“Re-mission”, to re-find or
become reconnected with your mission or purpose. In other words, disease can diminish when you
reconnect with a deeper meaning or purpose in your life. Remission has another, lesser-known meaning,
which is forgiveness.
Healing comes when you make the choice to work with your
vulnerabilities, to open to the challenge of change. It is recognizing that the illness itself is
the way the body is dealing with underlying imbalances or traumatized energies,
and it is the resolution of those imbalances.
Your body is like a walking autobiography.
Trauma
does not necessarily equal illness, but unexpressed fears and anxieties
surrounding trauma can lead to physical problems. Obviously, you cannot avoid crisis. What you can do is become more conscious of
your feelings, acknowledging and releasing them as they arise or as soon as
possible afterward, rather than repressing or denying them.
Your body
is actually a source of great wisdom. By
listening and paying attention to it you have a chance to contribute to your
own health, to participate with your body in coming back to a state of
wholeness and balance. So, rather than
blaming yourself by saying “why did I choose to have this illness?” you can
ask, “how am I choosing to grow with this illness?” You can use whatever difficulties you have in
order to learn and grown, to release old patterns of negativity, to deepen
compassion, forgiveness, and insight.
Your
state of health shows how you have been thinking: the seeds take root and begin to influence
and shape the cell structures of your physical body.
Exploring
your own hidden agenda is not easy for the simple reason that it is hidden. It
means being very honest about how you feel being ill and the way it is
affecting your life.
A symptom is never an isolated event.
You will
probably notice how much you avoid yourself, particularly your weak areas, or
how often you want to change the subject, start fidgeting, remember something
that needs to be done, or suddenly get very tired; how easily you fill your
days with things to do so there are no empty spaces.
[Symptoms]
are like messengers from the unconscious.
Healing
comes when you make the choice to work with your vulnerabilities, to open to
the challenge of change. It is
recognizing that the illness itself is the way they body is dealing with
underlying imbalances or traumatized energies, and it is the resolution of
those imbalances.
The
limbic system is the emotional center of the brain. The limbic system includes the hypothalamus,
a small gland that transforms emotions into physical responses. It also controls appetite, blood-sugar
levels, body temperature, and the automatic functioning of the heart, lungs and
digestive and circulatory systems. It is
like a pharmacy, releasing the neuropeptides necessary to maintain a balanced
system.
In the
limbic system sits the amygdala, a brain structure that is connected to fear
and pleasure, and the pineal gland, which monitors the hormone system and
releases powerful endorphins that not only act as painkillers but also as
anti-depressants. This indicates the
intimate relationship between the mind, the endocrine systems, and the nervous
system – the connection between how you feel and how you behave, between your
emotions and your physical state.
You
are in charge of your own attitudes and feelings, of the way you treat yourself
and your world, but you cannot determine the outcome of every
circumstance. You do not create your own
reality so much as you are responsible to your reality. You cannot direct the wind, but you can
adjust your sails. You are responsible
for developing peace of mind, but you may still need to have chemotherapy. The resolution and healing of your inner
being is within your control, and this may also bring a cure to the physical
body. But if it does not, it is vital to
remember that you are not guilty and you are not a failure.
The
symptom is like a doorway into yourself.
