Are you strong enough to surrender? What if the strength we channel into putting on a brave face could be channelled into taking a leap of faith?
How Poor are your Boundaries?
Are you Spiritually Starved at Work?
How to Let Go of Your Fear of Making Mistakes
How Letting go of Positivity Gives you Access to your Power to Change.
I was shit-scared of being 'stuck' and feeling powerless to change. I thought that being positive was where the 'power to change' was. I was wrong. Are you quick to 'see the silver lining' or move into 'action mode' when you've suffered a setback? Do you feel that you'll fall into a black hole if you admit to your negative feelings? And that you'll get stuck there? Do you believe you have to remain positive in order to change your circumstances?
How to Stop Trying Too Hard and Take Your Power Back Instead
How to Overcome Your Fear of Success
Failing to celebrate your success, acknowledge your achievements and praise your efforts actually makes you MORE vulnerable to the opinions and judgements of others. If you do not heed your inner child’s perfectly natural need for attention and praise, it will quickly become dependent on the attention and praise of others.
How to Find Your Inner Compass
I'm All Grown Up, Who Do I Want to Be?
Is There a Conflict Between Who You Think You Should Be and Who You Are?
A few issues ago we discussed healing the relationship between the mind and the body. We explored how we rely heavily on the ‘mind’ to determine our identity – our ‘idea’ of ourselves. It is usually the mind that ‘calls the shots’ and maintains our identity by dictating our choices, actions and behaviours. But the body and its senses, feelings and intuitions often has very different ideas about who and what we are. This difference of opinion can result in anything from a niggling source of dissatisfaction or discontentment to a full-blown inner conflict about our life purpose and choices.
Switch on Your Brain
Kinesiology Techniques for Brain Integration
In the last edition we looked at Jill Bolte-Taylor’s experience of “stepping to the right of our left brains” in order to relinquish left-brain dominance and tap into the wellbeing, joy and inner peace to be experienced by right-brain thinking. You’ll also recall however, that practically every cognitive behaviour we exhibit involves the activity of both hemispheres. The left and the right hemispheres actually complement each other. Mental balance occurs when we use both sides of our brain simultaneously, for example, harnessing the benefits of the Right Brain’s creativity in generating ideas and the Left Brain’s logical analysis of their feasibility.
Is the Left Brain Always Right?
In 1780, Professor Meinard Simon Du Pui suggested that from a medical point of view, man was Homo Duplex – that is, he possesses a ‘double brain’. Nearly a century later, in the late 1800s, London physician Arthur Ladbroke Wigan was viewing the autopsy of one of his patients and when the skull was cut open he found one of the patient’s cerebral hemispheres was missing. Wigan was surprised because he knew the man could read, write and function normally. Wigan therefore concluded that if one cerebral hemisphere was capable of supporting a fully functioning mind and personality, it followed that normal humans with two intact hemispheres must have two minds.
Allergies: The Emotional Connection
Ah...Springtime, new life, flowers in bloom, the smell of mown grass, warmer weather and..allergies. In Australia the frequency of allergic disease has roughly doubled in the last couple of decades and it is now estimated that at least one in three Australians will be affected by allergies at some time in their lives.(1)
How Thoughts Impact Your Body: The Proof is in the Water
The Proof is in the Water
In the last issue we discussed Energy Medicine and the way in which the quantum world views everything as ‘energy’ and considers human beings to be dynamic energy systems who constantly interact with the numerous energetic forces in their environment. If we accept (or are at least open to accepting) Einstein’s premise that all physical matter, sound, light, and our bodies are really just made up of vibrating waves of energy, then it seems reasonable to assume that our thoughts are also just another form of energy.
Emotions and Meridians
illness always begins at energy level. A stress (mental or physical) will trigger a reaction or particular emotional state. This emotional state causes a reduction or imbalance in energy in a particular meridian. If this emotional state persists it will eventually lead to a disease or illness in the associated meridian/organ.
What Does This Symptom Mean?
The Connection Between Our Beliefs and Our Health
Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life was first published in 1984 and fourteen years later it was still on the New York Times best sellers list. It has sold over 35 million copies worldwide and remains one the definitive self-help books.
For those unfamiliar with Hay’s work, she was a pioneer in explaining the mind-body connection and the metaphysical nature of illness. Her philosophy is simple: the thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences and our reality. Hay linked physical ailments with mental causes or negative thought patterns and then developed positive thought patterns or ‘affirmations’ for reversing illness and creating health.
What is Energy Medicine?
The Body as an Energy System
Conventional or Western medicine is based on Isaac Newton’s model of reality grounded in the science of biochemistry. The body is seen as a complex biochemical machine which is explainable in terms of the behaviour of molecules and atoms. When problems arise within the body (dis-ease), the modern approach is to intervene at the physical level with drugs or surgery. This approach therefore pays little attention to the role of mind, emotion and spirit in the causation, healing, and prevention of disease. Energy Medicine is based on Einstein’s quantum theory which sees human beings as networks of complex energy fields.