A trip to the hospital? What does it really mean?

Photo by Daquella Manera

Okay, so the physical body clearly is experiencing some sort of crisis or you wouldn’t be spending time in the hospital.  But, let’s look at the hospital as symbolism.

There are numerous floors and more than one way to get to each floor.  There are numerous hallways and a variety of ways to traverse these halls.  Then, of course, there are a huge number of rooms and a large assortment of different types of rooms – offices, patient rooms, labs, storage rooms, operating rooms, recovery rooms, emergency rooms and so forth.  There are so many ways to enter the hospital not only the physical ways such as the doors, but the reasons that you enter – a patient, a visitor, a health care provider, a janitor, a volunteer, an office worker, etc.

What if the hospital represents life or one’s journey through life?  There are so many reasons to enter into life.  There are a huge variety of choices to make – which room you are searching for, which direction you will take to locate it, whether or not you enter some doors and avoid others, some areas you are not allowed access to at this point in your life, the Chapel is somewhere (looking for the Divine). 

Just think about this.  Can you relate this to your life?  Have you experienced illness or emergencies that force you through some doors that you did not feel prepared for?  How will you find your way out?  Will you allow yourself to return there or what will you do to protect against a return?  Our spiritual and emotional health is directly related to our physical health.  The body holds and reflects that which we experience spiritually and emotionally.  When we suffer physically we must take notice so that we can heal not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally.