By Sir Martin Brofman, Ph.D. copyright 1988
We are each an energy system. Energy flows
through our being, and is directed by our consciousness. When we are healthy, or in
balance, the energy flows smoothly. The flow of energy is regulated by seven energy
centers, called chakras.
Any illness or disease can be described as an
out-of-balance condition. AIDS is an out-of-balance condition affecting the immune system.
The immune system is governed or controlled by the thymus gland, which in turn is
regulated by the heart chakra. The heart chakra is that part of our energy system
affecting and affected by our perceptions of love.
AIDS, then, is an out-of-balance condition that
is in some way related to the individual's perceptions of love. The disease began among
those members of our society whose life-styles separated them from those they love.
Without the love they needed, and seeing no way out of their dilemma, those people decided
at some point that they would rather die. The immune system then deteriorated so that
their wishes could be carried out.
Among the members of the homosexual community,
the determination to assert the freedom of sexual expression was accompanied by a need to
hide this sexual preference from parents, from business associates, and from members of
the heterosexual community in general, for fear of not being accepted, not being loved.
With the generally puritanical attitudes of the heterosexual community, the fears were
often justified, but the situation also created in many members of the gay community a
non-acceptance of themselves, a judgmental way of seeing themselves that stimulated more
of an assertive tone to the exercising of their sexual preferences, with a louder demand
for acceptance.
Without the individuals' acceptance of
themselves, however, they would have difficulty recognizing the acceptance of others.
There would remain the suspicion that others were judging them as they were judging
themselves.
In the Haitian community, the harsh martial
rule imposed by the dictator, Papa Doc Duvalier, created an atmosphere of suspicion and
fear, even between members of the same family, overshadowing the love. And so, AIDS was
born there, too.
Drug users, too, who were affected, were living
life-styles separating them from those they love, and so they closed their hearts.
Children born to them, not finding the love needed, also began to die - again, from lack
of love. When these children went to public schools, they were separated, ostracized, and
again, not loved - because they were ill! They were feared, and parents of healthy
children demanded that the AIDS children be removed from the schools. So, there was more
non-acceptance.
Our perceptions create our reality. We can say
that those who developed AIDS had the perception that they were not loved. That perception
was fed and reinforced, and these people were able to affirm even more their basic belief
that they were not loved, and prove to themselves that it was true. Then, what was there
to live for? The response by many of not perceiving themselves to be loved, was to not
love, in return, and so the heart chakra shut down more and more, affecting the thymus
gland, and the immune system.
Our society created AIDS to show us that we
need to love more. We have entered the Age of Aquarius, the age of the heart chakra. We
have, as a planetary consciousness, entered an age in which it no longer makes sense to
think in separatist terms, or in terms of conflict. We are obliged now to think in terms
of cooperation, in terms of what we can do to help others, in terms of love, in terms of
service. It is obvious, for example, that we could not tell Russia that Chernobyl was their
problem. We have seen that events in one country can have effects on other countries,
if not worldwide. We have become obliged to think in more global terms, and in fact, we
have begun to do so.
AIDS, like any other out-of-balance condition,
can be healed. What it takes is love. One young man in San Francisco who had developed
AIDS was given a radical therapy, which reversed the effects of the disease and resulted
in his recovery. He had to walk through the streets carrying balloons, being obviously
different, and when passers-by would look at him, he had to give them a card saying,
"I love you."
At first, he felt very conspicuous. The second
day, it was easier. By the third day, he really did feel the love for these other
Beings that were seeing him as different - and he also felt loved, even with his
differences. He recovered.
Louise Hay, an extraordinary American healer,
has had much success with reversing AIDS by focusing on the aspects of forgiveness and
self-acceptance, and using therapies emphasizing these qualities. Her successes show the
effectiveness of this approach of the heart. She has had more success with AIDS patients
than any other individual I have heard of.
In the experience that I have had with healing
AIDS patients, the consistent factor was the imbalance of the heart chakra, and the poor
quality of the relationships in their lives. One young man who was able to open to receive
love during a healing was later told by his doctor that he didn't have AIDS after all, but
just a systemic fungus infection, Candida. Another who recovered was told by his doctor
that the original diagnosis must have been a mistake.
People can recover from AIDS when they learn to
recognize the love, and trust it, and place themselves in relationships that are
nurturing, rather than punishing. That is, they learn to stop punishing themselves, and so
allow themselves to be nurtured. They learn to accept themselves, and even to accept
others who do not accept them.
With acceptance, with love, the heart chakra
can again function normally, restoring strength to the thymus gland, and therefore to the
immune system. The individual can then decide that there is something to live for, after
all, since love is again in their lives. The flow of energy is restored, resulting in a
return to the experience of wholeness that we know as health.
We are Beings of energy. When we block or
interrupt the flow of this energy, the result is illness or injury. Sometimes this happens
as a call for love. We each have the ability to restore the flow of energy, and provide an
abundance of love where there was a perception of lack. When we do this, a healing
happens.
It is imperative, now, that we keep our hearts
open, and replace judgements with acceptance. It is vital that we learn to love even more,
and to allow ourselves to be loved. We must relate in our relationships, and use
communication to clear misunderstandings and disagreements. When we can keep ourselves in
a loving space, we will have a positive effect on our environment, a healing effect.
With our hearts open to the love all around us,
and fully accepting ourselves, we will not be creating the conditions in which AIDS
develops. The answer is acceptance. The answer is love.
