Inner Life
The lyme road has many potholes and we find ourselves bumped around quite unexpectedly some times. Emotions such as fear, anxiety, despair, anger, and sadness can be overwhelming. They are also are natural and understandable, and although anyone who is experiencing this wide range of life changes would experience these, people with lyme and related illnesses carry emotional difficulties and psychiatric disorders as physiological symptoms grounded in physiological changes. Lyme and it's coinfections not only effect the muscles and joints but also the nerves, organs, hormones, and brain which can manifest in emotional and psychiatric ways. Personally, I found it very comforting to learn this because it helped me understand the nature of why I was behaving in such unexpected, unhealthy ways. My battle with anxiety and depression was frightening, confusing, and part of my infection. Never the less, perhaps the most critical facet of my healing program has been the attention I have paid to my inner life - my spiritual development - the part of me that can never be touched by illness. This, in concert with antibiotic and Chinese herbal medicine, has brought significant healing, greatly reducing the emotional symptoms, anxiety, and depression.
This part of the site offers a variety of poetry, quotes, music, meditation, guided imagery, and other resources to support and enrich the inner life.
Websites too Special to Ignore:
Planting Wisdom: http://plantingwisdom.org/
Selections to Inspire You:
Rumi; The Guest House
There really IS an app for that! iPhone and iPod apps for daily inspiration! Fun and enlightening!
Thoughts on Acceptance
Weekly Wisdom - Podcasts by Sounds True
Quotes to Help With Healing:
"We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
- Pema Chödrön (When Things Fall Apart)
"When the child of God looks into the word of God, and sees the son of God
He is changed by the spirit of God, in the image of God, for the glory of God." (from The Mirror of God's Word)
This part of the site offers a variety of poetry, quotes, music, meditation, guided imagery, and other resources to support and enrich the inner life.
Websites too Special to Ignore:
Planting Wisdom: http://plantingwisdom.org/
Selections to Inspire You:
Rumi; The Guest House
There really IS an app for that! iPhone and iPod apps for daily inspiration! Fun and enlightening!
Thoughts on Acceptance
Weekly Wisdom - Podcasts by Sounds True
Quotes to Help With Healing:
"We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
- Pema Chödrön (When Things Fall Apart)
"When the child of God looks into the word of God, and sees the son of God
He is changed by the spirit of God, in the image of God, for the glory of God." (from The Mirror of God's Word)