When is enough enough?
QUESTION: Masters, I have again unbearable pain in my teeth. It has been good enough several times, but then I don´t follow my inner guidance and don´t trust and be thankful and I go to the dentist one time too much and get it back. How can I be so stupid? Why don´t I remember that it can come back so easily? Why don´t I see when I can live and feel joy—and then stop? I somehow seem to focus too much on myself, when I already feel good, instead of something outside of me. So what should I focus on instead? How can I get well and my thoughts positive again, when I have fallen to this same hole so many times and it has taken a long time to get back up and feel anything else but pain? It feels terrible that I can´t trust myself. That I have so many times all of a sudden become blind and chosen wrong and only realized it afterwards. Help me, please. ~Susanna, Finland
ANSWER: You have the wrong idea about focusing on yourself. Your reason to come into a human body is to be able to identify with your essential qualities while in a physical nature, and this is possible only by focusing on yourself. When you begin to capture your essence of unconditional love it will show you the right direction to experience the remainder of your lessons.
The essence of which we speak is not of a physical nature but is rather your emotional and spiritual reaction to the daily activities in which you are involved. In most cases, when you focus internally, physical sensations are felt as an indication of continuing life lessons.
When you experience pain in your mouth you should ask: What lesson is this? Am I not fully enough aware of myself to see that the cause is emotional, such as when I clench my teeth so tightly it causes strain and pain? Negative thoughts are contributing to your stress. Most of these stem from a lack of self-confidence and self-worth.
Once you work on your inner problems, mostly how you perceive yourself, you will find self-love and will not need physical pain any longer to get your attention. Start first by being aware when the first negative image comes forth. Stop what you are doing and project the opposite, positive, idea to blot out the negative. Constantly reinforcing only positive energies creates a loving, gentle aura around you, and stress disappears.