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It Isn't "Woo-Woo" Anymore!
The Four Lower Bodies
 
It Isn't "Woo-Woo" Anymore!

Twenty-something years ago when I started meditating in an effort to get a handle on stress, I didn't call it meditation. The word "meditation" had an Eastern ring to it and was regarded by many as somewhat suspect and mysterious. Maybe even "of the devil." I was suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis at the time and desperate for something to do besides poison my body with drugs. I had attended a stress seminar at a hospital and was told that "the best thing to do for stress is to sit in a chair with your eyes closed for ten minutes twice a day." I had heard about Dr. Herbert Benson's book The Relaxation Response which said pretty much the same thing and was backed by medical studies, so I started sitting in that chair.

That simple act allowed Spirit to come through and for the first time in my life I began to realize that I didn't have to do some of the things I had been doing in an unsuccessful attempt to please other people. I had forced my Higher Self to whack me over the head (and hands and feet and knees and shoulders) with a "chronic and incurable" dis-ease because I had ignored all the other signals they sent me; I couldn't ignore pain and inflammation!

Sitting in a quiet place was my first step on the spiritual path. It led me to explore astrology, tarot, numerology, channeled teachings, and a whole raft of alternative healing modalities. I really enjoyed learning about these new (to me) things, but because they weren't exactly understood and appreciated by some of my friends and family, I called them "w.s." - short for "weird stuff." This rather humorous put-down of options that actually seemed to be helping me made it go down a little easier. The more I studied and applied alternative teachings and healings to my life, the better I felt. Diving deep into past life experiences which led to forgiving my mother made a difference in a way that no pharmaceutical drug could. I discovered Louise Hay's list of emotional and spiritual causes of illnesses along with affirmations to retrain my destructive thinking patterns. Chipping away at a centuries-old crust of anger and resentment around my soul took me about 15 years. Finally, in July of 1997 I was victorious when I took my last prescription drug.

My studies of alternative modalities and how they worked led me into the fascinating world of quantum physics. I read and re-read books like Fred Alan Wolf's Taking the Quantum Leap. Could it be true that physicists, of all people, had come up with an explanation for what I had done? According to quantum mechanics, which first came into being about a century ago, experiments with atoms and electrons seemed to prove that human beings can affect physical matter with their thoughts and emotions! This astounding possibility was exciting to me - to think that there might be science behind what I had done, that it wasn't just "Woo-Woo," as my sister called it.

I read the works of other respected scientists and physicians who were bridging the gap between psychics and physics - Gregg Braden, Richard Gerber, Jose Silva, Caroline Myss, James Oschman, Peggy Phoenix Dubro and David LaPierre, William Tiller, Drunvalo Melchizedik. Studies on the effectiveness of prayer by Larry Dossey demonstrated the undeniable power of human intention when focused on an ailing body. The outdated Newtonian physics I had studied in school regards all visible things as being inert objects, subject only to mechanistic laws. Now I was learning that the discovery of the holographic and vibrational nature of the universe was eclipsing Newton, that everything in our world is a physical manifestation of divine quantum energy which has consciousness. Imagine a book called Physics of the Soul by Amit Goswami, Ph.D.!

In How To Know God Deepak Chopra wrote that if all the electrons in the atoms of what looks to us like solid matter were compressed down, they would take up only 0.0001% of the volume of the material. I had to put the book down and think about what this meant. It means that 99.9999% of a rock or a steel beam - or my body - is not solid matter at all. It is space, energy, vibration, CONSCIOUSNESS! A steel beam has consciousness? A rock has consciousness? The human body is made up of consciousness? Yes, that is exactly what it means. I lapped it up.

The practical application of this concept explains how I have driven a chronic and incurable disease out of my cells with conscious intent, by changing old thought patterns and emotional responses, by re-membering who I really AM. I now know without a doubt that our bodies are vibrating in tune with our thoughts and we are creating them moment-to-moment with every thought we think and every feeling we feel - or refuse to feel. This is not woo-woo, it's physics! The more the physicists study the structure of our physical world, the closer they come to understanding how we both create and heal dis-ease. When I was wallowing around in those old habits of anger and resentment, my body had no choice but to attack its joints, to create pain, inflammation and deformity. When I learned to forgive, to love myself and love my body, it had no choice but to let go of the pain and inflammation, to heal.

It isn't woo-woo anymore. It's science. It's physics. It works!

 
The Four Lower Bodies
Lois M. Grant, Ph.D.
It is common knowledge in metaphysical circles that while we are on the planet we are a fragment of Spirit inhabiting a physical vehicle which carries us around while we learn the lessons of the physical plane. What is not so commonly known is that we actually are walking around inside four lower bodies: physical, etheric, mental and emotional. An extremely complex and inseparable energetic matrix interconnects these vibrating holographic bundles of electromagnetic energy. They work together, continuously communicating with each other; what happens in one body affects the other three. If one of the four lower bodies is the site of distress, this distress is keenly felt by the others. We cannot enjoy well-being if any one of our bodies is functioning in a less than healthy way.

Because we can see and feel it, the Physical Body is universally acknowledged as being “real.” This collection of energy vibrates slowly so that its density can function on the Physical Plane and it acts as means of transportation for the other three bodies. Because most people know nothing of the other three bodies, in our culture it is common to believe that the Physical Body is who we really are.

The Etheric Body is a fine web of electromagnetic energy which closely surrounds the Physical Body. Electromagnetic Life Forces from the outer Universe are fed into the physical body through this web. We use the etheric body to tap into the Unified Field of Consciousness and to communicate with Spirit. If we block messages from Spirit, there will be energetic congestion in the Etheric Body.

The Mental Body is associated with the physical brain as well as our actual thought processes. The lessons we learn during a lifetime are processed here, along with academic learning. When the lessons generate negative thoughtforms which are not resolved, negative energy takes up residence in this body instead of moving through it, and mental energy clogs up.

The Emotional Body is involved with our feelings, our most powerful energetic force. Emotional hurts are experienced here - let's call them “emotionforms.” If emotional pain is not consciously acknowledged and released, emotionforms stay in the Emotional Body and it bogs down.

The four lower bodies are indivisible and of equal importance, but it is interesting to note that the well-known metaphysical phrase “body, mind and spirit” acknowledges the existence of only three lower bodies. Somehow the Emotional Body is not included. This reflects how even more so-called “enlightened” folks still prefer not to deal with their emotions. I think this is because it can be very scary to get in touch with old emotional pain.

An unpleasant event, such as being physically or emotionally hurt by a parent, reverberates throughout the system. The Physical Body hurts where the pain was inflicted and effects can be visible. The Mental Body thinks something like, “There must be something wrong with me or this wouldn't have happened.” And the Emotional Body recoils with fear, resentment, or self-hatred. Such injuries can be healed if comfort and support are given at the time. But if the comfort and support are unavailable, which is usually the case, repetition of hurtful incidents over time will burden the four lower bodies, eventually manifesting as physical illness, depression or the general inability to live an effective life.

In our culture when a person has an illness, all efforts to heal the condition are typically centered on the physical body. The body’s symptoms are beaten into submission with drugs and/or surgery and relief is often achieved - for a time. Dealing with the physical body is essential, but if that is the only area of concentration, complete healing cannot be achieved. Some people seek to understand their problems intellectually by undergoing counseling or psychoanalysis which help the mental body to heal. But if the emotional body is ignored, the problems can only come back. One of my clients was about to leave the planet after enduring over a dozen surgeries. I told her, “You can heal your body with love.” While she thought I was nuts, she decided to give it a try. Now, three years later, she has recreated her life and her body by getting in touch with the old, painful feelings in her emotional body, releasing boatloads of destructive emotionforms from this and other lifetimes, and learning to love her Self and all four of her Bodies. She's a walking miracle and in her newfound strength she is leading others to wholeness.

Many of us, especially men, are trained to deny our feelings. Little boys are told, “big boys don't cry.” Since their feelings aren’t acceptable, they learn to stuff them deep inside the emotional body. It is not easy to dig down, bring up this old stuff, feel it and let it go; some are afraid that if they feel what they have been repressing, it will kill them. Yet it is essential to do this work - and it is work! - if one is to fully heal the physical vehicle. We can only heal what we can feel. Big boys need to cry!

Compassionate counselors create a safe place for feelings to be felt, processed and released. Tears that have been repressed must be expressed. Negative thought- and emotionforms can be transformed and replaced with love to transform dysfunction into proper function and enhance the ability to live life from a place of joy.

Lois Grant is a Practitioner of Self-Discovery, Author, Counselor, Teacher.
Website: www.angelicble.com She can be reached at 404 252-8525
 

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