Entries from Healthy Living DIY tagged with 'healing'
The Energy of Fighting Disease
There's a pervasive belief in our culture that it is a good idea to fight disease. It's part of a larger belief that it's a good idea to fight against things you don't like. To the greatest extent possible, I...
Healing Intent and Commitment
Commitment to healing (or its lack) is a perpetuating factor that sometimes trips people up. When I say "sometimes," what I really mean is that it's one of the most frequent conflicts I observe in people from day to day....
Perpetuating Factors that Affect Your Health
In their landmark reference book on Trigger Points, Drs. Janet Travell and David Simons devote an entire chapter to perpetuating factors. (Volume one, chapter four). Why? Easy. Because without addressing the factors that perpetuate a health condition, the condition is...
You Are Getting Very Sleepy... And Healthy!
It's National Sleep Awareness Week! Hope you are catching your zzz's! Continuing our conversation about lifestyle "cures" associated with self-healing, today we'll explore sleep. Thanks to those readers who participated in our first informal sleep poll. And now it's time...
Do you get "enough" sleep?
We're kind of in the middle of an idea here, and I thought you might like to participate. In the last couple of weeks, several people have submitted questions to my web form about self-healing. At the same time, I've...
Create Yourself as A Healing Magnet
Health is your natural state. Without even lifting a finger, you are whole and complete. Let's start from that place -- that wholeness is natural. If you're having health trouble, then, it only stands to reason that something has unintentionally...
Healing Guidance: When it Looks Like There's No Choice
Amber is at her wit's end and feeling awful. What a headache! Her boss is driving her nuts! As if that wasn't enough, her job is impossible. Sure things are tight, but how can ONE person (her) reasonably be expected...
Natural Healing: Engage Your Mind
Are you ready for a one-step healing solution that's nearly guaranteed to have you feeling better immediately? Who wouldn't? Well, it exists. It's free. It's accessible any time of day or night. No physical effort required. Engage your mind. A...
Natural Healing: Are You Fully Engaged?
Maybe you played sports in high school. If not, perhaps you played in the band. Tried out for a play. Got into dance, or cooking, or chess, or ... well just about anything. If you did, then you know the...
Self Healing: Overcoming Obstacles to Self Love
Self-love. Almost makes you feel uncomfortable just reading the phrase, doesn't it? We know we're supposed to be kind and compassionate to others. But loving yourself? Isn't that ... well, somehow a little selfish? It is. And that's exactly the...
Perspective and Our Ally the Fly
Perspective. This topic came up in a coaching session just last week. Then it came up again on a gardening forum I participate in. Well, that started me thinking. My friend the fly sometimes gets misunderstood. He's such a helpful...
Brand New Excuse!
In the previous article, we explored the distinction between a reason and an excuse. To review, a reason explains why you took an action. An excuse is a special type of reason that attempts to explain, rationalize, or justify why...
Healing States: Resistance
During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I came home one evening and turned on a cable news show to catch up on the events of the day. There, in full living color, was Dr. Phil. Live from the Houston Astrodome....
Healing States: Receptivity
Next on our tour of healing states is the state of receptivity. We've spoken about this before, yet I look around and see the same old situations over and over. So let's touch on it once again. It's been said...
Healing States: Courage
Courage. Another essential state for healing. A short while ago, we began a series of articles exploring different states that are helpful for healing, starting with the state of engagement. Today we'll explore the state we call courage. The word...
Healing States: Engagement
"You tell me, you're the psychic." I listened as Caroline Myss told of the comment that inspired her to take her career as a medical intuitive in a different direction. I'll share the story with you in just a moment....
The Bully in Your Life
Who, or what, is the bully in your life? How are you planning to deal with 'im (or her)? Over the past week or so, one of the discussion groups that I'm a part of has been having quite a...
Awareness and Commitment - A Healing Combination
Have you ever felt really frustrated about your health situation? A new client had felt poorly for years. Headaches, back problems, neck pain, the works. Now a ray of hope has come into her life. After her first therapy session,...
Learned or Inherited? Which is Better?
"I inherited this back pain from my mother." Remember the gentleman we spoke about in yesterday's article? The insightful bodywork client who thought to inquire about why his body had come to have the particular postural pattern it had? Well,...
Hunches and Health - Harness the Healing Power of Intuition
Enough beating around the bush. Developing, accessing, and learning to trust your intuition is one of the best things you can do to enhance your health. Bottom line. There are two ways of receiving this news, by the way. One...
When people ignore what's wrong
Another great question! "I've been working on physical and emotional stuff of one sort of another for years. What happens to the people who don't face up to the challenge and make an effort to heal their lives?" It's a...
Trauma and Tattoos
It's in the news today. Trauma and tattoos. You may have seen the story as well - a recent trend in which persons who were involved in a recent large-scale natural disaster are having reminders of that event tattooed on...
Healthy Living Myth #5 - My health care provider is bad because he/she can't fix my problem
You know how it goes when you're sick or injured. In the first place, you're not in your most resourceful state. It's hard to think clearly. You may not understand your situation well. And generally, you're scared - about what...
Healthy Living Myth #7 - Therapy Didn't Take
This myth is so popular that it occsionally shows up in the syndicated self-help column you'll find in your local newspaper. "I tried therapy. It didn't work. My case is hopeless." Usually the person is talking about having visited a...
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