“Intentional Healing – Step 3 ”
I find today’s topic so interesting when are exploring ways to promote healing that goes beyond just healing symptoms. Now don’t get me wrong here! Dealing with and treating symptoms is an integral part of health – this has been my approach with my clients for over 30 years. Getting relief from symptoms using natural medicines is such an important part of my holistic practice. Now there is a time to take a step back and say, “ok, you’re benefiting from a holistic approach to your health and taking healing natural medicines, so what’s next?” How do I experience an even deeper level of health, healing and wellbeing? So let’s take a look now and see ‘what is next’ for those who want to take the next step and see what it means to experience more profound wellbeing.
Understanding and indeed experiencing your own boundaries of your health is one of the first steps to take. Now this often happens at the same time as having treatment for symptoms, or dealing with an illness, or finding mental and emotional balance. So what do you understand the limits of your wellbeing, to be? For example, do you think the migraines you are having are just part of life and something you will have to get used to or do you see them as a passing? Is your IBS or other digestive issue, something that is unlikely to go away and that you’ll always some level of digestive issues unless you take steroids, for example. One last example might be that you believe feeling various levels of depression is inevitable given the state of the world we live in.
The focus here is not what is true or not true, not what you have been told by your medical practitioner and not on your past experiences. These things of course play a role, but at the end of the day we simply want to just understand and experience what is that you believe about your health. Or to put it another way, to …
“Experience Your Current Health- Reality”
Natural Medicines
Apart from increasing our own self-awareness, one of the reasons I encourage my clients to acknowledging the here and now and experience their current health-reality, is so that as a practitioner, I can prescribe appropriate medicines that take this into account. For any system of holistic medicine, what the individual is experiencing at a deeper level can determine the approach and the medicines used to help them.
Be open
It is certainly not always an easy thing to face the status quo honestly and sincerely. I have some clients for which this step is so very challenging for one reason or another. But the important thing here is to be open to the process. Sometimes it is the job of an experienced practitioner to guide the client to a deeper understanding of their deeper experiences. Sometimes it takes an individual just to quieten the mind and to listen.
Moving Forward
Whether for self-awareness or as part of holistic treatment, one of the main reasons for all this emphasis on accepting the present state is that it allows us to move forward with our healing with some level of acceptance of where things are now with regards to your health. From this position it can be easier to move forward with healing and wellbeing. Here’s a simplistic example that makes the point: if you have more acceptance of your health, then it is likely that feelings such as resentment or anger, will be less. It is more difficult to experience deeper healing when there is anger. And even if there is still anger, having that openness to accept that, ‘I am still angry’ can help us to process the emotion and move towards a more balanced emotional state.
Easy Exercises For You
Mind Focus: You probably do this already to some degree, but if you haven’t already, I encourage you see if you can deepen your experience a little more. You might like to proceed with some sort of meditation to become more centered. I have some examples of questions (see below) that are designed to help open you up to deeper levels. When you’re relaxed, simple ask these questions of yourself and then be patient and wait to see your response. It might be an answer in thoughts, an image or a feeling. Just allow yourself to respond without judgement and without trying to change or modify what comes up for you. Try to be that interested observer, having equanimity and not reacting to what comes up for you.
Journaling: Many people find writing in their journal a wonderful way to focus and allow deeper levels to be reached. So use the questions as journaling prompts and see what comes up for you. If your not sure what to do, write out the questions and then, without judgement, just write whatever come to you. Don’t edit. Just express it and follow your feelings and thoughts. ‘
Go Below The Surface
There will be different levels to your answers, so we want to go beyond the more ‘obvious’ ones and see what’s beneath that. For example, having migraines means there are times you can’t even think and have to go to bed until it passes. At a deeper level, it might mean for you that it is really challenging for you to practice the violin and therefore this might affect your audition. This then brings up your anxiety about money.
Questions To Ask
How healthy can I be?
Are then any less obvious factors that get in the way of my healing?
How much healing can I experience?
In what ways does my health affect my life?
What are some of the less obvious ways my health limits the things I want to do?
If I was healthier than I am now, what’s one thing I would do that I currently don’t?
With a higher level of wellbeing, what would you do differently in your life?
The Next Step
Now that you have focused on the here and now with regards to your health, I believe you are in a better position to move forward in one way or another – enhancing your healing and levels of wellbeing. This can be self-directed or you may seek the help of a practitioner to use natural medicines and mind-body approaches to help you.
Note: For some people it is very difficult and challenging facing the reality of their current health and they may really benefit from seeking professional help.
Interested In Intentional Healing With Me?
If you are interested in allowing me to help you with your health and healing and you want to enjoy a deeper level of wellbeing, then I’d love to hear from you. Best thing is to go to my website and use the form to get in touch with me.
Pictures
1: Journaling: from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/pexels-2286921/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=1868015
2: Man thinking: from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/peggy_marco-1553824/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=5011953