When we practice meditation that brings our attention to our bodies, we may become aware of many aches and pains in our bodies that we hadn’t noticed before. These could be very subtle or they could be very noticeable. A pain or discomfort in a particular area of the body we may be inclined to try to get away from it or change it somehow, which is a natural reaction. If the pain isn’t a result of some specific physical problem, like in the knees for example, then this may be a chance to really deal with the potential for release and healing.
Feelings of tension or pain in the body can indicate that there is some holding pattern in an area where some unsolved, incomplete or painful “past” is being maintained by the subconscious. This is due to the fact that the body is the place where the subconscious mind can store things and keep them. The body, then, can hold onto our unresolved past hurts. When we meditate, we become mindful of pain, can accept it and even make ourselves available to it, and this can lead to a release.
We may gain insight into what we were holding and how it came to be visible to us as we experience release. If we have an ongoing pain in a place like our right shoulder, we may be able to find the source through meditating and becoming conscious of something from childhood connected to our father. This memory of a childhood reflection related to the father can be the vehicle for giving us some insight into the self. The real issue is not what the father’s actions were at all. He serves as the reflection of something that already existed within the self.
As a result of this insight into a childhood experience we can begin to look at the pattern we may have with all of our relationships with men. It could illuminate the way we have of relating, or not relating, to men in our lives. In the end we will see that this has distorted the pattern of our own masculine polarity. Frequently if we take a look back in our lives, we will notice that an issue in the masculine relates to the initial imprinting from the father, and if it exists in the feminine, than it is from the mother. They are both the reflection and the imprint of what we bring with us into life, and because of the law of sympathetic attraction will attract us to the parent that matches the karma that we have picked to work out in our lives.
The case with emotional pain is similar. We will be free to notice the process if we really notice and stay with the experience of emotional pain in our bodies, if we can feel this and try to be patient with it.
We can’t really just sit and meditate every time we have discomfort from feelings or emotions. But the practice of meditation in this manner will give us the opportunity to stay in the moment of our experiences in the rest of our lives while they are happening, and this can be powerful and empowering.
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