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Metaphysical Meaning Behind Liver Toxicity

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Friday, April 27th, 2012

My self-healing topics usually come directly from your questions, but today my intuition is telling me to write about liver toxicity. The liver is a multi-functional organ, and it primary duties are described in this article at http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_disease/article.htm.

According to this same article the number one cause of liver toxicity is alcohol abuse. Some medications contribute to liver disease, as well as some herbs and large doses of specific vitamins, to name just a few potential causes. http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_disease/page2.htm

If alcohol is addictive for you, I suggest reading this article on the metaphysical meaning being addictions before you read any further, because the cause of the addiction is more than likely the deeper root cause of the liver toxicity: http://self-healingsecrets.com/1251/healing-from-addictions/

I believe that everyone has at least one addiction. In spiritual terms they might also be identified as attachments, and most of us could accept that we all have some kind of attachment. Everyone also has fears, and addiction can be a way in which we play out some of our most deep-seated fears.

So, in our self-healing journey, it is important to be honest with ourselves about our addictions and attachments if we want to heal; and then it is important to be committed and gentle as we address our most profound fears. Those fears arise from wounds that may have occurred when we were children or took place before this life-time. They are legitimate and deserve our dedicated and tender care.

When it comes to the metaphysical meaning behind liver toxicity, this is what I heard in meditation.

A toxic liver represents a person’s fundamental fear of life itself. A person with a toxic or diseased liver is probably questioning whether they even want to be alive. They are deeply depressed and afraid they will never fulfill their purpose. ??They believe they have already failed and would like this journey to end as quickly as possible.  A diseased or damaged liver is one of the fastest ways to shorten one’s life. Fundamentally, this is denial of one’s value.

I just pulled out Louise Hay’s book to see what she sees for the liver:  Seat of anger and primitive emotions.

Let’s put these together. If you are deeply depressed and feel as though you have already failed, it would stand to reason that you are angry with yourself or others; and probably most angry with yourself for having failed.

It might also stand to reason that you have perceived your life purpose has passed by unfulfilled and therefore your life no longer has value. Perhaps you did not meet the expectations of you had for yourself before you came to earth. Or perhaps, instead of responding to a situation with love and healing, you responded in anger and abuse of yourself or another.

In my experience the hardest aspect of our own humanity to forgive is the abusive tendencies that live inside us all. If you believe you have failed because you were abusing yourself or another, that defeat might be the most difficult of failures to live with.

But measuring our value based upon our achievements or lack of achievements is too limited a view. As I discuss in the article on addictions, it is the abuser within us all that most needs our love. It is this part of ourselves that is the most fragile and most damaged. Abusing the abuser within with anger and disgust only feeds the cycle of pain, and keeps our souls in continuous cycles of despair.

There is only one remedy—compassion.

A teacher once said to me, When you heal the present, you heal the past and future too. I’ve discovered the truth of her wisdom. Healing is not linear. When a wound is healed, it is healed through time and space.

Regardless of what you have or have not done in the past, all abuse longs to return home to love. All of it. The moment you compassionately love the wounded part of you that allowed yourself to abuse or be abused, the cycle starts coming to a close.

When we allow ourselves to experience complete love, there are no more concerns about achievement or failure, or the value of your life, because those concerns exist in the friction of our thoughts and emotions. When you surrender to the healing antidote of love, all that there will be is love.

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Metaphysical Meaning Behind Back and Neck Pain

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Sunday, April 15th, 2012

The physical causes of back and neck pain vary widely from a herniated disc, osteoarthritis, spinal deformity from childhood, or an injury—with these being just some of the major causes. For more information about physical causes visit: http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/tc/low-back-pain-cause.

I know I’ve benefited from chiropractic care over the years when pain was due to spinal misalignment.  There are a variety of approaches to chiropractic care from energy stimulation to actual adjustment, so you might find it helpful to interview a potential chiropractor to be sure their approach appeals to you. Here are some insights about basic chiropractic practice: http://www.wellnesschiro.com/FAQs.htm.

While many chiropractors adjust the spine in order to positively affect your nerves, there are chiropractors that work more directly with the energy of your nervous system to positively affect your body—the spine, internal organs and emotions. I like how this particular chiropractor explains what is called Network Chiropractics: http://www.eastwesthealth.info/network_chiropractic.html
There are some incidences when chiropractic adjustment may not be appropriate. You might find it helpful to become familiar with those instances. This article will give you some insights. http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/chiropractic-pain-relief

With acute or chronic back pain, it is a good idea to find a doctor you trust to help you identify the physical cause of the pain and treat it properly. Whenever possible, of course, prevention is the place to begin.

I am now quite grateful for the yoga and dance classes I have taken over the years. I have some basic stretches I do regularly that keep my neck and spine supple. Plus, I pay attention to what I choose to lift and how I lift it. Finding a good sleeping posture and good posture throughout the day also seems to help me maintain spinal health. Many people, including myself, find massages and hot baths or hot tubs to be wonderfully therapeutic for over-taxed muscles.

So let’s look at the metaphysical meaning behind back and neck pain to help you help yourself.  Here is what I heard in meditation:

Back and neck issues occur when we are out of alignment with our values. We have not allowed ourselves to have the support and structures we need in order to live a life that is clear and on course with our higher perspectives.

The spine is the conduit between our passion for life on earth and our blissful nature as spiritual beings. When we cut ourselves off from either our enjoyment of physical life or opportunities to open to enlightened awareness, our spines suffer.

When you have a spinal injury, consider noticing which vertebrae have been harmed and discover what organs are connected to that part of your spine. Then discover what emotional issues need resolution in order for those organs to function in a healthy manner.

If you are born with a curvature of the spine or other spinal condition, you may have come into this world with a strong karmic need to create a clear and direct life that is fully in alignment with what you most value.

If you have been doing a lot of spiritual growth work and you find your energy is congested in your spine, notice where it is congested and begin working with the organs that correlate with those vertebrate and/or begin lovingly working with the correlating chakra(s).

If you don’t know what you value most, consider writing your own eulogy. Ask yourself how would you like another person to describe your life after you have died? This will show you what is most valuable to you.

If your spine needs constant attention, you might discover that you experience your life from one of two extremes: either 1) overly rigid in your expectations about how life is supposed to happen or 2) too flexible, constantly surrendering your needs for the needs of others.

The spine requires a balance of these energies in order to be healthy.

As you heal your spine, remember that life is meant to be enjoyed and you deserve to give yourself the kinds of support systems that allow you to experience greater enjoyment, while living in alignment with your deepest values.

I do have a spinal health CD that you might find to be quite supportive. You can find it at my CD store: Spirit Treasures.

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Metaphysical Meaning Behind Osteoporosis

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (2)
Friday, April 6th, 2012

Whenever I meditate on metaphysical roots, I encourage you to do the same. What you get for yourself might have more meaning for you personally, and there may be nuances in your own intuitive and psychic insights that could make a significant difference for you.

Here is a definition for osteoporosis from the U.S. National Library of Medicine: Osteoporosis occurs when the body fails to form enough new bone, when too much old bone is reabsorbed by the body, or both.

It is fairly common for osteoarthritis and osteoporosis to be confused. In a nutshell, osteoarthritis is about deterioration of cartilage and the subsequent inflammation (http://www.medicinenet.com/osteoarthritis/article.htm). Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and density. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001400/)

If you have either of these conditions and/or rheumatoid arthritis, you might find this article to be very informative because these conditions do share some coping strategies: http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Bone/Osteoporosis/Conditions_Behaviors/osteoporosis_arthritis.asp

Now let’s look at what I received in meditation for osteoporosis: Osteoporosis is about the structures that have supported you. Structures you have counted on are no longer there and you don’t feel as though you have enough structure to adequately support yourself.

Your beliefs limit your ability to support yourself or to receive support from others. When you don’t feel worthy of adequate support or if you are unwilling to make the changes required so that you can receive the support you truly need, your bones begin to reflect the lack of that support.

Without adequate support, your body begins to collapse in on itself as you attention is being directed inward.

Inadequate support might look like not enough or appropriate: vitamins and minerals, exercise, love, attention, money, comfortable home, transportation, acceptance, etc.

Let’s see how this plays out in life.  As you age, your body needs more of your physical attention. You just can’t power through physical challenges like you used to. For example, your supplement choices need to change as you age. Your structure of support needs to change to reflect the changes your body is going through.

Perhaps you were counting on a pension that would provide you with a comfortable retirement, but you discover your pension barely covers your living expenses. You may need to reevaluate the structure you were going to depend upon. In order to live comfortably, you may need to consider new structures, such as starting an at-home business doing something you love, taking a part-time job in some field that you were always curious about, or even moving to another country where the cost of living is more affordable for you.

I once heard a story about a woman that took endless cruises because it was ultimately less expensive than maintaining her home. Because she cruised a lot, the staff usually informed her about special opportunities coming up. She lived a life of luxury because she was willing to change the structure.

Maybe you expected to have a deeper bond with your children than you actually experience. You may need to reflect upon the structure of your beliefs that keeps you emotionally separated to see how you might create a new structure of beliefs that allows for greater intimacy.

If you have had to work hard most of your life, if you were the one that your children relied upon and if you were used to taking care of things on your own, you may find it quite challenging to see yourself as worthy of taking it easy, letting others care for you or letting other help you.  You can end up feeling unworthy and hearing yourself offering a bunch of reasons why you can’t let yourself be supported in new ways.

But, if you are experiencing osteoporosis, your body may be telling you that it is time to re-evaluate the structures you have counted on for many years, or perhaps even most of your life. Maybe it’s time to let go of those old expectations and patterns of behavior. It is time for life to be easier, and you deserve it. You might discover you simply have to get out of your own way in order to make room for new structures of support. Maybe it’s time to be a kid again—to explore life with enthusiasm by trying out new and different possibilities! Consider that your body may be telling you it is time for an adventure. It just might be time to search out new ways in which to be supported in experiencing a joyful and fulfilling life.

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Making Energy Healing Work for You

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Have you been using energy healing but not getting the results you want? It is deeply frustrating to have a clear intention for healing, learn an energetic healing approach and then experience minimal to no results.

There are many reasons that energy healing doesn’t work. You can be holding limiting beliefs that are interfering with results, which I discuss at greater length in my free report, Beating the Odds: 10 Beliefs That Can Short-Circuit Your Healing. (http://misahopkins.com/bookstore/)

You might have feelings of despair, worthlessness, shame, regrets, resentments, or lack of hope that limit the ability of your intention to have any effect. Often, such feelings need to be lovingly addressed before complete healing can occur. The meditation I most often recommend for being present to such powerful emotions is the Creation Meditation (http://www.newdreamfoundation.com/forums/index.php?topic=75.0)

It is possible that an underlying need is getting met through your illness, such as the need to finally rest, be noticed, tended, honored, recognized or cared for. I discuss how this dynamic works in greater depth in my book, The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything. (http://rootofallhealing.com)

And there is another significant reason that healing might not be occurring, and this is the topic I’ll be discussing during my upcoming tour.  There is a secret to healing that lives within your Sacred Feminine energy. It is as important to become the space in which healing can occur as it is to have clear intention.

The topic of this article is actually erroneous. You don’t really “make” energy healing work for you. That just happens to be the language that is familiar to most of us. What we need to do if we want healing to occur is to “allow” energy healing to work for us.??That means we need to learn how to become the receptive space for healing in addition to having clear intention. Consider that focusing on healing with clear intention is an aspect of your Sacred Masculine energy. You engage your mind to actively affirm your complete wellness, with no exceptions. Wellness is the only acceptable reality. It is mindfully clear and it is active.

Compare this to the Sacred Feminine energy in which you receive the whole of you in love. In the Sacred Feminine you do not choose which parts of you are okay. Your Sacred Feminine nature opens in compassion to your feelings of woundedness and your strength. In your love and acceptance of yourself as you are, you relax and become the space in which your healing intention can now do its work. It is compassionate and it is receptive.

In Chapter Seven of my book, I talk about going as deeply into your subconscious realms as you possibly can by learning how to take yourself into light trance states. In this highly receptive state you are more relaxed and open to receiving messages from your subconscious and accepting energetic healing energy.

Light trance states are completely safe, and though television suggests we lose control, you don’t lose control of your faculties as a result of being hypnotized or participating in a shamanic journey.  A part of you is able to remain conscious of your surroundings, the needs of your body and the input you are receiving.

If you are not seeing results, you might want to check in with yourself to see if you are truly in a receptive enough state for healing to occur. If you don’t think you are as receptive as you need to be, consider exploring this question, How could I become more relaxed and receptive to the healing energy I have chosen?

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Accessing Your Self-Healing Wisdom

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Do you ever feel like other people seem to have an innate wisdom about what they need to do for their self-healing, but you don’t? It can be a pretty common experience, but the greater truth is that everyone has access to their self-healing wisdom.

Many of us have simply had little education about how to do it. We have gotten so used to the concept of taking prescribed medications or having surgery done, where we perceive the healing is happening to us, that it can be a stretch to understand we are playing a role in our healing progress.

Whether we choose to be actively engaged in our healing or not, our beliefs and feelings are part of the process. If the mind is busy or feelings are overwhelming, we have a difficult time actually hearing or recognizing our own inner wisdom.

If you want to access your self-healing wisdom, at some point you’ll discover that you need to quiet your mind. Clear intentions have a difficult time getting through mind clutter. It is difficult to create a state of allowance, where you literally allow your body to heal, if your fear is running high.

Self-healing wisdom comes through when the mind is quiet and the heart is open. Allowance and intention are the two energies that need to be clear and in balance for healing to happen. And in both cases, inner stillness is required.

My thirteen-year-old nephew caught on to this the first time he did energy healing on his own body. He was in the hospital, and expected to be there for a week, as the doctors treated his blood. His white blood cells were attacking red blood cells with markers in them. The markers were basically telling the white blood cells that these were invaders and needed to be eliminated. Ultimately he didn’t have enough healthy red blood cells in his system so he was growing weaker and more toxic by the day.

I sat down on the edge of his bed and asked him if he understood what his cells were doing. He explained it to me, so I asked him if he was willing to come up with a way to visualize a different scenario for his cells.

Being a thirteen-year-old, he created a kind of mental computer game that he could engage in with his cells. I watched and felt him become very still inside, as he got ready to play the game in his mind. In the stillness, his mind went into laser-sharp focus.

I held space for his best healing through my sounds as he visualized. Minutes later we stopped together and I left him to rest for a while. The next day the doctors expressed their delight with his rapid progress. They held him one day for observation and sent him home—five days early.

What struck me was his ability to quiet his mind and focus. This is not easy for everyone to do, particularly when you are afraid. The mind has a way of racing, imagining all the worst possibilities. The mind racing in fear is counter to healing. When the mind becomes quiet, there is peace. In peace, you see all of the potential outcomes with clarity, particularly your healing and how to achieve it.

This state of peace also allows you to become the space in which healing can occur.  With inner peace, prescription drugs, surgery, herbal or homeopathic remedies, natural treatments and energy healing can serve you better.

Quieting your mind is one of the best ways to facilitate your healing. Even if you are not a meditator, notice how a walk in the park, having a quiet cup of tea on your porch, or engaging in a craft that you love help to quiet your mind and allay your fears.

In a serene and quiet mind, insights about your healing can come through. Insights might surprise you, as they seem to come out of nowhere. A little, but persistent thought might continue to be on the edge of your thoughts—more noticeable because your mind is still.

This is how self-healing insights find their way to us—through stillness of a quiet mind that can finally notice them.

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