How to Heal Yourself

Dear Soul Sisters-

I am home-bound and dealing with a chronic heath condition that leaves me in pain and suffering much of the time. I try to stay positive, but sometimes the day to day is more than I can handle. While I am working with traditional medicine and complimentary healers on occasion, I'd love to get your advice on healing myself.

Thanks,

Tired of Living this Way

"Disease (is) not an entity but a fluctuating condition of the patient’s body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body." --HIPPOCRATES

Dear One,

Thanks for your question. Our hearts go out to you as you struggle with chronic illness. We are sorry to hear of your pain and suffering and we send you heaps of healing love and light. The great news is, you do not have to bear it alone! God, Source, Spirit, the Universe - whatever you call your Higher Power - is out there just waiting to bear some of your burden. All you have to do is ASK!

We suggest that you make prayer a daily part of your routine. Spend 30-60 minutes each day talking to your Higher Power, asking for help, telling him or her what you need and unburdening yourself on their shoulders. Cry, wail, weep and rage if you need to. Get it all out and don't be afraid to ask for what you need even if it seems impossible. The key is to do this as often as possible in order to develop a habit of communication as well as giving them time to work on your needs and requests. 

If it's been a while since you prayed, start simply by acknowledging that. It's like a muscle, the more you practice the power of prayer the stronger your Divine channel will become. If you need some extra support, we LOVE Silent Unity and find the power of their FREE prayer often moves mountains. You can call as often as you'd like and they will pray with you for 30 days! 

Believe in your heart of hearts that what you want and need is possible and never allow your mind to waiver from this possibility. Be open to miracles!!! As spiritual beings having a human experience, it's easy to forget that miracles can and DO happen every day!!! We'd suggest you to read "Love, Medicine and Miracles" by Dr. Bernie Siegel. Full of inspiring accounts, Dr. Siegel shows it's possible to be the exceptional patient and beat the odds!

Dr. Kelly Turner was recently on Jennifer's radio show, Get GLOWING. She shared healing techniques gathered in her global research on spontaneous cancer research. LISTEN to the replay and learn what experts shared as the top emotional, spiritual and life changes one can make to shift the condition of disease. This is powerful work by a pioneer in the field of healing!

At the same time, work on allowing yourself to feel the pain - physical, emotional and mental - of this experience. So often we humans try and keep our pain at bay, but as Mastin Kipp notes in this blog post on The Daily Love, feeling the pain allows for space to be created around the pain and in this space you can find some relief. When you feel the pain come up for you (or at least a few times a day if your pain is constant), spend a few minutes really feeling into the pain and see if you can create that space around it for something else, a space of "not pain."

With mental and emotional pain, allowing the feelings to be felt, to come through you, often enables them to dissipate eventually and leaves a space of hope, peace, even joy in their wake. Take time to really express your emotions. We imagine you are terribly frustrated and must deal with a great deal of distress with facing your health challenges. Rather than suppressing these, we'd encourage you to journal, sing, scream and cry it out as often as possible. Unexpressed emotion's toxicity on a body is often underestimated and we believe every human can benefit from the release!!!

Once you have done your inner work, time to get started on some "outer" work as well. Make positive changes in your life NOW. Take a look at your diet. Switch to whole foods, lean protein and add more and more raw veggies to your daily intake. There's lots of evidence of late on the power of raw foods to eliminate diabetes and shift life-long patterns of obesity and unhealthiness. By buying fresh and organic foods, you can kick-start YOUR healing journey! Watch the trailer of Raw for 30 here for more on this one!

Depending on your energy level, do some sort of movement every day. Find a way that is JOYOUS for you. Swim, dance, sit and sway where you are and feel the flow of chi through your body temple. Do some very gentle yoga or simply stretch in bed. Whatever you can manage is a wonderful way to connect with house of your soul and let it know you see it, you feel it and you honor the job it's doing for you!

We would recommend that you get Louise Hay's book "You Can Heal Your Life." Turn to the page that lists your disease. Read what Louise says about your illness and see if it resonates for you. If so, take the affirmations she gives you and write them on a sticky note. Post them up in multiple places around your home and say them - out loud if possible - whenever you see them. Make them a part of your prayer time as well. As with prayer, commit to using them on a consistent and regular basis and believe that you can heal yourself. When diagnosed with cancer, Louise developed an intensive program of affirmations, visualization, nutritional cleansing, and psychotherapy for herself. Within 6 months, she was completely healed. We believe that this type of healing is available to each and every one of us if we claim it. Claim it for yourself now.

Next we would suggest that you take charge of your health care regimen. Become a co-creator with your doctor, if you aren't already, and let him (or her) know what is working and what is not, what you would like to try next and what you are not comfortable with. So often we put our healing totally in the hands of another person who we see as an expert, yet it is you who is the greatest expert on your body. When talking to your doctor make sure that you are fully IN your body and feel how what he (or she) is suggesting feels to you. Does your body respond positively - with a giddy, tingly feeling of hope - or negatively - with a dark or low feeling of dread? Go where the light is and try that. Become a true partner with your doctor and with your body and participate fully in your healing.

Continuing in that vein, we would recommend that you get on the internet and read everything you can about your disease. Read what other people with the disease have done and what has worked for them. Read about Western medicine options and what is available through Naturopathy, Herbs, Supplements and Energy healing (including massage, accupuncture, reflexology, Reiki, etc). Do everything that resonates with you and that you can afford. There are many energy workers who are willing to work on a sliding scale and will work with you even if you can't afford their full rate. We love the high vibration healing of Emmanuel Dagher and would recommend him highly to you!

Always be tuning into your body, your heart and your mind and looking for new possibilities for healing. You can't possibly do everything at once, however, so do what calls to you most strongly and then move onto the next thing. Know that you are being guided and led to the right and perfect option in this present moment. Trust your inner knowing to lead you exactly where you need to be and to what you need to try next.

While taking charge of taking care of your body, also take care of your mind and spirit. Find a therapist, life coach or mentor (perhaps even someone who has had your disease and come through it) to be your advocate and one man (or woman) cheering section. You need support as you walk this path so make sure you get it. Friends and family provide a lot of support and we hope that you are allowing them to be there for you as well if that is healthy for you, but sometimes friends and family are too emotionally involved to provide the kind of support that you need. They are managing their own feelings and process around your illness and can often - though unknowingly in many cases - add to your burden by making you responsible for their feelings. Don't allow this to happen and make sure you get some outside support as well. 

If money is an issue, look for a community mental health clinic in your area for a low-cost or no-cost therapist. Don't just work with the first person you find either. It may take two or three test runs to find someone who will really be your advocate and speak to your individual needs. Be choosy and give yourself time to find just the right person. You might also find that after a year or two your needs change and it is time to find someone else to work with. That's okay too. Always listen to yourself and act on your internal knowing.

Finally, we would suggest to make it your daily exercise to focus on what you CAN do and not on what you can't do. Can you walk around the block? GO FOR IT and enjoy it. Don't spend that time lamenting that you can't run a marathon, instead look at the trees and the birds and the sky and feel how grateful you are to be out in it. Find gratitude in your heart for all you CAN do and try to let go of what you can't. That will come, or maybe it won't, but that is not for you to worry about today. Today focus on CAN. Cultivate gratitude by looking for one thing each day for which you are grateful. Maybe it's the sunshine on your window sill. Perhaps it's the warmth of your bed. Start each day by finding ONE thing you love and we're certain more will show up!

Know that we are out here pulling for you and sending you peace, oneness, light and love as you continue on your journey to healing. We see you surrounded with healing love and light at all times. 

Jennifer & Lara

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