THE HEALING TRIANGLE
The Healing Triangle based on the book of Andy Caponigro entitled The Miracle of the Breath.
Here, you will learn a powerful and sophisticated meditation technique that will enable you
to concentrate your breath energy and direct it to diseased parts of your body with pinpoint
accuracy.
It is called “THE HEALING TRIANGLE” because it involves three basic elements that are kept
in a delicate state of balance at all times. The first element is our consciousness (our mind in
meditation); the second is the breath; and the third is the particular symptom of illness we wish
to heal.
When we focus our attention on the breath and the disturbance at the same time, we’re creating
a three-way “electrical circuit” through which the breath’s healing energies are directly
transmitted to the symptom of illness. In effect, our consciousness acts like a set of jumper
cables that makes a direct connection between our breath and the symptom we wish to heal.
The healing triangle is a remarkably powerful technique. However, your ability to promote
deep self-healing will depend greatly on the depth of your meditation, the health of your breath,
and the degree to which you’ve mastered the basic techniques. The healthier and stronger
your breathing is, and the greater your mastery of the basic techniques, the more effective
the healing triangle will be whenever you sit to practice it. This is how it is done:
1- Sit in a comfortable posture with your rubber balls in hand, and meditate on your breath
for five to ten minutes to establish a good state of meditative consciousness.
2- Next, do enough rounds of Tarzan and/or gentle rapid breathing to be sure that your breath
is open and flowing.
3- Once your breath is moving more freely, keep watching your breath and use your consciousness
like a radar beam. Slowly scan your body from the top of your head all the way down to your pelvis,
looking for any symptoms of distress that feel as though they need some special help.
4- As you scan the inside of your body, you might come across any number of symptoms that could
use some special attention. For example, there might be a burning sensation behind your eyes, a
pain in your chest, tension in your stomach, and so on.
5- Work first with the symptom that is calling the loudest for your attention. For example, let’s say
you have a painful knot of tension in your stomach that feels more deeply disturbed than any other
symptom of distress in your body.
6- Without losing track of your breath, focus your attention on the most intense part of the pain or
tension, then squeeze your rubber balls firmly enough to match its intensity. This will bring your
breathing tensions into synch with the tension in your stomach. On the very next inhalation, you’ll
find yourself breathing directly into the knot, as if your breath were selectively reaching out to
touch the pain.
7- Keep the same steady pressure on the balls to keep the compression of your breath in synch
with the tension you feel in your stomach, then do about five to ten seconds of gentle rapid breathing
directly into the knot. This will weaken the energy blocks surrounding the knot and bring concentrated
waves of healing prana directly into the tissues that feel dis-eased. Within seconds, the knot will begin
to feel a bit softer and the pain will diminish noticeably.
8- If you continue to watch your breath and keep tracking the changes taking place in your stomach,
you’ll notice that the pain or tension is continuing to change for the better, even though you’ve
discontinued the gentle rapid breathing technique.
9-- Still watching your breath, allow these changes to run their course for a full minute. At the end
of this assimilation period, change the pressure on the balls to match the new feelings of pain or
tension in your stomach Then do another round of gentle rapid breathing to further weaken the
energy blocks and bring fresh waves of prana into the tissues that need to be healed.
10- Each time you repeat this cycle, the pain and tension will grow increasingly weak, until the
knot finally disappears. As the knot in your stomach begins to fade away, subtler symptoms of
distress will begin to reveal their presence. These newly revealed disturbances might show up
in other parts of your body, but they will usually appear somewhere in the immediate vicinity of
the problem you’ve been working on - in this case, your stomach.
11- Whatever form these newly emerging disturbances take - feelings of irritation, pressure,
burning, or anything else - treat them the same as you did the original feelings of pain in your
stomach. Focus your attention on (what is now) the strongest feeling of disturbance, squeeze
the balls firmly enough to match its intensity, breathe gently and rapidly into the disturbance
for five or ten seconds, them simply return to watching your breath and track the symptom’s
progress as it gradually melts and changes.
When you work with the healing triangle, you can expect it to bring relief and healing about
65 percent of the time. The rest of the time, it will seem to have little or no effect on your symptoms.
Every so often, a symptom might even seem to get worse instead of better. If and when this happens,
it usually indicates that the symptom is undergoing a “gestation period” - a stage of development in
which it’s not quite ready to change and be released.
Whenever your symptoms fail to respond, simply meditate on your breath as you usually do, or
practice any of the basic techniques that feel right at the moment, and work with the healing triangle
at a later time. Remember that the basic techniques trigger various kinds of spontaneous healing
every time you work with them. When working with the basic techniques, you may not be selectively
guiding the healing process; nevertheless, your body will still undergo healing of one kind or another.
