Have you ever found yourself dealing with the same problems or issues month after month? It looks like nothing’s changing even though you tried what you could to bring about resolution. What do you need to do to move through them?
Recently I had a growth removed from the top of my ear. It did require stitches which were supposed to dissolve on their own and I couldn’t lay on that side making sleeping more interesting to say the least. This was my first experience with anything like this and at the end of the first week I noticed my thoughts were caught up in how my ear wasn’t healing. I questioned myself a number of times if the stitches would really dissolve on their own or if I should be putting essential oils on the area. Whenever anything would touch that part of my ear, my mind reminded me of the hurt and how it wasn’t healed. Now I’m into the second week and just couldn’t leave it alone. Why wasn’t it healing? Well, me being me I got to the place where I was aware of the unrest and had enough of that mind chatter. I knew something else was going on inside of me. It was time to look beyond my mind and heal. It didn’t lake long to realize the only time I thought about my ear was when something would touch it causing it to hurt. Was I reacting to the hurt? Yes I was reacting but it wasn’t to the hurt. I kept asking myself questions. Why couldn’t I just leave my ear to heal on its own? There it was…I wasn’t trusting my Divine to handle that for me. Not only was I not trusting in my own healing, I wasn’t trusting in the healing for others. I knew that was a truth for me because having that awareness caused me to cry.
Think of the physical body challenges you continually deal with. They could be ongoing problems with your back, knees, hips or jaw. When any kind of pain type sensations surface in those areas your mind automatically reminds you that area hasn’t healed and it’s still an issue. Over time what happens is we literally loose sight of what initially caused our problem in the first place.
Our physical body shouldn’t take months or years to heal. We break a bone and it heals. We sprain our ankle or dislocate our knee and they heal. If our hurts and pains continue month after month…even year after year and we’ve tried everything we can to heal them, I’ll guarantee you more needs to heal than just our physical body. Why? Because our physical body responds to our thoughts and feelings. Yes there’ll be times when we hurt ourselves and it heals in no time. Then there’s times when we hurt ourselves and it takes forever to heal…if it even has. Our minds will continue to point out problems some of which aren’t the problems at all. It takes our awareness to move beyond the mind and heal.
Here’s another example. My husband Jimmy recently went through a phase where his hip was quite sore. For about a week we energetically worked together with the intention to release the pain from that area. Whenever he felt pain register there, to him it was the hip and he asked me for help. Finally I got to the place where I challenged his mind. It wasn’t the hip! We had worked on that. What else was causing him pain? That morning I noticed he wasn’t centered on his chair and was sitting slightly tilted off to the left. When I brought it to his conscious mind he adjusted his sitting position, lifted his arms off the table and the pain released from his hip. He then felt a pain type sensation at the base of his spine. Now we found the source of his pain. For him, he tends to lean and wasn’t centered. That imbalance reflected in his physical body and in a number of other areas in his life. It gave him the new found awareness of the inner work he was now moving through.
This same concept applies to our relationships. We fight or argue with our partner, family or friends and our thoughts automatically remind us of the problem with ‘them’ and how it’s happening because of what they are or aren’t doing. Each one of us has our own ‘stuff’ to deal with. To stay focused on what we ‘think’ is the problem will not move us beyond the mind or even bring about the desired changes we want to experience. That’s why growing in awareness is most important. There’s nothing more powerful than our own grace and awareness.
I invite you to move beyond your mind and find your way to healing whatever is problematic in your life.
Wherever you are on your journey, may you find what works for you…find your own truth…and you’ll always be guided to feel at peace inside.
Sheila Unique, Relationship Coach/Group Facilitator