This post discusses a meditation technique for going to your happy place.
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Unpleasant stuff happens
One meditation technique that has helped me as a caregiver (and in regular life) is going to my happy place.
Sometimes it’s not possible to avoid negative events, people, or energies. Unpleasant stuff will happen, so it is good to be prepared.
What is meditation?
Meditation is the act of bringing your attention to one thing, whether that is focusing on your breath, repeating a mantra, following someone’s voice in a guided meditation, walking a labyrinth, or chanting a sacred word or phrase, to name but a few examples.
Meditation has myriad physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits. It reduces cortisol and epinephrine in the body, chemicals that lower immunity over time. Brain research confirms that meditating even for a few minutes per day makes a significant difference in your ability to cope, resilience, quality of sleep, and in your stress response.
Using your mind to cope with difficulty
Visualization is a tool for envisioning a reality that you would like to experience. It’s used extensively in sports and business as a way of visualizing success. It’s also a powerful tool for changing your experience of the world.
The happy place technique is a form of visualization.
The happy place technique
Sometimes it’s not possible to avoid negative events, people, or energies. It is good to be prepared with an inner skill such as meditation to foster resilience because unpleasant events will happen. One such meditative technique is to practice going to your “happy place.”
When you meditate, imagine being in a place that is safe, supportive, and loving. Feel how safe you are in this place. Feel how you can be yourself in that space. See the surroundings (forest, beach, etc.) and experience it with all your senses.
Go to this place daily in meditation if possible. Then practice going to this place when you are at the dentist, waiting in line, or during moderately unpleasant situations. The “happy place” meditation will prepare you, as much as possible, for when you find yourself in a truly negative situation. If you build this skill, of imagining your happy place in your mind’s eye, it will be available to you no matter what external situation you may find yourself.
Having a tool to address negative situations does not make the negative situation okay or negate that you are suffering during the negative situation. The goal is to get through the event intact, so that you can process it later with a therapist or trusted advisor, or using other therapeutic tools.
Put this technique to use
I used this technique during a recent dental procedure when in the past I’ve needed laughing gas to stay relaxed. With the help of the happy place technique this time I was able to get through the procedure without laughing gas.
Intention
The Sacred Self-Healing Method relies on the power of intention. Intentions are more than goals, but your co-creative participation in your life path and healing. By setting an intention you add your desire to be a partner in your destiny, in combination with the seen and unseen forces at work in the Universe. Whether you are setting an intention for a successful root canal, for finding a great new job, or for a business meeting to go well, the act of putting forethought about the outcome into the process can be a powerful tool.
Intention is the driving force behind any energy healing modality, from Reiki to sound healing to prayer.
The universal equation for healing is:
Intention + Frequency = Healing
The “frequency” part of the equation is whatever healing modality is being used.
Intention can be used in health healing, job search, fitness, relationships, and pretty much everything.
This post has more information on the power of intention.
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