Candace washed up in my office like a shipwreck.
Fifteen years of chronic illness and thousands of dollars of debt from medical expenses left her desperate and exhausted.
In my rookie days when I believed it was my job to help I would have felt over-burdened. Thankfully I’ve come to see that my job is not to heal others. That would be insane.
My job, to call it that, is to be present and let Love do the talking, teaching and healing. That’s sane.
What is insane?
Clue: Not so long ago we believed that the earth had an edge and we ran the risk of tumbling over it.
Another clue: Conventional models of health (medical, psychiatric, psychological) make the assumption that who we are is already, or can become, broken.
If that’s true the task is to find what’s wrong and fix it.
Granted, when it comes to a broken leg it makes sense to go to the emergency room. That’s sane.
But fix it models don’t work for all situations.
Candace invested fifteen years of her time, attention and money looking for a cure using the ‘fix it’ model and was sicker than she started out. That’s insane.
What is sane?
What is sane is to know that who we really are; Love, is unbroken and unbreakable.
And how do we know that?
By being willing to question beliefs. No matter how credible they appear to be.
Note: I’m not saying reject beliefs. I’m saying question them.
When we believe beliefs without reservation we get trapped inside them and suffer.
The moment we become suspicious of beliefs our mind opens.
We begin to listen less to beliefs, concepts and ideas and more from the heart.
Our heart is a compass. It resonates with what moves us towards clarity, solutions, wholeness and understanding. That’s sane.
In place of defending beliefs and shoring them up with memories from the past, space and time opens up.
Floodgates open and the joy, peace and perfection of our true nature flood our being. So too the potential for the rapid healing of even of the physical body.
Candace came to me for her final meeting. She’d concluded she couldn’t afford to keep seeing doctors and go deeper into debt.
In my rookie days, burdened with the idea it was my job to help her, I would have justified offering her pro bono sessions.
Thankfully, now that I don’t labor under the insane idea that it’s my job to help I said “Good for you”.
Not good for stopping more debt. Sometimes playing the money game makes sense.
Not good for stopping seeing doctors. Sometimes it makes sense to see a doctor.
Good that she chose to stop investing time and money in the belief she was fundamentally sick.
A flicker of confusion crossed her face. The understanding we’d been exploring was fresh, but said she’d keep me posted.
Over the next six months she rested. Listened deeply. Followed her intuition and gave her body what it needed according to what felt right.
The next time I saw her she smiled with vitality and confidence. Her health was better than it had been in years. She had turned sane.
Going Sane or Going Insane
Candace washed up in my office like a shipwreck.
Fifteen years of chronic illness and thousands of dollars of debt from medical expenses left her desperate and exhausted.
In my rookie days when I believed it was my job to help I would have felt over-burdened. Thankfully I’ve come to see that my job is not to heal others. That would be insane.
My job, to call it that, is to be present and let Love do the talking, teaching and healing. That’s sane.
What is insane?
Clue: Not so long ago we believed that the earth had an edge and we ran the risk of tumbling over it.
Another clue: Conventional models of health (medical, psychiatric, psychological) make the assumption that who we are is already, or can become, broken.
If that’s true the task is to find what’s wrong and fix it.
Granted, when it comes to a broken leg it makes sense to go to the emergency room. That’s sane.
But fix it models don’t work for all situations.
Candace invested fifteen years of her time, attention and money looking for a cure using the ‘fix it’ model and was sicker than she started out. That’s insane.
What is sane?
What is sane is to know that who we really are; Love, is unbroken and unbreakable.
And how do we know that?
By being willing to question beliefs. No matter how credible they appear to be.
Note: I’m not saying reject beliefs. I’m saying question them.
When we believe beliefs without reservation we get trapped inside them and suffer.
The moment we become suspicious of beliefs our mind opens.
We begin to listen less to beliefs, concepts and ideas and more from the heart.
Our heart is a compass. It resonates with what moves us towards clarity, solutions, wholeness and understanding. That’s sane.
In place of defending beliefs and shoring them up with memories from the past, space and time opens up.
Floodgates open and the joy, peace and perfection of our true nature flood our being. So too the potential for the rapid healing of even of the physical body.
Candace came to me for her final meeting. She’d concluded she couldn’t afford to keep seeing doctors and go deeper into debt.
In my rookie days, burdened with the idea it was my job to help her, I would have justified offering her pro bono sessions.
Thankfully, now that I don’t labor under the insane idea that it’s my job to help I said “Good for you”.
Not good for stopping more debt. Sometimes playing the money game makes sense.
Not good for stopping seeing doctors. Sometimes it makes sense to see a doctor.
Good that she chose to stop investing time and money in the belief she was fundamentally sick.
A flicker of confusion crossed her face. The understanding we’d been exploring was fresh, but said she’d keep me posted.
Over the next six months she rested. Listened deeply. Followed her intuition and gave her body what it needed according to what felt right.
The next time I saw her she smiled with vitality and confidence. Her health was better than it had been in years. She had turned sane.
Let’s go sane.
Let’s question beliefs.
Let the barriers of beliefs crumble and our true nature rush in as wholeness, aliveness and Love.
Let’s go sane.
Let’s question beliefs.
Let the barriers of beliefs crumble and our true nature rush in as wholeness, aliveness and Love.
