Several years ago I heard an amazing story about a woman who was diagnosed with emphysema many years before. She was fairly young at the time, a blossoming spiritual teacher soon to become one of the most famous and powerful women in the alternative realm of innovative thinkers. She brought us new platforms about the brain, oneness and human potential.
Instead of succumbing to her diagnosis (this information is not first hand as I’ve never met this woman, yet it was passed to me by one of her students), she recognized the potential for complete healing with the simple act of changing her mind. In my own words, a simplistic view might look something like this:
Because we are all linked through a spiritual web or network and the human body is essentially the same no matter who we are, we all have the same potential and capacity on physiological, spiritual and emotional levels. In other words, we could easily become diseased, choosing to believe that we have no option for recovery and heath, if for example we are diagnosed with lung cancer. Since almost all patients with that particular disease die within six months, we slate ourselves for demise at the hand of this aggressive illness and those who hold the illusion of powerlessness in place. That’s the negative side of oneness and belief.
And yet, how often do we believe or even know the possibility exists to change our neural network, becoming someone else, possibly a person who has perfectly healthy lungs? Why is it we aren’t attuned to our ability to create a new network that matches someone who is completely healthy?
This woman found the way, and she figured out how to show thousands of students the way too. Over a period of time, she changed her thinking and soon became well, completely devoid of the diagnosed illness. My friend told me that she went in for a check up one day back then and there was no more emphysema. What is it about people like this, and there are many cases of spontaneous healing that have nothing at all to do with alternative medicines and remedies, that makes them different from most of us who succumb to our pains and dis-ease each day?
People who stay stuck say in an emotion for a lifetime, a grief pattern, abusive or passive aggressive states of being, even those who hold onto congenital physical issues, may not know they can get out of the dungeon. Maybe they just want to be entitled to something. If they do know, it may mean moving past a seriously addictive pattern, one that has nipped at their heels their whole life. And it’s just too much work to change it, or changing it creates discomfort because it’s different. It’s easier to stay stuck in the pain we already know. Besides, it takes focus, concentration, maybe even real time and total commitment to change a habit or pattern and most people would rather make their way to the same local pub every night. Somehow it just feels safer.
And it is a lot safer in some senses, especially if you have no motivation to live longer, to evolve and change the world, or if you aren’t aware of the bigger picture and the Universal web of connection. It’s safer because there is no risk when there is no goal, no intention or desire for change on any level. That’s why some people have the first penny they ever earned, why some people live in the same neighborhood their whole lives, eat the same food over and over again, hold the same job for 30 years, never trying anything different. They believe in a false sense of security and it’s very safe in there, much like being inside the womb before birth. Even when it can no longer sustain the person they’ve become, even though it’s painful, boring, degraded and diseased, that container is still safer for them. And they lie rotting, from the inside out, within that lifestyle.
When “we” decide, breaking out of prison is a courageous first step. Then, while we run away from our lifelong guards who chase us tirelessly knowing every step we might take, we are exhilarated, sustained and encouraged by the rush of new brain and body chemicals, forging forth along our new path toward our new destination. Something in all this drives us to get there; once we are out of our cages, we want to see the edge of the world. We run, crazy like a dog off it’s leash.
It’s the next choice, the one that compels us to either jump off that edge or retreat, that is the critical moment. Once we jump, we’ve dropped our old patterns and have yet to install the new ones. Here is where the self imposed real danger lurks; here we find ourselves inside the void with no definition, nothing to hang on to, falling and disoriented. This edge is where we addicts are compelled to run back home because the thought of hanging in limbo inside some dark and unknown cavern is so incredibly disquieting. Our mind tells us we’d be crazy to jump and we run back to our cages.
Some say it takes 21 days to change a habit, whether mental, emotional or physical. Some say 40 days. Choose something. The time is now. The Universe is supporting you to go beyond your known boundaries into the world of alternative health on all levels and well-beingness.
When your body says, “I’m tired and I can’t go any further;” or “this has to be the wrong direction otherwise I wouldn’t feel so afraid;” or when you feel anxious and short of breath; it’s often best to keep moving because the ego will herd you homeward at all costs. As you move through the bracken of time, which in some moments will appear to be standing painfully still, just remember, it’s all in your mind. Don’t believe everything you think, making new thoughts instead!
Do you really believe the woman who moved from emphysema into a new healthier neighborhood believed all those cellular voices screaming at her to “go back or you’ll die?”
