Last weekend I heard a powerful story about very conscious woman who broke her toe. The toe was quite painful, and she was not able to walk. She was (understandably) upset, thinking about the lost opportunity to enjoy the lake for the rest of the summer. She thought, “I’m not going to be able to walk up and down the hill to the lake. I’m not going to be able to swim. It’s going to ruin my summer.”
She works with a nonphysical guide/teacher. He asked her, “Is the toe ruining your summer or are the fears about it ruining your summer? Can you simply remember the whole toe? All that’s happened are that certain molecules have separated. That’s all bone is; it’s molecules. The impact separated them. Now they have to remember that they belong together and re-adhere.”
He suggested she sing to her toe as she was lying on her bed with her foot elevated. While skeptical at first he says, “She began to just sing OOOOOMMMMM. OOOOOMMMMM. She began asking the toe in each moment, what tone do you want next? And offering the tones.”
She went to sleep that second night, and the third morning she woke up realizing that the foot really wasn’t very painful. He said, “It is knit. You can stand on it.” So she gingerly got out of bed and put her weight on it. It was tender, a bit, but not excruciating like a broken toe.
He said, “Wiggle it.”
Some wiggle. It wiggled without pain.
He said, “Just be careful with it because it’s still healing.”
The most amazing part of this story is his closing comments:
“There was nothing to be done. She simply allowed it to express its wholeness. So she did not fix the toe, she simply invited the toe to express its wholeness and got out of its way, in a sense.”
This idea has been part of my process for a good many years now. When I was learning Healing Touch, I remember Janet Mentgen saying our role as healers is simply to see the wholeness, in spite of the conditions. When I am most clear, this makes perfect sense to me. You know you are not just your body. Even scientists realize you are energy, and energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
In spite of the current conditions, at this very moment, you are whole. I am whole.
YOU are untouched by any trauma. I am untouched by any trauma. YOU are unscathed by any history. I am unscathed by any history.YOU are unmarred by any accident, illness, or injury. I am unmarred by any accident, illness, or injury.
What comes to mind most freely when you remember that we are just molecules?
It is the truth.
I am sure to be allowing this truth to permeate my heart and mind deeply over the next few weeks as I navigate the anniversary of the surgery that removed an abdominal mass. I know there is continued healing happening within and without.
I think I will be singing to my abdomen in the days to come.
I will start with one of my favorite songs, All is Well, by Karen Drucker….
