“Vibrant health is found in every moment that we embrace the truth of our soul.”
~ LJC
Good Morning!
Before heading into the new frontiers of healing, I’d like to look at an area of healing in which we have made great strides. It’s tough personal work that brings us to the doorway of new potentials in healing. In this exploration, I invite you to reflect on how very far you have come. Before entering a new era, it is good to understand what you have left behind and to claim the “golden fleece” you have earned as gifts and tools for quantum leaps to come.
Breaking Free
We relate to our bodies as babies, children, then teens, adults, and so on until they grow old and die. Throughout this process, of course, the body is always new, continuously regenerating. Our body is a generative source responsive to our every thought, awaiting only our consciousness to begin to partner with us in creating abundant health. Being conscious, we are utterly capable of dreaming the body to have health in every moment, but this is predicated on gaining some mastery of our thoughts.
When our thoughts are a constant babble — when they are filled with guilt, fear, worry, judgment — they can create wave patterns that erode physical health. Worry, for instance, is one of the most egregious losses of energy. It takes a situation that is merely an invitation to be creative and funnels it into repetitious, monomaniacal, fear-based thinking. Again and again we traverse the loop of the same defeating thoughts, unable to break the chain of worry about what our boyfriend thinks, the actions of coworkers, or whether we are safe in a given situation.
Such thoughts collide with our wisdom and intuition, our moments of clarity and certainty, and our desire to change and grow. The resulting conflict creates a misfiring in our central nervous system that causes erratic mental activity. This erratic activity is not rhythmic or coherent. It does not allow the body to rest in the simple knowledge that we are on track, on purpose, that our life is unfolding as it should and it will continue to do so. It prevents us from knowing that everything is presented for our edification; not as a test or punishment, but for our growth.
To dream abundance, to have ease rather than arduousness requires putting our thoughts in order. Cleaning house in this way occurs through purposeful engagement in activities that assist the thoughts to become more organized. Aids such as meditation, prayer, physical exercise, and journal writing help bring a sense of prioritization and organization. Without this order, the mind tends to go over the same ground again and again with the same fearful or limited thoughts. This creates a tremendous drain of energy and vitality.
As we well know, it can be difficult to interrupt these obsessive thoughts. When I was first trying to increase my ability to discipline my mind, I found the habit so deeply ingrained that it seemed hopeless. It was at the end of a relationship; my mind replayed over and over painful scenes with my boyfriend and fears about the future. It was so compelling that I could not remember anything else to think about when I asked myself to.
To remedy this, I made flash cards for myself. On them I wrote several thoughts it would be beneficial for me to concentrate on. They included dreams that were neglected in my thoughts — my new business, a more satisfactory living situation, my love of music, and so on. I referred to them again and again.
My life began to change in positive ways as I patiently but insistently gave my obsessive thoughts only specific, deeply productive time while I allotted the remainder of my thoughts to the dreams and needs of the present. This did not happen over night and, truthfully, in a way it’s never ending as we continue to live in the mind field of combined human experience.
Organizing and disciplining our mental processes clears away the clamor and allows us to hear the voices of our greater inner knowledge. During my time in the forest cabin, I helped achieve this by creating visualizations that in turn established consistent communication with my body about health. Because I sometimes had difficulty with this, I made tapes of my own voice reciting poetry, meditations, and singing; I played them throughout the day.
I discovered that the body loves to be sung to. Our voice is unique in its ability to access our healthy blueprint, so I sang a great deal. I made every effort to change fearful emotional and mental patterns. I created ceremonies that facilitated change and celebrated growth, reminding myself that I was safe and whole. All this served to create a quiet, disciplined thought pattern that gave me better access to my soul’s guidance.
As I said though, it’s on-going work, because the westernized world has what might be termed a “feverish mind.” Certain indigenous cultures think of us as the race with a defect of mind. I tend to think of it, jokingly, as my “mental illness.” It pops up from time to time when I catch myself obsessing on something, or making up a whole fearful story about someone only to find it has zero basis in fact. “There’s my mental illness acting up again,” I often say with good humor. It puts it in perspective.
This work in healing our mental aspect is work most of us have long been committed to and is an important one to continue with excitement instead of discouragement. We’ve come a long way. It is no small thing. I think we can view it as personal work important to the transformation of our species.
Our “mental illness” has separated us from the truth of who we really are and what we are capable of. It has been, and continues to be, destructive to life here on planet earth and to the earth itself. It’s a good thing we are waking up to this by the millions and refusing to mindlessly keep drinking the cool-aid of un-evolved thoughts and beliefs that constitute a kind of mass “mental illness.”
We’re all breaking out our looney bin of institutionalized thoughts we have been trained to. Good work I say, and kudos to you for your long continuing efforts in this great service toward healthy mind for humans. It’s wonderful to share this interest with you.
Much love,
Ma HuLiLi
Note: This article is, in part, an excerpt from my book, The Architecture of All Abundance.
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