Three Things for Healing
In a “flash” of inspiration, or something, I realized the other day what it will take for healing to occur.
First, CHOICE.
Yeshua asked, “Do you want to be healed?” Direct and to the point. To the heart. No ifs, ands or buts. No excuses. In spite of all the excuses offered – no one here to help, too many get there first, etc. – these were discarded, ignored, and not allowed to enter the conversation. It was simply a matter of Desire. Want to. He told the Canaanite woman, “You get what you want.” We can choose to want healing or we can choose to live in excuses and blame, thereby wanting to stay unhealed – whatever that looks like.
In the final analysis, perhaps choice is the ONLY thing required for healing.
Second, SARNO
John E. Sarno, M.D. has written several books about and practiced a technique which gets you to admit that you have repressed rage which is expressed in your body in some form of dis-ease. His rationale is that the mind is designed to keep emotional trauma at a manageable level and does so by subconsciously shunting the feelings into physical symptoms that may or may not have actual anatomical correlation. On the surface this sounds pretty crazy. The healing comes when you consciously break the shunting process and don’t allow the emotion to manifest in the body. Instead, you deal with the emotion. This is powerful and places the source of much if not most physical dis-ease squarely on the shoulders of emotion (where it belongs!) The conscious effort required to use this technique takes us back to choice once again.
Third, GET NAKED
Naked, vulnerable, transparent, open, honest, real – all words that mean the same thing. Naked carries the extra connotation of applying the concept to our physical body while the other words apply the concept to our emotion, attitude, and words and leave it at that. However, unveiling the physical body requires a choice that is a bit more intense, in our culture at least, because we carry so much fear and inferiority and shame and disdain for the body. We have let the sexualization of the body and the exploitation of that warp our thinking about the body, its worth and beauty, and we have decided that bodies are nasty and ugly. However, to truly get to a place of openness, even with our body, requires that we release the protection, the fear, the failure, the excuses for being less than “perfect” and thus are open for healing.
So we again come back to choice.
Yeshua, I believe, somehow in asking questions of us and somehow in touching people as he healed them, takes us to the naked place within us where there is no longer any protection or any fear or any shame. This was the Eden experience and to this he has provided the way of restoration if we will only so choose.
Let’s be healed!
Blessings,
Dr Jon
