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Healing and Transformation

Part II - Rebirth

From Martin Brofman, Ph.D., for About.com

I have transformed my way of Being. My lifestyle has changed dramatically. It no longer makes any sense to work in any nine-to-five job, or to call any other Being my superior, since we are all equal Beings with infinite potential.

The work I do now as a healer and teacher is meaningful to me, important to others as well, and of service to humanity, and I feel a high when I do it. I have a strong sense of doing my life's work. I know that I am doing what I came to this planet to do. I know it's right. It is not a feeling that I had had before.

The process of transformation is an integral part of the healing process, whether the Being is healing his/her vision or releasing some serious illness, and indeed also when the out-of-balance condition has not reached the physical level, yet still exists on the mental or emotional level. It is for those of us who recognize the process to encourage it, and assist it where we can, so that the planetary transformation now taking place within the individuals may be hastened, and made as gentle as possible.

Illness or injury shows on a physical level, metaphorically, what has been happening in the consciousness of the Being experiencing the symptoms. It is related to that person's way of Being. Once the elements of a person's Being that relate to their physical out-of-balance condition are identified, they can be changed, and health and balance on all levels can be restored.

When we see the physical body as a map of the consciousness that wears it, and always balanced to it, we can also see that a change in one implies a change in the other. When a healing happens, a change in personality may be expected to reflect the change in the physical Being, and vice verse. The new individual will have the same Essence of Being, yet with a different way of interacting with the environment, without what had been excessive tension for that individual.

It may seem as though the individual had awakened from a very real-seeming dream, and things will make sense in a different way. A perceptual filter will have been removed, a filter through which values had been determined, and without that filter, truer values will become evident. The new Being may even have different tastes in food and/or clothing, and different personal habits. It will be a welcome transformation.

Approaches to healing which consider the aspect of personality change, transformation, are keyed to the idea of an inner cause to any outer symptom. Without the inner changes, the symptoms may be relieved in the physical reality, but not yet the causes in the inner world, and the symptoms may get re-created again. The Being then considers that part of their energy system an inherent weakness, to be continually dealt with, until they can bring about the inner changes, after which the symptoms no longer manifest. After all, the symptoms were only necessary to give a message to the old Being. The new one, not having the built-in weakness, has no need of the symptom. As a matter of fact, the formerly weak part may even become the new Being's strongest part. Stories of formerly paralyzed patients who became Olympic stars are evidence of this.

When transformation is focused on in addition to other parts of the healing process, another dimension is added, to accelerate the healing.

The Human Energy System

In the energy system that we each are, the energy is in a constant state of flow. This flow of energy is regulated by seven energy pumps, called chakras. Each chakra represents specific emotions and levels of perception, elements of the Being's consciousness, and is also associated with specific parts of the body, specific functions within the body, specific endocrine glands, and specific nerve groups. Responses to a Being's perceived universe are reflected in the chakras as well.

The chakras have an optimal state of balance and flow. A healing of the individual balances the chakras. When this happens, in addition to restoring inner balance and a different state of consciousness, as well as physical balance, the rebalancing will also define different responses to the Being's perceived universe.

In other words, with a given state of balance of the chakras, a certain type of experience will be attracted to the individual, and certain types of people will be attracted, as well. When the energy changes in the chakras, as in a healing, the magnetic effect drawing a particular kind of person or experience is then released, along with the old way of responding.

For example, one Being, having different interactions with his/her mother may respond by blocking the chakra associated with security or trust. The effect would be insecurity as a perceptual filter. The individual would then attract precarious situations to justify the insecurity, as well as females who would remind that Being of his/her mother. When the chakra is cleared, the type of female formerly attracted would be attracted instead to other Beings with the same kind of blocked chakra as that formerly experienced by the Being who was healed, leaving room for interactions for that Being with females of a different energy. In addition, interactions with the mother-archetype will have a different resolution, more satisfying. Situations presented to the Being will also have more of a sense of solidity.

We can see, then, that not only do the chakras reflect the outer environment, but in a way they also create it.

With minor adjustments in a Being's energy system, only slight shifts in consciousness would be apparent. In the case of catastrophic illnesses, however, the Being was in desperate need of a major adjustment in consciousness, and then the aspects of transformation would be more profound.

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