Saturday, November 12, 2011

Don’t Resist

Until we allow ourselves to feel whatever we have resisted, it will continue to bother us. The remedy is to feel it through and be at peace, says PAULA HORAN.

A critical step towards healing oneself from physical, mental or emotional pain is to notice what one has been resisting all our lives and what one may still be resisting. When we adopt a willingness to notice our denial patterns, even if they are unconscious, by simply making ourselves open, these patterns begin to be. Once we acknowledge our previously hidden resistance, we also are in a much stronger position to identify all the issues in our lives that essentially keep us stuck in emotional misery or physical discomfort.

We need to gain direct access to the psychosomatic and karmic causes of our distress. Such understanding affords us the opportunity to take complete responsibility and later explore these causes by directly feeling into them. Until we feel into whatever we have resisted completely, we will continue to manifest it in our reality.

A Wakeup Call

We know we are out of balance when we begin to feel dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction when unaddressed, turns into either physical illness or depression. Dissatisfaction is a wakeup call that should be acknowledged for the gift it really is, because it tells us immediately that we are not following our heart.

I have seen time and again with my own body, as well as in the people that I have treated, that illness is a temperature gauge of sorts, which shows us where our individual consciousness is out of synchronisation with reality.
As a personal example, from the age of 13 to 27, I was an epileptic. When I received a rebirthing, years later, I learnt that in my previous lifetime I had lived through the atom bomb in Hiroshima.

For three months after August 1945, I remained alive in excruciating pain, and my mindstream carried the shock of that experience into the present incarnation. At puberty in this lifetime, due to hormonal changes and other karmic conditions, certain thought or memory crystals from the Hiroshima experience were released. From then on, whenever stress built up in my current life, I would spasm out a full load of withheld feelings in the form of a seizure. Somehow by the age 27, the processing was complete and the epilepsy disappeared.

Unprocessed Emotions

The karma or causal factor from an action in the past life was complete. In other words, the intense grief, rage, anger and pain that I had not processed before my death carried onto this life and manifested as a physical disability, which literally forced me to throw off withheld feelings. As I learned to directly address my feelings in this lifetime, the epilepsy disappeared.

Another instance of emotional pain developing into a physical illness was when I developed a tumour in my right breast as a result of the sudden shocking death of my brother.In both cases, the emotional processing of feelings was resisted and ended up manifesting as a physical illness.

Accidents happen in the same way. Each action (karma) from any lifetime can attract us towards certain events. We all have both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ karma. Although there is truly nothing as good and bad, the circumstances that seem bad to us are simply rehashes of previous situations we have resisted.

Expressions Of Grief

In both the examples I have cited, I resisted the full expression of my grief and anger. Due to this unconscious resistance, which is nothing more than a natural human tendency to avoid suffering and discomfort, those same emotions got stuck and crystallised on a physical level. Everything is energy, including our thoughts, our emotional reactions to our thoughts, as well as our capacity to feel the ground of our being — our intrinsic awareness.

Whenever we resist a thought or an emotion we are resisting energy which has to go somewhere. When we develop the capacity to accept what is there in our lives in every moment, so that the energy of that particular experience can simply pass through, discomfort becomes a very temporary experience. When experiences are acknowledged and felt fully in the moment, they occur without resistance, they do not remain or become crystallised to attract similar circumstances later.

Congealed Energy

Our own natural tendency to resist negative or dense energy thoughts and emotions such as grief, anger, rage, sadness, ambivalence and hate causes them to congeal energetically in the mindstream and thus in the body/ mind.These emotions always get stuck and cause disease in the area of the body where that particular type of emotion or thought is felt.

Thus, heart feelings like jealousy and rejected love crystallise in the heart; emotions and judgements dealing with power and control issues crystallise in the solar plexus; emotional issues dealing with pain due to sexual abuse, hurt or neglect may cause uterine problems, ovarian tumours, even impotence.

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