The Soul Lesson Of Sickness—Healing And Illness Begin At Soul Level
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Healing occurs on many levels, and the level it originates from is at Soul level. One of the definitions of sick at Merriam-Webster is, “spiritually or morally unsound or corrupt.” There is no mention of the physical in that definition.
By the time body manifestations show at the physical level, the imbalance has occurred in all the other levels that comprise our existence here. The spiritual, mental, and emotional layers that surround our body hold the clues as to what we’re creating in the physical.
Our Soul is first to choose sickness, and in those instances, the sickness involves serious life lessons and teachings. Although much physical distresses have to do with lifestyle choices, there’s still an underlying reason why poor choices are made. Soul includes all the aspects of ourself, and what is going on with one affects the whole.
There have been books written and stories told about the many layers of Soul describing them as including a family, a pod, a group, a collective, and an Oversoul.
A common reason our Soul allows distress is due to the unconscious/subconscious script running our life in the background that takes us off the path set-out for our life. As long as we’re unaware of this hidden, ego-driven phenomenon—typically the result of attachments—we’re prisoners to repeating patterns and manifestations.
The distractions and busy-ness of this day and age easily let people avoid dealing with the sensitive and uncomfortable issues that may be driving their discomforts and sicknesses.
We’re meant to learn from the trials and tribulations of the life we chose for this time around. If we’re unable to move through the darkness and return to the light, we become and remain stalled in our evolution. If we don’t rise above life’s challenges and break the repetitive cycles, unexpected major life-altering events will occur. Soul is then speaking loudly.
It’s easy to get trapped by the illusion being played out all around us—but one of our Soul purposes here—is to eventually see past the duality.
One question we need to ask when we feel disturbed or agitated by something we witness outside of us is, “how does this directly affect my life?” If it’s something that doesn’t directly affect us, it’s not ours to hold. If it directly affects us negatively, we need to change our view of the situation because we know then, it is a trigger and part of a lesson. Letting negative issues invade our psyche for too long will perpetuate their effects on our life.
What drives our Soul to make us sick? Disempowering emotions and unconscious patterns that stem from a separative mentality.
Anger
Until we’ve been able to release anger altogether by becoming unattached to the drama creating it in the first place, expressing anger in a healthy way is preferable. Hanging on to it leads to problems. Allow the emotion to play out, and release it. Unexpressed anger can build up to bitterness, disappointment, hostility and resentment.
Betrayal
Whether to self or others, this unconscious pattern gives rise to a range of disempowering emotions and behaviours such as deception, denial, envy/jealousy (implies we’re not enough), poor choices, lying, and victimhood among others.
Fear
Comes under many guises: anxiety, avoidance, distrust (faithless), lack (from avarice to hoarding), resistance, and the list goes on. All these are disempowering and low energy.
Power struggles
Power-tripping is ego-based and is driven by false beliefs of superiority or victim mentality.
The source of all suffering is attachment. Whether the attachments are to addictions, beliefs, habits, expectations, ideas, people, places, material possessions, or rituals. All those things that are outside of us become attachments when we hang on to them. When we’re unable to let go of something, anything, there’s the potential for it to be burdensome. Burdens are not only felt physically, and if we’re in avoidance or denial mode for too long about something that’s weighing on our psyche, difficulties transpire in the physical to get our attention.
Emotional and/or mental pain eventually turn into physical pain if not released or transformed. Letting go of the illusion we have control of anything that is not of us releases us from suffering. Life will take us where we’re meant to go if we can release the reigns we hold tight and step out of what we think is a comfort zone.
Go with the ebb and flow of life, even when the flow feels like going through raging rapids. It’s been my experience and observation, not only with myself but with others as well, that those of us who are physically sick are as far away from our purest self as we can be.
This is why we often hear spiritual leaders and gurus disapprove of any type of intervention as this goes against the universal law of karma. The law of cause and effect. They, we, are sick because it is what we’re attracting to us. Physical illness follows a mindset of ill-regard and disrespect for life. Why most people never recover is because of their unwillingness to honour themselves fully. Honouring others is part of it as well because we should know that what we do to another, we do to ourselves.
The Soul may have chosen to experience the challenges sickness brings in life, so as to learn to feel well despite it. On the other hand, ill-thought, intention, or action towards self, others, or anything that is against life creates chaos that is ultimately reciprocated. There’s no way around it.
When I first came down with an autoimmune dis-ease, the people around me were interested to know how it happened. When I was learning to heal and wanted to share my experiences in getting there, many of those people did not give much attention to what I was excited about sharing. It’s not that they didn’t care.
Without being able to relate to a person who is sick, someone healing doesn’t spark any interest. People give their attention to what they believe is possible. The extraordinary is regarded as fantasy or the stuff of movies. Open-mindedness is not part of everyone’s makeup.
What are some of the Soul lessons we may be learning other than those previously mentioned? Our Soul may want us to learn acceptance, compassion, detachment, empathy, generosity, humility, joy, kindness, love, patience, self-love, self-worth, unconditional love, understanding, and so on.
Many soul lessons may take lifetimes to master.