The Power of Imagination in Healing

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The Power of Imagination in Healing 

 (quote from "Alice Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll):

                   "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!"

           "That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it always makes one a little giddy at first.

"Living backwards!" Alice repeated in great astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing!"

"—but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways."
"I'm sure mine only works one way," Alice remarked. "I can't remember things before they happen."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
"What sort of things do you remember best?" Alice ventured to ask.
"Oh, things that happened the week after next," the Queen replied in a careless tone....

     ......  "I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day."

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.
"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

   I have often said that I fell through the looking glass at an early age and never came back, so the experience of living backwards seems oddly natural. It is possible to see things from the perspective of the end of the story first and then the invention of the story itself in time. It is a perspective of a holographic universe that is constantly moving and changing. One sits still as the hologram continuously changes. The deeper the surrender to the practice of letting go, of falling into the infinite, the more fluid the process of eternal change. It lessens the feeling of attachment to place, time, to the idea that the outer reality represents stability.
 
   This of course is challenging practice, as at the same time it seems a natural to have a deep desire for stability. The physical system itself contains a righting reflex, an action of the inner stability and natural equilibrium of the human system. The body itself is constantly moving from balance to imbalance and back again. Imbalance rather than being the opposite of balance is recognized as an aspect of balance and visa versa. So to add a conscious practice of focusing on, one could say, the instability of the Universe, of life itself, of constant change, brings one into the present moment at the deepest level, where change is the constant. It is the focus on change itself, rather than the results of the change that allows the entry into a participation with the physical body in time and no time. This is where the healing moment exists.

     The moment of healing or the space of healing is the space in between time, where the past present and future meet but before they meet there is a space and in that space is unlimited possibility, Where things are not shaped yet but are only potentialities, possibilities that have not been completely formed and are not static.
    It is the release of formed ideas, the surrender to not knowing, to being taken, flowed into, allowing utter movement; allowing and observing the movement of those realities that we want to be stable and secure. If however, the security is surrendered, then total freedom and utter creative force is instantly available. It is the process of allowing the formlessness of infinitely moving dynamic creation to rip through one, to drown one, to overwhelm one, to clean and clear and re-form.
 
   For instance, this action appears in the experience of the mind trying to comprehend the white queen's living backwards in time: there is a moment where the brain is confused. It is in that moment, in between logic and reason, that infinite possibilities perpetually exist.


   It often becomes a mindfulness practice, opening to the possibility of a life that has a stable base in the physical day to day world, while at the same time to consciously practice remembering that at any second it could all change. A perpetual paradox. The action or reality of infinite movement and infinite stillness in the same moment.


   It seems quite logical that if I can imagine the goal I can also imagine the process of getting to it. Time does not seem linear to me but circular, and infinite, an infinitely repeating spiral that contains the DNA of everything and that DNA is the DNA of the Universe, containing everything that is will be and  has been all simultaneously moving and interacting. The only limit is the limit of imagination. Imagination by its very nature is limitless and infinite if allowed to express itself. The expression, “It is only your imagination”, immediately stops all movement and relegates creation to a one sided linear, logical universe. The expectation or assumption that the Universe is linear and logical instantly creates a limit on infinite imagination. How could poetry or art or music exist in a universe where there are limits on imagination? Whenever I hear someone say “That is not possible, or you cannot do that because..” I instantly begin to search for the way to do whatever it is, because I know it exists within the infinite imagination. It is the action of the “Why not?”mantra. Most especially if I am the one saying, "I can't" or "That is not possible", the Why Not mantra becomes a great source of movement, taking  one automatically to the next step.    And there is always a next step. Like dancing, it may be forward, it may be backwards,it may be side to side, but there is always another step.