Defy Gravity by Myss Caroline

Author:Myss, Caroline [Myss, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2009-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

THE FOURTH TRUTH:

RELY ON THE POWER

OF YOUR GRACES

One school of thought that dominates the Western approach to healing assumes that once people confront their history of trauma or painful secrets, or recognize areas of emotional underdevelopment, the state of health just naturally shows up to fill the void left by their vacated wounds. This assumption is so prevalent that many of us have come to believe that simply to “speak our wounds” is the same as healing them. The notion behind this practice is that health is maintained by vocalizing your wounds as well as your present needs, which have arisen as a consequence of your wounds. As a result of this approach, healing practices often dwell on the negative, hesitating to encourage people to actively pursue the richer qualities of their inner nature, such as creativity and the capacity to initiate dynamic changes in life. It’s not that these practices deny more positive qualities; it’s just that positive qualities cannot compete with the power of vulnerability and the resulting emotional support granted to the wounded individual, as mentioned in Chapter 2.

The emphasis on the negative comes from a set of beliefs, among which is the idea that each painful situation conceals a lesson. Once we discover this lesson and then complete its requirements, the pain and the illness—or the crisis—will vanish. And so we pursue the pain as the culprit, rarely extending our view to consider the more mature truth that life includes painful transitions. Not all pain is an indication that something is wrong, either in your physical body or in your life. Frequently we are alerted to a cycle of transition by sensations of enormous discomfort, as if our bones have grown too large for our skin to contain. Such discomfort is natural. We really ought to feel, for example, as if we can’t breathe unless we leave home and get on with our own life.

And then there is the kind of interior fire-pain that comes from yearning to bring forth something original. This passion is its own agony and ecstasy, a merger of sublime delight and wretched anguish as the writer or artist or mystic strives to see or listen or find the right form to capture inspirations that present themselves before the inner eyes of the soul as sacred messengers. The anguish that a person feels when she realizes that she has failed to find a perfect medium that allows the mystical mist to slip into comprehensible thought is indescribable, yet it is not a pain she would ever anesthetize.

Negativity and pain, therefore, are misunderstood in terms of the purpose they serve within the greater scheme of our life. We fool ourselves by assuming that all discomfort must be immediately converted to comfort and that order must rapidly be introduced into all chaotic situations, as if that were even possible. Such thinking comes from fear of personal harm and loss and the need to reestablish control. So, retreating to the familiar world as soon as possible seems the reasonable thing to do.

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