THE SPIRITUAL STEPS TO HEALING YOUR BODY

This blog is about something I rarely have time to talk about in a consultation - how your spiritual health affects your physical health.  It’s about how your thoughts and considerations can help heal you or keep you sick. This information no way contradicts the need for physical treatments for medical conditions or negates the validity of this conditions.  Rather it helps to explain why some people are more susceptible to getting sick in the first place or why it takes them longer to recover. If you have a physical condition or are tired, depressed or anxious, this information may surprise you. To find out more, please read on …

How does your spiritual health affect your body?

What’s the connection between you as a spiritual being and getting sick?  Well, a person not doing well spiritually tends to get sick!

First of all, recognise that you are a spiritual being and not just a lump of meat.  You also have a mind that faithfully records all the events of your life like a roll of film.  You should be the Director, Producer and Script Writer of your life.  How well you control your mind and body determines your overall wellbeing and health. 

The optimum condition in life is being healthy, energetic, unworried and successful.  Fatigue is one of the most complained about symptoms in chronic conditions. It can be a warning sign you may be sickening for something or the first manifestation of a chronic condition that has been quietly developing for years. How is this connected to your spiritual or mental health?

Watch what you say!

In Functional Medicine we talk about the Predisposition, Precipitation and Prolongation factors of illness.  Your thoughts and considerations, including protests in life, are not without force and can actually bring about physical illness! 

If you’re trying to get well but keep saying things like “I’m not getting any better.” “I’m no good.” “I can’t stick to my diet.” “I’ve tried everything but nothing works” you are basically destroying your chances rather than working in co-operation with yourself. You’ll be at cross-purposes to yourself 24 hours a day! 

Every cell in your body picks up on your thoughts and emotions.  If you are constantly protesting your condition and telling yourself you are never getting any better - that’s how things will stay. When you say negative things like:  “I’m getting old.” “My body is falling apart!”  “I’m not getting any better” watch what you are saying!  Learn to spot the difference between an observation such as “I have a pain in my knee” and a consideration such as “My body’s getting old.” It’s the considerations that affect you.

Increase your awareness!

You need to increase your awareness and observation to control your body and what is going on inside it. This may come as a surprise because it is the exact opposite of what you are encouraged to do by Big Pharma which is habitually dull your pain with painkillers, antidepressants, alcohol and drugs. If you do this, you will decrease your awareness and communication with your body. For example, taking painkillers for a bad knee may enable you to get around. But the knee will still be hurting; you just won’t be able to feel it. Your communication with your knee will be cut. Meanwhile, extra pressure from moving around can make the ligaments tear more and then your knee really blows up.  What is needed is more communication, not less, to the sick body part for it to heal. There are various techniques that can help with this.

Be competent!

Being aware means being competent.  Being competent means accurately observing what is going on.  For example, if you have chronic fatigue, aches and pains, digestive issues and brain fog, you need to observe your condition correctly and solve the right problem to correct it. There are dozens of factors that can cause the above issues. You need to do the right detective work (usually involves tests) to track down the actual causes. 

There is a stable datum in Functional Medicine that if you don’t find and fix the right causes of a condition, it will keep coming back, no matter what the treatments given.  Therefore, you first need to be willing to look and observe the right causes. You need to ask the question “Why is my body falling apart? Why am I getting these symptoms?”  If you can’t do this step yourself, see a practitioner in Functional Medicine who can do the necessary detective work.

Fix the Right Thing!

Many people tell me they’ve done everything to fix their condition and they still have it - that means they haven’t!  You need to fix the right things to get better.  If you fix the wrong thing, you won’t get better.  There are a million things to fix in a car, but if you don’t fix the right thing that is causing the trouble, your car isn’t going to work.

With bodies, this can take quite a bit of detective work i.e. a thorough case history and targeted specialist lab tests. When you have the answers from the lab, you take the guesswork out of the case and see what needs to be fixed.  When you get the tools, make sure you then apply them correctly and keep on working at it.

Increase your confront; don’t get overwhelmed! 

Understand that you may need to do a number of things to get better (improve your diet, remove dental infections, get your immune system working better, tackle low grade chronic infections). Some people get easily overwhelmed by the amount of steps they need to do. Getting overwhelmed and not confronting the steps needed is the road to the basement.  Understand that increasing your confront and awareness on a gradual basis is the only way to get the job done. Ask yourself “What do I have to do to improve things?  How can I organise things to be able to do it without getting overwhelmed?” 

Don’t be afraid of your body!

Some people who have been chronically sick for a long time get into the habit of being afraid of their body and its reactions. They’re frightening of eating, moving, doing anything. Being fearful of your body will make it sicker.  This body belongs to you. Don’t be afraid of it; take ownership of it!   Rather than saying “I’m too afraid of my body and I don’t want to know any more”  say to yourself  “I know things aren’t great but I am going to do all I can to get them better again.”

Take control of your body!

A body whose resident is not in control of it, goes to hell! That includes the liver, the immune system, the digestive system, the eyesight etc. To use a different analogy, this is like a ship where the captain is no longer in control. You think you are too tired to get out of bed because you are sick?  Think again. This is the cause of your being sick!  At some point, you lost control of your body and got sicker. Now you say, “I can’t do anything, I have no energy anymore.”  Sure, when you have the flu or feel tired, you need to rest. But if you are chronically tired and don’t get up until midday, you’ve got to start taking back control of your body.

If you’re violating your diet, having too much sugar, can’t stop eating that chocolate cake on your plate, you’ve got to got to say to yourself  “You’re full! You don’t need that piece of cake! Put down that fork!" Open your fingers, prise the fork out of them. 

At the same time, don’t beat yourself up about it! No self-invalidation or telling yourself you’re a failure! Respect yourself and your body! Take it on a gradient basis - which means gradually confronting a bit at a time. Decide to be the captain of your own ship. If you are on a health programme, take it step by step. If you fall off the wagon, stop the self-invalidation and get back on the wagon and keep going!

Communicate more with your body!

Every physical illness comes from a failure to communicate with the sick body part.  I frequently  see a sick person attempting to withdraw from their body - “I don’t want to live anymore”  “I’m going to starve myself”  and so on. They have fallen out of communication with themselves and things. And yet most are nowhere near dying but are still saying negative things all day long. An hour’s yoga will get wiped out by 15 hours of negative thought any day of the week.  There are therapies that can help a person get back in communication with a sick body so that they can see they have a future once more. These need to be done frequently and daily.

Watch what information you accept!

Some people make a real pastime of trawling the internet, looking at forums, sharing stories and swapping tips. If the information you are looking at is wrong or the emotional tone of the discussion is upsetting and fearful, you can start feeling anxious too.  So, you need to be discerning about what information you accept! And who you accept it from! Who said it? What is its validity? Are they qualified?

Or is it endlessly repeated second hand information that has questionable validity?

Don’t put too much attention on the negatives!Sometimes, when a family member gets cancer or some other serious disease, I have observed their spouse or another family member will study all they can about the disease. While it’s an excellent strategy to be familiar with the condition and treatment options, it’s not such a good idea to get so stuck into the illness so that you start wondering if you might have it as well. Epigenetics is the science of how environmental triggers can switch genes on or off. Focusing too much on illness and fear can bring that illness into being.  I have seen spouses of sick relatives get physically sick themselves simply by focusing too much on the negatives.

Create your own energy!

You need a certain amount of energy to heal. But energy is often in short supply in the chronically ill person.  Many chronically ill people have gotten out of the habit of creating energy.  They may eat the best organic food, take handfuls of vitamins but they’re still lacking in energy.  This tells you that vitamins and food alone don’t make energy. Sure, there are all sorts of physical reasons why a person can be low in energy - stealth infections, immune suppression, dental pathology, mitochondrial damage etc.  But, at the end of the day, you as a spiritual being are capable of creating energy independently of your body.

Many people depend on external factors to feel good - going for a massage, sitting in the sun, having a good meal. All these are lovely things to do but recognise that instead of waiting for an external factor to create energy for you, how about trying to create your own? Try looking at this differently by saying “I’m going to make the body feel good, then the body will start feeling good.”  You can try practicing by saying to yourself, “I have energy.” Of course, if you say, “I am doing all I can, yet I’m not improving, I still feel tired,” this is a protest - you’ll not going  to get better. But if you say, “I am doing all I can to create energy; there is clearly more I can do” you will be more causative over creating energy. Again, this is done on a gradient basis.

If you want to improve - take action!

If you are chronically ill, the wrong thing to do is nothing. The condition will likely get worse. You need to make a decision to do something about it. Look at what is happening. What needs to be changed? Get your body to do it. If it doesn’t work, keep on trying to solve it. Getting into action doesn’t mean going down to the gym or running around. It means making decisions.  If you can’t figure it out yourself, go and see someone who’s really good at figuring out what is wrong. Once again, you are the Director, Producer and Script Writer of your life.

A powerful tool you can practice!

If you want to help others in life, you must first help yourself. Some people help everybody but themselves.  You need to be willing to help yourself too. If you are in communication with your body, you can direct positive thoughts (love and healing) towards its cells.  You can do this for the whole body or a specific body part. You can practice this and get better at it. There are three basic things the body needs to survive - oxygen, food and water. Transmitting a feeling of love and care to the food you eat, the water you drink and the air you breathe, can act as a powerful healing tool. Just take a moment and breathe in, imagining that the air you are breathing is filled with love and affinity. Did you feel different after about a minute? You can do this by placing healing intentions into your food and water as well. Conversely, avoid eating food prepared by a someone in a low or angry mood as intentions work the other way too! 

Summary:

*Being in good health starts with a mental viewpoint.

*You can take control of your body to heal it.

*Your considerations are powerful; avoid the negatives and be positive and encouraging to yourself.

*You can create your own energy independent of external things.

*Raise awareness and communication with your body.

*Be willing to observe and fix the right thing.

*Make decisions and take action.

*Decide you are going to create your future.

*Follow steps on a gradient basis so that you are winning more than losing; don’t get swamped by your losses - learn from them.

If you would like help improving your health, please get in touch with the Good Health Clinic on goodhealthclinic@outlook.com to request a free 30 minute Enquiry Call or book an appointment. Please note that an Enquiry call is not a consultation but an exploratory call to see if this is a clinical approach you wish to pursue.To your very good health, 

Suzanne Jeffery (Nutritional Medicine Consultant)

M.A.(Oxon), BSc.(NMed), PGCE, GNC, BSEM, MNNA, CNHC

The Good Health Clinic at The Business Centre, 2, Cattedown Road, Plymouth PL4 0EG

Tel no: 07836 552936/ Answer phone: 01752 774755 

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