| The true nature of healing is about generating | | | | name of trying to "be positive". It never works to |
| optimum energy in order to fully enjoy living your life. | | | | deny what you are honestly feeling. Honesty is the |
| Healing is much more than a technique of doing, it is a | | | | best policy and will set you free especially on an |
| state of Being; Being at peace with ourselves, our | | | | emotional level. |
| bodies, our relationships and our lives. Let's explore | | | | How to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Your |
| how to create more healing energy to improve your | | | | Emotional Body. |
| health and the quality of your life. | | | | It begins with honesty and a willingness to feel and |
| Healing is a return to wholeness by achieving balance | | | | express your emotions and then release them. |
| in your life. To get started, we need to explore the | | | | Whether its anger, hurt, love, or joy, the emotions |
| nature of health and let go of some outdated | | | | need to be felt and released. This creates a positive |
| concepts. During childhood, were taught that healing | | | | emotional state of being. How we relate to our |
| is only a means to fix and cure. We learned that | | | | emotions determines their positive or negative impact |
| healing happens as a reaction to illness or something | | | | in our lives. |
| to focus on when we're sick. Many traditional | | | | Can Love be Negative and Anger be Positive? Yes, |
| methods of healing in our culture are about fighting | | | | they both have the potential of being either positive |
| and conquering illness and disease. However, the | | | | or negative depending upon how you relate to them. |
| fundamental flaw with these approaches is that they | | | | When you express your emotions, they become a |
| consider healing a static , something to "do" once | | | | positive influence in your life. Likewise, when you |
| you're already sick. | | | | repress them, they turn negative and can wreck |
| There is a saying,"a person is alive, but not really | | | | havoc on your health. |
| living." Traditional healing is about keeping the body | | | | Unexpressed love can be tremendously negative. |
| alive, sometimes at all costs. In the medical field, | | | | Repressed love can change the chemistry of your |
| death is seen as failure. There are many souls | | | | body, your blood pressure and eventually contribute |
| trapped in physical bodies due to the advancement | | | | to heart disease. Love on an emotional level is |
| of medicine. There are even machines that will keep | | | | energy. When we refuse to let energy flow, it |
| your lungs breathing for you. Just keeping a body | | | | becomes repressed and can cause many physical |
| alive, doesn't produce a state of healing. | | | | complications. |
| Wholeness honors and respects all four levels of your | | | | How to turn anger into a positive experience: Anger |
| being. It begins by owning and respecting your | | | | that you feel (honestly), express (responsibly) and |
| physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. These | | | | release through forgiveness, can create positive |
| four levels of being or "bodies" are the foundation to | | | | changes in your life. Anger holds a part of your will |
| wholeness that leads to creating optimum health. | | | | power. When you feel your anger and express it |
| Genuine healing is a return to wholeness by achieving | | | | constructively, you can access this trapped will power |
| balance in your life. | | | | to create discipline and positive changes. |
| The Four Levels of Your Being that Produce Health | | | | How to begin honoring your emotional nature. Begin |
| and Wellness. | | | | to give yourself permission to feel all of your |
| The first level of healing is with your physical body. | | | | emotions without judgment and to express them |
| It's the most visible aspect of our being. We can | | | | constructively. You can best do this, by journaling. |
| easily identify and see the symptoms of illness | | | | Write down your feelings on a regular basis is a great |
| physically. However, the lack of illness doesn't define | | | | way to express this energy and release it from your |
| a state of health and wellness. Unfortunately, many | | | | emotional body. It may take some practice, but it will |
| people use their body as the only barometer to | | | | ultimately lead to a healthier state of being. |
| determine if they are healthy or ill. If there are no | | | | The Third Level of Healing is on the Mental Level |
| symptoms or pain in my body, then I must be | | | | The power of our mind is limitless. How do you relate |
| healthy. Right? That like saying, well if we aren't at | | | | to this God given gift, called your human mind? Do |
| war... then we must be at peace! Right? Wrong! You'll | | | | you recognize the value of it to change your life or |
| soon see that the physical body is only the first of | | | | do you disregard your mental power? Most people |
| four bodies to evaluate your state of health and | | | | have never been taught to appreciate the power of |
| wellness. | | | | their minds. |
| Healing begins by making choices to care for your | | | | Mental empowerment begins by making a personal |
| body. Ask yourself these questions to evaluate your | | | | choice. Understanding how the mind works and how |
| relationship to your body. | | | | to use the mental tools that are available to you, |
| Do you appreciate your physical body? Do you find it | | | | begins mental empowerment. The four mental tools |
| easy to accept or do you constantly criticize your | | | | to create wellness (as well as any other change in |
| body? Are you ashamed of your body? Are you | | | | your life) are: |
| measuring it against standards of perfection that are | | | | 1. Imagination 2. Thoughts 3. Beliefs 4. Choice |
| impossible to achieve? If so, then ask yourself why | | | | These four mental tools contain the power to |
| and write down your answers in a journal. Writing it | | | | improve or destroy your life. They create the nature |
| down helps you reflect deeper. These four questions | | | | of your attitude and your self image. You can not |
| will help determine your current relationship with your | | | | fully understand your inner power without owning |
| physical body and can be a catalyst to jump start | | | | these tools and using them to create the life you |
| your healing process. Be honest with your answers | | | | desire. |
| and write them down. | | | | Mental healing begins by making a choice to use the |
| You may discover you have been in a very | | | | power of your mind. |
| dysfunctional relationship with your body. If so, | | | | THE CHOICE: To believe your thoughts are powerful |
| forgive yourself and begin to accept, appreciate and | | | | and attract and create your experiences... or, to |
| respect your body, just as it is. Acceptance, | | | | believe that it doesn't matter what you think. Life |
| appreciation and respect will quickly change the | | | | isn't a choice, it is only an experience that you have |
| dysfunctional relationship with your body. It can also | | | | no control over. |
| help develop positive habits to care for your body | | | | If we deny our thinking and imagination, we are out |
| and nuture it toward health. | | | | of alignment with our mental power on this third level |
| A Few Suggestions to Appreciate and Respect Your | | | | of our being. Thus, disempowered on the mental level |
| Body;o Exercise daily to provide stimulation to your | | | | of our being; leading to illness rather than wellness. |
| internal organs.o Eat nourishing foods with live energy | | | | When you believe your mind holds the key to your |
| such as fruit and vegtables.o Breathe oxygen filled air | | | | personal power, you become more conscious of your |
| to continually renew your energy.o Expose your body | | | | thoughts and choices. You understand that your |
| to sunlight in small doses on a regular basis.o Sleep | | | | imagination is where all change begins; First in your |
| well and allow for plenty of time to rest and | | | | mind and then in your life. Make the choice to |
| revitalize.o Discover new ways to experience | | | | understand these tools, learn about them and use |
| pleasure and comfort.o Accept any physical limitations | | | | them to lead you closer toward healing and |
| and love your body as it is. | | | | wholeness. |
| The Second Level of Healing is with Your Emotional | | | | "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge." |
| Body. | | | | -Albert Einstein |
| The next level of healing is within your emotional | | | | Disempowered individuals believe that the imagination |
| nature. Many people experience a dysfunctional | | | | is just "pretend" and has no power, it is only make |
| relationship with their emotional body. This is due to a | | | | believe. When we engage our imagination and |
| lack of understanding about the nature of emotions. | | | | visualize the healthy expression of ourselves in our |
| We were never taught how to keep our emotions | | | | minds, we will create the blueprint of our future. Your |
| healthy. Instead, we were encouraged to devalue | | | | imagination is a preview or your lifes experiences. Use |
| and repress them producing emotional negativity. This | | | | it! |
| unhealthy relationship leads to emotional stress and | | | | How to Access the Power of Your Imagination to |
| can be the source of many physical health problems. | | | | Change Your Life. The quickest way I know is to |
| Science is now discovering how emotions have a | | | | practice visualization and guided imagery techniques. |
| direct and immediate effect on the physical body. It | | | | You can discover how to focus your attention and |
| is almost instantaneous and is the basis of the body | | | | use your imagination by learning to meditate. This is |
| mind connection. For example fear triggers adrenoline | | | | the quickest method I know to gain access to the |
| and causes the fight or flight response in a millisecond | | | | power of your mind. (See my guided meditations) |
| of that feeling being triggered. Mental emotional | | | | The Forth Level is Spiritual Healing: Your Relationship |
| stress influences your physical health, by changing | | | | to the Divine. |
| your chemistry, immune system and blood pressure. | | | | Your spiritual nature, regardless of your religion or |
| What constitutes a positive emotion versus a | | | | lack of it, is about a personal and private relationship |
| negative one? Many people get stuck when it comes | | | | with the Divine, with God. What is God? Most simply |
| to dealing with their emotional body. The most | | | | put, God is Love. To honor God is to honor your |
| common reason is that we divide our emotions into | | | | relationship with love. |
| categories of "good" and "bad" feelings. The "good" | | | | Beyond the emotional expression of human love is |
| ones we have deemed worthy of feeling. On the | | | | divine love. A love that begins by being |
| other hand, the "bad" emotions are deemed | | | | understanding, compassionate and forgiving. Divine |
| unacceptable, and we tend to ignore, deny or | | | | love is so much more than emotional love. It is the |
| repress them. It is our judgement of our emotional | | | | ultimate state of being. Being a loving person, |
| nature that creates the dysfunction on this level of | | | | becomes the foundation through which you establish |
| our being. | | | | permanent healing and activate your life-force energy |
| Judging emotions as "good" and "bad", creates | | | | to create wholeness that leads to mental, emotional |
| emotional negativity. Traditionally we're taught to feel | | | | and physical healing. |
| the "good" or as I prefer to call them, "expanding | | | | Spirituality is your personal relationship with God. If |
| emotions", then we are being positive. However, if | | | | God created... all-that-is, then everything is a creation |
| we feel the "bad" or "contracting emotions", we are | | | | of God (love). Spirituality is the way we relate to our |
| being negative. This division of good and bad with | | | | lives with love or without it. Spirituality is not a ritual |
| your emotions produces negativity that leads to | | | | we do on Sunday and it's not a book with rules and |
| dysfunction. | | | | regulations, that's religion. Spirituality's only rule is love. |
| You'll begin to create healing on this level rapidly, by | | | | Love is the way you relate to living your life. |
| changing how you define your emotions. Begin by | | | | Spirituality is your personal relationship to everything |
| letting go of the judgments of good and bad. | | | | in your life. Spirituality is your relationship with your |
| Instead, think of them as expanding and contracting. | | | | body, emotions, and mind. Spirituality is your |
| Then think about breathing and ask your self, "Is | | | | relationship to your work, money, family and friends |
| inhaling good and exhaling bad?" No... you need to do | | | | and it all hinges upon wether those relationships are |
| both to breathe properly, and so it is with your | | | | based on love and understanding or judgement and |
| emotions, they work together expanding and | | | | seperation. Being loving is the most healing and |
| contracting to guide and protect you through your | | | | powerful experience to change the nature of your |
| life. When you let go of the conditioned judgments | | | | life. It is the ultimate healing energy. |
| from your childhood you will take a major step | | | | When we honor our relationship with God we |
| toward emotional health and wellbeing. | | | | recognize that our free-will choice to love God is |
| Honesty is the most positive emotional state of | | | | really about choosing to love ourselves and |
| being. Being emotionally aware of your feelings | | | | everything and everybody in our lives. |
| regardless if they are expanding or contracting is | | | | The true nature of healing is focused on loving |
| being honest about how you really feel. Simply being | | | | yourself enough to:o Nurture your body by meeting |
| honest, is the most positive relationship you can have | | | | its needs for healtho Honor your emotions and handle |
| with your thoughts and feelings, so drop the | | | | them honestlyo Value the power of your mind to |
| judgments of good and bad, and just be honest. Self | | | | overcome resistance to changeo Knowing that |
| respect is not having to apologize for how you | | | | spirituality is simply about choosing to loveo Ask God |
| honestly feel, it is a state of honoring your thoughts | | | | for healing and strength to reach your full potentialo |
| and feelings. This is one way to develop self respect. | | | | Remember that God isn't separate from the physical |
| All emotions have purpose and offers feedback | | | | world. |
| about your life. Every emotion is a natural feedback | | | | The purpose of holistic healing is to create heaven on |
| mechanism to gain greater understanding of how | | | | earth by becoming whole and at one with all that is. |
| you're doing in your life. They are meant to provide | | | | Only then can wholeness and healing become as |
| guidance on your journey through life. To fully | | | | natural as breathing. The true nature of health |
| respect yourself is to be honest with how you feel | | | | becomes the way we live our lives, not just a quick |
| emotionally so that you can change it. Denying | | | | and temporary cure to fix or keep our body alive! |
| emotions keep them alive and can haunt you for | | | | Aliveness is the natural way to increase your energy. |
| years. When you think about an area of your life | | | | Aliveness emerges from a healthy relationship with all |
| that isn't working the way you want, you will | | | | four levels of your being, physical, emotional, mental, |
| naturally feel constricting emotions and likewise, the | | | | and spiritual. Aliveness is being physically energized, |
| areas that are working well will feel expansive. | | | | emotionally free, mentally clear and spiritually |
| If you feel anger, then be angry! Don't try to | | | | connected to life. Spirituality healing is a choice |
| convince yourself that your not. Feel it, express it | | | | available to everyone. The choice to access the |
| (responsibly) and release it (forgiveness) and then | | | | power within whenever we choose and to remember |
| get back to feeling happy and free again. Emotional | | | | we are loved by God and the way to love God is to |
| honesty is the most powerful and positive way to | | | | love our lives and create a healthy wholeness with |
| be. However, if you deny your anger, you can | | | | all-that-is. |
| attract all kinds of negative experiences, all in the | | | | |