In the post before last I began an exploration of how the Body invites us to wake up - or as we in http://www.trilliumawakening.org/ sometimes say, "wake down".
I want to share something I heard from Reverend Janet Schmidt Kingsley Darling. To paraphrase, she told of how in New Thought circles there was no shame in anyone "making their transition" (i.e. dying) but if someone is sick, the question tends to arise : What are they holding in their consciousness?
She was making reference to a fallacy that can come about as a misguided extension of the assertion "Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind". (see https://dianescholten.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/unity-principles-thoughts-held-in-mind-produce-after-their-kind/ )
In other words, Blame the Victim. So, as with all great truths, there is a Paradox: Yes, the body talks to us, sometimes quite loudly - through pain, illness, and injuries. Yes, by listening, by opening to what our body, that most personal of material manifestations, is "saying" we can often go on a healing journey that includes not only physical but emotional and spiritual healing. And, despite this, the body is finite. No matter how well cared for, eventually it will get sick and die. During our lifetimes we will experience varying degrees of health or illness, and in many ways we are powerless over this.
I invite you, my reader, to comment on this paradox.
May you enjoy this day, with all it brings.
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