Rather than rejoicing, he was depressed because in the same breath, the doctor had informed him he could not fly a plane anymore. Spend sometime this week putting together your own list of blessings in your life. Then rummage through all facets of your life and jot down everything you are grateful for. Use this list by rereading it each day, and add to it as you grow in gratitude. Life on earth is much too short to be spent closed off to the gifts we are given.
Appreciation opens our hearts and spirits to a greater expression of life.
Now I have the potential to consciously intervene in the system myself, to take an active role in my own healing. I'm both powerful and more responsible in creating the health I experience than the dumb machine I used to think I was. Christopher Columbus created an enormous paradigm shift when he rose above the level of thinking that existed at the time and showed that the world was NOT flat. According to Eastern wisdom, everyone has an aura, a field of this energy surrounding the physical body, and flowing through it as well, traveling along lines called meridians by the Chinese or radiating out from the seven body centers called chakras by the practitioners of yoga. Westerners even have a version of it in Christianity, as the halo surrounding the crown of the head, often depicted on saints and angels in medieval art.