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Today's
quotation:
Healing
requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual
and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we
do more
than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing
is, by
definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and
transforming it into a process of return to life.
Caroline Myss
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Today's
Meditation:
We like to put band-aids on things and consider them
taken care of. As long as the surface looks okay, we
tend not to worry too much about what's going on
inside. You can't heal diseases by covering up the
sores that they cause-- we can only make things look a
little better. If we want to heal-- physically,
emotionally, spiritually-- we have to work at the core of
the issue, and we have to take care of it fully and
completely.
I can't heal the issues caused by my father's alcoholism
simply by acknowledging that the problem existed. It
takes a lot more work than that, and it takes complete
acceptance of the situations, both past and present.
It takes acknowledgement of what has happened and what is
happening, and it takes effort to deal with things
honestly and completely. How many people have lost
weight on diets, but not dealt with the underlying issues
that caused the overeating in the first place? How
many of us are willing to turn to intoxicants to help us
to "deal with" pain, without ever looking for
the true causes of that pain and working to heal them?
I believe that when Caroline mentions the
"disintegration of life," she's talking about
the ways that our sicknesses can tear us apart and keep us
from living fully and completely. And she says that
dealing with those illnesses can actually make us
stronger, and can help us to "return to
life"-- to the state of health and well-being that we
yearn for. If we really want to heal, then-- instead
of masking or hiding or avoiding the problems-- we need to
face issues head-on and be brave in dealing with the
things that are stealing our vitality.
We can heal. Some diseases will take our lives, of
course, but that's a normal part of the cycle of
life. Other diseases, those that are physical but
not fatal, that are emotional or spiritual, can be healed,
and it's up to us to find the path of healing rather than
staying on the path of victimhood.
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