August 2010

A number of people who have been involved in a peaceful way of living, simply getting on with life in the way they feel is best for them, have recently experienced some kind of illness.   They may have been involved in daily meditative practices through prayer, contemplation, or meditation.   It does not matter whether they are downright sceptics only believing in scientific, proven medication, or whether they only believe in the organic approach to life and alternative therapies; when illness strikes them, having believed they have taken care of their body through a fitness regime or good diet, they have a sense of failure.   Illness of any kind drains your energy field and makes you doubt many things you know or at least believe to be true and important to you.  

The theme of this month is silence and stillness to allow you to sense the energies that are always present, to be felt.   Paradoxically, one of the most frequent reasons someone is ill, is to make them whole.  It gives them time to be away from some people they meet daily; removes them from doing what is thought to be their duty; prevents them from always being active; and it can even slow the speed of their thinking.  Being ill give them time to be still and hear or sense words of wisdom and truth from inside themselves.  In other words, illness can give a person time to acknowledge the eternal power of the cosmos, which is also inside them.  It gives them time to reflect on their own specially trained skills that have emerged and been perfected through their own lifelong experiences.  It is a period which can and often does allow them to decide whether to use any of these skills and what to do with their future.  

The recovery time of any illness includes pockets of silence and stillness.  These pockets are a golden opportunity for connecting to the inner energy and power that is always there in everyone, but unfortunately is frequently ignored.   This energy or power is always available, whether in good health or ill.   However, being ill forces a person to ‘take time out’ where they can be still and feel the energy, power, and music of the universe as it washes through them.   It has no positive or negative bias until it is used.  Only as it flows through an action being taken, does it become either a positive or a negative energy, in the same way a magnet can either attract or repel.

Being ill gives you a time to reflect.  Know it will have positive results for others as well as for yourself, and please avoid feeling guilty.  It is perfectly fine to let your humanity be human!   So many of us (I include myself in this) feel we ought to be superhuman, because we have learnt tools that have given us a better quality of life.   Illness does not seem to part of that in a logical way.

Please avoid any of the following

Ø  a sense of failure

Ø  being unworthy reducing your confidence even more

Ø  doubting your belief and your truth

Ø  a feeling of shame because feel you are putting other people to a lot of trouble

Ø  anxiety for assignments not being completed

Most of all, use whatever treatment feels right for you.   You are not ‘bad’ if you use alternative therapies just because you are a scientist, mechanic, engineer, or simply have your feet on the ground.   Equally you are not ‘bad’ if you take medication from a doctor when you believe it is the only ‘cure’ you should use.  Often you will find it is a mixture of both forms of healing that are the answer.

A true cure comes when you know what caused the illness, forgive yourself (and the cause) for it actually happening, and then use whatever is the quickest and most right approach for yourself to heal the effects.