Healing and your Mind Healing is a return to wholeness where mind, body and Soul function in harmony. Your mind can support this process, or disrupt it by focusing only on a cure. Healing is different than a cure. Healing aims to address the cause of dis-ease that leads to the absence of well-being, while a cure is designed to suppress the expression of the symptoms of illness. Traditional allopathic medicine is fixated on curing and ignores healing. A cure treats specific body parts with a good chance of negative side effects by failing to realize the interconnectivity of all of the body’s systems. In effective healing there are no side effects because nothing is introduced that would alleviate a symptom while harming the body. Healers know your body is more than a series of physical mechanisms. They know your body is subject to the attitudes you hold in your mind that generate your emotional health, or lack of it. An individual who is terminally ill can heal as their body is dying all the way to the end, and pass away in peace. In this instance healing takes the form of surrendering and letting go of everything unimportant, and forgiving everything that makes the heart heavy. Dying in peace requires a light heart. The mind gets conditioned to be identified with positive, and negative self-images that generate conflicting thought patterns, conflicting emotions, and conflicting behaviors. These “normal” inner conflicts, plus exposure to environmental toxins cause dis-ease. There is significant evidence against the old claim that heredity alone causes illness. Modern research has increasing amounts of evidence that your attitudes, and beliefs patterns, are the triggers for which genes are turned “on” and “off”. The positive effect your mind has on healing begins with having an attitude of openness, curiosity, and the willingness to take responsibility to get well. More often than not, to take responsibility means making heartfelt changes in your life style, moving away from toxic relationships, and integrating past emotional traumas. This requires that you make the choice to allow yourself to be vulnerable, and to feel deeply the pain that your mind protects you from experiencing. Instead of healing the mind builds defense mechanisms: denial, blaming, complaining, bitterness etc.; these attitudes distract you and take your attention away from what really hurts inside. The power necessary for healing comes from your Soul. The desire to be well must be matched by the courage to confront your beliefs about you and your body. Healing requires you to summon your determination to change your mind about anything that dis-empowers you. The challenge with changing your mind is that it ultimately affects your sense of self, you personal identity. When unconscious negative self-images are not exposed and transformed the healing process is diminished and dis-empowered. Healing unites the parts of you that your mind keeps separate. This disowned parts of you, the shadow side of your personality, contain suppressed negative emotions: rage, hatred, terror, guilt, shame, sorrow, grief etc. In order to keep these strong emotions under control, or when you loose self-control and act them out, your personality consumes your strength and vitality leaving prone to dis-ease. You can learn to mind your mind and command it to support the healing process by neither rejecting pain nor indulging in suffering, and instead focusing attention healing. Written by Osiris Montenegro
Posted on: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:59:06 +0000
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