Spiritual Healing - The Causes of Illness (How it works, 2)

Spiritual Healing - How it works (2) The Causes of Illness - Our Inner Scriptwriters What? What on earth is an Inner Scriptwriter, and how does it have anything to do with the causes of illness? What about bacteria causing infections, or car accidents and drunk drivers causing trauma, or genetic mutations in a body with lowered immunity causing cancer? We can begin our understanding of the causes of illness as we realize that these are examples of space-time causes. (If you have not read the first article, it can be helpful to do so.) Just like in a movie, when one character shoots another, and the second falls down dead - we know that the actor didn't really get shot. We know that he or she fell down because the movie script told them to. If the script said that the bullet missed, then the character would still be alive. Also in our own lives, space-time causes only lead to space-time effects because we 'write' it that way. This is how it works: Inside you, there is a part of you that writes the script for your life, co-creating it with others. I will personify this part for easy reference, and call it our 'Inner Scriptwriter'. Our Inner scriptwriter knows how to write amazing scripts. But what kind of script will they write? Will they write a romantic comedy, a horror movie, an action-adventure, a drama, a quirky independent, or a mainstream commercial blockbuster? Will they write a happy ending or a sad one? Analogies aside - what determines the kind of script they write, the kind of life we live? All scriptwriters in the movie industry write out of what they know - then they let their imaginations run with it, but it is based on what they know. It is hard for them to create a believable movie out of something they have absolutely no experience of. Our Inner Scriptwriter will always make our lives believable, and so will always base their scripts on what they start out knowing. So what do we start out knowing? How does our Inner Scriptwriter learn its craft? What if we have been raised in a home filled with love and peace, security and enjoyment? Our Inner Scriptwriter, taking everything in, will learn to make stories filled with love and peace. This is what they know. Similarly, what if we are raised in a home filled with shame and abuse, fear and pain? Again, absorbing everything, our Inner Scriptwriter will learn to make scripts filled with shame and pain. Short of these two extremes, most of our childhoods contained some love and some shame. And our Inner Scriptwriter learned how to make stories out of both. Now, what about illness? Remember in the first article, we spoke about why we are here - to grow and learn - originally through love and joy. We were originally raised in homes filled with love and joy. Inner Scriptwriters would originally write lives where we learned by seeing how much love we could feel, how much joy we could have, and then challenging ourselves to feel even more - to stretch beyond our current limits - by making things even better. What about now? Now we have mixed upbringings, experiences of both shame and love. Our Inner Scriptwriters start of with a mixed bag at best. And then another layer is added - societal myths, societal mnemes. As we step out of our childhoods, we learn how things are done at a broader level, and this often reinforces or further distorts what we learned from childhood. What kinds of things are we faced with from society at large - the media, pop-culture, college life and/or early work experiences, passed on by those 'older and wiser'? What does society tell us about learning, and how to learn? Some common sayings give us clues - 'No pain no gain' 'Put your nose to the grindstone' 'It will all be worth it in the end' 'I learned more through my mistakes than I ever did through my successes' 'I was so grateful for my illness - it really showed me what was important in life' There are others. But these sayings show us the kinds of stories we know how to write when we want to learn something - and as our whole lives are about growing and learning - we have plenty of painful mistakes, illnesses, in our lives, which provide short-term suffering for long-term gain, all so that we can learn. Now, again here, some in the New Age use this truth, misunderstanding it, to blame victims. "You are sick because you are choosing to be, and if you just shaped up and chose something different, you would be fine." Some actually say this stuff. It is NOT true. This is the worst kind of victim blaming - like telling someone who has been raped that it is her (or his) fault. No, it is the rapists' fault. Did the victim choose to be raped? No. We choose to learn a lesson. There is some way in which we wish to grow. Our focus is on feeling more love, on being closer to the Divine. This is what we are learning for, to have more love, to be more loving, to reveal more of the mystery of who we are, and revel in the beauty of our nature. But we have been raised with shame and pain, as well as with love and joy. We have been raised in a society where we know that what we have to do in order to learn is to push through the pain, to build character through our mistakes, to discover what really matters in the dread of a life-threatening illness. We did not chose the illness, the trauma. We chose the growth. Our Inner Scriptwriters are given the order to come up with something that will teach us what we want to know. Unfortunately, they only know certain ways of getting us there, they only have a few stock stories to work with - and illness is often the result. It does not help to blame ourselves (or anyone else for that matter). But we can take responsibility for our healing now, in this moment, and teach our Inner Scriptwriter how to do it differently. That is where Spiritual Healing comes in. Through meditation journeys, energy healing, and spiritual counseling, we can re-educate our Inner Scriptwriters, along with other inner aspects of ourselves, and learn how to create lives filed with love and peace. We can learn how to learn through grace, joy, and wonder. We can learn to be empowered in our lives. We do not have to sit back and be a victim of circumstance. We can take back our power, and live well. I wish you a great deal of living well. Timothy Edwards, M.B.B.S.rnwww.EmpoweredHealing.comrn(650) 440-0032 Please note: This article is largely based on my experience in working with Lazaris, a teacher of New Age Metaphysics and Spirituality (www.Lazaris.com), and not really on my medical degree.