I have a problem with IM in the sense that I have trouble accepting that abused children were responsible for attracting their abuse. I would appreciate some clarity on that one.
One the idea of being responsible for illness, I have less of a problem. It is widely acknowledged that certain diseases are exacerbated by emotion, e.g. stomach ulcers, heart conditions are known to be made worse by prolonged stress. And I believe that we are responsible for our emotions.
My take on illness is that repeated negative emotions or thoughts (often subconscious) disrupt our energy systems. In the short term, this isn't noticable and the energy body can repair itself. However if these patterns continue, they lodge in the physical body.
The body then draws attention to these problems by subtle signals, headache, soreness, a small patch of dry skin, sleeplessness, tightness in the chest etc. However, we are conditioned to ignore this and try to battle through. We take a painkiller to kill the message our body is giving us rather than deal with the source of the problem. We take a sleeping pill to knock ourselves out. If the emotional distress gets stronger, we perk ourselves up on caffeine, chocolate, alcohol, nicotine, etc or distract ourselves by filling our lives up with meaningless junk. The body then tries to signal more and more that something is wrong, and more does become wrong as pathways block, hormonal feedback loops go haywire and a downward spiral starts.
(I also believe there is an environmental problem here due to the amount of toxic chemicals in the environment compared with only 150 years ago. Our physical and energy bodies simply can't cope with the continued disruption (caused by pesticides, pollution and electro-magnetic waves etc) and so don't right themselves naturally, especially if there is additional emotional distress).
I say this as someone who ignored my body's subtle messages for years and only took notice when my body started screaming at me to 'DO SOMETHING!' This is what set me on the path to understand that I am responsible for the emotions I have suppressed that my body is desperately trying to get me to deal with.
I have eliminated many physical problems I had purely by working on an emotional level where conventional medicine failed - conditions such as backpain, RSI, bronchitis, asthma and hayfever (still working on eczema).
I think the problem is that we aren't taught to manage our emotions and energy systems as part of our schooling. We are taught to pretend we don't care when we are upset, tough it out, block it down. This supression of emotion is what I think caused me years of illness. It took a long time to find what the emotions were as they were so buried, I didn't even know they were there. It's been trial and error learning how to release emotions and blocked energy in a healthy way and I only wish this information was widely available.
So going back to the LoA - yes I believe I attracted my illnesses due to the specific unresolved emotions I had, which blocked my energy system and caused a physical issue. This is why it is important to deal with emotional upset as soon as possible, because once it becomes lodged in the physical body and starts to cause physical problems not only do you have to deal with the emotional issue, but the physical body needs to physically heal aswell.
I think you really do attract what you focus on.  |