We trust what is important to us and we place importance into our thoughts instead of our life and deepest inner wisdom. In a health crisis we have the ability to change that.
When life and wisdom is truly important we trust our self, but that is not normal.
When we face the threat of death or dramatic change; we can take importance from thoughts and give it to life. Redemption in Latin comes from to give back to the original owner. Importance truly belongs to a higher consciousness than our thoughts.
When we really learn to trust life and our deepest wisdom, it is not like thinking is wrong; thinking becomes a tool to help us trust something greater than the creations of our mind. When we trust something more than our thoughts, we open up to heal.
I worked with combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD for 20 years and saw that when they were in combat, life was more important than their thoughts and they were connected to a super conscious moment.
They were forced to learn how to fight for their life and they taught me what it means to trust one’s inner wisdom. They didn’t have PTSD in that super-conscious moment; that came when they began focusing on thinking. If they were able to re-enter that super-conscious moment where life was more important than thinking; they could better control PTSD.
I feel if any person facing a serious threat could enter that state and trust their inner wisdom, they would become super conscious and connect to the Wisdom of the Body, similar to the combat veteran.
We can live in this consciousness when we learn how to place trust in our Self. If only thoughts contain our importance, it will be harder to open our awareness in this fashion. The more our importance is in thoughts, the more we will focus on them. And, as we have seen, the more we focus on thoughts, the less we are aware and open to our inner wisdom. And without wisdom, performance is always limited.
The combat experience also reveals how thoughts limit awareness. One veteran said: "When we were in combat, we were naturally super conscious. But afterwards, people had a '1000 -yard stare'; this was when we remembered what happened and tried to understand it. In that stare we were focused on our thoughts and were not very aware."
Another vet was a sergeant who had to assign important guards for when the soldiers slept and relaxed He asked each soldier if they received a sad note from home and if they did, they weren’t assigned that post because they would focus on their thoughts and not be aware.
One veteran in the group said that mistakes were most often made in combat when a soldier first arrived and right before he was going home. Upon arrival, the soldier was afraid, and later, he was thinking about going home. In both situations his awareness stopped at thoughts and didn't enter that moment.
I feel that every person facing a serious challenge has to find their life and deepest wisdom more important than thinking; for then they would face their challenge super consciously.
Ask yourself; where is my awareness? Do I focus on thinking or do I connect to the Wisdom of my Body, where my awareness supports the healing process?
Marc Lerner helps people in serious challenges to trust their inner wisdom. Go to www.lifeskillsinc.com and get a free e-book on dealing with a chronic illness or a disability. Once you connect to your inner wisdom…you can trust yourself.
© Marc A Lerner2006
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