Friday 2 March 2012

Without fear and illness



“Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us”

Jonathan Miller.

Not everyone will agree with this.

“Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.”

Edvard Munch

“Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy”

Charles Fillmore




Just under four weeks now till I go back to Peru and Bolivia, and I've fallen under the spell of a virus.
A nasty virus.

I think I know why I've chosen this.
This is initially a very hard concept to accept. I almost always can see why others have got ill,what the illness allows them not to have to do, but it's hard to see and accept it in myself!

This virus, this 'spell' is allowing me the opportunity to see all my little ( and big ) fears about going to Bolivia, a very unstable country where traveling from A to B is not easy, and often dangerous. Antidotes to these fears are coming from unexpected sources, many from the Internet, many from waking dreams. I have a real mission to go there , linked to my screenplay, and thanks to this illness, I'm slowly getting the bigger picture.
I will get well!

And tonight I'll sit for half and hour ( realistically fifteen minutes) and forgive my neighbor for passing on her virus to me, through a kiss on the cheek. I will also forgive myself for being terrified of getting altitude sickness( again) in La Paz, and being eaten to death by misquotes in sub tropical Santa Cruz .



Para mis amigos bolivianos.
Este blog es difícil a traducir. Es sobre el concepto que debemos aceptar la responsabilidad para la creación o atracción de qualquier enfermedad. Creo que se enferman con el fin de aprender lo que necesitamos aprender. Y ese es siempre cosas de amor.

El lunes me puse muy enferma. Es simplemente un virus.
Tengo algunos temores acerca de mi próximo viaje a Perú y Bolivia. Tengo miedo de contraer la enfermedad de altura de nuevo en La Paz. Me doy cuenta de que tengo miedo de no ser capaz de adaptarse a un clima subtropical. Tengo miedo a los mosquitos
Así que ¿por qué voy a estos países?

Porque escucho mi voz interior que siempre me lleva en direcciones mágicos.

"Sin temor y de la enfermedad, yo nunca podría haber logrado todo lo que tengo."

Edvard Munch

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