Recovering Your Life Stories


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Part 2: Using Meditation and Journaling to Heal Your Past

Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed, at least for your first journey into your past. Have a notebook or a tape recorder handy so that you can record the memories or jot them down when you've finished the meditation. Don't give in to the temptation to record memories as they come to you. Let the whole scene develop and unfold before beginning to record it. Later, you can go back and fill in the details, or even revisit the memory in another meditation.

Don't be too concerned about the facts or whether someone else can verify your memory. Just relax, let go, and remember. The important thing here is to become a child again and let your child-self remember.

You should not listen to music or use incense or scented candles for this meditation, since your memory may use these as cues. You may, if you wish, record the following meditation to guide you. Change the age to fit the period you wish to remember.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be working together, and I want to let your child-self know that this is a very safe place. And that you shouldn't trust me right away--no one should trust right away. But over the next few weeks, we'll be giving that child a chance to talk, and feel, and let us know the memories that were important to that child. In the safety of your own memory, in the safety of that chair . . . you can let go. If the memory becomes too painful or too intense, you can float above it, or you can see it as if it's on video tape.

Sit or lie quietly, with your arms relaxed at your sides or lying uncrossed on your abdomen. Your legs should be straight and not crossed.

Now, become aware of your feet. Feel your toes and the places where they join your feet. Feel the soles of your feet. Become aware of the tops of your feet. Now, feel your toes, your soles, your arches. Feel energy tingling across your feet. Let your feet relax.

Now, feel your shins, the long bones and the muscles of your calves. Feel the energy coursing through them. Become aware of your knees and check for any tension in the muscles and joints of your legs. Release and relax. Think of your thighs. Feel the large muscles and the thick femurs. Let go of any tension in your legs. Relax your legs.

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5.   May 11, 2005 5:26 PM
In response to I just read the articles posted by rainne:

If you try them out, please let us know about your experiences. ...


-- posted by RoxianneM


4.   May 5, 2005 8:32 AM
I'm excited about trying the techniques.

Kelly Morris


-- posted by rainne


3.   Apr 13, 2005 1:19 PM
but guess I didn't.

This is a wonderful method to get inside ourselves and "remember" what life was like at an earlier time, Roxianne. This is a good way for a writer to just plain relax, too, s ...


-- posted by jerrib


2.   Apr 13, 2005 1:04 PM
In response to Very enlightening experience posted by feistyfemale56:

Glad you liked the article, Deb. I used to use this method w ...


-- posted by RoxianneM


1.   Apr 8, 2005 10:07 PM
Roxianne,

You've done a wonderful job of helping me, and any reader, to understand just how to go about relaxing and allowing the mind to be free of other thoughts/concerns so that I can get in tou ...


-- posted by feistyfemale56





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