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The 5 Pillars of Healing Part 1 - Recovery of Our Natural Beliefs Part 2 - Recovery of Our Body Part 3 - Recovery from Addictions PART I Recovery of Our Natural Beliefs What is the Self? The Self is your relationship with what is natural. The Self is not your career or your roles that you play. But the Self is your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Many cultures teach that the goal in life is to extinguish the Self. This is the farthest thing from the truth. Nature knows the truth and when you try to extinguish the Self you are trying to dominate nature. Most of our problems begin with our attempt to eliminate the Self, or conquer nature. Stress, addictions, and pain in the body all can be traced back to the loss of our relationship with our Self. Evolution of Human Beings Human beings have been around on the planet in present form for about a million years. Much has happened as we evolved from Stone Age times up until our present high tech revolution. But some major changes occurred about five thousand years ago that shifted our evolution dramatically. This was a period in which rational, left-brain thinking began to dominate. This was the emergence of the written word. This began the repression of everything that was not left-brain, including emotions, creativity, and intuition. Women became subjugated to men’s authority. Rational thought began to dominate over all other types of intellect. Laws of Nature Nature knows the truth, not a speaker trying to convince some naïve audience that he knows it all. Follow the laws of nature and you win. Try to conquer or ignore nature and you lose. For the last five thousand years or so we have come to believe that we are better than nature. We have broken many natural laws when it comes to child rearing. We are the only mammalian species on the planet that banishes its children at night to aloneness and nighttime terror by placing them in cribs alone. We have forgotten our need to protect our children and practice a Child’s Bill of Rights. False Beliefs Our mind tries to interpret the world around us to help us resolve our conflicts. When a loved one dies we might create a story that we were bad and God is punishing us. We try to interpret our natural world with myths of creation and after-life. Unfortunately our mind creates many stories that are just not true- according to nature. The Greeks created the Myth of Cupid shooting a golden arrow to attract lovers. We know that there is no Cupid. We live much of the time in the world of magical thinking and false beliefs. It is this type of thinking that continues to draw us farther and farther away from our natural world. Authoritarianism and Magical Thinking When we lose our Self we lose our ability to trust ourselves. We do not know what to think or to feel. We look to authority figures to validate our feelings and thoughts. In the process we give our power away, keep ourselves in the role of victim, and give up our ability to question. We become a slave to magical thinking. This type of thinking is the world of the child. A piece of wood becomes a battleship floating in the gutter. A ball of mud becomes a cookie. Most of us are still living in the world of magical thing and authoritarianism. Repression When we do not follow natural law we end up repressing. Natural law is the law of energy. Energy needs to flow. When we damn the river the water becomes stagnant and the fish die. When we damn our sensory and emotional experiences because our false beliefs and magical thinking tells us to do so then we die. Many diseases begin with the repression of the natural flow of energy and then later become a physiological manifestation. The higher thinking brain wants to be in control. Natural law wants us to flow with the moment. Reversing the affects of repression is at the heart of learning how to heal. PART TWO Recovery of Our Body The Nature of Stress Stress is a good thing. Stress keeps us alive in life-threatening situations. A bus loses its brakes and comes roaring towards us. Through stress we are able to react quickly to save our life. But our higher brain has created a library of false beliefs that we believe are life-threatening. It is these false beliefs that lead to imaginary life-threatening situations. We are almost always deluged with stress because our brain will not shut off. Learning to stay in control is what our higher brain wants us to do. This does not work and only leads to more problems. The key to health is learning how to relax. The Physiology of Stress It’s simple. A machine that is always on and never rests will end up breaking down. This is also true for us. When we are hyper alert nearly all of the time we break down. Our adrenal glands become depleted and our immune system is weakened. We are pumping large amounts of stress hormones into our system constantly. Stress causes us to enter into our Fight or Flight stage. We both tighten our body and brace for attack or we run away, either inside or on the outside. No matter whether the threat is real or imagined, it does not matter. Our mind cannot tell the difference and the body will respond in the same manner. The Long Term Affects of Stress Day after day, year after year, stress takes its toll. When we cannot release the energy from our body we end up storing it. Our body becomes like a sponge, soaking up the energy that we could not release. Diseases often happen energetically before they are a physical manifestation. Our bodies harden and stiffen as our connective tissue binds together and loses its elasticity. When this happens the energy flowing through our body becomes stagnant and weakened. Our adrenal glands become weakened because of constant arousal. We shorten and compress. We stiffen and weaken. We get sicker more often. Stress and Disease Diseases do not just happen. It is estimated that 98% of all disease is stress-related. So why don’t we begin to address this problem of stress rather than keep creating another pill or vaccine? It is the dominance of the left-brain that causes us to create false beliefs and imaginary life-threatening situations that lead to our stress. Science is the world of the left-brain. We are still trying to cure ourselves with that which caused our problem. Disease begins as a repression of energy. These blocks in energy cause a stagnation to occur that begins the disease process. Stress is the plaque of our time. Letting go of rational thought will help to remedy this, not creating more rational thought as we are doing now. Our Myths Become Stuck in Our Bodies False beliefs come to dominate our lives. We have a false concept of who we are because we have lost our relationship with what is natural- our Self. A 12th Century Catholic monk writes about the evils of the body. Eight hundred years later, in a Judeo- Christian based culture, those fears about sexuality and the body are still rampant. When a natural feeling or experience comes up we now repress the energy of expression because our false beliefs tell us that we are bad for having this feeling. The energy of repression gets stored in your genital region, perhaps leading to disease, because a man some eight hundred years ago could not control his sexuality and thus proclaimed the body as evil. This is just one example of how our myths get stuck in our body. The mind will lie, (false beliefs), while the body will tell the truth. The benefits of being a skilled body worker have enabled me to distinguish between the lies and the truth. PART THREE |