Reprogramming the Mind and Creating Miracles
People have been meditating for millennia, passing on the idea that meditation is good for you. Research supports this premise: Meditation can reduce cortisol levels significantly, pain by 50% or more, stress and anxiety, enhance self-awareness, and increase your attention span. People often press that a single type of meditation is better than the rest. Many hype that transcendental meditation is the best, while others might think that loving-kindness meditations are the best. I’ve long claimed that every kind of meditation is excellent for you, and tons of research studies support that claim as stated above. The research consistently states there is no one best kind of meditation. I used to agree, but I don’t anymore.
In this exercise, we’re not attracting miracles. They’re already here. We’re creating them within ourselves.
But what about self-love meditations?
I’ve been meditating for over 40 years. I guess I just dated myself, now, didn’t I? And I’ve been a psychotherapist for 26 years, which is to say I have some experience with both doing and teaching meditation. All this time I would have said, any meditation is good, doing it any time is good, and any amount is better than none.
Then I learned about the self-love meditation. Now, I no longer believe that all meditations are equal. I could find research on loving-kindness meditations and other types of meditations, but I could not find research on this self-love meditation. All I have are individual claims.
I met my colleague at the end of March 2026. She shared that she had had a brain disease, although she didn’t share what kind it was. She reported that the doctors told her it couldn’t be cured and she would have to live with it. She proceeded to try retreats and eventually learned about the self-love meditation. She liked one created and sold by Dr. Joe Dispenza. She reported that the special meditation cured her brain disease, that it was gone. She did not tell me how long it took.
I was excited about this.
I figured, “What the hell? I could try it. It won’t do any harm”
I was already meditating an hour a day, and it would be easy to change the type of meditation I was doing. I listened to a two-minute sampling of Dr. Dispenza’s and knew it wasn’t for me. It sounded abrasive, so I knew it would have a negative impact on me. I made my own. I listen to 3.9 Hz music on YouTube, and while it’s playing, I speak, whisper, or think my script. I review every body part 7 times because I believe 7 has a magical component and I want to spend a significant amount of time doing this exercise. I want it to be long enough to sink in and have an effect. I just start at the top and go down.
“I love my hair. I love that I can put it up in the summer. I love myself.” I will vary that to wear it down, getting thicker, getting smoother, and so on. Variety keeps me engaged. I’ll go through scalp, brain, skin, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, throat. Sometimes, I’ll say things that aren’t true, but are an affirmation. I figure they could become true.
“I love my throat. I love that I can swallow water. I love myself.” Or that I can swallow raspberries, pizza, french fries, hamburgers, tacos, burritos, or mac n cheese with salsa-yum! I continue with immune system, cells, muscles.
“I love my immune system. I love that it protects me from infections. I love myself.” Or I love that it makes me stronger, that it finds and kills foreign invaders, that it latches onto specific threats and neutralizes them. Sometimes, we have to repeat ourselves because we don’t know seven different things that this part of our body can do.
I attend to every part of my body that I can think of from head to toe seven times each. I think it takes about half an hour to complete. When I first started, it was about twenty minutes, and I added to make it longer. I started my self-love meditation on April 1st and have been doing it daily since then.
Within two weeks, the sensitive tooth I had had was no longer sensitive. The dentist had told me there was nothing they could do and I would have to just live with it. The impression I got was forever. It’s been almost four months with no sensitivity.
Two more weeks passed and I realized my tree allergies were gone. I no longer needed to take anything to manage those because they didn’t exist anymore.
By about seven weeks, my blood pressure became normal. I forgot my treatment but never needed it. My daughter was studying to be a CNA on her journey to be a nurse, so she was practicing on me regularly. Before the self-love meditation and before I’d found something I could take for it, in the heat of stress, it had spiked up to 210/130. Now, it’s 110/58. It’s consistently been close to that for almost two months.
I wonder how many of you know that the ability to nap comes from a gene? Well, it does, and I don’t have the gene. I had never been able to nap since I was about two years old except when I had a fairly high fever. Yet, here I was at 8 or 9 weeks, and suddenly, I was napping most days even with a good night’s sleep. There were a few days in the beginning of July when I did need it and napped. This was a new delight for me.
About two years ago, my progesterone was low, and I was sleeping so badly that I had to start taking progesterone pills. My body didn’t like the synthetics, so I began to have side effects. I’d purchased a pure/natural one from my homeopath and began using that, which had worked well in the past. Now it was causing side effects as well, which surprised me since it had never happened before. I continued to reduce the progesterone, bit by bit, until I had quit completely. I’m normal, no symptoms, no discomfort, and sleeping great.
I have been in 4 car accidents in the last five years, which caused some significant pain. Treatment had reduced a lot of it, but some of it stubbornly would not go away. I’m not 100% sure that this occurred because of the meditation, but I think it did. It didn’t occur to me before the meditation. A psychic told me that different parts of our bodies have different metaphorical meanings/purposes. I’d been having a lot of jaw pain, so I looked it up and learned that it meant I wasn’t speaking my truth. At first, I thought it was hogwash. I’m very transparent and felt confident that I was speaking my truth. But the pain didn’t go away, so I faced it again and realized I hadn’t been speaking my truth with my oldest son and my sisters.
I put the effort in, reaching out to them for a time to talk, and already the pain reduced somewhat. By the time I had processed my concerns with each of them, the pain was all gone.
The list continues, but you get the idea. I can’t give you research to support my claims, and I only have the two examples to go by, but it costs nothing to try. If you’ve never meditated before, start small. Just do a couple of minutes and call it a day. In a few days, add a couple of minutes. It will take longer to get results, but you’ll get there eventually, and in this manner maybe you’ll stick with it. If it’s hard to start with the self-love meditation, start with a guided meditation on YouTube. You could experiment with UCLA MARC, Jason Stevenson meditations, or LIGHTS OF VENUS if you like to live on the wild side. Good Luck!
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