Take resposibility for self-healing

You may have heard repressed emotions often show themselves in the form of physical pain. If you're holding back from something you truly desire to do, and denying it or, if you keep feelings bottled up inside, the resulting discomfort can manifest as pain or illness. Why might this be? What can you do about it?

As you look inside, you gain insight into how pain can be a message about deeper life issues. Consider every cell, organ, every part of you, has a memory. Don't bother examining yourself under microscope. Your body and soul have insight into the truth of situations even if you refuse to accept or admit openly to things. Your conscious and unconscious minds may still disagree. You may ask how could this be possible?

Take when you literally experience a kink in your neck. This may actually be a silent reminder you believe some person in your life is being a pain and you're letting this get under your skin. It could also reflect your own attitude or stubborness that offer clues to root source of discomfort. But okay, where's proof? In your head, silly!

When you experience pain it doesn't mean this suffering is always yours. It may reveal how connected or "in-sync" you are to others. You may be a gifted sensitive or empath. You can learn to intuit what sensations mean and step back to understand. Tingles, even pins and needles, offer valuable sensory details. Recognizing and differentiating among sensations is how you communicate at the soul level.

As you learn to be truly honest and read yourself, you'll discern the cause of your own unease and begin to sense how you can relieve it. To be accountable for your feelings is a way you can take responsibility for healing from the inside-out.

Comments

[Andrea Hess | Empowered Soul]

Great post, Liara. I always think of discomfort - whether it's physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, or a combination thereof - as an invitation or opportunity to address something we're "stuck" on and expand into new awareness. It's not always easy ... but usually the discomfort will increase to get our attention, until we deal with it!

Blessings,
Andrea

[Erin]

Liara, I completely agree that bodies store memories. I have found healing touch, conscious thought and yoga to do wonders for me. Last week I had a HORRID stomach ache that lasted for a few too many days. After identifying in my life the stress that was causing it to manifest I spent 30 minutes visioning a healthy functioning digestive system. I imagined each part of my digestive track and in working in sync with other parts. I literally felt the pain moving through and down my body until it was nearly gone.

[Mark]

Very true! Our emotions and thoughts often manifest pain. We must be accountable for our thoughts and the consequences of those thoughts. Excellent post!

[Liara Covert]

Erin, your story about alleviating your own stomach pain is a great example of how we have more control over our health than many people realize. Thanks for sharing your experience about how we can benrfit from tapping into those good vibrations!

How many of your peers devote energy to vividly describe their level of discomfort? When we channel energy into negative thoughts, we also permit pain to interfere with the positive vibes in our senses. We lose focus on what we can do to help ourselves. Even people with recurrent migranes, arthritis, back and neck issues can learn to recognize the onset of pain and work through it. When you don't permit pain or negativity to control you, then you really move ahead.

[Liara Covert]

Hi Mark.
Your point about accountability is a valid one. This useful life lesson is rarely taught in school. Through life experience, some people learn to think before they buy into beliefs about anything. Yet, others think so much before they act or accept an idea, that they undermine the good they can do and underestimate their own potential.

[Liara Covert]

Andrea,
I agree with your view. Many people sense disconnect between physical illness and their emotions. This is an illusion. Mind, body and soul are linked. Its empowering to discover physical symptoms actually reflect different kinds of feeling or energy imbalance. Self-healing begins with admitting real sources of emotional discomfort.

To make an analogy, when we have single or repeated nightmares, the mind is drawing the dreamer's attention to a conscious situation that is being avoided or ignored. The intensity of a nightmare reveals avoiding things isn't in a person's best interest. The best way to eliminate nighmares is to face the source of our fear.

[ahtisarp]

Hi Liara - a very thought-provoking post! Thank you for sharing this.
I agree with you fully, because I have been through it. In March, when a particular issue bothered me, I was so stressed about it that I developed rashes all over my body. It was a classic case of "stress taking its toll". When the issue was sorted out, the rashes sort of disappeared! Whoosh...just like that!
I love what you said in one of your earlier reply: Its empowering to discover physical symptoms actually reflect different kinds of feeling or energy imbalance.
I think trying to sort out your energy imbalances and live in harmony with the Universal Spirit is indeed a significant part of this wonderful journey called life.

[Liara Covert]

ahtisarp, some people ask why spiritual healing does not work for all. This only seems the case. Any apparent dissatisfaction arises because human understanding of the concept is limited. Each person does whatever he needs to do to rediscover what makes him who he is.