TOOLS OF PERCEPTION

PAIN & PLEASURE
This is kinda a tricky one because it does (usually) have a locatable center, my foot hurts,  my neck or kidneys, generally pain has a source. This is where our western medical system has failed us miserably, the medical system treats the location of the pain and suffering, but because the body is physical and mind  isn't, western medicine traditionally doesn't allow for a "connection of cause" between them. The thought, that our brain system is so well designed that it will only tolerate a certain level of rigidity before it kicks into warning state and will go to the extremes of total shut down when necessary, this is rather scary to think. We are responsible for our state of health. It is easier to think it is some random twist of fate than have to address the possibility of us being responsible.  The denial continues and the sickness continues and the blame rolls on. I am not an expert on the human anatomy, and can't give you a directory of hurts and mental causes (I will give reference to some that can, at the end of this section). What I will do is share with you my experiences, hopefully it will help in understanding the relationship between brain function and anatomy.
    When I was around twelve years old I started to have problems with my knees. little twists that would lay me up for a couple of days now and then. This continued for about another fifteen years, kind of an on again off again thing. When things were going fine (when all was flowing smoothly) all was well. There seemed to be certain times when it would flair up, nothing that seemed connected. This problem begun to accelerate around my twenty fifth year, eventually I had to have surgery on the right knee. I was then put on a list to be scheduled for surgery on the left one as well. My right knee felt wonderful for about  a month then the pain started again. at this point in my life I was planning to enter into a business venture and was worried about failing. In fact I had such a fear of failing i had to harden my self against this fear of failing just as to not give into it. Around this time my knees were so bad I couldn't  even walk the three steps into the lunch shack at work. It was around this time a friend of mine introduced me to a book called "YOU CAN HEAL YOU LIFE", It had a section where it showed areas of sickness and pain and what possible connections this has with the mental processes.
Here's what it said:

KNEE                            Represents pride and ego                        I am flexible and flowing
    (see: Joints)
KNEE PROBLEMS        Stubborn Ego and Pride. inability            Forgiveness. Understanding, comp-
                                      to bend. Fear. inflexibility won't              sion. I bend and flow with ease.
                                      give in.                                                  All is well.

JOINTS                          Represents changes in the direction          I easily flow with change. My life is
                                       in life and the ease of movements           divinely guided, and i am always
                                                                                                   going in the best direction.

In reading this I was able to see how in the progression of my life, I was constantly fighting against everything that was going on (or at least a large majority of it). This caused me to become inflexible in my thinking, so much that it had to cause chronic pain just to get my attention. When I realized that my fears were causing me to become inflexible  a new world opened up to me. To stop all I had to do was believe in my self, trust that I had the abilities to handle anything that came along. As long as I trusted myself and flowed the pain would stop. I decided that from then on to trust my self and let go of my fear. By morning  the pain was almost gone, that evening I removed the tensor bandages and was walking normally within forty eight hours the pain was completely gone. Now my knees are 100% healthy i enjoy baseball, bike riding, and volleyball without a tinge of pain.  The only time I ever have any knee problems is when I start to doubt myself and then I doesn't take long two get back on track (oh ya i canceled the surgery on the left knee).

The next story I will convey is one that happened to me recently. I recently working with a pile driving company. Due to a series of events I had the middle finger, and ring finger of my right hand seriously injured. The last joint (tip) of the middle finger was crushed and the tip of the ring finger amputated.
 You see, I have received a rather violent and extreme training in my past and I some times revert back to that programing (training) to teach my self things, when I'm not listening. A glitch I am working on moderating, if not removing all together. This does just go to show a person how far the body will  go to get our attention. Whether its crushed fingers, angina, cancer, or keel ya over with a heart attack and let ya start all over again if we have to. This accident was very out of place for me I have always been exceptionally careful of my body, my father showed me what physical suffering was like and I wanted no part of it. Up to that point I had never broken a bone or caused any other extreme injuries. I sure was surprised to find me laid up with my hand all screwed up.

Back to the book:

FINGERS:                         represents details in life.                    I am peaceful with the details of life

    ~ Middle finger              represents anger and sexuality           I am comfortable with my sexuality.
    ~ Ring finger                 represents unions and grief                I am peacefully loving.

INJURIES:                        Anger at self. Feeling guilty                I now release anger in positive ways.
        (see Wounds) same

What a funny thing to be happening, the only time I join a union in my life, and i try to cut off that finger. well with out going into all the things that I needed to go through to understand it it basically boiled down to instead of flowing with what, I loved doing and going that route I decided to chase the almighty dollar. Put all the things that I would have rather be doing on hold. in effort to earn almost 20.00 an hour. pretty easy to justify that.  I should have been paying closer attention to the details in my life but I lost balance and my system took the necessary steps to bring me back into line, Boy, I love my life. May be I had to toss out some trash that wasn't all that important anyway. Things in life flow much better now because of it.

To Learn more check out the book and the authors site: YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE
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