HEALTH
Eventually, over days, weeks, months and years
of this process guiding our lives and behavior, the
blood and fluid in our bodies begin to coagulate to
such a large degree that nodules, masses, growths
and tumors begin to form. This then leads to toxins building up in the blood stream and organs, resulting in chronic pain and disease. In simple terms
our body becomes at war with itself on a cellular
level (like in auto-immune conditions) because we
are at war with ourselves mentally and emotionally, living with a constant tear between what we
really feel, want and need, and the fears that stop
us from speaking and acting completely honestly.
From this viewpoint it’s easy to see how living a
stressful life compounded by work that is unfulfilling, or staying in relationships where one is not
true to their deeper emotions, needs and desires,
can create significant inner pressure on our major organs and central nervous system. If we are
constantly fighting ourselves in this way, the inevitable result is our self-destruction. This does not
even account for excessive consumption of alcohol, food, recreational drugs, and pharmaceutical
drugs, which are merely unhealthy habits motivated by an unconscious desire to numb our deeper
mental and emotional pain in a misguided quest
for short-term superficial relief that only makes
health concerns worse in the long run.
Depression and disease is
our body’s practical and
logical way of alerting
us to the life or death
importance of giving
ourselves permission to
be fully who we are now,
because it’s the only path
to lasting happiness and
vitality.
10 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
Most people understand that eating natural whole
foods and adopting a healthy lifestyle will support
health and prevent illness. What most don’t know
though is that complete honesty and vulnerability
in every situation is just as vital to our long term
mental and physical health. We are so used to hiding our true feelings in order to survive and keep
the peace, protecting ourselves from judgment,
criticism, rejection, abandonment and aggression,
that we remain unaware we’re relating to ourselves
in such a harmful way - until of course we are forced
to figure out why we’ve become so depressed or ill.
Deep down we all know we were not born to
suffer. But no one can save, heal or free us
beside ourselves. This is precisely why the purpose of mental, emotional and physical symptoms is to show us where and how we are not
caring for ourselves well enough to thrive and
flourish fully before we die. When we can understand the simple but profound truth that all
suffering is the result of a constant rejection of
the true self - a self that we never learned how
to love, accept or value fully- we can begin
transforming whatever struggles we’re faced
with and find deeper peace and health immediately.
There will never be a better time than today to begin practicing this. Depression and disease is our
body’s practical and logical way of alerting us to
the life or death importance of giving ourselves
permission to be fully who we are now, because
it’s the only path to lasting happiness and vitality.
I have found we are given a choice in life between
feeling sorry for ourselves and respecting ourselves, but we cannot have both. I have witnessed
countless people stop being victims to their fearful
and insecure thoughts and move beyond suffering
into enjoying life daily. Once they wholeheartedly
committed to speaking and acting in a way that
values their thoughts and feelings in every situation as the priority, even when scared, they were
able to heal and forgive their past, and finally stop
hurting and betraying themselves in the present.