People of a certain age, say forty and over, love to discuss and
compare cholesterol counts, blood pressure readings, heart rates,
etc. ad nauseam -- with the focus being mostly on everything that
can go wrong with our physical bodies.
Almost nobody talks about how good they feel, how healthy they
are, how well their lives are going. Instead, every little ache or
twinge of pain, or simply having an occasional down day, is cause
for major alarm.
Often, the medical profession (and the drug industry) encourage
this doom-and-gloom attitude. I don’t mean all medical
professionals -- there’s a growing number of enlightened
practitioners out there. But, in my observation, they’re still a
minority.
We’re taught to live in fear, knowing disease and disaster are
surely lurking at every twist and turn of our lives, waiting to
pounce and do us in.
I love something Alan Cohen
once said: "Choose a doctor who will find
something right with you." Most folks go to doctors
expecting them to find something wrong. Often that’s
exactly what happens.
I recently read a fascinating newspaper article, written by a
veteran medical reporter. She described a condition, previously
unknown to medical science, that was literally invented by the drug
industry so they could sell more drugs.
When we choose to focus on these distortions in the mass
consciousness, we allow ourselves to be seduced into believing our
bodies will inevitably deteriorate and, sooner or later, we’ll get
slammed with a serious illness.
We’re running scared. Scared of living. Scared of dying.
Here’s Chief Joseph.
Chief Joseph
The most dreadful, debilitating dis-ease most of you face today
is fear. If you could eliminate fear from your consciousness,
and if enough of you did it, you’d come pretty close to creating
heaven on earth.
Fear is at the root of virtually every challenge, every disaster
humans have created down through the centuries.
As John put it, you’re "running scared. Scared of living.
Scared of dying."
But, of course, it goes beyond that. Most humans are quite
accomplished at injecting fear into every aspect of life on Planet
Earth. Certainly into your concerns with your physical bodies. But
you also manage to inject fear and negativity into virtually all
other aspects of your lives, as individuals and as groups.
You need look only as far as your mainstream news media to see
this. Those media are filled every day with conflicts of every sort
among individuals, among nations, among races, etc.
You have divided and conquered yourselves. Everywhere you look
you see the faces of fear. How often do you go to sleep at night
wondering if you’ll wake up in the morning?
Fear is absolutely the greatest enemy you will ever confront. You’ve
forgotten who you are and where you came from.
The mass consciousness is riddled with fear and trembling. That
is reflected in each of you individually -- that is, if you
buy into the mass consciousness.
But, friends, that is a choice. You do not have to follow the
crowd into more fear and trembling. You can choose think again --
this time, think for yourselves instead of letting the crowd do your
thinking for you.
Think about what you, not others, want in your lives.
Think about all the good the Universe is wanting to deliver to you
once you simply allow it to come. Think about all the good you
already have in your lives -- in your physical bodies, your
relationships, your careers, and so on.
If you don’t like what you see when you examine your lives,
then think again. What you are thinking and feeling will -- must
-- manifest in your lives.
You do not have to buy into the mass consciousness. You do not
have to allow your bodies to fall apart as you move through the
years. You do not have to live a joyless life and die a sad death.
Joy is your birthright as a child of the Universe. Focus on joy,
on all the good in your lives. Eventually you will find the mass
consciousness was only a bad dream.
You get to choose your dreams, your lives -- "good" or
"bad." You’re all far more powerful than the mass
consciousness would have you believe.
You don’t have to run scared. Instead, choose to run joyfully.
Chief Joseph talks about related subjects here:
Focus,
Your Body, and Your Physical Well-Being
Afraid
of Living, Scared of Dying
Suicide:
A Solution?
Suicide
Revisited
You’re
Probably Going To Die From This
Your
Physical Body
Beyond
the Veil of Death
Death
