Elightenment Burst, Least Effort and Detachment

I thought I hit a point of enlightenment yesterday, I was sure I figured out the answer to me trying to control the Crohn’s disease and Epilepsy that I have. These last 5 years I have been focusing on controlling my diseases, those are even the words I used, I control my health. I have finally given up on that way of thinking and realize I can’t control diseases that have already done so much damage; they are not just going to go away like magic. You might be asking yourself now where the enlightenment was in that thought.
What hit me was since I can’t control the Crohn’s or Epilepsy I have, I can then focus on control over every action or choice I make, plus control the way I react. It is the actions and reactions of our choices that affect our health. That is the secret in one simple sentence. I even send this new thought off to Dr David Simon at the Chopra Center, I think just looking for his approval of this simple thought that came to me. Dr Simon managed to burst my bubble of enlightenment with just a few words. He said “It’s not simply a matter of mind over body, so don’t beat yourself up when the ride gets bumpy.” Here one of the top medical doctor’s in mind body medicine in the world was telling me it wasn’t a matter of my mind over my body. The man who taught me that if we change the information that makes up our energy, we will change our body is now telling me it is not all about our mind making the right choices. It first hit me in a way that I was wondering if he was telling me that I didn’t have the power I thought I had to keep my good health. Why would he tell me that? My ego and defense system was kicking in. Dr Simon knows me well and understands that I have a problem with acceptance to the what things are at the present moment, attachment to the way I want things to go, and if they don’t go right he has to be the one to hear me complain about it. He wants to let me know that as much as I think I can control what happens by my choices or reactions there will still be times when things will not go the way I picture it should go. That is when I have to practice the spiritual laws of least effort and detachment, and most of all just keep doing the best I can, I can’t ask myself anymore then that.