Making Friends With Illness And Live For All You Are Worth!

Ed and Deb Shapiro wrote a stunning post Making friends with illness in 2010.

Accept it, embrace it, own it because you cannot reject what is already happening. It is a fact!

Making friends with your illness makes living so much easier for yourself, and your friends and family. You hate it, you want to reject it, how could this happen to me, and on and on it goes. 

But you must know that you cannot push it away because it is in your body. Therefore, all of your negative reactions are futile and you are only hurting yourself.

In that vein, one of the "connected" folks in the HuffPost Living community, Arithrianos, said this:

Comment from Arithrianos

making friends with illness is the only wise move, any other strategy will just produce more sickness, sick of being sick of being sick, etc etc that keeps the old ball of suffering rolling, there is no victory that way, only stale-mate, not good for anything, the live wire connection that illness presents so wonderfully and painfully is lost by separating from it, regarding it as other.

this is your bodies wisdom talking, it is out of balance already so any rocking of the boat will just capsize the whole experience, then you really have no control, you are in that ocean tossed about by the vicissitudes of whatever illness you have appointed king of your life, and this goes for all the mental illnesses as well, greed, hatred, ignorance and all the derivations.

the same taste is all i have ever experienced, it is like something wonka would make, you taste what you expect to taste, my nickname is same after all, dz. ponlop r. knew what he was doing when he called me same.

radiate is really not something that is a step on it's own to me though, it is simply what happens when you connect, there is no way to keep that tsumani to yourself, if you are connected then you will radiate, so opening is a safety measure, trying to keep cosmic love is a dangerous path, just ask any reformed black magician, trying to keep the sun in your pocket burns.

If you have an illness, make friends with it and live! No excuses. This is the dance of life you are living so give it your best shot and never give up!