ALAN.R WEST

If you are reading this, you would have already realised that keeping fit, healthy and in good spirits in the modern world is far more complicated than taking the latest pharmaceutical offering and doing a bit more exercise, although exercise is always good.

You might have already explored some or many complimentary therapies and found that they all worked to some degree, but they didn’t quite address the issue, or we decided we couldn’t afford it at this time and cut the sessions short. Unlike modern health care that claims to have the magic potion, the healing time in complimentary therapy is generally gauged on how long you have had the problem. The more chronic an issue the deeper the work that is needed. Also, just because a symptom has just presented (acute) doesn’t always mean the resolution will be quick. A lot of modern cures suppress or block symptoms in one area for them to appear later in another area as a seemingly different issue.

We are a product of everything that we have done, thought about, had done, or said to us, not just in this lifetime but all our past lives as well. Dependent on how well we have learnt all our lessons, good and bad, how well we have treated the temple of the self, how well we have processed the teachings of all of life’s events and moved on, will reflect on how our life flows now, our good health and how well we manifest or create.

 No matter what our educators have told us we are, the fact is we are self-projecting holograms, we express everything about ourselves and our life through the lens or program of our mind, our memory bank and react in accordance to learnt protocols stored in this memory system.  As to whether the reaction has a positive or negative impact on us, this often only shows up much later in the form of anything we call an ailment, issue or dis-ease.

The journey of healing is a journey of self-discovery. This isn’t anything new, it is alluded to in classical mythology, where the potential hero must overcome great obstacles, fight indestructible monsters or find lost treasures guarded by 7 headed beasts, to win the hand of the king’s daughter. The story of the minotaur and the labyrinth can be seen as the hero journey of man going into the labyrinth of the mind to conquer the untamed animalistic attributes of programmed reaction to become a spiritually aware human.

This type of work has been confined to the pages of books or the subject of the latest blockbuster film, when it should be lauded as the meaning of life, and a journey that all humankind should be part of, as it still is in many native spiritual cultures.

True healing is the hero’s journey and as such will take great courage, discipline, and determination, with many tests and painful issues to look at and overcome before we move on.  We can make use of a myriad of coping methods to avoid this journey but ultimately it won’t go away, it will become worse and worse, shout louder and louder, until it is dealt with. If we don’t deal with it in this life, it will be there to deal with in the next.  Historically it could take many lifetimes to resolve these issues, but due to the higher vibration of energy that is available to us at this point in human development we now have the chance to take leaps and bounds on our spiritual path in this lifetime and reap the huge rewards for doing so, the journey that all the hero stories allude to.  My forte, as well as the listed therapies, lies with dream work, guided meditations and shamanic journeys.