The pain was horrible!
Have you ever had tooth pain? I’m not one to get sick often, so maybe I’m a little whimpy when it comes to pain, but believe me, this made me appreciate the prescribed pain medicine…and for me that’s not heard of!
So, I needed a root canal.
They drilled into my tooth, killed the root, killed the nerve.
It reminded me of a workshop I went to recently that talked about getting to the taproot of our issues.
Often when things show up in our lives, like relationship issues, lack of self esteem, fear…there’s a deeper cause.
The idea is that only when we are able to access the taproot of the particular issue, will we then be able to truly be free of it.
For some of us it’s a deep rooted feeling of lack of self worth that we picked up in childhood, or a false belief we picked up somewhere that we are unable to be loved…whatever it is, if we are able to face it and deal with it now, then we can be free of it.
Sort of like now that these dentists have dealt with the root of this tooth, I can be free of this pain.
But other schools of thought I’ve studied say we don’t necessarily need to go digging up all of the painful memories. Because, when we put so much attention on these negative feelings, the law of attraction will give us more of them.
I really think there’s a fine line between digging up junk and pushing junk down deeper. If I never dealt with the root of this tooth, I think the infection could have gotten a lot worse and the pain would have made me go insane!
But, I’m not going to spend much more time focusing on this tooth… After this post I’m done! I don’t want to attract anymore aches and pains!!
I’d love to hear your opinion on this. what’s your experience with getting to the root cause of issues? Maybe you have some tips for us. Leave your comment below…
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Hi Sue, you're right, when something is going on in our lives, it is usually a good idea to see what's at the root of it. Like recently I have been arguing with my siblings about religion and the freedom to express thoughts other than what we grew up with. I found myself getting very emotional and upset about this issue and I soon found out that at the taproot of my deep emotion on this subject was my resentment towards my family at how they treated me when I wanted to get married to someone outside of our religion. I found out that I have never forgiven them for that and have been carrying around the resentment with me all this time. Just having this realization about the taproot of the issue helped me forgive them and get in touch with my love for my family. So yeah, sometimes getting to the taproot of something that seems like it could be about a surface issue can help resolve some major misalignments.
thanks so much for sharing, Taz. it's amazing how shedding some light on something can make things so much better. and, it's so amazing how “deep rooted” family stuff can be, but the ease is such a gift when we get to the core of it and pull it out and put it in the light and let it breath and go!
Sometimes it is worth the trouble to dig down and extricate that taproot! Sue and I both attended the Dare to Be Free Workshop with Paula and LA and got some terrific tools for getting back on track when life knocks us off course.
I personally replaced my core limiting belief of “I can't handle this” with the belief “this is ridiculous!” which is way more fun. Soon I'll be teaching a teleclass called “Ridiculous!”
Yep, I agree 100%. For many years, I used alcohol to suppress all those deep rooted feelings of inadequacy I had from childhood. Divorce of my parents when I was in the 2nd grade, death of my father a few years later … blah,blah.blah … I quit the booze and dealt with my own personal “root canal” in 1990. But I ALSO had all 4 wisdom teeth jerked out in one sitting when I was in the Navy too, and with only local anesthesia … I think the dentist's name I saw that day was … Mengele?? I can relate to the pain …
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