Healing
“Healing
requires far more of us than just the participation of our
intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it clearly demands
that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our
past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration
of life and transforming into a process of return to life.”
Carolyn
Myss (Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason)
Healing
and curing are not the same thing. We can cure tuberculosis, for
instance, but healing from the experience of feeling smothered, of
having high fevers and low energy may take far longer. Healing
requires that we look at illness, or injury, in a holistic, or whole
life-style, way. Illness, whether slight, or recurring, or major,
leaves us with a residue of fear that affects our confidence and
undermines our ability to navigate life successfully. It's a good
idea to take a look at the underlying patterns the support illness
and health.
Illness
may involve a virus or bacteria, yes, but where that impacts my own
body is the question. Are there repeating patterns of illness—does
it seem that everything that happens affects the same place? Do I get
low back pain, for instance, or upset stomach, or respiratory
difficulties on a regular basis? If so, that indicates an issue with
that area's energy patterns—the chakra system is a good place to
start. Learning which chakra influences that area of the body, and
what is out of sync when problems arise. Using my examples of
recurring patterns, for instance, here is the breakdown of major
issues:
Low
back pain: Power and control of the material world; money, sex and
control of other people. (2nd Chakra)
Upset
stomach: Personal power, fear of intimidation and rejection, lack of
self-esteem and survival intuition. (3rd Chakra)
Respiratory
maladies: All issues concerning love, including creating from the
heart, following your heart's desire, and love of other forms of
life. (4th Chakra)
(The
Creation of Health by Norman Shealy, M.D, Ph.D & Caroline Myss, MA)
We
in the West aren't trained to look at underlying patterns of illness
or injury. We have become reliant on Western Medicine to find
solutions to our physical and emotional problems, and they have been
remarkable successful at curing all manner of disease. But healing is
an inside job. We must find what it is in our particular orientation
to life that is undermining our well-being, and change it. There is
no silver bullet, only a quest for wholeness.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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