RECLAIMING RITUAL HEALING WITH JI HYANG PADMA
RECLAIMING RITUAL HEALING WITH JI HYANG PADMA
“Hopefully we don’t believe everything we think.” – Ji Hyang Padma
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About the Guest:
Ji Hyang Padma has combined an academic career with her vocation as a spiritual teacher. Ji Hyang served as Director of Spirituality & Education as well as a Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College for fourteen years. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Harvard University, Boston University, Babson College, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute. She currently serves as a chaplain at the University of California at San Francisco.
Topics We Discuss:
The premise of her book is:
to reclaim some of the nourishing resources forgotten as Buddhism crossed from the Eastern to the Western world,
to reclaim the power of ritual healing and reconnect with the roots of mind-body medicine
What healing looks like through the Buddhist lens – the mutuality and interconnected between consciousness and the body – or interaction between the limbic system and the brain
How we use food, technology, and overwork to medicate the dis-ease in the body
Mind-body practices that can help us reset the balance between the mind and body. For example, the practice of receiving the blessing of wellbeing can renew the body, and in turn can be used to echo those blessings out to the world
Somatic re-experiencing work (reference Peter Levine) to heal trauma and PTSD in the body
Personal healing and collective, societal healing are interdependent
All of us are one body on the earth
our sense of wholeness and our well-being depends on compassion, kindness and insight toward others; this enters into the collective field and brings about healing
One universal element is relational empathy: relationship heals
Healing the individual is healing the world
Attachment Theory – The way we have experienced early life relationships affects our relationship to our physical body and all our close relationships (intimate and otherwise). When our early relationships are essentially trustworthy the limbic system and prefrontal cortex have a healthy connection. If our early relationships were dismissive/avoidant, then the information is blocked, body centered awareness does not develop well. Disconnection leads to dysregulation leads to dis-ease.
Ritual is embodied narrative, and our way of making meaning, including: visualization, music dance, rhythm, poetry (reference Daniel Siegal relational neurology, interpersonal neurobiology)
Chogas or rituals
Setting intention
Mindfulness
Creating space
Therapeutic attunement
Evoking sacred power
Changing awareness
Reconnection with the natural world and community
Five elements in healing
Earth – groundedness, centeredness
Water – emotions, confidence
Air – clear mind
Fire – action, assertion
Space
FOLLOW JI HYANG PADMA:
On her website
“Field of Blessings”, a revitalization of healing traditions in Western culture, is available on Amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble and wherever books are sold www.mantra-books.com
