Narrative Meditation

By Terry Clancy

We are energy fields. This book is about meditation as a method of self-healing as the energy field becomes known. The method is a guided meditation learned in stages. There is another narrative evolving through our stories of healing; remembering the Self. This book is about understanding what the Self is as energy and how we access it and use

• Language: English
• Publisher: CMD
• Release date: Jun 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952046612

Terry Clancy

The author was a mental health nurse and manager of rehabilitation services for people with mental health disabilities. As practice was developing he started meditation practice. They converged as the therapeutic use of self to heal. Understanding of what the self is changed through experience and his method of meditation on goals.

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This book is dedicated to those who inspired this story

Daughters Friends Teachers

&

Constant companions my Parents and Binda

Contents

Introduction

1: Awareness

2: Experience

3: Beliefs

4: Identity

5: Connected

6: A Narrative Meditation

Conclusion

Introduction

There are different ways to practice meditation. This book is about the method of Narrative Meditation. Meditation is a neuroplastic exercise of change in awareness and experience through self healing. It is learnt in three stages.

The meditation is on constructing a pyramid through change in awareness. The stages of constructing it are deeper levels of meditation. The deeper levels are different levels of experience as healing. Self healing can be understood as curing a problem. In a strength based approach, self healing means maximising our potential. Meditation is accessed through self healing of the levels to maximise our potential for health, well being and happiness.

Science is saying we, the universe, our environment are energy fields. It has to be otherwise we would not exist. Our bodies, emotions, thoughts and beliefs, and our environment are energy; we are energy fields. This is the most profound thought to the curious. This remains just a thought unless awareness that we are energy fields has purpose for our experience. We can either let science work out the implications of that or it can lead us to an interesting question; how can we intentionally maximise our potential using our energy field? What is our energy field is the question.

The state of meditation is not defined. It is thought of as being a religious or mystical experience or as a state of quantum consciousness which mean different things to different people. It needs to be defined to access it and its benefits. The state of meditation is accessed through the transformative vision. It is through understanding this transformative vision as having meaning and purpose that we access its benefits for health and well being. The connection of meditation, self healing, and experience with beliefs about that is transformative of who we are as individuals.

The meditation is on a pyramid as an integrated whole of it’s framework of values as foundations, the inner levels of awareness, the four aspects of experience, and the apex where they all meet. The method is constructing it in stages as meditation deepens. Meditation deepens as understanding changes that different levels of awareness are different states of consciousness. This change in awareness changes our experience using meditation as a method of lifestyle change and transformation.

This book was initiated by a friend. After reading my first books he asked how do we use vision in everyday life? I had finished writing the book on my birthday. It was my gift to myself as a writer but I had not emphasised how vision is creating our experience in everyday life. Doing that now was significant to me as a writer and as a person.

There are different layers of understanding the question. Vision is associated with prediction or prophecy. Prediction is awareness of current trends and predicting them converging in the future. Prophecy is predictions that are collectively agreed upon as the basis of religious faith. A book about remembering the Self doesn’t seem to fit as an answer but meditation, awareness, experience, and beliefs are connected. What forms through their connection is identity.

There are different opinions as to why this may occur as there are different paths of understanding the human psyche through reasoning of science, creativity of the arts, belief based on faith or transformation based on meditation. Narrative Meditation is a method learnt through self healing. Through self healing we remember what has been causing change is vision. Vision isn’t about seeing with the senses; it’s about a change in consciousness. The Self is state of consciousness of vision that changes our experience. The original question is the same as the question of what the Self is.

I had my first experience of meditation through a guru 50 years ago but did not understand it to enable me to remember that experience again. He explained it from his own level of awareness, how he learnt it, his experience, culture of customs and beliefs and his objectives for self and others. Guides describe meditation from different perspectives as a method, a process, an outcome, and objectives. Meditation is described from these perspectives which make understanding difficult.

I was a mental health nurse and clinical manager of rehabilitation services for people with mental health disabilities; a very small and disadvantaged group. Nursing as the therapeutic use of self was practiced around the world for many decades. As practice was developing as a mental health nurse, I started meditation practice. Mental health nursing and meditation converged to assist change. Narrative Meditation is based on a mental health nursing practice of the therapeutic use of self. Awareness of self changed through experience and through this method of meditation. Narrative Meditation is a method of imagining goals of healing as experience, a process of transformation, an outcome of the state of meditation, and objectives of healing.

My path of understanding the self took a long time. The first objective of this book is that understanding won’t take a long time for you. The second objective of this book is teaching access to the state of meditation using the transformative vision. Understanding the transformative vision