I speak a different language than most of my doctor peers. I used to hide this and feel embarrassed by my unscientific, feeling approach. Now that I am "unattached" and working on my own, this style comes forth freely. When did the words "love" and "spirit" and "beliefs" and "fear" and "loneliness" become unacceptable in healing circles? These words and their many synonyms and antonyms are at the core of healing and health. These words are the true language of getting well and must be looked at, felt, processed and allowed to move through us so that we can make shifts in our being that precede healing.
In this awesome modern age of high tech solutions to medical issues, there is a tendency to dismiss these innate human feelings. It is certainly less messy when we can just take a pill or let an expert cut out our ailment. It is downright hard to sit with negative feelings like shame, guilt, sadness, fear or anger. So why do it?
Emotions and feelings make us human. They are at our core and they do accompany us wherever we go whether we like it or not. Not acknowledging feelings is like not putting gas in your car. Stuffed feelings eventually surface and make us look at them or feel them. Feeling them as they come up (as opposed to looking at them in hindsight or burying them forever) gives us a freedom and spontaneity that is just not possible when we become insensitive to their calls. There are an infinite number of ways to not feel our feelings -- drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, TV, food, over-working, compulsive exercise, positive thinking, reactive behavior patterns (like anger or irritability) and many, many more.
Contrary to common belief, we CAN learn to be with and work with our feelings. It sometimes is a learning process especially if it has never been done before. However, it can be done if one allows it, wants it and is willing to struggle through the initial clumsiness and awkwardness of a new and novel approach. The prize is freedom. When we don't have to use our energy to actively and compulsively avoid and stuff feelings, we open to the miracle of life. We see with new eyes and come to the plate open to all that the world has to offer. Amazingly, by facing the dark, we come to see the light.
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