Healing Journey...

Choosing to pursue ones own healing, choosing to pursue ones own understanding of Spirit, right and wrong, the way life works, are all freeing activities.  Fear and anxiety, and diseases both mental and physical, are all telling us there are things in our lives that need to be looked at.   Choosing to Look at these begins the healing that will free us from them.  It is possible that our families, our religion, our peers, have influenced our beliefs to the point that our beliefs may be bad for us and unless we recognize this and look at them and release them, some of them and what results from them can affect our entire life.   The healing journey that we embark upon can be beneficial in many ways but it may save our life...   

Choose Awareness...

Choose Awareness, Love, Joy, Forgiveness, Compassion.  Without awareness you may have been chosen by negativity, anxiety, worry, guilt, shame and fear.  And what I mean by ‘you may have been chosen’ is that often we were influenced even as a small child by the negative emotions of our family, church, and others of influence close to us.   Without knowing it we have been living under that influence.  Choose awareness and start living...  truly living...

Emotions and reactions...

Our emotions are triggered by an experience that we have been conditioned to react to.   For example we find a lump under the skin.  All of the advertising and warnings we have seen on television and billboards tell us to beware of strange lumps because they may be cancer.  Our body mind goes into flight or fight reaction and we think, 'oh no, I have cancer'.  This is only one example and I'm sure you can think of more.  Already we are in fear mode, 'what will I do, I'm going to die, what will my family do' already our body is reacting to all of those thoughts and emotions of fear and anxiety.  This same process also provides us with many of our most positive emotions.  Our loved one tells us how wonderful we are and our emotions go into positive overdrive.  
Learning to neutralize our emotions teaches us how not to be in fear and judgement.   Most of us need to think or rationalize our way out of the emotions that take over us.   'It may not be cancer, I have nothing to fear, even dying is something we all do sometime'.   We may even need to examine the emotion. 
When we get the rush from the positive emotions we learn to love the feeling.  It is possible to get so used to the negative emotions that we don't recognize what they do to us.   Some individuals even feed off of those negative emotions.  This is when drama develops in our lives.    

I wonder what Capt Kirk would say.......

On a radio talk show 80 year old consummate actor et al William Shatner was interviewed.  A man of many accomplishments one of the latest of which is another book that he has written about himself, he talked in the book and in the interview about how on his 80th birthday he was feeling fearful and anxious.   The reason was, he said, that he is fearful of death.   The older one gets the specter of death creeps closer and he reported that he does not have the faith or the belief that God or loved ones will be waiting for him on the other side.   But then he brought up hearing about the last words of Steve Jobs, “oh wow, oh wow, oh wow”.  Shatner wondered where that came from and what prompted Jobs to say those words.   Here is an interesting example of a man that has conquered his fear of life through all of his accomplishments but now is being faced with the fear of dying.   Funny the priorities we humans place on ourselves.  I see a time in the future when we will live much longer lives but when it is time to take off this physical shell we will just do so.   No fanfare, no fear.   I wonder what Captain Kirk would say about all of this.