Spirituality and Health: There Are No Accidents

In last Friday’ blog post Ask Grand Master Lu: Spirituality, we spoke about what it means to be on a spiritual path and how that relates to health and healing. We also discussed three main spiritual concepts for improving metabolism function and overall health. They are:

1. The energetic frequency of the unconditional love of the Universe, or God, gives our world and all living things vitality and creativity. Read more.
2. Ultimately, there is only Oneness. Read more.
3. There are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.

Throughout the rest of this week, we will unpack each of these concepts.

There Are No Accidents

I have found that “There are no accidents.” is one of the most profound angles I can use to help my patients discover their inner power and realize Oneness governs our reality. This spiritual law allows them see that they can use their inherited wisdom to achieve better health and a richly satisfying life. When you truly recognize and appreciate that there are no accidents, you can understand illness and disease differently.

Many times people say, “Well, you know, there are no accidents.” Or, “That must be his or her fate.” Deep down, they are acknowledging that everything happens for a reason and that events are not random. Whether they actually believe in what they are saying, conduct their lives this way, and understand health issues accordingly, is another matter. That is why this concept is not something the mind can easily accept. You must enter in with an open mind and Heart.

To truly understand how and why there are no accidents, we have to first recognize this idea is closely connected to Oneness. Today, many people use modern science conveniences like cell phones, but their worldview is that of science practiced more than two hundred years ago. It focuses on analysis, division, fragmentation, and separation. Otherwise, they would recognize everything is energy and, in the energy field, scientists have proven that everything and every event or situation is interconnected.

Inseparability and Larger Connections

We see examples of inseparability every day: a fire in a radar tower shuts down flights in a major city; but soon, this event ping pongs throughout the system and thousands of flights across the country experience massive delays. A country defaults on its debt and soon the U.S. stock market plummets. A drought affects land in the West and the price of fruit skyrockets along the East Coast.

We are beginning to wake up to the way the world really works. At the subatomic level of this reality, everything is energy and nothing is isolated in the vast web of interacting patterns and relationships. What look like “accidents” are really events or situations connected to other events and situations. However, in our everyday life, we just cannot perceive all these connections in the moment we experience something.

Cause and Effect

It is difficult for us to conceive of a world where everything is connected simultaneously. The structure of our language has evolved into a pattern that relates things to past, present and future. At the subatomic level, everything is happening at once. Space and time cannot be separated. These concepts challenge our rational minds because parts of it are based on events and situations in time. Our brains and minds believe in occurrences that seem to happen sequentially. It gives rise to language that orients us to the ideas of things that happen “before and after” and that have a “cause and effect.”

Looking at illness and disease from today’s accepted way of thinking only allows us to interpret what we observe as a “cause.” Unfortunately, this thinking limits us; it doesn’t allow us to perceive the many invisible and visible interrelationships leading up to and included in this moment. It doesn’t allow us to see the multiple, interrelated factors associated with the illness or disease.

Many patients believe their health problem is the ultimate cause of their discomfort or pain. In reality, it is the effect of a deeper cause. In a body–mind–spirit framework, observable conditions or symptoms act as signs pointing to the true cause. The health condition is caused by life being out of balance first. When life is out of balance, the energetic frequencies of emotions become unbalanced. Then, the body’s Qi—its ability to digest or process energy at different levels—is affected. This impacts organ function, and eventually, the body shows this imbalance through illness, disease, or discomfort. This is the body’ way of communicating.

Root Cause

The Five Element Consciousness Framework allows us to discover the deeper emotional and spiritual origins of health issues. For example, let’s say you tore a muscle playing golf. Most people would say, “I swung my club poorly, so I hurt my shoulder.” They wouldn’t understand that, internally, their Lung and Large Intestine are not working cooperatively and the Qi running through these meridians is weak or stagnant, so nothing is flowing. The muscle strain is the effect of this deeper energy stagnation. That’s the real cause.

To truly fix the root cause and stop dealing with symptoms, we have to go deeper—beyond the physical and emotional levels to the Spirit.

Humans are energy beings—an integrated system of body, mind, and Spirit. Spirit is a part of every cell in the body. From the spiritual level, we can only describe ourselves and the conditions we experience as energy events. This energy or Qi has consciousness, purpose, and creativity. Qi is creativity. Your creativity has chosen a different energetic frequency or pattern—disease or illness—to help you achieve your spiritual purpose.

The most important questions you can ask yourself are, “Why have I chosen this energy event?” and “What can it help me accomplish?” Only you really know why. The answer is always within.

Conditions exist to let us know life itself has become out of balance. There could be a thousand different reasons for this; each reason is specific to each person. Because life is out of balance, emotions have also become out of balance. If this situation goes on long enough or is severe enough, illness or disease will manifest at the physical level.

A Positive Angle

You were not born to suffer. You are supported by the Universe’s unconditional love. Through the processing of an event in the energy field, which we can call disease or illness, you have the opportunity to discover your unbreakable connection to this love.

From the spiritual level, the ultimate cause of your situation is positive. Energy is not just power or force; it has intelligence and creativity. All energy beings use their creativity for a unique purpose. Just as artists use different tools for expression, patients exercise their creativity through different health conditions to express themselves. It’s essential to say, however, we can’t use our conscious mind to understand these creative works.

No matter what health conditions you have, they confirm your Spirit is alive and pursuing its vision of creativity. From the spiritual level, there truly are no accidents. You create your own reality. You have chosen this path to achieve Spirit’s purpose, but you always have the option of choosing a different one.

Real healing comes from understanding the true cause of illness and disease. This self-healing ability is part of the software we were born with. When you accept this angle, you will understand why there are no accidents. Whatever you see in this reality is an effect. The cause always lies at the deeper, invisible level. The Five Element Consciousness Framework gives us a way to trace, from Spirit down, the root cause of a condition.

Healing has to start from the top down. Change your angle; change your framework.

Love is inside you. There is only Oneness and everything is connected. At the spiritual level, there are no accidents.

Excerpted from Digesting the Universe by Nan Lu, OMD with Ellen Schaplowsky