Pathways to Conscious Health
Illness as Healer By Dr Catherine Fyans Recently I had the flu. Yes, an ordinary ‘flu’, as I’ve had many times prior to 2020. I chose to avoid getting on the bandwagon of a wannabe label by having a grossly inaccurate test. I did not want to add to the hysteria. I self-isolated while I waited for my body to recover and that was enough. Having said that, I do not actually believe that anyone ‘gives’ us an illness, or that we ‘catch’ it from someone else. I know that, personally, it is a certain type of emotional stress, part of my internal milieu, that makes me vulnerable to experiencing un-wellness. This time, exactly as before, I had ignored the emotional cues until my body kindly reminded me of what I needed to address. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
“I chose to avoid getting on the bandwagon of a wannabe label by having a grossly inaccurate test.” We’ve got it so wrong regarding illness causation. Our medical world is fixated
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on physical cause and effect and hunting down the supposed enemy to annihilate it into oblivion. As if! I know it doesn’t actually work that way - it’s good for the sickness industry though. The wisdom of my body decided to find a way to slow me down, to do some long overdue emotional processing and inner reflection that I had been way ‘too busy’ and distracted to give time to. As I surrendered to this wisdom to naturally heal, which it did quickly and completely, I addressed the inner turmoil that instigated the un-wellness. With that, and some much needed time away from the fray, the insights came. During the process, I also knew that my immune system received a nice work-out and toxins, physical and, particularly, emotional, were being expelled from my system. Illness will flush to the surface what needs to be acknowledged and released, for that content is much better out of our system than remaining hidden, where it continues to exert its insidious deleterious effects by stealth.
The body knows before the intellect, so we are well advised to tune in. Labels and diagnoses are intellectual constructs that are superfluous to the experience of unwellness. Our bodies gift us with being reliable reflections of what we hold in our vast unconscious minds. Essentially, all illness is an opportunity to address the ‘shadow’, those deeper, hidden aspects of our consciousness that are begging to be acknowledged and integrated. Many would be confronted by these notions, as they go against what we have been programmed to believe about health, and many prefer to remain comforted by the belief that they can defend against, or attack, the perceived enemy without. In current times, this defending against the dubious invisible enemy is officially encouraged, if not enforced, to an unprecedented degree. This is aided by a heavy dose of government sanctioned psychological ‘nudging’ that has manipulated people’s primal survival fears to have them unquestionably comply to this extremely myopic,
