posted November 27, 2004 03:29 PM         

USING CELLULAR REGENERATION TO RE-CREATE OUR-CELLS (OUR -SELVES) THROUGH SPIRITUAL AWARENESS

by Summer Bozohora

Using Cellular Regeneration to Re-Create
Our-Cells (Our-Selves) Through Spiritual Awareness.

Why is it that most of us have no problem saying we have a physical doctor’s appointment or can call in sick with a physical illness, but in booking time off to see a psychologist, counselor or spiritual “doctor” we avoid the conversation all together?

It seems that in our culture its O.K. to be physically sick, but not mentally, emotionally or spiritually. Perhaps it’s because our culture perceives physical illness as something beyond our control – something external. Emotional or spiritual sickness on the other hand evokes in us a fear of our own inability to control it within ourselves. Physical illness is less scary – somehow we believe it has nothing to do with … the rest of us.

If, however you are reading this article, it is likely that you accept at some level that our way of looking at the world, has, at least, something to do with our bodies degree of health. I would go so far as to say that a visit to the physical doctor, in many cases, says that we have detached from and/or abused our own emotional, spiritual truths to the extent that it has manifested itself into a physical illness.

Ever heard of cellular regeneration? Well, it is a biological fact that our physical bodies are self-regenerating organisms. Cellular regeneration means that our body replaces itself with new cells. Depending on what source you read (from Dr. Deepak Chopra, MD to Gray’s Anatomy), our body completely replaces its tissues and cells every 1 to 7 years. The cells of eyes replace themselves in only 2 days, the intestinal lining replaces every 5-30 days and skin cells 3-4 weeks. Liver cells regenerate every 6 weeks, and muscles get replaced every 6 months to 3 years. The pancreas takes 5-12 months, our bones replace every 8 months to 4 years and red blood cells replace every 90-120 days.

If, physically we have an entirely new body every 1 to 7 years why is it that our eczema, our limp, intestinal cramping, headaches or ulcers stay with us for a life time? Is it because the energy within our cells, our thoughts and emotional patterns remain unchanged? If so, it follows that by changing our way of thinking and acting in the world, we are re-creating ourselves and an in doing so, we re-create our-Cells. I like to call it cellular re-creation. “Images, indeed all thoughts (and feelings) are electrochemical events, which are intricately woven into the fabric of the brain and the body.” (Jeanne Achterberg Imagery in Healing) Our tissues, organs and cells maintain this energetic information and through specific techniques we can “ask” our bodies for information.

When asked, and if we remain present to our experience, our bodies respond with an array of information including physical sensations, imagery, memories, emotions, or specific thoughts. Every symptom, feeling, doubt or memory that arises carries within it a message for us. When released and honoured we experience the meaning of the information and can choose our responses to it consciously. This choice in and of itself releases the energetic pattern inherent in our dis-ease. Our bodies are very clever in the way that they display their symptoms or messages. Our bodies really are speaking to us. I will give you two real life examples.

A young man develops bladder cancer because he is “****** off” and unable to accept and release the negative impact his alcoholic father had in his life. Once he accepts his cancer as a messenger – as a friend and not an enemy he embraces it and the tumor shrinks. Then using body awareness and meditation he listens for more information – stored memories, and blocked energy. It is then through his inner vision that his body is affected at a cellular level. He lets go of his anger, it dissolves and is released. His mind-body-soul comes back into balance and the tumor is gone.

A young woman develops a streptococcus skin infection with boils the size of golf balls that the infectious disease specialists can’t explain. They prescribed antibiotics. Then, she reads a sentence in a book that settles into her with an Ah Ha! The metaphor - repressed emotions that build and build until they explode… OH!… she’s reminded of the feelings she’s had to repress for so long and the ‘flashbacks’ of abuse she’s been having since the boils started. Her feelings and memories were indeed coming out of her in a ‘pussy mess’. Once the emotional connection was recognized, she refused the antibiotics and has never had a boil since. It’s been 8 years.

It many societies, much older than our own, internal conflict is viewed as a prelude to a greater understanding in ones life. It is considered an initiation that is met with respect, honour and acceptance, rather than fear and judgment.
I foresee the future in our society where people will become increasingly aware – not just of BIG flashing warning signs, but of more subtle cues that their soul imparts to them. People will accept support in exploring and learn to play in their unconscious-conscious fields. Prevention and self-knowledge will become the norm and health care costs will decrease. Along with these changes, institutionalized religions will soften into meaningful communities where the felt experience of spirituality will merge with health care. This is the overriding vision and goal of Creative Spiritual Counselling and Therapy.

With this vision in mind, Creative Spiritual Counselling uses a cross section of methods in meditation, body centered psychotherapy, imagery and expressive art to support clients in exploring the body-mind relationship between their unconscious-conscious and material-spiritual selves. The creative aspect of therapy allows us to play in a way that validates our innate and unique creative capacity. The spiritual approach honours our life’s experiences and considers the messages within them as inclined toward our health and growth. Together, the process accesses the emotional and spiritual causes behind psychological and physical dis-ease or illness.

This process is creative as it is spiritual. It is a way of accepting our place as a co-creator with the source of life itself. We know that the source of life itself regenerates our cells on a physical level often. It is our job to change the information on an emotional/spiritual level as well. By entering into this process of co-creation with courage and trusting its enfoldment we allow ourselves to manifest our potential. It then becomes possible for us to live out our life’s purpose in harmony with the rest of the world. In this way our-Cells and our-Selves are not only regenerated but are also recreated.
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posted November 29, 2004 12:53 AM         

Sounds similar to a book I read about Illness and how it relates to the state of mind.
My friend used to get alot of blood noses which is attributed to her not being as close to her father.
I never knew she had blood noses alot, so my mother did some investigating and confronted her with the relationship problems with her father, and it was all true.

Blood nose is not an illness, but it's a good example of how the outside emotions, and thought processes affect the inner workings of our cells ect...

posted November 29, 2004 01:43 AM         

And I find the bloody nose thing really interesting. When I was a kid I remember this one point (forget how old exactly) when I got these really bad bloody noses all the time. Sometimes a couple times a day. I got one spontaneously in the car once and my mom pulled over and grabbed a towel out of the trunk and I remember soaking the whole thing up, it just wouldnt stop. I dont remember if she took me to the doctors about it, I just remember getting them very frequently for awhile.

I'm not close to my father either - dont really know him at all actually. He abandoned us. I havent seen him since I was about 5 years old. It did make me very sad as a child and I held alot of it inside.

posted March 15, 2005 10:06 PM         

Oh yes please! Last year, I had about a week or so of continous nose bleeding. Actually, ever since little I've had problems with my nose bleeding. It's stopped now, and now I know why.

posted March 18, 2005 02:18 AM         

I will be on that task soon.

posted March 21, 2005 05:16 PM         

If the power of suggestion can make a person's skin produce burn-like marks, etc (eg, under hypnosis, stigmata, people who think their possessed, etc)....then the power of the mind of the body must really be phenonemol- this is just the tip of the iceberg, that science is so reluctant to grasp.

One thing that does worry me a bit is the amount of people who take anti-depressents, because I believe that depression is an illness of the soul. People do get 'soul-sick'. I managed to work through my problems by reading, writing poetry, music and my own soul-searching. I feel sad for vulnerable people who have these anti-depressents thrown at them left, right and centre from unknowing doctors.
Then again, excuse me- I'm not saying that I know everything! You can't judge someone until you've walked 'a hundred miles in their moccasins!'. Perhaps some forms of depression are a chemical imbalance, I don't know. I just wonder where those chemicals stem from in the first place. I can only speak of my own personal experience.

The pharmecutical industry is very powerful.