Health: Spiritual Reflection

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As I close my eyes and drift away to a land where there is love, health, peace and blessings. I wanted to take the time to think and reflect.

     As I previously shared this period of my life has been challenging in terms of health, managing pain, and trying to understand what is happening. With the many hospital visits and doctor appointments, I began to observe the systemic inequalities that are embedded in the healthcare system. But I continued to utilize the services because I knew that the physical aspects, that were connected to the psychological needed to be attended to. Whilst I remain somewhat dis-satisfied with my encounters, and getting answers from doctors such as "I don't know." The question of health is about making a sound judgment, and to carry out tests for confirmations - but what happens when an "I don't know" gets turned away and sent home? Does one simply stop caring because no one cared enough, to try to understand what was happening in your body? Like I wrote earlier, health matters, and you have the right to life and to live as healthy as possible. So alternatives were utilized with the help of physical therapy which I am deeply grateful for. When someone has genuinely tried their best to care for you - then that must be acknowledged. 

     But my health journey has taken me through the asking of many other questions, especially because of the limiting of physical mobility, which was new and added additional challenges, as well as emotional. From not being able to walk a complete step, I can now make the movement of taking full steps. I was always interested in mental health, caring for the brain, and how this care affects at the internal and external levels. I was / am well versed with the tool of knowledge, therapeutic art, to allow for the release of emotion, to assist and care for the brain. But the physical aspect also revealed how physical functioning of the body and limitations are also additional stressors for the body, adding to the psychological well-being. This experience led me to think about bodily healing, which is more that taking care of the body, it is also taking care of the soul, spirit. The body and the soul work interchangeably. The body needs the soul. The soul needs the body.

​     The Journey led me to think in terms of spirituality and one's belief. Where I decided to actively take part in the Easter Holy Week, vigil's and mass. I thought about much of the pain and suffering of Jesus, the endurance of pain, his life and death. This reflective period encouraged me, anchored me with hope, because in physical death, one's was raised in spirit. In the same sense and as we grow through our journey of life; we maybe living with a health condition, or have just encountered a temporary ailment. This could be viewed as a type of living death, but really it is an opportunity to be re-born, a re-birth to reveal how one will practice loving healing to one's body and soul. Disease, illness, temporary and permanent does not leave a person unchanged. Throughout the experience a reflective state allows us to think about what the experience has done to us? How is it shaping us from within, almost acting as an internal engineer.  

My thoughts to share with love & Kindness! :) 

Notes: These thoughts were originally hand-written on April 21st, 2019.
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