Vibrant Messages

As mentioned earlier about the Chogram Trungpa Shambhala teachings, there is a certain basic goodness to life, and the warrior is a warrior for that basic goodness.

To extend this concept to health, there is a basic good health that resides in us all. In fact, everything the amazing human body does is to maintain health. That's ALL it does--constantly adjusting and balancing, it has remarkable powers of rejuvenation and harmony.

Of course, when an illness sets in, or we have an injury, it doesn't feel much like an experience of "basic goodness." And yet, in times of illness or injury is when the human body really shines in all its phenomenal mechanisms and strategies to regain balance and health.

This is specifically why I do not use painkillers or drugs of any kind. I occasionally use herbal medicines, but only if it is obvious my body can use these substances to speed up healing and balancing. My first decision, though, is to hold off on remedies, and this is because the body has become impacted by my thoughts and behaviors. It has been injured or stressed because of some choice or perception (or choice of perception) I've made that does not align with the its basic health patterns. In fact, I can usually trace any ache or pain to some sort of mindless, egocentric behavior, sloppy thinking or decision I've made, or some feelings I've blocked or stuffed.

My best case in point lately has been the pain in the heel of my left foot. I initially banged it on a metal bed frame and suspect I may have either cracked the heel bone, or deeply bruised the tendons around it. It hurt at the time--a lot--but then the pain subsided, and settled into a low-grade intermittent ache for a while. When Shay (my life partner) passed away, the pain came back full force, and I realized I needed to get to the bottom of it once and for all.

I meditated, prayed, observed, re-capitulated events, and waited for messages to come for many days. I felt at times like the answer was sitting right in front of me, but I was simply blind to it. Then, one morning it hit me: Stand in your Truth. That seemed to resonate deeply into my foot. I had just endured three months of intense caregiving to a dying loved one, and had been carried away down the rabbit hole of the medical matrix, and into my own self-denial.

I hadn't really stood in my own truth through the entire caregiving time and Shay's subsequent dying process. I felt at times like I was chasing a rabbit who was just fast enough to stay ahead of me, yet slow enough to give me hope that I could catch it. Frustration had built up and hope kept waving its deceptively attractive flag, even into the eleventh hour of Shay's process.

Had I really stood in my truth I could have acknowledged my intuition, firmly inhabited my heart center, and proceeded forward with helping Shay with her process assured of my part in it, and fully accepting all outcomes. This is not to say I regret my response to this situation--it was the first of its kind for me in this life--but, I am saying that my body knew all along what was going on, and my denial of the process resulted in slowing the healing of my foot. My body needed truth and honesty instead of hope and denial.

So, my left foot pain has become a source of deeply personal messages. Why would I want to deny this by using medications that merely cover up or numb out the truth?

As warriors in this life, we are all serving basic goodness. We are all serving basic health. The discipline comes in when we know what we're supposed to do in service to that basic goodness, and we do it. The pain and suffering comes around when we don't.

In vibrant health,

Boyd Martin, Caretaker
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