Causes of Ailments

"Now in the neck… is the throat chakra and here is where your power center is. Whenever you have a problem with your power, whenever you are questioning your power or whether or not you should use your power, or whether or not you have any power, you will usually manifest a sore throat, a cold in the throat or, if it is a chronic feeling that your power is not your own, it can develop into any kind of malady: malfunction of the glands in the neck, of the thymus and the thyroid and so forth.

Because the power center is the place from which your actions come, it is when you feel in your power that you will take an action of some kind, and procrastination often affects people adversely in the throat area. …And failure to act, unwillingness to go forward, often produces a chronic condition in the throat, which can develop into throat cancer, in its extreme, or right on down to a simple cold in the throat. Laryngitis always reflects one’s unwillingness to speak up, whether it be on their own behalf or on behalf of their belief system or of another.

Now, in the bones of the neck…a problem in the neck area always represents the fear that there is no support for their privacy, no support for their internal ideas, no support for their thought system. In other words, they feel they are isolated. There is nothing to support their thinking process.

A lot of people sustain a neck injury in automobile accidents… Whiplash. And that usually is a manifestation of that person’s feeling that, in effect, their ideas or their thinking is not supported by those around them. So consequently… you see people going around holding their necks. What they need to do is to establish that they are their own support. God supports them and they don’t need the support of other people.

Now, you get into the shoulder area… Clavicle, all right. …A person who sustains injury to a collarbone usually feels overburdened. They can’t raise their arms, they can’t use their muscles, the upper torso, because they aren’t able, they aren’t smart enough, they aren’t rich enough, they aren’t whatever enough, educated enough. You pick it and they can find that they are not enough of it and they will frequently sustain injuries or even ailments that affect that…arthritis in this area.

Now, you also have your rib cage and your…sternum… They protect all of your lungs and your heart. Now, if the lungs and heart are not protected, death could ensue even if you just bumped yourself a little bit in the chest. …You could have all manner of fatal injury if it were not for the ribs. So, the ribs are a kind of protection around your life. And when one feels that that protection is missing or in danger or in some way violated, they frequently will sustain injury or an ailment of the rib bones…

Now, the ribs also represent your sense of security. How secure do you feel in your world? Do you feel that your whole life system is in mortal danger? And some people do. It’s not a conscious feeling. I don’t mean you expect to walk out in the street and have someone mug you or something. I’m talking about your ability, your right, to live as you choose. Now, when someone feels that they don’t have that right or that there are others who are forcing their will upon them, they will very often develop ailments in through the chest area that most always has to do with the spine.

Now, remember, all of your ribs are attached in the back to your spine and these little bones in the back have little holes through them through which your nervous system… these little nerves go out to the various parts of the body and they see to it that your body gets energy to various parts. Every single organ in your body has a corresponding nerve. …So, if you’ve a problem with your liver, it could come from the fact that vertebrae that supply energy to the organ have been blocked off. You have a misalignment…all of that would produce a problem with the liver. If you get your bones put back in place, a lot of times your liver will start to function again.

So the spine not only supports the whole body, it also is the source through which every organ in your body receives energy, which is, in turn, life. So this is a very important mechanism. A spinal injury anywhere along the spine can result in malfunctioning of organs, or, in its worse case, paralysis of some part of the body. So, the spine would represent everything that you uphold in your belief system, everything that is important to you, everything that is the very basis and criteria of how you live your life.

Injury to the lower part of the spine that would affect the legs and lower viscera would represent a person who feels that they have no support from family. There is no one going to stand behind them, as it were. There is no one going to stand with them or be in accordance with them.

Anyone who has problems through the middle part, which would affect the stomach, pancreas, and so forth, that would be someone who felt fear as far as ability to take in and digest new things and ideas. Your stomach always represents your ability to take in new information. This also holds true with the upper intestine.

The upper spine has to do with the heart, the lungs, the esophagus, and also the sternum to produce a protection for these organs. But if there is a feeling there is no financial stability in the family or that they are the only financially responsible person, they will develop difficulty in the sternum, in between the shoulder blades and in breathing.

A person who is the sole support of a family, which is very ungrateful or which appears to be ungrateful, very frequently develops breathing problems – bronchitis, asthma, emphysema – anything that would make it difficult to take in air. Why? Because they feel it isn’t going to matter how much air they take in, they don’t have the right to breathe because they are responsible for everybody all around them. How many of you here have breathing problems from time to time? …Did you feel at one time that if you didn’t work, everyone around you would starve, including yourself? Did you feel, perhaps, that you didn’t have the right to take in life? Yes, you did! All of this goes to the spine, which is the support of the body and represents the support of your life.”

08/24/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, HEALING, Pgs. 124-130. Copyright 2016 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.