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Body stuff

We are not victims of nature, of a "chaotic" or degenerative nature, unless we insist that we are. Bodies do not need to degenerate with age. This is a belief, an expectation and assumption so inherent to the old paradigm that we didn't even notice it was a choice.

It is a choice. The body is our most immediate reflection. It tells us how we feel about ourselves and life itself. If it were not automatically inclined to thrive, many of us would not have even lived through childhood. There are so many intricate and dynamic processes going on all the time that the body takes care of with no control, help, or even attention from our own personalities. We can trust it. The only time this thriving appears to be interrupted is when we interfere and insist upon it.

Disease comes from dis-ease. We stress over assumptions that do not need to be true for us. The body knows this is not in alignment with who we really are, so it signals us to stop that. Often we do not pay attention, and if we attain relief from a drug the resistance/ dis-ease many times simply remanifests in another area, because we are only addressing the symptom instead of the cause.

If we live in fear, this can manifest in the body as dis-ease. Fear is resistance; it is like static on the radio station of our lives. Fear of non-safety, whether from other people or from our own food and water, seems to be a pretty fashionable state of being lately. If we are sending currents of resistance through our bodies over the possible state of our food and/or water, and/or the state of our safety in any area, this could wind up doing a lot more damage than whatever could have been in the food or water (or the local or global neighborhood) in the first place.

How many people make themselves sick or injured so they don't have to go to work or don't have to do something else that they really didn't want to do, but wouldn't allow themselves to not do it without the illness or injury? We know we do these things, we just don't want to admit it. Wouldn't it be so much easier to live in integrity? Of course it would, but we can have a hard time admitting we don't want to do things, especially when we feel we're "supposed" to do them. The body becomes the scapegoat.

Sometimes the type of discomfort or sensation, or the area of the body, can give us a clue as to what the body is trying to tell us. Have we been hesitating in our movement, or being too hard on ourselves? The symbolism can also vary depending on the person and belief systems involved, so it is always a beneficial idea to get to know ourselves instead of going by someone else's set "method"-- though those can be helpful, especially as a starting place. If we feel that a particular occurrence means something other than what the "book" (or website or whatever) says, though, it is best to trust ourselves.

Sometimes if we are not expressing our energy in the form of words or actions and we repress it, that energy will manifest as an 'issue' with the body. Energy must express. This is yet another area where it helps a lot to be paying attention to what we are doing.

And sometimes "symptoms" can manifest simply for the purpose of getting our attention. If our bodies are trying to get our attention through a sensation or some other unusual behavior, how many times do we automatically try to figure out what's "wrong" instead of simply returning our attention to ourselves in the moment? Sometimes that is all that is required to return the body to 'normal.' Present-moment awareness isn't necessarily just something for monks and gurus on mountaintops-- we all benefit from it.

 

"Death," or transitioning to a non-physical state, does not require a long, painful process. We can simply leave when we are done here. Many times we don't want to admit that we're ready for our next adventure, or we have fears about the unknown, or mixed feelings about leaving our loved ones-- all of these things can create dis-ease in the body.

I am not here to tell anyone to give up their doctors or their medication. I am here to offer up another option. Consciousness creates matter, every moment. We form our own experience, even if we don't know how we're doing it, and our bodies are no exception.

The best thing we can do to know what our bodies are doing is to know what our consciousness is doing. Paying attention to what we are doing in the present moment can be extremely enlightening.

 

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Recently I had popped into a well-known body-mind-spirit center to respond to something they had sent me and I noticed an article regarding a physical "symptom" -- recommending that we get complete medical evaluations and treatment, either with drugs, herbs, or other treatment methods. There is nothing wrong with this suggestion other than in my perspective we don't go to a "new age" body-mind-spirit center in order to get an old-paradigm, third-density recommendation-- we could get that from our own physicians thankyouverymuch.

The particular "symptom" they mentioned is well-known (I thought) for being an inner communication to oneself, and I was surprised to see this place in particular endorsing such an old response and not even mentioning any alternative, other than the one for possibly using herbs instead of drugs to "fix" it. My own recommendation (though of course I do not have letters after my name nor will I hold anyone's cookies for them if this doesn't "work" for them) is to place attention on self in moment, and be open to whatever we're trying to tell ourselves. Now I suppose it could be possible that we're telling ourselves to spend time and money running through myriad "official" tests and listening to Newtonian-science experts regarding a plethora of outward treatments. It could happen. Or, maybe we simply want to be with ourselves in the moment, instead of letting our minds wander off worrying about a thousand other things that have nothing to do with this moment.

I sent them a note with my perspective. I wondered whether I "should"-- but I had the impulse so I sent it anyway. I wondered how people who focus sometimes so clearly on consciousness, mind, and spirit could make recommendations like that when a question regarding the body came up. I imagined the man saying, "Many of these people are not ready to be unplugged..." meaning the people don't want any "airy-fairy" answers, they want "hard fact", and his reputation as a good doctor could be damaged! I imagined myself saying back to him, "Maybe they would be more open to 'new' ideas if they knew the great doctor was open to these ideas as well."

My 'job' is not to say any of those old-paradigm ideas are wrong, in fact many times using a "conventional" method can be a way to choose your power and change your experience. Sometimes, though, we end up giving over our power to the "experts" and authority-type figures instead of owning our own choices and abilities. My 'job' is simply to sing me, to offer my perspective, and offer the options of freedom, choice, and personal empowerment.

I have two words for the "experts": spontaneous remission. Otherwise known as, now you see it, now you don't.
Happens all the time.

Let's look at a few more "anomalies:" there are people who thrive on foods that could be considered atrocious by our modern 'experts'. There are also people who eat all the 'right' foods and drink all the 'right' liquids and take all the super-supplements, who are constantly if not drastically sick. If the foods really made the difference, this could not happen. Usually the ones eating 'junk' don't care (no resistance), while the ones eating all the 'right' things are paranoid as hell that their body will betray them-- paranoia is extreme fear, extreme resistance, which of course causes dis-ease. There are people with the same genetic histories who do not experience the same dis-eases. There are people who live through the middle of epidemics without manifesting any sort of whatever "catchy" dis-ease is all the rage at the time. History and what is "out there" doesn't matter nearly as much as our choices in the now.

 

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The body is not "less" than spirit. We are not "stuck" in "lowly" bodies until such time as we "ascend" and become free of such a burden. We were not cast into the physical realm as some sort of punishment. All of these ideas create resistance. We chose to be here.

Play more. Enjoy. :)

 

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Finally, these are not just recycled ramblings from somebody else that sounded good to me at the time-- my perspective is from my own experience. This article would be entirely way too long if I started writing about them here, but there are notes and letters in the archives (both groups posted eventually, Reality Tweakers and Sparkives) and in the inside -> out blog about some of my own experiences with the ideas of health, body, and the 'health food' and medical gestalts if you are interested in reading about them.

When it comes down to it, we are configuring the energy of the quantum field into molecules right in front of our eyeballs, our food and our bodies. Why assume there is anything wrong with any of it? We could simply assume the food is full of vitality and nourishment and so is the body.

That being said, I do not of course suggest anybody ingest or do anything that goes against their strongest, deep-down expectations. And denial or repression is not the same thing as changing beliefs/ definitions. :) Our assumptions, beliefs and expectations, along with our emotions and our actions matter-- they turn into matter. That's how this place works. Use them, and choose them, well. :)

2007 Beth Shearon