Sacred Outlook
Illness, even just a 24 hour cold, create stress, because you need more energy to get through the day.
Stress impairs your ability to heal. Subconsciously we tighten when we have trauma. That tightening, on a physical level restricts your circulation. Then your body has a much harder time healing itself. This subconscious contraction happens on all levels of our body
Our body system always wants to come back to a state of healing and equilibrium, but it can’t do it quickly and fully with stress and tightness. If you can relax around trauma or lingering stress in the body, the affected area of disease will begin to get oxygen and circulation, and will eventually heal faster.
The less tension you hold around illness or traumatic events, the more you heal. The less bracing on a physical, mental, energetic, or emotional level, the more progress you can make. This kind of relaxation really requires what the Tibetan Buddhist called a sacred outlook.
A sacred outlook dictates, that if you can see everything as sacred in your life – the most challenging to the most beautiful – your whole experience of life deepens, and becomes more fulfilling. You have a choice to create elegance and self healing out of the muck of your lineal patterns, genetics and neurosis. That act creates in actuality the ground that you walk on as a human being. We all have had experiences, personal experiences, or know someone who has, where a deep illness created the most profound sense of wonder and gratitude for life. That revelation occurs when you don’t isolate the sacred to only what is convenient or positive or looks good.
Sacredness doesn’t happen in some ivory tower of good experience experiences. When only the good is sacred, it can become separate, it becomes materialistic. Sacredness is in the every moment. And every moment isn’t pretty. Sometimes even with the most precise intuition, you don’t know what life is going to throw at you. You could see things coming and still not be able to stave off the possibility of unwanted experience. Life is not always going to be easy or fun, but with a sacred outlook you are training yourself to be a true practitioner of human wisdom, and dignity within every moment of your life.
Sometimes, when doing really deep, spiritual and physical detoxification, you end up going through a healing crisis of some sort. This is indicative of something actually getting cleared through your practices. It’s good news, even if it doesn’t feel like it. Good, bad, up, down, crazy, serene, glorious… a total shit show, all of it is sacred. Cultivating this level of acceptance, appreciation, gratitude, acknowledgment, neutrality, and grace creates the relaxation and strength. You need to allow fundamental and life-changing healing.
One of my favorite meditations for establishing a baseline of sacred appreciation, is the self-care breath that we are doing this chapter in our Sadhana. The bonus is that it heals and strengthen the nervous system. Stress happens even without our conscious participation. When you strengthen and balance, the nervous system you stay tranquil and relaxed, despite the level of speed or stress input.
Connecting to the cosmic healing force
Yogi, Bhajan said this about self healing
“The process of self healing is the privilege of every being. Self healing is not a miracle, nor is self healing, a dramatization of the personality, as though you could do something superior. Self healing is a genuine process of the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul. “
This quote Distills the concept. Self healing isn’t some kind of piece of science fiction. It’s normal and it’s your birthright, and at the same time, it can be completely cosmic.
Healing involves the power of the infinite. And the infinite is one of those mind-boggling realities that can only be experienced and wielded. It cannot be explained, or conceptualized, as that immediately creates a distance between you and your most infinite power. In what is really going to be the biggest victory of this era, that the power of the infinite is more and more recognized as not outside you, but deep within you. We are not completely there yet, but more and more people are turning within to experience the phenomenon of God, previously known only as an external figure that had to be connected with via a human in some power position or religious construct. This shift in how we relate to infinity, the universe, ourselves, societal, power structures, and each other is just at the beginning. And that is a sacred outlook.
