Psychiatrist Jerry Wesch once said; ‘When you have a big enough dream , you don’t have a crisis!’.
People who have a clear goal, dream and objective are more likely to to resolve maladies of the mind and body. Human beings are designed to problem solve. We should always be working towards or participating in a dream, goal and legacy.
My Experience
My experience with all chronic pain clients is not to focus on the pain, as what you focus on grows. Healing the body and mind will happen when we are pursuing something we value or are passionate about. Those who don’t have direction are likely to stay suffering.
Shamen were the original medicine men that pharmaceuticals learnt and took from. In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:
- When did you stop dancing?
- When did you stop laughing?
- When did you stop singing?
- When did you stop being enchanted by stories?’
The Nervous System
If we look at how the nervous system works and functions physiologically. It’s main function is to send messages from various parts of your body to your brain, and from your brain back out to your body. This then tells your body what to do. These messages regulate your thoughts, memory, learning and feelings, movements including balance and coordination.
The nervous system takes in information through our senses, processes the information and triggers reactions, such as making your muscles move or causing you to feel pain. For example, if you touch a hot plate, you reflexively pull back your hand and your nerves simultaneously send pain signals to your brain.
The law of facilitation states: when an impulse is passed once through a certain set up of neurons to the exclusion of others, it will tend to take the same course on a future occasion, each time it travels this path, the resistance will become smaller.
Paths that are cut in the nervous system are hooked to behaviours that we really don’t want to repeat anymore. This is probably that they don’t serve us, causing ill health, addiction and pain. It is more challenging to cut a new path than it is to follow an old.
As the saying goes: “Its easier to go back than it is to go forwards.”
Anytime we have developed any behaviours for a length of time, the harder it is to create a new behaviour.
When we are trying to change our own behaviour or anyone else’s, its going to be tough as it’s so established in the central nervous system that it takes little energy.
Conclusion
Don’t try to do too many changes at once. Go for the ones which are going to be the most efficient for your present condition or situation. Work on that continually till the new behaviour becomes rooted and established before the next change can occur. The level of the ego will dictate our perception. All these change require a huge amount of of energy to rewire the nervous system, and reroute the energy out of the pathways of facilitation.
Change is a challenge. A labour of love is easier to manage than a labour of resentment.
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Paul Chek