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Chewing Well by Hope Hewetson |
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he book "Message From Forever" by Marlo Morgan has a passage where an
aboriginal healer describes how disease starts in the body. The healer
compares it to how well he chew our food. If we don't chew it well, it
doesn't sit well in our stomach. If we don't chew it well and swallow it and
it doesn't agree with us, it would have been a lot easier to chew it well,
decide we don't like it and spit it out then, versus swallowing it and
trying to get rid of it later.
It's a great description of how we process information and energy and let it into our body and use it. We have an aura around us to notice energy before it gets "in" us. It's like a spiderweb. If our spirit awareness is home, in our body, we are aware of what tweeks our web and have a choice about what to do with the energy or experience. We notice it, chew on it a little and decide if it's allowed further into our space.
We also have our chakras. The seven main chakras allow the spirit/energetic part of us be translated into useful data by the body. Each chakra has a focus and relates to different organs, glands and systems in the body.
When our chakras are not responding in harmony with the data coming in, the response can be some discomfort for the body - the start of a cold, a tumor, a sore shoulder. The energy wasn't chewed and examined and digested well enough so it's not in harmony with us as a whole and our body is letting us know. A healthy aura and chakra system is flowing and full of light.
Stagnant energy and darkness create some kind of discomfort. The flow is stopped, like if you stop and give yourself a sharp pinch right now and stop the energy flow in your arm.
Another way we learn about how well our spirit and body are communicating is through our emotions. Emotions motivate us to change something. But again, to use them effectively, we must chew them carefully, get to know them. If it is our own emotion, we will digest it and the emotion will nurture us and propel us further on our path. An emotion we can't heal or digest is not ours. We have swallowed it, taken it from someone, and it is like a poison in our body, unusable, taking up room, and we may spend a lot of energy trying to figure it out when we really need to let it go.
Learning to have affinity between the spirit and the body allows us to be on the planet and heal ourselves on both levels. The aura and chakra system are set up for this communi-cation to occur, and so healing with both in mind is efficient and fun.
Healing is a process we learn and grow from, not the end result. The end result of all that we do this lifetime is death - the death of the body, not the spirit! All that we learn in our process we take with us as spirit forever. When we die, we won't necessarily be impressed with how stoic we were. We will admire the state of our inner self when we left the planet, how loving we felt, how peaceful, how fulfilled we let ourselves be to our core.
Using energy tools allows us to discern what energies and attitudes work for us before embracing them into our chakras and corresponding body functions. We teach these simple techniques in classes, and offer free aura healings Wednesday evenings, 5:30 to 7. We would love to see you!
-Rev. Hope Hewetson
