Last weekend I heard a powerful
story about very conscious woman who broke her toe. The toe was quite painful,
and she was not able to walk. She was (understandably) upset, thinking about
the lost opportunity to enjoy the lake for the rest of the summer. She thought,
"I’m not going to be able to walk up and down the hill to the lake. I’m
not going to be able to swim. It’s going to ruin my summer.”
She works with a nonphysical
guide/teacher. He asked her, “Is the toe ruining your summer or are the
fears about it ruining your summer? Can you simply remember the whole toe? All
that’s happened are that certain molecules have separated. That’s all bone is;
it’s molecules. The impact separated them. Now they have to remember that they
belong together and re-adhere.”
He suggested she sing to her toe as she was lying on her bed with her foot elevated. While
skeptical at first he says, "She began to just sing OOOOOMMMMM. OOOOOMMMMM. She
began asking the toe in each moment, what tone do you want next? And offering
the tones."
She went to sleep that second
night, and the third morning she woke up realizing that the foot really wasn’t
very painful. He said, “It is knit. You can stand on it.” So she
gingerly got out of bed and put her weight on it. It was tender, a bit, but not
excruciating like a broken toe.
He said, “Wiggle it.”
Some
wiggle. It wiggled without pain.
He said, “Just be careful with it
because it’s still healing.”
The most amazing part of this
story is his closing comments:
"There
was nothing to be done. She simply allowed it to express its wholeness. So she
did not fix the toe, she simply invited the toe to express its wholeness and
got out of its way, in a sense."
This idea has been part of my
process for a good many years now. When I was learning Healing Touch, I remember Janet Mentgen saying our role as
healers is simply to see the wholeness, in spite of the conditions. When I am most clear,
this makes perfect sense to me. You know you are not just your body. Even
scientists realize you are energy, and energy can be neither created nor
destroyed.
In spite of the current conditions, at this very moment, you are
whole. I am whole.
YOU are untouched by any trauma.
I am untouched by any trauma. YOU are unscathed by any history. I am unscathed by any history.YOU are unmarred by any accident, illness, or
injury. I am unmarred by any accident, illness, or
injury.
What comes to mind most
freely when you remember that we are just molecules?
It is the truth.
I am sure to be allowing this
truth to permeate my heart and mind deeply over the next few weeks as I navigate the
anniversary of the surgery that removed an abdominal mass.
I know there is
continued healing happening within and without.
I think I will be singing to my abdomen in the days to come.
I will
start with one of my favorite songs, All is Well, by Karen Drucker….
