Shepherd of Souls #35

Listening to this might change your life. You can find it on iTunes. Some of the key phrases or words.

• CHANGE
  
• THERE IS NO QUICK FIX


• ROOT OF THE ISSUE
  
• INNATE NEED


• INABILITY TO GRIP REALITY


• WORRY OR FEARS


• AWARENESS OF OUR SELF

When your sick, you can mask it with a pill. The pill, has a side effect, that can quickly be remedied with another pill. But unless you get to the root of the issue, the physical problem will never be resolved and you will never be well, slipping into still more diseases until death.

I think the holistic health care part 2 hit right on target. We should want to resolve our suffering and that can only happen when we are curious about finding a deeper understanding and awareness of our self. Our whole self. Personalizing it, and coming to grip with reality. That takes courage, work, and someone you can trust to talk to. Doctor's do not have time for that.

You have been hearing the word change lately. Are you willing to change? The reason that some people will not change is because they want and need to be miserable. Maybe change means that they will now have to be independent and self reliant. It could be fear of rejection. I know a lady who's husband has been dead for many years. She is a shut-in by choice, lives within her memory. How can she be happy if he's gone? She is going down by choice.

We have an innate need to be comforted and fed, and all of us crave love. Yet, I know someone who does not let anyone touch him. Rather odd, his response. Why does he not let anyone near him? I've heard him say that he doesn't like people. Others in his occupation have said similar things. Aren't we called to love one another? Touching someone is a natural gesture. Are these people afraid of being loved? Or have they been hurt in their lives and the risk is too great, so its easier to live a lie. I believe that this is the chief reason why people are sick, they cannot come clean. Harboring is a self-poisoning. You have to love your life and, what you feel you are on the inside should reflect what you are on the outside.

Kim Ladue talks about the Twinkies, and the salad, an interesting analogy.

Not too long ago, we learned that a person had carried around for years the memory of having an abortion, which happened in her younger years. Think about the effect of that on your health. Can you tuck that away? (The fact is you cannot see what is on the inside of someone). Frankly, I do not believe that being unbalanced is mostly nutritional. While it is true that foods are being genetically produced, we have good choices non-the-less. Being all jumbled up inside is often the first place to look, and there is no quick fix. It was an interesting program, and I'm sure she will have people lined up at her door. So, take a deep breath, it begins there. Decide its time to make that change, because you deserve to be happy and healthy.

Fr. Peter ended with a very nice vocal selection entitled, "Healing Waters," for all of us who's "Soul is Screaming."

I remember another couple who became pregnant in high school, they were so much in love with each other. The parents separated them fast, he was going to Holy Cross to study to become a doctor. This devastated this girl's life. The problem was he was from a high class family, she lived in poverty.

It is said that poverty is just a state of mind. When you get lemons make lemonade. The people that said that was not poor. There is no accounting for the damage inflicted on the poor in terms of worry and fear.