Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about. - Osho

Nuts and bolts of “healing”

I believe that to heal we need to feel and to feel we need to heal.  We must address ourselves from a 360 degree view.  This includes looking into our P.E.M.S (Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual) states of being.  Each state creates higher levels of awareness, as your awareness grows in the physical you will become more aware of the emotional and so on. 

A very simple way to start feeling what may be going on within you, is to use slow movements to create deeper awareness.  I enjoy using the Zone exercise section in the book “How to Eat Move and Be Healthy” –Paul Chek.  Here are some basic guidelines that I personally give my clients when addressing Zone 1.

1.       As you do these zone exercises I would like you to imagine that you are breathing in a deep glowing red color.  This red is infusing every cell in your body, and helping to move any blockages (past injury/current pain etc... rooted in the physical/emotional/mental/spiritual) out of the body.

2.       Wearing red during these exercises will enhance your imagination and help your intuition.

3.       You can also repeat these mantras as you move

-          My body is becoming more important to me.  I nurture it constantly.

-          My internal mother is always here for me, protecting, nourishing, and soothing me.

-          I deserve the best that life has to offer my needs are always met.

4.       You can also do these movements with a “quiet mind”, pay close attention to the thoughts, and images that arise while moving this Zone of your body.  These thoughts and images may hold the keys to what emotional root is causing your discomfort, pain, injury etc.

5.         If you just ate a big thanksgiving dinner and you were stuffed, you would do these movements at a pace that would help your digestion not hinder it.  Extremely slow movement.

6.       These can be done anytime.  When you are stressed they can be used to decrease stress.  When you are low energy they can be used to wake you.

7.        It is important to keep an open mind and literally imagine this red, soothing, glowing color infusing your entire body and moving out any blockages that may be present.

8.       HAVE FUN!

I believe the keys to all healing are nutrition, hydration, sleep, breathing, moving, and finally your thinking.  Where in each of these areas can you make improvements to bring the body back into alignment?  As you start to create vitality within you will become more aware of the bio-feedback your body gives you each moment.  This will present the opportunity to address “issues” at more subtle levels.

These are only my thoughts and my pure open hearted sharing of what has worked for me personally and many of my clients.  Next blog I will start to break down the entire Chakra system and how to use it as a healing tool for all of us.  With qi and LOVe

What does it take to truly “heal” ourselves?

In my experience of coaching numerous clients over the past twelve years, it takes much more than working out to truly reach our potential as a human being  (still a work in progress for myself as well).  This may seem obvious, but it also takes more than nutrition, hydration, sleep, and breath to reach our potential.

I believe for us to reach our “dreams”, may it be to get leaner, stronger, healthier, faster, it takes a willingness to look within and find the roots of why we are the way we are physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.  What does this mean for me in this moment?  In this moment it means that our physical body is simply a bio-feedback mechanism for our more subtle energy systems.  What we perceive is what we believe, and what we believe is what we perceive.  Our perceptions of self and other literally create the movie we watch each and every day. 

Now, if what I am sharing is even half true, is it possible to help clients cultivate change without addressing what makes them tick?  Many clients have come to me with issues related to posture, many present with an upper cross syndrome (forward head, rounded shoulders, kyphotic thoracic spine).  I would ask you to ask yourself, what does this posture really say about the person’s state of mind and how they see the outside/ inside world?  In my experience using corrective exercise only will not change this person’s posture.  For example, if this client, perceives the outside/inside world as overwhelming, feels as if they have no personal power to take a stand, is afraid to share his or her heart openly, or may be in a relationship in which they are continually abused physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually by other and themselves, I would be highly surprised to see postural changes that hold unless these roots are addressed.

 To see the future all one needs to do is look to the past, until these roots are addressed we will each continue to create the same “movie” over and over, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

The above is only my experience, and does not mean that I even believe It is true, it is only what I have perceived which has become what I believe, with no emotional attachment to my beliefs.  In the next blog I will go over some nuts and bolts ways of addressing the roots with yourself and your clients.

You are alone, absolutely alone. This has to be understood very clearly. The moment a person becomes conscious, he becomes alone. The greater the consciousness, the greater the awareness that you are alone. So, do not escape from this fact through society, friends, associations, crowds. Do not escape from it! It is a great phenomenon. The whole process of evolution has been working toward this.

Consciousness has come to the point now where you know that you are alone.

Osho

The unconfused are confused.  The confused are unconfused.  CONFUSED????

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