Well, I am happy to report I have found my way back to my blog. I recently lost connections and couldn't find my way back to update my blog. I warned everyone when I started I didn't know how to do blogging--but I am learning. So on with today's blog:
Just as many of us of were, I was saddened to hear of the death of Dana Reeves, the widow of actor Christopher Reeves, who I enjoyed as Superman and whose tragic horse-riding exercise put him in a wheelchair. She had announced a year ago that she had lung cancer, although she didn't smoke. She fought her disease but finally passed and joined her husband, leaving behind a thirteen-year old son.
For us in the spiritual community, we are aware that disease is often symptomatic of a larger problem -- indeed this is why we refer to disease as "dis-ease" for we become ill at ease in our life about one of many possible things and let this fester in our souls until it finally takes hold of the physical body.
Therefore we often look at what type of sickness it is -- or where the pain physically is, when talking or looking at dis-ease. For example, if one gets a sore throat perhaps this is because we are not speaking up about something or are afraid to speak up. Chronic neck pain may point out that we are burdening ourselves with too heavy a load without help. Or we're simply letting someone near to us affect us and we think of them as a 'pain in the neck.'
While I was indeed sad about Dana Reeves, I was not surprised like so many others, that she had gotten lung cancer. For the lungs are where the heart is and Dana was simply heartbroken for losing her beloved husband, Christopher. The lungs are also where the breathe of life is and Chris was her breathe. He had problems with his own breathing when he became injured and again this is area where Dana had her dis-ease. Once we understand the spiritual relationship of the mind and the spirit to the body, it isn't hard to see how she got lung cancer as opposed to another type of dis-ease.
Of course this is only a spiritual interpretation and my own opinion. But to me it makes sense.
I know for my own life, I can make myself sick easily by becoming too stressed out, and have landed in the hospital as a result of not listening to my inner voice when it cried out for rest. It has been proven and is well documented that emotions do affect the body and has been known to create illness. Therefore it is prudent to check in on our emotions and see how we are coping and relating to the world in order to stay healthy. Many believe this is where all dis-ease starts--within our souls and mind.
Chris and Dana are now together in a better place, where he can walk and they both can 'breathe' easier. Both were wonderful, brave people who dearly loved each other and they will be missed.
Let us remind ourselves of their courageous journey and the way they lived their lives, devoted to one another, as we live our own lives. Let them be an inspiration to us. I know they have been for me. When I was in that hospital bed, I saw an interview with Christopher Reeves and thought to myself that if he had the courage to be all he could be despite his condition, I needed to be willing to do the same. He helped me get well with her courage--indeed he was Superman. And Dana's devotion to her husband makes her a very super woman too.
While I know their spirit lives on, their physical presence in the world will indeed be missed.
Stay healthy and until next time,
Blake Cahoon
Sunday, March 26, 2006
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