As a time of newness enters your life, as you change little by little, don’t forget to give thanks for all the lessons that life has taught you, for all the pushes and kicks you have received, as well as for all the beautiful things that have happened to you. Your challenges are there to lead you forward and the nice things that happen to you are showing you that you are on the right path. When you solve one issue in the right way and are rewarded with something that is pleasant, it is a gift from the Universe that deserves gratitude in return. Don’t you think so?
Remember the positivity lessons we have been teaching this week, to think positive thoughts, speak positive words, act in positive ways? Continue that good work so that it becomes second nature, so that the old negative thoughts, words and actions are no longer part of your inner vocabulary, so that everything you do is pleasantly tinged with a positive glow. In the presence of such a positive glow others will be affected and before long the only people around you will be equally glowing and positive.
Embrace a new way of life every day by reminding yourself that you are going to be positive today. Begin by being positive to yourself. Say something kind and loving to yourself as you begin your day, and then keep that positivity going so that others feel it emanating from you. You will become more attractive to others in this way and they will want to be around you. They will be drawn to you, wanting to know what your secret is. It’s all within.
When the world seems out of step with heart-centered goodness, remind yourself to turn inward to your own heart, and rather than bemoan what is happening in the world, blaming and shaming the leaders who just can’t get it right, set about righting the wrongs within the self, shifting into a mode of loving kindness for all beings, finding the compassion and love that you have within you and bringing it forth into your own world in everything you do, with every person you meet, and in every interaction, activity and project you embark on. Do everything with a positive attitude, a joyful smile, and a kind word, and you will, one person, change the world in the best way possible.
A day with nothing required to do, hence the beginning of a creative cycle. I decide to tackle splitting some wood that has been waiting.
I drive my pickup truck to the pile of logs. The first thing I notice when I open the door is that there is no annoying buzzing, which always happens when I leave the key in the ignition and open the door.
I’m dumbfounded! Fourteen years with this truck and this has never happened before. Several times I reinsert the key, open and close the door, and the same anomaly repeats—no noise!
Little did I realize that this key event was prompting me to become lucid, as I was being ushered into a journey of non-ordinary reality. I next grabbed my maul, walked over to, and stared at, the wood to be split. Suddenly, my back, at the level of the sacrum, seized, as if struck by a giant weight! The pain was excruciating and I was afraid to move.
My mind knew that I had done absolutely nothing to cause this experience, but the excruciating pain I was gripped by sure was physically real! I immediately turned to my trusty first-aid mantra to my subconscious mind and incessantly repeated, “My back is healing, my back is healed.”
Nothing doing, nothing changed. I lumbered to the truck and drove back to the house, recounting the experience to Jan. When I went to demonstrate the magical key in the truck ignition, the magic was gone; the annoying buzzing returned, along with my aching back.
I questioned the obvious psychosomatic possibility that my body was just telling my mind that it wasn’t up to the splitting task I’d assigned it. The truth is, however, that my body had been in terrific shape and I was not pushing it beyond its energetic capability.
I considered a number of physical remedies but came to the very clear realization that this was not a physical problem, as had been clearly shown to me. I did absolutely nothing to cause the physical ailment, however real the physical symptoms were. I chose to meet the spirit behind the symptoms head on, on spirit terms.
So many times over the years, clients have had acute, powerful physical symptoms that have warranted a trip to the ER. On some occasions this resulted in a much needed physical treatment, however, in many cases the final diagnosis was a panic attack.
We came to discover that, often, the precursor to recovering a new memory during the process of traumatic recapitulation is, in fact, panic—a natural defense that warns of the coming intrusion into consciousness of disturbing material, often associated with physical pain. So? Was I in the midst of a traumatic recapitulation?
Jan did remind me of similar symptoms I had grappled with several years ago. At that time, I realized I was energetically incapacitated by allowing myself to assume responsibility for burdens that were not my own. That realization had ultimately lifted the extreme weight I had experienced, in dense form, in my back.
Subsequent to that realization years ago, I had firmly programmed my subconscious mind to refuse outside suggestions that could be harmful to me. I knew that we energetically live in a completely interconnected universe, where the thoughts and actions of others are subtlety detected by, and can impact, the subconscious mind. So, how could this hurtful energetic suggestion from without have slipped through now?
The answer is obvious to me. My subconscious was infiltrated because somewhere I was colluding with the outside energy, thus actually inviting the experience I had. My overriding suggestion to my subconscious mind has always been to live in truth. In this case, I was led to an issue I had to more deeply examine and adjust my attachment to.
The back journey I was on was orchestrated by my High Self to help me become aware of this impediment to growth. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way.
Are you wondering if my back has healed? The answer is that there was nothing physical to heal.
This experience has been an energetic dialogue, along with an emotional process, that was initiated by and resolved with Spirit, which momentarily took possession of the flesh.
I have to end now, as I go attend to outdoor tasks.
