Those of you who have been watching my videos have probably figured out by now that I meditate. The kind of meditation that I do is called Vipassana or insight meditation. It originated in Burma and was brought to the USA in the seventies by a bunch of young practitioners. My favorite of these is Joseph Goldstein. He wrote a book called Mindfulness that outlines this method in a very systematic way. I hope that you will find the Detox Manual that I wrote with Andy Cutler easy to understand and systematic, too!
Vipassana is a secular practice. Anybody can do it, but I do not recommend it over any other spiritual practice. Our mercury support groups are full of people from all kinds of religions. If you are a Christian, you can pray. If you are a Muslim, there is also prayer. There are umpteen other meditation practices that range from the various varieties of Buddhists, through the various varieties of Hindus and lots of other religions, too.
My father, who came from a long line of Episcopalians’, favorite hymn was “Spirit of God,
Descend Upon My Heart." One stanza goes:
I ask no dreams
No prophet ecstasies,
No sudden rending
Of the veil of clay.
No angel vision,
No opening skies,
But take the dimness of my soul away.
I like that hymn too because meditation is a bit of a slog. There are few sudden insights, flashes of light or fireworks. At least not for me. The progress, if you can call it that, is slow and incremental. You must just show up and do it. It is sort of like chelation.
With chelation, you just have to show up and do it. Grinding out a round every week is more important that taking high doses or finding some miraculous supplement. You have to make it your way of life, a background activity to everything else that you do no matter what. Don’t be constantly checking yourself for progress. Progress is of necessity slow and incremental. You can’t move this poison out very fast or you will get injured. Plug away at it and keep a diary.
My favorite Hindu saint is Shirdi Sai Baba. (Actually, he is also a Muslim saint, too.) He told his devotees to exercise faith and patience. You need faith and patience in this chelation undertaking, too! Sometimes it will feel like nothing is happening and that there must be an easier way. Unfortunately, there isn’t. This is it! By God’s grace, or something of the sort, you have stumbled on the way forward out of your sickness and dysfunction. Have faith and patience and keep going!
On a final note I want to recommend meditation or some other spiritual practice to everyone. You will develop some perspective on your own situation. We mercury toxic folk can be pretty neurotic. We can even be mentally ill. It is hard to sit still while your mind is leaping about like a crazed chimpanzee, but try and set yourself a daily practice of 25 minutes or a half hour every day. Just like you do your weekly chelation rounds. It may seem as though nothing is happening but just do it anyway.