Captive – Appropiate name for feeling trapped
I’ve been thinking about healing. Some people believe healing happens to them. Or maybe they are being punished for some perceived slight by their diety. If they get better, they believe either the doctors or the alternative healers cured them or healed them. There is a big missing component for me. It is the person’s own participation in the equation and their place on their own path.
Have you ever considered that there may be a strong spiritual cause for an illness? According to Louise Hays and many other spiritual teachers, there is. I agree with them. Louise Hays has a book called “Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Body”.
This is what I believe. We are all given things to experience in this life and sometimes that involves illnesses or injuries. I believe that we can learn from those experiences. When we learn what we need from the these events in our life, we heal and move on. In some cases, we receive healing frequencies that assist us in reaching a state of health. I believe these frequencies allow our emotional blocks to be removed to help facilitate our healing.
So what is our part in the healing equation? For me, I believe that if we are to learn something from the episode and we get that part, the illness goes away or we heal our injuries faster. And it’s not about how to deal with the illness but there is a component to that as well. Sometimes it’s a matter of accepting what is. In doing that, it can change and go away.
Twice I received injuries that required me to ask for help. I was terrible at asking for help. I saw it as a weakness. The first time I was single and I grudgingly accepted help. I was so uncomfortable relying on others. I didn’t learn my lesson well. I went through it again many years later and in tears, I called a friend to ask for help. And it broke the log jam.
I learned that people love to help because they get far more out of it than the person receiving the help. Yet so many of us just hate to ask for help!
There is more to share but I’ll save it for another blog.
What illnesses or injuries have you had and did you notice any internal growth in your going through the experiences? Did you notice how your attitude affected your healing process?
Illness is a wonderful teacher. The hard part is accepting it as that.
Yes, but at the same time it is so liberating once you grasp it.
I was depressed for a while after my separation from my husband. Internal growth was all I had because I had no money or insurance for medication. Meditation pulled me through and, of course, attitude (emotional altitude) were impacted immediately.
Yes, meditation is greatly underestimated! I myself need to do more of it. Thank you for a very timely reminder!
I absolutely believe there’s an inextricable link between mind and body, and we need both to be in sync for real healing to be possible. My stand out experience with illness/pain lead me to huge internal growth – I had chronic and debilitating neck pain and tension for years until I finally found the Alexander Technique. Through AT I learned about my habits of mind and body which weren’t serving me well, and that I could not change one without the other… My shift in attitude was all important – from one of being the victim to that of empowerment. I learned so much about myself through the process, and continue to do so now that I’m teaching this Technique to others.
That is wonderful! I find it hard to talk to my friend and family members who will try nothing else and will just accept anything the doctors tell them and accept whatever meds are prescribed side effects and all. I’m getting better at just partially listening and accepting it is their path not mine.
Illness forced me to stop the way I was living my life and be active in search for health. There were losses but also gains. I don’t believe all illness is caused by our emotional state, but our emotional state certainly becomes part of the life we then live, whether we learn, whether we grow. We can grow until the minute we die. Sometimes the illness teaches us that we do not control all the elements of what happens in this world; sometimes it teaches us that we are responsible for creating the life we want. Sometimes illness teaches us to ask for and accept help, as you say.
Judy Stone-Goldman
The Reflective Writer
http://www.thereflectivewriter.com
Personal-Professional Balance Through Writing
I don’t have all the answers but it’s not so much the emotional state that brings it on but something that is out of balance in our lives. I think the Universe/God finds a way for us to get the message. Then it’s up to us to make the changes if that’s required.But much is gained and we may find later on the losses aren’t losses, just something we needed to let go of.
I do think attitude can affect the healing process and I don’t believe we bring illness on ourselves. Some injuries, perhaps, but not all. I don’t see how one can bring on an injury that is inflicted by someone else other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yes, there is always something to learn from every experience in our lives and I don’t know that I believe that is necessarily why we have that experience. I remember an injury which put me in the hospital for 3 weeks and it was one of the biggest growing experiences of my life. Many of those lessons are still with me. It was about being open to them. And I wouldn’t wish it on anyone!
Susan Berland
http://susan-berland.com
We don’t bring illnesses on ourselves. But I believe that whatever we experience is needed to make necessary changes that we don’t voluntary make for ourselves for whatever reason. I see them as calling cards or wake up cards from God/Universe to say “This needs attention and you’re ignoring it – so I’m making it a bit more obvious for you.” We don’t wish these things on us. But we may have asked to learn certain lessons in our lives and we just don’t what form they come in. It’s just what I believe. For me it makes sense.