13 Essentials When Facing Chronic illness
A diagnosis of chronic illness such as Lyme can feel weighted and scary, or if you are like me, it was a big relief due to years of trying to figure out exactly all that I was dealing with. Either way, a chronic diagnosis of any kind is overwhelming with a plethora of concerns and confusions as to where to turn for guidance. Doctors don’t know everything. The western medical education is a limited system guided by corporate ideology, one that does not accept healing as the core philosophy which takes an integrated approach of mind, body and soul. So a lot can go amiss. Then when you look to the internet, most forums are very negative and hopeless which can feed your thoughts and emotions of distrust in your personal journey toward healing. These are all normal feelings, reactions and experiences as you navigate your direction, but at some point you have to decide to learn how to relax into the noise.
Accept your walk with chronic illness as an adventure, remembering that your bio suit body is an incredible intelligent force that is constantly changing and finding itself in an ever changing expression. And your mind’s stream of thought is an indicator of where you are in any given moment, the past, present or future. Your job is to listen, learn how to receive your next steps to come into a growing expansion of peace and presence. Remember friend, you are an all pervasive divine intelligence and consciousness that wants to be known and embraced, and your body and mind is your compass showing you all that you are not, so you can discover all that you truly are. Illness is a powerful Rite of Passage. Open your arms to it, and watch it dissolve in perfect divine time, after all the lessons are embodied.
Your path to healing is unique to you, and there is a vast resource of knowledge that can be accessed from within you and all around you. Everything about your dis-ease exist to bring you into a greater state of wholeness, lightness and freedom: navigating your being back into balance. However, many get sucked into a rabbit hole of anxiety, anger, grief and despair, due to their fear and distrust of all that is occurring.
Rather than be a victim, see it as an experience that can profoundly awaken you into your true nature. A preparation that teaches you how to gracefully live and die. An opportunity to learn how accept the entire range of sensory experience, which teaches you how to be in every moment, whether it be in pleasure or discomfort. Allow all of your human experience to inform you and bring you into a growing embodiment of truth that devours your limiting beliefs, and past traumas can no longer be feared.
Are you still with me?
Here are 13 essential components to embrace for A soulful evolution and acceptance of whatever will be in your dance with Lyme, Chronic Illness, or any other element of our human experience.
TRUST
Everything is communicating and vibrating a pulse that can move you into your truest nature. Your inner and outer experiences are beacons showing you what is serving and what is not. What heaviness needs to be unpacked, learned from, excepted and moved into neutrality.
All that is happening exist to bring you into greater states of harmony and peace. Your dis-ease is a powerful teacher from start to finish. Trust your process.
AWARENESS
Learning how to bring awareness into every moment of our lives is critical to understanding the loops of the mind that energetically feed the imbalances of the physical and mental body, creating well-being or dis-ease.
Common and important questions to contemplate are:
What are your beliefs and thoughts around your current state of health, relationships, career, your life?
Do you feel hopeful in your ability to heal, or hopeless? Do you feel distrust in the treatment? Do you feel angry around the manifestation of your dis-ease?
How do you truly feel about yourself, past and present ways of being? What are you hiding from yourself? What are you not facing that subconsciously stands in your way?
Watch your mind, and the story and thoughts repeating in your head. What are the emotions connected to the story, and the feelings in your body that are result of the emotions? All are gateways to creating freedom from beliefs and constructs that no longer serve you, changing the vibration within your body, healing the layers of imbalance, and opening the stuck energy within you so your life force can freely flow.
INTUITION
This is your bread and butter. Your roadmap to wellness. To tap into your intuition, opens the entire universe, and will continually lead you to what is best for you. Open yourself to receive what it is your body needs through successful treatments, energy practices, awareness, healing relationships, and releasing grievances that will shift your body, mind and spirit into truth, wholeness and a beneficial balanced state of mind despite results.
DISCERNMENT
You know your body best. Learn to listen to it and trust what it is conveying to you. In nursing school we were told over and over, “Listen to your patients. They know their body”. However, when I became a patient, there were countless times in my healing journey I knew intuitively what was going on with my body and what steps needed to be taken, yet there were doctors and naturopaths that did not listen to me. I felt for years I had Lyme, but doctors would not test me, thinking it was something else. Thus, I’d often abandon their advice and follow my intuition, finding that my body shifted and healed that particular symptom due to me trusting and having discernment as to what was best for my body. I realized quickly that those practitioners were not for me.
So, if a treatment or practitioner does not resonate with you, despite their A+ credentials, know that your body will not react and heal if you do not have faith in what’s being prescribed. You know your body best.
EXPLORATION
There are so many ways to heal your body.
Explore and be open to different modalities. If it resonates, there is a reason, try it and see what happens. You may be pleasantly surprised, and you will learn something new that may benefit you in some small or large way. Trust your Journey! And remember that what worked for one person, may not work for you. You are a multiplicity of oneness, with a constitution and story that is unique to you.
SURRENDER
Attachment to an outcome is your worst enemy. Why? Because expectation creates suffering. Be open to different scenarios and outcomes.
It’s like the “Choose Your Own Adventure Books”. If you choose choice A and it’s not your ideal outcome, choose again. Be open to favorable outcomes while learning from your lack of success. Knowing that there are layers of emotional, mental and physical healing. Learn how to surrender into the shifting nature of your body. Notice the shifts and changes with each layer that you traverse, manipulate and balance. This is essential to your ability to heal.
Secondly, learn to surrender into the middle of your discomfort in mind and body. By doing so it transmutes the imbalance, shifting your experience, opening up the constriction of energy you have been holding. Many lessons will unfold for you here, and if like me, you will find in perfect time a dissolution of symptoms. I’ve had so many “magical” disappearances of symptoms, such as a fully closed sore throat from a virus a Dr. told me would take a few weeks for my body to fight and heal. By fully surrendering and bringing awareness into the pain rather than worrying about it, it disappeared within 2 hours. Yoga Nidra, Sound Baths, Meditation and Depth Hypnosis will teach you this.
I love this quote by one of my dear teachers in spirit, Padmasambava, an eightenth Tantric master. His advice takes a lot of faith and surrender to arrive into such an experiential understanding, but as you grow into your power, trust, fully inhabiting your domain through presence, this statement becomes living and true.
“To cure the essence of illness don’t take even a single dose of medicine or chant one syllable of a healing ceremony. Don’t regard the illness as a hinderance or consider it a virtue. Leave your mind unfabricated and free… cutting through the flow of conceptual thoughts…old illnesses will disappear by themselves and you will remain unharmed by new ones.”
Accept and Surrender to the journey in small ways, and you will naturally find that your trust in any given moment naturally follows, because you open up the nature of reality.
PATIENCE
It’s a virtue. Without it, you will fall into a pit of despair and distrust. This is the crux and base of all of the above components of healing and bridge to the list below.
Relax and Breath into every experience.
MEDITATE
This is absolutely a necessity. It is of most importance to create time for solitude and stillness. To learn how to quiet the mind and master it is essential. I’ll say it again, the quiet moments are of ultimate importance.
In these times you will also receive nectar guidance as to your next steps to support your body to transmute and heal. So many times, I received pivotal information from Great Spirit as to what was going on with my body, herbs to use, ways of increasing my vibration, guides that would come and give me incredible healing. Information as to who to go see that had the insight or tools I needed to heal my body. The vast amount of help I received in my quiet time was infinite, and the release of negative energy catapulted my being into positivity and trust in the process.
FACE YOUR FEARS
So many fears, worries and anxieties can arise throughout your process of healing. Your body will go through a vast amount of detoxing, and with the burning of these toxins creates a lot of imbalance, mentally and physically.
Learn how to inquire into your fears and current beliefs. This will help you understand the nature of your reality, and dissolve the negative distrusting mind simultaneously instilling the inherent Buddha nature: creating neutrality and balance within your mind, body and spirit. Shamanic Journeying and Depth Hypnosis is highly recommended for teaching the importance and how to of inquiring within.
COMPASSION
Cultivate a deep compassion for yourself, but do not fall into a state of self-pity.
Have appreciation for your body and its amazing ability to withstand such stressors.
Put your needs first, treating yourself with kindness, respect and love. For you cannot love another fully if you are working from a place of anger and resentment due to your exhaustion, pain and anguish. Nourish your body, mind and spirit in every way possible, even if that means you have to ask for help in order to do this.
CONNECT WITH NATURE
Finding balance is a necessity and that requires an entire mental, physical and spiritual routine. Connecting with nature has a plethora of benefits and is a reminder of our own rhythmic nature, providing healthy nutrients through natures elements. There are countless studies that show the revitalization and health of getting healthy doses of sunshine, digging in the soil, walking barefoot, lying on the ground, drinking healthy clean water, listening to the sounds of nature, sitting with bees or a tree. It doesn’t matter what you do in nature, just make time to do it. Allow your mind to unravel in the beauty and stillness.
REMEMBRANCE
Continue to connect with your eternal highest divine nature, that is untouchable, despite disease and hardship. You ARE NOT your body or your mind thoughts. You are a spiritual being here for a human experience that fully whole-heartedly chose this experience, in all its transient beauty and difficulty!
You were born and your body will one day fall away. Thus, allow your dis-ease to move you into a state of consciousness that is a witness of your experience. Continually aware of your eternal being and the shifting impermanent reality of every moment.
Your healing journey is just that, a journey, a shifting dissolving story. Allow it to teach and strengthen you. To move you into your eternal wisdom and magic.
BREATHE
Learn to breathe Love into all your pain and joy. Your breath is a powerful source of healing and transformation when used with intention, devotion and discipline.
RE-WRITE YOUR STORY
Your soul story holds keys to bringing balance to the emotional, mental and physical body. Get to know all that you are not, so you can move into all that you truly are. Re-write your past story from within, and watch your life open to the magic it is meant to be.
YOU GOT THIS! You are healed! You are Whole! You are perfection! You Are Loved!
Do you need help exploring and learning from your experience, increasing your intuition and trust?
I’m here to help you sink into your innate ability to heal YOUR MIND, BODY & SPIRIT. If you are overwhelmed with your present state of health, Depth Hypnosis has such powerful effects to help you move into a centered space within the storms of life by helping unravel the blockages from the subconscious mind, connecting with your peace and power. I also teach Breathwork, Shamanic Journeying, Meditation, Healing with Sound & Voice. I hold yearly retreats to move you beyond your fear into ultimate trust through Ancient Paths of Initiation. A Rite of Passage that would change the world if all humans underwent this process.
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Article Written and Copyrighted by Kari Rivers
