Your Opinions May Create Illness

Our Counseling Center for Spiritual Growth comes from an awareness of body-mind-spirit integration in the present moment. Whether you have old emotions stuck in the musculature, live in fear of dying (or some dreaded future event), or simply have an addiction problem (anger, substance, etc.); we know that the ultimate solution is the constant and conscious remembering to be in the present moment.

Whatever “pushes your buttons” brings awareness of unfinished business that needs to be experienced. Our Center for Spiritual Growth assists through Lomi Bodywork, gestalt therapy, and/or the practice of being present.

Are you a fairly opinionated person? Your health depends on your letting go of those opinions and taking another perspective on the subject. Here’s an example:

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was a healer who knew how to get opinions out of the way of health. A New England clockmaker and healer at the end of the 19th Century, he is often considered the father of New Thought. He knew that there was an opinion behind every illness. People flocked to him to be cured of all sorts of ailments, almost always involving whatever was “eating them up” mentally. He questioned his patients as to what they thought about religion, politics, or the latest medical practices. When he hit a nerve, so to speak, anger usually came out. “Those others” weren’t doing what the sick person thought they should or shouldn’t be doing; the world just going to hell in a hand basket!

When “Dr” Quimby could get his patient to change his or her mind about whatever was bothering to an attitude of acceptance, the illness would miraculously disappear. After all, the thing that was annoying them about someone else really was none of the patient’s concern, and the physical body was resisting the anger or resentment by getting sick.

In studying the healing ways of Quimby, I was interested to find his observations about how widespread opinions are. He included organizations, as well as patients, among the opinionated. He noticed medicine, religion and class (in the late 1800’s) as being established opinions, rarely open to new ideas.

One of New Thought’s characteristics is that it can only be understood by practical application.
So I experiment a lot. I’ve found that when I speak of others as being wrong, or doing wrong things, I can actually feel physical changes in my body, such as tightness, warmth, and neck tension. I used to drive my car by tensing my neck, but when I discovered how useless this was, I learned to be aware and then stop altogether.

There is another level beyond “change your thinking, change your life.” Whenever I am present, that is, mindful of whatever is present with me, the thinking mind stops. I am free of judgments, beliefs, and opinions. Everything around me just is. Then I am at peace. I can allow everything to be as it is.

In silence, in no thought, even as I am observing the situation from an accepting viewpoint, I am awake in Presence. I am beyond opinions of how things should be. I am neither for nor against anything. This is Peace.

The good news is, In the moments that I am watchful of my thinking, I stimulate the immune system, and the whole of humanity’s collective consciousness is that much closer to peace. It seems the more moments we spend in the Now, the more we slow the biological aging process. All we have to do is be aware of our thoughts, watching.

The Thinking Mind

Intelligence, or God, is everywhere in all existence as trees, flowers, clouds and you and me. Existence is always present. Existence is God. Just look around. See how Love is expressing right now as houses, people and cars. If you ever forget this Oneness of All There Is, you have only to remember and come back to whatever is in your present moment. The present, as God, never goes away. It is we who go away, almost continually. Where do we go? Into the thinking mind, where God is not.

I challenge you to wake up to the truth of a loving, accepting existence and be free of illness, living longer and happier lives. Truth is only in the present moment. All else is simply the remembered past or the imagined future. Neither is real. Past and future exist only in the thinking mind. You can only live in the present, where there is only awareness and no thought at all.

Humanity is awakening to its spiritual magnificence, right now, and so are you.