avatarIlis Trudie Palmer

Summary

The article emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and listening to one's body for self-healing, suggesting that taking a pause from the hustle of life to connect with the subconscious mind can facilitate the body's natural healing processes.

Abstract

The author reflects on the body's innate ability to heal and maintain well-being, highlighting the necessity of being mindful and attentive to its needs. Despite daily meditation practices, the author acknowledges that sometimes these sessions may not be sufficient to allow for deep healing. The article recounts a personal experience of ignoring the body's signals after an injury, leading to increased discomfort. The turning point came with a reminder from a Buddhist monk's guided meditation, which emphasized the importance of focusing on areas of pain and allowing the body to heal naturally. The author advocates for a deeper relaxation and a surrender to the body's wisdom, suggesting that this approach can lead to better sleep and recovery. The article concludes with an invitation to readers to embrace this philosophy of "letting it flow" and to explore the author's other writings on healing and the subconscious mind.

Opinions

  • The author believes that the body's natural healing abilities are often overlooked due to the fast pace of life and the lack of mindfulness.
  • It is implied that even regular meditation may not be enough if it is not deep or long enough to facilitate healing.
  • The author suggests that physical ailments can be a message from the body to slow down and pay attention to its needs.
  • There is a strong endorsement of mindfulness meditation, particularly guided sessions, as a tool for healing and connecting with the subconscious mind.
  • The author expresses a personal revelation that the body knows how to heal itself when given the chance to relax and flow with its natural energy.
  • The article conveys a message of self-compassion and the importance of not forcing the body through pain or discomfort without acknowledging its signals.

Let Self Healing Flow — A Message From the Ethers

If only we pause to listen

Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay

Our body is an amazing piece of machinery. When we think about how the billions of cells work in perfect harmony to effect growth and healing and well-being, it is nothing short of phenomenal. We care for our bodies as best we can but there are times when we show it less attention than we should. This may be because life has been happening around us and to us at a pace faster than we can deal with, and so we do not permit ourselves to be mindful. We forget to feed our bodies energetically and sometimes when the rush is too much, even physically. And when we do give it some sustinance, we end with a body that is asking us, “what crap is that?

Physical injury or illness is often a last resort for many of us to slow down and take due care — unfortunate but true. We suffer in some way that forces us to pause, listen and obey.

I have been going, going for a while, and even though I meditate daily, my meditation was not long enough and perhaps not deep enough to permit the healing of the body when we connect to our subconscious mind — that powerhouse. I have written about healing through the subconscious mind before and it came as a stark reminder to me when I foolishly injured my knee and went about being the bigger fool by not permitting it to heal properly, not doing the pause, and going within where healing lies to benefit from what the body knows and can do for itself.

So this evening, I was feeling very sore. My right knee, the one that I hurt, was acting up, and as if by some subliminal messaging, the left one started feeling off, and then my calves and finally my toes. I had a situation going on and the more I tried to effort through the healing process — forcing it to get better quickly because I had things to do, the more my body resisted and caused me greater discomfort.

After a few minutes of feeling sorry for myself, my intuitive mind showed me an image of my favourite Buddhist monk, he is a master at mindfulness meditation and I remember the times when a day was not complete unless I had participated in one of his online guided meditations. Those days were long ago and so it was surprising to me when he popped into my mind space. I went searching for a video and clicked on the first one I saw and as I settled down, I began to relax and listen.

What the teacher said, a few minutes into the session made everything make sense. He said something like this, “ as we begin to relax our bodies, let us start with our feet and our knees, a lot of us have sore knees, for whatever reason, maybe from injury or getting old, our knees become sore and sensitive and we have to pay more attention to them………” I was not even shocked at this point. I have grown to accept that my body has a guidance system that when I do take the time from my busyness and egomaniac living, that it always shows me how to get what I most need in the moment.

I had the best sleep that I had had in quite a while and in the morning when I woke, another message was there waiting in my subconscious for me, it was “let it flow, let it flow, relax the muscles and let the healing energy flow

I plan to let it flow today and tomorrow and for the days after that.

What about you, do you have some areas in your life that you have to allow healing energy to flow? Have you been efforting trying to attempt healing on your own, slogging through the process with your bandages and ointments and icepacks? And to no avail?

Well then, I share the message with you, “Let it flow.”

Check out my other stories on healing and flow:-

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Inspiration
Mindfulness
Meditation
Consciousness
Healing
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