It has been a rather challenging week for me. For the second time this year, my body has struggled with a nasty virus that creates fever, congestion, coughing, weakness, and an overall 'yuck' feeling in the body. I've dealt with this for a week, and even though I'm hoping the worst days are past, it feels like I have at least another week of this to experience.

I've never liked or really associated with the word "healer", even though there are those who call me one. But what does it mean when someone you see as a 'healer' has a body that is not "well"? Does this mean that healers (even medical doctors) are charlatans? Does this mean that the assistance these people have provided has been worthless? Maybe. Maybe not.

I have had a lot of time this week to think about 'wellness', 'health', 'healing', and all of that. I am clear that many people who provide assistance are concentrating their efforts on the well being of your body, and perhaps your spirit comes along for the ride. That is not what I do when I assist someone. I assist people on a spirit/soul level, and sometimes their body comes along for the ride.

My body rarely gets sick, so these two bouts of flu virus have had me doubting myself and wondering if all of my 'knowing' was just 'crap'. And the answer that I have arrived at is that, in a world outside of duality, where there is no good and no bad; a 'sick' body is no better or worse than a 'healthy' body. It is what it is - and what am I going to do next?

I think about people close to me who have transitioned out of their bodies and I see clearly that their physical death was not a 'failure' of medicine or healing. It was the next step on their infinite journey through the universe. Even when all of the 'evidence' points to a failure, I don't see it as one.

If this 'sick' body does not stop my spirit (does not stop me) from doing whatever next thing is truly important to me, then the absence of a body does not stop those who have transitioned from doing whatever next thing is important to them. In some cases, it probably facilitates that next thing.

As a society, we continue to think of wellness as an absence of disease, when it is probably better described as an absence of dis-ease, or rather, a peaceful spirit. As the old saying goes; "Serenity is not the absence of the storm, but peace within the storm." (or something like that)

I will admit that my spirit has not been peaceful this week. I did lose my temper with people who were not keeping their agreements. But, I think that this bout with the flu has been a bit more peaceful than the last. And, with my new awareness, perhaps I can hold on to serenity more easily in the future.

Wishing you a beautiful week of ease and grace - and wellness.