Capítulo 8. Sanar.

CAPÍTULO 8. SANAR

Healing

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.  SWAMI SIVANANDA SARAWATI

Although I am specifically focusing on clients with health issues in this chapter, nearly all clients experience some aspect of healing. Even people who undertake a regression out of curiosity can reap the healing benefits of their experience. Paula, who you met in an earlier chapter, received confirmation that she was on track with her life. Although such a change is subtle, she was healed of any doubts about her direction, enabling her to approach her life with renewed vigor.

Some people, however, do suffer from pain or serious health issues. Usually they want to know why they have these health issues, and what they can do to reduce their suffering.

Here are some cases of people who were facing a range of health challenges. I have also included more general information and suggestions that the Council of Elders have given to people with health issues.

Mauricio

Mauricio is only in his thirties but he has already experienced a rare cancer. He had undergone several rounds of chemotherapy and the cancer had gone into remission. However his doctor was still concerned, and Mauricio was about to have more tests. His doctor had flagged the possibility he might need another round of chemotherapy. Mauricio was not sure if that would be wise.

For his current life, Mauricio had chosen a sensitive body that was prone to illness. In the chapter, Body Selection, you will discover the reasons behind his choice.

During his session, Mauricio asked the Council of Elders for advice on how to manage his body. He was told he had two choices. He could remain incarnate, or he could leave. The Council advised him of the steps he needed to take if he wished to heal.

Be careful with toxins and make sure you detox regularly. You need to detox emotionally, spiritually and physically. This means keeping the energy flowing. Beware of emotional and energy blockages.

Your body is sensitive to illness and also sensitive to healing. You can heal yourself. You need to meditate and tap into a higher consciousness. If things haven’t gone too far, the body can be healed.

All healing is possible but if the body has been damaged [such as cartilage destroyed in a joint] then you need a stronger intent. You need to believe in your healing one hundred percent. You have to have no doubts.

Meditate, visualise, feel the healing, feel healed, bring the healing into being. Whether you use medicine to reduce the pain or not, the main thing is to not get into the fear.

Those who act healthy and feel healthy are healthy.

When the Council referred to toxins, they were not just talking about unhealthy food or poisons (such as chemotherapy) taken into the body. The Council was also referring to toxic people. Around the time that Mauricio had developed the cancer, he had experienced a year of conflict. This conflict occurred within his extended family when a relative embarked on a path of fraud and deception. Some members of the family were taken in by this man, while others were not. The conflict split the family apart. Mauricio and his wife had recently emigrated to get away from all the tension.

Xelu

Xelu is in his sixties. He is a health professional who has helped many people. Sheer curiosity led him to seek out a regression. He mentioned that he was on dialysis for kidney failure. He was generally very accepting of this physical challenge, saying he had found ways to get on with his life in spite of the illness. He was not seeking a cure but he wondered why he had fallen ill. During the session, he was given his answer.

I chose my kidney failure. I get the feeling I had to clear out all the shit I was carrying. I had cruel parents. Even though, through their cruelty and pain, I learned about love. The kidney failure has made me more patient and tolerant. I have to go on dialysis every few days and sit for hours. It is an interesting disease. You know you are terminal, but not yet. I am being told that feeling unwell will come and go. My journey is to experience many possibilities. It is just another experience. The most important thing is to enjoy the journey. I will not let [my illness] bother me.

At a soul level, Xelu chose his illness because it presented a challenge. It seems that many souls choose such challenges. What he learned during his session confirmed this for Xelu and helped him make peace with his illness.

Elisa

Elisa was very depressed and sometimes indulged in self-harming behavior. She wondered what she needed to do to change her unhappiness.

Early in our discussion before the regression, I noticed the rigidity of her views. During the session, her rigidity turned to resistance. She kept saying she thought she was making it all up. Somehow, this notion filled her with fear—a fear that knowing she was making it up would only deepen her depression. But as we proceeded further into the trance, she was given information to help her change.

I create my reality. I know that is true. I have to give up my limiting beliefs to be able to create a better reality. I am very negative. I don’t think I am good enough. This is coming from my thought patterns. My father’s treatment of me is part of it. My father was a blamer. His father was a blamer. My mother’s family was full of blamers. This victim attitude has come down the ancestral line.

One part of me wants to change and another part doesn’t. The resistant part wants to stay as it is because it feels familiar. I can feel it in my body. My neck is tense and painful.

I am being told to open up, make space, expand and allow the feelings to be in my body.

Elisa started crying quietly and continued to cry for some time as she worked through those generations of blame and grief.

I can see that sad little me that I was. I can feel her sadness... I am giving it space... Now I am holding her hand. I feel at peace with this reconnection.

I am being told I am to be much more gentle with myself. I need to be less negative. I can do this by accepting the negativity and giving it space. I am to do what I sense is right for me and not to worry about what anyone else thinks.

Elisa felt greatly drained after this session, but she was on her way to increased self-acceptance and reduced negativity. She could heal her depression and self-harming behavior if she continued to practise what she had been given.

Xabel

Xabel was extremely overweight and suffered a number of other illnesses due to this. His doctors pointed to his weight as the main problem. He wanted to know why he struggled so much with food and what he could do about it.

One of his past lives is described in the chapter, Do Our Past Lives Affect This Life? In that life he lived as a noble, using food as a weapon to control his peasants. He hated the injustice of some people having more than others, even though he was born into wealth.

He experienced a previous life in a Nordic country around 800 A.D. where food again was an issue.

In this Nordic life, he was a woman who struggled to find enough to eat. She built up a lot of anger over the injustice of a few having so much and the peasants having so little. She and her husband intended to steal from a wealthy man. However, their intended victim failed to arrive at their carefully-chosen place of ambush, and so their plan was aborted. She never tried to steal again, even though starving remained a threat throughout this life. She had children and sometimes she went hungry in order to feed them.

In another past life, Xabel was an intelligent man who rose to great power. He governed a large area of a third world country and did as much as he could to support the masses. But he died disillusioned. He felt he could have done more even though the people were grateful for what he did.

The theme of injustice for the poor and underprivileged ran through all of these lives. In his current life, Xabel still harbours a strong sense of injustice. He is certainly not privileged in this life as he struggles financially, mainly due to limited work opportunities and his poor health.

During the session, Xabel remembered a time when he was six years old and attending a birthday party for one of his friends. Even though he was only six, he had been putting on weight. He had recently started cutting back on fattening food. At this party, he refused to eat chocolate, lollies or ice-cream and was quite at peace with his choice. He overheard one of the mothers commenting positively on his ability to be so strong and determined. This was a powerful memory. The Council of Elders referred to this memory when advising him how to heal his relationship with food.

The Council said that fundamentally his problem lies in his tendency to see food as offering something other than sustenance. Xabel also uses food to fill his deeper emotional needs, such as the need for punishment, rebellion, comfort and so forth.

He is told that healing is difficult because there are many subtleties involved from many past lives. However, the Council tells Xabel that if he wishes to heal, he needs to use food purely for sustenance—even though he is not fully aligned with that idea yet. This is an area where he needs to continue to challenge himself.

His body is very confused. His appetite is distorted and his stomach doesn’t know when it is full. He doesn’t know what he really needs to eat. Over time, however, as he eats healthily his body will learn these positive new habits, and the old symbolic connections will disappear. There are many resources available that will help him know what to eat and what not to eat. It may challenge him but it is the correct way to proceed.

Cecilia

Cecilia has a brain tumor that is being treated with radiation and chemotherapy. She wants to know why the tumor formed, and how she can help heal it.

When she regresses to her past life, Cecilia discovers she was married to a physically abusive alcoholic. She has carried over hurt and anger from this life. In her present life, her alcoholic father neglected her, paying more attention to his sons than his daughter. Then her husband left her a couple of years before she was diagnosed with the tumor. This compounded the trauma.

Cecilia takes this knowledge into her life between lives. She encounters some wise beings, who explain that tumors represent ‘an accumulation of dense energies’, including the hurt and trauma experienced over many lifetimes.

Cecilia connects with her grief, crying deeply for several minutes. She forgives her father for his neglect, realising he didn’t know how to interact with a daughter. He was rough with the boys but kept his distance from her, because he didn’t want to injure her.

The wise beings explain that illness is useful, because anything the body does is useful. It is a feedback mechanism that tells us what is going on in our psyche. Tumors represent an opportunity to evolve, ‘a gift of lifetimes,’ they say. I ask what is meant by ‘a gift of lifetimes’ and the wise beings reply:

Tumors accumulate from lifetimes of experience. When they manifest in your life, you are given the opportunity to understand the path you have taken. Then you can heal the trauma and let it go.

With any illness, you need to identify the space and time when the trauma was locked in the body. Sit with the ill part of the body focus on it, talk with it and listen so you can understand what it says. Then to help heal illness, visualise it, sense its essence and make peace with it, while at the same time being non-judgmental and accepting.

Fighting the illness, fighting anything that the body creates, is not useful.

Efrén

Efrén is disabled. When he was young, he had an accident that left him a paraplegic. Before this happened, he was an athlete and into extreme sports.

After his accident, Efrén didn't grieve his loss, not for long anyway. He distracted himself from grief and loss by focusing on what he could achieve, rather than on his disability. As he felt comfortable playing sport, he became a wheelchair basketball player, and worked his body hard. Everyone admired his strength of character.

His new focus served him well until he had another accident, this time during a game. The doctors thought he might end up a quadriplegic. He didn't, but while this remained a possibility, Efrén lay in bed thinking. He wondered why the accidents had happened to him. Being told it was ‘God’s will’ didn’t satisfy him. The question became an obsession, and he started looking for answers. Eventually, he heard about life between lives regression.

During the session, he discovers his disability was part of the plan for his current life. He is in the process of developing balance between the physical and non-physical. Some people over-identify with their body, ignoring their spiritual connection. Others focus on the spiritual realms, resisting their physical nature and the realities of our physical world. At an advanced stage of development, souls set out to balance these two contrasting attractions.

Efrén is told he needs to spend time meditating, focusing on his inner world, as well as staying fit and playing sport. This will allow him to find the balance he seeks.

The wise beings explain that many disabilities are planned before we are born, to help the individual grow in some way. For example, being born visually impaired bestows opportunities not available to sighted people. By looking within, blind people can develop their intuition. Their listening skills and their feeling sense are also greatly enhanced.

Marcos

Marcos came to see me because he was feeling emotionally attacked by his ex-wife, complaining that she has never supported him or the children. He is very successful in his career and his new marriage is happy, but his ex-wife is jealous. In her bitterness, she told lies to their teenage children and turned them against him.

He struggled with a major setback in his career at the same time his children became spiteful towards him. Then, his mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Marcos always endeavours to be positive but he was finding it difficult to maintain the act. Underneath he was feeling a tremendous amount of stress. He was self-doubting and negative. Soon after all the stress, he began losing his hearing.

In his life between lives, he is told his negativity caused his hearing problems.

Your negative self-talk and high expectations of yourself are the reasons you lost your hearing. You didn’t want to hear the negativity anymore. If you want to stay healthy, you must stop the negative self-talk and continue meditating. You are burning off a lot of karma by your daily meditation. Keep doing that and your health will improve and stay improved.

Marcos received other useful advice about reconnecting with his children and letting go of his anger at his ex-wife. He left confident that his health would improve, and feeling more at peace with his situation.

Conclusion

Healing appears to be automatic when we are in the realm of our life between lives. As soon as we arrive, we are taken to a center where all heaviness and pain is released. One soul, in his life between lives, was clearly given this message.

When you visit this sacred place, you are cleared of all negativity. You cannot be in this scared place with negativity. Here there is clarity and purity. You choose what you take back to Earth with you. You return cleansed and pure and you need to remain vigilant so you continue to instill clarity and purity into your thoughts and body.

Unfortunately, when we return to Earth after being in our life between lives, some of us pick up our old patterns. Perhaps it takes a very strong soul to permanently wash away the old destructive negativity that we seem to hold in our bodies.

The next time I spoke with Mauricio about his struggle with cancer, he told me that he felt fine. Eventually though, his doctor persuaded him that another round of chemotherapy would be useful to keep the cancer under control. Mauricio had acquiesced. Although I recalled his guides suggesting he be wary of toxins, I said nothing and wished him the best. A few years later, his wife contacted me. Mauricio had passed.

Some of the clients in this chapter were able to instill their new learnings into their physical bodies. Elisa, for example, continued to work with the information she was given in her session. Her health, her relationships and her life improved and she described herself as happy.

Spirit guides tell us healing is possible. We need to change our mindset from pain to comfort, from fear to trust, and from negativity to positivity. Specifically, they said, ‘Those who act healthy and feel healthy, are healthy.’

I decided to implement this advice to address my own health problem. My right hip was so damaged that a specialist said I needed a hip replacement. I had been in pain with this hip for years and I was now only walking when I had to. It had worsened over the last two years and I even used a wheelchair for long distances when I was overseas. I realised that as I walked, I focused on the pain. This is understandable, given that pain seems to cry out for attention. I gave it attention—negative attention.

When I decided to take the guides’ advice, I focused attention on my pain-free left hip, enjoying the freedom of movement in that leg as I walked. Then I imagined my right hip feeling that same freedom. To help, I also mentally repeated the words, ‘strength and comfort’ as I walked.

Whenever I did this, I noticed that the pain in my right hip and leg reduced significantly. Often, I walked without pain. Sometimes I would forget, feel some pain, and fall into my old habit of tightening up against the discomfort.

I managed sufficiently for another three years after the surgeon said I should have my hip replaced. During that time, there were two major improvements in hip surgery that helped make my new hip durable, my operation successful, and my recovery swift.