MFR & Meditation
	The practice of quieting the mind to feel and be with what's behind the chatter is used in both meditation and in myofascial release healing also known as MFR. This quieting of the mind and listening inward is what we should be doing while we are meditating, receiving MFR treatment or working with our home therapy tools. Healing does not actually occur when someone is thinking, if we could think ourselves to health we'd all be healed. It's only when we are feeling and being present with our inner landscape, beyond the chatter and without resistance, that true, deep healing, transformation and quantum shifts in perception occur. How to Meditate I remember when I first asked my dad how to meditate. He told me meditation is like sitting at a train station inside your mind. When thought trains show up, you just watch them pass by and, you don't get on the train. If you find yourself thinking or 'riding a thought train', you just let it go and bring yourself back to the station again. Now, often times when we're working on healing or meditating emotions will come up and they are an integral part of our healing. Not thinking about our emotions or talking about them but actually feeling them. So, when an emotion 'train' arrives it's the same as the thought train, you just let yourself feel it, but you don't need to think about it or analyze it, you just feel it. In that state, you can deeply connect to your inner self and your instincts and be open to deep insights, profound realizations and healing shifts and possibly even find gratitude for your life. Feel It to Heal It When I was doing my yoga teacher training many years ago, we had to sit in meditation and after my previous injuries sitting was the hardest thing on my body, especially sitting upright with nothing supportive behind me. But I knew from my MFR training that going into my pain was the best thing for my healing. So, I sat in mediation with the group and it hurt so bad that tears would stream down my face as I sat silently exploring my pain and feeling it without resistance as best I could. That went on for a few months and then one day while meditating with the class, I had this picture pop into my head of a section of my spine shifting back into place and in that moment the pain stopped abruptly.  I know that sounds crazy but that's how it happened. It was awesome and showed me the power of being present with my pain, not resisting it but instead moving into the pain. In this case I was moving into the pain with my felt senses while holding still. But in MFR unwinding I actually get to move my body into the pain and into body positions that bring up the pain, in order to release it. Myofascial release and myofascial unwinding allow me to take these principals used in meditation to the next level, moving into my pain, fear, anger, sadness and so on but with that presence and connection to my inner self that is necessary to power the healing. Connecting to your body and to your pain is not always fun and easy, but it is always healing and as you clear some of your physical and emotional pain your body and your internal landscape can become a beautiful place to be again.