How to handle physical "causes"

[Fred]

I was wondering how one should handle the apparent physical "causes" of a condition while trying to heal themselves though changing the causes in the mind?

I will use my current situation as an example. I am the guy who is recovering from the rather severe case of poison ivy rash. Before I really started healing by working with my chakras, I tried to eliminate what I thought were the physical "causes" of my rash. I thought I was getting reexposed to the poison ivy resin from some tools that I had with me in the woods the day I first got the rash. I quarantined these tools until I could figure out what was going on.

As I started working with my chakras my rash started resovling quickly. Now I believed the rash was caused from the stress within me so I thought it would be okay to get the possibly contaminated tools out again. From the day I got the tools out, I have begun to have a relapse. I have quarantined the tools again.

I am wondering, should a person work solely within the mind while healing or should they also deal with the apparent physical causes of a condition also? In my case, should I stay away from poison ivy and or items contaminated with it's resins, or should I trust the power of my mind to handle all the physical world throws at me? One part of me sees a conflict between believing my mind can heal me and being afraid to touch certain things in the physical world.

I have other examples of this dilema with my back pain. Do I avoid doing the things in the physical world which I think may "cause" my back to hurt or do I just focus on the mental stressors that I know are the ultimate cause of my problems?

with Love,

Fred

[Martin Brofman]

Good question, Fred,

It's good, of course, to work on both - though we say that when the inner causes are handled, you will not be "guided" through the physical cause-and-effect process.

For example, if someone has respiratory problems and attributes them to smoking, when they heal the heart chakra causes, they will feel less like smoking.

If you eat a pepperoni pizza with a vanilla milk shake, some sour pickles and a beer or two, and then feel solid sensations at the level of the solar plexus, blaming on the pizza, or the milk shake, etc., we would ask what guided you to eat that way? Answer: you were guided from within to eat that way in order to develop that symptom to show you where there was tension in your consciousness that needed to be dealt with. If the tensions were not there, you would not have been guided to eat like that, or you would have been able to with no after-effects - as so many teen-agers do.

So - with your tools - I wonder why you didn't clean them before using them again? If that was the mechanism on the physical level, it would have been good to eliminate that. If you didn't I would have to ask whether you dealt sufficiently with the inner cause. Remember that the chakras are simply reflecting parts of your consciousness, and your consciousness is what you think and feel - so for the healing to be complete, you would have had to change your mind about something dealing with solar plexus issues.

Clear?

[Fred]

Thanks Sir Martin.

I think I understand what you are saying about how our mind will guide us toward or away from physical causes. You are most certainly right about me not being completely finished dealing with my inner causes. My experience seems like a roller coaster. Some days my chakras will seem to be balanced and then suddenly I will have problems again and then I must struggle to get back in balance.

I am very excited to get your book "Anything Can Be Healed". I ordered it from Barnes and Nobles and it will be here any day.

[Martin Brofman]

You'll enjoy the book, and it will make things very clear for you.

Best wishes for success with your total healing.