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Emotional pain, guilty forces

Guilt works its way into the body and forms physical pain when the guilty feelings are overly consuming. Guilt has many causes, but the most harmful cause is the strong sense of failure over expectations. Failure can be real or imagined, and it generates a myriad of feelings, one being guilt.

When guilt manifests as pain, the pain is hard to cure. Rare is the healer who recognizes this cause. Usually the symptoms seem to belong to a recognizable disease, intense ache or affliction. Treatments sometimes help, but if the cause is guilt, treatments will not work fully. 

Guilt is hard to assuage. It impacts the body in waves of emotional turmoil. It seeps into thoughts without warning. It moves in swirls that overturn physical and spiritual systems in the body. It pools in tubes, branches, and connective tissue. It undulates into crevices and openings. 

The feelings that come from a guilty heart can affect the circulatory and respiratory systems. The feelings that come from a guilty bladder can affect the renal system. The feelings that come from a guilty brain can affect varying systems depending on the area in the brain that is guilt ridden, and can affect the nervous, muscular and lymphatic systems. The feelings that come with guilt over unfulfilled expectations of oneself can affect all of those systems, plus the skin and nails.

Healing from guilty feelings requires learning to recognize them and their sources. Guilt that is forced from others can be as harmful as guilt that is self-inflicted. Guilt that is caused by interactions with others in which each party hurts the others can be less harmful, unless physical injury is performed. 

Self-inflicted guilt that is based on perceived failure can be confused with misperception of one’s abilities and obligations. Self-inflicted guilt that is based on rationalization for actions taken that hurt others and sever trust is guilt everlasting, and it resides in many corners of the brain and the arteries. 

Societally-inflicted guilt causes physical afflictions when it overrides personal thought.  Family-bred guilt causes emotional pain that is heavy in the mind, but has less physical manifestations.

Healing from guilty feelings also requires these three actions:

– Analysis of the guilt and its causes, and then when possible, making amends 

– Analysis of the guilt and its causes, and then releasing the guilt (This action may require body-mind work.)

– Analysis of the guilt and its causes, and then examination of life choices to determine if the guilty feelings are justified or are a hindrance to a meaningful life.

Note: This information has been spiritually received.

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Emotional pain

There are times when life presents challenges that feel too painful to bear. These challenges can be physical, emotional and spiritual in nature, and can come from internal and/or external causes, or even from realms that are beyond our comprehension. The challenges are faced in many ways, and each way leaves an imprint on the person facing the challenges.

Humor is considered to be a positive way to face challenges, and in general, that is true. It becomes negative when the humor is aimed at the heart or the insecure perception of oneself. Rationalization can be positive or negative, depending on how it’s built. Escapism is one way to face challenges, but in general, it eventually leads to inability to process reality. Striking out is a hurtful way to approach challenges, and it can lead to guilt, broken relationships, and further troubles. Suppressing feelings of hurt and disillusionment can lead to serious physical ailments, or to future growth if the person decides to abandon the hurtful events and focus on the future. Using the feelings of insignificance to bolster oneself towards achievement is helpful only when the person does not trample others on the way.

The spiritual realm sometimes drives the challenges that people face in ways that people cannot fathom. Changes in physical layering (the atmosphere, the magnetosphere, the auroras, and further on) or within the ground can sometimes be attributed to realms in which spiritual forces are at play. In these cases, people have little control and can only react and conjecture meaning.

When manipulation of groups by other groups occurs, each side faces challenges that can upend their lives. Deliberately setting out to harm other people causes physical injury and injury at the spiritual realm. Deliberately proselytizing is a human endeavor that causes change at the individual, group, and spiritual levels. When force is used in the proselytizing, the harm is irreparable. Deliberately harming a group member in one’s own group is defective, and deliberately harming a member of another group is equivalently defective but is often justified by the offending group. No action that is deliberately vindictive receives atonement; it is forever reverberating.

Reverberations of unkindness, violence, abandonment, brutality, duplicity, torture and terrorization, contemptuousness, gloating destructively, and self-exultation over despicable behavior, are causes of most of the challenges that people face. The actual actions could have happened to oneself or to one’s forebears and they lead to emotional pain that can be overwhelming.

Emotional pain displays itself through physical and mental manifestations, so that the causes can be hard to discern. The constructive way to handle hurts, be they physical or emotional, is to address them from several angles and rule out causes that do not apply. Generally, emotional pain resides in parts of the body that hold control or judgement, and each person has susceptible parts depending on physiology, age, tiredness, and learned behavior. (Examples of body parts that hold control are the brain, lungs, and pancreas. Examples of body parts that hold judgement are the small and large intestines, the prostate, and certain tendons in the ankles.) Societal pressures also exert influence on emotional pain. Isolating the cause of emotional pain (because there usually is one main cause) requires a willingness to accept that pain–physical, emotional or spiritual–might have its roots in forces that are internal or external.

Note: This information has been spiritually received.

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Filling this time with life-uplifting activities

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This coronavirus time in which so many of us are in isolation and are self-distancing can be a time of self-discovery, if we are open to ourselves. In the book “Exploring Energy Guidance Complete, My Journey“, there is a section named “Life Uplifted”. In this section, I explored things that are life-uplifting for me. The section explains:

Life-uplifting is a term that has so much meaning, and it can guide us if we let it. Choosing activities by asking “Is this activity life-uplifting?” could help differentiate between wasteful time-wasters and life-uplifters. What is a life-uplifting activity?  Each person answers this question differently depending upon soulful likes and abilities…Identifying them can help keep focus when distractions overcome prudent choices.

When I wrote the book, I spent a lot of time figuring out activities that are life-uplifting for me. Now, I get distracted watching the news and waiting to see the latest headlines. I’m writing this blog post to help others explore their own life-uplifting activities and to remind me of mine. Here are some of mine that I listed in the book:

…writing about Spiritual Presence, connecting people to balance and healing…food: buying vegetables and fruit full of freshly harvested vitality at the local farmers market, preparing healthful and delicious meals for myself and for family and friends, appreciating the food, savoring the aroma and appearance of food prepared by others; dancing: with my dance-class women, at live music performances, during Energy Guidance Complete sessions, alone while listening to music that is lively or meaningful; singing with others and alone; walking: walking along lovely plant-filled paths, walking with family and friends, walking with my dog, walking to get somewhere and walking to be energized; hugging family and friends; experiencing intimacy with my husband; watching my children evolve; laughing and talking with loved ones and with non-acquaintances; …participating in community activities and celebrations; experiencing weather and seasons; crocheting blankets for my loved ones; planning family and community gatherings; …volunteering at local and regional events; …reading; participating in religious observances with my family and with my community; smiling; listening; empathizing; caring for my garden, my home, other people;  visiting friends and family, the sick and the grieving; creating:  crafts, atmospheres, and relationships; caring for my health and safety;  cleaning public areas; appreciating everything: family, friends, community, conveniences, natural wonders, challenges, opportunities, and inherited skills and values; keeping myself focused on the activities that balance and uplift me.

I hope that you with take the time to explore your life-uplifting activities!

Note: This blog post has been spiritually inspired.

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Self-doubt, the internal killer

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Self-doubt: a lack of confidence in one’s abilities, actions, decisions, motives, and character; a feeling of uncertainty about one’s appearance, manner, and performance; a catalyst for internal malfunction.

Self-doubt is the cause of many failures and capitulation. It fuels insecurity and non-effort. Self-doubt leads to inability to try new things or to improve skills. It has rings of effects, as a self-doubt about one thing leads to another as they circle larger and larger inside a person.

Self-doubt comes from early efforts that are mocked by others or from early efforts that cause injury or hurt feelings. It can spring from caregivers who discourage individual expression by a young child or who can’t understand a child who has a personality that doesn’t fit the family.

Internally, self-doubt meddles in the functioning of the body. It meddles with flows, secretions, and electrical impulses. It also slows or quickens processes that should be steady. Self-doubt creates stumbling blocks in life and in internal pathways. Self-doubt is a catalyst for slow erosion in the body.

To lessen the effects of self-doubt requires determination to overcome the stumbling blocks that were placed by others or by oneself. Recognizing one’s own contribution to self-sabotage is a first step, and then finding ways to overcome is next.

The effects of self-doubt can be reversed when the following things are done:

  1. Take the time to understand who you are. What are your likes and what are the things that draw you. Discover the types of views you like. Is it the beach or the hills, the desert or the flowers? Think about your senses. Do you learn visually, through trial and error, or from hearing the words? Think about your preferences in animals, colors, and sounds. In other words, learn who you really are!
  2. Consider goals you once had. Are they still relevant? Are they important to you now? If they are relevant and important, consider how to attain them and then consider actual steps. If you have completed step #1, you will be able to strive for these goals. If the goals are no longer relevant or important, take time to understand the goals that suit who you are now, and consider how to attain them.
  3. Spend time exploring your understanding of yourself, the understanding that has come from step #1. If you can build your life so that it includes your likes, the things that draw you, your sensory strengths, and your preferences, you will naturally move away from the self-doubt that was created when you were younger.

Self-doubt is a slow, steady, internal killer. It kills drive, feelings of attachment, and responsible actions. And it slowly, steadily kills the mechanisms that sustain health. Self-doubt is the killer that can be reformed, when the proper actions are taken.

Note: This information has been spiritually received.

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