I want you to think of a health concern you have right now.
A frustration you have with your body.
Something you believe you need to heal.
Now I want you to think about what you have done up until now to try and fix this problem.
Maybe you have already taken the beautifully grueling route of radical responsibility.
Or maybe you have done what most of us do when faced with a deep,
Difficult wound.
We outsource.
We run to a doctor.
We run to a therapist.
We turn to the internet or a podcast or an admired mentor to tell us what to do.
We look outward for answers because looking inwards feels much too isolating.
We distract ourselves from true healing because it feels so much better to put the burden in someone else's hands.
But when was the last time you truly went inward?
This is where true healing lies.
You are a creator.
You are a healer.
You have every single answer you need hidden deep inside you.
The decisions you make every day,
Decisions of how to spend your time,
Who to be around,
What you eat,
How you think,
These are what actually shape your life,
Your body's health,
Your spirit and mind and character.
If your external life feels chaotic or imbalanced,
If you're experiencing unwanted mental,
Emotional or physical symptoms,
It's simply an expression of your internal self.
Symptoms are just an expression of yourself trying to find balance.
When we can finally learn to stop looking outward for answers and rather take 100% responsibility for our lives,
We will find the peace and healing we've been searching for.
In the words of Elizabeth Gilbert,
God dwells within you as you.
You are a creator and you alone have the power to heal.
Go ahead and close your eyes.
Join me in a meditation.
Take a deep breath and let's consider the possibility,
The very real possibility,
That maybe,
Just maybe,
Your body is actually healing.
What if your body is healing?
Just ask yourself,
What if the symptoms you feel daily are actually signs of a body trying to right itself?
An expression of the healing process rather than a sign of spiraling decline.
What if your body is continuously digging deep,
Remembering the perfect creator that it is,
Rebuilding itself one breath at a time,
Hoping you can be patient enough to withstand the sometimes painful process of reconstruction?
And what if we got out of its way and just let go?
Let go of the gripping tightness so many of us hold over our bodies.
A tightness that prevents our body from doing what it does best,
To heal.
We are perfect beings,
Breathed into existence from generations of stars,
Created in perfection against all odds and blessed with the power to heal.
Moon dust made our bones,
The flowing ocean tides our blood,
The constant pulsing earth beats our heart,
The gentle breeze our breath and the cyclical phase of the seasons guides our life force.
We were made from perfection,
From a universe of alignment and wildly chaotic exactness.
So why would we not be healing with every breath we take?
Why would we not be continuously striving for realignment and a return to perfection?
What if your body is healing?
Can you let go of the narrative that you are sick and broken,
To replace it with a new story of hope and healing?
Can you let the sunlight in,
Along with the simple possibility that you are a perfect being that only knows healing?
We so often dig our own graves with fingertips grasping at the earth,
The very earth that gave life to our creation.
We cling and beg and grip our way through it all,
Only worsening the tightness of our chest,
The shallowness of our breaths.
In our desperate attempts to heal,
We become sicker and sicker.
If you want to heal,
You must let go.
Release the control,
Escape the spiraling thoughts and icy grip of whatever diagnosis you may have been given.
You must visualize with meticulous detail the healed body you desire so badly.
What would it feel like to live in that body?
To send breath through that body?
To eat in that body?
Sleep in that body?
Dress that body?
Play in that body?
What would you do in that body that you cannot do now?
Visualize it,
Feel it,
Be in it.
That body,
That healthy,
Vibrant,
Thriving body is yours.
It is within your grasp.
If you can step aside,
Let go and allow your body and mind to realign itself to the perfect spiritual being that is you.
What if you are healing?
