Across the centuries and all cultures, there has always been a sense of something ‘beyond’ us mere mortals. Perhaps because we ‘travel’ in our dreams, humans have no problem believing in this other realm. Moreover, there has also always been people who claim they can act as the intermediary between that time-space location and ours… those who claim they can communicate with other travelers.
The human-non-human travelers take on a variety of guises, including angels and demons, ghosts and spirits, shades and souls, astral travelers, and energy essences awaiting reincarnation.
Sometimes the people who know their ways are revered as shamans or tribal medicine men, and sometimes they are tormented as witches or warlocks. Other times they hold a more tenuous standing, portrayed as either a serious voodoo-practitioner or a curiosity, a hocus-pocus person, selling trinkets to tourists.
Even today, there is confusion amongst my acquaintances about whether to ‘believe’ in treatments as diverse as Reiki, intercranial massage, and the laying-on of hands or whether meditation alone can make cellular changes within our bodies in a mind-over-matter way.
The reason I bring all this up is to remind you that you are more than your body. It’s up to you decide how and why. All I know is that I have a ‘spirit’ that may well be a soul, or else a personal creative energy that spills out of my being. I make things, make things happen, have an influence on those around me, and create ripple effects simply by existing…
If you are more than your body, then you are more than your sick body.
When your body is struggling, it doesn’t mean all of ‘you’ needs to struggle.
I’m not really sure how to articulate what I’m thinking – or feeling – it’s not going quiet as smoothly as I imagined it when I started writing. Regardless, I take comfort in knowing that my body is only one part of my being. I am more than a brain on a stick, but also more than a heart and organs, more even, than the sum of all the parts of my physical body combined…
UGH – I hope that you can get the gist of what I’m trying to say.
If someone else can explain it better, or has read another author that ‘gets it’, I’d love you to say so in the comments!
Regardless – in body, mind, and spirit:
Take care carefully, Linda x
PS – after I had written the draft for this post, but before I was ready to hit publish, I saw a post by the lovely Susana Cabaço on her Instagram page which articulates the essence of what I was trying to say – beautifully – you can read her blog post here: Human rainbow. The two opening sentences resonate exactly with what I have been dwelling on: “Beyond your physicality, there are the ethereal nuances of you. You are not only secretly made of light; you are also carrying a rainbow inside.” How lovely! Thank you Susana for being a shining light in my digital world!
The Mindful Migraine 
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