DOES ILLNESS AND DISEASE OFFER HEALING?

1/4/2022

Our April Topic of Conversation continues to explore ‘Does Illness and Disease Offer Healing?’

In western societies, we have tended to believe that illness and disease happen to us, that we are the victims of genetics or perhaps a terrible misfortune. The concept that an accident, an illness or a disease could be offered to us as a healing for our body has been totally foreign.

If we have tripped or fallen and broken a bone or sprained a ligament, the general approach has been that we have been the victims of an unfortunate mishap. If one of our parents had cancer or diabetes, then it is presumed that there’s a possibility that we will also get the same disease.

However, what if in these moments where we are experiencing illness and disease or have an ‘accident’, that we are being offered an opportunity by our Soul to heal?

This ‘stop’ moment may be supporting us to let go of the ideals and beliefs that have held us in a detrimental pattern of behaviour for many years or even lives. Is it possible that rather than the illness being a negative impact upon our body and the ‘beingness of who we are’, instead it is a time of clearing, an opportunity for healing and a chance to look at how we have been living? This approach to the healing process would then offer the space for us to decide if we have truly supported ourselves or if there are changes that could be made that would allow us to live in a more self-loving manner? Being open to the realisation that ‘accidents’, or illness and disease could be a true and deeply loving offering from our Soul is no doubt a challenging consideration for many of us, however it’s one that at the very least needs to be explored.

Two of our articles this month offer a beautiful insight into the author’s experience of healing. Ingrid’s ‘A Deeper Healing Offered Through Illness and Disease’, and Anne’s ‘Cancer: Disease or an Opportunity for Healing?’

We invite you to join us in this vitally important discussion to expose the myths held around illness and disease and to shine the light on the truth of what is really on offer for us to learn from.

9 Comments

Patricia Darwish

1/3/2022 03:15:43 pm

I used to believe in bad luck or poor genes whenever I learned of someone having an accident or developing an illness.

However when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and consequently passed away from the mestatasis I felt immediately responsible. I had been living in Australia for a number of years and went to visit her to introduce her grand-daughter. A disagreement made me leave abruptly for Australia. Shortly after I learned about her disease. My indoctrination in the Catholic faith made me take on the role of the bad daughter who caused the illness.

The guilt was removed thanks to Serge Benhayon and his teaching. Now I truly understand that we reap what we sow.

Judy

2/3/2022 07:52:10 am

Patricia, I was also indoctrinated by the Catholic church and the statement, 'we reap what we sow' always felt extremely punitive to me and engendered loads of guilt and trepidation. It is akin to the misinterpretation of karma as punishment, promulgated by the Spiritual New Age. Guilt is a speciality of Catholicism. Catholicism also teaches the contradictory notion that God is a loving God who judges us and forgives. Not possible. God does not judge and hence there is no need for forgiveness. His love is a beholding love. We are held in God's love no matter how we behave. (Amazing!)

Whatever illness we experience is not a punishment but a correction letting us know that we have behaved in a way that is not in alignment to Soul. A simple example of this is when we are anxious – feeling 'sick' on the stomach or getting tight shoulders and jaw or even a headache. The accumulation of how we have lived is manifested in the body in our elder years. It is the Soul's way of clearing long-held patterns of behaviour that were not in alignment with our divinity before we pass over. Accepting illness as a healing, rather than a punishment or bad luck, is healing in itself!

Gayle

14/3/2022 04:34:48 pm

Judy - Your comment covers so much. Not being a Catholic I will refrain from commenting on that part of it. But I especially wanted to put a bright yellow highlighter on your last sentence:

Accepting illness as a healing, rather than a punishment or bad luck, is healing in itself!

Peta Lehane

20/3/2022 04:07:53 pm

Healing through illness and disease is a real game changer. I too have seen it as a weakness to be sick or affected by disease and though I was open to energetic causes (Louise Hay anyone?) it was pure illusion to think affirmations would miraculously clear it all away. Accepting the truth of what’s occurring in the body as a reflection of how one has lived up to that point, makes perfect sense though....before anything is or physically presents in the body, it has to have begun from an energy first - and repeated over and over again.

What’s interesting is how diseases that used to affect the over 50’s are now trickling into younger and younger bodies. It seems like the energies, behaviours and choices that don’t truly support the body, are being lived with greater intensity and/or frequency and as such, it makes sense that unless we learn from what the body is informing us of, we won’t be able to see or feel the healing on offer.

Bernadette Curtin

20/3/2022 09:55:14 pm

Hi Patricia, Could we add guilt to the long list of dis-eases that beset humanity? It is a debilitating emotion and the body feels heavy and compressed. All the emotions impact our state of well-being. As you have experienced we can heal from these ill conditions with more awareness and self-love, as we let go of self judgement and connect to the beauty within.

Gill Randall link

1/4/2022 10:49:33 pm

As a physiotherapist, I know illness and disease offer us great opportunities for healing. We have to stop what we're doing when there's pain, and we may take the opportunity to realise that what we've been doing or how we've been living has contributed to the issue we have. It's the way the body can talk to us and get us to stop for a moment. For sure, sometimes we still want to override it, but we still get the offering to make a change.

Patricia Darwish

2/4/2022 08:03:29 am

"Accepting illness as a healing, rather than a punishment or bad luck, is healing in itself!" Judy.
YES! I have now come to this realisation.

Some 10 years ago I was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis. I was astounded at the news. Being French I had ingested copious amounts of calcium in the form of cheese and yogurt through my all life which is supposed to provide strong bones.

I have always been physically active and since joining Universal Medicine I have eliminated dairy. But I was riddled with negative emotions, very reactive, always in a constant state of guilt that kept me in a momentum to tick all the boxes.

Slowly I moved from the incessant doing to being attentive to my reactions, taking true care of myself, shedding negative emotions, although the guilt factor still plays a small role in my life.

So yes, the diagnosis was a blessing which has allowed a huge clearing. It has also brought to light the pernicious power of conviction such as dairy is good for you.

Judy

4/4/2022 04:35:37 pm

Hi Patricia, I love how you describe the 'pernicious power of conviction' ... that phrase in itself carries immense power. We have so much to learn about true health and nutrition contrary to the lies we have been fed about what's 'good' for us, and so much to learn about the healing that is offered through illness and disease. Some years ago, someone close to me who was staying in France reported that he was suffering from malaise de fromage! Little wonder if you fall for the cultural tradition and the false message about dairy. I had to laugh! 😂
As for guilt, that's a biggie too....especially if you are both a mother and a Catholic....double dose!!
We have been so manipulated on so many levels and in so many ways. The journey of releasing ourselves from all of this is indeed a blessing. I enjoyed your post. 💖

Sandra Newland

5/4/2022 10:42:16 am

Patricia, that ' dairy is good for you' is indeed a great example of the 'pernicious power of conviction'. So much of what we believe about our health comes from conviction such as dieting, exercise routines, etc. You see people jogging on the footpaths pushing their bodies under the conviction that it will make them fit. People spend a fortune on supplements or treatments under the conviction that it will fix them - yet they are often not prepared to look at their lifestyle and take responsibility for what caused the problem in the first place.

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