 Recently, I was at a movie theatre with a friend, where we found ourselves playing musical chairs. As people took their seats, we kept encountering movie-goers wearing scent. Both of us being sensitive to scented products, we moved seats three times until we found a spot far enough away from the perfumes in the room.In my case, the chemicals in scented products give me headaches and cause my lungs to react. I also notice that I begin to feel angry that my space has been invaded and my health compromised by people who are using perfume or smoking. It got me thinking about other people I know who have allergies or environmental sensitivity and about the relationship between these conditions and our emotional make-up. Louise Hay, in her book You Can Heal Your Life, relates allergies to feeling unempowered and asthma to feeling smothered. These feelings are often related to unresolved childhood issues. As children, if we weren't supported in maintaining good boundaries with people, we didn't feel safe, so we may have manufactured a physical reason why we needed those boundaries. The same people who ignore the emotional needs of a child may respond to a physical symptom. By having an allergy, children may create the space they need, but it puts them in a permanent position of victimhood. This pattern does not serve them as they get older. In fact, it creates unnecessary limitations on their freedom. To overcome these limitations, it is far better that we learn to speak for ourselves rather than put our body through illness to do it for us. After all, dis-ease is really just a state of unease. If we can face our fears directly, we maintain our sense of well-being and we become empowered, thus overcoming the fear-based patterns of childhood. I've been in a few situations in the past few months where I was exposed to offending inhalants in the presence of people who hold a strong love vibration or in the midst of doing activities that engender a sense of peace and love. In these cases, my body did not have a negative reaction to its environment. It made me realize that it is more effective for me to look for ways to change my reaction to my environment, rather than try to control my surroundings. I still feel it's good for public places to ban scent and smoke, because we have to honour various belief systems around illness, but for my part I choose to examine the underlying emotional sensitivity for which the physical reaction is just a symptom. Consider that there are documented cases of persons with dissociative disorder who have some personalities with allergies, nearsightedness and other physical conditions that do not exist for some of the other personalities. We have to ask ourselves how much of what we consider a physical problem is really just a manifestation of our present state of consciousness? I am extremely nearsighted, yet I had the experience once of waking up and looking across the room, and clearly seeing the time on the clock, before my vision once again became blurry. For a second, my consciousness forgot that it couldn't see through these eyes. It made me realize that each day, I make up what I believe about my world - including the state of my body. Humanity is undergoing an accelerated evolutionary process to prepare us for the coming age. As part of that process, we are being challenged to recognize that we do indeed create our world - including our bodies - with our thoughts. There is no longer a lag time between thought and manifestation. It's often instantaneous. We are also living in a time of great contrast. We can easily oscillate between emotional extremes. The basic premise arising from this is that we are either choosing a path of love or one of fear. When we actively choose to vibrate at a love frequency, we are attuned to Source and connected to each other, and we can attract what we need. Living in fear shuts us out from Source, makes us feel separate from each other and leaves us in a state of constant lack and disruption. I decided to try an experiment, deliberating choosing to enter a love vibration whenever I encountered one of my allergy triggers. The universe provided four opportunities back to back as I walked to work that day. Over the course of several minutes, I passed four people smoking cigarettes. My normal reaction is to hold my breath until I pass a smoker, forcefully exhale, and then hope that the next breath will be fresh air. This time, I chose to feel love for each person - seeing the individual and not the cigarette - feeling their story and having respect for them for having chosen to be on the Earth plane at this time. My body had no reaction. Not a cough, a sneeze, or a wheeze. Just love. As we gather in groups this holiday season, I challenge you to take down any barriers between yourself and the people around you, fill yourself with a love vibration that makes you feel safe and connected to Source, and recognize that connection with everyone around you. In that state, observe how your body responds. Indeed, we are not separate one from another. We are truly One. When we realize there's nothing to fear, the body too can arrive at a state of Grace and Love. Peace be with you this holiday season. Namaste. |
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