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 

Matthew Meinck was the only person who could reach me

Shut down, powerless, hiding form myself, hiding from everyone, there wasn't enough of me present to engage in life. I felt withdrawn, like looking out of a window watching everything going on around me but I felt stuck, disconnected.

Unable to express the agony and confusion of what it felt like to be me but couldn't understand why I felt so horrible and shut down.

Matthew Meinck, was the only person who could reach me, hiding inside too afraid to be seen or heard. Through our interactions, this terrified part began to feel safe to express like never before.

With his unique understanding, no textbook jargon, just gutsy real interaction with true sensitivity , I could feel the truth being uncovered from this hidden me.

Being sexually abused as a small child, the trauma is unbearable, no words, no concept of what it means, but the sense of it remains in the body, locked in. The pattern is set, the abuse continued throughout my life. This part of me was hidden, a secret life, born of this kind of pain.

Coming back to life has been painful, facing up to the trauma, the horrible feelings and disease in me.

Matthew goes so far beyond the limited concept we have been taught to believe is “healing” in the medical world. I avoided surgery having healed a condition called “endometriosis” which  debilitated me for most of my adult life, by taking real care of myself, healing naturally!

If Matthew had not been so brutally cut down by the lies and media propaganda, a hell of a lot more people could have had the opportunity to truly heal, as I am.

post submitted by Debra   

Thanks to Matthew (Meinck) life is now simple, clear and straight forward.

Getting to the bottom of people pleasing.

 Before meeting Matthew (Meinck) i never had any testicles, or 'balls' as they say.

I was completely gutless.

My life was pathetic and miserable.

I was a people pleaser.

I couldn't think for myself, well feel for myself really.

I was so out of touch with any feelings, sensations or disturbances in my body.

I had no idea that those were the things, the tools, the truth to which each person's life is guided.

I ruled my life around my thinking, thinking about, and working out what was right and wrong, what was right and wrong for the other person.

I did not know that right and wrong is only determined by the pure sensations in the body, resulting in a thought.

Not thinking about something, that creates a false emotional feeling.

I can clearly feel the difference very distinctly now.

Back then i was driven by what another wanted, to the extent that i wouldn't have any awareness of myself, or what was correct for me.

When another person acted or spoke, i didn't notice at the time, but my own self disappeared, somehow i couldn't see myself.

But of course then i wasn't looking, but i can see that now.

Thanks to Matthew (Meinck all this and more has been unravelled and corrected itself.

I had been sexually abused often as a child, but had blocked it out as i wasn't relevant, i didn't count. I was only there for others.

Thanks to Matthew i have be able to see all of this and get to the cause very simply.

Because of seeing this, as well as going through the process of it, my life has changed as a result.

Thanks to Matthew (Meinck life is now simple, clear and straight forward.

I am able to respond to the truth in my body, rather than detaching and painfully, uselessly, trying to work it out in my head.

Life flows more and i am now not left with a feeling of dread from going against the flow.

It turns out better for others too!

Thank you Matthew.

post submitted by Trent

This is a very practical healing Matthew (Meinck) has to offer

Areas of Comfort Exposed

I recently met with Matthew (Meinck) before returning to full time work.

Working physically hard in harsh climatic conditions has stirred up unrelated task thinking of getting ‘off the job’, and thus dividing from the direct physical experience.  This is quite the opposite of really being involved with what is going on and it is not working safely. 

It feels like involvement is everything. It takes unnecessary pressure off me and others.

For sure Matthew’s services of a truly professional Health Care Consultant,  and good friend is the only way I have been able to push my boundaries of limitation and go beyond limiting behaviour by  sensing the impact of them and therefore understanding them. This keeps me safe.

This is a very practical healing Matthew has to offer from his services.

post submitted by Si.  

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