Aha. Solved the mystery of why people get gum disease. This came to me from a dream I had last night. Well, to cut to the chase: gum disease comes from trying to avoid the pain of decisions. I'm not sure whether it's the pain associated with a current decision, or accumulated pain from past decisions. I bet it's both combined.
So the cure? It's to allow ourselves to feel the pain and let it flow through us. Simple. One good resource to help with this is the Heart On Fire site.
For those interested in dream interpretation. Here's how I got the message. In my dream I suddenly felt some of my teeth as hurting me. They were too sharp. They hurt my tongue. Then my whole mouth started to shiver - the kind of shivering that comes with the flu. Then I felt some of my teeth as loose. I decided something was really wrong with me; I was getting very sick. I yelled for help but my partner was already in a car with other people, driving away. I felt abandoned and hopeless.
When I woke this morning, I recorded the dream but didn't get anything much in the way of interpretation. My feelings were caught up in the sense of abandonment.
Later though, writing about something else entirely, the "teeth part" came into focus and I saw the meaning clearly. The "abandonment part" just meant that this was something I couldn't get help with from my usual sources of help. That makes perfect sense now. No one else can really do this for us. It's up to us - feel our pain and let it go? Or not?
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