Guides & Guidance Pt. II - Pain as a Guide?

So, let’s get back to the part of guidance that is more physical: pain. As I mentioned before, pain and discomfort are low level forms of guidance. But just because they are low level, doesn’t mean they are not telling and effective. Now, by low level I mean that your body doesn’t have to be attuned to high levels of energy information in order for you to get the message. My stomach hurts, I have a stomach ache. This may sound simple, but when you are talking about our society, you will find barriers to even this form of guidance.

Have you ever known anyone to break their foot, ankle or toe and then walk around on it for a day or week or more before they ever make it in to see the doctor? How could they be walking around on an injured or worse, broken limb? This may sound far fetched but I can actually think of at least three different people who ignored their bodies in this way. One of the major factors is our legs...most people aren’t connected to them. So, when you talk about feet, most people are even more disconnected with feelings in their feet.

These days our foot coving technology has gotten so evolved, we sometimes don't realize what's going on down their until the end of the day when we take off our shoes. Then suddenly we realize how exhausted they are and how much they needed some attention.

By desensitizing ourselves to the lower half of our body we’re doing many levels of disservice to ourselves. Speaking specifically of the major chakra centers, where do you think we are going to pull red energy from if we cut ourselves off from our lower half. By disconnecting to this area we cut ourselves off from several essential types of energy production. Are we generating enough red energy? In our culture, red is taken to mean "danger" or "warning" but these associations are not absolute in all cultures. And in fact, our culture needs to bring back red and begin associating it with positive things instead of pairing it with danger and caution. In terms of the energy you generate from your body, red is a very positive energy and color. It means life or life force. Red energy is important for the growth of new cells which we are doing all the time. If we are not producing a healthy amount of red, the chance or re-producing unhealthy cells becomes much greater. This is why diseases like cancer or even rheumetic disorders like arthritis are diseases that are associated with a disfunction in red energy. There are many diseases in our culture that are associated with our inability to embrace and produce enough red energy.

Let’s focus on disease for a second. How does disease begin? Well, of course there are a number of factors. But many people in the energy healing field currently believe that disease is caused by your emotions, which is not quite accurate. You see, I’ve known this for quite some time but for some reason, I have also at times been guilty of attributing disease directly to emotions when really the connection indirect. First, let’s start with energy. A primary role of the energy we generate every day is for use in creating new cells as I mentioned already. Every day, cells die off and we replace them by generating new ones. In about two years we replace just about every cell in the body. Problems arise when we don’t have enough energy to create new healthy cells. So, when we expend an excess amount of energy on say, stress, anger, jealousy, dread, fear, or maintaining an unhealthy body, we tend to fall in to disease patterns that align with our genealogy. So, it’s not automatically a death sentence to come from a family prone to high blood pressure. But if your family has a history of high blood pressure and you are overweight and in a high stress profession, then you will be much more prone to develop the disease. The disease must already be in the genetic make-up. And then, once an ideal environment is created for it to manifest, then we get the disease. And we create these environments by starving our body’s ability to create healthy cells by misusing our energy.

I'll give you another example. Heart disease and obesity was easy, but let's also stay in the 4th chakra area. And let's look at something more prone to affect women instead of men. Have you ever known a mother who had a difficult time stopping her role as a mother? I'm not just talking about moms who still care about their children after they've grown up and have their own families. That's most moms. I'm talking about ones who can't stop mothering and excessively worrying for their grown-up children who have their own families and/or own lives. They worry and stress about their children all the time. What disease do you think they will be more prone to? Let's put it in more physical terms. What cells in the body do you think will get starved of energy, if a woman or mother is overusing her nuturing qualities? I'll give you another hint, and this goes for men and women. Where do you automatically pull something small and cuddly like a baby or a puppy or a kitten to when you pick them up? Did you know why? Because you actually surround them with the energy from your heart chakra when you hold them to your breast. And what do they feel when they are there? Warmth, protection, love... And how healthy is it to be in an enviornment like that, especially when you are young and haven't finished growing?

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