Keeping Good Health. Be Fearless!- The Heart Chakra: Warrior Mothers

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Dear All,

In a recent Tuesday group meditation session, you may remember, we heard Dr Katya Rubia, in a video lecture, emphasising that the scientific research done on sahaja yoga meditation shows that the health benefit side-effects are specifically associated with 'Thoughtless Awareness' . Dr Ramesh Manocha at the University of Sydney Medical School, has made the same point.

The bulk of the research has been around psycho-somatic illnesses such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, drug abuse etc. Less easy to measure, scientifically, is the preventative effect of sahaja yoga meditation on illness. However, we know, anecdotally, from the global community of people practising sahaja yoga meditation that, on the whole, they are less prone,for example, to infections than their non-meditating friends. And even if they do catch something, then it's relatively mild and gone in a day or two. Another person might be in bed for a week, with a doctor's prescription of antibiotics(see note).

So while regularly achieving the state of thoughtless awareness in your meditation will improve your health, maintaining good health depends also on another aspect of your subtle yogic system, which is the Heart chakra.

Here's how it works.

The Heart chakra governs a small organ behind the breast bone in the upper chest area. This organ is called the Thymus and is part of our autoimmune system that produces 'killer T cells' that protect and fight against infection. The production of the T cells happens from birth till about 12years of age after which the production tails off and the Thymus begins to shrink. Meanwhile the T cells are distributed round the body to form the adult autoimmune response.

Any life event that has an effect on the Heart chakra will determine how robust a person's health is. And the Heart chakra is effected by emotions and feelings. Particularly feelings of fear and insecurity, which could be unconscious. A person's defences against infections are lowest when they may be going through a difficult time emotionally.

And that is why it is said : " Be Fearless!"

Merely deciding to be fearless, may not actually work but regular meditation builds up the Heart chakra, so does love, and taking up of some sport.

These three things seem to be combined in the image that represents the archetype (remember the Jungian archetypes discussed in a previous email), associated with the Heart chakra and that is The Warrior Mother. The Mother who, driven by love and desire to protect her children, is the fiercest fighter of all.

These qualities have been  reflected in the lives of certain historical personalities. Three examples, all of whom happened to be queens, being: Boudica(first from right, above), who took on the might of Roman Britain to avenge the torture of her daughters; Yaa Asantewa (second from right) who rebelled against colonial domination in the Gold Coast and took up arms in battle when the men were afraid to; and Rani Laksmibai of Jhansi (third from right) who defying the siege of her fort, legend says, leapt from the top of the fort on horseback with her small son tied to her back.

See you tomorrow for Tuesday group meditation.

Regards