New Consciousness Review Fall 2015 | Page 23

INSPIRATION 2. ILLNESS people responsible for your experience or trying to fix, change, get rid of or fall into what is going on. 1. COMPULSIONS The first is compulsions. We are all compulsive and you can be compulsive about anything! Rather than being something that is wrong with you that needs to be controlled, your compulsion becomes something to be curious about. For whenever you are interested in turning away from yourself through a compulsion, there is a part of you close to the surface of your awareness that is asking for the light of your attention. Your compulsion, rather than a problem to be solved, becomes a guide in showing you what is asking to be seen and released. You do this through your ability to be very curious, in a spacious and nonjudgmental way, about what is happening inside of you before, during and after a wave of compulsion. The same is true for illness. Anything that is out of balance in your body is the body asking for you to listen to it and be with it in a different way. And yet you were never taught to listen. Instead of being responsible for your experience (which is the ability to respond), you were taught to try to get rid of the discomfort through pills and surgery. And when that doesn’t fully work, you (like most people) tend to numb yourself out through food, alcohol and cigarettes, trying to make the discomfort go away. Pills and surgery do have their place, but most of the imbalances in our bodies come from the ways we attempt to resist what we are experiencing. These can be easily brought back into balance by trusting that Life is inviting us to be with ourselves in a different way and listening to that. 3. PAIN The third area is the aches and pains you experience. You were taught to contract around the painful feelings inside of you. Over the years, your chronic patterns of holding can turn into painful necks, back spasms and overly acidic stomachs. In these areas of holding in your body, if you take the time to listen to them, you can hear the old beliefs and the feelings that are bound up there that caused you to tighten that area in the first place. In that listening, there is the possibility of the bound up energy beginning to soften and let go. 4. FINANCES Pills and surgery do have their place, but most of the imbalances in our bodies come from the ways we attempt to resist what we are experiencing. 23 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW The fourth area is finances, which is loaded with opportunities to fuel the stories of struggle in our heads. There is so much fear around being supported which taps into our core mistrust of Life. The underlying spell is “There is not enough.” We will overwork to make sure we have what we feel is enough. We will also hoard, manipulate, gamble, lie and even steal to calm down this deep belief. Then, if all of our controlling and manipulating doesn’t work,