Mindfulness Challenges

I am quite sure you have been pondering the deeper meaning behind spending your time counting everything yellow that you encounter; what a silly activity to engage in, especially for an adult.  My invitation for reflection is the following.

You have had a couple of weeks break from noticing the color red.  What difference have you observed in how you approached and engaged this assignment – that is the challenge to notice the color yellow – when contrasted with the assignment several weeks ago which was to notice the color red?

Did you accept this assignment more willingly?  Were you more dedicated to keeping the count each day?  Did you reach the count of 100 each day when you were counting yellow?

In contrast, when counting red did you find some days that you literally did not notice anything red?  Did you notice with the challenge to notice red that you encountered some hesitation, some resistance, some distaste for that assignment whereas the assignment this week (the assignment to notice the color yellow) seemed to go more smoothly?

Part of the reason the challenge this week might have been easier of course may be that you had some practice doing it. There is another reason altogether you might have experienced a difference.

Yellow as a frequency is a mental frequency.  It is the frequency we resonate at when we are engaged in mental activity.  As I am recording this mindfulness challenge to notice the color yellow, I am resonating at the equivalent frequency of yellow. I am on what we call the mental level.

Many individuals who currently experience symptoms of Parkinson’s tend to stay on that yellow frequency wave band.  Lots of thinking, lots of thoughts – many of which are not in your best and highest good.  It helps, then, to turn down the volume on the mental level which opens the door to allowing other delicious states of awareness to unfold. Of course resonating at the mental level (the equivalent of yellow) is the reason for prior successes and victories. It is a gift.  It is a skill to have strengthened this particular level of the human energy field.

It is also important, however, to balance our energy field out and to acknowledge the role of all the levels (and frequencies) including red, which is that grounding level that helps stabilize our mobility and our intention to recover fully and completely.  Acknowledge now any difference you might have noticed between doing the two assignments; between noticing yellow and red.  Acknowledge that health and wellness is a function of balance – of being able to absorb the color red and the color yellow in balanced doses.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being mental.  It certainly benefited me throughout my entire life.  The disadvantage of living a life solely on the mental level is when that is the only frequency level we tend to operate on, when that is the frequency we are always resonating at,

• We do not feel our feelings.
• We do not feel connected to Mother Earth.
• We are not deeply connected to others.
• We isolate ourselves. 
• We withdraw and literally wither away.

Living life in constant fear can be a consequence. Becoming anxious about each new challenge in life can become a habit.

To maintain a vibrant energy field with all chakras open and all meridians cleared it is important to resonate with frequencies at all levels of the energy field.  There are many frequencies of course. Here we are only talking about two levels of the field (or two frequencies) – the ones specifically associated with the colors yellow and red.

Enjoy the rest of the week as you continue to notice yellow and if you so wish add to the challenge the task of noticing red at the same time. If in fact you notice now that it is a little easier to find yellow than it is to find red, I assure you it is not because there is a deficiency of the color red in the world. It  really is all about resisting being connected with that grounding frequency of red in favor of the mental frequency which is equivalent to the color yellow.

May you have a delightful time the rest of the week as you continue to even out the resonances of frequencies throughout your human energy field and as you become mindful of the richness of all colors and frequencies. With greater mindfulness your journey down the road to recovery will become effortless.

Robert

© Parkinsons Recovery

From 1999 until 2003, for four years, I attended a healing school.  The school presented many challenging lessons that needed to be learned; many of them involved personal processing, but many were also healing techniques.  We would learn a healing technique each time we went to school in either New York or Florida and that technique required considerable focus, discipline and of course we had to be evaluated on the extent to which we learned each of those techniques.  It was a rigorous training program.

The most useful healing technique that I learned that I have always used on myself is the one that I described to you a few days ago.  It requires no training.  It requires no trips to New York or Florida.  It requires no specific discipline or focus.  It requires not even any intention.  It’s quite marvelous that you can literally take your hand and place it anywhere on your body that is troubling and you will find there to be relief.

Instead of beating up on our bodies, instead of being angry they are not working the way they are supposed to as far as our standards are concerned – instead, we literally pay attention, we listen, and then we place that hand on the body part that needs attention.

I really do not understand what happens although I do this every night that I go to sleep.  I do know that by placing your hand on the particular place on your body that needs attention, you are able to call in the frequencies that are needed at that particular place and that particular time.  Don’t ask me to explain how or why this works.  I really don’t have a clue.  All I know is it works.  I know it works because I’ve used this every night since I’ve learned the technique.

• It is easy to do.
• It is fun.
• It will console that place on your body that is calling out to you for attention. 
• It is soothing.
• It helps bring your body back in to balance.

Most obviously, instead of having thought forms that have very low frequency and that are disastrously judgmental – instead, you have a tender, loving response to your body that really is working beautifully.  Enjoy this technique for the rest of the week, and again, if you’re like me now that you’ve learned it, every time you go to sleep, if you have any place on your body that calls out for attention, you will be placing that hand there now and forever more. 

Robert

© Parkinsons Recovery