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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!!!!

All Rights Reserved © Elson Haas M.D.

Thanks You Dr. Stoll! NMI

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