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The Value of Pain: Our Body As A Diagnostic Tool
by, Neva Howell
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Portions of this article excerpted from
Moon Lodge Visions: An Acceleration Handbook
http://www.healthynewage.com
If you were a safety engineer in a nuclear power plant and an alarm went off - Let's say it
is the ~~ FIRE ALARM ~~ for the boiler room - Would you call the electrician and ask
them to turn the alarm off or would you immediately check out the boiler room? Of
course, you know the answer. You would assume there was a problem, or the alarm
would not have gone off. Only after you had physically checked the alarm location would
you have questioned whether something was wrong with the alarm itself. The body is a
most exquisite spiritual alarm system, responding in a milli-second to the slightest mental,
emotional or physical imbalance, anywhere within the body. Yet, we tend to blame the
alarm and put off checking the boiler room, so to speak.
The only time the body system doesn't work instantly (sending out alarms of pain, illness, mental
struggle or emotional upset to our mind), is when we've decided to turn the alarm off.
It is possible to reroute our own electrical response circuitry. We override our system
when it seems necessary for our survival. Most often, we do it in childhood. Then, over
time, we forget that we've literally shut our natural alarm system down. The myriad small,
gentle signals of slight imbalance sound out without our conscious awareness. If we
continue in this manner long enough there is eventually such a backlog of unanswered
alarms that the system is overwhelmed. Just as the engineer who would opt to focus on
the alarm itself instead of tracing the cause, it is possible to ignore our own "boiler fires"
until they consume us in acts or rage, terminal illness, or insanity. Turning off the alarm
doesn't make the fire go away but allows it to burn, unhindered and wild.
You are the only one who is with your body system all the time. You are either aware of
your electrical alarm system and responding to it on a moment-to-moment basis, you are
in some state of partial awareness--catching some signals but missing others, or you are
running on automatic pilot (using the same programmed responses you've used since
childhood, without awareness of other options). Most of us fluctuate between these three
levels. If you deal with any kind of chronic pain at all, it is due to your tendency (up until
now), to blame the alarm and repeatedly shut it off rather than checking the cause. If you
deal with any kind of serious illness, it is because you have (in the past) shut part of your
alarm system down and are now experiencing the inevitable overload to your body
system.
In learning to allow healing of the human body, communications between the personality
self and the body system must be clear. The natural state of the body is perfect health.
Any deviation from perfect health is the result of some way we are not honoring our
spiritual selves. Any time a physical, emotional or mental imbalance is present, it is
absolutely and always true that a spiritual imbalance is present. For permanent healing of
the human body, the ultimate goal is to utilize the alarm system of the body to investigate
the spiritual state of the being and take corrective, holistic action to bring the
being back to
a state of living that is consistent with their spiritual path. It isn't about religion or life
purposes. It is about living in accordance with the spiritual being each person is, beyond all
those ideas. It's about being true to your Spirit.
The trueness of your Spirit Self can be communicated to you, clearly and precisely, by
your own body system. When you are living in accordance with what you believe to be
progressive, joyful experience, your body will respond by functioning efficiently
and in good health. When you go against what you instinctively know to be loving and good choices in
life, your body will let you know by speaking through the language of the body. At first, the
alarms may be subtle--excess tension, slight depression, muscle aches, sleeplessness,
congestion, headaches, etc. Then, they may progress to pain, memory problems, chronic
fatigue, spasms. Finally, illness will manifest and some form of action will be required. To
reestablish communications with your body system, devote time to remembering how
your body speaks. You can do this by beginning to pay immediate attention to any feelings
of pain, nausea, spasms, tightness, itching, etc., as well as sudden emotional or mental
shifts that seem to take you out of balance.
The key is to notice immediately when your body is sending out a physical, mental,
emotional or spiritual alarm and to stop action immediately, long enough to notice what
was really going on with you at the moment the alarm sounded. What were you thinking
about, or getting ready to say? Were you in fear? Dread? Is there unexpressed anger, or
other emotion, associated with the current situation? Were you reacting to attachment or
expectation? Were you unconsciously resisting what is? Once you are clear about where
the imbalance originated, immediately thank your body for the awareness it has given you
and take corrective action. Say an affirmation, say "no", say "I'm sorry", do some
stretching, take a walk, take a hot shower, smudge, do some toning or play music to
relax you. Whatever needs to be done to restore balance, do that. If it is unclear what
needs to be done, just acknowledge the pain as an alarm and do some deep breathing
into the pain area. Your answer may come during the breathing, in dreamtime, etc. but it
will come if you persist in paying attention.
I've found the body to be quite literal in it's communications. For example, pain in the ear
is usually associated with hearing (not wanting to hear something, hearing something
inaccurately, missing a Spirit message in dreamtime, failing to hear something important,
etc.) while blurry eyes can be indicative of something you are trying not to see or
something you are not seeing clearly. Even though you may believe your vision is clear on
an ego level, it may be unclear on a spiritual level. Stomach-aches usually point to some
aspect of your reality you find "hard to digest" while colon problems indicate a toxic
situation in your life, or something you need to "eliminate". Problems in the sexual organs
point to surfacing abuse issues or some imbalance in your sexual relationships, your
attitudes about your sexuality, etc. The specific nature of the pain or injury can also be
illuminating. A slight bump to the right hand might be a gentle reminder to pay attention to
taking or receiving (depending on the circumstances surrounding the time of injury) while a
broken right hand would indicate a much more severe or urgent message. If we learn to
pay attention to the "slight bumps", we don't have to experience the full-scale alarm later
on.
Neva Howell walks a path of service as a wellness counselor and spiritual
healer. She is a Reiki Master/Teacher, wellness counselor and spiritual
healer; author of "Moon Lodge Visions: An Acceleration Handbook" and Vice President of A Place of the Heart, a nonprofit spiritual center in
northeast Tennessee.
Website: http://www.healthynewage.com
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