Traps

We have to be very careful not to fall into the little guilt and blame traps we like to set for ourselves. We can fall into these traps when we begin to over analyze and dissect our illness.

If we understand that what we experience outside of ourselves comes from within ourselves, we may fall into the trap if blaming ourselves for everything and then feel guilty. If understand that our bodies have the ability to be healthy, but we continue to become ill, we may fall into the trap of blaming ourselves and then feel guilty. We may even begin to think that the whole world is sick because we are sick and we may fall into the trap of blaming ourselves and feeling guilty for everything. If we don't recognize what our over analyzing and negative thinking are doing to us, we may stay stuck in those traps of blame and guilt for a very long time.

What is the purpose of over analyzing our illness. What is our intent behind looking at our illness? Is it to find a place to place blame or is it to find a way to heal ourselves? Does it really matter where our illness came from or does it matter how we deal with it now? Would it serve us better to focus on casting blame and feeling sad, angry, regretful or guilty, OR would it serve us better to let go of looking for a place to cast blame and instead focus on finding what helps us our body to feel healthy, whole and strong?

I think the answer to that is very clear...what benefits us the most is to let go of blame and guilt and seek instead to focus on feeling healthy, whole and strong. Let's free ourselves from the traps!

Try this meditative or refocusing technique if you wish:

Stop thinking and focusing on clinging to blaming anything for your illness right now.
Take a deep breath in, hold it for a few seconds, then slowly let it out.
Quiet your mind and take another deep breath in and out.
Now focus on how your body feels. Where are we holding tension? Where do you feel pain?
Take a deep breath in and think of those areas.
Now release that breath and as you release that breath feel the tension and pain in those areas of your body flow out from your body.
Take another deep breath in. Feel any areas that are still tense.
Now release the breath and visualize all of those areas relaxing and all of the tension flowing out of your body with the air you release until your body feels relaxed, limp and free.
Now remain relaxed and loose and envision your whole body floating free and loose.
Envision your whole body surrounded in white light.
Take a deep breath in and a slow breath out.
Now repeat these words in your mind, I am healthy, I am whole, I am strong.
Take a deep breath in filling your lungs completely and then slowly release it until your lungs are completely empty.
Envision the white light warmly flowing from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. Let the warmth of the white light soak in, fill us and surround us.
Now say again, I am healthy, I am whole, I am strong.
Take a deep breath, fill your lungs completely.
Let the breath out very slowly, gently emptying your lungs completely.
On your next breath in focus on saying, I am healthy, whole and loved.
Allow yourself to feel that love, allow yourself to soak that love into the very center of yourself. Envision your body healthy, whole and filled to the brim with love. See that the love comes from deep within and radiates outward to the rest of the world.
Relax in this vision for as long as you wish.
Remember to gently breath in and out, do not hold your breath.
Then when you are ready to return, slowly, refocus on feeling your toes.
Feel your fingers.
Feel your feet and hands.
Remember, they are healthy and whole.
Feel your legs and arms, your hips and chest.
They are healthy and whole.
Feel your shoulders, neck and head.
They are healthy and whole.
As you return to your entire body feel the love that fills you, feel that you are healthy and whole.
Hold that feeling and thought throughout your whole day.

We can do this process or any relaxation, refocusing process whenever we feel the need. We do not have to remain stuck in our traps.