Saturday, June 19, 2010

Spiritual Vertigo?

I woke up yesterday morning about 3am and the room was spinning! No, I was not drunk or drugged out. I was experiencing Vertigo. If you've never experienced Vertigo, good for you, it's horrible and very scary. Vertigo is characterized by the sensation of motion initiated by sudden head movements or moving the head in a certain direction, usually caused by an imbalance in the inner ear. Now going into my second day of the vertigo experience or should I call it the "vertigo experiment", I decided to look into this condition a little deeper. As I read about the symtoms and causes of vertigo I immediately started linking it to the condition of our soul, as all things are linked to our soul. So, when we get this condition "vertigo" it is usually because of a physical imbalance in our inner ear, and it causes extreme dizziness, not-so-clear thinking, blurred vision, and sometime nausea. When I relate this physical condition to a soul condition, I see that the same symtoms occur on the soul level when we get an "inner imbalance". For example, when we focus too much on "things", we get out of touch with our spirit, our soul, and we start feeling "dizzy", like something is wrong but we just can't put our finger on it! I personally think God let's us experience physical ailments, sometimes, to show us a picture of the conditions of our souls. Sometimes ailments slow us down, and we think and see things much more clearly. I know this sounds a little paradoxical, being that my ailment causes what would seem, the opposite of clarity. But even with vertigo, I am seeing something on the spiritual realm that maybe I was over looking before. Simply this, we are made up of Mind, Body, & Spirit, and when we neglect one of these components we are out of balance. We find it difficult to navigate through life, just like I find it difficult to walk to the bathroom right now without holding onto the walls in the hallway. So, I embrace the "Vertigo Experience" and know that it will pass, as all things do, but I will hold onto the lesson I found within it, like a treasure dug up from the dirt. It is mine, and now .......it is yours!

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