The "Law of Empathy for Health and Well-Being" (Anne Naylor, HuffPo)

[OneGrassRoot]

Last week, I started reading "Living the Spiritual Principles of Health and Well-Being" by Drs. John-Roger and Paul Kaye soon to be released with book signings in Europe.

The book offers practical wisdom presented in several sections. One section that particularly fascinated me is "Causes and Cures of Disease." Many illnesses have an underlying emotional disturbance causing them, and in my own experience, that has certainly been the case. I hasten to add that blaming an emotional response for an illness does not further health and well-being. Quite the reverse.

In the book, one of the causes attributed to disease is fear. Its cure is empathy. What if there were no real source of fear, although the feeling of fear is real enough? Your mind and emotions create the feeling of fear through imagining, for example, the worst possible outcome. You may be drawn to news items which focus on negative scenarios. News agencies make their profit through our attraction to drama and what a friend calls "awful-ization." It is your thoughts about a situation that produce feelings of fear.

One of my most memorable experiences of fear was the first time I was in an earthquake, in Carpenteria, California. I was on my own in a fairly large house which we had rented for a few months. When the earthquake was happening and the house was rolling around (well constructed for earthquake conditions) I enjoyed the movement. I was in bed around 4:30 a.m. When the movement stopped and my mind started imagining what might have happened if ... the walls had come down, glass had fallen all over me, I ripped in to my feet with broken glass and so forth, I felt really scared. I was more shaken by my thoughts about it than by the event itself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-naylor/understanding-the-law-of-_b_736061.html


Interesting. :)

[JanusAscending]

1. This is sooooooo me!

I have survived MORE tragedies, many times daily, every day of my life, for as long as I can remember, and been terrified and "frozen" by fear more often,than anyone else I know!! NONE of which ....ever.....happened! 'cept in my own imagination! That wonderful imagination that usually an "only child" is given. That imagination that could make me a million bucks if I were a writer and put it to positive use!! I got more than my share of the "laziness" "underachiever" genes from my "dreamer" Dad I'm afraid!! The strength and determination I got from my practical, hard working Mom. She was a woman of Faith. My Dad dreamed of castles in the sky. Here's hoping they were able to meet halfway, and are eternally together!

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Wow, thanks, I can definitely relate and need to read this book.

Thanks for posting!