Well, I’ve spent the last hour searching the web for a topic that would fuel me to write something interesting.
I’ve found absolutely nothing of interest..I cannot remember the last time I watched the news or kept up with anything politically oriented. This is due to the fact that I find all of that mostly negative and choose not to include it in my daily life.
What I can say I’ve done recently, which does get me up on my soapbox, is watch a wonderful movie called The Shift, with Dr. Wayne Dyer, a film about finding the meaning in our own lives.
In the last few years, I’ve begun a shift of my own. The book, The Power of Intention, was a catalyst for me. My first experience in the thought that science and spirituality might actually be speaking the same language. Not to mention the idea that I might actually be in charge of my own thoughts that determine my life and that the weird feeling I had in my hands when I do bodywork could actually be defined as energy.
Its been a few years since I read that book. I’ve spent that time learning, reviewing and and becoming a new person. I like to think a better person. Not for the sake of others, but for my own.
Our brains are amazing pieces of equipment, our bodies, a mirror to what’s going on in our thoughts. We think thousands of thoughts each day…have you ever stopped to pay attention to what your’s are?
I’ve been listening to three very interesting programs: Speaking the Lost Language of God by Gregg Braden, The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, PhD and The Virus of Mind by Richard Brodie. As is my usual nature, I google these authors and go directly to the ‘quack’ websites to see what has been said. I have to say that I have been somewhat ammused by the most common responses to quantum physics and the cutting edge of science.
To digress for a moment, I’ve been a bodyworker for several years now, and in the beginning, I wondered about the similiar pains in people. How they didn’t understand why or how it got there and why they always seem to show up in the same places. Then my aunt, who had colon cancer, made a curious statement. One I had thought to myself, but never heard out loud, much less researched.
“I can tell you this, Heather, I will NEVER hold things in again. I fully believe that I had colon cancer because I’ve been afraid my whole life to tell people what I really think.”
Hmmm. Well, welcome to the word of Caroline Myss and Louise Hay. Our emotions are reflected in our bodies. Further validation came for me when a client came back for a session from about a year break. I had been seeing her about 3 years, she was quiet, polite, classy and just plain nice. I never heard a negative word out of her mouth about her family. In fact, she was complimentary of her husband, son, daughter-in-law and of course, grandson. She suddenly stopped coming in, but having lived about 35 miles away, I attributed it to the distance and change in job. I have to mention at this point, that from my bodyworker’s viewpoint, it seemed odd to me that for someone who seemed to have it all, her body showed a different story. The underlying tissue in her back was rigid and the shoulders seemed ‘heavy’. Again, I placed this directly on the blame of a stressful job. She never talked much, so I didn’t have a complete story….her story.
About a year later, she called for an appointment. During her session, suddenly talkative, she shared that she and her husband had been going to counseling and that she had learned to use a catch-phrase, “ouch”. Her counselor had recommended it so that her husband would know when he said hurtful things to her and this allowed her to express it without anger.
I was amazed. I felt like I had just known that something else was going on with her, but didn’t know what! Here it was, validation that the emotional body shows up in the physical body.
Let me say, that I have spent the last few years learning to redirect my own thoughts. Some areas work, others don’t. My perspective though, is that if it doesn’t work, I must not know the totallity of what I am trying to do.
I say this in response to so many things I have read regarding the mumbo-jumbo of new science and or spirituality. So many people who believe that if they simply wish for things, they will show up. Or friends and family who are angry because their friend, parent, aunt died of cancer because they believed that holistic medicine would save them.
We used to believe the the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth too.
No, changing our beliefs is not a simple process. Discovering why we are here is not always an easy path. Healing ourselves is not just like peeling away the layers of an onion…peel a layer, cry a little and chunk the parts you don’t want.
Reinventing yourself is a time-consuming, life altering path. One that does not stop. We aren’t here on a wing and a prayer, however, I do love the thought that instead of being a physical being who has the occasional spiritual experience, is it possible that we are spiritual beings having a human experience?
Before you argue, pause and ask yourself, Is it possible?
We don’t have all the answers. Christianity is about 2000 years old and science is about 400 years old. Prior to science, we had philosophers. Ideas that had no proof. Often we look to the medical world to tell us exactly what is, because it is based on scientific fact. Interestingly enough, however, science turns itself over again and again. So our factual authorities, ie. doctors, are amazed when a patient miraculously heals faster or even cures themselves, on the power of prayer.
Where will this lead us? What if we open and allow ourselves to look at new ways of thinking? What if we accept the idea that we may have been wrong before, or that we knew a little bit about something but we didn’t know all of it?
The journey continues….
