| Can you be healthy if you are angry, anxious or | | | | such as eat the most natural and organic foods, |
| depressed? Surely these conditions effect physiology, | | | | exercise regularly and still get sick. I recently had an |
| but the impact is more about how energy is being | | | | assistant say to a group that she was healthier now |
| handled by the physical body. The emotions can be | | | | than before she was diagnosed with cancer, a |
| looked at as E-Motion "Energy in Motion". Anger is a | | | | disease she has been living with for 7 years. Against |
| reaction to fear and is used as a defense when | | | | all odds, she continues to thrive because of the |
| boundaries are unclear or violated. Depression is | | | | changes she has made in her life. She is using the |
| energy being continually pushed away from conscious | | | | tools we teach to address each issue as it arises. |
| awareness or we become chronically locked into the | | | | When considering treatment options, she has learned |
| expression of sadness. Either of these situations | | | | to listen carefully to her inner guidance and makes her |
| leaves us flat and empty. Anxiety is the activated | | | | own decisions about what is best for her. Most of all, |
| energy of fear that rises in the system and keeps us | | | | she trusts the process of life by staying in the present |
| from relaxing into life's experiences. In order to be truly | | | | moment and appreciating each day as the gift it truly |
| healthy, we must have access to all of our emotions | | | | is. |
| along with the ability to express them appropriately. | | | | If you are physically healthy at this moment, be |
| Can you be healthy if you hold beliefs that you are not | | | | grateful. But don't stop there. Consider the following |
| worthy, lovable or safe? These crippling beliefs keep | | | | question...Will you stay that way if you are holding or |
| us prisoner as surely as if we were behind bars. Our | | | | using your energy in ways that work against you? The |
| ability to act, react and interact with life is paralyzed. | | | | physical is the last level of manifestation and it is |
| We learned to cope with these beliefs by either trying | | | | possible that this held stress could eventually break |
| to prove ourselves to the outside world or holding | | | | through at some point in time. So, give some thought to |
| ourselves back from full participation in life. Glued | | | | your health and what needs to happen to create |
| together by the emotions of fear, anger and shame, | | | | balance in your system. Be willing to explore the needs |
| these core wounds are held in our bodies along with | | | | of the four levels in order to create greater health and |
| the memories of early experiences of loss and | | | | wholeness. Dialogue with your body ...honor your |
| disappointment. | | | | emotions ...observe your thoughts ...and watch how |
| Is health a state of mind or a reality that is only | | | | your life reveals the truth. Breathe, Breathe, Breathe! |
| physical? From the medical point of view, it would | | | | Trust the wisdom that exists at the level of the body |
| mean the absence of disease or illness. But it is much | | | | and use it to create a greater level of health and |
| more ...we know that you can do all the right things | | | | wholeness. |