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Healing Yourself
My soul can lead me to healing. I will become one with my true self. With this first affirmation we begin the healing process. From there ninety-nine other expressions of spirit follow, one for each day. All together they summarize the process of emotional and spiritual healing. They shift our attention from the external world to the inner world, which is the source of light.
Suffering threatens to make life meaningless. That is its greatest danger, not the pain it inflicts. It is up to each of us to restore meaning. Doctors cannot do it for us with their medicine; friends cannot do it for us with their solace and comfort. You are healed when you can say to yourself, “I matter, I belong, I am worthy, I am safe, I can express myself, I am loved.”
Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. “Light” is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as love and understanding. Love nurtures the emotional body; understanding fills the voids created by pain.
As you contact your true self, you will discover that the soul is not passive. Spirit knows more about us than we do ourselves, and it wants to support our every step toward wholeness. The soul journey has been called the pathless path because there is no map.
Every person’s steps are different. But the great wisdom traditions have told us a multitude of helpful things about spirit.
Light has the power to fill the void afflicted by darkness. Healing yourself comes in two stages – releasing the energy of suffering, then replacing it with the soul’s energy. It is a gentle process, very much like holding on to a thread as it leads you from step to step. What begins as the merest hint of new strength will grow. Your true self is always available to meet any challenge, find any answer, and show you the way out of any dilemma.
Adapted from The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul from Fear and Suffering, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2001).
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add your comment »Yes Janine, you are taking back yourself and your beauty adds to the world's radiance. I, and I know all whom you have touched with your heart and your voice feel it. Today is the longest day and the light is at it's height. May the power and beauty of this day bless you and keep you all the year through.
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Uma, I think it is starting to work, I feel some good.
Janine
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I thank all of you for your help. There was a lesson I wanted to learn. It was how to pray. I think I've begun to learn.
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It takes all of us to get the job done.
Have you noticed that when you seriously and more consciously decided to walk the spiritual path that you found a lot of challenges coming your way?
When a caterpillar is ready to become a butterfly it encases itself in a cocoon. In the “darkness” it undergoes a change. It becomes a butterfly but until it breaks out of the cocoon it will not fly. When it is time to break free it has to struggle against its encasement. If it were not for this process, the wings would be useless. The butterfly would not be able to fly.
When we become a butterfly we can soar above the earth and see everything from a different perspective. This is a perspective that we would never see as a caterpillar crawling on the ground. That is the payoff for going through the dark night of the soul and for the struggles.
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Uma and Brenda, your comments to Janine move me to tears. It is so wonderful to see sisters helping each other, even though we have not or ever will meet. Janine, I can only say how sorry about your situation I am, but having been in a (much milder but still painful) situation, my heart truely goes out to you. I know the extreme difficulty of trying to remove yourself from a horrible situation and not being able to see any light at the end of the long dark tunnel. But, believe me, it is there! Uma's suggestion is so beautiful, loving, and honest. I am sure will you will make it. And I would love to be of any help I can be, even though it is thru this manner. Love and blessings to you, for you are a jewel in this crazy universe!
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Jannine, thank you, you blessed creature, you can be sure it will work very well. I will always treasure your sweetness, and I know you will find yourself surrounded by the same.
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Aaaah Uma,
That was such a beautiful sentiment and beautiful way to help me with a creative suggestion! Your kindthought is most unusual in this strange world I find myself! I shall try your method and wish it comes true for me and I wish the best and most beautiful life for you as well. This inspiration was most unexpected. Thank you from my heart.
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Jannine, when the conscious mind doesn't know the answer it's time to surrender to your own high self who sits with God and knows all your tomorrows.The answer comes from another part of yourself. This is what you do. Take a scent that makes you feel good. Perfume, oil, no matter. Open the bottle and say your prayer to be lead to freedom from the hell of your relationship, step by step, asking spirit to take your hand and lead you. Say " I don't know how to escape this hell but take my hand and guide me, and I promise I'll make space in my life for the changes you bring me" blow your prayer into the bottle and put it on.Say, or whisper, your prayer out loud, (don't just think at it). Do it every morning upon arising,before you leave the house, and at night before you sleep so you will be guided in your dreams.You can repeat it as often as you like.Pray for protection from all danger from all directions too, while you're at it.Listen in the quiet of your heart and follow where spirit leads and it will lead you right out of this mess. I've been there too. All that's needed here is for you to give spirit permission to help you and promise to make space in your life for the changes, and sure as the sun rises in the east, you will be free.
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Brenda, what you said about the "brain being broken" was classic. Tried Al-Anon at suggestion of a real angel. They all sat there with their mouths open and couldn't even talk after I told them about him glueing the dog. My situation of being soldered to him and the career issue is the lesson I can't understand at all. There is something so messed up I can't grasp it. I'm kind, reliable, never missed a day of school in my life, am sensitive and talented yet cannot seem to break out of the marriage and have a career on my own. I seem to be somewhat "controlled" by some strange wicked force that just doesn't let me be "me" without him paying the bills. The divorce stigma plagued me for years. Not anymore, of course, but the career is the key issue after moving so much. I like your profile Brenda, you are the type of person I admire. I also lost very many folks to cancer, hard to believe how many dear. Thanks for your insight and wisdom, something I never hear in reality.
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Don't forget that you deserve better. He does too but if it can't see that right now, you have to let that go and take care of you.
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