Many people come to me struggling with severe
health issues which can stem from the stored
memories of unhappy childhoods.
The
memory of
the painful experiences stay locked in the cells
and every year and with every thought they are
magnified.
When we cannot accept a situation or forgive an
aspect of our past, these memories stay locked
within us at a cellular level. And the same
mental program keeps running the same script
over and over again so that our body
continually reflects the mental food that it is
being fed.
I believe that if we could reach
for the higher
spiritual perspective and allow life to flow
through us, rather than allow life to be trapped
within us, we would experience vibrant
health.
In my own life, I have found the following
exercise to be very useful. If the mind can grasp
a concept, the heart can embody it.
A few years ago, I was fortunate to attend a
workshop given by Ron Roth, author of the book
Prayer and the Five Stages of Healing, (Hay
House, 1999).
Ron is a spiritual teacher and healer as well as
a former Roman Catholic priest.
During the
course of the afternoon, Ron led workshop
participants in a forgiveness meditation. The
sweetness of his words pervaded the room.
Forgiveness, he said, means to give forth.
Give forth what what do we want to give
forth? he continued.
We want to give
forth
blessings so that we can feel the same
blessings in return.
This was a profound and new concept
for me. Somehow I heard this concept for the
first time.
When we forgive and bless a
person
or a situation with our thoughts and in our
hearts, then we are forgiven and blessed in turn.
In a circle, we forgive and good returns to us.
When we can reach this deep state of
forgiveness at a core level, our bodies begin to
heal and we are filled with new energy. This
simple concept of forgiveness eludes us and yet
it is so tied into physical body health.
Many years ago, I created a CD
Letting Go of the Past and Moving
Forward to address this
very problem. This CD is available on my
website. www.
carolinesutherland.com
To date it has given thousands of
people around the world the courage to let
go.
A woman grieved the loss of her daughter who
was killed in a car accident. For years she
mourned and even though she loved her two
other beautiful daughters she became
disconnected from them because she was mired
in anger
and pain.
There is a famous story about God, heaven and
a group of children that finally moved this
woman to let her daughter go.
The story
goes
that God comes to the group of children and
gives each one of them a lighted lamp. They are
going on an adventure to look at all of the
wonderful sights and experiences in heaven.
There is a little girl sitting all alone on a bench.
God comes over and gives her a lamp and
encourages her to come and join the group who
are so excited to be exploring all the wonders of
heaven.
The little girl would love to join the
group but something is wrong. God asks her why
she is sad and lonely.
I would love to
come
with you and the children and look at heaven but
I cannot come because my mothers tears keep
putting out my lamp.
This powerful story illustrates that
even in the after life, we are all connected and
that painful memories can keep us all from
moving forward on any level.
Now is the time to choose to be released from
sadness and pain go within, bless the
experience and release it to a higher power to
be healed.
I personally had an a-ha moment when I heard
a great phrase from Dr.
James MacKimmie, whose book I
have mentioned below. He summed up this
dilemma with this phrase:
And you set it up that way -
a phrase that speaks volumes about the nature
of our not so innocent involvement in all of lifes
experiences. Personally this phrase has
really helped me to understand why I have
attracted certain experiences into my life and
while they have been unpleasant, I have grown
enormously because of them.
When things are rough, we need to
remember that a part of us set things up this
way - set up or chose the conditions on a
spiritual and soul level, for our growth and
learning.
Although this thought is a conceptual stretch,
it turns the responsibility for the events,
choices
and even people in our lives, right back to the
center to us.
When we fully embody this important concept,
there is no blame. The truth is that everything in
our lives is a mirror or a reflection of what is
going on within.
