Ankles and Toes
Another wonderful read! Thank you, ChristyWrites
Like the protagonist in your story I, too, have recently dealt with ankle issues. About a month ago my left ankle started getting really sore. Soon, it felt like I had suffered a very major ankle sprain, except I never sprained my ankle. The pain and soreness intensified to the point where I was actually limping a bit as I walked. Any pressure on my ankle sent pain shooting up my leg.
My first thought was that I was deficient in magnesium. So I started taking magnesium tablets and soaked my feet in a tub of epsom salts. This provided only minimal temporary relief. My second thought was that this new ailment was caused by decades-old injuries coming back to haunt me. My next thought was that this problem was being caused by the new tennis shoes I recently bought. I changed shoes but the problem persisted.
Of course the problem was actually caused by thinking patterns running through my noggin. I slapped the palm of my hand to my forehead upon realizing this once I pulled one of my favorite books off my “special reference” shelf near my desk. That shelf contains books that I have gone back to over and over again for decades. They are books that have consistently proven their worth which I cannot imagine doing without. The forehead slap resulted from realizing how long I waited to consult this one particularly valuable book.
This particular book may very well be the most valuable book I own. It has helped me countless times over the last 30 years or so and it has ALWAYS been unbelievably accurate.
The book is; Heal Your Body — The Mental Causes For Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way To Overcome Them, by Louise L. Hay. It’s a little paperback worth a thousand times its little price. Most of the book is just a table divided into three columns. The first column lists the physical ailment. The second column lists the probable mental causes for the ailment. And the third column lists new mental thought patterns to adopt to overcome the ailment.
Normally when we have a physical ailment we immediately look for the cause as being something other than our thinking patterns. We’ve been conditioned to believe that repetitive thinking patterns do not cause physical ailments. It must be something else such as diet, genetics, environment, chemistry, clothes, or anything other than the thoughts and emotions we embrace (whether consciously or not).
Over the last three decades I’ve learned beyond a shadow of a doubt, time and time again, that repetitive thinking patterns are indeed the primary cause behind most ailments.
So I pulled the book off my shelf. It’s a bit ragged from repeated consultation. I then looked up ankle problems:
PROBLEM: Ankles
PROBABLE CAUSE: Inflexibility and guilt. Ankles represent the ability to receive pleasure.
NEW THINKING PATTERN: I deserve to rejoice in life. I accept all the pleasure life has to offer.
I slapped the palm of my hand on my forehead again. It was spot on. I had been very inflexible in my thoughts and I had been hashing out some guilt in my head. And I had been denying myself plenty of the simple pleasures in life.
So I thought about it, meditated, and began consciously changing those repetitive thinking patterns that had been looping in my noggin, replacing them with thoughts of deserving joy, pleasure and abundance in my life. I changed my thinking patterns (and the emotions that come with them) and within 36 hours my ankle problem was completely gone! Completely! Gone, too, was the limping. I was walking like I was on top of the world (and, of course, that is where all of us walk when we walk, right?).
So anyway, after reading your story I got that priceless little book down from my shelf again, this time to look up toe fungus. There was no listing for toe fungus but there were separate listings for toes and fungus. Here’s what it said:
PROBLEM: Toes
PROBABLE CAUSE: Represent the minor details of the future.
NEW THINKING PATTERN: All details take care of themselves.
PROBLEM: Fungus
PROBABLE CAUSE: Stagnating beliefs. Refusing to release the past. Letting the past rule today.
NEW THINKING PATTERN: I live in the present moment, joyous and free.
Our feet — and our bodies — are always trying to tell us something. It’s always good to listen and know what they are saying.
