Comments on: Mind-Body Connection http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/31/mind-body-connection/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:19:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Spring http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/31/mind-body-connection/#comment-1207 Spring Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:54:27 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/31/mind-body-connection/#comment-1207 I don't think it's right to say that all illness is caused by toxic emotion or thoughts. I don't think it's right to say that thinking right thoughts will keep us disease free. But there's an important distinction, and you seem to come very close to it toward the end, the idea being that toxic emotion <i>can</i> cause physical problems.<br/><br/>Wearing those old fashioned radium watches can cause cancer, but we don't look at just any cancer patient and say, "Wow, she must have been wearing a radium watch." Ditto for high power lines, polluted well water, or a host of other things that can cause cancer. Probably the first thing we'll think of is smoking or exposure to smokers.<br/><br/>Surely having toxic thoughts or emotions is not analagous to the smoking, but it could be analagous to the radium watch. Valid, but not so prevalent.<br/><br/>And how can one possibly think all the right thoughts? How much more valuable a skill it would be to recognize toxicity and do something about it. Like nutrition - even the experts disagree about what all the right foods are, but you don't have to be an expert to figure out that a diet of funnel cake will kill you. I don’t think it’s right to say that all illness is caused by toxic emotion or thoughts. I don’t think it’s right to say that thinking right thoughts will keep us disease free. But there’s an important distinction, and you seem to come very close to it toward the end, the idea being that toxic emotion can cause physical problems.

Wearing those old fashioned radium watches can cause cancer, but we don’t look at just any cancer patient and say, “Wow, she must have been wearing a radium watch.” Ditto for high power lines, polluted well water, or a host of other things that can cause cancer. Probably the first thing we’ll think of is smoking or exposure to smokers.

Surely having toxic thoughts or emotions is not analagous to the smoking, but it could be analagous to the radium watch. Valid, but not so prevalent.

And how can one possibly think all the right thoughts? How much more valuable a skill it would be to recognize toxicity and do something about it. Like nutrition - even the experts disagree about what all the right foods are, but you don’t have to be an expert to figure out that a diet of funnel cake will kill you.

]]> By: Wally Nut http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/31/mind-body-connection/#comment-1206 Wally Nut Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:49:03 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/31/mind-body-connection/#comment-1206 I have a friend who has been facing cancer for over a year and it is an insidious, persistent kind of cancer, relentlessly attacking her internal organs and now lastly her brain. She is a woman of great compassion and has a generous heart that can be felt from a mile away by anyone with an ounce of intuition. To even imply some toxic emotional etiology of her cancer would be ludicrous. There is something else going on here, and I don't pretend to understand it. I think any simple answer to it would be ludicrous. I have been playing with the idea that we do create these things, but it certainly isn't our superficial ego that does this kind of creating. It is our Higher Selves, that spark of the divine in us that can see a larger picture. Perhaps we are setting up a possible exit point for us when we are ready to leave this planet. Perhaps we identify a need for a huge challenge to propel ourselves to another level of enlightenment or vibration. Perhaps we decide that we are now ready for a bigger dose of compassion and need the experience that cancer provides us in order to take that journey. I often think it is an answer to the question: "How do I get from here to there?" which can only be seen clearly from the future side of the question, looking back. Is it possible that we can be influenced by our future selves, or that our Higher Self can glimpse that future, and we decide that the fastest way, or the most likely way, or the only way, to get from here to there is by going through this particular suffering? I am beginning to think so, and am in fact intentionally working on living my life as if that were true. I have a friend who has been facing cancer for over a year and it is an insidious, persistent kind of cancer, relentlessly attacking her internal organs and now lastly her brain. She is a woman of great compassion and has a generous heart that can be felt from a mile away by anyone with an ounce of intuition. To even imply some toxic emotional etiology of her cancer would be ludicrous. There is something else going on here, and I don’t pretend to understand it. I think any simple answer to it would be ludicrous. I have been playing with the idea that we do create these things, but it certainly isn’t our superficial ego that does this kind of creating. It is our Higher Selves, that spark of the divine in us that can see a larger picture. Perhaps we are setting up a possible exit point for us when we are ready to leave this planet. Perhaps we identify a need for a huge challenge to propel ourselves to another level of enlightenment or vibration. Perhaps we decide that we are now ready for a bigger dose of compassion and need the experience that cancer provides us in order to take that journey. I often think it is an answer to the question: “How do I get from here to there?” which can only be seen clearly from the future side of the question, looking back. Is it possible that we can be influenced by our future selves, or that our Higher Self can glimpse that future, and we decide that the fastest way, or the most likely way, or the only way, to get from here to there is by going through this particular suffering? I am beginning to think so, and am in fact intentionally working on living my life as if that were true.

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