How can we use the experiences of pain, ill health, and mental distress to grow spiritually? Pain can seem a spiritual test, a karmic punishment, or a blessing in disguise. Explore your relationship with pain and learn ways to use it to deepen your awareness of the soul’s transcendent qualities of acceptance, freedom, and love.
In this class you will learn how to:
- Use pain as a transformational tool
- Experience successful techniques for transforming patterns of energy and thought, dissolving pain at its very roots
- Develop attitudes for overcoming the consciousness of suffering
- Use prayer as service and self-transcendence
Watch this video on Meditation & Healing with Dr. Shanti
Teaching through Experience
Dr. Shanti Rubenstone has a practice now called, “Transformational Medicine” where she helps and supports people to find the most healing and expansive way through any crisis of the body, mind, or soul. Nayaswami Lahari has lived well with a medical condition for the past 26 years, and, in the process, has gained a great appreciation for the power of Paramhansa Yogananda's teachings.
Tip for Living with Chronic Pain
Do “Hong Sau” into the center of the pain.
* Take deep breaths into the center of the pain.
* As you breathe in, mentally repeat, “I am” (or Sanskrit mantra, “Hong”).
* As you breathe out, mentally say, “Spirit” (or, in Sanskrit, “Sau”).
* Keep the breath and mental sounds focused at the center of the pain.
Do this for 3 to 5 minutes when you awake, before going to sleep, or anytime you want to minimize pain.
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Shanti Rubenstone, M.D.
Loving, enthusiastic, energy personified — Shanti is a minister and co-spiritual director of Ananda Palo as well as a Stanford trained M.D. Her classes encompass all aspects of the spiritual path with a particular bent toward devotion, wellness, and healing. Her talks are rich with stories from her life as a physician and her many years on the path. With her warmth and wisdom, she is a much-loved counselor and teacher.
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Managing Chronic Pain and Transcending It starts the afternoon of the first date listed and ends with lunch on the last date listed. Check-in is anytime between 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at our Front Desk. Your room will be available by 3:00 p.m. Dinner is at 6:30. The first gathering of your group is after dinner.
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Managing Chronic Pain and Transcending It starts the afternoon of the first date listed. It’s ideal to arrive before 4 pm, if you are able to. That way, you can join in the afternoon session of yoga and meditation, which begins at 4:45 pm. Dinner is at 6:30. The first real gathering of your group is at 7:30 pm. If you need to arrive here after 5 pm, that’s fine, but it helps us if you let us know at 800-346-5350. We can also put aside a dinner for you if you need to arrive after 7 pm. The program ends with lunch on the last date. Please see our Daily Schedule.
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