Stepping off Life's Sad Merry-Go-Round

Our lives have sometimes been likened to the turning of a wheel which--makes progress only as the top of the wheel turning down--contacts the rough reality of the road and then--in still moving forward--returns again to the top and--sometimes we become mired in the memories of those down-turning times--maybe telling ourselves over and over something about that.

In attempting to form meanings about our feelings we--create images which evoke certain emotions and--sometimes the memories of experiences of fear or--of inadequacy and the consequent rejection--of the downturns of the wheel--and it seems that the mere expectation that past negative scenes could recur--in some disguised manner--gives them the power of self-fulfilling prophecies and--we can manifest bodily those fears which the recreated memory images recall and--cause within ourselves chronic discomforts and diseases--for some creative part of our minds has mastered the ability to--manifest these blocks to the moving energy in our bodies--as distortions into the physical of those negative emotions--echoes from long-ago scenes.

There are subtle conscious and unconscious links between our language and--how we feel--voice and thoughts through emotions telling our bodies how to react--body telling mind of its level of discomfort or harmony--and though some of us are super-aware of the thought-voice within which generates our sense of reality--others become aware only when it becomes intrusive like at times when we--want to sleep or meditate or--go into trance--for our minds communicate continuously--sometimes in the language of thoughts and images conveying--negative messages--creating feeling memories of the past--leading to stress or illness--yet there is a powerful truth hidden here--for if mind has the power to create disease and discomfort--even unconsciously--then mind has the power to heal.

And it is reassuring to know that a part of the function of our higher self is to let us know when things are not working--a sort of well-intentioned part that knows when we are doing something which--is not in our best interest--or when we are wanting to do something and yet--are not progressing in that direction--a part of self which knows absolutely how to--keep those lines of inner communication open--so that when a downturn of the wheel of life is attempting to convey to us useful information to be utilized in establishing a new relationship with ourselves--there is a trust in realizing our higher consciousness knows--that we can make necessary change and--when those changes need to be made to enable us to--continue moving forward toward a new level of balance--of wholeness.