During the routine course of channelings, the etheric are frequently asked about matters pertaining to health. These vary from (untypically) “Is there anything wrong with me?” (bad question to ask!) to (typically) “What can I do about what’s wrong with me?” Of course, nobody ever asks for the sake of having flu; it’s usually something a lot more insidious.
For most of us, recourse to scientific medicine as a method of correcting any disease that which physically ails us, is the natural first port of call, and modern medicine should not be eschewed. It may help alleviate the burden disease places upon us and allow us time to deal with what ails us at a deeper soul level, which is dis-ease, an imbalance of our vibration.
Chemical input/surgical intervention may, by itself, cause a return to apparent health. But for old souls, the underlying imbalance is unlikely to have been corrected (and will most likely be carried over as a challenge, although not a learning point per se, to the next lifetime) and disease is seldom countered effectively without also addressing the cause of the dis-ease.
The pertinent question for old souls then becomes “Is the dis-ease they are experiencing elected or assumed”. In other words, did they decide to have it before they arrived here, or have they acquired the dis-ease en-route in this lifetime, because they have been living/approaching life in a manner that is out of balance with who they intended to be?
For old souls, elective dis-ease would be relatively rare. By the time we reach old-soul age, we have dealt with all of the learning that may be gleaned from illness, most often in mid-term lifetimes. We have experienced its rancor and its debilitations ad infinitum, and we’re probably pretty fed up with having dis-ease so that those around us can learn to deal with it. So if you arrive with serious dis-ease on the schedule for an old soul lifetime, it’s either because that’s the way you’ve elected to go out; or because you’re really serious about helping out another soul, above and beyond the course of duty (in all cases a soul family member).
Far more common are acquired dis-eases that ironically, old souls are quite prone to (particularly those on their earlier outings into old soul living). Their rising vibration makes them more susceptible to being knocked off balance. As old souls, we arrive with strong beliefs about what we should be capable of, and tall-orders about what we hope to achieve. We set our sights high, because ascension is within our grasp. So before incarnating, we define quite strict limits of expectation regarding every aspect of our living: attitudes, beliefs, values, thoughts, behaviours; and if we then fall short of these well-intended parameters for success, the easier we stumble. The more anxious we are to succeed, the more difficult it is to get to where we want to be, and the greater the likelihood of dis-easing ourselves.
That begs the question: if an old soul assumes a dis-ease, is there anything they can do about it. And this is what the question, when asked in a channeling session, comes down to.
The simple answer is “Yes, of course”; but that does not mean that delivery will be easy or without difficulty.
Acquiring dis-ease is a bit like accidentally hitting a golf ball into a tricky sand trap as you drive for the green. You didn’t do it on purpose and it may be embarrassing, but everybody does it, it doesn’t mean the game’s over, and at least you were aiming in the right direction. But trying to chip your way out can be frustrating and you may get into trouble if your technique’s wrong.
Getting beyond, or dealing with dis-ease MUST follow the etheric’s 3 stage process for healing. If you haven’t heard it enough by now, it’s:
Typically, those who have an imbalance, and those around them, will experience fear. This makes matters a lot worse and is a surefire way to feed the imbalance. Fear must be replaced by an attitude that acknowledges: “It is what I make of it” Dis-ease is definitely challenging, but it shouldn’t be allowed to be scary, as you will see.
Many old souls who have acquired dis-ease need to overcome the fact that they feel bad about it. If it makes them feel guilty, or somehow less worthy (which is definitely not the case) this is a major mistake. Embarrassment, guilt and other negative, self-flagellating emotions are unnecessary and damaging. They compound the problem, and they certainly don’t constitute acceptance. If it’s happened, it’s happened. It cannot be retrospectively changed, but it may still be possible to alleviate, or even eradicate any long-term impact.
Another damaging mistake is to deny that there is anything wrong at all. Pretending that something is not happening is the very antithesis of acceptance. So ignoring physical symptoms or imagining that it will all go away if you give it no air time, is folly.
However, this is NOT the same as denying that the dis-ease will be allowed to affect you. This is determination to counter the imbalance of the dis-ease, and taking steps to correct it: a refusal to allow it to take hold. A positive attitude is key to healing, but it’s important to understand precisely what this means and how it must manifest itself.
Accepting dis-ease is almost an act of embracing it. It is important to own the responsibility for what has happened without any recrimination, regret or self-pity. Ask what the dis-ease can teach you? See it as a challenge; an opportunity that has come your way to prove your mastery. Regard it as presence that you can work with. Give it a personality. It is, in every way possible, an aspect of yourself. It’s not mean or spiteful, however it might manifest. It really is there to help you.
But now comes the hardest part, since it is imperative for your learning and your understanding to come to terms with how the dis-ease has come to imbalance you. This involves exploring all aspects of your life in the most open and receptive of ways. Failure to recognise the sand-trap causes that are lurking there will mean that you haven’t yet come to terms with mastery of certain aspects of your being, if only because you can’t spot the error of your ways.
Frankly, you may not be able to discover all of this by yourself. Self-diagnosis can be tricky if you are not naturally introspective. You may not be able to see yourself objectively, and therefore require feedback from others who know you well and understand these issues at the same level that you do. You have chosen those who are around you in a lifetime so that they may be sounding boards or mirrors for you to observe yourself. Even then, what you hear might be uncomfortable and difficult, and it is important to be careful that your responses are not in themselves merely another form of denial. This does not mean you have to automatically accept everything you hear; but looking for previously unknown truths is vital.
(In case you’re wondering, the etheric will not point the causes out to you, because to do so would be to prevent you from the learning that must be yours.)
Once you believe you have your root causes, it will be obvious that the past cannot be changed, only the present. So from this point onwards, you must regard yourself as being in a ‘hereafter’ with no attachment to those causes, other than to do things differently from now on. In other words, you need to totally release yourself, and let go of whatever it was that resulted in the dis-ease. Attitudes, beliefs, values, thoughts and behaviours may have to change (if corrective steps have not already been taken).
However, if you do nothing to make modifications in going forward, this is another form of knowledge without action, that old chestnut the etheric keep reminding us of. It’s potentially catastrophically damaging to get past ignorance, and then do nothing about our new-found wisdom. Not only is this an on-going potential liability for us, it’s also one of the most common root-causes of what dis-eases us in the first place!
But how will you know that you’re out of the sand trap, back on the fairway, and heading for the right green now?
Well, if the imbalance is corrected and the dis-ease recedes, you’re there. If it doesn’t, the chances are that you unearthed an erroneous cause, or (unknowingly?) denied the true root cause. The dis-ease will be as powerful and unbalancing a factor as it ever was.
If this seems cruel, bear in mind that it is only there in the first place because old soul lifetimes require us to face challenges from all sorts of perspectives. It is wholly appropriate that we should find ourselves tested in this way, or how else would we otherwise demonstrate mastery?
Whether we succeed in overcoming imbalances or not, we should always make attempts to move on. Letting go allows us a scope for freedom in the way we view our condition or predicament. If we are too attached to a particular outcome, we are failing to recognise the perfection of the way in which our lives play out. At no time are we not in control of our destinies, because we may always choose the way in which we regard the events of our lives. It may be the case that we realise too late what has impacted us; that the dis-ease has been allowed to take too great a hold of our physical form before we recognise its true nature. But the mere fact that we are finally able to come to terms with what it is, and how it has become, means that the learning is apparent and available to us. This, whilst not being an unmitigated triumph, is in itself a huge spur along the ascension pathway.
For most of us, recourse to scientific medicine as a method of correcting any disease that which physically ails us, is the natural first port of call, and modern medicine should not be eschewed. It may help alleviate the burden disease places upon us and allow us time to deal with what ails us at a deeper soul level, which is dis-ease, an imbalance of our vibration.
Chemical input/surgical intervention may, by itself, cause a return to apparent health. But for old souls, the underlying imbalance is unlikely to have been corrected (and will most likely be carried over as a challenge, although not a learning point per se, to the next lifetime) and disease is seldom countered effectively without also addressing the cause of the dis-ease.
The pertinent question for old souls then becomes “Is the dis-ease they are experiencing elected or assumed”. In other words, did they decide to have it before they arrived here, or have they acquired the dis-ease en-route in this lifetime, because they have been living/approaching life in a manner that is out of balance with who they intended to be?
For old souls, elective dis-ease would be relatively rare. By the time we reach old-soul age, we have dealt with all of the learning that may be gleaned from illness, most often in mid-term lifetimes. We have experienced its rancor and its debilitations ad infinitum, and we’re probably pretty fed up with having dis-ease so that those around us can learn to deal with it. So if you arrive with serious dis-ease on the schedule for an old soul lifetime, it’s either because that’s the way you’ve elected to go out; or because you’re really serious about helping out another soul, above and beyond the course of duty (in all cases a soul family member).
Far more common are acquired dis-eases that ironically, old souls are quite prone to (particularly those on their earlier outings into old soul living). Their rising vibration makes them more susceptible to being knocked off balance. As old souls, we arrive with strong beliefs about what we should be capable of, and tall-orders about what we hope to achieve. We set our sights high, because ascension is within our grasp. So before incarnating, we define quite strict limits of expectation regarding every aspect of our living: attitudes, beliefs, values, thoughts, behaviours; and if we then fall short of these well-intended parameters for success, the easier we stumble. The more anxious we are to succeed, the more difficult it is to get to where we want to be, and the greater the likelihood of dis-easing ourselves.
That begs the question: if an old soul assumes a dis-ease, is there anything they can do about it. And this is what the question, when asked in a channeling session, comes down to.
The simple answer is “Yes, of course”; but that does not mean that delivery will be easy or without difficulty.
Acquiring dis-ease is a bit like accidentally hitting a golf ball into a tricky sand trap as you drive for the green. You didn’t do it on purpose and it may be embarrassing, but everybody does it, it doesn’t mean the game’s over, and at least you were aiming in the right direction. But trying to chip your way out can be frustrating and you may get into trouble if your technique’s wrong.
Getting beyond, or dealing with dis-ease MUST follow the etheric’s 3 stage process for healing. If you haven’t heard it enough by now, it’s:
- ACCEPT
- RELEASE
- MOVE ON
Typically, those who have an imbalance, and those around them, will experience fear. This makes matters a lot worse and is a surefire way to feed the imbalance. Fear must be replaced by an attitude that acknowledges: “It is what I make of it” Dis-ease is definitely challenging, but it shouldn’t be allowed to be scary, as you will see.
Many old souls who have acquired dis-ease need to overcome the fact that they feel bad about it. If it makes them feel guilty, or somehow less worthy (which is definitely not the case) this is a major mistake. Embarrassment, guilt and other negative, self-flagellating emotions are unnecessary and damaging. They compound the problem, and they certainly don’t constitute acceptance. If it’s happened, it’s happened. It cannot be retrospectively changed, but it may still be possible to alleviate, or even eradicate any long-term impact.
Another damaging mistake is to deny that there is anything wrong at all. Pretending that something is not happening is the very antithesis of acceptance. So ignoring physical symptoms or imagining that it will all go away if you give it no air time, is folly.
However, this is NOT the same as denying that the dis-ease will be allowed to affect you. This is determination to counter the imbalance of the dis-ease, and taking steps to correct it: a refusal to allow it to take hold. A positive attitude is key to healing, but it’s important to understand precisely what this means and how it must manifest itself.
Accepting dis-ease is almost an act of embracing it. It is important to own the responsibility for what has happened without any recrimination, regret or self-pity. Ask what the dis-ease can teach you? See it as a challenge; an opportunity that has come your way to prove your mastery. Regard it as presence that you can work with. Give it a personality. It is, in every way possible, an aspect of yourself. It’s not mean or spiteful, however it might manifest. It really is there to help you.
But now comes the hardest part, since it is imperative for your learning and your understanding to come to terms with how the dis-ease has come to imbalance you. This involves exploring all aspects of your life in the most open and receptive of ways. Failure to recognise the sand-trap causes that are lurking there will mean that you haven’t yet come to terms with mastery of certain aspects of your being, if only because you can’t spot the error of your ways.
Frankly, you may not be able to discover all of this by yourself. Self-diagnosis can be tricky if you are not naturally introspective. You may not be able to see yourself objectively, and therefore require feedback from others who know you well and understand these issues at the same level that you do. You have chosen those who are around you in a lifetime so that they may be sounding boards or mirrors for you to observe yourself. Even then, what you hear might be uncomfortable and difficult, and it is important to be careful that your responses are not in themselves merely another form of denial. This does not mean you have to automatically accept everything you hear; but looking for previously unknown truths is vital.
(In case you’re wondering, the etheric will not point the causes out to you, because to do so would be to prevent you from the learning that must be yours.)
Once you believe you have your root causes, it will be obvious that the past cannot be changed, only the present. So from this point onwards, you must regard yourself as being in a ‘hereafter’ with no attachment to those causes, other than to do things differently from now on. In other words, you need to totally release yourself, and let go of whatever it was that resulted in the dis-ease. Attitudes, beliefs, values, thoughts and behaviours may have to change (if corrective steps have not already been taken).
However, if you do nothing to make modifications in going forward, this is another form of knowledge without action, that old chestnut the etheric keep reminding us of. It’s potentially catastrophically damaging to get past ignorance, and then do nothing about our new-found wisdom. Not only is this an on-going potential liability for us, it’s also one of the most common root-causes of what dis-eases us in the first place!
But how will you know that you’re out of the sand trap, back on the fairway, and heading for the right green now?
Well, if the imbalance is corrected and the dis-ease recedes, you’re there. If it doesn’t, the chances are that you unearthed an erroneous cause, or (unknowingly?) denied the true root cause. The dis-ease will be as powerful and unbalancing a factor as it ever was.
If this seems cruel, bear in mind that it is only there in the first place because old soul lifetimes require us to face challenges from all sorts of perspectives. It is wholly appropriate that we should find ourselves tested in this way, or how else would we otherwise demonstrate mastery?
Whether we succeed in overcoming imbalances or not, we should always make attempts to move on. Letting go allows us a scope for freedom in the way we view our condition or predicament. If we are too attached to a particular outcome, we are failing to recognise the perfection of the way in which our lives play out. At no time are we not in control of our destinies, because we may always choose the way in which we regard the events of our lives. It may be the case that we realise too late what has impacted us; that the dis-ease has been allowed to take too great a hold of our physical form before we recognise its true nature. But the mere fact that we are finally able to come to terms with what it is, and how it has become, means that the learning is apparent and available to us. This, whilst not being an unmitigated triumph, is in itself a huge spur along the ascension pathway.
PS. Discussing di-ease with others who are not party to the immediacy of your life, is a futile and possibly damaging thing to do. If they do not comprehend dis-ease at the same level that you may, the mere mention of it is often enough to provoke fear. The consequent vibration they emanate is directed towards you and may actually ‘feed’ the imbalance. Such matters should only be shared with those whose comprehension of all that is at least matches your own. If they are wise, their acceptance may then help you to embrace what is transpiring, without fear.
(Apologies to any golfers reading this blog. I’ve never played in my life, and it was AA Michael’s analogy, not mine. I don’t think he plays either, but he seemed to find it quite apt.