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The Lost Art of Embracing Pain

15/2/2021

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Most initiation rites of the past involved pain.

Or at least the ones that got the most attention and memorialised in our consciousness (partially because we are horrified, but also secretly in awe that people survived these things).

Initiations involving: genital mutilation, cutting & scarring, being hung painfully suspended, death defying stunts, insect stings, being harshly isolated/outcast from family, being whipped and more.

All without anesthesia.

Once upon a time, these initiation rites and the respective pain were accepted in the tribe or community (although many done in secret sacred spaces). It was usually treated as something to be revered and a celebration.

But now, this perspective is getting less & less so. Not that I’m condoning painful and dangerous initiation rites, but it seems like it’s swung the other way.

A juxtaposition type perspective has come instead – a need to avoid pain at all cost. That pain is bad.

And yet, pain has not been avoided in our society at all. Not really.

In Australia, in 2018, 1 in 8 people live with chronic pain, 1 in 8 live with anxiety and 1 in 10 live with depression (or feelings of depression). I’m sure Australia isn’t greatly different from other first world countries in these statistics.
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We can take pills (or other recreational means) to numb these effects & other forms of discomfort, but pain still remains. Rather than an embracing, there’s a suffering.

Embracing pain is not the same as accepting it. Although there are similarities.

A small example
Let’s use a less dramatic example ~ because I’m not advocating any dangerous initiation rites mentioned earlier.

When I was little, I had no problem getting dental work (partially because my dad was a gentle dentist, but he also had practices to reduce pain), however I was terrified of the doctors because of needles. I can’t recall what type of needle in early childhood, a vaccination was the first memory, but even in school age I would be close to tears if the doctor wanted to draw blood.

I learnt later in life to face the pain by watching the process. It still hurt and affected me in my 30s, but I could control my emotions.

Recently, I got a blood tests for general check-up and was commenting to the nurse/medical assistant how it doesn’t hurt like it used to. He did make mention of techniques and technology improvements, however my general attitude towards pain has also improved in the past 3 years.

I still watch the process, but I also know how to relax into the pain (before & during).

It’s more than an accepting or even wallowing in it, it’s an embracing. The whole pain experience is less heightened, and doesn’t leave an imprint on my nervous system like it once did.

Opening the doorway
Embracing the pain is a small counterintuitive strategy that changes your inner paradigm. Counter-instinctive is a better word, because you ‘instinctively’ want to pull back from the pain but unfortunately that word doesn’t exist in the English language.

It’s counter-intuitive to embrace the pain – because our reflexes are designed to draw back from it.

The withdrawal reflex is useful in a situation where there is a source of pain/potential pain, and drawing back will protect you from further harm. That’s why we have that reflex. However, when it’s a ‘stuck pain’ (as in stuck within you – chronic form), drawing away won’t lead to resolution even if it might give you temporary relief.

‘Leaning in’ provides an opportunity for transformation. It opens the doorway.

Chiron the wounded healer
Perhaps one of the best classic stories about pain transformation and ‘leaning in’ is of Chiron the wounded healer.

In the ancient Greek myths, Chiron (pronounced as ‘Kye-ron’) was a centaur (half-man, half-horse) who was known to have an immortal wound. The below is an excerpt from an old blog (which you can find here).

Chiron was a healer and renowned teacher of great warriors such as Hercules, Achilles and Jason of the Argonauts. He was hit by a poison arrow made by the poison of the Hydra (multi-headed water monster) ~ which normally would be fatal, except that he was an immortal.

Unfortunately, this eventuated as an unhealable wound, causing him unbearable pain. He continued his selfless service with his wound, able to heal others but not himself.

Chiron longed for the day to die, rather than carry out immortality with the unhealable wound. Chiron learnt of the titan Prometheus, held in the underworld of Hades (aka Greek hell), chained to a rock where an eagle would eat out his liver daily ~ and that his freedom from torture could only be attained by swapping with an immortal.

So, he chose to take Prometheus’ place on the rock. Zeus, the god of gods, took pity on Chiron and freed him from the torture, to become immortalised in the stars as Centaurus (aka Sagittarius).

At face value, you might want to interpret this myth as you will be saved & immortalised if you become a martyr. But that’s a pretty false interpretation, and perpetuates the martyr complex.

Consider another viewpoint.

That Chiron, in all his wisdom gained, took the final act of wisdom and leaned into the pain, by opening the doorway to travel down to the core and fully embraced the experience. In that, a transformation was sparked that shifted him to another paradigm where it no longer existed.

The paradigm shift
You may have experienced a pain or health resolution in the past, and realised how much of a paradigm shift it is. It’s like the condition or experience never existed. Was it all just a dream?

Especially in the case of a sensory experience, such as pain, it needs to be remember that your senses are an illusion formed by your own body. Whether that sensory experience is operating functionally and responding to a stimuli that you can ‘get away from’ or just operating dysfunctionally, it’s created by your body.

So, you would think that you could have some say in the experience, right? That there would an opportunity somewhere to shift that experience (slightly or greatly) when the pain is serving no functional purpose.

In 1968, Ronald Melzack & Kenneth Casey developed a model to describe chronic pain called the 3 Dimensions. Simply, the intensity & unpleasantness of the pain experience is also affected by ‘higher cognitive activities’ such as belief/placebo, suggestions, cultural values and heightened states. They proposed that pain is a multi-dimensional experience.

Embracing pain is a lost art. Perhaps it became lost with our initiation rites and the times where it was once revered to look pain in the eye. This is not about enticing more pain into our lives, but an evolved understanding that moves beyond those times.

​It’s time to move into a place where members of our society realise their ability to affect their inner experience and that pain is not something within to victimise us.

​Instead, pain is something that can be shifted, and we can lean in to activate that ability that lies within us.


Check out the latest Health Is Yours webinar (Tuesday 16th Feb 2021): What Your Pain Wants to Tell You (& how to start hearing & healing)​

Check out the Inner Alchemy self-study online course to go deeper in understanding and activating your ability to shift pain at will here. 

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Can the Medical System & Holistic Health Industry Work Together?

25/1/2021

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What I’ve noticed is this…

There are some hot topics out there, where the opposing parties remain in a stand-off about (also referred to as gridlock).

Vaccinations, climate change, alternative health, for example.

And the topics lead to quite heated debates, sometimes bordering on (or not) being outright rude. What leads some people to get abusive because someone has a differing opinion? That’s another discussion for another time.

The irony of the heated debates, is that both parties are ultimately wanting the same thing, but have a different method/focus/value about it:
  • Vaccinations – life of the child/individual in regard to infectious disease (through receiving vs by avoiding vaccinations)
  • Climate change – want the status quo to remain (environment vs economy & progress)
  • Alternative health – a system/process to improve health and health symptoms (through holistic health vs medical route)
There is no real problem about there being diverse ideas or methods to have the same outcome individually. The problem is the belief that one cannot exist with the other being true.

​Or another way to frame it, to those certain individuals, one must be eradicated for the other to fully exist.
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3 Questions NOT to Ask Your Holistic Health Practitioner

18/1/2021

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​In the ‘first’ world that we live in, where the medical system is usually considered the ‘first’ choice over holistic healing (aka alternative therapy), the medical system structures are often the default communication even in the general public.

Even though some holistic healing modalities pre-existed centuries before the medical system ever did.

With so many holistic healing choices and varying lingo, it’s hard to communicate in a unified manner. So, it’s understandable that using medical terms are easier.

However, if communicating in these terms with your holistic health practitioner, some understandings should be put in place first. This helps manage expectations and prevents miscommunication – especially since those medical terms are not part of the foundations of many holistic healing modalities.

Here are 3 questions NOT to ask your holistic health practitioner and some alternative considerations instead:

1. Can you cure me (of my health condition/disease diagnosis)?

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5 Natural Laws - An Introduction

1/11/2020

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Nature is beautiful ~ and its laws are self-sustaining & absolute.

Nature is a beautiful undulation of interweaving forces, the kind & the cruel, the graceful & awkward, the scary & adorable. But within all of that, are self-sustaining and self-governing principles held in a self-organising system that has integrity.

Even with all its moving parts and expansive diversity.

So much can be learnt from nature.

In fact, many science theories and concepts that are learnt in schools were brought through just with the observation of nature.

Nature has nothing to prove. It just is.

And through its observation, we can find analogies for our own lives, using these consistent and self-sustaining principles. Everything is available, if your eyes are open enough to see.


​5 Natural Laws

The 5 natural laws I focus on are (in no particular order, as they are inter-weaving):

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Fear of Copying & Criticism When Creating Your Healing Style

28/8/2020

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Creating your own healing modality is a bit of a bumpy ride. Exciting yes… also nerve-wracking at times.

When you learn a modality from someone else, you can ask questions to your teacher/mentors and even your colleagues. There could even be a professional association that has your back and a bunch of social media or student practice groups set up that you can join to feel part of the community.

When you create your own modality, you are on your own (that is, unless you are co-creating it with someone). If by yourself, you don’t have an authority to give you guidance.

In fact, you don’t even have someone who could tell you what you’re doing wrong. Because it hasn’t been fully crystallised yet… YOU are the person who works that out.

Everything out. The scope, the limitations, what’s needed to overcome challenges. What is the correct way to use the technique, what is the incorrect way. Who it’s best for.

Everything.

This is why it can be nerve-wracking at times.

But it’s also extremely fulfilling.

If you have that creative streak and perhaps even a little rebellion to step outside the norm, then this journey will satisfy your Soul.

​But one worry that could come up for healers who want to create their own style or modality is that there will be a backlash.


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How 3 Renowned Healing Modalities Came To Be

24/8/2020

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​Creating a new healing modality is usually NOT an intentional process.

Like the creative arts, the muse beckons in its own time and method. Or at least that’s what it seems…! (It’s actually not).

I’ve been studying the biographies of a range of different healing modality creators and some common themes emerge. Apart from the overall process of the creation and crystallisation of the modality, there were some commonalities in the spark (or inception) of the idea.

I want to share the ways that 3 renowned healing modality creators first started their journey:
  • Tom Bowen, creator of Bowen Therapy
  • Drs Hal & Sidra Stone, creators of Voice Dialogue (originators of Parts Work)
  • Marian Chace, creator of Dance/Movement Therapy

All beautiful modalities, and each of them created in a different way.

BOWEN THERAPY
Bowen Therapy is a bodywork modality that uses cross-fibre technique to release the fascia (soft connective tissue) of the body. It was created by Tom Bowen, who was a carpenter back in the 1950s.
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Shifting My Sinus Issue With Emotional Release

28/12/2019

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Without getting to the root cause, you are doing things the long way.

Without getting to the root cause, you’re only compensating.

When you compensate, you create opportunities for defences. And healing is difficult, if not impossible, with defences in place.

The problem is that, with a defence in place, you don’t want to let it go. It’s protecting you, even if it’s hindering you.

Over the Christmas/New Year limbo period, I found myself with a niggling sinus issue. It wasn’t that bad, but it was annoying to have a minor pressure build-up of fluid on the left side and occasional running.

In fact, it was more annoying that that used to be my reality as a child… to the point where both sides were blocked constantly and I had to resort to mouth breathing.

Over the years as a healer and working on my own healing journey, even though I may not have solved all my allergic symptoms, I did manage to overcome my sinus issues. And return my breathing back to diaphragmatic breathing, with persistence and will.

So, to have this little niggling sinus show up that no longer was the norm of my reality, was quite noticeable.

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The Difference Between Health & Healing... And Why You Need A Plan for Both

9/12/2019

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People get health improvement and healing confused, thinking it’s the same thing, but they really aren’t.

Although they are leading to the same end goal.

I think of health improvement like compounding interest on an investment (for example, wealth creation). And healing like a resolution of debt (acquired directly or indirectly).

Health improvement involves promoting well-being on all levels – physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and more.

Healing, however, is a process of repair, regeneration and restoration back towards homeostasis. The word itself has a literal meaning – to make whole.

You don’t need to heal in order to be healthy. And you can have all sorts of healthy habits, but this doesn’t determine if you will heal from certain conditions.

But they CAN complement each other.

Like investing in your future & resolving your debts leads to an increase in your overall net worth, working on BOTH improving health habits & proactive healing will increase your overall net health & well-being.

Why A Plan?
“Plan your work & work your plan” ~ Napoleon Hill
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” ~ Abraham Lincoln

A plan is a set of intended actions for the purpose of achieving an outcome. It can be as simple or complex as you like.

Spontaneity is a good thing, luck is wonderful – but neither can be depended on to undertake real transformations. It can happen, but more often than not, it doesn’t.

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Who Does The Healing: The Healer or The Client?

16/8/2019

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I have to admit – this has taken 4 months to write.

I’ve had the title for ages, but couldn’t work out the answer. I was so curious what was going to be revealed, but the blog was taking its sweet time.

But it seems, first, I had to process through each viewpoint.

I thought… well, the client does the healing then? The body heals itself, right?
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But that didn’t sit quite right. Why would they come for a healing session then? Unless the body or another aspect of the being needed help starting the healing process.

And really, does the body heal… or does it only know to how maintain equilibrium and regenerate (replace)? Is this what healing is about?

I thought… ok, well then, the healer does the healing? I guess they do have techniques and processes that facilitates healing.

But what about spontaneous healing and self-healing? What about those rare clients where you’ve hardly done anything yet and they just start having insights and things happen by themselves. I just sit and witness.
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You Don't Need To Be Fully Healed Before You Can Heal Others

14/7/2019

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Perhaps this is a dirty little secret in the healing industry. Healers out there – embarrassed that they still have health conditions, and hiding it while they continue to help others.

And what’s the problem with healers having a health condition??

How does having a health condition preclude you from doing healing work that you’re qualified to do? (apart from symptoms being too overbearing to concentrate or hold space for others).

But I get it – and I’ve felt the same. The shame of not having your own stuff sorted and feeling like a hypocrite. There’s a personal value to be the best person and role model you can be.

But being a role model does NOT equal being absolutely perfect.

And that leads me on to some mistaken thought patterns, which holds the shame in place.

MISTAKEN THOUGHT 1 – you believe there’s a thing called perfect health & that you should be that

​Well, you might as well aim to be a unicorn.

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What to do Waiting For That Scary Medical Test Result

12/4/2019

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I think this is a big part of the reason why people don’t go get medical exams or blood tests… they don’t want to hear any bad news.

Until… they get a mysterious symptom that makes the fear of something actually wrong with them MUCH WORSE than getting the test.

This is how we run our lives.

Letting the fear dictate our actions, and not doing anything unless the fear is loud enough.

But, even for those of us who do ensure to keep up our check-ups, waiting for the results can trigger a bit of nervousness from time to time. It’s like a reverse lottery – and you hope you’re not the winner of the bad news or the dreaded ‘positive result – please come into the clinic for discussion’.

I’ve had these types of scenarios in the past, ranging from minor events to majorly concerning events (even if it turns out not to be a concern).

And it was an amazing training opportunity for my intuition. If I can come to a clear conclusion in myself… in the midst of the terror of potentially hearing bad news, then I can do it in almost any circumstance.

So… what do you do?

​Here are my general steps, which I’ll explain further below:

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Why Am I Still Unwell?

12/3/2019

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This is the question you ask yourself, when you’re suffering from long-term unwanted symptoms (pain, rash, fatigue, weight, etc) and yet all the people around you seem OK. 

And then, as time passes, the initial hope of healing fades and you realise that it’s not happening for you. That’s when hopelessness wants to set in but the mind wants to work out why.

‘Why am I still sick? Why is this happening to me?’
Or ‘What am I doing wrong?’

Here, I share 5 possible reasons why.

(Of course, these are described generically rather than specifically discussing the root cause/s to your particular situation. If you want to read about what your root cause might be, visit here).


You don’t have to be doing all 5 of these possible reasons, but as you read through – perhaps one might spark some resonance in you, even though you were hoping it was another reason (isn’t that always the way?).

If it hurts to read it… great. If it stirs up emotions that you don’t want to feel, even better.

These responses can usually be a sign of potential change. 

Ultimately, it’s change that you want. Right? You want to feel healthy, so you can enjoy life and create the things you want to create in it.
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But first… let’s discuss this graph.
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Healing is Just in the Mind, Or is it?

11/2/2019

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When it comes to healing, most people want a magic trick.
 
Because natural or energetic style healings, are like magic when they work. Nobody fully knows why, but no one has really given a solid theory on that either (forget research journals, the reductionist model used for scientific hypothesis doesn’t apply well to these styles of healing that focus on holistic and whole of being approaches).
 
And magic tricks are cool – when our health & well-being aren’t at stake.
 
Magic is just not knowing or understanding why something worked or happened – the less we can understand, the more magical it seems.
 
Think about a magic trick or illusionist act.
 
When it works, you think “Wow!”. When you find out how it works, that’s pretty cool too (especially if it has some finesse to it).

But the next time you see a similar trick, it’s lost its magic – you know how it works now. In fact, if you see it multiple times, it becomes lame. Been there, done that.
 
It gets categorised as a trick of the mind. An illusion.
 
And the question is – are health issues, and the healing that occurs just a trick of the mind, as well? An illusion?

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5 Reasons Why Even Healers Need Healers

3/1/2019

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This is not written for only healers. It’s written for everyone.

Everyone’s health is important.
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Healing support is so vital – and in our current health care system, where health is supposedly ‘free’… healing support gets the pre-conceived notion of not being highly valuable.

And in that, I mean – many people don’t want to invest the time, money or energy in finding ongoing healing support.

Why that is could be many factors – such as giving self (& their health) low importance, an ideal of health as something to attain but never maintain, the idea of a miracle cure/fix, and just a general lack of understanding (& in that understanding comes not knowing what to do first).

There is also a stigma that seeing a healer must mean that there must be something really wrong with you. Like the misguided idea that you’d only see a marriage counsellor when your marriage is falling apart. Or you’d only work on your finances when you’re in debt.
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And it’s time for us all to move on from an idea that you only see a healer when you’re sick (aka the problem solving approach), to a broader healing journey context to also include health creation when you’ve recovered from what ails you.
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One Counter-Intuitive Strategy for Natural Pain Relief (Physical or Emotional)

29/10/2018

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Physical or emotional pain – the suffering is the same but in different focus areas. People can empathise, but it really is your own inner experience and no one can be fully there with you in your pain and unbearable discomfort.

That suffering is both real and an illusion.

It’s real in that it hurts. So much so that it can make you take action that seems out of character or propel you to do things you normally wouldn’t, out of desperation.

But the illusion is that it’s not as concrete as it appears.
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It can usually be shifted, anywhere, anytime. Suffering is an unnecessary by-product.

And the simple solution?

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Healing From Transient & Systemic Illness

9/9/2018

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When we look at an illness, we usually look at it functionally – which part of the body or being does it affect.

But there’s another perspective that is rarely mentioned. Maybe because it’s harder to pin-point than an area of the body. Our need to know the answer often trumps the process of figuring things out.

However… there is a real benefit to thinking about illness from this other perspective: transient versus systemic.

Why? Because it helps to manage the expectations. It changes the treatment plan, the duration, the amount of effort required.

Finding out which one you have determines the healing process – is this just a phase in your life, or does this require a change to your whole way of being?

Transient versus Systemic Health Conditions
Transient illness relates to a condition which is passing by, whereas systemic illness is one that is born from the foundations of your body.
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Think of transient illness as being in transit in an airport. It can take awhile to get out of transit - but most of the time, there's a way.
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5 Mistakes I've Made With My Health (& What I Learnt)

1/8/2018

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Health has been my Achille’s heel, challenger and teacher for my whole life… as long as I can remember.

While I haven’t been perfect in other areas of my life… health has been the area I have felt most imperfect in. And have gone to the greatest depth of understanding, possibly because of that.

The beauty is that there are so many more depths to explore. I know that it will be impossible for me to explore it all in this life – but I’m going to sink my teeth on as much deep universal wisdom as I can and share it with the world.
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Here are my top 5 mistakes I’ve made with health – which have been pivotal in changing my limited views on health and opened me up to new possibilities. The best way to learn is to learn from mistakes, so hopefully you’ll learn from mine!​

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What's A Better Health Approach Than Reactive or Proactive?

9/6/2018

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There seems to be 2 main schools of behaviour when it comes to health issues. (I’ll explain what this has got to do with The 3 Little Pigs later).

Firstly, there are the reactive types – they're the types that whenever something comes up, they spur into action to try & fix it (aka make it go away).

But ‘reactives’…, are you doing too many random things that are actually counteractive to your health? This type of behaviour can lead to frantic, haphazard actions where motivation fizzles after the problem goes away (until next time).

Then, secondly, there are the proactive types – they're the future-thinking types, anticipating calamity by adopting good health practices.

But ‘proactives’…, what's your true focus? Health? Or avoiding being sick in the future? This type of behaviour can lead to adopting standardised actions that make you feel good but may not actually be doing what’s needed. Shock comes up in the future when things go wrong anyway.

I'd like to propose an even better health focus than reactive or proactive.

​An ‘interactive’ approach. Let me explain.

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3 Most Important Elements to Healing (Part 3)

7/5/2018

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(Visit here if you missed Part 1 or Part 2)

Once you’ve allowed yourself to be willing to heal (part 1) and you’ve determined the root cause and possible avenues for healing (part 2), what next?

This is where the final element to healing comes in – follow through to a state of being healthy.

It all sounds simple and easy in theory, until you start to navigate the journey.

The journey is often filled with uncertainty, trepidation, and feeling generally lost. Sometimes you follow someone’s map (process) and it leads to a dead end. Sometimes you get worse. For the seemingly lucky, you get better.

The healing journey can be uncertain, and not guaranteed.

And the question comes… How do you follow through? How do you know you’re on track and doing what’s needed, when there isn’t even A CLUE for you to feel assured in your heart?

If you want a formula for the ‘seemingly impossible’, go to this older blog – while not about healing, it’s not so different a journey of uncertainty.

Something that is not mentioned in the blog, though, is a thing that many people don’t have when it comes to health. And that is – a true vision. Usually, it’s a false vision based on something they don’t want.
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3 Most Important Keys to Healing (Part 2)

2/4/2018

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If you missed Part 1 – visit here.

When you’ve moved past the defence of the status quo and open yourself up to be willing to heal ~ then opportunities for transformation begin to be revealed.

This is where it gets important to be discerning!

I hear different schools of thought…
  • The root cause to all illness is inflammation
  • The root cause to all illness is in the imbalance of gut health
  • The root cause to all illness is emotional and belief-driven
  • Once you find the corresponding thought, then the illness will go away

The real problem with this is not in the suggestion, but the assumption that everyone is exactly the same and every situation is exactly the same. It makes me shake my head.

People, when they move past resisting the willingness to heal, then jump into trying all this & that – every or any possible method. Which means that things could go either way:
  • Jump in and land exactly where they need to be and get the result desired
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  • Start to burn up time, money and hope – after they don’t see immediate results.

Most people don’t have the stamina or will to keep going failure after failure. It’s harder with health, because there’s often no gauge-line to determine your progress and no clear process that works for everyone. It’s intangible, the process can be invisible. It really does require a leap of faith (and a development of your own intuitive knowing helps a lot!).

So… it’s really important to give yourself the best chances for healing. This doesn’t mean that you will get instant results (beware the myth of the miracle cure… and also the myth of perfect health). It also doesn’t mean that it’ll be easy – steady commitment and refocusing is imperative.

That being said, it also doesn’t have to be hard.

But it does mean that you are no longer wasting your time. There’s nothing worse than that.
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3 Most Important Keys to Healing (Part 1)

6/3/2018

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People get health and healing confused, thinking it’s the same thing, but they really aren’t.

Health is an end result, healing is a process.

Health is, according to the World Health Organisation (1948), a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It’s quite an ideal to live up to!!

Healing is a process of repair, regeneration and restoration back towards homeostasis. The word itself has a literal meaning – to make whole.

But you don’t need to heal in order to be healthy.

You can have all sorts of healthy habits, but this doesn’t determine if you will heal.
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Someone who considers themselves healthy already and wants to explore more ways of health – doesn’t focus on the need to heal. They may experience healing, but from a different point of view – one of innocence and exploration, rather than survival.

And it’s this survival mechanism that leads people astray.

Desperation, needing to fix, wanting to be free from chains that bind them.
None of these behaviours or attitudes lead to a conducive healing environment.
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Presence, willingness, commitment to do what it takes – these are what’s really going to make a difference.

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Permission to Read and Heal

2/1/2018

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Do you need permission to read someone intuitively or give a healing (for example, healing energy absentia without the other person requesting or being aware)? Your thoughts?

It’s an interesting question and an interesting belief system too.

Likened much to common courtesy and privacy laws in our physical society, this is considered also applicable by many to the psychic and healing arts.

In fact, you will also taste a sense of derision, perhaps judgement – to any of those who might be ‘doing the wrong thing’. You might hear about all the ‘right’ reasons – ethics, boundaries, consent. Like legal jargon.

But how do you know that waiting for permission is the right thing to do, or going ahead with the reading/healing regardless? Truth is that you don’t.

You can only discern the consequences of your actions & act accordingly to the consequences you are willing to accept.

​There are always exceptions to the rule. Each individual case is different. What would you do in a comatose case? Wait for them to wake up? Would you consider consent not necessary then?
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5 Principles of Health

2/11/2017

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​Like the doormat wallflower of a wife, who supports in the shadows ~ until one day, you come home and find all traces of her gone. Losing your health can be like that.

Health is the overlooked aspect. Not valued until you've experienced losing it, and greatly pined after when you do.

And if you can be fortunate enough to get her back, it is more than having her return that is the goal. A new relationship ~ a new relating is imperative if you want her to stick around. New respect for one another is needed, perhaps some sacrifices… and a collaborative attitude.
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I have summarised 5 principles for health… they are still a work in progress, but in a way, they are complete.

These principles are not a ‘cure all’ or preventative to never experiencing any ill health. They are more a chance to nourish and boost where your health is right now. Develop that new relating, perhaps you could say it’s an experience of 5 different types of love.

It doesn’t matter if you are born with poor constitution, experienced bad luck or had something done to you (i.e. things outside your control), these principles apply to things you have the possibility to influence.
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We are more influential to our health, than we could even believe.

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Health Ideals vs Potential of Health

2/10/2017

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One aspect of the human condition is that we think in ideals. But it simply boils down to an ‘ideal’ being good, and what is not is bad. The human ego wants to separate and differentiate, to bring about meaning into existence. And once we hold these ideals – we, ourselves need to be them, so that we are “good”.
 
And there are so many things that we want to be ideal. Ideal lifestyle, ideal partner, ideal family, ideal job, ideal car, ideal financial situation… and ideal image and ideal health.
 
The real question is – who determines these ideals? And once you reach these ideals, what then? Will you be happy, satisfied?
 
For example, think about our societal ideals of health. We have such an intense focus on disease that makes us believe that health is being disease-free, both from a physical and mental-health perspective. 
 
But, at what point when that disease ‘goes away’ would we then consider ourselves healthy?
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Health Transformation (Lessons From Chiron)

15/9/2017

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The Greek myths of old have a beautiful symbology for life and the human dynamic. When I was young, I had a favourite book with beautiful pictures and a multitude of stories of Greek myths. At that point in time, I didn’t understand the depths of symbology and wisdom that could be gained.

For example, it was pointed out to me that the myth of Icarus who flew too high to the sun in his escape where the wax of his man-made wings melted causing him to tumble to his death – showing us the folly and downfall of being carried away by the excitement of overachievement. Also, that the tragic relationship between Echo and Narcissus (the muse who lacked any self-opinion with the beautiful self-absorbed human) which highlights the pain of an imbalanced empath/narcissist dynamic. And all the multiple stories of tortures in Tartarus of Hades (the Greek mythology of hell) – highlighting the sufferings possible in the human condition.

It begs the question – are these stories a reflection of a human collective consciousness or are we just living out these age-old myths in our everyday lives? Which came first?
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​Chiron's Story
A very potent and powerful story is that of Chiron, the wounded healer. Although the term ‘wounded healer’ was coined by Carl Jung, referring to counsellors or psychotherapists who adopt their role due to their own wounding, the story of Chiron (pronounced as ‘Kye-ron’) was a symbolic representation many centuries prior.
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