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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How We Can Heal | |
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| Healing the Mind and Body | |
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| The Peaceful Mind | |
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| The Mind as a Source of Negativity | |
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| The Path to Peaceful Feelings | |
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| Awareness of the Peaceful Mind | |
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| Positive Perception | |
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| Steps toward Being Happier | |
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| The Interconnectedness of Mind and Body | |
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| Using the Body to Lead the Mind | |
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| A Meditative View of the Body | |
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| A Positive Approach to Meditation | |
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| The Four Healing Powers of Mind | |
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| Two Ways to Apply the Four Healing Powers | |
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| Sources of Healing | |
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| Healing the Whole Body | |
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| Benefits of Healing Meditations | |
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| General Benefits of Healing | |
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| Spiritual Benefits of Healing | |
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| Physical Benefits of Healing Meditation | |
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| Delayed and Unanticipated Benefits | |
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| Realizing the Potential to Heal | |
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| Three States of Health | |
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| Four Healing Objects | |
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| Two Sources of Healing Power: External Objects and Ourselves | |
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| Three Ways of Facing a Problem | |
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| The Importance of a Focal Point | |
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| The Importance of Recognizing Enlightenment as Our True Nature | |
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| Encouraging Our Meditation | |
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| Some Preparations | |
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| Some Tips for Meditation | |
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| Duration of Meditation | |
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| Overcoming Resistance | |
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| Feeling Good about Meditation | |
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| Making It Simple | |
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| Avoiding Expectations | |
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| Staying with It | |
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| Rejoicing in Progress | |
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| Healing Meditations on the Mind and Body | |
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| The Guided Meditations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Twelve Stages of Meditation | |
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| Bring Your Mind Back to Your Body | |
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| Scan the Anatomical Details of Your Body | |
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| See Your Body as Made of Infinite Individual Cells | |
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| See Each Cell as a Cell of Light | |
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| See Each Cell as Vast as the Universe | |
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| Feel That Each Cell Is Filled with Healing Energies | |
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| Heal Your Body with Waves of Light and Energy | |
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| Perform a Special Meditation to Heal Proliferating Sick Cells (Optional) | |
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| Hear the Healing Sound of AH | |
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| Open to Healing with the Blossoming Lotus Movement | |
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| Open to Healing with Other Movements to Relieve Physical Ailments and Promote General Health (Optional) | |
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| Share the Healing Waves with Others | |
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| Share the Healing Waves with the Whole Universe | |
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| Protect Yourself with a Healing Aura (Optional) | |
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| Rest in Oneness with the Healing Experience | |
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| How to Use the Twelve Stages If You Have Little Time | |
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| Some Specific Healing Remedies | |
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| Healing Meditations for Sleeping and Waking | |
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| Meditation for Falling Asleep | |
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| Meditation for Waking Up | |
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| Dispelling Anxieties upon Sleeping or Waking | |
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| A Healing Aura for Sleeping and Waking | |
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| Buddhist Meditations to Heal Mind and Body | |
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| Meditation on the Healing Buddha | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Twelve Stages of Meditation on the Healing Buddha | |
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| Bring Your Mind Back to Your Body | |
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| Visualize the Healing Buddhas with Devotion | |
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| With Prayers, Invoke the Blessings of the Healing Buddhas | |
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| Receive the Healing Blessings | |
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| Transform Your Body into a Body of Blessing Light and Energy | |
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| See That Your Body Is Made of Infinite Cells of Light and Energy | |
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| Feel That Each Cell Is a Boundless Pure Land of Healing Buddhas | |
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| Heal with the Waves of Blessing Light and Energy | |
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| Sing AH, the Sound of Blessing Light and Energy Waves | |
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| Perform the Blossoming Lotus Movement with Blessing Waves | |
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| Perform Other Healing Movements That Bring Blessings (Optional) | |
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| Share the Blessing Waves with the Whole Universe | |
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| Rest in Oneness with the Healing Experience | |
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| Dedication, Aspiration, and Benediction | |
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| The Healing Buddha Meditation in Brief | |
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| Healing Meditations for the Dying and Dead | |
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| A Buddhist Approach to Dying | |
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| Meditations for the Dead or Dying | |
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| Instructions for the Dead or Dying | |
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| How Helpers and Survivors Should Behave | |
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| Buddhist Sources of the Healing Meditations | |
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| Answers to Some Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |