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Everything
begins with your consciousness. Everything that happens in your life, and
everything that happens in your body, begins with something happening in your
consciousness.
Your
consciousness is who you are, your experience of Being.
You
decide what ideas to accept and which to reject. You decide what to think, and
you decide what to feel. When these decisions leave you with residual stress,
you experience the stress as if in your physical body. We know that stress
creates symptoms. The interesting question is, "Which stress creates which
symptoms?" When we are able to quantify this process, we are then able to
see the body as a map of the person's consciousness, relating particular
symptoms to particular stresses and particular ways of being, in the same way
that Type "A" Behavior has been able to be associated with heart
disease.
Everything Starts In Your Consciousness
To
understand this map, we must first orient ourselves to the idea that the causes
of symptoms are within. While it's true that germs cause disease and accidents
cause injuries, it is also true that this happens in accord with what is
happening in the consciousness of the person involved.
Germs
are everywhere. Why are some people affected and not others? Something
different is happening in their consciousness.
Why
do some patients in hospitals respond better to treatment than others? They
have different attitudes. Something different is happening in their
consciousness When someone is injured in an "accident," why is it
that a very specific part of the body is affected, and that it is the same part
that has had habitual problems? Is that an "accident," or is there a
pattern and an order to the way things happen in our bodies?
You Are A Being of Energy
Your
consciousness, your experience of Being, who you really are, is energy. We can
call it "Life Energy" for now. This energy does not just live in your
brain; it fills your entire body. Your consciousness is connected to every cell
in your body. Through your consciousness, you can communicate with every organ
and every tissue, and a number of therapies are based on this communication
with the organs which have been affected by some kind of symptom or disorder.
This
energy which is your consciousness, and which reflects your state of
consciousness, can be measured through the process known as Kirlian
photography. When you take a Kirlian photograph of your hand, it shows a
certain pattern of energy. If you take a second photograph while imagining that
you are sending love and energy to someone you know, there will be a different
pattern of energy shown on the Kirlian photograph. Thus, we can see that a
change in your consciousness creates a change in the energy field that is being
photographed, which we call the aura.
This
energy field shown in the Kirlian photographs has been quantified, so that when
there are "holes" in particular parts of the energy field, these are
said to correspond to particular weaknesses in specific parts of the physical
body. The interesting thing about this is that the weakness shows up in the
energy field before there is ever any evidence of it on the physical level.
Thus,
we have an interesting direction of manifestation shown through what we have
described.
1.
A change of consciousness creates a change in the energy field.
2.
A change in the energy field happens before a change in the physical body.
The
direction of manifestation is from the consciousness, through the energy field,
to the physical body.
Consciousness--1-->Energy
Field--2-->Physical Body
When
we look at things in this way, we see that it is not the physical body creating
the energy field, the aura, but rather the aura or energy field that is
creating the physical body. What we see as the physical body is the end result
of a process that begins with the consciousness.
We Each Create Our Reality
When
someone makes a decision that leaves them with stress, creating a blockage in
the energy field with a sufficient degree of intensity, this creates a symptom
on the physical level. The symptom speaks a certain language, which reflects
the idea that we each create our own reality. When the symptom is described
from that point of view, the metaphoric significance of the symptom becomes
clear. Thus, instead of saying, "I can't see," the person would have
to say, "I have been keeping myself from seeing something." If they
cannot walk, they would have to say, "I have been keeping myself from walking
away from something." And so on. We must understand that there are no accidents and no
coincidences. Things do happen according to a pattern and order.
The Human Directional System
We
can say that we have an inner guidance system, a connection to our Higher Self,
or our Inner Being, or whatever name we choose to give this Higher
Intelligence. This inner guidance system functions through what we call our
intuition, or our instinct. It speaks a very simple language. Either it feels
good, or it doesn't. All the rest is just politics.
We
are told we should move with what feels good, and do not do what doesn't feel
good to us. We are told to trust this inner voice. When we don't follow this
inner voice we feel tension. We feel not-good.
Then,
the voice must get louder. The next level of communication is through the
emotions. As we move more and more in the direction that feels not-good, we
experience more and more emotions that feel not-good, and at some point we can
say, "I should have listened to myself when I thought to move in the other
direction." That meant that we heard the inner voice. Otherwise, we could
not have said, "I should have listened." If we make the decision we
know is the right one for us, and therefore change direction, there is a
release of tension, we feel better, and we know we are again on the right
track.
If
we continue to move in the direction that feels not-good, the communication
reaches the physical level. We create a symptom, and the symptom speaks a
language which reflects the idea that we each create our own reality. When we
describe the symptom from that point of view, we can understand the message.
If
we change our way of being, we have received the message, and the symptom has
no further reason for being. It is able to be released, according to whatever
we allow ourselves to believe is possible.
If
we created the symptom with a decision, we are also able to release it with a
decision.
As
an hypothesis, we can imagine that someone makes a decision that it is not a
good idea to express what they want. From that moment, whenever there is
something they want, they keep themselves from expressing it, and therefore
from having what they want. That feels not-good. The tension grows. They feel
more and more not-good as they keep themselves from expressing what they want
and not having it.
Eventually,
something happens to create a symptom on the physical level, and their right
arm is affected. It could have happened through falling from a ladder, or in an
automobile accident, or by pinching a nerve in the neck, or by "sleeping
in a draft."
Something
had to happen on the physical level to create the symptom, in order to give the
person the message on the physical level about what they had been doing to
themselves. We do to ourselves literally what we have been doing to ourselves
figuratively.
The effect is that the person cannot move their arm. They are keeping themselves from reaching for something, and since it is the right arm, on the "will" side of the body, they are keeping themselves from reaching for or going for what they want. They have been giving themselves reasons to not believe that they could have what they want. When they begin to do something different in their consciousness, they notice that something different begins to happen with their arm, and the symptom is able to be released.