Healing Rejection From 15 Years Of Living With An STD

I was 21 years-old when I contracted genital herpes from my boyfriend. And let me just say that I really do hate that word- herpes. It doesn't have an abbreviation, it doesn't roll off your tongue like say, chlamydia. It just kind of sticks in your mouth like a wad of stale chewing gum. So yes, I was 21. I had been having sex for about three years. And that is always what kills me when I think about the numbers. In the 18 years I have been having sex, only 3 of them have been free of this stain, this shame backpack that I have been carrying around with me for far too long. Because that's really what a life with genital herpes is ripe with- shame and guilt. Metaphysical healer, author and all around bad-ass, Louise Hay talks about the energetics around having a sexually transmitted disease and in particular genital herpes. She says that this virus can be manifested in the body because of a "mass belief in sexual guilt and the need for punishment, public shame, belief in a punishing God and rejection of the genitals." Now I can't speak to the 50 million (yes, that's correct) Americans who have this virus but for me Louise Hay's assessment makes a lot of sense. I grew up in a Catholic upbringing where there were rules about sex. I grew up coming to understand the following: sex with someone you loved was ok. Sex outside of a relationship was not ok. Sex with someone I barely knew would make me a s. as would rushing into sex with someone too soon. So here was sex, offered up...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news