My 3/27/23 blog post introduced energy medicine as a natural approach to remaining mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy. I received many questions regarding this post and will address some of them today.
It’s important to re-emphasize that your mental, physical, and emotional bodies constantly communicate and contribute equally to your holistic health. Their interplay is complex and continues to be explored by the scientific community. In the meantime, we know that this connectivity makes it critical that you care for each of these subtle energy bodies if you want to feel your best.
Optimal self-care often requires lifestyle modifications. You may need to change some habits or behaviors. Research has shown that it can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for people to form a new habit. On average, it takes nine weeks for a new behavior to become automatic. Timing varies depending on the behavior, the person, and the circumstances. While rewiring yourself can feel daunting, it’s a small investment if it means that you can live a more vibrant and satisfying life.
Are you caring for each of your bodies? Here’s why they are critical to your holistic health and an action step to help you begin to hone each:
Mental
Mind is the Builder. This concept was first introduced by Edgar Cayce (d. 1945), an American clairvoyant who diagnosed illnesses, suggested natural remedies, and is considered the father of holistic medicine. What Cayce is essentially saying is that your life is the result of your thoughts and beliefs. Today’s research shows that mindset plays a significant role in determining life’s outcomes. Understanding and refining your mindset can impact your choices and thereby improve your health, relationships and life satisfaction, decrease your stress, and help you to develop more resilience.
Take Action: Fine-tune your mindset with meditation, positive psychology, and neuro-linguistic programming techniques.
Physical
Physical health can make you happy. It allows you to exercise, which reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, enables better sleep, helps you to maintain a normal body weight, and often inspires you to improve your diet. Illness demands all of your energy. Good health gives you the freedom to focus your attention on and cultivate other areas of your life.
Take Action: Support your body’s natural ability to maintain its health and heal by refining your diet, detoxing, breathwork, and regular exercise.
Emotional
Your emotional state has the power to heal you. When your mood is elevated, so is your immune system. Studies show that happier people are less likely to get sick or will experience symptoms that are less severe when exposed to contagions such as the colds or flu. The scientific community has documented many instances of spontaneous remissions or healings. The current rationale for these unexpected improvements or cures points to an immunological response that can’t be attributed to anything other than our emotional, or spiritual, state. I cannot underestimate the power behind feeling emotionally light and uplifted.
Take Action: Process heavy emotions with Bach Flower Essence Remedies, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and hypnosis techniques tailored to your specific situation.
Are you satisfied with what your mind has built? Do you feel empowered to make the changes you desire in your life? Are you in optimal physical health? Do you get enough sleep, meaning an average of 7-10 hours each evening? Are you a nose rather than mouth breather? Do you feel joy and feed your soul on a regular basis?
If you answered “no” to any of these questions, I invite you to contact me to schedule a FREE 20-minute Discovery Call to determine if I may be able to help you to take action to support one or more of your energy bodies.
You have more control over your overall well-being than you realize. Take responsibility.
Happy 2023!
Thank you for another year of letting me share my passion for helping you to thrive mentally, physically, and spiritually. These three aspects of being comprise your energetic field and determine your holistic health.
Everything in our world vibrates and is comprised of energy which is part of a universal force that human beings are also a part of. This means that you vibrate and are interconnected with everyone. Thereby, your energetic field affects the collective.
Want a better world? The most critical thing you can do for yourself, your family, community, and the planet is to elevate your vibration and live a better quality of life. You do this by being the best mental, physical, and spiritual version of yourself.
We’re living in a time when quality of life rather than quantity of life has become our priority. The decision to address your quality of life requires radical honesty. This means no longer lying to yourself. It’s time to admit that you would like to refine some aspect of your life.
Practicing radical honesty isn’t easy. I’ve wrestled with it myself. There were many times when it would have been far easier to maintain the status quo with respect to my health, a relationship, professional situation, or living arrangement than to admit that I wasn’t satisfied.
Last year, I was juggling client sessions, publishing articles and blogs, speaking engagements, research, marketing, and an inspirational book idea. Because the book was not a priority, I kept setting it aside. But the idea nagged at me like a horsefly in my bedroom.
I had to be radically honest: I wanted to write this book. It would never happen unless I committed to it. I chose to limit my speaking engagements and develop my manuscript.
Today, I have a full manuscript that I’m editing. Radical honesty led me to creative expression, upliftment, and to producing something that may one day help to elevate others. Without radical honesty, the book idea would have remained an unrealized desire.
Radical honesty rocks.
Will you allow radical honesty to elevate your vibe in this new year? Are you being radically honest with yourself about your level of mental, physical, or spiritual satisfaction? Will you finally accept your Self and act on your desire?
Please contact me if you are ready to rock 2023.
Be honest. 😉
Flattered to have been invited to contribute to Spirituality & Health magazine’s recent feature Best Gifts 2022! In it, I share two mind-body-spirit gift ideas that my clients have appreciated. One is from my carefully curated Reading List. The other is one of my self-care mindset hacks. Read this piece here and remember to tap into the 20+ books on my Reading List and your personalized self-care hacks.