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| 26 Nov 2008 02:53:34 pm |
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This article was intended for the first newsletter. I held off briefly as it was being considered for publication. I then decided to withdraw it from consideration and sent it out. I am glad I did. I feel I am reaching those that can benefit.
Healthy Spirit, Healthy Body
I recently read an article about an Austin man who created a foundation (http://www.deweyfoundation.org/) that is offering $1 billion to the person who discovers the cure for breast cancer (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/072808dntexcancer.e375016.html). According to the article, the inspiration came from a very noble place: his daughters are at increased risk of breast cancer because his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.
The good news is, the cure is already available. It has always been available to those who can find the inner access to the cure. But you have to find the key to unlock the cure. In fact, true healing can ONLY be accessed from one place; within. If this is the case, then how does disease exist and why does it seem so difficult to heal some aspects of our lives, whether physical, emotional or spiritual?
To answer these questions, let's start by focusing our consciousness on the moment we created our body in this lifetime. With the help of a few metaphors, I will try to explain.
Your body is a literal external expression of your internal spirit. You have heard this before. This is not new. But you may never have considered just how literally true it is. Think of water flowing through a garden hose. The source of that fountain of water is your spirit. It never runs dry. Now think of the moment that the water flows from the hose as the moment you entered into physical existence. The water flows freely and unimpeded. Now imagine something blocking that flow. Imagine sticking your finger into that stream. Suddenly, the water does not flow as freely. The closer your finger is to the point the water flows from the hose, the more it affects the flow of the stream.
This is a metaphor for the way false beliefs affect our stream of consciousness and thus our health. Where do these false beliefs come from? Individuals, institutions, and misinterpretation of events plant these beliefs in our consciousness when we are at our youngest and most vulnerable, ie when the water is closest to the hose.
The problem becomes more complex when we add the streams of consciousness of our parents. When we were conceived, there were three streams of consciousness present - our mother, our father and our personal stream of consciousness. These three streams of consciousness combined and we began our physical existence into this lifetime. Remember, your body is an expression of your consciousness. And you now have the added influence of both of your parents' consciousness. Incidentally, the maturation process involves individuation from our parents' streams of consciousness. Individuation is step one in the healing process.
Step two is removing ourselves from the stream of mass consciousness. Remember the family I referred to at the beginning of the article? The consciousness that gave rise to breast cancer is not unique to this family, it is prevalent in our society. As with any "incurable" disease, we can wait for mass consciousness to find a cure, or we can disconnect from those streams of consciousness which gave rise to the disease (easier said than done). When we do this, we begin to fully reconnect with the original stream of consciousness that created our individual bodies. The good news, no the GREAT NEWS, is that your consciousness never forgets how to create a healthy body, we only allow that ability to be blocked.
So how do we unblock it? That is step three.
Remember the visual of your finger in the stream of water? What happens when you remove your finger (your finger representing false beliefs) from the stream? It returns to its natural flow with no effort. In fact, it takes less effort to be healthy than it does to have a disease.
OK. Let's get a little more practical and concrete, at least as concrete as we can be when discussing consciousness. At least as much as we can when discussing consciousness. I'll give you a couple of examples that might help. A friend of mine was experiencing hearing loss. After much questioning about early messages she received about her hearing, she finally revealed that her father was a musician. My friend did not have the same ear for music her father had. While trying to teach his young daughter about music, out of frustration he blurted, "What's the matter with you, can't you hear?" The belief that there was something wrong with her hearing stuck and she developed hearing problems. Her success in restoring her hearing will depend on her ability to release that message. (Why we hold those implanted beliefs and how to release them is an entire subject on it's own.)
Sometimes apparently unrelated issues have a connection, if we dig a little deeper beneath the surface. A gentleman once asked me for assistance with a chronic shoulder problem. Instead of focusing on his shoulder, I was drawn to ask him about his stomach troubles. He responded that he did not have stomach problems. I persisted and he finally admitted that he had once had problems with ulcers. Suddenly, the picture became clearer. I knew this man personally and had seen him interact with his wife. I told him, the same problems that created your ulcers are creating your shoulder soreness. You are carrying weight that is not yours to carry. Each morning, it is as if your wife leaves her baggage by the front door. You pick it up and carry it with you all day long. And when you return to your house in the evening, you bring all of that baggage with you.
A few days later, I saw this man again. Again he complained about his shoulder pain. He told me that his wife had returned to the airport the night before along with a group of her friends. He was the only husband that showed up at the airport, so he carried the luggage for ALL of them. I reminded him about the message to stop carrying other people's luggage. Suddenly, a light bulb went on.
This second story illustrates some important points. Just because this man successfully dealt with the ulcer didn't mean he had successfully dealt with the underlying issue. The result was the issue showed up in a different manner. Also, if we carry issues for others, they not only fail to heal, we also suffer as a result. Don't be surprised if you encounter some resistance as you begin to heal because you are attempting to return issues to those who would rather not look at them or they would not have passed them to you at the outset. In the process, you'll likely encounter both internal messages and verbal messages from others who may not want you to heal because that would mean they would have to look at their own issues.
After working with the man and his shoulder issues, he asked me to work on one of his employees. The man had seriously injured his leg on the job and despite attention by doctors, the leg was not healing. After visiting with the man for awhile, even though he was open to the attention I gave him, I did not get the impression he was seriously interested in healing the leg. I asked the owner about the environment at work. He told me he and his partner had some serious disputes, there was a falling out, and the business had suffered. Suddenly I "saw" the picture. The employee was a long-time employee of the business. The injury happened after the dispute between the owners had started. I realized that the "injury" was this man's security. If he lost his job, he could use the injury to continue to draw benefits. I am not saying the man did it on purpose. This was all occuring subconsciously. Make no mistake, I am not saying traditional medicine could not help this person, but until he dealt with his underlying fears (loss of job, income) he would not heal. Once he deals with those fears he may very well be guided to a new doctor or his old doctor my be guided to try a new treatment or it may heal spontaneously. The way in which it heals is not important, the fact that it heals is the goal.
In order to illustrate another point, let's return again to the man trying to find a cure for breast cancer for his daughters and wife. An "inherited" disease is really a belief that is so deeply held within a family that it feels as though that's just the way it is...that there is little one can do to change the situation. To break this pattern, one has to delve very deeply into the core beliefs held in and passed on by the family. Some in the family will pick up the disease and others will not because some will pick up the beliefs and some will not. It may go back for generations. But as you begin to heal, a memory will surface about an event, or a spoken word that will expose the underlying false belief.
I don't know these people personally and would not presume to know what beliefs they hold, but we can examine the disease itself for clues. A place to start in a situation like this would be to ask what the breasts represent. I would say nurturing. (Others may have a slightly different idea. All of this needs to be personalized. Remember, we are talking about what is true for YOU, not for me or anyone else.) A mother nurtures her child by breast feeding. Nurturing is inherent in the feminine aspect. It would seem to follow that a society that places little value on nurturing would experience a rise in the rate of breast cancer. From this point, the beliefs need to be examined on a more personal level as discussed above.
A few points:
1. Although the process may seem straightforward (or not, depending on how successfully I wrote this article), don't be surprised or discouraged if it takes many attempts to clear a single issues. While I have heard credible stories of spontaneous healing, many times there are multiple issues that must be cleared around a single illness.
2. As we heal, we are ALWAYS required to act differently. This is because our actions are an external expression of how we feel about ourselves on the inside. As we begin to FEEL differently we will begin to ACT differently. And sometimes our actions are so ingrained, it takes a few times to act in new ways.
3. Past life experiences and karma both play a role. However, I would not focus on those areas at the outset unless you feel specifically guided to do so. Those issues will surface on their own as you move forward.
4. Guilt is another issue that needs to be addressed. Guilt will impede the process. In fact, one aspect of healing is to uncover where the feelings of guilt first initiated. These feelings will need to be released.
5. This information will only appeal to those who can benefit from the information. If someone is born with a disability, they may be guided to heal it, or they may be guided to accept it and thrive despite the disability. No one can know what another's soul is choosing to experience. Only that individual soul knows. And when that soul knows it is experiencing its purpose, it will feel blissful and will feel no need to seek healing information.
6. Number 5 should not be interpreted as an excuse to practice non-compassionate behavior. I have heard the following message in multiple forms: "Why are you attracting this?" To me, this is one of the least compassionate responses a person can offer, unless it is followed up with a true offer of assistance (as opposed to enabling). Everyone attracts what they have drawn into their lives, that doesn't that doesn't mean I shouldn't offer an appropriate compassionate response. I don't have to carry something for someone in order to offer assistance or be compassionate.
7. I have heard it said that one particular "spiritual" teacher has derided the well-known Joseph Campbell phrase, follow your bliss. According to a student of this particular teacher, this teacher asked his class, "What if your bliss is killing other people?" This question only illustrates this teacher's lack of understanding of true spiritual connectedness. He is confusing spiritual connectedness with domination. The first is an eternal, unending stream. The second is a total lack of that feeling of connectedness followed by attempts to gain that feeling through the mistaken belief that it can be gained by taking it from others.
8. How does all of this tie into shamanism? From my experiences, shamans from both North and South America use anything from plants to sweat lodges, to vision quests in their quest to serve others...to raise awareness and consciousness to the point that healing takes place. My goal in writing this is to give an overview of the process so that those healing sessions can be more focused and can be used more effectively. The tool I use is the chakra system. While this may not be considered a traditional shamanistic tool, the fact that it is unconventional (as if there is anything conventional about shamanism) is, in itself, shamanistic. I don't really care if a person believes in chakras. That is not the point. My goal is to raise awareness and this is the tool I use.
When I used ayahuasca as administered by Shaman Mateo in the Peruvian jungle, the only thing that mattered to me was that the shaman could somehow help me increase my awareness. It did not matter to me how he did it. He was successful despite (because?) the fact that we could not communicate verbally without the aid of an interpreter. He used the tool he knew best.
9. Follow your bliss.
Blessings on your journey,
Charles Kempf |
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