Canadian Health Care Mall Blog: Undoing
UNDOING BY DRAWING
Drawing, like writing and imaging, has the power to Undo and to heal. In this case we advise that you go directly to the asthma and draw it. Whereas in chapter 6 you drew the asthma in order to Focus, now you draw the asthma with the intention of Undoing it. Drawing sets up lines of communication that bypass ordinary thinking and relate new messages to the body-mind.
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In the “Decreating by Drawing" exercise you spend fifteen minutes drawing the asthma — whether that’s the way you feel and look when you have an attack or a symptom or the symptom itself as an abstract shape or form. Then you find a way to contain, reverse, or eliminate it. This work is for your eyes only. Express yourself freely. Let go of your expectations of what this should look like. Intellectualizing and analyzing have no place in this process — they get between yourself and your drawing experience. This technique serves as a reminder to your body of what you want — to release, to reverse, to Undo the asthma. There’s no need to be a “good” artist or to make an acceptable representation.
Traditional Western medicine has used this technique for centuries as a healing treatment. Equally valuable for children and adults, it is something anyone can do and have FUN with. One woman, whose disease appeared as a giant, dark weight on her chest, had a band of angels come and carry it away. As they lifted the weight, she immediately began to experience a sense of relief and release, both physically and emotionally. Another person drew his face as red and contorted during an attack. Then he drew himself smiling, laughing, and breathing freely. Both kept their drawings where they could easily see them. During the next few weeks they used them as reminders of the intention to break free of the debilitating symptoms of asthma.
Just as drawing can be valuable, another deeply healing element of natural medicine has always been dreams. If you want to become your own authority, one of the first places to look is the wisdom of your dreams. In this next section we introduce you to the dream process and lead you through an intriguing technique for Undoing those dreams that disturb you. Everything you have learned up till now is embedded in this one process — Focusing, belief work, imagery, art, writing, and an expanded sense of awareness. All this and more come together in a tapestry, uniquely your own, once you begin to work with your dreams.
CREATING YOUR OWN DREAM MEDICINE
Dream life is the natural arena for dealing with the dynamics of life, inner and outer, and how they affect us. In the symbolic world of dreams we have a level of flexibility ... lacking in the outer world. We have also in the inner life a greater potential for resolution. Whether in the inner or outer life it is the lack of resolution which hangs us up.
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