There are some brilliant people on our planet, and to my mind, they’ve earned the right to feel arrogant about their level of expertise in a chosen field of endeavor. I’m not speaking here of ego-maniacal, conceit. I’m just suggesting there’s nothing wrong with owning one’s wisdom, prodigious talents and strengths. To my mind, God celebrates this stuff, right along with us!
Sometimes however, one’s arrogance takes the form of a green-eyed monster that rears its pointy little head, when sensations of envy and resentment toward another has him feeling as if their wisdom (and/or life experience) might eclipse his own.
It feels GOOD to be “right.” When we’re fully committed to an idea or concept, it’s nearly impossible to consider that someone else might view these from even a slightly different vantage point than we, and be “right,” too! And this is our narcissism.
Given that we are all composites of our life experiences, might it be okay to hear and consider another’s views on a topic rather than invalidating them, just because they may not agree 100% with ours? Is this not how we continue to grow, learn, evolve and expand our wisdom?
People with narcissistic or borderline personality traits are used to sitting in the control seat in all their relationship dynamics. They can get profoundly uncomfortable if you challenge them on an ideation or concept in which they firmly believe. This stance spills into many different professional domains, and is often most evident within psychotherapeutic and addiction-recovery communities.
These folks are certain about what causes psychic pain and addiction, but they’ve got it wrong~ or there wouldn’t be such a high rate of recidivism in either field. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Even medical doctors are often rigidly rooted in their beliefs about what repairs the human body, and ya can’t budge ‘em from their long-established plateau. When entire church congregations pray for an ailing or injured member and spontaneous healing occurs for that person, the medical world (while highly skeptical of his/her remarkable recovery) calls it “a miracle.”
Doctors seem to routinely forget, we are mind, body AND spirit. You cannot effectively heal the physical body without engaging the other two aspects of one’s Being. This is the central reason why cancers recur once an oncology patient has gone thru HELL ridding their body of those abnormally fast-producing cells, with traditional medical interventions, often combined with healthy eating.
If we do not work to heal the emotional issues that catalyze disease (dis-ease) in our body, we are merely fooling ourselves into thinking they won’t return~ and do so often, with a voracity that eclipses the first bout of illness. If you keep cutting out a cancerous tumor that’s intent on coming back, you’ve not looked at the underlying unresolved emotional and/or psychological reasons this “problem” continues to occur. To my mind, this is just plain folly.
Over the course of my 30+ year career, physical disorders and pain have resolved in clients who’ve gotten to a place of authentic emotional healing. Colon disorders, lifelong herpes breakouts, heart issues, migraine headaches, old and painful broken bone wounds, etc., have spontaneously ceased to be concerns, once the Emotional Body is able to reach a state healing and grace. This is why I’ve remained so passionate about helping folks in the ways I know how, all these years.
Are all these health transformations actually miracles? I think so~ yet if you see yourself as a Spiritual Being having to endure human experiences (rather than the other way around) perhaps it’ll seem as perfectly logical to you, as it does to me.
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it," eh? Since the '60s, it's more like "put that in your bong and smoke it!" 😜😝🌿🚬😁