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How we get ill

Copyright © 2000 Kevin Farrow

A writer once remarked that a novel was a story seen through an attitude. This could very well define the human experience. We are a story told through our attitudes and those attitudes reflect not only the current state of our spiritual progress through this life, but also the predispositions we have in regard to illness. As Caroline Myss says in her remarkable book, "The Anatomy of the Spirit," "Your biography becomes your biology."

Our fixed attitudes show our lack of attention to our own truths and hold down our energies in patterns of emotional blocking that can result in disease. It is now well established by contemporary medical thinkers, such as Candace Pert in her book Molecules and Emotion and Larry Dossey in his excellent book Meaning and Medicine, that the concepts of mind and body simply cannot be separated to serve an archaic idea of medicine.

As Larry Dossey states in Meaning and Medicine, " We are witnessing here not just illness and disease but life, and the power of perceived meanings, attitudes, thoughts and emotions to shape that life."

When you say to someone, "You make me sick" you are actually saying, "I make myself sick and I blame you - which is making it even worse for me!" Many people have simplified the mind/body/spirit connection to - "if you're very angry you will get sick and that's your karma, and if you're very happy then you'll get sick too because that means you'll get very sad to achieve a balance. So stay with the middle path - in other words castrate yourself emotionally.

Many people who propagate this nonsense do it in the name of Buddhism - the middle way. This not only betrays an incredible ignorance of Buddhism, it also isn't true. Being sad, angry or miserable or happy and joyful won't make you sick. What makes you sick is being stuck in an old emotional pattern. Do you think we were given emotions to make ourselves sick with or to learn about life and the universe?

Life is not a simple system of applied mechanics. It is a symphony and your emotions, your intelligence, your spirit and your body are both part of the orchestra and part of the rhythm and melody.

Balanced living is being in tune with all of ourselves including the natural energy of the planet so that our own energies (spiritual, mental, emotional and physical) are awake and alive and flexible. We can laugh, we can cry - without the needless association of guilt.

Harmonics energy balancing can help to free us from our old energetic patterns which we have made into our own prisons, giving us an opportunity to experience life fully.

Esoteric, occult and yogic teachings refer to a "subtle body", or a series of subtle bodies, behind the physical body. This subtle body is said to consist of elements or organs such as centres or chakras, nadis or channels, "drops", and even deities and cosmic correspondences. Link to the "Subtle Body" site here

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