Pain serves a “good” purpose. For instance, with an injury or surgery, acute pain is warning us to take it easy. Chronic pain; mental, emotional and physical is a loud knocking on our door of awareness that something we are thinking, doing, or “not doing” is out of alignment with our Good!”
For instance, chronic stress happens when you are constantly thinking about “what you don’t want and afraid you are going to get it!” You live in constant fear. You are in constant “fight or flight” mode. Your first response to stress is to hold your breath, which creates even more stress! You come ungrounded, which creates even more stress! You may even have a panic attack as a result of holding your breath and being extremely ungrounded. Your Spirit is saying, “You are worrying yourself to death!” Your Spirit is your breath. Breathe!
Or you may be repeating the same behavior over and over again and getting the same undesirable results. Or, you are stuck in a relationship that is no longer serving either parties. Your Spirit is saying, “It is time to make a change and step outside of your intensely uncomfortable comfort zone”. If you don’t make that change, the knocks will get harder until you do! The knock can be particularly hard when it is time to wake-up to your Divine Purpose and Highest Work. You may have a “cry uncle”, acutely painful moment; or constant chronic knocking…this is “chronic dis-ease”.
If you are never made aware something is out of alignment, you would never make the course corrections that would eventually lead to well-being, joy-filled purpose and freedom. You are not free until you release yourself from the “Prison of your Mind”. The body is just the messenger (more on this subject in Missing link #6).
Once we understand that our body is in service to us, not the other way around we are open to its guidance. Our thoughts, emotions; our body and even life itself are guiding us. If we can stay out of judgment and allow the message and make the necessary corrections, we can heal our body and our life. Love and Gratitude begins to replace anger, resentment and regret as we realize there is “Nothing for Nothing” and Good is at the center of everything, like the sweet cherry wrapped up in bittersweet chocolate! My prayer…
“May you know your Truth, Your Love, Your Light and heal your body and your life!”
All our suffering is a result of amnesia. We have forgotten who we are; our infinite, loving nature as a Child of God; a unique, irreplaceable expression of Love. As we have separated ourselves from Love, we have separated ourselves from our “Primary Healing Force”. We forgot why we came. In a nutshell we came to heal and help others do the same. In this state of amnesia, the gifts wrapped up in our life experiences and the skills we brought with us to support our “Divine Work” have been buried.
The “Nuggets” we have gleaned from our “Hard Knocks” are our gifts. We are not ready to unwrap them until we fully process the hurt they are wrapped in. Until then, you are trapped in the unconscious, emotional baggage left over from all the childhood hurts and resulting self-judgments. The energy of these painful memories is stored in the recesses of the mind and get stuck in the body. When it is time to heal, these unconscious thoughts begin to rise to the surface. What is stuck in the body starts to make itself known. This can happen suddenly or over a long period of time. To allow the energies that no longer serve to move through us and heal (the pain is telling us it is time), we must first…
Face it – Stop denying that something bad happened, even if your inner child buried it.
Feel it – Allow the emotions to be fully felt…maybe for the first time.
Forgive it – Let it go, so it can let you go.
This is the most important life-changing, soul-freeing work you will ever do!
This may sound like a broken record…The work is bringing into the “conscious mind, what is running from behind” where you have a choice. You cannot process and heal what you are not aware of. With every childhood hurt, you have formed an opinion about yourself, the world, God, and others and believed it! The work is seeing the lies you told yourself about yourself and remembering your Truth.
I have a process for this that has worked for me and many (jump to the end of the blog for the instructions):
https://www.foodrevelation.com/getting-to-the-energetic-root-of-dis-ease/
You may also ask yourself as you go through this process what Spiritual Gifts and strengths were honed through your experience. For instance, my experiences made me strong, resilient and independent. As a single mom, these strengths served me well. Sometimes, however, I was a little too independent. It has been hard for me to ask for help. Can you relate? Spiritually, as an example, my Divine Will was strengthened. As you start uncovering the good, gratitude can begin to replace judgment.
“The past changes when you change your mind about it.
How many do you know or maybe you yourself have gotten on the other side of a super hard knock, only to discover it was the best thing that ever happened? I know that is true for me. I would not be doing what I’m doing… enjoying my “Highest Work” without it!
So how did this” Missing Link” show up? While conducting an energy demonstration with dowsing rods in a workshop. I got quite a surprise!
I use dowsing rods to measure the energy of the thoughts of willing participants. I cannot tell specifically what they are thinking, but I can tell if they are thinking a negative or positive thought, by the way the rods respond.
In this workshop I was guided to ask if anyone in the audience wanted to know whether they had completely forgiven something or someone. The dowsing rods clearly revealed forgiveness and unforgiveness by their reaction. They closed with unforgiveness and remained neutral with forgiveness (there was no energy charge to measure). The size of the answer is relevant as well. In this case, a bigger or smaller movement reflected the level of “letting go” you have experienced.
And then something astonishing happened! With one of the women the rods “opened” so wide they hit me in the back! I’m like, “Wow! What the heck was that!” She responded, “I think I know. Not only has it been forgiven, I know what the good was.” She had “unwrapped the gift”. There are 2 levels of forgiveness. The first level is about “letting go” to receive the gift of peace…It’s all about you. The 2nd level is all about others…unwrapping the gifts you will use to help others unwrap theirs.
Another unexpected nugget surfaced in the demo… The energy of our thoughts and emotions are “out there”. They have an energetic charge that can be measured. There are no “private” thoughts. They are feeding the collective. When we realize this, we are more apt to pay attention to the energy of our thoughts and “think better”.
I wrote a poem when I received this Missing Link. You can find it here:
The Gift of Forgiveness
As much as we would like, we cannot go from POINT A (3rd dimensional level of understanding) to POINT C (5th dimensional level). We must process the hurts and traumas on the 3rd dimensional level…the human level. The “human experience” is what we all signed up for. There is no going around it or bypassing it. This is what I call a “Spiritual Bypass”. It never works. The only “shortcut” is to consistently and diligently do the work. Before you know it, you will find yourself with your gifts unwrapped in your lap!
Caveat here: For healing facilitators, which the bulk of you reading this are, sometimes pain also alerts us there is energy lurking that doesn’t belong to us and needs clearing before working with clients. Many of you are gifted empaths and can easily absorb energies from clients. For instance, I get the beginnings of a migraine to let me know I’ve absorbed “low vibrational” energy or to warn me. Healing facilitators must remain clear, grounded and “high vibrational” to do our work. If you are interested, I do share with healers “working protocols” for staying clear, grounded, and protected. Occasionally, we need an upgrade:)
Happy Healing!