As per Rajayoga, there are three different spiritual awarenesses of the self: 1. Videhi 2. Angelic and 3. Nirakari. PD symptoms can be faced in all of the awarenesses to experience detachment from them. 

Some time ago, I discussed these awarenesses to converse with the invisible friend.

The following visualisation practices will help you to experience these awarenesses. It is better to practice each practice in a different session.

Practising Videhi awareness:

I am a soul, a tiny point of energy, in my body. My place in the body is the center of the forehead. I a soul am a guest in the body. I a soul am like a driver to a car.  I a soul see through eyes, listen through ears,  smell through the nose. The mind and intellect are manifestions of the soul as energy being. I as a soul control the organs of the body using the mind. I am a guest in the body. As a guest in the body, I watch the PD symptoms of the body. I am fearless because I am an eternal soul and distinct from the body.

Practising Aangelic awareness:

Imagine that you are flying in an aero-plane, 30,000 ft above the ground. The plane is passing by white clouds. You jump out of the plane. Your body is weightless. So you are floating in the white clouds. The clouds around you disappear. You are floating with your weightless body. It is made of white light.  It is like an angel’s body of light. Your soul is sitting at the center of forehead in the angelic body. While you are in angelic body, you  imagine dancing. You imagine doing exercise. You imagine walking. You can perform any action. 

Your angelic body is free from PD symtoms. Your watching the earth below. Now you travel to the earth. You reached the room where your physical body is there. You enter the room, and closer to the physical body. You observe the PD symptoms in the physical body.  You are still  in the angelic body. You merge your angelic body with the physical one. You resume your part in the world. 

After repeating the above practice a few times, you can directly imagine your angelic body  outside your physical body, standing in the sky.

Practising nirakari (point) awareness:
I am a soul, a tiny point of energy in my body. I am at the centre of the forehead in the body. Now I leave the body and travel towards stars in the sky. I am a point of energy standing next to the stars. I am a point of light. I am a soul, a star like being in the sky. 

I a soul travel beyond the stars and reach a space of golden red light.  I am a point of light in the space of golden red light. I am a being of light. I a soul dont have PD. The physical body has PD symptoms. I a soul face the PD symptoms in the physical body with the awareness of the self as a point being.

I travel back to the earth and enter the room where the body is there. I a soul am closer to the body. I notice the PD symptoms in the body. I enter the body at the center of the forehead and resume my part in the world.

Your PD symptoms are slowly and slowly increasing in intensity and in variety for a long time. As a result, you may not be able  to independently do daily chores. You can’t drive, you can’t change your clothes, you need help in eating food, you can’t walk, you can’t talk, you can’t write and so on.

Your expectations to be independent are failing. You are becoming more and more dependent. But you don’t want to see yourself  becoming dependent on others. Dependence could be physical, financial and/or emotional.

You may get the question why PD to me? You may not have rational  answers to the question. Because of that, you are frustrated and may be slipping  into depression.

When you aren’t finding the rational answers, a spiritual approach to deal with your PD can be helpful to be victorious to calm your mind, and to positively see your situation. As a result, you will not be suffering  in spite of physical handicaps due to PD symptoms.

The following spiritual beliefs are useful.

Belief 1: I am a soul

Belief 2: God is my invisible friend

Belief 3: I, a soul, am an eternal actor in world drama cycle.

Practicing Belief 1:

I am an eternal soul, a point source  of energy. I, a soul, am different from my body, and am like a driver to a car. The car is my body. PD is to my body, and not to me, a soul. I a soul, can detach from the body. I am a peaceful soul. I am a loveful soul. I am a blissful soul. I am a soul, embodiment of power and energy. These qualities I experience in spite of PD induced handicaps to my body.

Practicing the Belief 2:

God is a tiny point source of energy. I am also a tiny point source of energy. Both of us are same in form. God is my mother, father, friend. I visualize two tiny points two feet away from my eyes. One tiny point is God and the other one is my self. I experience both the points. I , a tiny point, feel the vibrations of God as a tiny point. I also experience God’s healing energy. I pass on the healing energy into my body.

Practicing Belief 3:

I a soul, am an eternal actor in the cyclic world drama. This drama is eternal and repeats identically every 5000 years. Whatever happened, whatever is happening, and whatever will be happening are  beneficial in the  drama. The drama is divine. So also, the PD symptoms. I bless the symptoms for their divine part in the drama. I say thanks to the symptoms for manifesting their divine part in my body. I detach from my body.

I a soul am the driver of the body. The body’s electrical/neurological network is faulty. Because of that PD symptoms manifest. I see my dependence on my partner/others as interdependence. I a soul am playing a part of interdependence. I detach myself from the body and view my part in the drama as an eternal actor.  I have gone through this part countless times in the eternal drama. PD is to my body, not to me, a soul.

Experiencing these beliefs leads to peace, detachment, courage, and patience. You can conquer fears by practising these beliefs.

According to Dr Janice Walton Hadlock, there are 4 types of Parkinson’s disease. One of them is Type 1 Parkinson’s Disease. It is caused by self induced pause. Turning off self induced pause is a way to come out of Type 1 Parkinson’s disease. To turn off the self induced pause, Dr, Janice’s approach is talking to an invisible friend.

I adopt Rajayoga meditation for talking to invisible friend. In the following video, I show the practice of it.

For showing meditation technique, I have used two visible tiny points. These are actually invisible points.

The conversation on 7 qualities of soul in the following video is in Hindi. But there are subtitles in English to follow the conversation. Also a summary of the conversation is spoken in English at the end of the video.

Many people do not have a spiritual understanding that they are a soul which is an infinitesimal source of non physical energy. However, they understand themselves to be physical beings. As a result, they experience fears, tensions, pressures, anxieties, and other negative feelings and emotions. These affect PD symptoms. These are also the causes of psychosomatic illnesses or disorders. By the way, 80-90% of illnesses and diseases are due to psychosomatic reasons

Spiritual understanding of the self as a soul, which is a infinitesimal source of energy is the beginning to experience the following seven innate qualities of the self. These innate qualities are self-forms(swa-rups) and are:

1. Love (prem swarup)   
2. Peace (shanti swarup)
3. Bliss  (aanand swarup)
4. Happiness (sukh swarup)
5. Purity (pavitrata swarup )
6. Gyan/Knowledge (gyan swarup)
7. Power/energy (shakti swarup)

According to Rajayoga, these qualities are innate to a soul independent of physical, social economic or whatever situations.  You may wonder or reject that your innate qualities are possible independent of situations. Suffering or negativity is due to body consciousness.

These innate qualities are suppressed by body consciousness. When you realise that you are a soul,  and stabilise your awareness as a soul, you move away from the body consciousness. Then these qualities naturally emerge from your being.You don’t have to directly deal with body consciousness to experience the innate qualities.

Love, peace, bliss, happiness, and purity are big topics for a discussion. I will not get into a discussion on their definitions. We will deal with the spiritual version of these.

Coming to a few clarifications. Gyan swarup is being an embodiment of true beliefs. One true belief is you are a soul, a point source of energy. There are other beliefs on God, Cosmology, time, history, etc. These are covered in an introductory course on Rajayoga meditation which is taught by Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Organisation.

Shakti swarup is being a source of non-physical energy.

It is important that we reemerge our original qualities/forms to relieve PD symptoms. When we reemerge these qualities, we vibrate at different levels of frequencies. These frequencies affect particles, atoms, cells in the body; and also outside universe. 

 I shared in an earlier post, my experience on the effect of meditation on internal tremors.

To start with, you stabilise your awareness in soul consciousness and then practice an innate virtue. The following affirmations are for stabilising in soul consciousness. You understand and visualise them while affirming them.

• I am a soul, a point source of energy, distinct from the body. 
• I, a soul, a point of light, am sitting at the centre of the forehead.
• I, a soul, am a guest in the body. 
• I, a soul, am a driver of the vehicle, this body. 

Next, you can experience  an innate quality using affirmations. For instance, to experience love, you can use the following affirmations:

• I, a soul, am loveful 
• I, a soul, am love
• I, a soul, am an embodiment of love

I plan to post meditation commentaries to experience these innate forms, Watch out for these.

I share below how I am using the concept of felt sense for healing along with JWH’s method to step out of pause. I am in very early stage of this practice. I will update on the results of this practice subsequently.

Peter Levine in his book “Waking the Tiger: Healing the Trauma”, focuses on felt sense, a concept  introduced by psychologist Eugene Gendlin.  He (Gendlin) describes it as a bodily awareness of a situation or person or event. It is an internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about the given subject at a given time—encompasses it and communicates it to you all at once rather than detail by detail. It is not a mental experience but a physical one.

A felt sense for a PD symptom is the physical awareness of the symptom in its manifestation. While the felt sense is experienced, you may find it changing. Go along with the flow. Avoid judging the awareness. Face it as it is. You will be also switching between videhi, ashariri, and nirakari awarenesses of the self, while experiencing the felt sense.

You can refer the felt sense to the invisible friend. As you experience it, you can sense your subtle body. You can visualise the subtle body being energised by the vibrations/energies of the invisible friend. And then, you can visualise the energies flowing from the subtle body into particles, atoms, molecules, tissues, organs of the body to bring healing by bringing order. 

Conversations and relationship with invisible friend are a basis of the method for stepping out of pause as per JWH’s approach to Type-1 PD.

The seven day course has a video for each day. Each video is for 25-30 minutes. Please watch a video a day in the sequence. At the end of the course, it will be clearer how to get connected with the invisible friend.

Day 1: Intro to meditation
Day 2:  Who am I?
Day 3: Where do my thoughts come from
Day 4: The source of love and truth
Day 5: Connecting with the divine
Day 6:  Steps of meditation
Day 7: Benefits of meditation