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The role of the person receiving
healing is to learn how to monitor his or her own healing process. This process might begin by separating the following
three things: the symptom, concern about the symptom, and self-assessment. In other words, one has to learn
how to go within and deal with one's own reactions.
Rather than asking yourself how
you feel about the symptom, ask how you feel about what you feel. This helps you move inside of yourself, while at the same
time, it helps you move out of the symptom into the seeking of solutions. The significance of the pain you are experiencing
is how you feel about it. What personal concerns does it bring to your surface?
You have
a personal relationship with the symptom (including the life you have lived or your concerns about the symptom) that will
often produce a powerful disconnection from an energy. This creates a part of you that has become separated
from the rest of your body-mind. It takes a lot of your energy to keep this part separate from the rest of you.
The major concern is tied into the story you have about the world and how issues associated
with your personal world have changed. How out of control do you feel you have become in relation to your situation?
The symptom is rarely the problem. Often it expresses the concern associated with a fear
of a loss or an ability. This creates a disharmony that in turn produces the symptom (physical, emotional, mental, or
spiritual) that usurps your life force.
How Do We Separate the Experience of the Symptom from the
Concern,
and Place It In the Context of our Daily Life? We Ask Ourselves Questions!
We Write our Reponses so that
We May refer to them later.
1. How does this symptom or situation alter my life?
2. As time progresses,
does the effect of the symptom or
situation have less of an effect in my life?
3. If the symptom or situation
disappears, is my life still affected?
4. Is there something I do that allows me to totally or almost totally forget
about the symptom or the situation?
5. Is there something that intensifies the symptom or situation?
6. Ask yourself why you think this happens or continues to happen to you?
Wait for a response. Then write down anything
that comes to you.
Keep writing no matter how silly you think youranswer might be.
Write for at least 10 minutes
without stopping.
You can use your non-dominant hand.
7. Ask yourself if this is the sole cause of your problem.
Wait a minute or two before you write your answer.
Then ask yourself . . .
8. If the answer is
no, what else is involved?
These questions help us honor ourselves and give ourselves permission to heal.
We
hold issues in our body-mind that create blocks and dam up our own life force,
then we become ill.
These
questions will help us begin to loosen the blocks so that our body-mind can heal.
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