Posts Tagged ‘mind’

What else can our mind do to our body?

If you are in a dangerous situation what happens to you, how do you feel? For example think of a time when you almost had a car accident and in a split second you were safe. What happened to your body, your breathing? Your muscles tense, your heart races and beats faster, and your breathing is fast.

This is your body’s natural instinct to react with this fear. This is instinct. Emotions now are similar but different. They are your body’s response to a thought. So for example you are begin to worry about your daughter who hasn’t come home and you begin to think about the freeway she is driving on and then imagine a horrible accident. Your heart beats faster, your muscles are tense and your breathing is faster.

Can you accept what is happening right now?

Are you trying to change, manipulate, fight against, struggle, analyze, what is right now?

What is happening right now….It Is What It Is…..

It is what it is….the only way we make it anything is how we perceive it….

It is what it is….the only way we make it anything is how we react to it….

One part of me, my mind, tries hard to figure it out and tries to think it out and tries to talk it out.  This is my habit that I created when I was four or five years old.  I remember being free and knowing all is well!  Then I went to my mind at age six thinking this was the answer to fit in this world we live in…………..big mistake…………….big lesson!

 Do We Really Create Our Own Reality?

How could that be?  Did I really create my health, my cancer, my brokedness, my lonliness, my LIFE????

It is hard for us to really grasp this concept of creating our own life.  It tends to be a bit more comfortable to believe life happens to us.  Especially when BAD things happen.

This is a story of one of my experiences and a great example of how I created this CRAZY experience!! 

“Then the reality hit….I am alone in this darkness and I am scared to death!

What could I have possibly been thinking?  Staying in a stick hut all by my self, in some foreign country, in the middle of a jungle, with murders, rapists, burglars, wild animals………………………….

As the travel fatigue increased, my mind accelerated………………………….

Letting go of expectation takes tremendous courage because it can be our expectations that become the foundation of our lives.  When we begin to know who we really are and then embrace the physical, mental and emotional me, we can let go of the expectations we have for ourselves.

What are the expectations you have for yourself?

What happens when you don’t meet those expectations?

We spend so much time, beating ourselves up for what we did and what we said and even what we were thinking in our heads.  When we can drop that and know that is not who we really are, we can take a step to do the next thing. 

Often experiences come into our lives that are unexpected.  “I didn’t want that!” “Why did this happen?”

Could these experiences arrived to assist us to awaken a stronger awareness to love?

My trip to Tulum, Mexico was an incredible transformational experience and truly a gift. It was a natural healing of body, mind and spirit. 

Little did I know where this journey would end.  I guess I still don’t, and it doesn’t matter.  I am learning to enjoy the adventure.  Resting in the knowingness that the perfect experience will happen today or NOW.

This new year began with a knowingness from within to start cleansing my physical body.  I followed my heart and had no idea where this journey would take me.  At the time, I had no plans for a trip to Tulum.  I only felt a need to clean out the old and begin putting clean, healthy nutrients back in a clean body.

Every day someone tells me a new story of a mom, dad, sister or friend with cancer.

My heart hurts for them.  I feel their pain and sadness.  I remember being at that very place and time in my life.  I lived it too.

Then I want to shout from the rooftop, “They can be a cancer survivor too!”

As a cancer survivor and speaker, I want to share with everyone the hope available to them, for them to reach out and grab. I want to tell them all the information available for them to heal body, mind and spirit.  I want to share the natural cancer treatments for a cancer survivor.  It is energy spilling out of me as I meet people.

And then I stop (and let me tell I don’t always stop) more on that later………..

To be a cancer survivor, I knew I had to be healthy physically and also mentally.  We have to heal body, mind and spirit. 

Barb Harris tells how our mind affect our entire being.

“Mind-states affect our biology: being optimistic and resilient improves immune function and counters stress.  Spirituality makes us healthier, including listening to our hearts, clarifying our values and beliefs, and living according to them.  To be truly healthy is to be energized and vital, living with purpose and feeling good in our bodies.  It is loving life and celebrating our true nature.”
       ~ Barb Harris
Editorial Director, Natural Health Magazine, October 2003
 

Purpose

What do Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbins and Sheila Ulrich have in common?

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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.