The Spiritual Aspect Of Physical Ailments

As a medical Reiki master and teacher, I have come to understand that there is often a spiritual aspect to almost every illness, pain or symptom that comes up in the physical body. When we are not in alignment with our spiritual self, it can create imbalances in many aspects of our health and wellness.

Note that I always recommend seeking and following professional medical advice. Despite the possible underlying metaphysical and spiritual aspects of any illness or disease, you must never assume that the intervention of a registered medical practitioner is not needed. Always seek medical advice if you are not feeling well, and do not stop using whatever medication and treatments have been prescribed for you without consulting your doctor. It could save your life.

What I can however recommend is to supplement your conventional medical treatment with energy work and other spiritual healing practices. The Eastern practice of Reiki is something you can use effectively to compliment your western medicine treatment.

Reiki is an energy healing modality that brings our chi into alignment. Chi is the energy of life itself. It is an electromagnetic energy which flows through everything in creation. Reiki brings the chi of the body, mind, and spirit back into alignment and can reveal which areas need to be worked on, or released, or simply acknowledged.

Here are a few examples of common spiritual meanings behind some of our ailments. Headaches are often associated with self-criticism and fear. They are also a source of feeling invalidated in some way and often aimed at the self. The solution is to start affirming how amazing you are, how divinely perfect you are, how much you love yourself. The best affirmation you can say is:

I love myself unconditionally. I am perfectly perfect as I am.

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is ~ Gary Zukav

And believe it when you say it. Give yourself a hug, close your eyes and feel your angels and guides holding you at the same time.

Heart problems typically represent our love center and are also associated with self-love and self-acceptance. We must love ourselves first, in order for others to love us. If you don’t love yourself, but expect others to, you will only be repeatedly hurt and literally broken heart.

Anxiety is another common issue I have worked with people on, especially since the start of the pandemic in 2020, It is often attached to simply not trusting that things are going to get better or believing that you have no control over your destiny. The flow of life the last two years has been stunted for most people, and I see many living in fear, not knowing how to move out of this ‘stuck’ state.

The best solution is turn off the news and get off social media. Instead, start doing daily affirmations and keep a gratitude journal. Begin to reconnect with the beauty in everything around you, whether it be a blade of grass, a petal on a flower, a ripple on a lake, or a wave in the ocean.

To release anxious feelings, you must once again work on loving yourself. You must trust that all is happening for a reason and that the Universe knows best. Everything will be okay. You are safe, as long as you believe that you are.

Shoulder, neck and back stiffness and pain often represents the carrying of burdens or the weight of the world on your back. Think of each hurt, wound or scar in your life as a heavy rock. When I do Reiki workshops, I ask people to gather a few real rocks outside (not massive ones, but large enough for you to write one word on). Take each rock and write just one word that represents a hurt in your life.

Reiki is Love, Love is wholeness, wholeness is balance, balance is well-being, well being is freedom from disease ~ Dr Mikao Usui

If someone has cheated on you or abused you, just write the person’s name. If you have been fired, write the company or your former manager’s name. If your parents rejected you, write the word ‘rejection’ or ‘parents,’ and so on. Do this with all your rocks and put them in a backpack. Now place that backpack on your back and feel the weight of it. This is where those shoulder, neck and back tensions come from!

Next, remove just one rock per day from the backpack and look at that rock. Contemplate for a moment the events and feelings it represents. Then say out loud:

I forgive______ [the person or event]. And I forgive myself for carrying this heavy burden with me all this time. I did not create or ask for this situation, and I will no longer carry it forward in my life.

The next step is to discard your rocks. Get rid of it. A lake, river, or the ocean is a great place to toss it. Alternatively, throw it over a cliff or bury it in a forest. Make a self-liberating day trip of it, over a weekend.

Once you do this, let it go, and never look back. These are simply a few examples for dealing with spiritual aspects of your hurts in life. The one aspect that is consistent in all things is self-love. Without self-love, we get stuck and nothing changes. Be kind to yourself always.