Pre Emptive Healing can be used by parents of children undergoing surgery, dental procedures or with fear of flying.

Pre Emptive Healing is a system using meditation and visualization that can aid recovery from a surgical procedure and empower you to cope with your fear. For many parents, the trauma of watching a child frightened of a surgical or dental procedure is worse than going through the procedure themselves. The audio products available from Pre Emptive Healing are a way that parents can help their child overcome their fear and make the experience better for both the child and the parent.

Fear is borne of anxiety. The anxiety in your body produces adrenalin which in turn, pushes your heart rate up and increases your blood pressure. Some of the symptoms you may feel are nausea, uncontrollable shaking, altered breathing and the inability to think clearly or concentrate. These symptoms can be overcome by pre emptive healing. The audios talk you through overcoming your fear and replacing bad thoughts with good thoughts. This empowers you and your child to take control of those irrational feelings of fear.

The Pre Emptive Healing audios are something you and your child can learn together and then you can use what you have both learnt to be calm in any difficult situation. To learn more about Pre Emptive Healing visit preemptivehealing.com.

A new approach to dealing with dental phobia has been developed by US anesthesiologist.

Dr Anthony DeMarco has been developing a Pre Emptive Healing programme to aid recovery from surgical procedures and overcome phobias. It is his belief that your mind can control your body which is at the core of the programme. Dr DeMarco has had many experiences in surgical and dental procedures where the patient can benefit from his programme.

He has witnessed patients’ recovery being hindered by their anxiety and trauma. The Pre Emptive Healing programme is a way of attaining deep relaxation by meditation. The relaxed state encourages your body to lower blood pressure and increase blood flow. It is the blood flow that aids the healing in your body. Dr DeMarco’s advice is to go through the programme before you attend a procedure so that you are already in a calm state. For dental procedures and phobias you can listen to the programme during the procedure. If you can remain calm, the whole experience is much better and the fear is reduced the next time you have a procedure.

Dr DeMarco believes it is far better to take control of your fear and anxiety so that you can go through simple dental procedures without having to use strong narcotics to induce unconsciousness.

Dr Anthony DeMarco is a board certified member of the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is a graduate of Kansas City University with a degree of Doctor of Osteopathy, a holistic approach to patient care.

What is meditation?

It is a two-step process – journey and destination.
The ultimate goal is the realization of the Self. The Self is your very own being – your soul, the substance you are made of. It is so near and yet appears to be very far as it is covered by agitations and impurities of the mind. It is like a lake that is covered by dirt and whose waters are restless. You can see the bottom only when the dirt is removed and agitations subside. The bottom has always been there. It is just that you are not able to see it.

The immediate goal of meditation is the realization of peace and purity. Purity means detachment from the causes of restlessness.
It is only when the mind is peaceful and happy that meditation is possible. There cannot be any depth in meditation if you are restless and unhappy. These days, even the process, i.e., the work you do for realizing the Self, is called meditation.

This process gives peace and happiness. This, in turn, prepares and gives you the realization of the Self. Both the journey and the destination can be called meditation.

How is it done?

For meditation, there has to be a sincere desire that one has to grow towards the higher centers of consciousness. It requires determination and sincerity about the goal of unconditioned peace, love and freedom.

The meditator has to find a comfortable and firm posture in which back, neck and head remain in a straight line. This ensures alertness in meditation. The mind should be feeling fresh as with a tired mind, one cannot do deep contemplation.

In the beginning, most of the work is done for detaching from mind’s restlessness and its roots. One should be careful that one does not put anything under the carpet. One must face oneself in meditation. That will involve detaching from the thoughts and the causes of restlessness in the mind.

All agitations in the mind take place because one is too attached with certain conditionings and take them to be absolute truths. One is also involved in many illusions and is not ready to let them go. In meditation, one develops in indifference from the previous character patterns and does the work on them.
As one gets deconditioned, one comes to experience unconditioned peace, happiness and love. That is a strong foundation for meditation to happen and deepen.

In the initial practice, it is more of contemplation that is practiced. One uses the mind’s higher faculties to outgrow its lower nature. As one progresses, the use of words and thoughts becomes less and less. One is able to experience peaceful stillness without using any supports.

In the end, when the duration of meditation deepens there takes place the experience of the shift of identity. One realizes that one is an eternal blissful awareness and the identification with the body was only a transient and detachable notion. One is said to be enlightened when the individual awareness merges into the universal awareness. “I am” is replaced with “I am not”.

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