21 wnt. TEN MINUTES TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT
I saw a post about Self-Healing by Nico Cost on a forum. I have no idea of how to track him down. “When you use willpower differently, your world is going to change.”
Nico Cost, posted Oct 20, 2024 (1,800 words)
There is a Youtube music video involved. Mongolian Music – Boerte – Gobi, 8 min. You have to watch it first, because it is so stylized, (recorded in a sound studio, but acted out on the Mongolian desert with a large cast), that you are going to be too curious as to see what they are presenting. But later you listen with eyes closed.
HERE IS HIS DISCLAIMER:
Self-Healing by Nico Cost
I know that many people still find this a difficult subject, but at the same time we are all in need of a loving society where we can live meaningful lives in good health. If you experience any resistance at this writing, try to park-that for a moment and join this experiment “if you like”. You can’t get worse from it, and who knows, it might benefit you a great deal.
My suggestion is to do the experiment first, and in a follow-up writing, I will share something about my work, experience and insights to provide some background. There will be all kinds of questions as well as reservations, but let’s start with getting your own experience because that will be most valuable in any follow-up. Of importance is to realize that in all that may happen, you yourself are in charge.
HERE IS HOW TO GET READY:
Preparation
Good preparation is half the battle. I provide brief instructions, an assignment and a YouTube video to listen to. It is best to do the experiment when you are alone in a quiet environment without being distracted. You do not have to watch the video and it is best to sit up straight. During the music or meditation have your eyes closed and breathe in and out quietly.
Do not resist any thought, but do not connect with it either. Return each time to concentrate on your breathing, quietly and deeply. Observe how your body responds to this experiment. Allow emotions, cry if necessary and feel the alternation between becoming calm and/or restless. You don’t have to do anything, just observe what happens.
Prepare a glass of water or tea in advance for after the exercise. Know that it is not about understanding the experiment, but about the experience. You grant your body and your soul this experience, that is initially beyond our minds. It is like balancing on a bicycle that cannot be understood, but only felt. You will carry the experience with you all your life.
SUMMARY of Things to remember about this exercise:
✓Visualize yourself standing somewhere on Earth under the starry sky and receiving love from all the stars. You are connected to the entire cosmos and all the light is flowing through you. ✓pay attention to your breathing when your brain starts to wander ✓pay attention to opening up to the energy from above ✓Visualize yourself under the stars and feel the light of the stars all around you and through you. ✓After the music, 8 min, turn everything off and stay in silence for a few more minutes. (From Substack there is nothing to turn off, as it does not automatically lead into playing another viedeo.) ✓Keep breathing calmly and deeply and think of nothing. ✓Don’t try to understand anything. ✓Feel only your body and the realization that you are one with everything, or look into it. ✓Allow emotions as they come. ✓Take time to land back on Earth.
NOW WE ENTER INTO IT:
The assignment
I know that those who want to participate in this experiment carry an awful lot of love within them and want to share that love with others. However, this experiment is about receiving love and for many that is quite a challenge. Surrendering yourself to the love of life is not so easy in this harsh world where human beings are rightly healthy suspicious, and prefer to control things.
During the session you have nothing to do. ✓You don’t have to give love. ✓You don’t have to care for others. ✓You don’t have to express wishes for the world. All you may do is ✓open yourself to the love of the cosmos.
Visualize yourself standing somewhere on Earth under the starry sky and receiving love from all the stars. You are connected to the entire cosmos and all the light is flowing through you.
So, there are only two things you can consciously pay attention to, which are your breathing when your brain starts to wander, and opening up to the energy from above. Know that you can’t go wrong, because it’s about the experience and that’s not a goal in itself. It always goes exactly as it should, which is what is so beautiful about life that offers us everything we need.
The Experiment
Get the YouTube video below ready to listen to. Sit up straight with both feet on the ground. Relax your body and breathe calmly and deeply. Let go of everything and surrender to the music. Don’t resist thoughts, but also let them fly by as you focus on your breathing. Visualize yourself under the stars and feel the light of the stars all around you and through you.
After the music, 8 min, turn everything off and stay in silence for a few more minutes. Keep breathing calmly and deeply and think of nothing. Don’t try to understand anything. Feel only your body and the realization that you are one with everything. Allow emotions as they come. Take time to land back on Earth. Everything will go as it should, trust that. Have fun with the experiment, enjoy it.
PLAY THE MUSIC AND DO WHAT WAS SAID.
THAT’S IT!
Feel free to share your experiences or ask questions if there is a need. (In a reply on the forum. or here below) As indicated, I will provide background in a follow-up writing. (I don’t have it.) For now, I am guiding the energy, but please know that all healing is always self-healing. You are in charge and I am only a guide. You can repeat the exercise as many times as you like. Love is what the world needs most.
Here are further comments from Nico Cost
Connection (I claim no great understanding of the below - wnt)
When we look at our body, at all the cells that make up our body, we understand that everything in our body is interconnected. Not only is everything physically connected, we know that the whole is controlled from an intelligent center. Even the parts that function largely autonomously are connected to that center.
When the center dies, the whole body dies. Now people will think that two organs can fulfill this role, namely the brain and the heart. Obviously, these two organs are vital and when they die, then the body cannot continue to live either. However, the question is whether those two organs are the center that I am writing about?
The point is, I am not my body. I have my physical body, but I am not that. I am more than my body. And the same goes for my thinking, I am more than my thinking. I am even more than my consciousness, although that consciousness has a lot to do with my “soul”. However, this is a story in itself and goes beyond what I want to talk about here on self-healing, and connection.
Let me assume for this writing that my consciousness is the center from which my body and thinking are controlled. That my consciousness essentially connects with every cell in my body. Every cell knows what to do and various organs work autonomously, but my consciousness determines my life and death. All cells and organs are intelligent and connected to my consciousness.
My health is then determined by the degree of connection with my consciousness. When my consciousness is separated from my body and thinking, then I die. When cells and organs take on a life of their own and start operating separately from my consciousness, then diseases arise that can eventually lead to the death of the whole body.
What I want to make clear is that life can be healthy because all the cells in a body are connected to consciousness. And if you carry that analogy through to the universe in which we all live, then you understand that every human being must be connected to the consciousness of this universe, like a cell does to keep it healthy. When people become disconnected, a piece of the universe dies.
When people separate themselves from the consciousness of this universe, it irrevocably leads to the death of those people. Just as cancer can fester in a human body, a separation that is ultimately life-threatening, people can fester in the universe. They are out of connection, separated from the consciousness of the universe in which they live.
But death lurks, for the entire universe. Something will have to be done about this cancer. Again, I don’t want to go further into this concept either, but you can hopefully see the examples in today’s evolution on Earth. We have big problems. However, this writing continues with the understanding that we individual humans must be connected to the consciousness of our universe.
You can call that God, but I personally have little faith in the various religions that have hijacked God for their own interests. Nor does it matter so much what we call “it”, as long as we recognize and acknowledge “it”. Unity consciousness, God, nature, the source of all life, all words that can never adequately represent what “it” is. That with which we are connected.
Now when I talk about self-healing, it is very important that you are aware of your connection to the consciousness of the universe. It is not about prayer or other religious rituals, but about an inner knowing and human will, to be part of the whole. That intention is essential to becoming, being and remaining healthy. You are not separate, but we are one.
Meditation is one way to consciously seek and engage that connection. In so many areas, meditation is a very good way to live a more pleasant life together. We know that all the sages who have lived on Earth have used meditation on their way to enlightenment. They are an example for every human being and therefore I highly recommend (learning) to meditate. The fact that we get caught up in the issues of the day makes us need meditation more than ever.
You can only escape from the illusion by consciously stepping out of it. All you need for this is willpower. For it is that same will that keeps you running in circles. When you use that willpower differently, your world is going to change.
It’s the same with addictions. Actually, being-busy is also an addiction. A distraction from things you don’t want to face or think about. Resting and doing nothing can seem like having no control. Letting go of everything can create great uncertainty.
Funnily enough, you don’t necessarily need the meditating if you can live like this, because then you are already more or less living in a meditative state. Meditating is also not an activity you do regularly for a while, but a permanent attitude to life. During specific meditation sessions you keep it up, and it deepen.
Busy-busy-busy exists only in the mental field and it is all illusion. You can choose it, but then it also costs you a lot. The mental field causes us to live unhealthily; we are lived by it. It expresses itself in many forms.
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I had these thoughts after several encounters with this experiment. WHAT IS MEDITATION THEN? These are just my definitions out of rationality, not from any claim of a "spiritual transmission”.
1. many people think contemplation is meditation. Like every translator of Marcus Aurelius titled his book “Meditations”. It is not! It is Contemplations. (I like that book, one of my favorites.) But not our subject here.
2. Many people think visualization is meditation. Nico Cost used it, visualizing a starry sky, and the thrilling feeling of that vastness against my smallness. He suggested to label it as the love of the universe, showering down on me. Yes, maybe that would be a doorway into a great feeling, (but is that meditation or spirituality?)
3. The only one word in English or any other human language that approaches meditation is “SILENCE”. It is a NO-THING. It has no qualities. No concepts, no languages nor communications. (We could claim a feeling of resonance.) There is no movement, nor any space/time continuum. So, no location, non-temporal, no light no dark. Nothing from the material realm about it, no limits from the speed of light.
I propose that Silence IS what some people call “the spiritual realm”. MEDITATION makes the claim that you can apprehend that. BUT HOW?
AND WHY? One way to simplify why, it is to say, why – because it is happening. I am doing it right now. Maybe that is enough.
HOW is the instruction: Try to keep your mind as empty as possible. Don’t resist thoughts, but also let them fly by as you focus on your breathing. But we have to look at how thoughts can “fly-by”?
WHAT FLOWS THROUGH YOUR MIND? And why is it different than what flows through my mind? We can conclude that there is a built-in preference mechanism in each of us, that focuses our individual thoughts. But we (I) said, silence has no qualities. I am going to propose that we cannot have silence as a preference, because without qualities, there is nothing to visualize, no handles to grab hold of it, and no way to set it up as our priority. So, the only way to get to silence is to NOT PREFER everything else.
A thought comes up – I don’t prefer that. A thought comes up – I don’t prefer that. A thought comes up – I don’t prefer that. The process is a negation, the skill is how to not to pick-up a thought. Or since they come pretty fast, how to “set-down” a thought. It is not a very direct route toward Silence.
Anyhow, without any expectations, it shouldn’t be too upsetting.
I should really stop here. But I’ll add one supposition. Maybe there could come a point where you can step in and out of silence at will? Like going through a doorway. For instance, I claim I can step in and out of emotional reaction at will. No more difficult than going through an open door. It is so easy, that I have no fear of letting emotions play; and my life is richer for it, not constrained. Reactions are weightless for me; they have no impact on my being and they don’t automatically create actions, (that I later regret). (Other people’s repeated reactions can be annoying).
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I sometimes post on why-not-think, so I see the new posts as they are created.
Right now I am in the middle of a large project to upload a detailed Russian (Asian) history. The particular chapters in these weeks are about the Mongolian empire. So when I saw "Mongolian Music - Boerte Gobi" I had to check it out. The video is stylized with vast scenes of Mongolia and the desert, and a cast of Mongolian looking characters, with costumes.
Who knows how the look of it and the music relates to the 700 or 800 years ago that we are studying, but it is fascinating. So I participated in the meditation experiment, which isn't about Mongolia.
Without considering any expectations that might be built into the word "meditation", I would say that sitting here reveals something about the programmed me. I can see that I gravitate toward my Librarian-Project, and consider what I would like to present next. How would I write about it? I can "sort-of" let it go, but not really. It comes back in many variations, and it is not a pest. These are what I presently value. If I continue with this experiment (of looking), will I see how I formulated those values, and how perhaps I could alter them? Would I find a direction toward which I want to alter them?
I think that I am content to work as Librarian for now. I am thinking that any alteration will make itself known clearly enough. If nothing changes, I will stay with my present contentment. I have no yearning or feeling of incompleteness.
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