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Michaela Merten | How Meditation can change your life…

By The Nerve & Joint Pain Desk Editorial Team

By the The Nerve & Joint Pain Desk

Quick Summary: Meditation for Life Transformation

Topic: A meditation practice guide that teaches letting go of limiting beliefs and anxieties to create freedom and wellbeing.
Core Teaching: Release attachment to thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that trap you; the mind naturally has activity, so meditation is about awareness, not emptiness.
Key Metaphor: The monkey and banana parable illustrates how we cling to what prevents our freedom and happiness.
Best For: Anyone struggling with anxiety, perfectionism, rigid belief systems, or seeking deeper peace and personal empowerment.
Speaker: Michaela Merten, presented at Healing Summit 2015 in Berlin, Germany (March 3, 2015).
Philosophy: Part of a holistic lifestyle approach committed to healing and nurturing greater wellbeing for all.

Committed to Healing | HEALING SUMMIT 2015 | Berlin Germany March 3, 2015

“Creating a paradigm shift through a holistic lifestyle”…was last year’s theme

This year our theme is “Committed to Healing” Today is a call to action!

As part of our Commitment to Healing we would like to highlight a few of the speakers from the recent Healing Summit 2015. This one day conference considered how to encourage people to live life in all its full richness, caring for others to nurture greater well being and empowerment for all.

How Meditation can change your life. People come to me saying they cannot meditate – they cannot quite their minds – remember the mind is an electromagnetic thunderstorm; it is impossible for there to be ‘no action’ not even monks can do this.

Do you know the story of catching a monkey?

Hunters capture monkeys by hollowing out a gourd or container just large enough to for the monkey to hand to fit and grab the banana. However the the hole is not big enough for the monkey’s hand to fit while holding the banana. To get free of the trap all the monkey has to do is let go of the banana.

“Just like the monkey holds on to the banana, sometimes we cling to beliefs, feelings, or behaviors that prevent us from being free and getting what we want. It’s easy to see that the monkey should just let go of the banana, but it’s not so easy to see what we need to release.”

“If you cling to something as absolute truth and are caught in it, when truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will refuse to let it in.”—Buddha

The Secret to any anxiety producing trap or unbent belief system is SIMPLY learning to LET GO OF IT

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