"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
I was bit by a tick, and I got very sick.
But I was most likely bit a very long time ago and had been living blissfully unaware.
Until I became VERY aware.
I actually claim full ownership for what happened to me, just as I claim full ownership for how I healed/am healing.
Because viruses, bacteria and diseases live in all of us, every single day, all day.
So what’s the difference between someone who gets sick and someone who stays healthy?
If I get real about it: the variable was me.
I had become my own profoundly sick society.
My body was open for dis-ease, and so I became diseased.
My body was open for dis-ease because I was carrying an enormous amount of stress, and I had no idea how to ask for help, let alone receive it.
My body was open for dis-ease because I had resisted fully grieving several significant losses.
My body was open for dis-ease because I was addicted to playing the martyr and the victim.
My body was open for dis-ease because I was saying I wanted one thing but living in a way that would never be available for such a thing.
My body was open for dis-ease because I resolutely ignored the subtle warning shots it was sending me.
My body was open for dis-ease, and so I became diseased.
This is how it is for all of us.
We succumb when we reach our saturation points, of stress, of grief, of misalignment, of destructive habits…
This is when the body slams the brakes by breaking its own systems.
And it is not until we resolve the dis-ease within ourselves, that we can begin to move on from the disease that has taken up residence inside us.
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