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Bild zeigt eine Buddhastatue,die auf einem kleinen Holzregal steht. Daneben ist eine kleine Zeichnung und ein Holzkastenfesnter zu sehen

A guided „deep relaxation“ meditation for queers, cancer warriors and other folks

„We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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Bild zeigt eine Buddhastatue,die auf einem kleinen Holzregal steht. Daneben ist eine kleine Zeichnung und ein Holzkastenfesnter zu sehen

April 13, 2020 //  by lukas//  Leave a Comment

„We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Hi dear readers, liebe Menschen,

Dieser Post entstand auf English. Nütze gerne die Übersetzung rechts in der Side-bar für die deutsche Übersetzung!

Today’s blog post is in English again, after long long times. Yay! I wanted to share with you a guided deep relaxation that I offered in the project: „Corona Connect“ from the Queer body workers Vienna collective. It was my first time recording and offering something like this online and I put lots of my heart into it. So in case you feel like doing it, i hope you relax and enjoy! More background info on this form of meditation rooted in the plum village community, you’ll find below.

Queer Body Workers Vienna is really an amazing initiative with super cool folks offering great workshops around body work, self love, self appreciation, mindfulness and healing. You can check their Facebook Page here: or their website.

Deep relaxation – plum village community and the importance of rest

In this meditation I adapted a practice I got to know in the meditation tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and the “Plum village community”. It is a full body awareness based relaxation technique, that I adapted a bit for people in my queer, body and sexpositive, and activist communities. I wrote more about embodiment practices already in this article some times back.

Similar to a the method of a body scan from MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) we will bring awareness to our different body parts and also the systems, that always operate and work within us, as long as we are alive.

It is also a possibility to invite the energy of gratitude and loving-kindness into our bodies and therefore minds, as body and mind are one and no separate entities. This offer is really an invitation to let go of any “goals” or “efforts” and let yourself be nourished by a person’s voice and guidance. It is an invitation to sooth yourself and rest.

I will integrate some ideas from Thich Nhat Hanh on our nature of interconnectedness or inter being. You are invited to let these ideas wash over you, knowing that the intelligence of your body and mind will pick up on the words or ideas that connect with your inner wisdom about peace, love, compassion and healing.

Practicalities

You will want to lie down on a comfortable surface, with a blanket at hand. There will be no movement or long period of sitting. If you have a nice candle, feel invited to light it.
I decided to do this session in English and not bilingually, as there is quite a bit of talking involved. In case it resonates, I’m happy to offer it a second time in German.

Background information

When I spent time in the Buddhist monastery „plum village“ in the south of France in summer 2016, this deep relaxation was offered as an option after lunch. I remember how much i loved it, because it was really a break in the middle of the day, giving me some needed rest, from the full day of activities and talking to friendly and amazing people. I also feel like it connects me to my inner child, listening to a warm and friendly voice, guiding me through my body and maybe also singing a little song every now and then 😉

I feel very connected to this way of Buddhism, which is part of Buddhist schools called “socially engaged Buddhism”. Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese monk, who developed his mindfulness practice amidst the Vietnam civil war. He developed teachings and techniques in order to support social workers, teachers and others working with highly traumatized communities in a situation of collective trauma. He is/was not only a meditation teacher, but also social activist and was forced into exile because of his efforts of creating peace. Thich Nhat Hanh was in close contact with human rights activists like Martin Luther King and others.

I feel that despite the slowing down and less „doing“ which is my reality right now, that the constant atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty, physical distancing and global struggles affect me quiet a bit and it is not easy to relax and let go of some tension.
I personally connect with this background and think it is helping me to cope in this current situation.

I hope you enjoy the practice and am eager to hear how you found it. Feel invited to let me know!

Resources

plumvillage.org
Monastery in France

www.youtube.com/user/plumvillageonline
Online Monastery with many talks, guided meditations, songs

thichnhathanhfoundation.org
Further recent resources especially for dealing with the current Covid-19 situation

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[ Das Bild ist wieder ein Zitat von Daan van Kampe [ Das Bild ist wieder ein Zitat von Daan van Kampenhout. Darauf steht auf Englisch: "If you feel, that something is deeply lacking in your community, and you are convinced that this something is needed, then it becomes your spiritual task, to help manifest that."] 

I love those quote by a queer Jewish Shaman Dean can Kampenhout. He said that at an introduction meditation during one of my first stretch festivals, a festival for gay, bi/pan, trans* and queer men*, that was very central in my healing path and brought me to Berlin. 

This message empowered me to decide to write my story down as a gay queer-feminist, empath, spiritual  cancer survivor. 

I am also thinking a lot at this moment, how despite all the challenges with surviving cancer, I am simultaneously so privileged as a white, cisgender man and how much my existence is so welcomed and normalised in our global white supremacist system. 

I also read and think a lot about Buddhism, the mindfulness movements and how white they often are. I discover more and more black and brown Buddhist teachers or scholars, and other brown, indigenous, black and some white spiritual people combine and integrate their spirituality in social and healing justice work. 

And I know that this is my way as well. I often think back, how small my world became for several years, surviving this life threatening disease called cancer. And how long it took and still takes me to settle back into the "normal" world, that never was and is normal after all. 

I am so blessed that I regained my strength so that I have more confidence now to engage, make myself heard and contribute something to positive change. 

So yeah. I am curious how and when and in what form my story will manifest in a book. I want to tell a diverse and complex story for queers, survivors and mainstream folk. So let s see where this journey will continue. 

Since I am also struggling with depression since some time I remind myself and you. 

Don't give up! You, your story and contribution matters! We need everybody to fight together for liberation for all. 

Peace 

#cancersurvivorquotes
#testicularcancersurvivors
#shamanicwisdom
#transformation #yourstorymatters
[ The picture shows a screenshot of the social med [ The picture shows a screenshot of the social media app Phow. The titel says "introducing healingwithlukas, there is a picture of my meditating, with overlapping images] 

This is for my English speaking followers especially. I am happy to share here as well that since July I have my first small writing job for a super cool project. 

I write journals on the alternative social media app "Phlow". @phlowzone 

They enable a more mindful approach to social media, where you follow journals instead of people, so all is based on content, rather then a person or brand. They equally don't sell your data, to show you the right advertisements and encapsule you in your bubble. They really want to focus on the content, rather then, who screams the loudest, or buys the most likes and fake friends etc. 

Phlow is a really cool project and I love the philosophy behind it. Check it out, if you are interested! 

There I am writing about my journey in English in short and compact way. My introductory journal is finished, and right now I'm working on the next one, telling the story of how I got diagnosed with stage 3 testicular cancer 5 years ago. 

I am really starting to write and work for my book as well and will launch a patron page soon, where I will share manuscripts and snippets of chapters of my book on a monthly basis. Let's see how that goes. 

Thank you also for the encouraging feedback from many of you. It really motivates me to keep up and follow my insecure path as a writer and soon to be cuddle and touch provider! 

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[ Das Bild ist der Zitathintergrund dieses Profils [ Das Bild ist der Zitathintergrund dieses Profils mit einem gold orangen Buddha Vorhang und einer Klangschale. Das Zitat ist auf Englisch] 

"To be is to interbe
You cannot just be 
By yourself alone 
You have to interbe 
With every other thing." 
- Thich Nhat Hanh - 

Who am I? Am I a cancer survivor? 
Am i a gay cis man? 
Why could I survive?
who or what healed me?
Who is this me? 
Am I my ideas? 
Am i only this body? 

I don't know anything anymore really. And that is great! The beauty of mindfulness and presence is that I learned to see constructs as constructs and see that I am connected to everything there is. 
I interam here because I didn't have to have 500.000€ in my bank account in order to pay for my medical treatment. 
I interam here because nurses and doctors washed their hands and hardworking cleaners kept my isolation chamber clean of germs. 
I interam also here because I was an active patient in the treatmemt and took care of myself the best I could. Meditating, body scanning, stretching, praying, walking daily. 

I interam also with the exploited child, who is forced to dug up precious earth for this smart phone, in which I type letters, forming this post.
I Interam with the factory worker in China, working a 60 hour week. 
I interam with the global neoliberal system,  in which miraculously I was born into the sixth of the global population living in the "first world".
 I interam with my mother who didn't drink alcohol during being pregnant with me, so my brain could develop in a way that I could learn to read write and express myself in several languages. 
I interam with the comfort of sitting in my cosy flat, that I might not have gotten if I was black or my name Turkish or "muslim". 

Everything is spiritual. Oppression also uses our ego, which thrives on separation and the sense and need for being special, different and separate. Oppression needs me to disconnect from others, nature, myself and my body. 
 It is possible to honour individuality and freedom, but remember that we all codepend and interare with other humans, our power- and social structures and this planet. 

#buddhistwisdom #thichnhathanh
#interbeing
#nonduality #empathsofin
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[ Das Bild zeigt den Zitathintergrund mit Klangsch [ Das Bild zeigt den Zitathintergrund mit Klangschale und Vorhang mit Buddhamotiv. Im Textfeld steht: "von und mit den eigenen Werten arbeiten und schreiben."] 

Bei einem Aufenthalt in einem indischen Ashram habe ich einen Mensch kennengelernt, der mir erzählte, dass er irgendwann begonnen hat seine Werte aufzuschreiben.

Er hat dann beschlossen künftig nur mehr für Menschen, Projekte und Jobs zu arbeiten, die er mit seinen Werten in Einklang bringen kann. Oder zumindest zu merken, dass es wo hapert und dann zu versuchen, etwas zu tun, damit ein Einklang oder eine Annäherung passieten kann. 

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Das finde ich sehr spannende Fragen, und vorallem meine Krebserfahrung hat meine Werte nochmal ordentlich verschoben und um Achtsamkeit, Embodiment und buddhistische Philosophie erweitert. 

Was sind deine Werte? Für dich und im Arbeitskontext? 

#werte #wertewandel #antikapitalismus #innereressourcen #moralphilosophy #moralphilosopher #spiritualqueers #spiritualitätimalltag #spirituellewerte #changeyourselfchangetheworld #valuesmatter #corevalues
[ das Bild zeigt einen screenshot eines Blogartike [ das Bild zeigt einen screenshot eines Blogartikels. Der Titel ist: Gedanken darüber eine Geschichte zu erzählen. ] 

Den Beitrag gibt es zu sehen auf www.healingwithlukas.com -> about -> Gedanken darüber eine Geschichte zu erzählen 

#chimanandangoziadichie #storytelling #cancerblogger #cancersurvivorquotes #krebsblogger #geschichtenerzählen #writerslife #schreibenschreibenschreiben #bloggen #storiesmatter #diversegeschichten #gayblogger #gayspirituality #gayspiritualwarrior
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