ASK ABDI: WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO HEAL OUR BODIES?

QUESTION:

I am curious if you have insight as to why it can be so difficult to heal our bodies. Especially when we have been on the spiritual path, doing the energy work, committing to a daily practice of meditation, emotional clearing, ancestral healing...you get it. Do we just have blind spots? Are we not designed to do this work alone?

ANSWER:

The question you ask has many nuanced and varied answers depending on the specific person and where they are on their path. Of course we all have blind spots and for many of us, a truck can be driven through it given its size. That is just the nature of living on this realm.

I would say that the body, being matter and dense, can be the last place where healing occurs. It is possible to tend to and move mountains in our psyche, emotional body, past trauma etc before we see a change in our physical body. The ethereal aspects of self often move first before our meat suit. So one need not view lack of change in the physical body as failure of all the hard work one has done to heal. Self berating and judgment towards self are best examined while dealing with the frustration of not seeing a shift in our physical symptoms. Healing is an ongoing process so one needs to pay attention to how other parameters of life have been affected by our inner work. Are we more at peace? Less reactive? More internally moored? Choosing sanity and care of self over others? I can go on and on but you get the gist.

I would add that one also needs to distinguish between healing and curing. One can do much work and have a more centered and authentic way of being in the world through emotional healing and not necessarily see changes in physical symptoms. Or one can cure physical symptoms without any level of deep healing in psyche and spirit. Obviously the goal is to have both and those of us on the path move towards that. I would gently remind you that it is hard enough to deal as well as live with physical symptoms without adding the extra burden of self judgment.

Lastly, we come here to the plane and leave seemingly alone. Certainly we have to hold our own council and center but absolutely not to do this work alone. No one is an island onto themselves and we all need a helping hand on the way. Examine that last sentence that you wrote and challenge the underlying belief system of having “to do this work alone.” The seen and unseen worlds beg and insist to differ.