PEACE & HARMONY
Our inner & outer worlds
Peace and harmony, the condition that so many people say that they desire. To be in a state of eternal peace, calm, balance and harmony within one’s self and with their seemingly external environment is the final destination so to speak for many. People may experience inner peace, but their outer world may look chaotic and vis versa, they may see outer peace in their environment yet their inner world is turbulent. How do these inner and outer worlds merge and are they even supposed too?
By in large we are a “collective of individuals” who are all at some level attempting to get their own needs and wants met, along with making a contribution to the collective in some way, i.e. making the world a better place through our presence and actions. Within these motivations and intentions we may feel like there is not enough of something (meaning our needs might not be met) so we run around in survival mode inside of our minds strategizing how we can make it all work so that we can survive. This perspective of scarcity is clearly not in congruence with inner peace. When we are stuck inside this perspective of scarcity, even if we have a million dollars in the bank and can logically see that this is plenty of money, we will continue to feel fear that we might not have enough. Here the disturbance lives inside of our own mind and we do not feel rested, calm or at peace even though the external world is abundant. These same disturbances can live in our outer world too. There may be something that appears to be a threat in our outer world, perhaps disrupting the environment and lives of others, while simultaneously we feel at complete peace and calm inside. Our inner state is unperturbed and not matching that of the outer world.
There is more often than not a congruence between our inner and outer worlds. The reason for this being that most individuals take their cue from their environment and/or project their inner state onto external circumstances. So if something appears to be bad in the outer world people will match that in their inner world and thus feel bad inside. The opposite goes as well, if someone wakes up in the morning and feels amazing, energized and fully vibrant then they will tend to project that onto their outer environment despite what might actually be appearing. This is how two people can look at the same thing and see it completely differently. This is also why it sometimes appears that people live in different worlds from each other, because in some ways they actually are living in different realities.
I personally believe that we are at a time in our evolution where this disparity will become increasingly and increasingly more evident. Where based on people’s chosen perspectives they will create outer worlds together that match their inner frequencies. It may even be that at some point that beings of slightly different frequencies may not be able to physically perceive each other anymore as the different frequencies band together creating more coherence within themselves as a collective of like frequency. Like waves riding on top of or parallel to each other with less and less mixed frequencies and more distinctly coherent and unified frequencies coming together. Literal parallel realities which have none or minimal interaction with each other as they offer completely different experiences. Again speaking from my personal perspective I believe this is similar to what happens in what we have come to call the death process. There is a different frequency in which the spirit of the body transitions into, which is why we can no longer see them, however they are very much still in existence just imperceptible to us from our current frequency. Death simply being a transition into the new. Some beings may pick another human body and reincarnate into a similar type of experience and others may have learned everything they came to learn/express and move into another frequency experience. Either way I see us on Earth, while embodied, making this transition collectively, some will be repeating this cycle and staying at the current frequency to learn/express more at this vibratory level, while others are ready for the next vibratory level of beingness.
COLLECTIVE TENDENCY TOWARDS DISHARMONY
Coming into right relationship with what is
Our current frequency or collective has a tendency towards disharmony. The prime reason for this being that we still perceive ourselves to be separate from our environment and from other people. This sets up the conditions of needing to live for a “me”, take care of a “me” and support a “me”. As long as the perspective of being an individual is primary we will also need to protect ourselves from perceived others including our perceived outer environment. This will bread more war, both outer and inner, as we will always have to defend ourselves from the evil thing, which in truth is just an aspect of ourselves, but we cannot perceive this if we continue to insist on the perspective of separation. So we will fight, protect, avoid and try to get rid of or stop certain things inside of the appearance because we fear the end of our personal, egocentric existence. In truth your small limited person centric consciousness cannot stop life from occurring. You can definitely attempt to hide your portion of the One that you are from life, avoid life, avoid certain people or experiences, however in the end its all included and at some point on your soul’s journey you will, you must, come face to face with everything you attempt to push away. This is how you will come to know your unity, your oneness will all. From the smallest microbe to the largest galaxy, you are one with it all.
Due to the fact that we do not intimately and undoubtedly know ourselves as One we do not know harmony. Harmony is an impossibility from the perception of separation. You see harmony is health. Health of our human body, health of our planet as the larger body, and even health of our universe as the One body. Most of us don’t think in scales this big, but instead only see ourselves as human(s) and maybe our planet as being important. However every action you take either physically or in consciousness has an impact on the entire universe.
In our healthcare system we call harmony homeostasis, however we only look at it from a physiologically perspective. If all of the chemical reports reveal the right ratios and numbers we think that is health. Never mind the investigation of where harmony comes from in the first place. To be in harmony is to be in right relationship with. This means to see all as extension of you. In this way you can come into right relationship with your cells, bacteria, viruses, cancers, and the myriad of other “afflictions” that can occur to this physical vehicle. Things are only afflictions if you are not in harmony. People fear because they do not see that they are the operator of this vehicle, that they can come into harmony with themselves and with everything else and thus see the effects of that that harmony play out through this human vehicle. Instead they feel the need to fight the foreign invader and fail to see how they can come into harmony with what is and produce health. When will we believe more in the power of peace and harmony than we do in the power of destruction, alienation, fighting and war?
All that is required is a change in belief. To see harmony as the power that it is. To believe in its power. To stop protecting ourselves from ourselves. To see ourselves in and as all. To see how coming into right relationship with what is is more powerful than resistance and fighting what is. To do so, to choose so, creates an entirely different outer world. This may seem too simple for some to believe. They want it to be harder, more complex, but really what they want is to hold onto their belief that destruction and war is what heals and creates harmony. They also want to continue to hold onto the belief that they are separate from their own body, from other humans, from plants, animals, insects, trees, dirt, bacteria, other worldly beings, other planets and the universe. They prefer the story line that they are alone in the universe and that life is solely up to them.
Life is not solely up to you and simultaneously you matter beyond infinity. Come to understand that you are part of one much larger beingness of which you have never been separate, you’ve only believed your separateness. Its just a belief, one that can be changed by you, through you. In opening your own mind to the possibility that separation is simply an illusion, just a veil or mask through which you’ve been looking through, you will come to see that you could never be separate from anything ever. What is possible is that you are connected in and as the source of all. Human consciousness on this planet is like a cancer in the universe believing itself to be separate from the whole of the universe. The universe is benevolent and is organized towards increasingly higher and higher orders of coherence, i.e. wholeness. It is time for the cancer of our consciousness to heal, to come into its knowingness of itself and reunite with its universal family remembering the power of peace and harmony.
Dr. Amanda Hessel, Chiropractor, Network Spinal Analysis & Somato-Respiratory Integration, Boulder, Colorado
The cultural belief is that one person must do something to another person often via some tool, technique or device, in order for the person to heal from what is seemingly ailing them.
Due to the fact that we are largely focused on doing, rather than being, our focus is almost perpetually on what is being done rather than the state of presence or being itself.
Most of us are afraid of our own hearts. True story. We can use a myriad of excuses as to why we can’t love, feel love or be love, but what is boils down to is that we are afraid to love. Afraid to use that thing that sits in the middle of our chest and is the core essence of what every person is striving, consciously or unconsciously, to feel more of.
Love is love. It has no limits. Its bound by nothing and is the essence of everything. Regardless of how much you participate in the expression of love has no effect on love itself. Love itself never changes, is always present and is abundance itself. It is your truest nature and core essence. However most of us do not know this, believe it or really get it. Instead we believe that we are separate, isolated, distinct beings, and thus live disconnected from the source of what we are. With this we think we can be cast out, not included and need to fit in and fend for ourselves. We fall out of alignment and feel that things are not right or could go wrong at any moment. The result of this is protection, defense and being “on guard”, which is also known at chronic stress or fight/flight.
We all know that currency is what makes a system run. Currency is a form of exchange. For example our economy thrives on money for exchange. There are other system that use barter or trade. So what is the currency for your body? What makes your body thrive like money does for our economy?
Your body is orchestrated by an intelligence. This is how your liver knows what to do and your stomach knows what do without you having to tell it what to do. There is an “innate” intelligence built into the system. You can think of it as a blueprint. When this intelligence is energized it can carry out all its functions efficiently. When its not energized your body begins to malfunction and hurt.
While we have been bombarded by the “positive thinking generation”, we have simultaneously been taught to ignore, dismiss and devalue negative thoughts and feelings, which has seriously stunted our growth and forward movement, as feeling these states generates a shit ton of energy for transformation when one knows how to use these feelings productively.
This brings us to the second and most important step which is learning to move through uncomfortableness. This is essential to all transformation. No transformation will occur without it. To not be thrusted into action through feeling uncomfortableness, is well, just dumb. Its like holding your hand on a hot stove and not moving it because you want to see how long you can endure the pain. No, you must take immediate action and move your hand off the damn stove instantly, less you want to live without a hand! This is what feeling uncomfortable is supposed to generate. Immediate, effective, life saving action.
Is there another way to sustain easeful and blissful states in your body? In fact there is! You are wired for bliss. There are opioid receptors (pain blockers) that run all along your spine. Endorphins and enkephalins, your body’s natural opioids, get produced when you experience pain and also when you experience enjoyable, high energy states. Your natural opioids find their receptors and light them up, hence you get physiologically rewarded for bliss feeling states.
As a spine specialist I’ve had the pleasure to see what happens when the position, tension and tone (vibration) changes in a person’s spine. When a person has greater freedom and range of motion they are able to live in a higher energy and more blissful state. Inversely when a person has high levels of tension in their spinal cord it is harder for them to take a full breath, to physically move or be flexible, and to be an in open state, which is required for ease and bliss. These individuals can ingest a substance and shift their state temporarily, but when the experience wears off they are still living in the same body that does not feel as free as their substance induced state.
One of the things are hear most often from people who come and see me in my office is that they want to improve their energy levels. Many people don’t sleep well, wake up tired, get tired midday, or some sleep wonderfully and still have low energy and motivational levels. So what is really going on here? Why are we not feeling as energized, motivated and inspired as we would like to feel?
One of the primary goals at Chiropractic Alchemy is to help create an environment that allows for a higher energy state to inform your body-being. We do this through influencing and advancing the nervous system so that it can be a conduit for a higher vibration (energy) to course through it. Higher vibration coursing through your body means that a more highly intelligent or organized energy is informing you. As a result your body functions better, its easy to feel and use your emotions, and creativity, insight and new awareness are increasingly present. This is innovation and advancement of the human body-being in action.
If you are human you have experienced fear. Fear is simply the belief that things are not working or going to work out for you. It comes with the thoughts that you will be hurt, won’t be taken care of or loved, that you are on your own, separate and isolated. Fun times🎉, not.
Fear and excitement are the same energy, simply viewed through different lenses. To un-fear yourself you must see how everything is working for you. How the relationship that just ended is working for you. How getting fired is working for you. How the painful sensation in your body is working for you. How your current income and resources are working for you.
In general disempowerment occurs when you have an experience where you want to feel, think, see or do something and you feel like you can’t. It is an unresourceful inner state that says “I’m powerless, helpless here” and there is no possibility that the situation or you could ever change.
In order to use symptoms you must first shift your relationship to them. We have been very focused on getting rid of symptoms as our relationship to them has been that they threaten us in some way. Perhaps we think they are a threat to our health or an activity we want to participate in. The symptom however, despite what you currently believe, is not the problem. It is only an effect of an out of alignment belief system and its only purpose is to show you that you are out of alignment. They tell you “hey- something in your emotions, thoughts, beliefs or behaviors is ready for an upgrade”. When you shift your perspective in this way you open the door to new possibilities. You are elevating your consciousness right there. When you elevate you can hear your body talk in a different way. Instead of just hearing “this hurts”, you hear new information that may say “hey, you need to stop trying to control everything in your life, you’re making us (muscles, belly, etc.) tense up and hurt”. Now you have more useful information that you can do something with and you are empowered because you can do something about it if you choose. When you are empowered and make changes, your body is empowered, and it naturally begins to heal.