Healing Pain Inside Out

Everything we are experiencing in the world around us and within ourselves is ruled by the laws of nature. We have somehow lost our connection and understanding of who we are and how we are connected to nature, as well as the laws that govern it.  The consequences are showing up on all levels in us and our surrounding environment.  The effects that this has brought to our lives when it comes to our physical heath is quite evident. 

The natural state of our physical being is supposed to be “is-ness”. Meaning everything is what it needs to be and is.  There is no good or bad but what we create and perceive and what we can categorize as positive or negative experiences. 

When we are experiencing health, health just is, we don’t really spend much time thinking about health.  Because it just is.  Now if we are ill with something, we almost don’t stop talking about it.  As much as we want to get out of the pain as soon as we can, we only think about the disease or pain which creates a state of being out of balance. That is one of the characteristics of losing our state of is-ness which is in essence happiness and joy. Now, just to quickly extend this for further understanding, when we only talk about negatives in our lives and past, we are also doing the same.

We all have a natural desire to get away from the pain or avert it; and also, there is our desire to have health or an attachment to health. Only if we would not have the desire to experience one or the other we would immediately experience the is-ness state of happiness. Once we regain health, we say we are healthy until it becomes so normal again that it just is. This is what we do with almost anything in our lives.  We are thrilled to have them until they become the normal state of being. To summarize this: we lose our gratitude.

In general when we lose our is-ness and mostly concentrate on negatives, physical ailments become evident and we never put the two and two together.  We have three major root causes for illness: grief, fear and anger. Let’s look a bit deeper into this:

Our mind and physical consciousness is based on duality, or the opposites. Duality is a very simple yet quite a profound subject. The very obvious duality we experience every day is day/night, male/female, hot/cold, sun/rain, happy/sad. Some concepts of duality are very obvious, others are more subtle and might surprise you. What is the opposite of having for example? Another interesting thing is that health is the opposite of disease; but is it? In fact pain actually becomes the guide to uncovering your health. In other words we can use pain as the fastest and most direct way back towards our natural state of being - health. All we need is to develop the hidden skills that we all possess to make that happen. And the most basic one is presence. Yes; being present.  It allows us to see things which we are completely unaware of, with great clarity and ultimately helps us uncover the world from within.

Disease become evident and treatments easy.  Being present means to be in touch with your feelings, your body and the experience at this particular moment. Now hear this – even though it is obvious but we don’t really think about this: Thinking is the exact opposite of feeling and it is impossible to think and being present at the same time. Being present happens through feeling.  Now-a-days we are mostly thinking and hardly feeling.  This separates us from being in the moment and present.  We do this out of habit and without being aware of it

When we were born, did we have stress or frustrations? Did we have fear of losing our money, job or partner? None of that was important or present.  Then something happened in the process of growing up from birth and now.  Some people may claim that the world has changed.  I beg to differ.  We as human beings have not changed our stress level from day one.  We have always had concerns regarding food (hunting or grocery shopping), shelter (house, condo, cave), transportation (cars or donkeys), and so on.  No matter how far in the past you look, our concerns have remained constant.  Plus if it was the world around us, since we are all in the same turmoil then everybody would suffer the same.  Is everybody stressed and can’t sleep? Truth is that, it is very different for every person. There are people to which stress is a foreign word and not a part of their experience at all, and some that constantly live in it.

At its core stress is the desire to be safe and to survive. We have been trained to constantly watch our environment to detect anything that potentially could cause any threat to our safety. But are we really now-a-days have a tiger chasing us?  We have implemented many ways of protection, yet we are more afraid than ever.  To our minds there are many different deaths: Physical death, financial death, social death, being paralyzed, death of freedom, spiritual death, being alone and deep down the fear of not being loved and accepted by others. Where do all those different fears come from? Most of them are learned; we have been programmed as we have grown up.

Most of the time we are stuck in our past. What we have suffered in the past is not leaving us alone because we constantly refer to it.  If we have slipped and fell on ice in a winter of our dreams, now we walk with a cane in the threat of falling even in the spring and summer of our dreams.  It is essentially our minds and our thinking. When we are present we see things clearly as they are with a quiet mind that lets us see, feel and experience magic in every moment.

When we “think”, this removes us from reality and we enter the false dream world of thinking and illusion of past and future. And again, that is a choice. There is nothing more beautiful than experiencing the joy and freedom of what is right now. There actually is only one moment, always has been and always will be. We can only experience this moment and everything else is our mind giving us the illusion of past or future.

When our minds are quiet, we experience peace and joy and we feel great. It is when the mind is busy and disturbed, when we feel disconnected, unhappy and irritated. Presence depends of your state of mind and ranges from still and quiet to anxiety, despair and mental agony.

We are in constant search for happiness, joy and love.  We have even satisfied ourselves that if we don’t get it here and we have been good boys and girls, we will get it after death.  We are looking for that state of mental peace that we experience briefly when we accept the present moment.

We read self-help books, take courses and seminars all over the world which are all trying to show us ways to be happy, healthy and abundant.  We rely on pacifiers such as sex, work, vacation, buying things and partying and it all comes from the never ending search for happiness. For many a search without answers. And why is it so? Because we are looking in the wrong place where it is not. We are always looking on the outside of us where we can never find it! A search as such is doomed.

When you think about it, feeling good, feeling happy, feeling satisfaction is a “feeling”. Where is that feeling? It is inside you, right where you are. It is our feelings that give us joy and pleasure or the opposite. Our feelings create more than just how we feel in this moment, our feelings define how we think and how we act. When we start looking inward we will find that all those feelings inside of us are accumulation of feelings we did not or could not feel at time of the experience, such as a fear that you have felt towards something in you, that really never materialized.

With the ability to be present, comes the ability to notice the very subtle energies when we start looking inside. When we learn to detect these energies, physical, mental and spiritual healing starts.

Live in Light!

EL