Every symptom has a certain way of being with which it is
associated. In order to release a symptom, one must release the
way of being associated with it. Thus, the process of healing
implies a process of transformation.
Anything can be healed.
One or Two Months to Live
When I had terminal cancer in 1975, I had been told that I
had one or two months to live, and that the end might come very
suddenly, any moment, if I coughed or sneezed. I was faced with
a reality in which each day was possibly my last day, each hour
my last hour, and I recognized that for whatever limited time I
had remaining, I wanted to be happy.
Living a compromise made no sense to me. Since each meal was
possibly the last one I would ever have, I wanted to eat
whatever I had an appetite for, whatever my body was asking for.
It didn't make sense to me to eat food I didn't enjoy just
because someone else thought it would be healthy for me. Their
loving intentions were recognized, but I knew it was not my way.
My path to health had to include a sense of enjoyment in all
that I did, and I had to be true to myself, to be real. I had to
believe in the recovery process.
Reprieve!
Then, it was suggested to me that the cancer was the result
of a process that had been going on in my consciousness, and
that I could use my consciousness to get rid of it. My
consciousness had been the effect of programming, in the same
way that the results that a computer produces are the effects of
the way had been programmed. I could reprogram my consciousness.
I was presented with the idea that our perceptions create our
reality, and I realized that I had to reprogram my consciousness
to create the perception that I was well. I was not prepared for
such an abrupt shift from the perception of being terminally
ill, but I realized that I could much more easily create the
perception that I was getting better and better, until I was
indeed well.
I had had the perception that I was in a state of
deterioration, getting closer and closer to dying, and I knew
that if I were to have as the end result the perception that I
was well, I would have to change from getting worse and worse to
getting better and better. I also knew that the turn-around
could happen in any moment. It was a matter of turning a switch
in my mind, and insisting on knowing that it had been turned. I
decided that if the moment of change could be any moment, then
let it be now.
The Change
I felt a shift in my consciousness, and I knew then that I
was in a state of improvement. I also knew the importance of
maintaining the integrity of that decision, and of that moment.
I knew that all of my perceptions had to reinforce the idea that
I was now getting better and better. For example, I could remind
myself as I ate whatever food I wanted, that it was exactly what
my body needed to accelerate the healing process.
Physical sensations that felt like electric shocks in my
body, which before had reinforced the idea that the tumor was
growing, now had to be perceived as evidence that the tumor was
shrinking. My mind looked for more and more ways of knowing that
the improvement was happening.
I knew I had to stay away from those people who insisted on
seeing me as still terminal, not from any lack of love, but just
to maintain my own positive attitude toward my healing process.
I had to be with people who were willing to encourage me on this
seemingly impossible task I had set for myself. When I was asked
how I was doing, I insisted on answering, "Better and better,"
and seeing how that was, in fact, true.
I knew that it was vital to maintain the positive
programming, and that putting myself in a relaxed state of mind
and talking positively to myself for fifteen minutes, three
times each day, was a part of the programming process I should
in no way interfere with. There were temptations to not do the
relaxations, and then I would remind myself that my life was at
stake. Any temptation, then, was something that stood between me
and my life, and had to be removed, so that I could live.
Holding the Perception
At first, it was very difficult. I found that the integrity
of the moment of change was easily compromised, by my thoughts
or words acknowledging anything other than the idea that I was
improving, and I had to be honest with myself, and see that, and
then know that I had "blown it." Then, I could tell myself that
what had happened was just a practice run, and that the real
moment of change was now.
It got easier and easier. I was able to maintain integrity
for just hours at first, then a day, then two days, and then I
was solid. I knew the program was working. I was able to
recognize the doubting voice inside, and know that it did not
represent truth. I was able to identify with the encouraging
voice. It became my guide, leading me back to stable health. I
was more and more able to maintain the single-pointedness of
knowing that positive changes were happening. When I was not
feeling a symptom, I told myself that perhaps now I would never
feel that symptom again. If I experienced the symptom after
that, I told myself that the process was just not yet complete,
and that indeed I was feeling the symptom less than I had
before.
I had to know that positive changes were happening now,
possibly just at the threshold of notice-ability, so I could
eagerly anticipate evidence to justify my perceptions.
Naturally, I was always able to find something, and so assure
myself that it was not something I was just imagining, but real,
and more strength was added to the process.
The Program
During my relaxation periods, I imagined seeing the tumor
which had been located in my spinal cord in the neck, and
imagined that I was watching one layer of cancer cells dying,
and being released, to be discarded by my body's natural
elimination system. I knew that the change, perhaps not yet
noticeable, was still definite. I knew that each time I released
waste products from my body, the dead cancer cells were being
eliminated, and I reminded myself of that each time. I insisted
on knowing that it was true.
I knew that cancer represented something held in and not
expressed, and since the tumor was located by my throat chakra
(energy center), I had been holding back the expression of my
Being. Since I wasn't quite sure what that meant, though, I
decided that it was imperative that I express everything. Every
thought, every feeling, whatever was in my consciousness that
wanted to come out, I expressed, knowing that it was vital for
my health. Before, I had had the perception that expressing led
to discord, but now I saw that what I was expressing was
appreciated by those around me, that expressing and
communicating led to harmony.
Before, I had had the belief that if I expressed what I
really wanted to, something bad would happen. I had to reprogram
that to the belief that if I expressed what I really wanted to,
something wonderful would happen. I made that decision, and it
was so.
I found myself having less and less in common with my old
friends. It was as though we had shared a common vibrational
frequency before, say 547 cycles, whatever that means, and
suddenly I found myself at 872 cycles, having few things to
communicate with the 547-cycle people. I had to find new friends
who were also at 872, to have someone to talk with.
I found myself attracted to the 872 crowd, and them to me, as
though I had become selectively magnetic, and certain elements
of my reality were being released which were no longer in accord
with the new Being I was becoming. I knew the process was
inevitable, and should not be interfered with. I developed a
sense of compassion and understanding at that time. I knew that
my life depended on releasing all elements of my life not in
accord with my new vibration. The process was simple, though not
always easy.
I began each day as a process of self-discovery, with no
preconceived notion of who I was, yet with a willingness to
discover the emerging Being, and a sense of delight with each
new discovery.
I imagined the scene that would happen in the doctor's office
after my work on myself was done. I could see him examining me,
and finding no tumor, being puzzled. He might say, "Perhaps we
made a mistake." I played the scene in my mind each day, in my
relaxation periods.
I had heard that within the technology of mental programming,
if I talked to myself for fifteen minutes three times each day,
within 66 days, I could get myself to believe anything, and that
whatever I believed to be true, would be true.
About two months after I started working on myself, I went to
be examined by the doctor who had pronounced me terminally ill.
On the way to the doctor, I knew that I had to maintain the
perception that everything was all right. I replayed the scene
in my mind, knowing it would happen like that.
Finally, the moment of truth arrived. The doctor examined me,
and found nothing. He said, "Perhaps we made a mistake." I
laughed all the way home.
Transformation
I have transformed my way of Being. My lifestyle has changed
dramatically. It no longer makes any sense to work in any
nine-to-five job, or to call any other Being my "superior,"
since we are all equal Beings, and all with infinite potential.
I “retired” from Wall Street at the age of 38 with nothing but
the dedication to the idea of doing what I really want to do and
not doing what I really do not want to do, and trusting my trip,
listening to my inner voice. It’s a decision I have never
regretted.
With what I learned of the body/mind relationship from my
experience and the research I did during my own healing process,
I developed a model of healing as a way to organize in my own
mind what had happened for me, and what had worked.
I gradually became involved in healing others when conditions
seemed to demand that, and in doing that I saw more and more
examples of the body/mind interface covering many other
symptoms. The model of healing I was using became more and more
coherent and multi-dimensional.
I discovered the joy of sharing my experiences and ideas with
others, and watching them benefit as they put the ideas to work
in their own lives.
The work I do now as a healer and teacher is meaningful to
me, important to others as well, and is of service to humanity,
and I feel a "high" when I do it. I have a strong sense of doing
my life's work. I know that I am doing what I came to this
planet to do. I know it's right. It's not a feeling that I had
had before.
The process of transformation is an integral part of the
healing process, whether the Being is healing his/her vision or
releasing some serious illness, and indeed also even when the
out-of-balance condition has not reached the physical level, yet
still exists on the mental or emotional level.
It is for those of us who recognize the process to encourage
it, and assist it where we can, so that the planetary
transformation now taking place within the individuals
inhabiting it may be hastened, and made as gentle as possible.
Illness or injury shows on the physical level,
metaphorically, what has been happening in the consciousness of
the Being experiencing the symptoms. It is related to that
person's way of Being. Once the elements of a person's Being
that relate to their physical out-of-balance condition are
identified, they can be changed, and health and balance on all
levels can be restored.
When we see the physical body as a map of the consciousness
that wears it, and always balanced to it, we can also see that a
change in one implies a change in the other. When a healing
happens, a change in personality may be expected to reflect the
change in the physical Being, and vice verse. The "new"
individual will have the same Essence of Being, yet with a
different way of interacting with the environment, without what
had been excessive tension for that individual. In fact, they
will be more themselves, whom they really are.
It may seem as though the individual had awakened from a very
real-seeming dream, and things will make sense in a different
way. A perceptual filter will have been removed, a filter
through which values had been determined, and without that
filter, truer values will become evident. The "new" Being may
even have different tastes in food and/or clothing, and
different personal habits. It will be a welcome transformation.
Approaches to healing which consider the aspect of
personality change, transformation, are keyed to the idea of an
inner cause to any outer symptom. Without the inner changes, the
symptoms may be relieved in the physical reality, but not yet
the causes in the inner world, and the symptoms may get
re-created again. The Being then considers that part of their
energy system an inherent weakness, to be continually dealt
with, until they can bring about the inner changes, after which
the symptoms no longer manifest. After all, the symptoms were
only necessary to give a message to the "old" Being. The "new"
one, not having the built-in weakness, has no need of the
symptom. As a matter of fact, the formerly weak part may even
become the "new" Being's strongest part. Stories of formerly
paralyzed or injured patients who became Olympic stars are
evidence of this.
When transformation is focused on in addition to other parts
of the healing process, another dimension is added, to
accelerate the healing.
The Human Energy System
In the energy system that we each are, the energy is in a
constant state of flow. This flow of energy is regulated by
seven energy "pumps," called chakras. Each chakra represents
specific emotions and levels of perception, elements of the
Being's consciousness, and is also associated with specific
parts of the body, specific functions within the body, specific
endocrine glands, and specific nerve groups. Responses to a
Being's perceived universe are reflected in the chakras as well.
The chakras have an optimal state of balance and flow. A
healing of the individual balances the chakras. When this
happens, in addition to restoring inner balance and a different
state of consciousness, as well as physical balance, the
rebalancing will also define different responses to the Being's
perceived universe.
In other words, with a given state of balance of the chakras,
a certain type of experience will be attracted to the
individual, and certain types of people will be attracted, as
well. When the energy changes in the chakras, as in a healing,
the magnetic effect drawing a particular kind of person or
experience is then released, along with the old way of
responding.
For example, one Being, having different interactions with
his/her mother may respond by blocking the chakra associated
with security or trust. The effect would be insecurity as a
perceptual filter. The individual would then attract precarious
situations to justify the insecurity, as well as females who
would remind that Being of his/her mother. When the chakra is
cleared, the type of female formerly attracted would be
attracted instead to other Beings with the same kind of blocked
chakra as that formerly experienced by the Being who was healed,
leaving room for interactions for that Being with females of a
different energy. In addition, interactions with the
mother-archetype will have a different resolution, more
satisfying. Situations presented to the Being will also have
more of a sense of solidity, or the Being will have a new
perspective of confidence with which to resolve the situation..
We can see, then, that not only do the chakras reflect the
outer environment, but in a way they also create it.
With minor adjustments in a Being's energy system, only
slight shifts in consciousness would be apparent. In the case of
catastrophic illnesses, however, the Being was in desperate need
of a major adjustment in consciousness, and then the aspects of
transformation would be more profound.
Rebirth
While instantaneous change is always possible and available,
most people do not seem to be prepared for so abrupt a shift in
their way of Being. Gradual change seems generally more
comfortable for the Being involved, as well as for others in the
Being's environment.
With instantaneous change, there is the experience of sudden
clarification of what had been obscure, and a sense something
like what might be experienced by a Being suddenly finding
itself in a body, and watching a movie unfolding around itself,
a movie that had just begun. The Being would find itself as one
of the characters, with a sense of seeming to be different than
what the others seemed to see the Being as, and in fact, would
be very different. Others would be holding the perception of the
Being who no longer exists.
It would then be important for the Being to maintain his/her
new way of Being, the new sense of clarity or enlightenment (yet
possibly combined with the confusing sense of sudden newness),
and establish quickly the way in which things make sense in the
new reality, the new paradigm, with new perceptions. The new
Being would have to see its relationship to the old Being's job,
surroundings, home, partner, etc., and evaluate which aspects
worked harmoniously, and which parts would have to change in
some way.
In the case of a Being who had had a serious illness, and who
recognized the relationship between lifestyle and the physical
symptoms, there would have to be a willingness to change all
aspects of the lifestyle that did not result in happiness,
because it would be clear that it was those aspects which were
directly related to the illness It would be clear as well that
to not bring about the necessary changes would be to recreate
the symptoms of the illness.
When it becomes a matter of life and death, the choice
becomes a clear one, and simple, although not always easy.
Interactions
To those people close to the Being, it could be a very
confusing time, as well. It could seem as though the person they
had known the Being to be, had suddenly changed in a way, gone
crazy. Habitual patterns of behavior and responding would
suddenly no longer be there, and it could be very confusing. For
the Being's health and well-being, however, they would have to
be totally supportive of the new Being, since attempts to
re-create the old Being would be perceived by the Being involved
(correctly) as a threat to its health, and perhaps even to its
life.
There must be a willingness to adapt to the Being's new way
of Being.
Gradual change is easier for most people, but it must be
emphasized that the magnitude of the gradual change is no less
than that of immediate change. It is just spread out over a
longer period of time. The same issues must be examined. The
same changes must be made. In addition, the Being must maintain
a single-mindedness of purpose, and stay on purpose, with a
total willingness to release all aspects of their life which are
stress-related, and all patterns of interacting which are not
success-oriented, until life is again harmonious, and the body's
state of health and well-being indicate that the Being has
returned to balance, and may now identify with the way they are.
The transformation and healing will then be complete.
Anything Can Be Healed!
When an individual who has been out of balance has made the
decision to return to balance, they must make it a high priority
project. Nothing else must be more important. Particularly in
the case of a catastrophic illness, the return to health
necessarily becomes more important than family, friends, or job.
When there has been the recognition of a path to health, nothing
must interfere with that path. The development and maintenance
of a positive mental attitude is imperative.
Each of us is a self-organizing autonomous system of
consciousness. Each of us is an energy system. Energy flows
through our Being, and is directed by our consciousness. This
energy is in a state of movement, flow, and in a healthy
organism the energy is harmonious, and flows smoothly. When the
flow of this energy is blocked or interrupted, it is experienced
by the organism as an imbalance, and the organism's tendency is
to return to balance and harmony, to return to health. This
tendency toward harmony is an aspect of love.
All illness, all injury, is energy blocked or interrupted, or
a call for love. Each of us, including you, the reader, has the
ability to sense energy, detect it, and direct it.
Ultimately, any energy block can be released by your
consciousness. It is not a question of whether it can be done,
but rather how it can be done.
Within your Being, within your consciousness, is the ability
to love, to perceive without judgment or expectation, to care.
You have a potential for infinite love, whether or not you
choose to recognize it, and whether or not you choose to
manifest it. In fact, this love is the very nature of your
Being.
You have the ability to love wherever there was a perception
of a lack of love, or a call for love. Love heals.
You have in your consciousness the potential and ability to
heal anything, on any level, in yourself as well as in any other
Being, since it's all just love and energy. What remains is for
you to realize this fully and actualize that potential.
Anything can be healed.
You can heal anything.
Copyright 1988 Martin Brofman
http://www.healer.ch
About The Author
Martin Brofman, PhD, created the Body Mirror System of
Healing, and A Vision Workshop, as the result of his research
into the body-mind connection, and from what he learned healing
himself of terminal cancer in 1975. He has been working with and
teaching these methods around the world since that time. He is
the author of Anything Can Be Healed, and Improve Your Vision,
both published by Findhorn Press. His self-help books have been
translated into ten languages.
He is the founder and director of the Brofman Foundation for
the Advancement of Healing, dedicated to promoting healing in
the world, and coordinating the activities of the various
instructors teaching his methods. He believes and works with the
idea that we are all healers, and that anything can be healed.
Healing
and Transformation