Laura Cerwinske, 2011
ANGER, SORROW, ACHES AND
PAINS?
HOW RADICAL WRITING CAN REVEAL – AND HEAL --
YOUR PHYSICAL BODY
In
a beautiful college commencement speech several years ago, the
entrepreneur-turned-environmentalist Paul Hawken offered these profound and
inspiring words.
The
first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its
direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing
molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono.
We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because
the dream of every cell is to become two cells. And dreams come true. In each
of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your
body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in
hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of
processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human
body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with
twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times
more processes than there are stars in the universe, which is exactly what
Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living
creature was a "little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating
organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven."
From
this we are reminded that the healing process, an idiosyncratic manifestation
of physical, emotional, and spiritual energies, is as unpredictable and
individual as it is exquisitely organized. Healing can begin at any site of
mind or body and at any point in the cycle of Creation and dis-integration. Any
puncture or “hole” in our well-being—whether physical, emotional, or
spiritual—leaks life force from our whole being. By restoring any aspect of our
being, we increase our wholeness, that is, improve our integrity, our health.
In metaphysical terms, to make whole is to make holy, and to make holy is to
heal.
A
Course in Miracles teaches that “Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let
illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions,” The creative writing course RADICAL WRITING guides us in identifying not only the underlying sources of
our anger, sorrow, aches and pains, but also give us a means to safely bring
them to light and heal. When the teacher and medical intuitive Caroline Myss was asked during an
interview on the subject of health and healing about why people heal and why
they don’t, she responded, “Have
you ever thought about the role of truth when it comes to healing? How can a
dishonest person heal?”
To
consciously deal with feelings, we can either write about them to see where the
discomfort leads, or we can write about how unprepared we feel to deal with
them. It is perfectly acceptable to be physically or emotionally unable to
handle a subject. It is not bad, wrong, or a failure of any kind because it is
simply the truth of our position at that moment. And that very truth, in and of
itself, is liberating...and therefore healing.
Learn more: http://www.radicalwriting.com
and see Laura's earlier blogs on writing, creativity, and healing here
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