Healthy! What Does It Mean?

Can you be healthy if you are angry, anxious orsuch 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 beingassistant say to a group that she was healthier now
handled by the physical body. The emotions can bethan before she was diagnosed with cancer, a
looked at as E-Motion "Energy in Motion". Anger is adisease she has been living with for 7 years. Against
reaction to fear and is used as a defense whenall odds, she continues to thrive because of the
boundaries are unclear or violated. Depression ischanges she has made in her life. She is using the
energy being continually pushed away from conscioustools we teach to address each issue as it arises.
awareness or we become chronically locked into theWhen considering treatment options, she has learned
expression of sadness. Either of these situationsto listen carefully to her inner guidance and makes her
leaves us flat and empty. Anxiety is the activatedown decisions about what is best for her. Most of all,
energy of fear that rises in the system and keeps usshe trusts the process of life by staying in the present
from relaxing into life's experiences. In order to be trulymoment and appreciating each day as the gift it truly
healthy, we must have access to all of our emotionsis.
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 notgrateful. But don't stop there. Consider the following
worthy, lovable or safe? These crippling beliefs keepquestion...Will you stay that way if you are holding or
us prisoner as surely as if we were behind bars. Ourusing 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 tryingpossible that this held stress could eventually break
to prove ourselves to the outside world or holdingthrough at some point in time. So, give some thought to
ourselves back from full participation in life. Gluedyour 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 withof the four levels in order to create greater health and
the memories of early experiences of loss andwholeness. 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 onlyyour life reveals the truth. Breathe, Breathe, Breathe!
physical? From the medical point of view, it wouldTrust the wisdom that exists at the level of the body
mean the absence of disease or illness. But it is muchand use it to create a greater level of health and
more ...we know that you can do all the right thingswholeness.