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Daily Divine: What is spiritual illness?

7/14/2016

A while back I was wrestling with some deep emotional loss, and I found myself sick for four days.

Now, there was nothing physically wrong with me.
I didn’t need to go to the doctor. I didn’t need medicine. I didn’t have musical aches or an upset stomach or the sniffles. In fact, there was no outside sign of illness.

But in my spirit self, in my inner world… I was wiped out.

For whatever reason, the Divine took me down… so much so that I was almost unable to function.

I cleared my schedule I took a nap each day: not a short power nap, but a long, dream-filled, down-for-the-count nap. And after the nap, I went bed early where more dreams awaited.

During this time, my experience was almost as if I were pinned to the bed. It was as if the Universe had wrapped me up in sheets and blankets. Swaddled me so tight that I couldn’t move.

I was paralyzed by the need to rest and sleep and rest some more. I could not read, I could not write, I could not focus on computer.

I didn’t feel like talking; the best I could do was tell my family “I need to rest” or "I am resting" and then I drift back into dreams.

And those dreams! Here was where the Divine was working on me, healing me, opening me, expanding me. The dreams were huge: intensive, unfathomably detailed downloads; clear visions and messages, everything so rich and full and complete in the moment, even though I cannot remember them now.

At the time, during the dreams, I knew: this is important, this is crucial, I am receiving what I need to know. I am being awakened, I am being expanded. I must rest, so that this work will be accomplished.

Sometimes, in spiritual awakening, the Divine knocks us out so that they can work on us without our getting in the way.

We call it illness.

But it is often not physical but spiritual illness: awakening disguised as illness, so that we will slow down and rest enough, to receive what we really need.

Much love,
SARA

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14 Comments

Michele S

7/15/2016 10:32:05 am

SARA! This is so uncanny. I too have had a similar experience in the past 2 weeks. I was run down, tired, low energy, discouraged, just plain, old stuck in muck. I kept saying and asking for peace, time to clear my mind, get back on track. I struggled to make this happen oftentimes giving way to "things that needed to get done." So the Divine Universe knocked me off my pins! I had a cycling accident and landed in the hospital for 3 days and home from work for 10 more days. This time has been an awakening for me on many levels and has allowed me to be open and to hear what I am to do. It has been a fantastic experience and my challenge now is to continue this openness and allowing, and containing the amount of time/energy I spend on "being productive" checking things off a To Do list!

Sara

7/16/2016 06:38:46 am

Yes, you quite directly asked for some time at home, and this is how it showed up.

Next time, create the time you need without having to be in a bike accident!

See if you can allow yourself this gift. People get so trapped by the idea they must always be busy. Yet this is not so; we are not meant to be doing and going all the time.

Glad you are better!

Rick Atteo

7/15/2016 10:44:08 am

HI Sara........... I guess it's important to realize that even with your tremendous success & connection to Spirit ... you ARE still human and DO have challenges & take it all in stride.... I'm glad you are accepting of it all. I found it interesting how you recalled how vivid & detailed the dreams WERE but didn't remember them... I've been there too recently... I just surrender to the "whims" of time to rest or be still or whatever. I told you some months ago, when I called in, how I lost the love of my life in Nov 2015.... It totally devastated me AND opened me up to a journey of discovering how consciousness CONTINUES and so does our love ..... BUT at times... I just remember the loving memories and life feels pretty senseless or lacking soooo much purpose without her. I am not "pushing" to die but I wouldn't fight it..... I'd be with her.... AND I try to balance all these deeeeeep feelings & memories with remembering to LIVE NOW and to feel blessed with each moment & experience as being SACRED. We're all here in physical bodies doing our own "stuff".... I remind my self" It isn't happening TO you it's happening FOR you. All in all, I bless my contact with you & commend your successes and growth... Peace & love to you as well. You ARE inspiring in your books, your courses & your Daily Divine. Much appreciated....
(Yeah, you remember me ! ! The article on hypnosis you wrote for the Statesman Journal at Halloween in 1991 or 1992 and some subsequent hypnosis sessions you experienced with me).

Cricket link

7/15/2016 11:13:03 am

Thank you for permission to not have to label the energy with physical body stuff, to allow for it to be & to nurture it with rest. I needed this today. xoC

7/16/2016 06:48:12 am

Yes, thank you Cricket.

How interesting it would be, if instead of saying "oh, I have a cold," we instead were able to say "Oh, I'm mad at my boss," or "Oh, I am repressing my need for creativity," or "Oh, I need to sleep and dream."

Understand the emotional and spiritual need more clearly.

7/16/2016 06:44:42 am

Hi Rick; it's great to hear from you again.

I think grief takes a lot of time.

This love was a Big Love for you, not a small thing.
And I know you're a conscious man, and this was a conscious relationship.

And so there is this sense of betrayal by the Universe: if I'm doing everything to be connected, if I'm paying attention and engaging on a soul and heart level, then why did this happen?

I don't know why. I do know that most of the people who have gone through this kind of thing get to the other side of it over time, and they have understanding that they could have not achieved without this great loss.

This happens to people not just in grief, but also people who face major illness, accident, life trauma.

The only thing is to connect to God/Universe/One/All, even if you are angry. Turning it over to Love, is the only possible answer.

Kim Dupre

7/15/2016 01:22:08 pm

Ahhh...remarkable....I just woke up from an all morning nap after sleeping all night long and see you have posted about the condition of sleeping..so chuckling to myself right now. 7:30 am I was up, walked the dog, feed the cat, brown rice and scrambled eggs with a cup of chia tea and then I became sleepy despite a house full of chores to do. So I laid down on the couch, dog by my side and I crashed. I am not sick or depressed. Like you, I feel "downloaded" during these times too. Since childhood, sleep has always been a pleasure. My mother took a pic of me taking an afternoon fiesta sleeping on top of a pile of freshly picked corn; I also distinctly remember becoming sleepy and subsequently laying my head upon the belly of our families new colt who was also napping. Funny, I was born in the year of the "Horse"....I digress.

I consider my on-going love affair with sleep very refreshing. I wake up slowly, but once I am up and running, all synapses sparking, I am ready to do what ever draws me, even the mundane, laundry, changing sheets, etc. AND, like you Sara, I have experienced a few major sleep-a-thons! I work a 9-6 schedule, 4 days a week and my weekends always have a space for napping. You must have been under a a "operating systems up-grade" which always requires much more time in comparison to an "applications download." = ) No illness just in need of a system overhaul, your motherboard was talking to you......LOL Peace Out ..

7/16/2016 06:49:40 am

Yes, thank you for talking about downloads and upgrades: all of this spiritual infusion happens when we sleep and dream. It also happens in other ways, but sleep is one of the easiest ways for the Divine to rewire us.

Bonnie

7/15/2016 08:10:13 pm

Once more you open us to be with the
rythms that want to draw us in .
Thank you for returning us to remember what we need to know.

7/16/2016 06:50:31 am

Yes. We allow ourselves to be in the vibration state we need. We open to it.

Sheryl Powell

7/15/2016 10:09:47 pm

This is not a new experience to me either , I have been aware of this happening to me since I was a young child. For a number of years now, I do just that slow down and get the rest I need, What I have found is that upon awaking , I do quit a bit of writing, It is at these times I intuitively learn so much about myself . others and life in general. I don't think I would be aware of these things if I just thought I was sick. I know there have been times in my life that I labeled the occurrences as depression or illness, but looking back almost every time , it was a time for me that I needed to be still connect with source and do some deep soul searching . I to have had this happen to me as well last month , mine lasted for about two weeks and boy did I ever have amazing lucid dreams. I cane out of it feeling so refreshed .

7/16/2016 06:51:39 am

It certainly feels that we mislabel depression quite a bit in this society. Often depression is just longing for the Divine: longing to be connected and engaged with our Soul.

Mindy

7/16/2016 04:44:17 am

Sara - I had the same experience, but mine was due to my immune system being down - I'm usually able to miss the office flu when it travels through everyone this time I was hit hard for about a week and it took another week to recover - I too was forced into sleep and had many dreams and visions that have been revealed to me and I am now working with Spirit in full clarity of where I need to go next in my shift from my old job to a fascinating new career opportunity that cam my way just last week. Cheers to listening to Spirit and knowing when to rest in order to be Divinely re-activated!!!!!

7/16/2016 06:54:07 am

Thank you, Mindy. Immune system goes down from too much busyness and stress. So the more we relax, the more we're able to feel better and see more clearly.

We think we have to do this and that, but often when we start consciously paring down, we find there are a lot of responsibilities that we don't have to and maybe aren't supposed to carry.

Just looking at it: what can I release and relax, what isn't mind, what can I let go of... all of this leads to clarity.

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