A practical tool to engage the healing capacity of the body
• Explains how to connect with your cells through breath and awareness to enact profound healing and inner communication on the deepest level
• Enables you to experience cell consciousness directly as you not only visualize and connect with the cell but actually become it
• Shares profound healing experiences from those who have practiced cell level meditation, both those who are experienced meditators and those who had never done it before
By simply looking at something, by becoming aware of it, you can change it. Cell Level Meditation focuses awareness on the smallest unit of life for the purpose of healing. Using the timeless technique of combining awareness with the breath, you move into the cells and become them. By meditating with your cells, you can awaken to the vast potential within yourself, move to greater levels of self-awareness, and enact healing all the way down to the cellular level.
In this simple guide, Patricia Kay, MA, and Barry Grundland, MD, give you the tools to connect with the wisdom and intelligence of your cells and work with them to heal. They offer sample meditations to help you connect with specific cells, such as your liver or lung cells, yet emphasize that you should use the Cell Level Meditation technique to follow your intuition and discover the cells that are inviting you in. Sharing their own and others’ experiences, from both experienced meditators and those who had never meditated before, they validate experiences you are likely to have and inspire you with stories of profound healings from serious illness such as cancer as well as other ailments and everyday stresses.
The authors explain how during Cell Level Meditation, you may have a vision or an insight, or some inner experience of shape, color, movement, sounds, or smells. You may also feel a shift in your physical body. By bringing breath into these experiences and staying present with them, you open up to a new level of communication within yourself and discover your unique way of bringing harmony and healing to your life.
Guided to be an active participant in your healing, engaging many levels of your inner experience, you are led to a new level of mind-body coherence.
After starting this book and also listening to the sample meditations on the website, I decided to try to use cell level meditation to help me with a place that I've been stuck in anger all my life with my mother. Using the ideas from the book and incorporating some from my spiritual path, I allowed my awareness to go to the place in my body where the sensations were strongest and instead of trying to change it, I was present with the anger and got this insight to go to a place of forgiveness instead. My whole body opened up with the wonderful freedom of that idea and as I embraced it, I could feel energy moving throughout my body. I am excited to try even more things. I love the idea of the cells communicating with each other so that the healthy cells remind their "brother and sister" cells that may be struggling with imbalance to find their way home. Each cell's intelligence is forever available.... I'm grateful to Patricia Kay for bringing this work out to the rest of us through this book.
Meditation and the Wondrous Cell—Healing Self and World
Cell Level Meditation by Patricia Kay and Barry Grundland is an important book to hold in our hands during these times of crisis. The wisdom about Health contained within this small book is vast. The fundamental message that the health of the body depends upon the health of the individual cell is no surprise to those who pay attention to such things. What is surprising is the delightfully simple way Kay tells the story of the cell and its magnitudes of potentiality. Healing, she tells us, may be as simple as learning how to feel, relate to, and communicate with this tiniest unit of life—the wondrous cell!
Cell Level Meditation was pioneered by Dr. Barry Grundland, MD, Kay’s mentor and collaborator. In a down-to-earth conversational tone, Kay augments scientific knowledge with her own knowledge based on years of experience working with critically ill patients, adding sweet servings of wisdom through stories and poetry.
The poetry—much of it by Kay—and the mystical poets Rumi and Hafiz, reaches into the cells of our being with a message of hope and Health. One of the most beautiful poems by Kay speaks of the Great Mystery alive in every cell. “Within the silence / of the silence / Just when you think you can’t bear it / another minute / And the ache of longing in your chest / is beyond belief / And the lump in your throat / is stinging your ears / And the howling of your yearning / ends in silence / Within the silence / of that silence / A new heaven opens.”
Cell Level Meditation is a book about meditation—using meditation to access the intelligence in every cell of the body in order to heal the body. Equally, it is a spiritual text guiding us on our life’s journey, which is always a journey of healing. Kay understands that healing is wholeness and this includes body, heart and soul. She manages to share these ancient wisdoms in such a clear, simple, and accessible way. I whole-heartedly recommend this book to everyone on the planet.
As insightful as it is delightful, Cell Level Meditation led me on a journey through the self-healing powers of my body's breath. Written for meditators and non-meditators alike, Patricia Kay has a knack for inviting us into a conversation between ourselves, our bodies and a master healer devoted to our specific healing needs. Patricia introduces and then reveals the science and art of being in touch with ourselves at the level of the "smallest unit of life." Her guidance is gentle, yet sure, serious, yet playful. Her words encouraged me to move from understanding into action and ultimately to participating in the healing process as a partner. I am keeping the book on my bed stand so I may I return to the wisdom of its pages over and over again.
Loved this book! It guides me in really profound access to my own self. I have found places that were unreachable with talking therapy. Cell level meditation is a very real process that can be used by anyone. I have worked from the book and directly with Patricia Kay. The results can be subtle or startling. I feel lighter and more "together" after doing cell level meditation. I highly recommend this book to anyone. Relax and give it a chance. You'll be glad you did!
I recently took a Cellular Healing class via an wholistic naturopathic doctor and then this book popped up in my awareness. Because the doctor did mention the importance of meditation, breathing & give love to our cells, this book grabbed my attention.
I understand that this is a reprinted, updated version of the original so I wish she would have dived deeper into more recent scientific discoveries to support some of her ideas. Regardless, this is a excellent book with valuable information.