Don’t refuse to be healed

At a recent workshop, a group of about 25 twenty-year-olds were asked if they had pain in their shoulder blades when their muscles were gently squeezed.

Eight of them had pain. None of them knew why they had it. When they were put through a simple relaxation exercise for 45 minutes, they found that the pain had gone. When the truth of how the pain was just stress related was explained to them, one of them refused to believe it. Just as some of us refuse to be healed.

A lot of our pains and aches are because of our repressed anger and frustration. As we do not let them out, they accumulate within our bodies.

Stress is one of the biggest killers today. But we do not recognise stress and what it is doing to us. Modern lifestyles, heavily pressured jobs and the changing tapestry of a society with crumbling values are all adding up to our stress. The natural safety valves that the family and society had built to deal with stress are now fading away. The more intelligent thing would be to see what we could do to heal ourselves. But one has to be open to healing and not resist it. Break down your resistance to healing.
We often find thousands of excuses on why we cannot deal with something. We need to come to terms with our realities and take life head on. You will be amazed with the response when you are open to healing. But for that you must invest time in talking to yourself.