Puran and Susanna (back to camera) at the Dalai Lama's visit to Tucson.
Puran led an interfaith gathering featuring the Dalai Lama,
Rev. David Wilkinson of the Tucson Methodist church,
the Catholic Bishop of Tucson, a Rabbi of Tucson and the Imam of Arizona,
in a series of chants he's been using for 25 years. He introduced the
chants by saying,
"If you can find God anywhere, it's in the
human heart.
And the only place that can be found for all religions to meet is in the heart."
Thanks to Peggy Hitchcock of the "Arizona Friends of Tibet" for making
it possible to share this song of religious harmony with His Holiness.
Peggy demonstrates a vital aspect of the spiritual work of today:
to create occasions where the names of God
in different traditions are invoked together.
Traditional melodies of the religion's most sacred chants are used throughout,
in a way that allows them to complement one another, forming one song:
| Hindu | Om Nama Shivaya (8 beats)
| Invocation of Shiva, Lord of Yoga |
| Buddhist | Om Mani Padme Hum (8 beats)
| The words of Buddha |
| Jewish | Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad (16 beats)
| "The Lord our God, The Lord is One." |
| Christian | Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison (16 beats)
| "Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy." |
| Islam | La illaha illa 'llah (8 beats)
| "There is nothing but God." |
| All | Toward the One, United with All (8 beats)
| (Draw us toward the One Being, the One Reality,
united with all the Illuminated Souls and all sentient beings.) |
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Heart Rhythm Meditation at Bloomington Hospital
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Pioneers Kevin Walsh and Jody Curley,
employees of Bloomington Hospital, have
organized a seminar on
Heart Rhythm Meditation,
sponsored by the hospital,
for the staff, patients and community of the hospital.
Jody and Kevin, a certified IAM Teacher,
have shown how HRM can be brought into the public sector,
using their own credentials and reputations in health care.
We are excited to
have this opportunity to present the health benefits of HRM and teach the
method to health care professionals and consumers, following up
on the classes that Jody and Kevin have been giving in the hospital
for several years.
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A wonderful article called,
"Meditation offers mind, body benefits"
features an interview with Kevin Walsh in the "BeneFIT" journal of the
Indiana University School of Journalism. Click the link to see the article.
The following description of the seminar is taken from the
Bloomington Hospital website:
Heart Rhythm Meditation Seminar with Puran and Susanna Bair:
Physical Heart Health
Dates & Times: October 28, 7:00 - 8:30 pm (Lecture)
October 29 & 30, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Seminar)
Place: Bloomington Hospital, Wegmiller Auditorium
Cost: Free Lecture. $30 for Saturday Seminar or $50 to attend
both Saturday and Sunday Seminar.
Call 353-9299
for registration and information.
"Bloomington Hospital is excited to offer outstanding
instruction by two internationally acclaimed teachers on the
application of meditation to heart health. Puran and Susanna
Bair, co-founders of the non-profit
Institute for Applied
Meditation, bring a combined half-century of meditation
practice and teaching to this seminar on Heart Rhythm
Meditation.
"Heart Rhythm Meditation causes a shift in
attention and breath rhythm to create neurological connection
among the nervous, endocrine, respiratory and circulatory
systems, literally uniting the heart, mind and body. Reported
benefits include a more rhythmic heart rate, improved lung
function, better circulation, enhanced immune system function,
increased energy, improved concentration and elevated mood. As
detailed in Puran Bair's book,
Living from the Heart, hailed
as a classic when published by Random House in 1998, one
overall goal of Heart Rhythm Meditation is to improve health
by reducing reactivity to stress so that we have more effect
upon our environment than our environment has upon us."
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The First IAM DVD
| A long awaited piece, a wish come true.
After seminars and retreats, many participants have asked Susanna for
the details on how the movements she leads could be done at home by
themselves. Here is the DVD:
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In Part 1, Susanna Bair
demonstrates the exercises of "Heart Rhythm Movement",
a slow series of stretches and energy movers that work to open
the heart.
In Part 2, Susanna demonstrates a set of twelve movements for the
twelve archetypes of the heart.
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| New IAM CD
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This CD is a recording of Puran and Susanna Bair
in London, England, where they presented the five mystical states to an
audience of several hundred.
The CD includes a description of each of the five states,
and then a mystical sound
performed by Susanna that transports the listener to the stage
described.
This CD is essential for anyone who wants to understand, and
have a taste of, the extraordinary experiences of meditation.
| Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM)
proceeds through all five of these stages, from
(1) individuality in which the self and heart are separate,
(2) feeling your heart from the inside,
(3) the assimilation of the self in the Universal Heart,
(4) channeling the Universal Heart, and
(5) culminating in the state of union of Self and The Universal Heart.
This sequence is essentially Sufism:
duality to unity to re-union.
The five stages represent the full range of possibilities in consciousness,
but not every path recognizes the entire range.
Some meditation methods stop at the third stage.
The fifth stage is often overlooked.
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by Puran and Susanna Bair
Bakersfield, CA, Nov. 5-6, 2005
Ipswich, MA, Nov. 19-20, 2005
Complementary therapies
for physical and emotional healing,
in combination with spiritual development.
| El-En-T
| Hands-on healing
Transfer of the four subtle energies
Heart Rhythm Meditation
Spiritual invocation
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Patterns of Illness
The kinds of illnesses that we usually get and what triggers our
illness are life patterns. We focus on those patterns related to
the strength and rhythm of the physical, emotional and spiritual
heart, for example:
- Low Immune Response
- Heart Rhythm Weakness
- Left-Right Imbalance in Heart
- Circulation Weakness
- Low "Vital Capacity" in Lungs
- Abnormal Central Nervous System Activity
- Weak Heart Influence on Mind
- Low Stress-Tolerance
Patterns of Love
We
each specialize in love; some wish for someone
to love, while others wish to be loved.
Some seek control and
safety in love, while others seek abandon and freedom.
Some seek
spiritual and emotional closeness, while others simply seek harmony
and cooperation.
Some work extra hard so they will be loved; others
complain that they are not.
The way we love forms deep patterns in
our physical and emotional bodies.
What You'll Learn
For each type
of illness, IAM has developed complementary therapies that
incorporate hands-on healing, transfer of the four subtle energies,
and spiritual invocation. Together these are called
Element-Energy-Transfer (El-En-T). Emotional results are tracked in
the Heart Index, a measurement of the capacity of the heart in four
dimensions.
In this workshop you will learn and practice the
beginning steps of El-En-T, increasing the flow of energy from your
heart to your mind and body.
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