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Secret Garden - Page 6

© Victoria Tallman Freudiger

You can now make a decision to do something besides thinking about your pain, pills, doctors, diagnoses, loneliness, etc. However, then it will seem as if someone brings the old thoughts back to you about how you feel about your health or your obsession. You will feel them at your feet or placed in your hand. Then a new process begins again. I know this scenario all too well. I lived it for many years. New health comes in realizing, as with the pup, you can just walk away each time and refuse to let the ball go. Or, you will learn in order to play fetch, the rules are you go get the ball bring it back and then let go.

I surmise you could in a similar manner when you begin thinking about your illness instead take the action to throw this type of thought aside. Decide instead to stop thinking about your illness or sadness. Turn, do something for others. Soon, your mind would learn that the game is over unless you are thinking about health instead of your illness. If you are having positive thoughts and healing behavior, then the ball game could go on. Fun replaces despair.

The linking of behavior here is "if I start to think about my illness or phobia, then I have to stop and walk away. I have to perform service work in some way for others." Tell yourself, "if I am busy working with others, I will not have the ability to think of myself as much." Say, "Things are different now, I will heal now that I am helping." This new pattern of thinking and believing will cause a breaking-up of old belief systems that are keeping you ill. The good news, and most clear truth here is that your illness will be leaving and dissipating as these two belief systems have a hard time existing together in the same mind, heart, soul, spirit or body.

Even in your sleep, you will be healing. There will be new feelings of worth replacing old feelings of being unneeded. Past feelings and belief systems of not being useful or loved will fade away and you will float gracefully into relaxing which... this too... brings healing to a body racked with pain and agony. During the retirement of focusing on your old belief systems, your illness will be cast away a little at a time. One day, one hour and one minute at a time, you will find you are a different person. The truth will begin to be for you, as it is with me, health will become your new best friend. The time you spend thinking positive thoughts will crowd out your old best friends, pain, agony and loneliness. Replacements will be calmness, peace and joy. What will disappear will be restlessness and hopelessness.

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