SYMPTOMS -- ILLNESS OR WELLNESS?

Author, Murdo McBein wrote in “Beyond the Himalayas” -- Sickness is the symptom, showing that your bodymind has lost its natural rhythm. The struggle to regain natural rhythm is the disease.

Dis-ease considers itself, and is treated in general by the medical and psychiatric professions as separate from the whole being. That separation would make Hippocrates – the father of medicine – gyrate in his grave! OK let's ask him – “What is illness?” Illness is energy invested in a faulty assumption, energy heading in the wrong direction, energy out of harmony with the whole being.

Consider this – one of those faulty assumptions I'm talking about is that your symptoms ARE the disease. They're not. Symptoms are messengers and messages of something untoward going on. So why do we go on an all-out offensive against friendly messengers. How about looking instead at what the signs might be pointing to? 
 

Furthermore, I posit another possibility to you – that the symptoms may be signs, not of what's wrong, but good news of the body and mind healing itself of what's wrong. The disease has already happened; the feeling of illness is the body recovering. Health is not the absence of disease: disease is the absence of health/whole-th. Symptoms are signals of the presence in the bodymind of something unhealthy that your bodymind is healing all by itself. Why don't you find out what is awry, and give your bodymind a bit of assistance, but don't shoot the messengers! Well, you're not encouraged to, are you? Why not? Could it be that, whatever disease you've got, there are probably more people getting rich off it than there are people like you suffering from it? If cancer was cured tonight, there'd be a lot of people lining up at Centrelink tomorrow.

Who was it who said "Heal yourself!"? Try switching your consciousness from one of trying to cure your unease/disease/discomforts, to one of being healed BY them. Stop going to war on the body healing itself! Then watch the medical industry turn itself inside out over that one!

Suffering is the bodily, mental and emotional fallout of conflicting thoughts, feelings and values skirmishing with each other. Mind thinks that if it doesn't oppose whatever refuses to fit in its existing pigeonholes, something dreadful will happen. Byron Katie, writes in her wonderful book Loving What Is: -- “You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".” 

The ensuing melodrama is a concocted story playing in your mind, creating uncomfortably perverse energy flows through your bodycells. You feel sick. Wake up. Become aware. Notice the conversations taking place between your story and your body. Ask yourself “Why do I go on needing this story? What beliefs is it supporting? What good is all this argy-bargy doing me? What goodies is it getting me that I think I can't live without?”  

When you end your story, you begin living your life as it is. When what-is becomes more important to you than what you thought should be, suffering ceases, and healing begins. When you argue with what-is, you lose. Every time.

Healing cannot begin until every scrap of pretence, deceit and delusion is cleared away. Become aware, and begin telling the truth, at least to yourself.

[Heal the Pain – George Michael – 4:41]