One of our readers asked about how to heal from diabetes. I love your questions. They challenge me to dive in deeply into the spiritual and emotional roots behind illnesses.
When I took the concept of healing diabetes into meditation, I received an interesting perspective about this condition. Diabetes is the result of our psychological desire to experience the sweetness of life without expelling any effort. Then when we find that the earthly sweets of food are not satisfying enough, we disrupt our ability to ingest them. We do this so that we will be compelled to discover the greater sweetness in life, which is our true spiritual nature.
Louise Hay in You Can Heal Your Life, describes the internal motivation behind diabetes in this way: “Longing for what might have been. A great need for control. Deep sorrow. No sweetness left.”
The affirmation she recommends is this: “This moment is filled with joy. I now choose to experience the sweetness of today.”
Discover more about Louise Hay’s work at: http://www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com/
There is a palpable sweetness that is present when we allow ourselves to experience the limitless love of the Divine. The key is to invite an opening to love in each and every moment. If your heart has been closed down for some time as a way to try to protect it, you have probably discovered that stopping the flow of love can be as painful (if not more so) than opening to the risks of love.
At some point, the heart demands to experience love. When that happens, you may find it best to ease your way into sweet love by giving yourself permission to feel gratitude or compassion. It can be quite a challenge to move from protection to experiencing greater love and I have discovered that these two flavors of love seem to make the way a little easier.
Discovering a new relationship with love.
Of course, allowing is the opposite of controlling. You can’t control love anyway. It’s not a controllable feeling. It is a vibration that spontaneously wells up within us when we are vulnerable and receptive to life. Being vulnerable is about opening the heart.
We cannot make up for what we did not receive in our past. Love just doesn’t work that way. No person or event can fill the gap. Oh, we try. We fall in love with someone hoping that their love will assuage our aching hearts. We have children with the hope that our love for them will fulfill us in the love we didn’t experience as kids. We build careers with the expectation that money and influence will fill the longing, but they don’t. There is only one thing that fills us and that lies in awakening to the Divine love that we already are.
We just forgot for a while that the sweetest love we will ever experience is not about filling up with food, events, power, things or other people. The sweetest love is right here, right now, in our true nature as expressions of Divine consciousness exploring itself. There is nothing to get or take in. The sweetness is right here and we have the ability to remember it—to awaken to it. The effort required is in surrendering control and allowing ourselves to be present in this moment.
And isn’t that the effort we try to avoid? It takes tremendous diligence and commitment to surrender control. It takes continual focus to remember that all there is and all we long for exists right now. We can’t get it from the past, so regret is futile. Discovering the greatest sweetness we will ever know is in self-awareness and its nature of limitless love, and that is within our ability to experience now.
If you have diabetes, consider everything in your life in this moment that is sweet. Notice the trees and grass as the wind blows across them. Allow your senses to open to the warming of the sunshine and the tickling of the rain. Smile when you see someone smiling in the grocery store and be grateful for a warm cup of tea in your hands. Be delighted by your own silly joke or a mistake you made that led to a funny outcome. Make it a game to be a sweetness catcher, noticing all of the sweet ways in which the Divine exists within and around you. Recognize the sweetness every day until you fully realize that is who you are.
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Thankyou for this beautiful reminder my physical symptons are high sugar insulin resistance general fatigue depression etc and I don’t want to take pharmaceutical medication I would rather heal myself. This helped me xx
Hi Judy, I’m glad the article offered you the reminders you needed. Sending love and blessings to you and your choice to heal.
My 8 year old son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes last month. It’s been a steep learning curve for our family, as we start to understand digestion, sugars, insulin. I don’t know that one can restart or restore the Pancreas with this auto-immune disease. And while I want to say that my son has much “sweetness,” but also a relatively good diet (he loves eggs and pickles and fresh fruit and veggies), I’m also curious about possible alternative healing.
When he is older and beyond his growing years, he may be able to live primarily on a carb free diet and perhaps not have to inject insulin on a regular basis. But for now, it is saving his life.
For me, this has been a time of much grace– and even blessing. It’s been shocking and not “fun,” but it is bringing our family together and a source for a lot of love and healing.
I don’t want to feel like we brought this illness on by not having balance. But I do want to see it as an opportunity for growth and consciousness.
Elisheva, I’m so glad you decided to comment. I truly do not believe there is one single explanation for what we experience here on earth. Perhaps all we truly have is our intuition and openness to guidance. I have seen organs grow or repair in energy healing. I know many people who have healed when they were told it wasn’t possible, including growing new bone, muscle, nerves, etc. In interviewing them they often share it is only in retrospect that they came to understand why they experienced their physical challenge. I believe we are as limitless as we believe we are. Opening to our limitless nature, as beings of Divine creation, is the journey of a lifetime. How beautiful that as a family you are allowing this to be a source of love and healing. Not all conditions for every person are about being out of balance individually. With all the toxins in our air, land and water, our beloved planet is out of balance, and that too affects us. When we sense that our lives are out of balance in some way it can be comforting to find the balance point—and that is who the article is addressing. In my experience all conditions provide us with an opportunity to experience more love than we have every known before. It seems that is exactly what you are choosing. How beautiful!
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece Misa. I am a type 1 diabetic and I am learning to connect with my emotions and tap into the sweetness of life from within.
I just wondered if you have encountered a person who has healed their type 1 diabetes and has come off from using insulin?
Hi Paulius. I’m so glad to hear you are connecting with your sweetness from within! You ask a great question. I do know someone in remission from Type 2 diabetes and he corrected it completely with diet. However, I do not know someone with Type 1 who is in remission. Given the autoimmune nature of it, from a physical stand-point I would personally be inclined to look at diet in terms of exposure to GMO’s, glyphosates, etc.— anything that might introduce chemicals into the body that disrupt normal functioning. Energetically, I’d take a look at my inner conflicts and ways in which I deceive myself. That’s what I did when I used energy medicine and meditation to heal the onset symptoms of MS. And I would certainly look at yin and yang balance. You might find this article useful: https://misahopkins.com/womens-rhythms-and-healing-autoimmune-diseases/. Though written for women, the concept of yin/yang balance applied equally to both sexes. 🙂
I also understand the new docuseries, “Interconnected,” offers some great insights about autoimmune conditions. The film maker is a holistic doctor. I know him personally and am comfortable in recommending his work. https://www.interconnectedseries.com/over-2/. Let us know how your journey in remission and healing goes for you!
Although this website is in Dutch, here is a type 1 diabetic who has managed to get to the point of living medication free for multiple years already: http://www.verbeterkunst.nl/
Petra, how lovely of you to share this. For those who speak Dutch, I hope this provides inspiration. 🙂
My 8 year old son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes last month. It’s been a steep learning curve for our family, as we start to understand digestion, sugars, insulin. I don’t know that one can restart or restore the Pancreas with this auto-immune disease. And while I want to say that my son has much “sweetness,” but also a relatively good diet (he loves eggs and pickles and fresh fruit and veggies), I’m also curious about possible alternative healing.
When he is older and beyond his growing years, he may be able to live primarily on a carb free diet and perhaps not have to inject insulin on a regular basis. But for now, it is saving his life.
For me, this has been a time of much grace– and even blessing. It’s been shocking and not “fun,” but it is bringing our family together and a source for a lot of love and healing.
I don’t want to feel like we brought this illness on by not having balance. But I do want to see it as an opportunity for growth and consciousness.
This was so helpful! Thank you. My husband of 28 years has been insulin dependent (type 1) diabetic since he was 9. Understanding the why behind the disease helps so much.
So glad it was helpful Jen. Holding you both in love.
Hi,
I just felt like saying , what i felt like.
Its the 3rd / 4th time ive come across the site by coincidence.Just saw that the
last time i had messaged was on 22 november 2011.
Referring to going back in time and healing the self.
Had read louise hay then and still keep referring to it.
Your site is Good ( Short & Sweet )
Regards.
-Manu-
Thank you Manu. 🙂
Hi Misa,
thank you for your article. My son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes only a few months ago. He was only three and a half at that time. I was wondering if you have any suggestions for healing in children and if you think they could really be cured?
Lots of love
Lenka
Hello Lenka. Watching our children suffer has to be one of the most difficult challenges a parent ever faces. I don’t know if you believe in karma, or whether you believe we bring these challenges with us at birth. This has been my experience. I remember holding my granddaughter in my arms when she was a baby, knowing one of the abuses she was going to suffer in this lifetime. I also knew that none of my prayers would change that eventual reality, though I tried. She eventually did experience the abuse I saw in her, and I know that she has the strength within her to heal it completely, if she chooses.
Children can be amazing healers. They tend not to have so much doubt about the abilities of their minds and hearts to heal. I have watched and heard about children healing themselves and others with energy medicine, and in one case the child was about the age of your son.
When your son heals and how will ultimately be up to his soul. Perhaps, you would be willing to hold space in your heart for his soul’s journey. The soul longs to remember that it is the pure love of the Divine. If you can find it inside of you to hold his hopes and dreams, his pains, his suffering, and all of his choices—including love for the lesson type 1 diabetes itself bring into his life, his soul will recognize and respond to that love. In your love, his soul might find its rest—enough rest for healing to begin.
Children often respond quite well to energy medicine, so you might consider teaching him how to bring loving healing energy into his own body through touch, visualization or sound for example, depending on what seems most natural for him. Children also respond well to daily rituals, so you might create a lovely healing ritual to do with him before he goes to sleep at night. The energy you set into motion before he sleeps will continue to work throughout the night.
He must have a powerful journey in this life to have started so young with this condition. And how blessed he is to have you loving him and caring for his well-being. Holding you both in my heart!
Hi Lenka,
EFT Tapping is a very powerful form of energy healing that is simple enough for children to learn (you can also tap on other people if they are unable to themselves.) I highly recommend it. Tapping has brought people miraculous results for all sorts of conditions. Lots of videos on YouTube and you can also search online, EFT Tapping for Diabetes.
Hi Misa,
Thank you for your article.
My little son was diagnosed with type one diabetes a few months ago. He was only three and a half at that time. Do you have any suggestions that could help healing in children?
Lots of love
Lenka
Thank you so much for this article. I was told this week that I had diabetes and for some time now I felt my heart had been getting cold, lonely and tired. Your articles brought back memories and understanding.
Would you allow me to translate it into French and put it on my website?
Thank you,
Madeleine
Madeleine,
I’m glad to know the article was helpful. Yes, please do translate it and share. Thank you so much for asking. I wish you great blessings in your healing!
Dear Misa,
Thank you so much for allowing me to translate your article, it will help many. I am putting it on my website : http://www.vieillir-jeune.com
and I will let my readers know where they can find your website.
Many thanks,
Madeleine
Madeleine, my delight. Happy to support you in your sacred work as well—sharing insights with people in their healing journeys.
Thank you so much, dear Misa!
You are so welcome Tatiana.
Thank you Misa… I came across this piece when I was searching the net for the sweetness of life…I was thinking about this theme for my yoga classes and since my cat has been diagnosed with diabetes it made me think / reflect on sweetness in life, love… And then your page and ahhhhh the picture of the cat – drew me in. Your words align with me – the sweetness of aligning with the Divine & cOMpassionately giving our self permission to open our heart to explore our Divine nature ?
Thank you I would love to share this with others on my blog… You have inspired me with so many ideas for my classes
Namaste
Michelle, I’m so glad my words touched your heart. Please feel free to share my articles with others. We all need a little confirmation now and then, don’t we?
so do Misa…and the answers are revealed in so many guises… 🙂 thank you, all love n light x
I TOTALLY agree with your article. Hypoglycemia is often considered the opposite of diabetes, low blood sugar. I was diagnosed with it many years ago and it was severe. The day I sat down and asked, where did the 'sweetness' in my life disappear, I flashed back to the time I caught my husband in bed with my best friend and voila, that was the moment I needed to heal. I healed the memory and have had no problem with hypoglycemia since. The body is a report card of the soul. It is all right in front of us if we just know how to look.
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Manu,
Yes, I agree, sometimes it is helpful to go back in time to heal something that happened, and such healing can heal our present moment. I also know that sometimes by being compassionate with ourselves in this moment in time is equally healing. The wounds from our past become the wounds of our present if those wounds are never adequately met with compassion. And we can indeed heal those wounds by being compassionate with ourselves in the past situations or in our present dilemmas because it is all connected.
Hi! Im so blessed to have found this. My son died August 24, 2017 from KETOACIDOS . I never knew he was a diabetic however in 2011 his father passed right in front of him . I would like your insight please. Im hurtimg so many questions.
Shatara, I”m so sorry for the loss of your son. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to lose a child. Sometimes, when our loved ones cross over to the other side, they linger a bit on this side of veil. They do this for two reasons I’m aware of: 1) to check in on you and help you adjust, and 2) to understand how their lives have touched the hearts of people they love. This is an important time to talk with him and let him know about all the ways he blessed your life. I highly recommend creating an altar with a picture of him. Light a candle each day and tell him thank you. Notice the ways he reaches out to you. He might move an object in the house. You might see the animals he most loved near the house more often. You might here a soft voice in the back of your mind or a little wisp of cold air brushing your arm (out of no where). And especially, notice your dreams. These are all ways our loved ones “talk” to us from the other side so we can help each other through the change. Know that my heart and love is with you in this transition.
I hope that helps a lot of people. I've been newly diagnosed with diabetes and the symptoms are making me very poorly and the side effects from the medication are worse. But even though I had read Louise Hay's affirmation and try to use it – your words were so true, I cried and cried reading it as I recognised every word is true and makes perfect sense. Thank you.
Hi! I would like to know if your are keeping with the possitive thoughts and if they heal you or how is going your diabetes at the present time? I have diabetes and I want to heal my self with these thoughts.