Posts Tagged ‘alternative medicine’

This week I had the honor of spending time talking with Caroline Sutherland, an amazing wise woman.  She poured out information, ideas, product, tools, websites, etc. for all of us to use to heal our bodies.  I have an audio of this incredible information so watch for the information to download it.  I will send via email so sign your name and email to the right to get it.

Caroline Sutherland is internationally renowned for her gifted ability as a medical intuitive, and specializes in breaking through the body’s health and wellness code to reveal some of its veiled mysteries.

What is a medical intuitive??

Medical intuition is the ability to see beyond the normal layers of perception into subtle levels below the surface, helping you to find solutions to the health questions that affect us all.  She can read your body.  It is incredible.

So who was this new me I seemed to have found?  Was it really me?  Was it someone else?  Is this me going crazy?  Could this be real?  Is this really a dream?  Is this God?

Somewhere within me I heard and felt and knew things that the Sheila I knew my whole life didn’t know.  Where did this information come from?

It came from me.  But if that is me, who is the me that is thinking?  Who is the me that I knew all these years?

Are there two ME’s?

The possibilities intrigued me!!

The potential gave me hope!!

Is this what I have been searching for?   ME!!

I healed using integrative medicine  and you can too.  You can heal all aspects of you, the physical, the mental, the emotional and spiritual dimensions.  Healing body, mind, and spirit with integrative medicine is the key to long term survial.

Cancer survivors don’t just focus on getting rid of the tumor.  There is more to it than that.

I know you may be thinking……You got to be kidding me………………..more to it than getting rid of the tumor??????????!!!!!!

Yes, but don’t worry, stress, or become overwhelmed.  It is all a process.  Life is a process….one moment at a time.

You can do it!  If I did it and had no clue what I was doing, for sure you can do it with guidance.

The process is healing and freeing!!  One you will be glad you took. 

Hospitals in the US now use integrative medicine for treating their patients.  They are now looking at all aspects of the person, not just the physical body.  They want to address the emotional aspects of the person and work with them to heal and the mental and spiritual dimensions.  They are healing body, mind, and spirit with integrative medicine.  Hooray, hooray!  My heart sings with excitement.  Because I know we have to heal all aspects of ourselves to be whole and well. That is where my journey began.  I received that profound message from God, “Heal the Whole, Body, Mind, and Spirit!” Now the medical field has a word or discipline for it that works for them, integrative medicine. It takes time to make changes in the world.  Change is hard for most people.  Little by little change occurs through actions of many for the good of all.

Then a nudging from within was felt and I knew I could drop
the fear I was experiencing.   It was my choice!

As they were closing the door for the second time, I said, “I am ready!  I am going back in!”

I saw who I was, the being beyond the mind and the fear. This recognition was part of my healing and was part of my purpose there at that moment.

Confidently I enter the lodge and centered myself within.  I began to breathe and focussed on the energy within my body.  I focussed only on the moment and the experience I was having.  I allowed my mind to be still with no thought whatsoever.

As part of the adventure in Tulum, we were going to experience a sweat lodge temazcal, which they are traditionally called in Mexico.

Many North American and Central American Indian tribes have traditionally used the sweat lodge for purification, cleansing and healing of mind, body, emotions and spirit.

I knew the sweat ceremony was another opportunity for cleansing and healing for me and I was so excited to participate. Only six of the ten women chose to participate. We began with a ceremony outside standing around a fire. Together we chanted and offered prayers. Although I don’t think any of us really understood one thing said or done. Our leader was a shaman in his thirties who had grown up with the tradition in Mexico. Each of us then left our hand print in the sand around the fire and then proceeded to the sweat lodge.

With each experience in Tulum, I became quieter in my thoughts and more aware. It is a feeling of calm and centeredness.  Although I was active in my physical being all day on the beach, in the water, in healing sessions or exercise sessions, I was still in  my mental being. With this came an awareness of life around me. People’s words and actions became more alive. The sounds were more alive and colors more vivid.
 
With my senses engaged, an inner knowingness is revealed. I guess it’s always there; we usually can’t hear or feel it because we are distracted by our physical and mental worlds. The chatter of our minds and the motions of our bodies cover up our connection to the inner world and our true self. Then we lose our source of natural wisdom.
 
I felt it was time for a cleansing and healing session with a local healer. A non-English speaking woman led me through the woods to a quaint, open cabana. I was welcomed by the smell of incense and the flickering of candles in the night. She caressed every point of my body; artfully  massaging and dislodging blocked energy. I could feel her pulling junk
out of my hands and feet. It felt as if old emotional baggage was pulled  from my body. A release of energy long carried is freeing. I felt completely  relaxed, peaceful and renewed. I was ready to face the world.
 
With the release and renewal, awareness increases and I began to “see” my life more clearly. I saw how I created experiences in my life to suffer. Why do I keep reenacting the same thing over and over? It seemed so clear  and simple. Let it GO!!!!
 
Lesson four was felt deep within… Choose what I want to experience and create what I want NOW!!
 
Use these lessons NOW!
 
Next time….The PANIC within the Sweat Lodge Ceremony!

Yoga is an instrument to open, to be still, and to access the present moment of now.
With each movement is a breath.  The breath allows us to flow with the movement
or the position.  Our breath keeps our focus on what is happening NOW.   In this NOW, is stillness, a space, with no thought.  This is where the peace is found.

I was so grateful each day to experience this space of peace.  Then I began noticing the group I started yoga with was dwindling.  Where were they?  Weren’t they experiencing this same peace?

Later I found them having breakfast in the restaurant cabana, or walking from the store or on their computers doing business.  Their focus seemed to be somewhere else, but I really didn’t know where.  I caught myself trying to figure it out and then I realized, it doesn’t matter.  My mind wanted to create some story about this group of women.  This is what the mind does.  It creates thoughts that become stories.  Then we carry these stories with us.  We begin to believe the stories and then make the stories part of who we are. 

Let’s begin by getting comfortable in our chairs.
Take a slow breath or two, and gently close the eyes.

Now take a deep breath when you are ready, hold it for a moment, then let it all out and see, in your mind’s eye, all the tension leaving you now as a fine grey mist.

Another deep breath, letting even more tension leave you now, as you begin to feel more and more relaxed.

Remind yourself that it is okay to relax here, in this place and at this time. There is no other place you have to be right now, nothing else you have to do right now.

You can relax, fully and completely.

Now take a last deep breath, hold it, then let it all out and just resume normal breathing again.