When folks have pain that is not obvious to the outside world--an abscessing tooth, all-over body pain sometimes diagnosed as Fibromyalgia, MS, Migraines, Back Pain, whatever it might be, my experience has been that sometimes the person with the pain is discounted, not believed, and sometimes judged extremely harshly and unfairly.
Disbelieving doctors and other non-believers don't really mean to be so heartless, (I don't think,) but when they can't see a thing, they get frustrated and start believing that it is not real. Sometimes they even get into "shooting the messenger," the patient about it!
I have been there!! I have had this experience on several occasions in my life!
On occasion I have not trusted MY OWN perceptions about what is going on with me!
This can be an awful experience for those of us that have to walk through these kinds of circumstances--often with little support from others.
These kinds of experiences kept driving me inward and to alternative methods to find ways to manage pain and symptoms in an effort to limit the smack-downs that I have experienced more often than I care to remember when dealing with the mainstream medical community.
Like I've said a thousand times before, nothing happens by accident. I also believe we aren't meant to be destroyed, (I don't believe it is possible to destroy the essence of who we are)--even though it can certainly feel like this is exactly what is happening at times!
There is always a higher and greater purpose for all things that happen to us, even when those things can sometimes be very difficult to bear!
No Accidents! All is in Divine Order. Always the purpose of the difficulties in my life is about my practicing Going Within, Trusting my Inner Wisdom and Higher Guidance, actively working on healing myself, as well as seeking and advocating for the care that I need that I cannot do for myself.
Healing is my job. I am my Healing Team Leader. This is not any doctor's responsibility. But I certainly do need a team for my healing. It cannot just be my job, solely.
Some of us are here on the planet, in part, to step-up and teach the medical community, the DEA, the AMA, Pharmacies and Pharmacists how to deal with people with odd-ball afflictions with much more compassion and care!
Some of us are here to become empowered through our weak spots and grow.
Always, though, when we have made some headway on our Journey, God uses us in service to others that are still suffering in ways that we have or are suffering.
We are the very best teachers for what we are here on the planet, learning ourselves.
We can help another find the strength, the empowerment--even give them a literal hand to Step-Up in their lives.
This end result is the greatest and more heart-filled side effect from all the medical troubles I have experienced in my life.
I love my work. I do not like the struggles with often severe physical pain, with the heart aching pain of dealing with calloused professionals that do not know how to deal with that which they do not experience, with that which they fear and about which they feel so helpless to affect.
I am a teacher and I am a student. My job is to learn from all these personal experiences and share my journey through them. In these monumentally difficult experiences, I ALWAYS find the next step, the next level, the next piece...and The Peace rendering ALL of these experiences to be worth every part of the Journey.
I am also very good at walking beside others, helping others to discover, grow and embrace the difficulties and the gifts of their own Journeys.
Like I said, "I Love My Work!"
Love, Hugs and Blessings,
Barbara
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I understand the "not being believed". I've been there. Thankfully, I'm currently blessed to have physicians that "listen", and to have you as my friend to share your life lessons. If I can learn from you or someone like you, there is less pain in my journey.
ReplyDeleteI am glad we can help support each other! Thanks, Anita!
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Barbara
Very well said, Barbara. I believe that all of our struggles or challenges, as I like to call them, are just the lessons that we came into this life to learn. Some are much bigger lessons than others and take a lifetime for us to learn. I believe that once we learn the lesson that particular challenge goes away and others come along to take its place.
ReplyDeleteSome lessons start out small but because we resist learning them, the circumstances around the lesson gets bigger and bigger until we can no longer ignore or resist the learning of that lesson. This is what I have found to be true for me. Health issues are the hardest for me to get because of my own impatience and stubbornness.
I don't always recognize stress, I think, because I lived with constant stress as a child. Sometimes an illness comes along as the only way for my body to get me to slow down or to even stop in my moving forward. Sometimes my body just needs to stop, to rest, to take a break when my mind says keep moving, keep searching for the next new experience or next new knowledge. Sometimes my body is wiser than my mind. Again, just my thoughts. They may not be true for anyone else but they are for me.
Dealing with pain is the worst, especially when there seems to be no known cause for your pain. It is hard being at the head of the group before a label has been invented for what is going on inside of you. I do believe that we create our own illnesses, first, in our head before they move into our bodies. We don't do it consciously. We don't sit down and say, I am going to get sick today or tomorrow. I believe we do create our illnesses from our thoughts over time, slowly.
A friend believes that it takes 7 years for an illness to manifest inside our bodies from mental/emotional injuries that started outside the body in our etheric body. She says it takes 7 years to go from the etheric body thru our other bodies down to our physical body where the illness finally manifests itself. I trust her judgment about this. She has studied it a lot more than I have.
Thank you Barbara for being a teacher in my world. Your path of spirituality inspires me to continue on my spiritual path. You are a shining example for me and others to follow.
I totally agree with you and what your friend says, Patricia, about illness/physical difficulties happening in our energy field long before they manifest in our physical body.
DeleteI was literally "driven" for years. I was a single mom and I worried constantly about keeping a roof over mine and my children's heads. I drove myself unmercifully, trying to make sure that I had all the bases covered.
Eventually, a body just breaks down from all the hard work and the stress hormones constantly coursing through our bodies. It was definitely this way for me.
I had always had some back issues--from the time I was very young. I believe that I was born with them. But, driving myself, never giving myself a break, not listening to my body--eventually caused my body to revolt.
I had to have a spinal fusion surgery. Because I didn't learn my lesson immediately, I had to have a "fix" to one level of the fusion--a second major back surgery. I never totally recovered from that second surgery.
My body became a "pain body."
But, without these difficult experiences, I would have never begun the Journey Within. I would have never learned Meditation. I would never have learned to take care of me.
But, it is NEVER TOO LATE!
I have received many gifts through all of these experiences. Sometimes, though, I still have a great deal of pain.
Having compassion for me in it is one of the hardest lessons of all for me.
I am learning, though!
Thanks for your validations of me, my work and my beliefs! I am grateful for the feedback and the support, as we share our journeys!
Much Gratitude,
Barbara