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Friday, August 22, 2008

Where Does It Hurt You?

A few months ago I started to suffer from severe hip pain and it often kept me awake at night so a horrible nightmare was the least thing I wanted right then!

I woke up screaming, frightened and alone...

... and was overcome by this wave of feeling that surged through my whole being as I turned over to find my partner wasn’t there to give me the hug of reassurance I so badly needed at that time. Of course at some level I already knew he had arranged to go and sleep over at his mother’s place that night, but the fact that he just wasn’t available when I really needed him, triggered something in me ...

... deep hurts from the past.

I was brought up in a family consisiting of an alcoholic father and an overstressed, highly strung and depressed mother of five. Constant worrying seemed to take up so much of her time there often wasn't very much left for us. Needless to say,I ended up adopting the role of ‘parent carer’. My needs came last and often didn’t get met at all. It was a Love-Pain connection where I gave my all and was left longing for a love that never came. They just weren't there for me.

Now it might not seem immediately obvious but there is a rather interesting connection here with the excruciating pain I was also recently suffering from osteoarthritis of the right hip which had become inflamed of late - as if to flag that there was something that needed my urgent attention. I believe pain is here to get our attention and sometimes if we are not listening straight away it has a tendency to get louder and louder until we are 'driven' to do something about it!

So then, I had what I saw as two choices here. I could of course take the conventional path of pain management and start a course of pain relieving medications - and for the first few days I did, as an emergency measure. The other choice was more in line with my belief that all pain has an underlying cause that, once addressed can remove the need for pain to manifest at all.

This meant finding a quiet space, bringing all of my focus to the hip and asking at a deeper level the question ‘Where does it hurt?’

You see, pain has different levels.

When the doctor asked me ‘Where does it hurt?’ I let him know it was my hip, that my movements were stiff and restricted and that some related areas like the groin, the knee and lower back where also in pain. He examined me by moving and rotating my leg mechanically to see where it hurt. The whole focus was physical and resulted in some 'ouch!' noises, some prescribed medication, physiotherapy and a referral to orthopaedics for further investigation.

As a Journey Practitioner, Therapeutic Counsellor and EFT Specialist on the other hand I also addressed the pain at a different and deeper level. So when I turned inwards and asked my deeper self ‘Where does it hurt?’ my hip whispered ‘feeling unsupported and unloved’ and I experienced an intuitive urge to let go of and resolve these issues once and for all in order to move on and step forward confidently in life again. Through the use of deep inner reflection and focus work, creative visualisation and some energy healing I found myself opening to a place of peace and deep inner support as I let go of the hurts of the past that I had apparently stored in my hip. At the same time I found the hip pain going down so dramatically that I didn’t need to carry on taking the pills any more.

My nightmare, in relation to all of this then made much better sense. It had in fact been a 'wake-up' call (doh!) alerting me to these deep hurts of feeling unsupported and unloved. It was a ‘clearing out’ process at the same time, almost like the ‘whoosh!’ of a wave as my body energy, like a river that had been clogging up with ‘emotionally charged’ debris over the years, finally become unblocked and began to flow freely once more.

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