They say that when we stay angry at someone or hold a massive grudge, we hurt no one but ourselves.
I’m reading this book by Caroline Myss and Norman Shealy called “The Creation of Health.” Norman is a western medicine based doctor and Caroline is more into the energetic side of how our body works. They wrote the book together in 1998 because Norman had worked together with Caroline and acquired a whole new insight into the way illness and emotion are linked.
There’s a whole chapter on how heart attacks happen- how all the people they studied who’d had a heart attack, had harboured feelings of resentment, anger and an inability to control their external circumstances for years. Like, decades.
In many cases, there was a link to an inability to forgive their family or themselves, which had created a huge block/fortress around their hearts, and the heart “attack” was literally the body’s way of breaking through the walls of fury to wake that person up into processing their anger and resentment.
Sometimes it feels easier to cling to how “awful they were to me” instead of letting it go and coming to peace with it. Maybe one way to think about it is “I couldn’t forgive them for what they did, but I can forgive them as a person”. A small distinction, but it goes some way to creating a doorway of peace for yourself 🙂
Happy Monday, you delicious apple pies. It feels like summer spirit, today!
PS I talk about energy and our body a lot- mostly because I’m interested in it (read: hugely fascinated), and partly because an awareness of how we feel and how it causes us to either become run down, unwell or sensitive to our environment/foods intuitively rings true for all of us (at least on some level :))
