Illness, injury, and disease are deeply complex.
Usually when we have a health condition, we just want it fixed and over, so we can have our lives back. And yet when we forget to listen, to tune in and understand on another level why we have the issue, we miss the opportunity to heal at the most profound level.
Over time I have seen that healing can entail addressing many different layers. We clear one layer and then another arises. As a dear friend of mine says, it is impossible to see all the causes, and so we must move gently forward, addressing what appears to be the next part of the healing process.
When examining original causes it is always useful to look under the illness or injury.
Asking ourselves: What is the message here? What am I not hearing about myself or my life? Is there old wounding from another life causing this? Am I enacting something from my family lineage? Is there a part of myself I need to love, forgive, or take care of? Is this a call from my Inner Child for attention? Have I not been listening to my Inner Self on what is best for me? Do I need a life change?
People with big illnesses will often say, after they have slowed down and worked with the underlying causes of their malady, that it was the best thing that ever happened to them. Possibly in these cases they had failed to listen to some part of themselves. Maybe it needed attention, change, or simply their own love. The illness gave them permission to stop and make the necessary adjustments, to find what their soul was calling for. I have also seen clients finally face and feel a loss or old trauma they had never really addressed. And in some cases people were carrying an old grief or wounding from their family line.
In my own case I have an old injury that I have worked with repeatedly at different times in my life. For years it will be fine and then something changes and I must dive in. Often I find another past life which must be cleared, other times I have to listen to what it is telling me, and still other times I look back to healing my childhood wounding.
Indeed, there is no easy answer to healing. Instead when we hold it as a journey and take moments to revel in the deeper understanding and the opportunity to love ourselves more, it can become a beautiful journey. |
Kristina Rogers 