[Herbal+EnergyMed] 10 Tips on Healing Naturally

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Misty L. Trepke

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10 Tips on Healing Naturally and The Nature of Healing

 

What is healing? Let's look at that in contrast to what is disease,

or dis-ease. Illness is a lack of harmony with Nature and with our

true selves, a dis-integration between mind-body-emotion-spirit. We

become out-of-sync so to speak when one of our levels, usually the

mind, is superseding or over-riding our heart and soul's path.

Healing involves the allowing and supporting of our different and

multiple components to come back into alignment. Illness and disease

is conflict and represents the ways we block our growth and

development. For example, we block our growth with fear,

doubt, worry, etc. and illness represents these blocks.

 

Healing is the resolution of conflict and progressing along our

evolutionary path. Many teachers suggest that our primary purpose on

Earth is to grow and learn to evolve into fuller loving human

beings.

 

2.Relationships are important to all of us, and so they should be.

Yet, this is where most conflict arises, from the lack of

integrated relationship with our self, with others in our lives, and

with Nature. Women tend to be more open to work on relationship

communication than men, and keeping all lines open is usually

necessary for successful and loving relationships. Men will do best

also if they support this process. When we hold onto emotions and

don't express ourselves, these energies create turmoil, conflict,

and dis-ease in our body.

 

That's why talking preventively, even when things aren't bad or

there isn't a fight, can really keep our relationships healthy.

Communicating openly, clearly, honestly, and thoughtfully is very

important, especially when there is a delicate or sensitive issue at

hand. Being this caring can prevent misunderstandings or hurt

feelings, and keep things harmonious and open to growth. Yet, most

of us must evolve to live this consciously. We can move toward this

with some professional counseling on an individual, couple, or

family basis can help us stay out of trouble. Our issues can be with

our love partner or spouse, child or parent, or a work associate.

 

Communication pays off, much like practicing Preventive Medicine, in

the long run. Yet, talk is only one way to work things out and heal.

Try a walk and talk, especially along a flowing river or at the

beach. Plus, write a list of your issues and know that healing can

take place on many levels and may take time. Give it that space and

know that even if you change, it often goes slowly. Have patience,

and take some time to organize your thoughts and feelings rather

than react and vent. Learning to " fair fight " with a loved one is

one thing, yet being able to prevent confusions and altercations is

best.

 

Do we go for things that cannot be true, too much, too many, too

often and who are we negotiating into a relationship? Are we looking

for ourselves in others or who we wish we were and that shocks the

relationship off its foundations—it's a relatio-quake ratio...and so

many wander from one to the other and often once it's begun it's too

late because you are not properly prepared for the respond ability

required for rational relatio. Argisle

 

3.Opening to the Spirit and asking for help from the higher levels

of our self is often helpful for healing. As I mentioned, much

illness comes from this lack of connection or ability to listen to

this Higher Self. If and when we do, we can receive the guidance we

need and the new ideas and actions necessary to fulfill our purpose

and move us forward in our life. We can heal and evolve. Healing the

male-female conflicts will help each of us, as we have these issues

within our core. Some of our most brilliant psychology minds, like

Dr. Carl Jung, suggest that we each have our opposite sex energy as

our subconscious. He termed these the anima and animus. The

relationship between our thinking mind and deeper selves affect our

lives and outward relationships.

 

Thus, working in this inner healing realm and resolving the

conflicts we all have between father-mother and male-female can

fully improve and heal our worldly relationships. The more we evolve

within us, the better our personal connections become. I believe

this. I have had many patients experience and tell me that they were

able to improve their love relationships (and work as well) when

they stopped running away from the conflicts they encountered in

their personal lives. They tended to reach the same impasse with

each relationship. Until they took a break and worked out these very

intimate and personal issues they have about intimacy and personal

relationships, they couldn't meet and be close with the right person

for them. At least, this is the `more right' person, since with

every relationship there are some issues and growth to experience.

 

4.The way we eat is crucial to health or illness. Much disease comes

from poor food choices, mostly over decades, but also in the short

term. That is why establishing the foundation of healthy eating

should start in childhood. And if we're parents, we need to follow

the Number One rule for feeding kids right, and that's " Set a Good

Example! " This is where Nature comes in and eating foods closer to

the source, which is our Earth Mother. She blesses us every season

with foods that are best for us—fresh greens in the Spring, cooling

fruits and vegetables in the Summer, lots of richer foods like

grains, beans, nuts and seeds, plus many veggies in Autumn to help

us last through the cold or wet Winter.

 

Connect with this and minimize all the processed and junk foods and

chemicals so readily available everywhere in our modern societies.

This one area can help protect your health and keep you well

throughout your years.

 

What about NURTURANCE? Nourishing ourselves with care, food from

loving cooking, friendship is investing in self, and this investment

can comfort and heal us. Being sensitive to our own needs, truly

caring for ourselves, nurturing our own being by knowing what will

nourish us and our spirit, we can learn the uniqueness of our being,

as every human is different.

 

5.Exercise activity is crucial to staying healthy and vital, as well

as to good circulation and a strong immune system. A balanced daily

and long-term program that includes stretching for flexibility,

aerobic activity for endurance, and weight work for strength. This

all leads to better relaxation and getting our minds out of the way

so that healing can happen more easily in our bodies. A vital body

rarely gets sick. Yoga and other flexibility-enhancing movements are

helpful at keeping us youthful. " We are as young as our spine is

flexible. " So, stay young and healthy with regular exercise.

 

6.Nutritional supplements support balance and healing. They nourish

our cells and tissues, and support optimal function to allow healing

to happen biochemically and physiologically. Deficiency symptoms

such as fatigue and coldness may require nutrients and hormonal

balance (and a more nourishing diet) while congestion and toxicity

problems like headaches, allergies, aches and pains, and digestive

maladies can be helped by detoxification with herbs (and with a

more cleansing diet) and nutritional support. Make sure you or your

guide knows what they are doing, and don't overdo it. We can find

the right program for each of us if we listen to both our inner

guidance as well as outside wisdom and experience.

 

7.Avoid the victim and blame game, the name game. Most of us get

into trouble because of the way we think and the judgments we make,

both for others and ourselves. When we say things to others out of

anger and with an attempt to hurt them, as we may feel hurt, we

generate a war of words and feelings. That is not a healing feeling

and creates separation. Separation and upset emotions generate

dis-ease while love and connection/cooperation toward unity help us

heal. Many people have bad habits, self-destructive behavior because

they feel victimized by life and don't feel deserving of love,

health, good food, and other ways of nurturing and pleasuring

themselves. Sometimes, the number one thing we can do is to heal our

attitude towards self and life. I encourage my patients to adopt the

philosophy that " this is the only body I have, and I want to treat

it in a loving and respectful way. " Then, if we can really feel and

believe this, we will begin to eat better, exercise more, learn to

handle our stresses, and have a new and different approach to life.

Wow!

 

Don't live on the harm farm, where no matter what you do ends up out

of balance or so it seems. Re-learn to think positively and act

confidently. Read the biographies of those who have overcome great

obstacles to live fully and use their inspiration as motivation.

Live simply, Live well!

 

8.Where can we go to Heal? The answer lies within. Some people tap

their deeper levels only when they get away from home or work and

their everyday world. This may involve a retreat or just going into

Nature. Others may benefit from some workshop or therapy program.

Getting out of the way, relaxing and letting things flow allows

healing to happen—it's a natural experience our body wants. When

everything is flowing through our channels (blood, lymph, energy),

we are healthy and vital. Tune in and go to your stress; allow the

conflicts to surface. Also, allow your dreams to bring you insight

and give you passion for action.

 

Dream Exercise for Healing—Before you go to bed, write down these

three important questions and then meditate on them a few minutes as

you drift off to sleep. Our subconscious has the answers we need to

solve our health dilemmas if we are willing to listen to this innate

wisdom. Make sure you write your questions on paper, ideally in your

personal journal as this brings them into form.

 

Body, why am I experiencing this problem (you can be more

specific to your concern) right now?

What do you wish to tell me?

What is needed for healing?

 

Or use some variation of these questions, and you can make them

specific to your personal issues. This is also a technique in guided

imagery work to have an internal dialogue with the wise part of your

self. Give this a few nights or even weeks to see what comes back;

you may be surprised and delighted, and certain conflicts may be

resolved.

 

9.Shifting and balancing with the Seasons is vital to Staying

Healthy. Being aware of your own cycles within Nature's is a key

knowledge to acquire and use throughout life in regards to personal

choices, activities, diets, etc. How did you feel last year at this

time and what were your dreams then and now? If you journal these

things, you'll have some reference for yourself and this will help

you learn. Tune in and you'll find yourself in there; yes, you're in

there...meet up with yourself and have some fun. Discovering the

many dimensions and mysteries of our humanness can be quite an

adventure. We were all gifted with treasures, that is the gold at

the end of the rainbow of love. We are loved...we are love, love is

all around us, let us celebrate and radiate love, which is healing.

 

There is love to light the way...my first book, Staying Healthy with

the Seasons, is a guide book for traveling through the cycles of

light and dark and the effects on inner and outer climates.

 

10.In summary, imbalance occurs primarily from a dominance of

thoughts or excessive, stressful emotions, or from a diet that

causes congestion or deficiency (too much or not enough, usually

both). And the balance and healing lie in the inner work and

enhancement of spirituality as my friend Howard Schechter, PhD.

States in his insightful and helpful book, Jupiter's Rings: Balance

from Inside Out (White Cloud Press, Ashland, Oregon). Explore all

parts of yourself and work/play to integrate them by working through

weaknesses and other challenges, and allow yourself to become your

full and true Self. Blessings to you all. Feeling and Healing by

Elson and Bethany What do you feel/do/know/think when you see

that the mismanagement of the Earth's resources and the focus on war

are destroying our ability to love one another. Nature is love, and

we can feel relaxed, energized, loved and nourished by our beautiful

Earth. Peace allows and generates wholeness and the ability to love.

 

When we can listen, we find the heart of cooperation and

understanding. We then can create peace and the ability to care for

all the humans and other inhabitants of our planet. Is there a

better way to use this energy that doesn't lead to war? Let's have

an adventure and find out, it must be possible if we believe we can

achieve what we wish to receive–which is always healing our feelings

and dealings...Believe and radiate love and peace; No More War!!!!

 

© Elson Haas M.D.