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Today I would like to tackle another broad topic, one that affects most of the people on this planet at one time or another during the course of their lifetime and that is pain, physical pain, and illness – how it arises, where it comes from and how we can best deal with it. I realize that we’ll probably need more than one conversation to even start to examine this issue, but that’s OK. This issue of physical pain has been an ongoing challenge for me most of my adult life, but we’ve never really dealt with it in depth in any of our conversations up to this point. The question is, where to begin?

In situations like this, it is always best to start with your own personal story. Tell us about your most recent experience with physical pain and let us see where the conversation leads us.

Well, my most recent experience with pain came about unexpectedly, while I was sleeping. I woke up at about 3AM with pain in my lower back, my hip, my groin and my thigh, all on the right side of my body. I had experienced back pain before, so it wasn’t new to me. I just couldn’t figure out why this old problem had popped up again out of the blue.

At the risk of interrupting your narrative so early on, let us be clear, that while the pain itself might have taken your conscious mind by surprise, there is actually no such thing as “out of the blue” when it comes to the manifestation of physical conditions such as this, at least not on a vibrational level. The sensation of pain, indeed any form of illness or dis-ease, is always, ALWAYS caused by unreleased emotional energy, energy which in turn creates resistance to the flow of your natural health and well-being. This resistance can sometimes take a long time to develop within your energy field – days, weeks, months, even years – before it actually manifests as an experience of physical pain or illness. Ideally, emotion is processed and released in the present moment when it is first triggered by thought or by experience. But as we know, this is not always the case. Indeed, in many instances where human persons are in a position to express emotion, the tendency is often to repress that emotion, especially if it is considered unpleasant or upsetting in some way, and store it away within their energy field rather than experience it. This resistance to emotional expression builds upon itself and, if left unattended, eventually produces a blockage or a pinching off of your channel to Source energy, sustained by whatever fear-based belief system you are holding in place. When this occurs, when you hold onto fear that is not acknowledged, processed and released, it gains momentum and density and eventually descends into the lower frequencies of your physical form. By the time you experience this energy blockage as physical pain or illness, it often would have been set in motion long before.

Understood. Now, where was I?

All of a sudden, at least on a physical level, you began to feel pain and discomfort in your lower back and the surrounding areas.

Yes. Pain and discomfort. The most intense pain I’ve ever felt, even worse than a kidney stone because it ended up lasting for several weeks and I could get very little relief no matter what I did – ice, heat, analgesic rubs, pain killers, sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a chair – nothing really seemed to help. The pain was so bad on that first morning that I decided to go to urgent care for some pain killers, but what they prescribed did very little to relieve the pain. A few days later, I made another trip, this time to the emergency room, for more pain killers, but those, too, had very little effect. At the time, my chiropractor was on vacation, so a few days after the ER visit, I saw an orthopedist, who offered me no solutions other than physical therapy. He did, however, send me to a radiology clinic for an MRI. The results, which I got a few days later, showed a bulging disc in my lower back on the right side, and that was causing all of my pain. By that time, my chiropractor was back from vacation, so I paid him a visit and he started me on a six-week course of spinal decompression therapy, which stretched out my back, relieving the pressure from the bulging disc and eventually healing the problem.

And as you say, this type of physical pain was something that you had experienced before.

I’d never experienced this level or duration of intense pain before, but I can’t honestly say that pain in my body was all that unusual. Sometimes I feel as if I’ve been experiencing some form of physical pain my entire adult life. That’s why I’ve been wanting to have this conversation with you, to gain some clarity on my situation. Growing up, I barely remember experiencing much pain at all in my body. It was not until I was in my late twenties that I began to feel physical discomfort on a regular basis. And since then, it seems like I’m almost always dealing with some form of pain in my body – my back, my shoulders, my neck, my knees, tennis elbow, kidney stones, appendicitis, colitis symptoms, lingering infections, shingles. The list goes on and on. I’ve always thought of myself as a very healthy person, but the more I examine my medical history, the more astonished I am at the amount of physical pain I’ve created in my body.

And during this latest episode, how did you deal with all of this physical pain, aside from seeking treatment and advice from healthcare practitioners?

Despite all of the work I’ve done on myself over the years, increasing my awareness, delving into the spiritual side of my life, when it comes to physical pain, I still tend to take a grin-and-bear-it approach. I’m a Reiki Master and my Reiki self-practice has been incredibly helpful over the years. It was especially effective when I was dealing with my colitis symptoms. But under these circumstances, where the pain was so intense and constant, I found it very hard to concentrate on anything other than the pain. I think most people would agree that in situations like this, when you’re faced with pain or an illness that you can’t control, you quickly begin to feel powerless, and that’s very frightening. Everyone has their own strategy for dealing with circumstances like these. My solution is to try to tough it out, hoping that whatever treatment or medication I receive will eventually alleviate the pain.

It makes perfect sense that you would seek to rely primarily on external means for relieving your discomfort, as most human persons believe that the origin of illness and pain is external. With dis-ease, it is almost universally accepted that a germ or a virus or a cancer cell causes ill health, that heart problems are caused by a faulty valve, or stress, or plaque buildup in your arteries, that smoking is the cause of your emphysema, pollen the cause of your asthma attack, aches and pains the result of an accident, like a car crash, or tripping and falling down, or sitting incorrectly, or not exercising enough, or exercising too much. These types of external conditions or activities are often seen as the primary cause behind a breakdown in the integrity of your physical form. But if you can accept the fact that there are no accidents, that your pain or illness is not the result of some outside force, that it is not the result of fate, or bad luck, or even the whims of a vengeful, judgmental God, then you may also begin to accept the idea that your pain, your illness, may have its origin somewhere within your own emotional energy field, within your own belief system, within your own consciousness. Why else do some individuals attract pain and illness of a certain kind and others do not? Why else do some humans experience a cancer while others experience a dysfunction of the heart or of the digestive track and others experience little or no dis-ease at all during their lives? Because the source of pain and illness lies within. A virus or an accident or your family’s genetics may be the trigger, but the SOURCE always lies within. We cannot stress this concept strongly enough. This means that ALL illness, ALL dis-ease, ALL pain is a choice, an unconscious choice perhaps, but a choice that is yours and yours alone. This is not a call to place blame upon yourself. You have done nothing wrong. You are merely finding your way, and sometimes during your journey, you allow fear to take over and squeeze off the flow of Source energy that sustains your health and well-being, the flow that is a natural part of who you are. Even if it appears that pain or illness comes from an external cause, the motivating force, the primary cause, always originates within your own energy system.

But what about something like aging, the aging process? Aren’t the typical kinds of aches and pains that come to everyone as we grow old, aren’t they just something that happens naturally as the body ages or are they also affected by our belief systems? I mean, those aches and pains happen to everyone, or least everyone I know.

The reason these aches and pains of which you speak happen to everyone is that they are the product of a common, almost universally-held belief system regarding the effects of aging. These belief systems have been embedded within your energy field almost since the time of your initial incarnation and have been unconsciously retained ever since. The energy around these beliefs is so strong that it is accepted as inevitable by almost all inhabitants of the physical plane. We are here to tell you that there is nothing inevitable about these beliefs and there is nothing inevitable about the effects of the aging process, including any or all of the aches and pains that you may experience. It is all a matter of belief.

All of it?

All of it. We would even go as far to say that the manner of your leaving the physical form which you inhabit is also built around a belief system that says that your passing must be accomplished in a certain way, usually by contracting what most humans would refer to as a “fatal illness,” but as we have discussed before, this manner of leaving the physical plane is based on nothing more than an unconscious belief system about death and is in no way inevitable. You can choose to leave your physical form at any time by consciously deciding to leave. And eventually, this is the manner in which all humans will depart their physical forms, without the need for pain, without the need for illness or dis-ease, without the need for life-ending catastrophe, but because you are done with what you came to do and now it is time to leave. Simple as that.

This has been a really fascinating conversation so far and I hate to stop here, but as I suspected, this is a much larger topic than we can cover in just one post. So, I think we should pick this up next time.

As you wish. Until next time then.

Thank you all.

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