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Reflections








        The experience of surrender



        Veronik Menanteau


        Abstract
        Faced by total physical breakdown caused by a cerebral oedema while in India, the author merely observed the body’s
        responses and surrendered everything to the Highest Power. Many lessons were learnt by this afflction. The entire
        episode has inspired her also to share her experience with others in the realms of body consciousness and Yoga Nidra.





        “I am not a scholar                      decided to share my own experience with you
        I am a creative force in Action, that is all.  for the sole reason of providing and infusing a
        All depends on the Lord’s Will.          life-transforming experience into Her words.
        If such is his will,
        when I have to know, I know,             It is the harmony between knowing, loving, and
        when I have to fight, I fight,           fighting that creates the perfect balance of health.
        when I have to love I love,              But how can we know, love, and fight unless we
        and always there is the need to love, to know  are living and being in the constant experience
        and to fight (1).”                       of them? The true knowledge of our self means
                                                 accepting accidents or disease and then being
        “Through each individual’s formation the physical  able to discover what this unbalance in the being
        substance progresses, and one day this substance  means in order to cure it and to bring back our
        will be capable of establishing a bridge between  harmony. It takes many lessons to touch this
        the physical life such as we know it and the  insincerity lying in the subconscient. So how do
        supramental life that will manifest (2).”  we decipher the message?


        Each of us has a unique and specific experience  Let me take you on a journey! A few years
        to live and to manifest regarding our inner  ago, as a visual artist, I created a non-profit
        approach to health. It is this sort of personal  organisation that provided an art therapy
        experience that I would like to share with you  programme for orphans with PTSD (post-
        here. Still, the above prayer of the Mother  traumatic stress disorder). One evening, as
        expresses for me the full quintessence of health  I was working on a post-Tsunami mission in
        and it contains everything in it. Even so, I have  Kodakkarai, I found myself in a very unusual


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