My lesson is simple: You cannot cure every disease and disorder, but EVERY life can be healed:) Every day I talk to people imprisoned in bodies and situations they had no control over, Yet they live healed lives. A prisoner writes,"I used to get up each day condemmed to prison and condemned to die. Now I get up each day to live" he spends day after day breaking concrete with a sledgehammer, but he has made in commitment to confront his fears, and to battle for peace of mind. Healing, then, is of the mind not the body. How do you heal your life if you have AIDS or cancer, or some type of diffrence that makes your body unquie or unsightly? The answer lies in living fully in the momment and letting your disease or your diffrence become the teacher. A parable I like, tells of a wild uncontrolable genie who is outsmarted by a very brave young woman. After rebottleing the wily genie, she thinks it over, and decides to release him again and trust in her ability to deal with his unknown powers. In the end the genie and the young woman became great friends. He gives her a magic cloth that can turn metal into silver and heal all wounds. The young woman becomes one of the words great healers.
Healing then is a work of darkness. It happens not when we go north south east west, but in that fifth direction: INSIDE We can turn to what frightens us -our genie- and say, "Why are you here?" Why do you threaten me?" what can I learn form you?" Or as in the story of JOB, " He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions." Nothing can be a match for your inner strength!!! :D

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You really have to love yourself, to get anything done in this world!

Julanne