Metaphysical causes of disease and how to

deal with them

By Lise Bourbeau

March 2004

Lise Bourbeau has worked with thousands of people, helping them to unearth the
underlying causes of specific diseases. She professes that any physical problem is a
manifestation of dis-ease on psychological and/or emotional levels. The physical
body is responding to the imbalance and warning of the need to return to the path
of love and harmony

Key Questions In order to pinpoint the cause of your physical illness more
accurately, ask yourself the following questions :
PHYSICAL BLOCK
What are the words that best describe what I am experiencing inside or on my
body and how do I feel about it?
The answer to the above question reflects what you are experiencing regarding the
person or situation that is at the root of your illness.
EMOTIONAL BLOCK
a) What is this illness preventing me from doing and/or having?
The answers to this question represent one or more desires that are being blocked.

b) If I allowed myself to achieve these desires, what would I be?

MENTAL BLOCK
If I allowed myself to be (fill in the blank with the answer
from the previous question) what unpleasant situation could happen to me AND
what would people think of me (or what would I think of myself)?
Your answers will correspond with the harmful belief that is blocking you from
meeting your own needs and achieving your dreams. This belief manifests as a
physical block.
SPIRITUAL BLOCK
Refer to answer (b) under emotional block. Your response indicates a deep and
profound need that is being blocked by an inappropriate belief system.
CONCLUSION TO KEY QUESTIONs EXERCISE
Once you are able to unearth the belief that blocks you from being what you really
want and need, you will have to work on it. The first step is to acknowledge that at
some point in your life, you decided to believe this. You thought that this belief
would prevent you from suffering the same pain over and over. The next step is to
ask yourself if you still need to believe this in order to be happy. If you answer yes,
youve determined that your belief is still of use to youby all means continue to
believe it and behave as you always have. But dont expect any change in your life
as you are the architect of your own life, the choice is yours. Just know that by
refusing to go towards what you want in life, your life will remain the same.
If youve determined that your belief is still partly true but that it makes you
unhappy, determine whether or not it has diminished in strength in the last couple
of years. If it has, it will be easier to let go of. By doing so, you will be on the road to
recovery.
When you know deep inside that you want to change this belief, all that remains is
to take steps to achieve your desires in order to let yourself to BE WHAT YOU WANT
TO BE.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do
away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hippocrates
Metaphysics is a philosophy that methodically investigates the nature of first
principles and problems of ultimate reality. Its link with the physical is critical to
permanent healing and is by no means contraindicated in conjunction with
conventional healing. On the contrary, it is medicines most valuable teammate.

I have chosen to use the word metaphysical rather than psychosomatic because
of the implications of the definitions. Psychosomatic is defined as pertaining to, or
caused by phenomena that are both physiological and psychological. The term
carries with it a common misconception that it relates to disease that is all in ones
head or in the imagination.

The science of metaphysics has resurfaced since the advent of psychoanalysis.

Freud discovered that the body and the psyche are irrevocably linked. Researchers
in the field since such as Wilhelm Reich, Fritz Perls and Louise Hay have greatly
contributed to the resurgence of the body of information that constitutes
metaphysical science.

When illness or disease is indicated, the body is communicating to us that our way
of thinking (although unconscious) is out of harmony with what is beneficial to our
being. Illness indicates the need to change in our belief system and tells us that we
have reached our physical and psychological limits. Illness is thus a gift whose
purpose is to bring back the equilibrium in our being. The physical body does not
create illness because the physical body can do nothing by itself. What maintains its
life is our soul, our inner self.

If you believe that illnesses, accidents and disorders are relevant only to the
physical self, you are dissociating yourself from your mental, emotional and spiritual
aspects, thereby refusing to acknowledge the majority of what makes you who you
really are!

You have only to recall a situation where youve experienced instinctive reactions
(such as your heart racing when you are afraid or that feeling in the pit of your
stomach when you anticipate something you may be dreading), these automatic
reactions are not coming from the physical body, but are transferred to the physical
body through thoughts or emotions.

The most frequent causes of illness are negative attitudes and emotions, guilt, the
need for attention, or the need to escape an unpleasant situation. Those who are
vulnerable to the suggestion that illness is contagious will attract illness because
they expect to be sick as a result of circumstances. If they believe, for example, that
a draught will result in a cold, they will get a cold when exposed to a draught.

With each illness or disorder, your body is reminding you to love yourself. Through
genuine self-love, you allow your heart to guide you to wellness and wholeness. To
love yourself is to give yourself permission to live as you choose. When you love
yourself, you accept yourself as you are at any momentin all your humilitywith
fears, weaknesses, desires, beliefs and aspirations that are all facets of who you
are.

Accidents
Physical block: Because an accident is an unpredictable event, we often believe it
happens by pure chance. But now increasingly we are told: There are no
accidents. Nothing happens by coincidence. I believe that chance and accidents
are tools the Universe (God) uses to get our attention. Just make note of what part
of the body has been injured and how seriously. These are important considerations
when trying to understand the metaphysical cause of the accident.

Emotional block: Accidents are interpreted unconsciously as punishment, as on a

deeper level we blame ourselves and accuse our inner self. We feel responsible for
what goes on around us. For example: a mother, tending to her chores, hears her
child calling from the next room. She feels the child can wait and, continuing with
her chores, trips and hurts her leg. If she asks herself: What was I thinking just
now? she realises that she was accusing herself of being a neglectful mother.
Hurting her leg was punishment for being such a mother, one that did not want to
go to her child. Accidents are a way to neutralise our guilt, to punish ourselves.
Unfortunately, all this goes on unconsciously.

Mental block: Your definition of guilt needs to be revised. According to our legal
system, a person is declared guilty when it has been proven beyond a shadow of
doubt that harm was intended. Each time you blame yourself or feel guilty about
something, ask yourself if you intended to do harm. If not, stop accusing yourself in
your mind. This will help you to stop punishing yourself with accidents.

In the example above, do you think the mother intended to harm her child? Nothing
happened that she needs to punish herself for. When someone is actually guilty, the
law of cause and effect will prevail and will exhibit itself in his character. A wise and
responsible person is one who recognises when he is at fault, and asks forgiveness
of the person he has wronged or hurt. In doing so, he creates harmony that will
come back to him as harmony and acceptance. This is Divine Justice.

If your accident was an unconscious way of giving yourself a break, it is important

to remember that you could have accomplished the same thing without injuring
yourself physically. It would be much less painful to simply make your request
known.

If your injury is significant and painful, such as a fracture, it is an indication that

you are consciously or unconsciously suppressing violent thoughts directed at
someone else. By nature, violent thoughts cannot be contained and may instead
turn inward against yourself. Liberate yourself by communicating your feelings to
the other person, forgiving yourself for having the thoughts in the meantime.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions at the end of this
article. In answering these questions, you will come in touch more easily and
accurately with the true cause of your physical problem.

AIDS
Physical block: AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is defined primarily
by what appears to be severe immune deficiency, and is distinguished from virtually
every other disease by the fact that it has no constant, specific symptoms. AIDS is
an umbrella term for any or all of some 25 previously known diseases and
symptoms. These include cancer, rheumatism, sarcoma, pneumonia, diarrhea, TB,
fever, herpes, neurological malfunction, weight loss, night sweats, rashes and
swollen lymph glands. If HIV antibodies are detected, or the patient is seropositive,
these diseases converge as AIDS; if not, they are diagnosed simply for what they
are. Being HIV positive does not necessarily lead to an AIDS diagnosis.

Emotional block: AIDS is linked directly with self-love. It occurs when we are unable
to love ourselves, and especially when we are unable to accept our own gender,
preferring to be born the opposite sex. AIDS, however, is not partial to either gender
and ravages both heterosexual and homosexual populations.

Although many people still view AIDS as a sexually transmitted disease, in reality it
is a disease contracted by those who, because they cannot love themselves,
compensate by embracing the illusion of love and acceptance on a sexual level.
They live with a deep-seated low self-worth and perpetual sense of guilt and
disappointment that causes them to become dependent on others for selfvalidation. This, of course, always leads to disappointment. Thus, a cycle is created
of guilt and disappointment that leads to self-punishment. They feel that an illness
will neutralise the guilt. As they use sex to feel loved when they believe they are
unlovable, to punish themselves they undermine their own sexuality.

Mental block: If you will only begin to believe that you deserve to live, AIDS need
not be fatal. Understand that every disappointment youve experienced is due
simply to your own unmet expectations about love. Youve been looking for love in
all the wrong places! Being loved is not the answer; you need to love, especially
yourself. Believe enough in your won self-worth, in the extraordinary being that you
are.

Your body is telling you that its urgent that you learn to love and accept yourself as
you are, with a full and open heart. Its interesting to note that AIDS patients are
generally extremely sensitive and compassionate people with enough love inside
them to fill the planet. Tap some of that wellspring of love for yourself! Its critical
that you accept yourself and your sex. On the most profound soul level, you chose
your gender in order to experience and learn powerful life lessons, whether or not
they pleased those around you, including your parents. They have lessons to learn
from you, too, including those surrounding your sexuality. You are meant to
approach these lessons with love and acceptance, as you honour the choices your
soul has made. The most important lesson is to see to your own evolution and to
grow in the soil of unconditional love. This is only reason for being, for all human
beings.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your being, refer to the Key Questions.

ASTHMA
Physical block: Asthma is an intermittent illness characterised by episodes of
narrowing of the bronchial tubes of the lungs, resulting in a form of suffocation.
Symptoms include pressure in the chest, wheezing, shortness of breath and often a
feeling of panic. Between attacks, breathing is normal and the thorax is quiet.

Emotional block: If you are asthmatic, you will find you usually have no problem
inhaling but have difficulty exhaling. Your body is signaling that you want to take on
too much and have great difficulty delivering. You will not admit any limitation, even
to yourself. You want to seem stronger than you are just to be loved by others. You
also want things to be done your way, and when that doesnt happen, an asthma
attack is just the excuse you need to not be strong as you seem.

Mental block: Your asthma attacks are sending you an urgent message. The internal
approach of taking on too much is poisoning and suffocating you. Liberate yourself.
Love and accept yourself with all your weaknesses and limitations. You are human;
simply take your place in the human family. There is no need to overwhelm others
with your feats or your illness.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

CANCER
Physical block: This is now a general term for more than 100 diseases that are
characterised by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division. It may spread to other
parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream. Read the
following and realise that the part of the body affected by the cancer will give you a
clue as to the psychological implications.

Emotional block: Cancer is the result of significant emotional wounding that was
experienced in isolation during childhood. The most common emotional wounds that
can manifest as serious physical disease are rejection, abandonment, humiliation,
betrayal and injustice. Some people have endured a number or combination of
these wounds.

If you suffer from cancer, youre probably a very loving person that wants to live in
a loving world, so much that you completely repressed your feelings of bitterness,
resentment and even hatred towards one of your parents. You may even have
blamed God for what you went through and still blame Him for the state of your life.
These suppressed feelings are not even acknowledged, let alone dealt with and
released, so they are left to accumulate and gather in the body, to grow every time

something awakens the emotional wound. Once emotional critical mass has been
reached, the cancer will surface.

Mental block: Forgive yourself for having vengeful thoughts towards one or both of
your parents. You are human; youre allowed to suffer. Forgive and love the child in
you who has suffered silently and who had no one in whom to confide.

Forgiveness is the great healer. The only thing your soul needs is love and
forgiveness. Visualise if you will, all of your emotional baggage in one bag that you
have carried with you all your life. Its time to simply put down the bag. There is no
need to punish yourself any longer or to feel guilty for having these thoughts. You
must stop thinking that youre unkind if you hate someone. Youre not unkind
youre human. Self-forgiveness is the greatest challenge for the cancer patient.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

COMMON COLD
Physical block: A common cold is a viral infection characterised by inflammation of
the mucous membranes lining the upper respiratory passages and usually
accompanied by fever, chills, coughing and sneezing. It is also called coryza.

Emotional block: A cold will often manifest as a result of congestion on a mental

level, especially when theres so much going on in your head that you dont know
which way to turn. You have the feeling that someone or some situation is either
walking all over you or is being thrust upon you. You also get so caught up in
unimportant details that you dont know where to begin. This is frustrating for you
because you want to see everything completed, even before youve begun. Youve
gotten a-head of yourself. The mental conclusion that results blocks your
view of your needs and you are unable to live in the moment. It may be that

there is someone that you just cant stand; the cold is your body reacting to your
wish to keep this person away from you.

Mental block: The most common misconception regarding a cold is that catching a
chill will result in a cold. The more popular a belief system, the more influence it will
have over a society. Even if you are unaware that you have accepted a belief
system, your body is in touch with your subconscious and reacts to the belief you
have internalised. Its interesting to note that, although popular belief deems that a
cold can be caught, only those who believe it seem to catch one! Its important,
therefore, to stop letting yourself be influenced by the mainstream mindset. The
more we stop following popular belief systems, the less influence they will have on
a global level.

As every illness has a purpose, however, a clod serves to tell you that external
forces too easily influence you. The onset of a cold is a message from the body that
its time for you to let go; stop worrying needlessly about every little thing. You
dont have to become insensitive in order to accomplish what you need to do.
Blaming someone else or some situation for your discomfort is not the answer
either, desensitising yourself to distance yourself from them will not help you sort
out your priorities.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

DEPRESSION
Physical block: I refer here to clinical or chronic depression. Common symptoms of
depression include loss of interest and lack of pleasure in normal everyday
activities, a feeling of hopelessness or despondency associated with exhaustion or
loss of energy, loss of concentration, feelings of indifference, disinterest,
discouragement, withdrawal and preoccupation. The depressive becomes
completely self-absorbed and feels no need for help from others. They feel others
should change, not themselves. Serious depression can lead to suicidal thoughts.
Depression is often misdiagnosed as burnout.

Emotional block: If you are experiencing depression, realise that it is a state of

mind to which you retreat in order to escape the feeling of pressure, especially

emotional pressure. After many years of careful observation, I have determined that
most depressive people carry unresolved issues with opposite-sex parents. This
explains why it is common to blame their spouses for their depression. The resulting
torment the spouse goes through was meant for the parent. By refusing to get help,
you continue to feed the monstrous frame of mind a steady diet of bitterness and
hatred that builds and increases the weight of the depression. This cloud of
accumulated destructive thoughts and emotions becomes heavier and heavier.

The depth of emotional wounding determines the depth of the depression. Wounds
of rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, or injustice set the stage for
tremendous mental upheaval, especially if experienced in isolation. As young
children, depressives had no one to talk to, to hear their questions and to share
their anguish. If they do not learn to trust others, they will continue to withdraw and
deny their desires.

Mental block: Since a depressive person doesnt want to be helped, its usually the
people close to them that want to help. If you are one of these people and have
someone close to you who is depressive, I suggest you be quite firm with them. Tell
them they are the only one capable of digging themselves out of the pit they dug
for themselves and, thereafter stop trying to solve their problem.

Note to the depressive: The most important thing for you to realise is that the
depression is a result of tremendous emotional wounding, when young, on the
deepest level, the level of BEING. You refuse who you are. You reject yourself and
believe you are unlovable and unworthy because of the profound rejection of
someone you loved and trusted. We all need nurturing and need to trust someone
completely. If those needs are violated through rejection or abandonment, we will
naturally be bitter, as we feel intensely alone and afraid. If you can understand that
the parent or loved one that you feel rejected you was coming from their own pain
and rejection; if you can learn to see them as fellow human beings and have
compassion for them, you will have taken the first step toward your own recovery. It
wasnt a lack of love that caused them to reject you; it was their own wounded inner
child that made them unable to express their love.

By connecting with the inner child of the person who hurt you, you will find that you
are able to forgive them. The next important step is to get in touch with your own
inner child and to forgive it for being angry and bitter. Love this child unconditionally
to begin the healing process.

The final step is to talk openly with the person who hurt you about what you have
felt. Tell them how you have carried all this pain inside, talk about the anger and the
bitterness without judgment or accusation. Above all, forgive.

Once you have expressed your feelings, reconnect with your own self-worth. If this
is difficult for you, ask others close to you to show you your positive attributes. It
may seem superficial at first, but you will slowly begin to feel validated.

If you have been having suicidal thoughts, there is a part of you that wants to die in
order to make room for a healthier, more vital part of youyour true self. You are
confusing the part of you that wants to die with yourself.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

DIABETES
Physical block: Diabetes is a disturbance in the metabolism from lack of insulin
secreted by the pancreas, or from its inability to function normally. 85 per cent of
adults diagnosed with diabetes are overweight.

Emotional block: The pancreas is the gland linked with the solar plexus, which deals
with emotions, desires and all intellectual activities. Pancreatic disorders indicate
imbalance on the emotional level. If you are diabetic, you are often very emotional
and have too many desires for yourself and others. You want everyone to have a
slice of the pie. But you can also be envious if someone has more than you.

You are a devoted person but you expect much from yourself and others. You tend
to blame yourself readily for others dissatisfaction. You also tend to expend
excessive energy to respond to your needs. This behvaiour is caused by an inner
sadness from an unmet desire to be loved.

Juvenile diabetes may manifest in children who feel insufficiently acknowledged.

They are exhibiting an inner emptiness that seeks some form of compensation.

Mental block: Diabetes is a signal that you need to learn to let go and let things
happen at their own pace. Stop trying to control the course of events. You need to
realise that it is not your purpose to make everyone else happy. Others may not
even want what you want for them, or they might not desire it intensely.
Acknowledge all the goodness that flows freely in your life, become mindful of the
moment and taste each moment in all its delicious glory. Dont let yourself be
distracted by what you may want tomorrow. Accept that, even though you may
have been unable to fulfill a very important desire in the past, you still can enjoy
smaller ones in the moment.

If you are a young child or adolescent with juvenile diabetes, stop thinking that you
are the forgotten child. Find yourself and your place in the family.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

HEADACHE
Physical block: The following explanation applies to a normal headache not bigger
problems such as migraine.

Emotional block: The head has a direct link with the I AM. If you have a headache
(especially on the top of the head), it means that you hit yourself over the head with
belittling I AMs. You accuse yourself of not being intelligent enough; you ask a lot for
yourself.

You belittle instead of appreciate yourself. If you feel as though your head is going
to burst, the message is to stop accumulating so much within yourself through fear
of other peoples judgment of what you are or are not.

You may fear being ahead, in other words being in front, being first or leading the
way.

Having a headache, especially in the area of the forehead, indicates that you try
too hard to understand everything. You should give your intellect time to
accumulate enough data in its memory for your intelligence to be able to make a
synthesis and better understand.

Mental block: Because the head is the seat of four or five senses, it is a very
important part of the body. When it hurts, you are prevented from seeing, hearing,
feeling, and saying clearly what meets your needs; this distances you from what
you want to be. Youre being sent the massage to get in contact with your real I AM,
with who you are at the moment. Theres no point in forcing yourself to be what you
believe others want you to be. No one in this world can be exactly what all those
around them would like.

Your body is showing you that you should let go of your mental activity, stop
wanting to understand everything mentally and just be yourself.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

HEART DISORDERS
Physical block: The heart acts as a two-way pump for the circulatory system. Its
life-giving rhythm regulates the flow of the life force throughout the body. Coronary
heart disease is the most common cause of death in North America.

Emotional block: Its interesting to note that the heart is placed virtually at the
centre of the body. If you are centred, you are living from the heart in a balanced
state of love and trust that is in sync with the natural flow of the universe. Your
perspective is one of balance and you tend to listen to the mutterings of your own
heart when faced with decisions. A heart disorder is the manifestation of the
opposite mindset. If you are having heart trouble, you probably tend to take
everything to heart, or to take things far too seriously. You are not allowing for the
proper flow in your life, whether its the flow of ideas, of love or of your very
lifeblood. You are fighting the current of life to the point of physical and emotional
exhaustion. You tend to deny your own needs and fulfill other peoples needs in
order to be loved. You seek love through what you do for others. The main message
associated with any heart condition is LOVE YOURSELF!

Mental block: Heart disease is an urgent message from your body to change your
perception of yourself. There is a need for self-validation. Fill the wellspring of love
within you by changing your belief that love can come only from others. Give
yourself the love you seek and it will always be there; you wont have to search for
it.

Get in touch with your self-worth step by step. Begin by giving yourself ten
compliments a day until you begin to believe them. You are unique and very special,
yet your low self-esteem does not allow you to keep some of your goodness to
yourself. Become whole emotionally and spiritually and your heart will heal as you
begin to nurture it.

A healthy heart no longer fears being unloved. It is able to cope with

disappointment, as nothing can disturb its equilibrium. You will continue to nurture
others because you want to, not because you need to prove to yourself and others
that you are lovable.

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

OBESITY
Physical block: Obesity is an increase in body weight as a result of an excessive
accumulation of fat in the body beyond skeletal and physical limitations.

Emotional block: Although obesity can be caused by many physiological factors,

the psychological implications are related to a situation or person that humiliated
you when you were young and you felt ashamed. You now live in a state of
perpetual fear of feeling ashamed, making someone else feel ashamed or being
shamed by someone else.

You have built a psychological wall around youbarrier of fat to shield you from the
demands and expectations of others. You probably have difficulty saying no and
have a tendency to take on too much because you would be ashamed to say no.

You may feel sandwiched between two people; doing everything you can to satisfy
both. You want to make others happy to prove that you are not ashamed of them.
While doing this, youre completely out of touch with your own needs.

It is also common to gain weight as a protective psychological barrier against the

opposite sex. You may believe that your bulk will not be attractive to the opposite
sex and you will therefore avoid being hurt, humiliated or emotionally abused by
them.

Frequently, obese people want to take their rightful place in life but are
uncomfortable doing so. Little do they know that they are already taking a lot of
space in life, not only physically.

Mental block: In my observation, those with obesity are often deeply sensitive; they
are unable to take a long, hard, honest look at themselves in a mirror. Are you able
to really look at each part of your body in a mirror? Its very important if you want to
address your obesity and fully understand it. The ability to look honestly at your
physical body is linked with your capacity to look beyond the physical to the real
cause of this problem.

Experiencing the humiliation you did as a child has caused you to build a protective
barrier to prevent you from being taken advantage of. You thought you could
achieve your goals by being a nice person and by taking on other peoples
burdens. It is important for you to learn how to receive instead of always giving.
Realise that receiving takes nothing away from others.

I suggest that at the end of each day you recount any incident that humiliated you
or made you feel ashamed, and determine whether the shame was really justified.
Ask someone you trust what they think.

Also, make it a habit to ask yourself what do I really want? before agreeing to
others requests or before offering your services. The love and esteem that others
have for you will not diminish. On the contrary, they will appreciate the fact that you
respect yourself and that you are taking a stand. Although you will always be an
obliging person, as is your nature, you also need to learn to feed your own soul. It is
your birthright to be happy and to take your place in the lives of those close to you.
Believe in your own self-worth!

Spiritual block and conclusion: To uncover the spiritual block that keeps you from
responding to the needs of your BEING, refer to the Key Questions.

Excerpted with permission from Your Bodys Telling You: Love Yourself, by Lise
Bourbeau, published by Les ditions E.T.C. Inc. Canada.
For more information on Lise Bourbeau, her workshops and her books,
Body language

February 2014

By Deepti Gujar

Illness and discomfort within the body is often the symptom of an emotional or
mental issue. Instead of popping a pill, introspect on the messages your body gives
you, says Deepti Gujar

feb2014body-laungageRecently, I did a past-life regression session for a client who

experienced a wound or a block at the back of her throat. Her reason for going into
a regression was to find clarity about her career. She was wondering if she should
pursue being a doctor. She also had a great love for singing, and had studied it off
and on but never really pursued it full-time. During the regression as she explored
this stuck sensation at the back of her throat, she went into a lifetime where she
was a musician. During the integration of how that related to this life, she became
aware of the belief that she needed to suffer, to delay her happiness, in order to
deserve it. This led to her ignoring the pursuit of music which was her hearts
calling. In the process of regression, her body did not allow that to remain hidden
anymore. In my experience, such unconscious wounds manifest into disease or
illness.

For over a year my intuition kept saying that I was ready to do healing and music
full time. I ignored it for financial reasons. I kept getting sicker and sicker for a year,
and remained undiagnosed. Until a check showed that my vitamin levels were super
low. At one level, I attributed it to my diet of being a vegetarian. At a deeper level, I
asked myself what vitamins really meant. Vitality came the answer. Was I feeling
alive? The answer was no. I was sapping my own vitality by not doing things that
made me feel alive on an everyday basis. It has been a year since I quit my job to
pursue activities like writing, singing, travelling, and anything else that fills me with
joy. Yet today the stress of having a negligible bank balance is nothing compared to
the stress of feeling dead and numbed by my mundane IT job.

The call of the inner voice

For healers, their clients are more often than not mirrors of something that is
healing within them. Like this client above, I tend to delay singing, which has been
my passion since childhood. One day I was feeling unusually restless. My mind was
super active, and I had started getting frequent headaches. Meditation did not help.
My bowel movements were upset too, which my ayurvedic doctor said was due to
too much mental activity. I sat down and asked my body, What is it that you
want? much like a frustrated mother. I felt a lump in my throat and the diaphragm
vibrated as if I was singing. I got my tanpura out, and started tuning my voice. In
the next two hours the restlessness ceased, the mind quietened. For a few days I
started practising regularly. My digestion got better. I felt energised, rather than
exhausted after each practice session. Today, even as I write this, it is again a
reminder for me to restart my regular practice, for just last night, I had a vivid
dream of singing full-throated, operatically. The subconscious finds ways to
communicate to our conscious self. And I choose to listen rather than ignore this
second sign (the first sign being the client).

Dr.Newton Kondaveti, my past-life regression teacher, has written a book called

Consciousness Heals which talks about how the body is a hologram of your
subconscious mind. He lovingly quotes to us often, the body never lies. The signs
of discomfort that our body shows are messages. Even though some of us know
this, and have practised listening to the body and seeing the success behind it in
the past, we get lazy, or fall back into the old groove of things, and start ignoring
our body language. It is so easy to go to a doctor, get a prescription, buy a few
drugs, and go back to the same way of living. But what if we stopped for a moment
and looked deeper? My earliest belief about my body was that it is just there. I
almost treated it like a machine. I popped pills like Crocin without a second thought.
Until I read Deepak Chopras book, Quantum Healing, when I was about 17 years
old. I was stunned by the outlook of how the mind is an energetic entity present in
every cell of the body. Hence, effectively our body is like an intelligent, ever-alert
organism that is listening to our thoughts 24/7. It not only listens to those thoughts,
but organically feels those thoughts, and shapes itself accordingly.

Listen to your body

In another spontaneous healing, some months ago I was sitting in one of my

mentors Sunday sessions and felt like crying. I was tired of being sick owing to one
year of regular fevers and indigestion. I was on a heavy ayurveda course, but I felt
like I was hanging by a thread. I was afraid to die. That Sunday I was also very tense
and scared. Through the session, something he said triggered me, and I started
crying copiously. The thoughts that went on in my mind were, Why do I have to
have this body?! I hate this body! I just want to die and get it over with! I had
spontaneously processed a past-life conditioning that the body is a burden to the
soul. Hence, I was dreading paying attention to it. After that catharsis and looking at
the root thought i.e. the body is a burden, I felt much lighter than I had in over a
year. I stopped taking the weakness so seriously. I was calmer while paying
attention to the body. At the same time, my mentors advaitic reminder that you
are not the body, you are not the mind, finally started to open up a greater
awareness. This same thought was being used earlier to escape the body, rather
than treat the body as an instrument of the Divine, a mistake a lot of advaita
followers do.

There are so many other ways in which the body needs to be addressed instead of
just through diets, and exercise. Leonard Orr, pioneer of Rebirthing-Breathwork and
Immortality in his book, The Owners Manual, writes about how the element of Earth
relates to our body. In that he mentions that not only is regular fasting a powerful
way of earth purification that heals the body, but also your career. There is a
wonderful affirmation he gives:

I daily make valuable contributions to the aliveness of myself, others and of

humanity.

I am tempted to think that our favourite singers, filmmakers and artistes who make
us come alive are the biggest healers on this planet right now. I love watching an
American television series called, So you think you can dance and I am deeply
moved by the sheer quality of heart and soul they put into dancing. In some
sequences it feels like they are moving the whole world through their body. It
transcends competition. It almost always makes me get up and sing with more
passion, or do yoga with more zest.

I have found other ways to relate to the body. These include:

Blessing the water that I drink or have a bath with, inspired by Japanese
scientist Massaru Emotos Water Experiment.

Chanting the mantra Om Namah Shivay before I start cooking, inspired by my

grandmother who cooked the most delicious food ever.

Blessing the food on my plate with the mantra Krishnarpan dedicating the
food to Lord Krishna, and invoking his presence who transformed the poison in the
14th century saint, Mirabais body (since we are exposed to so many chemicals in
the food we are served regularly), asking him to transform it into Light.

Silently sending gratitude and abundance to all who conspired to bring it to my

plate.

Sleeping a good 10 to 12 hours a day that makes me feel refreshed and happy.

I also verify some of my decisions by passing that thought through my body and
checking how the decision feels in my body. Usually, intuitions, knowingness arrive
at a bodily level too.

I came across another interesting case through a friend of mine who is a tarot card
reader. As she looked up the cards for a health issue a client was going through, the
cards said that this lady had suppressed her romantic feelings in a past relationship
which led to an upset in her body. Somewhere she had begun to get a message that
her romantic nature was not okay with this past lover, which caused her to suppress
her childlike enthusiasm. She went on to make a list of her romantic desires, and
soon her own comfort with herself increased. This subsequently alleviated her
symptoms.

The best prescription for your health is written by you alone. And slowly I guess
many of us are questioning how another person based on certain, however

elaborate studies, can be the authority for what you need to do to set it right, when
it was never a standard machine in the first place ?