Re: One Way of Reducing the Suffering of Afib

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> That procedure, a variation of " mindfulness meditation " (vipassana,

> for those who know that term), as taught by Shinzen, consisted of

> gently but openly looking at your ongoing experience in three

> categories.

Welcome!

The procedure you described sounds very similar to the techniques

taught by the Avatar courses. The biggest difference with Avatar (in

my limited experience) is that it has a much more tool-box type

orientation. The " new age " information without a bit less of the " new

age " packaging. Thought I'd point that out if anyone was interested

in variations of a similar theme when looking for classes/courses.

(www.starsedge.com)

I took a weekend course of it, but, being fairly resistant to almost

any suggestions of the sort (which is my nature), left it at that. My

husband, who is a wonderful combination of Silicon Valley Computer

Geek and New-Age-Sensitive-Man and Cave-Man-Alpha-Male ... has taken

many many of the courses and has in the past been an instructor. I

figure I have pick up pieces of the ideas through osmosis.

Some of the very first skills taught are very similar to what you

described. My husband (because of actually having studied this stuff)

is able to handle body-stuff with amazing ease. For example, my

husband ROUTINELY has dental procedures done WITHOUT ANESTHESIA!! I

know of one root-canal and several fillings as well as a deep-

cleaning plus cap replacement all done w/o any novocane, gas, numbing

agents, etc. My husband jokes that the *dentist* sweats and is in

more distress having to work on a patient w/o novocane than he

himself!! My hubby just " goes off " into another place - separating

the body experiences from what he CHOOSES to experience.

I admit, I'm just not interested in becoming quite that enlightened.

I'll take the novocane (and more!). But - it is something that

intially drew me to him - his calmness and ability to handle great

crisis of all sorts. Me... well, I figure as long as ONE of us is

calm, I don't need to be quite so enlightened. *grin*

Joscelyn, 37, 6', parox afib, cardizem and aspirin

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> Charley,

Thank you for your post. It clarified a lot of my specific

meditation questions. My heart goes out to you and knows your

experience.

Blessings...

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>Jocelyn: The procedure you described sounds very similar to the

>techniques taught by the Avatar courses.

Yes, you can find similarites in most Western and Eastern spiritual

traditions. Probably because the structure of the human mind is the

same for all of us, so the same basic ways to deal with it get

discovered again and again....

This particular version from Shinzen Young works well for me, but

whatever works for whoever is the basic news - or to put in another

way, if you train your mind to do something systematic, life

generally works out better than it you just let it freak out on its

own... :-)

Charley