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The
Healing Power of Dis-ease
A Deeper Perspective
by Sheridan Bushnell
Each step was
excruciating agony with the arthritic swelling in my
knees. I was virtually “stopped in my tracks,”
immobilized between the recovered memories of childhood
trauma and the physical freezing up of my joints. There
was nowhere else to go but inside, to my heart and
ultimately to my soul. No one was able to give me the
answers. How was I to heal myself from this deep
physical and emotional pain? There was nothing left but
surrender. This was the beginning of the long, long,
journey home. The journey through the heart to the
spirit of all things. |
I took a deep, searing
look at my life, my childhood and the culture at large.
I discovered we all come into this world wide eyed and
innocent, ready to embrace everyone and everything, a
state of curiosity and deep wonder. We are then
presented with the “cultural scripts” of: competition,
materialism, denial, workaholism, total reliance on the
mind, at the expense of the heart and spirit, and so the
closing down and the armoring begins. We leave the
joyful innocence of childhood and become what is
expected of us. We ignore our heart’s desires and “do
the right thing.” We experience a deep loss of self and
spend the rest of our lives trying to recover. Our
bodies become ill, our relationships flounder, we enter
a state of permanent dis-ease.
What is the solution? The journey back to the self and
the heart’s desires involves a dismantling of all those
things that do not nourish our being and an embracing of
those things that do. A movement from the mind and its
ingrained cultural scripts to the heart and spirit and
its knowledge of what gives us personal satisfaction and
joy. This is not an easy task, since we have been led so
long to ignore the small, still voice within, the
whispers of the soul through our heart’s longing.
Awareness is the key factor here. What is it that shuts
us down, saps our energy, produces tension and stress?
What is that opens us up, infuses us with energy,
produces joy and contentment? What is the balance
between these two things? How much of the joyful
activities do we have in our lives on a daily basis? Is
our life just one of constant “doing” out of a
consciousness of responsibility? How can we bring back
the exquisite joy of being, the wonder of the child?
What would it feel like? What would it look like? What
must we let go of in order to experience this? What must
we embrace? Are we ready to make changes, shift our
consciousness? How much choice do we believe we have? Is
this true?
The point of decision is always in the present
moment. What will we chose going forward in our lives
from this moment on? |
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