I met Matthew May 2015 and my life has continuously been improved from the first time I worked with him. I struggled with depression, eating disorder, sleeping -and digestion issues.

To be frankly, I had no purpose to go on with my life. I barely couldn’t digest the simplest food and my sleeping issues affect me in my everyday life. Even Chinese medicine couldn´t help me. I´ve tried 3 x vipassana and it never felt like a long-term solution, and after a couple of months you go back to the same issues again.

I met him on meditation day and it was the first time I felt like someone was actually listening and understanding my struggle/ issues I had. Never, ever felt this before and it was a realization that I am not alone.

Matthew is the purest, honest and clearest person you ever will come in contact with. Through his unique sensitivity, deeply rooted sense of himself and clear vision approach - he is able to understand the human body and can help everyone to get through their own pain/issues/struggles with his unique approach and simple communication skills.

Matthew helped me to unfold my own sense of myself and uncover all the protective thinking/thought processes which will block you from the true sense of yourself. As soon as you think you´re disconnecting yourself from the real sensation from yourself.

If I look back, my eating disorder has been healed, my sleep issues have improved by 75 % and I´m enjoying living. To be frankly, I never can pay enough money for the improvement in my life of his work.

My first retreat in 2015 was living changing experience:

English isn´t my mother language and my skills have been enough for attending 7 days on silent retreat, and in the end, I stayed 14 days.

People might say the language skills would be a barrier but it was the best thing ever to happen to me. After the first day I was thinking all the time, and I can´t translate every word in my head because that means I won´t listen to what he is expressing. I suffered on this day with a massive headache and I have never experienced this before.

I trooped all this thinking and purely listening with my body sensation because I had no other choice. LIFE CHANGING. On the second day of the retreat, I had a massive breakthrough about why I was suffering with life, and where some thoughts come from.

Purely, my body was communicating to me. I learned through this experience my body cells are holding memories, which I forgot about and I use thinking/thoughts as protective magnismen. This was the most fulfilling and nourishing experience since this day.

 

His approach is so unique and simple that everyone is able to discover this for themselves, if you let Matthew support you through your own struggles, and unfold your enemies.

Katja

Thanks to Matthew Meinck : My digestion, skin texture, muscle tone and general fitness have all improved dramatically.... I felt at odds with my body for about forty years before I came to this understanding.

7/1/15

I know for most people obtaining good health is pretty obvious, eat well, rest, drink water, exercise, meditate they are all just ways of responding to the body’s needs but for the best part of my life I somehow managed to overlook these things and the profound impact that they can have. I had the desire to have optimum health but I just couldn’t follow through, I thought it was a matter of will and that I just had to try harder.

I had limited sensitivity to my subtle and not so subtle physical states but over time that changed.

The sensitivity I have now has been born out of having daily contact with myself (the body) in meditation. So really weather I like it or not I can feel exactly what is going on in the body and the response is often quite intuitive and automatic with very little thought involved.

My digestion, skin texture, muscle tone and general fitness have all improved dramatically.

I wanted to share this because I felt at odds with my body for about forty years before I came to this understanding. The understanding didn’t come from the place that I thought it would. I wasn’t meditating in order to understand my physical health in this way. In my ignorance I thought that meditation would just help me think clearly about my health and that would help me carry out a plan and that plan would probably be devised by another person (health practitioner).

If someone told me that meditating would improve my digestion I would just think oh yeh that would be nice and think that any result that might occur would be a subtle one. How wrong could I have been, my digestive system is me and I can’t not know what is going on with it.

It is a marvel to me every day that from the moment I get up in the morning to the moment I fall asleep at night I am intuitively responding to all that my body needs. It’s just what a living thing does when there is no interference.

It is no small gift that I have been given and one that no other person will ever know the full depth of what I am expressing because I am the only one that can feel it. Words just don’t cut it.

It would be nice to think though that for anyone who reads this and is in need of healing that the part of them that desires healing like I did will hear what I have expressed and it will spark a new interest in them to follow their own way to health.

It is not something that you can give to someone but the people who nurtured that spark in me are Kate and Matthew Meinck. Likewise it isn’t something I can give to them in return nor do they need it as they have their own intelligence but I do hope that it will shine a light on the nature and intent of the people that I call my friends.

post submitted by Alison 

Post retreat with Matthew Meinck 2014

Bodily intelligence is superior.  Thought can only comment on what the body knows and or interfere with it. Thought is slow and stupid. The body records, responds in real time.  It is just the responding or recording of vibration and that vibration cannot be incorrect.

If you touch your hand to a flame you will feel it. Thought on the other hand can convince you that you cannot feel the flame. It is bizarre that we want to trust thought.

The body knows vast things that thinking has no hope of comprehending it will only get in the way of that vastness.  

We don’t need to be told what to eat or how to eat or when to eat. But how many of us are truly in touch with that ability. And how much suffering does this cause. 

From time to time I find I am in touch with these nutritional needs in me and indeed I can be in touch with someone else's and there is no thought involved, thought can’t do that. 

It is like following a smell. Like smelling a rose in a large unfamiliar garden and you can’t see it but smell leads you until you find the plant.  In the same way you feel out the ingredients of what is needed for that meal for that person for example.

These things didn’t come about because I decided I wanted to work it out they come about because I was interested or had the feeling to want to nurture myself or others.

In the same way you turn at the last minute just before you trip over something you can't see, your body knows that something is there if we are interested and quiet enough to listen. If you are distracted you fall over and it is the same with all of life.

This is what I am discovering for myself from sitting quietly with my pain on retreat and felt like I wanted to share.  

post submitted by Anonymous

I have just returned from a two week meditation retreat with Matthew Meinck

'I have just returned from a two week meditation retreat with Matthew Meinck.
I am in my thirteenth year of going on retreats.
The clarity and understanding that Matthew has, has evolved incredibly over that time.
His insight and sensitivity is spot on each and every time.
With new people, Matthew gets straight to the cause of their complaint, unlike counselling which in my experience hangs on to the problem.
For me, through his hard work I have nearly resolved the last of my issues ingrained in me from childhood.
I am now able to fully live life from the strength of the person I really am.
I will continue to go on retreats to maintain my own clarity and understanding of myself and life around me.
Thank you once again, and a million times over Matthew'

Post submitted by Sara

         

If you are willing to put the work in and face your pain, I'd recommend Matthew (Meinck) any time, to any one. So, thank you Matthew for helping me.

8th Jan 2013

I write this letter in support of Matthew Meinck. Matthew’s approach to healing is unique, unlike any other I have experienced.

I first sought his help for chronic back pain a year ago. 12 years prior I had been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a debilitating and long-term condition that involves chronic inflammation of the joints between the spinal bones, and the joints between the spine and pelvis. For the last three years I was prescribed on a daily bases anti-inflammatories and fortnightly injections of TNF-blocking medications, none of which seemed to have much effect. Prior to taking the prescription drugs I had sought continually the help of doctors, physio-therapists, chiropractors, naturopaths, an osteopath and anybody and anything else I could think of – all to no avail. Life was painful.

When I first met Matthew, he gave me a massage, linking different tensions in my body to certain experiences I had had in my life. The extraordinary thing about this was, he was correct. Matthew suggested that by releasing the tension in the body, the physical/emotional pain would eventually heal itself. Matthew then encouraged me to discontinue with the prescription medication and instead to seek the help of his friend, a natural therapist. I have now made significant changes to my diet, attended several meditation retreats and continue to see Matthew for support. His approach is unique in that he encourages you to face your pain, to feel whatever it is inside. He has a rare ability to help draw out the pain, helping to release the tension in the muscles and cells, allowing the body to heal itself naturally, without any medical intervention whatsoever. 

The meditation retreats are silent retreats. Here you learn to take on the responsibility of healing yourself. Matthew suggests that the source of all human confusion and unhappiness is a displaced sense of ourselves, that the mind is seen as an entity separate from the human body. Most of the day is spent in silent meditation, feeling whatever it feels to be oneself. This in turn allows for gradual re-integration of body and mind. As a newcomer to this approach, I can’t say it was easy. It was challenging and sometimes outright confronting, feeling the continuous pain that was me, especially as in the past I had done everything in my power to avoid the pain. However, the healing effects of the meditation were enormous. It would be an exaggeration to say that I am now healed, but 12 months on, I am able to live life without drugs and am physically/mentally active. If you are willing to put the work in and face your pain, I'd recommend Matthew any time, to any one. So, thank you Matthew for helping me. 

post submitted by anonymous

Matthews integrity and unwavering support for people who wanted to find the truth within themselves.

20th Sept 2013

Just wanted to share a glimpse of what I have experienced and understood on retreats run by Matthew Meinck.

The apparent simplicity of the process which Matthew has developed and evolved through over 30 years of running meditation retreats, has revealed to me an understanding of myself I was grossly unaware of.

I have sat on many retreats over the past 12 years and each one is so unique, giving me a fundamental understanding of how to deal with what is happening within me and in my life.

Matthew's knowing of how necessary it is for us as human beings to just sit still and allow ourselves to feel the immediate sense of our being, as we are in the moment without trying to create a better, calmer, happier or whatever modification we might think is a more desirable state to be in, is from wholeness because the understanding comes directly from the natural intelligence of the body.

You might think, that's easy I can do that myself! Well, that may be true as a physical act of just sitting, but it's the profound and subtle way in which Matthew explains what is actually happening within the body and the nature of thought (our habitual thinking) that is vital to being able to stay still and allow the state, whether it be distress, pain, numbness, calmness etc to just be as it is, long enough to see what is really trying to show itself.

So without understanding how our thinking operates and what is required to be able to stay with what is going on for me, I can so easily convince myself it's too hard, painful or force myself to keep still.
What's happening in that moment is I may be caught up in my thoughts, being reactive to the state I'm in, but at the same time still being able to keep sitting still. There is no right or wrong here, it's just the process of discovering what is happening in the nature of thought.

Believe me it is by no means easy to keep still when the urge is so strong to move away from what it feels to be in that state.

But as Matthew keeps explaining,  the body will not and cannot harm itself just being in this stillness. Although the thoughts arising will seem extremely convincing that it will, in an attempt to avoid what is being felt. I have not seen anyone harmed, in fact the opposite is true.

It is a monumental flaw in the human being that we give THOUGHT and all its structures and institutions we have built from it ie. religion, science, technology and any belief system so much of importance, only to avoid the only real sense of ourselves in being the living organism directly experiencing the moment and responding, is all that is required to function naturally.

We have such a habitual tendency to describe everything we see, hear, touch etc that we lose the direct contact with it, just as it is.

It is so vast, to relate what is experienced while sitting still in this way and being guided and challenged by Matthew to get the thinking out of the foreground, which usually consumes our attention, but keep bringing it back to the sensations in the body as it is.

There is so much more to be said for what this process has brought to light in my life and the many lives I have seen transformed, by Matthews integrity and unwavering support for people who wanted to find the truth within themselves.


post submitted by M.S

Matthew (Meinck) has been instrumental in getting me to see for myself that it is my responsibility alone to take care of myself and see that my actions have consequences.

31st March 2013

Matthew (Meinck) has been instrumental in getting me to see for myself that it is my responsibility alone to take care of myself and see that my actions have consequences.

This is no small thing and no one else in the medical field or health care profession have ever had the sensitivity and professional approach to get me to see.

Matthew offers the most effective cutting edge services in the healing and well being industry today, by far.

With his counselling  it is up to the individual how far they can go to the depths of their own unique potential. Matthew has never pressured me but on the contrary has gently encouraged me.
I consider myself fortunate that I participated and received so much in the last WA retreat.

Now by doing daily meditation and keeping my life as simple as possible I once again naturally smile and laugh at times.

I  urge others whom are genuinely interested in truly healing their lives or those whom have already benefitted from Matthew’s services to come forward and express their support for Matthew.

post submitted by Simon

Matthew Meinck Deserves to be Recognised

18/01/2012

“This is a letter of support for Matthew Meinck.
Matthew Meinck deserves to be recognised for the remarkable work he does.

I have been a client of Matthew Meinck for several years. Receiving from him massage and counseling and have attended many meditation retreats run by him.

I have had truly amazing results through working with him, in areas of my life where conventional therapies have failed.

I sought his services for the clinical depression that I had suffered from for approximately 13 years. My depression had resulted in years of medication, recurring unemployment and failed/interrupted studies. It was completely debilitating for much of my life.

After my very first session with Matthew depression was no longer an issue for me. His understanding of my condition was absolutely unique, and has allowed me to finally heal my life. He has been untiringly supportive of me throughout my healing process. He has also helped me get to a stage where I am able to really care for myself, so I am not dependent on therapy with him or anyone else.” 

post submitted by Stormie Lillis

excerpt from letter - some of the letters on this blog were originally used for another purpose, with the individual authors permission references irrelevant to this blog have been removed and in some cases the posts made anonymous, what remains is the guts of their experience of Matthew Meinck.