Secrets from the Ages

Chapter 17

Acceptance and Healing

How to attain this level and how to use the data here to make life much easier is all given in this chapter. This chapter differs from the other chapters in that it contains data of how to obtain a higher level of enjoyment of living in a few minutes of practice.

Over the past 20,000 years and more, man has developed many kinds of meditation. Most of those meditations are not very beneficial. The problem being, a peculiarity of the human mind. It needs to have acknowledgement. It needs to know when it has succeeded. That is the reason for deplomas and certificates. At first, the meditation succeeds in reducing a bit of stress or helping one realize some important thing about ones life. Then having made the realization, sometimes small and sometimes quite big, the person continues to meditate. And even if they do acknowledge that they succeeded, the mere fact that they continue the meditation is a subconscious indication that they did not succeed. They continue to try to succeed over having succeeded.They forget to acknowledge that they succeeded, and they continue to try to succeed having not acknowledged their success. From that point onward they continue to fail. It is a phenomena called "Overrun." The mind begins to build up a charge that gets stronger and stronger. Overrun is like you graduated from High School, but instead of saying "Great, that's over," you continue to study and try to graduate. If you did that, you would begin to build up a charge in you mind never having acknowledged that you finished. Eventually, if you never acknowledged that you finished High School, and you continued to try, you could go nuts.

If you could recognize every single small improvement when it happens and acknowledge it, you might get by with meditation for a while, but that isn't as easy as it sounds. The improvements are very subtle and it is easy to have one slip by. That is when the downward swing starts with mental charge. So look for this in anyone who is meditating: They first seem to improve a bit, and then they seem to quit improving. If they do it for years, they are convinced they are getting better, but if you compare when they started and where they are now, it is seldom better, except for the education that they get from life as time goes on.

The improvement will not come from the meditation unless it is an extremely practical meditation. Aside from the fact that it is extremely easy to overrun meditation without realizing it, most meditation is directed towards airy fairy stuff. Most meditation simply isn't practical. So here is a meditation that is practical and that has a good result and that can change your life. Just don't over do it. Do it lightly. Get the results and continue on. Once you finish all the directions maybe do it again in several months.

Of course, remember to use this meditation every single day in living, not as a meditation, but as a way of life. There will be much benefit. A number of the philosophies and therapies have found that one of the major problems that occur with any mind is the resistance. One might resist evil, or resist the government, or resist going to work, or resist one's mother telling us how to study, or resist being told not to smoke, or resist smokers in his area. The list of resistance is near infinite.

As we resist various things, we tend to hold those things in mind. A person who resists the government, for example, will have to hold the government in mind in order to resist it. A person who resists evil will have to hold the particular evil that he resists in mind. A person who resists having his wallet stolen has to hold a picture of that happening in his mind. It has been long understood by various philosophies in our society that you often wind up with what you resist. The basic mechanism, is of course, that one continues to create that which he is resisting. The resistance holds it in the mind, and that thing which one is resisting becomes more and more real until it happens.

Not all stress in life is bad. Some stress in life is needed, the same as exercise. The bad stress in life, however, is 99% caused by resistance to various things of life. When one completely eliminates his mental resistance, the stress is reduced by at least 90%. For example, many find stress in driving their automobiles, but the person who drives his automobile without a care in the world, who is alert, but completely relaxed will get little or no stress from driving. This meditation process is designed to overcome resistance and stress in life, which, believe it or not, will overcome almost any mental problem that one might have created. Life will then become a great deal more manageable and fun.

The opposite of resisting things is accepting things. Many therapists, and philosophies teach the acceptance of things, but these philosophies usually don't tell how to accept things, they simply state that one must accept things. How to accept things, and what things to accept and what not to accept is the subject of the meditation process that is described here. How do you accept something? Sometimes a person simply cannot say, "I accept that." Sometimes it isn't even practical, and yet, to continue to resist something can be fatal at times.

On the other hand, once one understands how to go about accepting things, he can easily overcome most of the stress, and a good many of the mental problems of life. It then follows that health can be positively affected. I would like to stress at the very beginning that the rituals one follows during this procedure are as important as the procedure itself, if not more important. Over thousands of years religions and philosophies have found that the mind has a great affinity for rituals. Rituals can set the scene for success or failure in many endeavors having to do especially with the mind. Do not discount the importance of rituals.

The rituals are these: Use a minimum of five candles, more is OK but five is enough. Set two candles on either side of you and one candle directly in front of you not more than three feet away. It is OK to sit on the floor or in a chair at a table or desk. If you are sitting at a desk or table place all of the candles on the table or desk. The room must always be spotlessly clean and neat with everything put away or in its place with nothing out of place to annoy the mind. The condition of the room is important. The room reflects the mind. A confused room is an indication of a confused mind.

If the mind is really confused, then the room is the easiest thing to un confuse first. The room is always the place to start. The greater the elegance of the room, the better will be your chance of success. But do not put off beginning this procedure to improve your room. If nothing else, just put everything away at first. Begin improving your room as you go.

Start with improving the candle holders. Buy some that you like. Your life will probably change as your room improves, not because of the room, but because of the acceptance procedure that you go through in the room. You will feel better about life in general as you to your acceptance procedure. The room will reflect that.

You only need to do your meditation for twenty minutes three times a week, but more often is good. You should come to enjoy it. It is not necessary to shower first, but that would be better. Try to make the room comfortable. Change into a comfortable robe. Do not wear underclothes unless you feel uncomfortable without. The robe should feel pleasant to your skin. The robe is part of the ritual. Use it to get out of any tight fitting work or street clothes.

The three or four items to invest in at first are candles, candle holders, a nice robe, and slippers. With the room clean and neat, and yourself clean and neat with your robe and slippers on, if you have them, sit at your chosen table or desk and light the candles. The room lights should be off. One candle in front of you, and two on each side of you. Sit comfortably with your hands in your lap, but close enough to the table to read the notes given here concerning the acceptance procedure. Keep a note book and pen along with this book in case you want to write something.

This is the procedure you will follow at least three times a week. While you light the candles, recite the following words: I know that I give life to those ideas which I resist. With my resistance I hold in my mind those mental pictures that foster my negative emotions. Therefore, each week I continue to follow the acceptance rituals and meditation techniques which overcome negative mental pictures, thus bringing about a more peaceful and enjoyable life.

When you have finished with the words and lighting the candles, do the following steps:

Step #1. Look around the room and find three things that are acceptable to you. Don't get complex and don't take a lot of time. Just find three simple things that are acceptable to you.

Step #2. Look around the room and decide to accept five more things that you can see. This is a step beyond step one as you are deciding instead of just finding something that is acceptable. It is your decision that makes the item acceptable.

Step #3. This concerns items that are not present. For example your automobile, or your front lawn or the roof on your house. Accept three things that are not present. Do this quickly. Don't take a lot of time. Just accept three things that are not present and go on to step 4.

Step #4. Create a mental picture of an airplane flying overhead. Accept the mental picture. Create another mental picture of a train running on a railroad track. Accept that mental picture. Create another mental picture of a large boat. Accept that mental picture. Each time you do this procedure try to use pictures of other things. Do three things, but more if you wish. These steps go fast. Don't make them complicated or take a lot of time.

Step #5. Create an idea that is not necessarily a mental picture. For this first time, get the idea of going to Washington to talk to the President. Accept that idea. Create the idea of going to South America for a vacation. Accept that idea. Create the idea of digging for gold. Accept that idea. If you get stuck for ideas, use some of the previous ones. Do not make a problem out of this. Do it quickly. Do these three ideas and go on to step #6.

Step #6. Recall a time when you enjoyed yourself. Recall the pictures of that time. Accept those pictures. Accept the whole incident of enjoyment. Now recall two more incidents of enjoyment. Accept the pictures you see, and accept the whole incident.

Step # 7. Recall a bad time that you had. Accept the pictures that you see. Accept the whole incident. Now find the negative emotion that was present, fear, or anger, or hate, or irritation, or upset or another bad emotion. Accept that emotion. Now find a second negative emotion that was present. Accept the second negative emotion. See if you can find a third negative emotion. Try to get all emotions accepted. Do the same for two more bad times. Work with this step each meditation session. Find more and more bad times that you had and accept them as given here. Do not forget to accept the emotions. Only do three each session.

Step # 8. Go over your present life, accepting anything that you see that you have been resisting. Accept any upsetting or bad situations, but mainly look for the negative emotions, especially guilt, and accept them all. Do not force yourself to accept anything that you do not wish to accept, but rather accept those things about it that you can accept. For example, don't accept a murderer, but rather accept that murder happened. Don't accept bad driving, but rather accept that bad driving happens. Anything that you want to do something about, you should accept that it is. For example, if your neighbor beats his wife, accept the fact that he does so, then you can call the police or do something else about it. When you have not accepted it, you will not be able to think about it very clearly. You never have to accept the idea that it is OK, just the idea that it has happened. The first step to doing anything highly rational or logical about something is accepting that it is, or has happened. Once your mind is no long rejecting or resisting the thing, you can think more clearly about it.

Step #9. Look into the future 10 to 100 years. See a coffin sitting in a funeral parlor. Accept it. Realize that it is your coffin. Accept it. See it put into the ground. Accept it. See it covered up. Accept it. Continue to do this until it is easy for you. Do not consider that you have to be in meditation to accept something. After you have used this meditation technique a few times, acceptance of things during the day will come naturally. If you think that this procedure and these rituals won't help, then accept that. If you think the ritual is crazy, accept it, but then do it. Accept any negative thoughts that you have about anything. No longer reject or resist negative thoughts. Simply accept any and all thoughts that you have that bother you. Once you have really accepted your negative thoughts, they will go away and never bother you again. Once you have spent twenty minutes at this, it is time to stop. Do this meditation three times a week for the rest of your life. In addition, you should take a 20 minute walk two times a week and accept everything you see on the walk. Accept the ground, the bugs, the birds, the telephone poles, the autos, the sky, etc. Most people are afraid of mental pictures. They shy away from mental pictures. This is something that people seldom even realize, but it is so and it causes problems. So after you have had several weeks of practice at the acceptance procedure, begin step 10.

Step #10. Create bad pictures in your mind, and then accept them. For example create a picture of a Cadillac hitting a stone wall. Accept the picture. Create a picture of a man jumping from a building. Accept the picture. Create a picture of an A-bomb going off and accept that. Create enough bad pictures and accept them to the point that you no longer resist bad pictures. This will free up your thinking for many things. If you have special problems concerning your life, spend more time in meditation accepting everything about the problem. Create imaginary problems that are similar and accept them. There are many people who will say, "I am a very accepting person, this meditation will not help me." In that case these people are confused about acceptance. I have never met the person who would not benefit from these meditations. No More Headaches: "Here's a way to overcome headaches. Most headaches are the result of some kind of tension. So if you will practice what I tell you here for a week or so, you will never have a headache for more than a minute for the rest of your life. Well, that is, except in the case of an extreme sickness, and then you could reduce the severity of the headache by a great deal. The Headache Meditation: When you have reached step #10 in your meditation then do the following steps:

Step (a) Look at the candle sitting directly in front of you. Project the idea that the candle is relaxing; that all of the tension is draining out of the candle. Create the idea that so much of the tension is draining out of the candle that it is starting to sag. Absorb the idea that it has sagged so badly that it is just sitting there in a puddle.

Step (b) Clench your right fist as tightly as you can. Hold your fist clenched tightly, do not let any muscles relax. Now look at your fist and pretend that all of the mental tension has drained out of your hand. If this meditation is done correctly, your hand should immediately feel a great deal differently, even while every muscle is still clenched. If you did not notice a big change in feeling in the clenched hand, go back to step (a) and continue to do it until you do notice a big change when doing step (b). About four out of five people can do this step the first time they try. One out of five will need to practice a little first. Many people believe that they feel this test because they think that the different feeling in the fist comes from relaxing the muscles. They fail to note that they did not relax the muscles.

Step (c) Do the same as step (a). Look at the single candle in front of you. Focus on the idea that all of the tension in that candle is draining out of it and the candle is beginning to melt down because the tension is gone. Watch the tension drain out of the candle.

Step (d) Eliminating a headache. Accept the headache, and then focus on the idea that all the tension is draining out of your head. Let the tension go. Let the tension drain out of your head the same way you did step (c). Don't worry about going into a meditation session. Just do it wherever you have a headache. If you have practiced and do it right, the headache will vanish. The candle exercise (step a and c) is very powerful if you can learn to do it with emotions.

You can handle any and all of your unwanted feelings such as the overwhelming grief of a lost loved one, or the unreasonable fear of riding in an airplane, or anger at someone in the past, or despair about some situation. You will not need to see a therapist for most such problems. It goes like this: Think of the grief or anger of fear, now with that in mind just allow the tension and the resistance to drain out of the disturbing emotion which is upsetting you. You may need to bring up a mental picture of the house or area where the emotion first happened. Just remember that this picture that you are looking at is in present time, it is not in the past. Once you have the picture and feel the emotion, just focus on the idea that all of the tension and resistance are draining out of the picture, the emotion, and you. Now hold the idea in mind for several minutes. It takes a while for the mental charge to drain out. You may have to do this three or four times over a week or two. But it should not take long.

There is one other thing that is important. If you will practice the candle step on yourself, that is, practice allowing the tension and resistance to drain out of various parts of your body, if you do it right, after practice, you will find that it will trigger the "healing response" of your body. You can make any pain in the body go away, because the body will heal what is causing the pain. You can cause small burns to heal in ten minutes or so and larger burns to heal in one fifth the ordinary time. You will have about 90% more control of the things that go wrong with your body. Just put your mind on the area of pain and focus on the idea that all of the tension and resistance are draining out the same as you did the candle. Hold the idea for a while to allow the charge to drain off. Areas of severe pain may require medical attention, but if you will use this simple process on any injury, it will heal much faster.

"Touch Healing." Many philosophies and religions use touching to assist healing or aid in the healing process is some way. They have almost all missed the point. They believe the healing is coming from the person who does the touching, but this is never the case. The healing always comes from the person himself, the one who needs the healing. The touch merely aids him and his mind. The brain controls the healing in the body. The body has the capability of growing and healing automatically like a weed or tree or plant, but when it is operating correctly, healing is being controlled by a portion of the brain and it can be ten times faster than just healing from the normal flow of materials in the body.

The healing when operating correctly is controlled by the brain, and is a highly complicated operation. The flow of blood and the nutrients in the blood are controlled by the brain right down to the point that each individual cell is given instructions by the brain as to what to do. Healing, when controlled by the brain and to some extent by the mind, is extremely rapid, sometimes almost instantaneous. The problem is that pain often causes an overload in the nerves to and from the brain, and the mental horror of it all causes an overload in the mind as well, and thus control is diminished. For really fast healing, one needs complete communication between the brain and the afflicted area.

Basically, the pain causes the brain and the person who is hurting to withdraw control from the injured area, and the healing then takes place like the healing in a plant, entirely automatically, and not brain/mind controlled. This causes a dramatic decrease in healing speed.

When the brain has withdrawn its control from the area of pain and the body in general, the touching of the hands brings about a return of control by the mind and brain. The reason for this is, the touch of the hand puts the person's attention at the point where the hand is touching. The mind is able to establish a little more communication where its attention is directed by the touch of the hand. This procedure has worked miracles many times throughout the centuries. Riche is one touch healing process that has been in use for 2000 years.

There is however an additional step that drastically increase the effectiveness of touch healing. The additional step is to direct the individual being helped by sqaying, "Look under my fingers," or more precise, say, "With your mind, look under my fingers." This procedure brings greater and greater communication between the brain and the affected area. Remember, the brain is a close link to the mind, and as the mind gets back in control, the brain resumes command. The following procedure that I give you will work on you or on other people. If you do it properly, it will work miracles. It has been known to cure almost every kind of disease and physical problem, but each person is different. Each person will and can only take a certain amount of responsibility in healing himself. Thus you will see fantastic results in some people, medium results in others, and no results in a very few. It will usually work to some degree or other, and seldom will it have no results at all. You have probably seen it done a number of different ways by priests and other healers, but here is the right way to do it.

Touch Healing Procedure: Make sure the person who needs the healing is sitting or lying comfortably. He must, of course, tell you where the pain is. It can be anything. It can be a wound, or sore, or stomach pain, or a pain anywhere. You should tell the person that the instant that the pain goes away he must tell you. Use four fingers of either hand. Touch near the area of pain and say, "With your mind look under my fingers." Then tell the person to tell you when he has done so. Each time have the person tell you that he has looked under your fingers, by saying "Yes," or nodding his head. You must then say, "OK," or "Good." It is important to acknowledge when the person has done as you say. Then move your fingers a small distance and say the same thing. Continue to move your fingers around the area, continuing to say, "Look under my fingers." Continue to always accept his indication by saying "OK," or "good." You should spend most of the time moving your fingers around the pain area and on the pain area, but don't totally neglect the rest of the body. One should move his fingers over the entire body, getting the mind back in communication with the body.

This procedure should take anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour. Stop immediately any time the person mentions that the pain is gone. You might be tempted to continue on, but don't. Always stop the minute the pain is gone. Always be sure to indicate with your acceptance each time the person does what you have asked by saying, "OK," or "Good," or "Thank you," or some such acknowledgment. If the pain does not go in ten or fifteen minutes, then touch the area of pain and say, "Look at the pain." Now continue to do this for eight or ten times and if the pain does not vanish, stop anyway. Wait several hours and do it again. The statement, "Look at the pain." is a very powerful statement. It often handles the pain at the instant the person attempts to look at the pain.

Anytime the pain is gone, do not continue. This, "Look at the pain," statement is very powerful. One cannot look at a pain and also create the pain at the same time. Never use the statement, "Feel the pain." This only makes it worse. In order to feel a pain of any kind, including emotional pain, you must create it. The more you feel it, the more you create it, the worse it gets. It is extremely important that these directions be followed exactly as I give them to you here. Do not change anything. Do everything as I have said. Many people who read poorly, or attempt to improvise, will simply get poor results. Do them exactly as I have given them to you. Should there be a wound or sore that is not healing, but there is no pain at all, then do this process until the pain comes. Then continue until the pain is gone." I have now used all of these procedures many times and they have always worked for me. Give it a try.

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