moment that a car approaches and hits the child. How does the mother react? The accident is unexpected, dramatic, and highly emotional – she has no strategy for dealing with it at the time. She will instantaneously go into the fight-flight- freeze response. If her primary emotion is worry for the child’s survival, she will also get a growth of breast gland cells in either her right or left breast (this depends on her neurological wiring). This unexplained growth, if diagnosed


by a medical doctor, is likely to be labelled as a breast cancer. So why does it occur? It is an emergency programme to enable the woman to produce milk to nurture the child back to health. It is a biologically meaningful response. A felt sense of a biological conflict can be either in a literal sense or in a figurative sense. A conflict can be either a direct physical experience or a mental or emotional one, but it is always accompanied by fear. Another example is a disease that


someone experienced as a child. When he was 2-1⁄2 years old, his parents lost him in town. When they found him two hours later he was red from head to toe, screaming and inconsolable. He had experienced a biological conflict shock: an abandonment-isolation-existence conflict. This started a disease of the kidney nephrons, Nephrotic Syndrome. In this process, the capillary endothelial cells of the nephrons increase, causing the nephrons to close up and the body to hold onto water. Why? Current evolutionary theory points


to modern man having originated from middle Africa. In this environment, if a young child was left outside alone for any significant period of time, it would have died from dehydration. Holding onto water prevents this. Therefore, this disease is logical and meaningful from an evolutionary perspective. Interestingly, Nephrotic Syndrome primarily affects young children between the ages of 1-1⁄4 and 4 years old.


MEANING OF DISEASE – SURVIVAL AND EVOLUTION From the perspective of this paradigm shift, rather than being an error of nature or the cumulative effect of ‘risk factors’, our bodies’ reactions are biologically meaningful, with the goal of survival and evolution. This is the case for all diseases, including colds, eczemas, diabetes and cancers. Healing seems to be a matter of awareness, right perception and feeling. Paying attention promotes healing, with the following questions in mind: Where am I in conflict? What has put me under stress? What behavioural change is necessary?


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By Chip Richards


e each have a note or verse to sing out that is uniquely us and is delightfully required in order for the song


and story of creation to be complete. As we stand on the threshold of our own creative potential, this information can be a catalyst for both inspired action and petrified procrastination. How can we know what creative truth wants to come through us? What makes your idea or creative seed special or important to share? Maybe you know that you have an amazing idea swimming in your being, pulling at your soul to be shared, but you find yourself staring at the blank page, wondering where to begin. I would imagine that, for every great


story told, there are a thousand more that never reach the light of day beyond the doubtful doorway of their steward’s mind. In the past ten years I’ve spent much


of my creative time in the writing space and have come up against many of those early phase moments when the pressure of a project seems to weigh extra-heavy on those first few words. Amidst this journey, what I have learned is that often the more we want to write or create something of importance, the more pressure we put on ourselves, which in turn restricts our creative flow to the point that what emerges feels stifled and forced. Simultaneously, I have also realised that, when our agenda is simply to explore raw creative energy on the page (as we might in our journal), often truly profound expressions come through. So the question is, how can we have


both? How can we effectively channel our creative voice in the direction of meaningful expression, but do so in a natural and free flowing way, so that it feels effortless and expressive of our true essence? Here’s a simple exercise that has been a fun and potent doorway for many emerging writers to do just that. This exercise is one that I often share


early in workshops as a way of helping different people with varying creative


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intentions move onto the page with a real sense of connection. It is a very simple exercise, and like many of life’s truest gifts, it never ceases to amaze me how powerfully revealing it is of two things: 1.) We each have a unique perspective


and way of expressing our creative voice. 2.) Even a very simple exercise can


become a powerful doorway for our higher self to come through. The ‘5-word experiment’ I will give you five random words


and 5-10 minutes to write a simple story, poem or descriptive moment that incorporates all five words. We can sit for hours (or years), wondering how best to start a story, but if we give our conscious mind a simple task like the 5-word experiment, it opens the door for our subconscious to naturally rise up and show us where it wants to go. Are you ready? OK. The five words for


today are: breath, imagine, free, belong, fly.


Take a few moments to reflect on


these words, and then begin to write whatever comes. Write whatever you see, incorporating each of the words in whatever order or tense you choose. If you get stuck, just take a breath and ask, ‘What next?’ Then follow what comes – no right or wrong – enjoy. The second and most powerful part


of this exercise is to share what you have written. It always, always, always blows my mind to see how unique each person’s expression is, and how even the most resistant writers spring forth with prose and verse that give you chills. So, if you are feeling called to a greater expression of your own creative potential, I invite you to stop what you are doing right now, take five minutes to explore this exercise, then share what emerges in the comments section of this article on the LivingNow website www.livingnow.com.au).


Chip is a screen-writer, story-teller and workshop presenter.


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