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Healing Environment
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The four sources of nutriment:
- Edible food consumed through the mouth.
- Sense impressions (form, sound, smell, touch, taste, thoughts) – which can be wholesome or toxic.
- Volition: the deepest desire within us (the wholesome desire to practice and help, or the destructive desire for revenge).
- Consciousness, especially collective consciousness: the energy of mindfulness and concentration generated in a group (listening to the bell, walking meditation), a source of peace, serenity, and joy.
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Meditation and healing:
Walking meditation: each step, in connection with the breath (“I have arrived, I am home”), embodies stopping, frees us from the past and the future, and establishes freedom and solidity.
Mindful breathing (the 3rd and 4th exercises of the Sutra on Mindful Breathing, among sixteen):- 3rd: “Breathing in, I am aware of my whole body” (unity of body and mind).
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4th: “Breathing in, I allow my body to relax” (relaxation, releasing accumulated tension).
Contemplation of the body: scanning, through mindful breathing, the 36 parts of the body to offer them mindfulness, tenderness, and healing.
