Short Description:
Narcolepsy
In Narcolepsy, a chronic sleep disorder, a Soul seeking greater
advancement, "burdens" themselves with "excessive and overwhelming
daytime sleepiness, even after adequate nighttime sleep" to assist
them in honoring their emotions.
Causes:
Those who contract Narcolepsy are more advanced Souls who, over many
lives, have had a track record of "inappropriately" handling their
emotions.
Emotions are "energy in
motion" which are sent by our Higher Selves, guides, etc to "compel"
us to take action (which is how karma is administered in the universe).
In the normal course of evolution, by "trial and error", a Soul refines
their ability to handle their emotions and thereby becomes progressively
better at dealing them.
Yet some Souls become stuck in "inappropriate" patterns of coping with
"emotionally upsetting events" and so have "agreed" to the extreme
solution of Narcolepsy to "break themselves out" of these patterns.
These are the patterns (the "ego defenses" as described by John
Bradshaw in his book "Homecoming"):
-
Denial
which manifests as thinking like...
("the upsetting event is not really happening to me")
-
Repression
which manifests as thinking like...
("the upsetting event really never happened in the first place")
-
Dissociation
which manifests as thinking like...
("was there an upsetting event? I cannot seem to remember one")
-
Projection
which manifests as thinking like...
("the upsetting event is happening to anyone else but me")
-
Minimizing
which manifests as thinking like...
("the upsetting event happened but it is no big deal!")
-
Conversion
which manifests as thinking like...
("the upsetting event will be OK after more sex, food, drugs")
One of the other inappropriate coping mechanisms of Narcoleptics is
extreme anger when confronted with their own karmic responsibility.
Like many other sufferers, they look for things outside of themselves to explain
their situation as in "I was born without a piece of my brain... so that it is why
Narcolepsy is happening to me... science says there is nothing I can do about it...
poor little me..."
Yet there are many who accept the responsibility for their situation and in
so doing become free of "their problem". For those who do not and cannot accept
this, know that there are others in the same situation with the same biology and
the same karma who have beaten this most difficult disorder... good for them!
Symptoms:
As those suffering from Narcolepsy will tell you, it is a terrible
burden because they often will become "drowsy or fall asleep at
inappropriate times and places." Basically, the Narcoleptic has
lost control of the management of their consciousness because they
do not "decide" to fall asleep, it just "happens" to them.
And it
can happen anywhere, anytime, even when their attention is continually
focused as when driving an automobile. Since they are not in full
control of their awake consciousness, they are often unable to lead
normal lives without ongoing outside assistance (with driving, being
in public places, etc).
After Effects:
Narcolepsy is usually a life sentence only for older Souls. The older
the Soul, the more deeply entrenched their inappropriate emotional coping patterns are,
the more they resist changing them, the longer it will take to overcome
the "emotional body imbalance" that this disorder was designed to correct.
Often it will take several lifetimes for the Soul to develop the emotional
coping patterns needed to advance their spiritual development. Once the
emotions are properly managed in a future incarnation, the individual
will emerge stronger for the experience. For they will finally be able
to move fully forward in their growth as Soul.
Advice:
Although Narcolepsy can be "treated with medicine", these treatments
will reduce symptoms without doing anything to address their
causes. The only way to discover the causes of "narcoleptic episodes"
is for the person having them to carefully monitor their thoughts and
feelings just prior to an attack. By recording these in a journal,
one of the "inappropriate" emotional coping patterns will emerge.
The truth is that a "narcoleptic episode" is the penalty imposed by the
Higher Self whenever the individual uses their habitual emotional coping
pattern to respond to any given situation. Having the individual fall
asleep just after the pattern is "fallen back on" cannot fail but to get
the narcoleptic's attention.
Case History:
"I never had a problem sleeping until I went to college. My father had
been a straight A student there. There was a lot of pressure on me to
follow in his footsteps. I was determined to do well even though I was
not excited about pursuing my father's profession. It was about halfway
through the first semester when I started falling asleep in class. I was
not a party girl and always got enough sleep. So the nurse just told me
it was some flu but it got worse and worse."
"The more upset I got, the
worse the sleep problem got. Then it started happening not just in class
but everywhere. I almost got into a car accident when I went for help.
The counselor got me to see that my talents and my true happiness lay
elsewhere and I should follow them where they led despite what father
wanted for me. Only when I decided to pursue my own path, did my sleep
problem go away."
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