Shifting the Energy Toward Healing

For that last few weeks I have been very stressed out and feeling pretty lousy. I had a few specific work related issues that were unfamiliar and were making me nervous. Things began to snow ball in a negative direction. I know better but couldn’t get myself out of my downward spiral. I was having heart palpitations and just feeling overwhelmed and not good physically.

What I mean when I say “I know better” is that the law of attraction does not discriminate and it draws things and energy together that is similar. “Like” attracts “Like.” Once I get into a negative space, more negativity develops. What we focus on increases. And when I stay attached to my difficulties, I am staying focused on them. When I try so hard to “get better” or “feel better” I am not at peace and I am trying to control too much.

What I always forget is that it is only when I surrender that a shift can happen. It is only when I let go; only when I relax; only when I stop paddling upstream against the current, that I can even hope for things to change.

It’s funny how often I need things to get into an extreme state before I can surrender and open to the flow of positive life energy.

I am not talking about doing nothing, but rather to stop doing what I have been forcing in an attempt to feel better.

So I stopped. I slowed down. I began to meditate more, and practiced Loving Kindness meditation. I had also been thinking about forgiveness a lot in the last few months and even though I consciously felt like there was no one I needed to forgive, I knew that it was a good idea to hold the intention of forgiveness.

I took Louise Hay’s book off the bookshelf. I had read her book, You Can Heal Your Life for the first time about 30 years ago. Therefore, I didn’t feel the need to read it again. I thought I remembered all the important aspects of the emotional elements connected to specific conditions.

I was in a “been there – done that” attitude about the book, even though again and again I hear people talk about how her simple exercises had such an impact on their life.

At a point of deep frustration, I picked up her book hoping to get some relief.

Not only did I get relief but I was reminded of the profound yet simple message that spoke to me 30 years ago and speaks to me again today.

For many years my open-mindedness and willingness to look at the emotional aspects of my physical health difficulties kept me dwelling on that. I realize now that that was just one more way that I was critical of myself and I know now that while it was courageous of me to keep over-turning more and more stones searching for the missing link to my healing, I was actually barking up the wrong stones. I was missing the direction I needed to pursue.

I picked up You Can Heal Your Life, once again and began to read it again from the beginning. The simplicity of her message is what makes it so profound and in my opinion so accurate.

Here’s the one statement that elicited my most recent jaw drop: “all disease is a state of unforgiveness.”

It doesn’t get any simpler than that. Many would argue with this blanket pronunciation, however when I read it again after having read it 30 years ago, as well as hearing other people make similar statements in the last 10 years, I knew in the deepest part of my soul that it was true. It was true for me. It might not be true for anyone else but I knew it was true for me.

And that revelation gave me a stronger intention to begin this healing quest. And to document it on this blog. I know I will be exploring some radical ideas and not so popular approaches to healing. We all want the silver bullet, the special medication, the easy cure. We want someone or something outside of ourselves to give us the cure or the answer. Our society is built on that paradigm. That’s why we give doctors and drug companies so much power. We want them to “fix” us. We really do. It’s how we’ve been programed.

Anyway….back to the book. I began to read Louise’s book and immediately I felt the warmth of her soothing words, as she spoke the truth about how unkind we can be to ourselves. Her simple approach was comforting and relaxing. I began to feel lighter. I began to let go and allow….To allow and actually generate a lighter more loving energy toward myself and toward the world.

Ahh…..if only I can keep remembering these simple practices that make such a difference.