Cancer ☯ Facing Death ☯ Letting Go ☯ Loss of Job ☯ Balance Spirit & Self
Cancer Meditation ☯ What Worked for Me ☯ Pain Management
Radiation Therapy ☯ Padre Pio ☯ Our Christmas Miracle
Balance of Spirit & Human Self
for Healing
My dearest friend, companion and wife once wrote a paper called "Keep It Simple Spiritually (K.I.S.S.)" and I felt that is the way we should approach healing terminal illness.
A key component in healing terminal illness requires balance. The most important part of balance that many people forget is the need to give back. Yes we need to receive and we also need to return, this is vital when working with our sacred energy. In reality we all want to be whole and complete, we all want to heal, we need to take in, but with a balance. Take in the many types of energy that are offered, the love, the compassion, the support and the medications. Take all that positive energy in and accept it, but also give back. In order to truly heal energy has to move both ways.
Give back, or as my adoptive native grandmothers called it “Giveaway.” It can be as simple as sharing your enlightenment and loving intentions with others at every opportunity. You don’t have to giveaway large monetary amounts, although charity is good at times.
The best way I’ve found to giveaway and to effect change in this world is to reach out to each other with greater understanding. When we do this there comes greater acceptance and tolerance. Then we grow more universal love and compassion for each other. To reach out with an open heart to others is the most magnificent gift anyone can give.
When we face our mortality we face our heart and soul. The truth that lives within our heart, if shared with others will touch them and it stay with them forever. It becomes a part of their life and becomes a part of a quiet ministry. The essence of who we are never goes away. Who we are is just a part of everyone that was ever touched.
There is a life force in our body. Sometimes we hear it referred to as Chi or our charkas system. Energy flows through the body in multiple directions. We allow the life force to enter and exit just like breath. We breathe in the four winds and utilize the oxygen, we take from it and then we release our manna, our breath back upon the winds. We are taking in and giving back at all times and most of the time we are unaware.
Now lets build on this by including Spirit and all the divine creative consciousness of the universe. We begin by breathing in Spirit and the Universal All. We then use our heart to work with this empowering energy that is pulsing in our lungs. Through our heart we know our truth and we can speak it upon the winds and let it be known. We are now sharing our Spirit and giving back to the divine creative consciousness of the universe.
In this way you strengthen your life force your Chi. Allowing the energy to flow in and flow out just like breathing. The more you practice this simple discipline, allowing it to come into your heart and knowing your truth gives your life force more balance. Set that intention in life that your breath is an interconnected component of the universal consciousness receiving and contributing energy. That way we exchange all the time, every moment even when we’re sleeping.
We process so much when we sleep, bring that forth, work with it. There might be a clue in our dreams, or solutions to obstacles that we can overcome. I listen to my dreams and have used them to guide me with my healing.
We have to cultivate the mind to work and listen to our heart. Growing up in this culture we were taught to use our mind to make an income and rule our life. Also many of us unfortunately have been hurt at some point and that made us want to shut down our heart. But the heart is very strong, that is where the light of Spirit burns brightest. When we open our heart with the light of Spirit no one can touch that, no one can hurt that. We need that Love and Light at full strength in order to overcome something like cancer. When the Mind and Heart are working together to form coherence we have achieved a higher level of balance.
Part of the physical and chemical therapies that we go through may cause us to dread. Because they put us through so much anguish and pain, it creates suffering for our human side. We have to do what we can to alleviate the pain and maintain our mental clarity. One way to do this is through visualization and another is through prayer. Prayer and visualization are both a way of giving our human side a ceremony. Ceremony allows the human side to release and let go of the mental suffering so Spirit can work and allowing the build up of the more positive aspects of our human side.
My favorite prayer is also a nice way to give back and I use it every morning when I wake, it is a gratitude prayer. Being thankful for what I am working on or the new understandings I have achieved. Simply being thankful for my life. It helps me start each day in balance and makes the day go smoother.
In the healing process, balance is the most important part of the work. We have to keep that life force energy flowing in order to heal.