Joints and Judgments
Dear Dorothy: I just found out that I will soon need a hip replaced. This is a huge blow since I have been very active all my life, dancing, hiking, and leading an active life. What can energy work do to help my situation?
Dorothy: Joints afford both flexibility and stability to the body. Healthy joints + sense of balance = stability. Imagine standing on a rocking boat, the joints are working constantly to keep the body upright.
Problems with the joints indicates mental or emotional rigidity, stubbornness, inflexibility, etc. These imbalances can become chronic when habits of self-defense hold them in place. The long habit of inner rigidity eventually compounds as joint pain.
Joints are held rigidly when there is tension in the muscles. Muscles can hold subtle tensions due to self-imposed stress or pressure. I say, "self-imposed" because one always has the choice to interpret external experiences in the light of evolution or in the light of misery. Any experience, no matter how happy, no matter how sad, can be appreciated for its evolutionary value or for its destructive value. This interpretation is a personal choice.
It is a rare individual who tries on purpose to be rigid, inflexible, or stubborn. If you are reading this blog, it is likely that you are already very spiritual, open-minded, and forward-thinking. Most nice people don't spend a crumb of their intelligence on judgment. Deep down, everyone knows that judging others is a complete waste of time.
Deep down, our essential nature is Divine Being, we are all precious and loved beyond comprehension. However living this reality of love is something which seems to be constantly unfolding. Physical pain anywhere is the body's way of asking the conscious mind to better align with cosmic evolution.
Changing behaviors generally means changing habits. Energy work goes after habits which have had time to become so second nature that we hardly register them consciously.
For instance, most of us have had the experience that someone does or says something hurtful which causes emotional pain to be felt. This can send one into a period of rehashing the experience and comparing one's own kindly nature to the unkind nature of the other person. It is common to upgrade a sense of self-worth through such a comparison or judgement, forming a habit of doing so over time. However, this sense of self-worth comes with the price of thinking ill of another person, which lowers personal energy vibration.
In the case of camouflaged judgment, not overt judgment, treating oneself unkindly is projected into treating others unkindly (gossiping, focusing on their weaknesses, failings, faults), which in turn, can be camouflaged as "being concerned" about others. The judgment, camouflaged as concern, remains hidden from view. As such, it remains untreated. Unnoticed, it has a chance to compound, fester, and solidify into trouble eventually showing up physically. In the form of an infirmity we cannot ignore it. However, attending to the imbalance as a physical problem keeps the awareness on the surface of life, and even then the inner seed or cause of the illness can be missed, only to crop up later as a new symptom.
In most cases the other person is a dear family member or someone close enough to effectively push buttons, "Get under one's skin" (joints being under the skin). If the person was not beloved, they wouldn't know where to find your triggers. Yes? One would respond with neutrality rather than hurt feelings. No one wants to think ill of those they love.
I concluded that painful situations indicate a need for more self-love and a stable (joints + sense of balance = stability) sense of self-worth. This may seem counter-intuitive, but responding to externally received insults by self-loving lays the foundation for offering love back to the offender. This really takes the wind out of an aggressor's sails. If one is genuinely self-loving, then the love offered to others is also appreciated as genuine.
Love and gratitude,
Dorothy
Dorothy: Joints afford both flexibility and stability to the body. Healthy joints + sense of balance = stability. Imagine standing on a rocking boat, the joints are working constantly to keep the body upright.
Problems with the joints indicates mental or emotional rigidity, stubbornness, inflexibility, etc. These imbalances can become chronic when habits of self-defense hold them in place. The long habit of inner rigidity eventually compounds as joint pain.
Joints are held rigidly when there is tension in the muscles. Muscles can hold subtle tensions due to self-imposed stress or pressure. I say, "self-imposed" because one always has the choice to interpret external experiences in the light of evolution or in the light of misery. Any experience, no matter how happy, no matter how sad, can be appreciated for its evolutionary value or for its destructive value. This interpretation is a personal choice.
It is a rare individual who tries on purpose to be rigid, inflexible, or stubborn. If you are reading this blog, it is likely that you are already very spiritual, open-minded, and forward-thinking. Most nice people don't spend a crumb of their intelligence on judgment. Deep down, everyone knows that judging others is a complete waste of time.
Deep down, our essential nature is Divine Being, we are all precious and loved beyond comprehension. However living this reality of love is something which seems to be constantly unfolding. Physical pain anywhere is the body's way of asking the conscious mind to better align with cosmic evolution.
Changing behaviors generally means changing habits. Energy work goes after habits which have had time to become so second nature that we hardly register them consciously.
For instance, most of us have had the experience that someone does or says something hurtful which causes emotional pain to be felt. This can send one into a period of rehashing the experience and comparing one's own kindly nature to the unkind nature of the other person. It is common to upgrade a sense of self-worth through such a comparison or judgement, forming a habit of doing so over time. However, this sense of self-worth comes with the price of thinking ill of another person, which lowers personal energy vibration.
In the case of camouflaged judgment, not overt judgment, treating oneself unkindly is projected into treating others unkindly (gossiping, focusing on their weaknesses, failings, faults), which in turn, can be camouflaged as "being concerned" about others. The judgment, camouflaged as concern, remains hidden from view. As such, it remains untreated. Unnoticed, it has a chance to compound, fester, and solidify into trouble eventually showing up physically. In the form of an infirmity we cannot ignore it. However, attending to the imbalance as a physical problem keeps the awareness on the surface of life, and even then the inner seed or cause of the illness can be missed, only to crop up later as a new symptom.
In most cases the other person is a dear family member or someone close enough to effectively push buttons, "Get under one's skin" (joints being under the skin). If the person was not beloved, they wouldn't know where to find your triggers. Yes? One would respond with neutrality rather than hurt feelings. No one wants to think ill of those they love.
I concluded that painful situations indicate a need for more self-love and a stable (joints + sense of balance = stability) sense of self-worth. This may seem counter-intuitive, but responding to externally received insults by self-loving lays the foundation for offering love back to the offender. This really takes the wind out of an aggressor's sails. If one is genuinely self-loving, then the love offered to others is also appreciated as genuine.
Love and gratitude,
Dorothy
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