There are two very special people in Gommy and Grandpa Mikes' life that are seriously ill right now and we don't like it one little bit. It is never pleasant to face the reality that we are all going to leave or be left by people who mean so much to us. But what it does do is make us realize how important the people in our lives are and how every day that we are given is so important and how we shouldn't squander any of our days here on the planet or with the people who we will miss when they are gone.
Then Goms got to thinking about the Proverb in Luke 4:23, that says "Heal Thyself". But how do we heal ourselves? Well, the moral of that particular proverb is to attend to ones' own defects, rather than criticize defects in others. We can start with finding the 'spirit' within ourselves. To know if you are in touch with the spirit within, you will get the 'feeling' of your spirit when you are loving, or you are being creative and when you are happy.
The happy part is a process. There are actually 'happy hormones' that your body secretes when you ARE feeling happy. They are serotonin and dopamine. Those hormones are given to people with depression because they are re-uptake inhibitors to make them feel less depressed. Seretonin is even associated with self-esteem. Then the opiates your body secretes when you are in touch with your 'inner spirit' are the ones that make you feel high, like when you are running or exercising or having a sexual experience. And finally, the oxytocin is the hormone that makes milk come into a mothers' breast for feeding her baby..... but now they have found it is also produced during a sexual orgasm. And an added bonus......while all this is happening, you are actually regulating your immune system. So, if you internally induce a feeling of euphoria, you are healing yourself.....hence, the proverb 'Heal Thyself' is being honored. WOW...that is quite a lot going on just by getting in touch with your spirit. So don't think it is a bunch of hocus-pocus to get in touch with your spirit. We all have a spirit....we just have to get in touch with it more often.
One way to get in touch with our own spirituality is through our relationships. There is a theory that people we love and people we hate are all a mirror of ourselves. That is the paradox. We were attracted to people we are in a relationship with by the traits that we have of our own but we wish we had more of and likewise, people with traits that we dislike and have negative connotations are also traits we have ourselves and are a mirror to our inner 'us' as well. If you put all the traits you like and dislike in a circle.....you will find yourself right smack in the middle of the circle. You don't have to take Gommys' word for it....it just is. If we can just admit this fact...we can learn from it and be all the better for the learning.
So, as a fun and enlightening experiment, write down the traits you like and dislike in a person and you will find (if you are honest) that we all own both sets of traits. We can improve ourselves by working on the traits that are unpleasant.....Good luck....Have to go now..... UMMMMMMMMM, Gommy has some work to do!!!.....Hugs & Mush.....Goms
