Challenging Days of Self-Healing

Some days of self-healing can be more challenging then others.  One can go days, weeks and even months, progressing steadily with a self-healing routine and then a tough moment arises.  These days challenge your motivation and ability to focus.  It is during these times that you must put all of your skills to work for you.  It is also during these times that you must let go and allow yourself to experience the sensations.  It is a time of forgiveness and letting go of judgements of how you are handling the situation.  Just let go, use your skills as best you can and know that the next time a tough moment arises, you will be even more skilled at handling the situation.

A couple of the basic skills in learning to self-heal as taught in “Awakening to the Healing Powers Within: An Energetic Perspective on Self-Healing” are (1)Passive Observation and (2)Shifting your thoughts to feel better.  Passive observation is the act of passively observing a sensation or thought without judgement and is practiced during meditation.  When you are in a state of passive observation/no-thought/no-judgement, your mind is in an “open and relaxed” state.  An open mind, allows higher healing energy to flow through and heal disharmonies. When you shift your thoughts to feel better, you are also opening yourself to allow higher healing energy.  Feeling good is an open state and feeling bad is a contracted state.  In a contracted state, you block the natural flow of higher healing energy.

Let me present an example of using your skills during one of those days:

Julie could no longer ignore the sadness in her heart and has just begun a committed regimen of self-healing.  Julie has decided that she will use meditation to heal as well as other skills taught in Book 1 of the Awakening to the Healing Powers Within series.  She understands that if she can learn to release negative thoughts by either passively observing them or shifting her thoughts to feel better that she can release herself from the negative emotions associated with them.  She understands that this will open her more to the loving, healing energy of the universe.

After a month of continued practice, Julie began to notice results in how she handled thoughts of sadness.  She continued having great success dealing with her sadness and then one day she received some news that brought back old memories for her.  Julie started to get back into her old habit of thinking about those thoughts over and over again in her head.  She began to replay the old memories in her mind, which continued to bring her even more sadness.  After about a week of this, Julie began to realize what was happening.  She began to realize that she was letting her thoughts control her emotions.  She was letting the negative thoughts create sadness in her life.  The negative thoughts were making her feel bad.  She then realized that feeling bad resulted in a contracted state and disallowed higher healing energy to flow through her.  She also began to notice the physical sensations of pain in her stomach she was feeling. She recalled that she felt these physical sensations every time she felt sad.  Another light bulb went off for Julie.  She realized that this physical sensation was also another disharmony or contracted state that resulted from her negative thoughts.  She was cutting off the natural flow of energy by entertaining these thoughts.  Julie began to get mad at herself for allowing this to happen but then came to the conclusion that this also made her feel bad.  Well, she remembered her practice of shifting her thoughts to feeling better. She also remembered that she had decided to do other activities to make her feel better.  These activities were written in the transitional stage guide she downloaded from book 1 of the Awakening to the Healing Powers Within series.  In her transitional stage guide, she had determined she would shift her thoughts by dancing.  She loved to dance.  Julie then started to dance on her own to her favorite uplifting music.  She started to feel good after only dancing for a few minutes.  Julie continued putting her focus on feeling good.  She went to watch a funny movie and spent time with her animals.  Julie had used the transitional stage guide to remember what to do when she felt bad.  Now, Julie got it.  She knew how to use her transitional stage guide.  She was even more determined to remember to notice how she was feeling so that she could quickly shift her thoughts to feeling better.