Two weeks ago, I was cutting sweet potatoes and wasn’t paying much attention for whatever reason. I had my middle finger directly under the sweet potato. I cut and sliced right into the underside (palmar) of my finger all the way to the bone. Blood started to gush out of my finger, I tensed up and for about 3 seconds I panicked in shock.
Almost instantly the wisdom of my favorite book came into my awareness. I sat down, started to take deep unforced breaths and immediately began to welcome all the tension in my body, the pain in my finger and the fear of blood going everywhere and having to go to the hospital for stitches.
I surrendered the whole experience and did not resist any of it and in about 15-20 seconds all the bleeding miraculously stopped, the panic was gone and I was at peace. I put a band-aid on it and after two weeks it healed up without hardly a trace.
I got this sage wisdom from my favorite book on the whole planet which is called Letting Go: The Pathway Of Surrender by Dr. David Hawkins, MD, Ph.D. This book has profoundly shaped me as a person and also as a physician. It has also given me incredible insights that allow me to help those that come to me for help. It was also through profoundly letting go that I healed from 11 years of heavy depression.
It is the most brilliant book on spirit-mind-body medicine I have ever read. My next time reading it will be the eighth time.
Here are a few of the MANY things I have learned from this book.
- I am not my body or my mind (thoughts and emotions). I am that which is aware of both of these things.
- Repressed and suppressed emotions are the cause behind all the suffering in the world.
- Through the surrender of emotions, the physical body can heal instantly.
- Resistance to life is what causes all of the suffering that human beings have.
- The truth of anything can be accessed using a simple tool which all human beings have the potential to access.
- We don’t see the world as it is, we only see the world as we are.
- Don’t look for answers; instead, let go of the feeling behind your questions and all of life will make itself known and become clear.
- Law of consciousness: whatever we hold in mind tends to manifest.
- By removing the blocks to love (negative emotions), the capacity to love self, others and God is expanded.
Not many people know of Dr. David Hawkins (now deceased), who, as a medical doctor, ran the largest psychiatric practice in the USA for over 30 years in New York City. I’m convinced that when more people read his works in the coming years and decades, he will become known as one of the greatest minds of all time.
He also wrote 8 other books that were all life changing for me personally, emotionally and spiritually.
Power Vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden
Truth Vs. Falsehood: How To Tell The Difference
Transcending The Levels Of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment
Healing and Recovery (A book dedicated to health)
Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man
Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional NonDuality
If you read them, you may not agree with everything. But, as they say, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Read them and let them challenge you, as they have me.
As some of you know, I attended seminary and almost became a pastor when I was younger. His books helped me answer many of the unanswered spiritual questions that I had to so many things. These questions have dissolved and there is peace where there once was worries and doubts. If you don’t believe in God, you will still find tremendous benefit because letting go of emotion stands independent of belief systems.
After the understanding his books gave me, I have helped hundreds of other people surrender their physical pain, trauma and negative emotions which has translated into physical healing instantly for many.
I hope that you all come to deeply understand this spirit-mind-body connection and use it to alleviate your mental and physical suffering.
