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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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