The unseen, inner intelligence that keeps our heart beating is the same intelligence that can restore our health-even if that restoration will take a miracle. But this is not an intelligence that can be forced. It defies our attempts to “fix” and cut corners. In the years that I’ve observed the healing process in myself and in others, I’ve noticed that true healing appears to be a process of allowing.
When we start getting through the surface issues and start facing the core of our limiting beliefs, we can sometimes run into bedrock. We may have a limiting belief that we built most of our life around. Shifting it seems IMPOSSIBLE. It may feel like our life and identity would collapse if we lost it, yet it may block the most important desires our heart holds.
My road back to health started many years ago with a simple directive from my coach: Go within. Listen. Follow. On September 7, 2008 we had a 97-minute teleclass on Body YES and Body NO: Learning to Listen to the Body’s Intuitive, Intelligent Guidance. It was the first topic in our Body Vitality Workshop that we’re holding as part of the Thriving Now Team.
Can an illness make us feel safe? Growing up, when I wasn’t prepared for a test at school, I would get a stomach ache. It would buy me some time. It would give me another day home. It was an “excused absence.” No one questioned. No one poked or prodded. No thermometer had to read high. “My stomach hurts too much to go to school.” And I stayed home. Have you ever done something like that?