healing to occur, I will want to share it share this information with everyone!