QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2019

Q: How the healing power of meditation works?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Meditation heals illness

Heal the mind through meditation.

Meditation prevents stresses from entering the body system.

It releases accumulated stress.

It helps improve health, ups the happiness quotient and sustains a positive state of mind.

The practice of meditation makes you peaceful.

Meditation is like the servicing of the body-mind complex.

It is said the root of an illness is in the mind/consciousness. So, by attending to the mind, clearing it of any disturbances, the recovery speeds up. Illnesses can develop from:

violation of natural law: for example, overeating

imposed by nature: for example, common cold, or an epidemic

release of past impressions or karma.

Nature itself provides a cure for these illnesses. Health and illness are a part of physical nature. The practice of meditation helps to let go of stress, worries, and anxieties. This results in a positive state of mind, which in turn has a positive impact on the physical body, brain, and nervous system. Consequently, the illness decreases.

One of the secret understanding of illness is that when you worry about illness, you give more power to it. You must remember that you are a combination of health and illness. When you know this and have a positive state of mind, then illnesses gradually disappear.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar