Self-Healing Through Meditation - NalandaManual

StreSS-reduction & Self-Healingthrough Meditation, insight & imagery

Basic Program Manual

nalanda institutefor conteMplative Science

Joe loizzo, M.d., ph.d.founder and director

NALANDA INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE

STRESS-REDUCTION

& SELF-HEALING

EDUCATIONAL MANUAL

Joseph Loizzo, M.D., Founder and Director

Ina Becker, M.D., Assistant Director

Copyright Joseph J. Loizzo, M.D., Ph. D., 1998

NALANDA INSTITUTE Self Healing Manual 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………..3

II. THE NALANDA TEXTBOOK/WORKBOOK…….…………………...…9

Week 1…………………………………………………………..……..9

Week 2…..……………………………………………………………11

Week 3…..…………………………………………………………...14

Week 4…………………………………………………………….….16

Week 5………………………………………………………………..18

Week 6………………………………………………………………..20

Week 7………………………………………………………………..22

Week 8………………………………………………………………..24

APPENDIX: ON MEDITATION……………..…….……………..26

APPENDIX: ON YOGA………………………….…………………38

APPENDIX: LITERATURE ON MEDITATION & MIND/BODY MEDICINE..……………………………………….41


I. INTRODUCTION: The NALANDA Educational Program and Manual

1. The NALANDA Educational Program

On behalf of the faculty and staff of Nalanda Institute for

Contemplative Science, we would like to welcome you to the eight-week

program in self-healing, the core of the Institute’s educational program.

Congratulations! You have made a decision that cannot help but have a

positive impact on your health and quality of life: the choice to take a

more active role in promoting your own health and well-being through

meditation and yoga. We suggest that you approach the next eight weeks

as an experiment in healthy living, and that you enter the eight-week

program as a learning laboratory where you will find all the principles,

tools, guidance and support you need to change the course of your

lifestyle. We offer this manual as one source of tools and guidance. But

before we get down to the nuts and bolts of the class, we offer a brief

introduction to the history of mind/body medicine and Nalanda Institute

for Contemplative Science for the curious. The more practical among you

may want to skip to page 9, below.

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness in both the

popular and professional consciousness in the U.S. that safe, effective

alternatives are needed to complement conventional healthcare. As the

social and human costs of American medicine mount with the power and


complexity of our treatments, healthcare consumers, professionals and

policy-makers share a growing interest in alternative healing strategies

and modalities, especially those aimed at our medical Achilles' heels:

rehabilitation and prevention.

The need for alternatives was first recognized in the so-called

“diseases of civilization” such as stress, addiction, heart disease and

cancer, where conventional medical-surgical treatments are only partly

effective and involve prohibitive risks and costs. It is now clear that the

need for alternatives is equally critical in all areas of health, mental as

well as physical. While biomedical research continues to promise much

more precise and effective treatments for a wide range of diseases, its

focus on the mechanics of illness and health has increasingly been

recognized as only partial. Since learned habitual attitudes and

behaviors play a key role in all illnesses, the need for complementary

methods of health education, prevention and rehabilitation means a

growing demand for coherent alternatives to help people recover from

illness and adopt healthy lifestyles.

One natural place to look for rehabilitative and preventive

alternatives is to the traditional systems of healing throughout the world.

These traditions should be treasured by all humanity because they hold

a wealth of non-invasive, self-care regimens that have stood the test of

millennia of human use. In American medicine, the most successful early

programs to address the need for health-education, rehabilitation and


prevention were based on modern scientific study and application of

ancient techniques of meditation and self-healing used in traditional

healthcare.

The first programs in behavioral medicine and stress-reduction

found relaxation and mindfulness techniques derived from the ancient

meditative and healing traditions of India especially effective in reducing

pain, illness and stress in various medical disorders, as well as for

promoting self-healing attitudes and behaviors (see Benson and Kabat-

Zinn). Later researchers found that meditation techniques can help

people use their central nervous systems to consciously regulate a wide

range of bodily functions, including blood pressure, blood flow, heart-

rate, metabolic rate and immune response (see Goleman). When

meditation was used as part of a comprehensive system of ongoing

health education, diet and lifestyle change such as those prescribed in

yoga, Ayurveda, Tibetan and Chinese medicine, the effects were

especially dramatic, allowing people not just to stop but even to reverse

illnesses like coronary artery disease and certain cancers (Ornish &

Siegal).

As medical awareness of the impact of habitual attitudes and

behaviors on the health of the nervous system and body has grown, so

has understanding of their critical role in mental illness, health and

treatment. Alongside the rise of behavioral medicine, research on how

learned habits shape the mind-brain has lead to a new behavioral


approach to mental, emotional and life problems. The same relaxation

and meditation techniques used so successfully in behavioral medicine

were found as or more effective than conventional psychotherapy in

treating common mental problems like anxiety, depression, habit

disorders and personality disorders (Beck, Linehann et al). The rise of

learning-based models and methods in cognitive neuroscience and

cognitive-behavioral therapies in turn has reinforced the learning

approach emerging in behavioral medicine, where psychological states

including anxiety, depression, competitiveness, hostility and self-

involvement have been found to be the prime preventable risk factors in

stress-related problems like heart disease (Scherwitz, Williams).

To use a computer analogy, current research indicates that

meditation techniques provide teachable methods for consciously

changing not just the psychological “software” of fundamental habit

patterns, but even the physical “hard wiring” of neural networks and

“wetware” of neurotransmitters, hormones and other chemical

messengers. Given what neuroscience has been teaching us lately about

the central organizing role of mind-brain-behavior patterns in health,

modern medical science is beginning to understand why the medical

systems of the classical world put educational self-healing methods like

meditation at the heart of their theory and practice. In the last three

decades, these trends in medicine and psychiatry have converged in a

new mind/body medical paradigm. The old, conventional medical


paradigm is called “allopathic” (literally “disease-alien”) or “biomolecular”

because it tries to reduce illness and treatment to warring mechanisms

at the level of molecules and cells. The new, alternative paradigm is

called “holistic,” “integrative” or “multi-disciplinary” because it sees and

treats illness and health in many dimensions at once, tracing

preventable factors in mental, physical, family and life problems to

common behavioral roots in “disease-prone” habits of behavior and

lifestyle. The focus of treatment in the new paradigm is on

comprehensive educational programs that help people learn to use yoga,

meditation techniques, nutrition and exercise to develop “self-healing”

habits of mind, personality and lifestyle (Friedman).

The Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science was founded to

apply the new medical paradigm to the current challenge of developing a

modern art and science of self-healing. Based on its eight week program,

it provides an educational environment designed to help individuals

learn to better care for and heal themselves---in body, speech and mind.

The educational program teaches traditional self-healing ideas and

methods in an experiential learning format. Weekly two-hour classes will

expose you to some of these basic ideas and techniques but are only part

of the program. For optimal learning impact, the classes must be

enhanced by “homework,” that is, daily meditation sessions which can

help the “seeds” planted in the class take root and grow in your

mind/body process and life. At least one forty-five minute session six


days per week is required, a second, shorter session is strongly

recommended. These sessions will not only give you a real taste of

meditation and its potential, but also serve as a laboratory to explore and

practice things discussed in class. In addition to homework and classes,

we will ask you to schedule at least one brief check in with one of the

instructors, and also recommend optional individual consultation during

or after the course for those who are serious about designing and

implementing a self-healing program.

Before going on to the workbook, we would like to make two simple

suggestions about how best to approach the program. First, keep an

open mind. Much or all of the material may be new to some people. For

others, the material may be familiar but the particular ideas and

techniques may differ from those they have previously heard or learned.

Please bear in mind that the framework and methods introduced here

are specially designed for self-healing. If the material sounds or feels

unfamiliar, just speak up and take it as part of the learning process.

The main point here is to try to maintain an open yet inquiring attitude

and a willingness to experiment. What is presented in this course is

presented neither as absolute science or gospel nor as a rigid formula or

ritual but as a living process of ideas and methods to be critically

understood, contemplated and put to the test by each of you. Second, be

curious and brave. The more active, motivated and focused you can be

on pinpointing why you came to his program and what you want to get


out of it, the more likely you are to get some lasting benefit from what we

offer.

II. THE EDUCATIONAL MANUAL: Workbook

WEEK 1---WHAT PATTERNS DO I NEED TO MIND/STOP?

In traditional medicine and psychology, suffering—whether it be

physical or mental pain or just plain stress---is nothing to be denied,

avoided or feared, but is “the first truth,” a call from our bodies, minds or

souls to wake up to reality. The challenge of mindfulness meditation is to

stop running from problems or towards preconceived goals long enough

to simply face the reality of our lives we experience them in the present

moment. Most of us find that “just being present” or “just being mindful”

is just about the hardest thing we can do. Yet once we take the time to

try our best to be with ourselves, most people find it is probably the

single most important step we can take to improve the quality of our

lives. Reflecting on the first class and your first week of mindfulness

meditation, make some notes about what brought you to the program.


1. List the patterns of suffering, stress or limitation you must change.

2. Recall any history of avoiding or attempting to solve them.


3. How/could being mindful help you reframe/change these patterns?

WEEK 2---WATCHING AND SLOWING THE HABIT-CYCLE

Although genetics and environment play a definite role in illness,

health and temperament, a large part of most stress and disease

processes has to do with learned habits of mindset, behavior and

lifestyle. Many of these habits are so ingrained and resistant to change

that we are taught to see them as determined by biochemistry or

character. Meditation offers a powerful system of conscious self-healing

and self-change, based on a fundamental discipline of attention. By

learning to pay close attention to familiar habit-patterns in our lives, we

can slow and reverse the constant reinforcement needed to keep them

intact. All human beings have a unique capacity for conscious self-

regulation and change as part of our natural equipment for life-long


learning. Meditation can help us exercise our learning muscles and

gradually override the automatic habit-patterns set up and reinforced in

the past. Mindfulness is the most basic discipline of meditative attention,

and it starts with using breath-awareness to be mindful of our bodies

and sensations. In your practice of sitting meditation and/or the body

scan, you have a laboratory to watch your habits in “real time” and get to

know the steps that trigger, support and reinforce the habit process.

1. What feelings, thoughts or acts trigger/support/reinforce your habits?


2. Recall any history of identifying with or trying to break bad habits.

3. How/could mindfulness help you watch/stop your unhealthy habits?


WEEK 3—BREAKING FREE/LETTING GO OF UNHEALTHY HABITS

Recently neuroscience has begun rediscovering the truth found by

ancient meditative traditions: the human mind and nervous system are

far more free to overcome biological and social conditioning than

creationism or materialism would have us believe. The self and world we

experience are not fixed or objective but the product of the collective

activity of all our minds and brains. Each of us is freer than any other

form of life to become aware of exactly how we shape our own identity

and environment, and to exercise the boundless potential of our

consciousness for growth and change. By learning to tap and use the

deepest sources of mind and life energy, we can gradually let go of old

identities and lifestyles and create new ones. Concentrative meditation

shields our insight from the lure of the familiar, and taps the most open

and focused core of our mind/life process for free choice and growth.

1. Recall any times you or others went beyond limits you saw as fixed.


2. Describe any past successes/failures letting go of self-limiting habits.

3. How/could concentrative meditation help free you from such habits?


WEEK 4—LEARNING TO LIVE A SELF-HEALING LIFE

Unlike conventional medicine, traditional and modern mind/body

methods see healing as a natural process we each must learn to nurture

and cultivate for ourselves. To avoid or complement traumatic medical

interventions, self-healing is based on orchestrating many non-invasive

factors whose concerted effect is to gradually restore vital balance and

foster natural healing. Since this process depends on people learning to

change unhealthy ways of seeing, responding and acting, self-healing is

traditionally framed as a lifelong path of higher education. And, since a

healing outlook, attitude and lifestyle requires freedom, peace and

strength of mind, self-healing involves yoking the development of insight,

concentration and discipline to a continuing educational process of

mind/body learning at the rational, emotional and visceral levels.

1. Where/have you joined intellectual, reflective & experiential learning?


2. How have partial or quick fixes limited you with stress/illness?

3. Sketch your ideal continuing educational approach to stress/illness.


WEEK 5---ANALYTIC INSIGHT: THE DOOR TO INNER FREEDOM

Of all our habits, the most stubborn is the habit of clinging to our

sense of self. Only natural, it is reinforced by social messages that this

sense is our inalienable right, divine soul or true self. The trouble comes

when our familiar self-sense anchors the very habits that threaten our

health and happiness. Thinking, “This is my nature,” “This is what I am,”

we lock ourselves into self-defeating habits based on little more than a

self-fulfilling prophecy. Modern science has rediscovered the key insight

of traditional self-healing: that no fixed image or sense of self can fully

comprehend our life process. Analytic meditation tests this insight

against the evidence of personal experience, freeing us from the instinct

and conditioning that most limit our potential for change.

1. List any breakthrough insights that freed you from an old self-sense.


2. Recall any efforts at change which have confronted your sense of self.

3. How/could insight meditation help unlock your full potential?


WEEK 6--INTERCONNECTEDNESS: THE ART OF SOCIAL CHANGE

The “self-habit” leads to self-preoccupation, the most malignant

and neglected source of stress and illness in our lives. Clinging to an

unrealistic sense of self as more important than anything else alienates

us from the world our lives depend on, predisposing us to bias, conflict

and disease. Anxious, hostile and depressive reactions, obsessive,

compulsive and addictive lifestyles all are maintained by this instinct to

cut ourselves off. Self-healing begins when we embrace our inter-

dependence and rebalance our relations with all around us. Meditating

on our interconnectedness with other people & things counters the self-

defeating habit of “looking out for number one” and primes us for the

real challenge of living well with others in tune with nature.

1. Review times you’ve felt most open and alive with others & nature.


2. Recall problems caused by alienating yourself from others/nature.

3. How/could meditating on interconnectedness reduce stress/disease?


WEEK 7---CREATIVE MEDITATION: THE WAY TO EFFECTIVENESS

The modern sciences have rediscovered the traditional finding that

we shape our world by brain activity coordinated through conversation.

Like a virtual reality generated by computer, the consensual reality of

our lives and worlds is created in real time as our brains act on input

and interact through the social software of language. The only difference

between our reality and a dream is that, when awake, we are open to

fresh input. The good news is that the self and world we see as

independently real are as much our product as a work of art. By de-

programming our brains with healing images and affirmations, we can

break unhealthy perceptual habits and use the natural creative freedom

artists and poets enjoy to revise our personal and social experience.

1. Recall ways you have learned to see beyond your given worldview.


2. List problems or limits in your self and world that seem fixedly real.

3. How/could healing images/affirmations help you see through limits?


WEEK 8---INTEGRAL MEDITATION: COMPLETE EFFECTIVENESS

Fully yoking the creative mind and nervous system to the aims of

personal freedom and self-healing is the ultimate “yoga.” Modern

neuroscience confirms the traditional finding that every human mind has

the natural capacity to consciously regulate mind/body functions via the

nervous system. Research shows that meditation and yoga are among

the most effective methods of developing that natural capacity and

cultivating mind/body integration. The gateway to this integration is

extending the natural control the conscious mind has over normally

unconscious habits of breathing. By coordinating breath-control with

images or letters visualized at key points in the nervous system, the

creative mind can slowly disarm unhealthy stress-reactivity and align

mind/brain processes and states with its creative vision/affirmation of a

healing self and world.

1. Recall times you have used your mind to override bodily habits/limits.


2. List responses like panic, rage, etc., that drive your stress-reactivity.

3. How/could breath-control of reactivity help you heal stress/illness?


WORKBOOK APPENDIX: ON MEDITATION SELF-ANALYSIS THROUGH CONCENTRATIVE/INSIGHT MEDITATION 1. Honestly identify your key weaknesses

What are the 2-3 habits you most want/need to change? What aspects of your past/familiar identity anchor them? What aspects of your life experience/current identity anchor them? What are your most self-defeating identity habits?


2. Understand/observe your obstacles to change

What mental habits (negative thinking) reinforce your worst habits? What emotional habits (negative attitudes) reinforce them? What lifestyle habits (negative action patterns) reinforce them? What kinds of stimuli trigger your negative habits?


What relationships/environments trigger your negative habits? What kinds of subjective states (hunger, loneliness, etc) are triggers?

3. Understand/access your freedom to change your identity & life

List past challenges you have taken as opportunities for self-change List mental, emotional, lifestyle habits you have changed or overcome


List forms of knowledge, taste or skill you pursued and acquired Describe/envision your hidden/potential self-healing personality

qualities of body/action

qualities of speech/spirit

qualities of mind/heart

lifestyle and environment


4. Devise a threefold path of life-education for your self-healing

What kind of reading/intellectual study does you aim require?

To analyze and overcome your negative thinking patterns

To clarify and cultivate positive thinking

To build inspiration, confidence, know-how, consciousness


What kind of contemplation/meditation practice do you need?

To reflect on, clarify and resolve your self-analysis

To develop and incorporate positive ways of thinking/outlook

To protect you from your own obstacles & help overcome them

To access and nurture positive attitudes, skills & life habits


What kind of ethical guidelines/lifestyle qualities must you practice?

To avoid indulging negative mental, emotional & lifestyle habits

To avoid triggering stimulation, relationships, environments, states

To adopt & reinforce positive outlook, attitudes & behaviors

To nurture the personality, lifestyle & environment you want/need


Identify healing/cultural/spiritual traditions you plan to rely on (list their strengths and limits, types and conditions of your reliance):

Identify healing teachers/friends/guides/mentors you plan to rely on (list their strengths and limits, types and conditions of your reliance): Identify healing communities/networks/institutions to rely on (list their strengths and limits, types and conditions of your reliance):


BASICS, PROCESS &AIMS OF CONCENTRATIVE/INSIGHT MEDITATION

The purpose of meditation is to put therapeutic insight to work, by

helping us gradually integrate it into all areas of our minds and lives. In

order to shed light on our work, insight, the spark of wisdom in all of us,

needs meditative techniques like mindfulness, just as a candle needs a

shield to be a practical light-source.

The basic stages and techniques of developing meditative

concentration or equipoise (our shield from winds of distraction and

dullness, anxiety & depression) can be mapped as follows:

9 Stages 6 Forces 4 Attitudes ________________________________________________________________________ 1. Focus Learning Forced Control 2. Steady focus Reflection “ 3. Repeated focus Mindfulness Intermittent Control 4. Increased focus “ “ 5. Discipline Alertness “ 6. Calm “ “ 7. Quiescence Effort “ 8. One-pointedness “ Unbroken control 9. Equipoise Expertise Natural control ________________________________________________________________________ Stages of Quiescence, called “Mindfulness” Meditation Adapted from R.A.F.Thurman’s Central Philosophy of Tibet


As for insight meditation (the flame that sees through innate and

learned habits of mind that anchor unhealthy attitudes and behaviors),

the five main stages outlined in the Indo-Tibetan tradition are:

Stage of Insight Path of Practice ________________________________________________________________ 1. Develop experience of

Intellectual insight in simulated insight meditation Path of Accumulation

of “store” of wisdom 2. Simulated insight with

Simulated quiescence

3. Real insight with Path of Experience

Real quiescence (Heat, Peak, Tolerance, Triumph)

4. Direct realization of Path of Insight/Path of Meditation

True nature of reality (Self-Transcendence Stages 1-8)

5. Self-Transcendent Insight Path of Mastery/Full Enlightenment in context of creative/ (Self-Transcendence Stages 8-10) integral meditation ________________________________________________________________________ Adapted from Thurman, p. 134.


THE LOGIC OF SELF-ANALYTIC INSIGHT MEDITATION 1. Analytic insight is indispensable to real freedom and lasting

happiness because it cuts the unconscious roots of resistance to free

choice and change. Consider this from the King of Concentration:

Ordinary people who cultivate concentrative meditation Yet do not rid themselves of the notion of self Get very frustrated when their addictions return… Yet if they discern precisely the selflessness of things And if they meditate on that exact discernment, That causes the attainment of Transcendence, No other cause whatever will bring peace.

2. Insight is the active ingredient in liberative/self-healing education.

Remember His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s analogy: the educational

process is like a missile targeted at self-limiting identity habits, the

root of preventable disease. In that missile, behavior consistent

with values is the launching pad and guidance system;

concentration is the rocket; and insight is the warhead.

3. It has five stages that may be reduced to three general phases:

a. It begins with a clear and precise intellectual analysis.

b. It deepens with reflective and contemplative internalization.

c. It culminates in profound meditative realization.


4. Insight can be rationally developed using analytic frameworks like

the “four keys:”

a. Precisely identify and focus on the false self-habit to be

analyzed, as in the intense sense of self-evidence we have when

falsely accused “not me!”

b. Commit to the shared conventions of common sense, “either its

objectively real or its not;” “It’s either identical with this or its

something separate.” Recall the spider in the house analogy.

c. Show yourself the absurdity of the self’s being identical with

your thoughts, feelings, motives, percepts & body-states.

d. Show yourself the absurdity of its being separate from them.

5. Understand the oscillating modes of insight

a. space-like equipoise where one breaks through the self-evidence

of familiar self/world and feels dissolved like water in water

(preliminary sign of breakthrough, within meditation sessions.)

b. dream-like aftermath where familiar self/world reappear as

before breakthrough but now seem dream-like, less fixed/real

(growth opportunity after/in-between meditation sessions.)


APPENDIX: ON YOGA


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