AIDS - A Healer's Point of View
A Healer's View of AIDS by Martin Brofman, Ph.D. 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 (or being HIV
positive) 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 created a sense of
separation 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 even 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 Duvalier
dictators created an atmosphere of suspicion and fear, even
between members of the same family, overshadowing the love.
Again, the lifestyle or the people created a sense of separation
from those they 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 they 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, they asked themselves, 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 of this writer regarding the
healings of 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 judgments 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. (c) Copyright
Martin Brofman 1990