DIAGNOSIS
Receiving a diagnosis of illness, mental or physical, can be a really good wake-up call. Isolation is your worst enemy.
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It feels like you luxuriating on the top floor with an astounding view, then in the next moment, you are flat on your back looking up at the sky from the pavement. A diagnosis is a judgement of your state in a given moment, a word used to tie an appointment with a billing code. It doesn't mean you have to become the illness. You are not, in fact, the illness.
There is a process for moving through the perspective of illness to wellness-even if you retain the diagnosis, your life has meaning and purpose. It might just be this very incident that propels the search for new paradigm of living. This is what Spiritual Emergence is about. Elevating your experience beyond the labels and designations that come through current circumstances or even the ones we put upon ourselves from past learning that keep us stuck on the ground floor.
Connect with a community that has gotten up from the pavement and pushed the elevator button back to the top floor. Chances are you will choose a different building and an elevator that moves on the diagonal, but you will arrive-if you get up.
Put a pillow of meditation under your head, check out the Shock page, find a Kundalini class, whatever you do, remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.