Words Have Power

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Your words are POWERFUL. It doesn’t matter if you are thinking, writing or speaking them; or if they are your subconscious thoughts, emotions, attitudes, perceptions or beliefs - they are creating your experience of life.

You are designed to heal. You are always healing.

You can resist it and slow it down, but your body wants to heal!

The best way to slow down that process, is to keep naming and claiming what you don’t want. Your brain and body will deliver what you claim. Every. Time.

Our culture and medical systems have conditioned us to think about and speak about our experience in a way that is completely disempowering and contrary to our goals:

“I have (name the issue, condition or diagnosis).”

“My (name the issue, condition or diagnosis)…”

This might not seem like a big deal at first glance, but think about this for a moment… when we realize that our brain, nervous system and subconscious - which send out instructions to our entire physical body - are always looking for information and instructions to carry out, you might imagine how that very short conversation might go…

Person/Mind/Mouth: “I have an auto-immune condition”

Brain/Body: “Ok! I can deliver that!”

Person/Mind/Mouth: “My auto-immune condition makes me feel so weak and I can’t think clearly.”

Brain/Body: “Ok, got it! We can do that too, no problem!”

Person/Mind/Mouth: “I am always in pain.”

Brain/Body: “We’ve got you, we are on it! We will keep that going.”

We may ruminate on how awful we feel or how sad this makes us and on and on…giving our brain and body further instructions all the time.

Our subconscious may begin playing into this and perpetuating it so that we enter a ‘loop’ of these “instructions” constantly being sent to the brain and body.

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What we focus on expands. So how do we turn this freight train around?

This takes a commitment to discipline with your thoughts and what you are choosing to think about and focus on.

I’m not talking about perfection here, simply taking the first step and moving forward a step at a time, one day after the next. This is a process and you must be gracious with yourself.

While you are doing the things you need, to physically support your healing, your mindset and heart-set are, quite possibly, even more important!

Where to start?

Write down what you are grateful for and what is going well!

Make a list of the things you want to be doing when you are feeling 100% again.

Now create a visual for yourself to meditate on… where are you? What are you doing? What are you wearing? How do you feel in this visualization? What can you smell? What can you touch? What can you taste? Get your senses involved in this beautiful visualization.

Close your eyes and really go there in your mind… seeing yourself full of vitality doing the thing(s) you are imagining… maybe you are interacting with other people too… watch yourself and get all your senses involved… drop it below your chin and really feel this visualization in your body.

Got it?

Excellent!

Replay this visualization over and over again throughout the day.

It only takes a moment.

*Close your eyes, go there, feel it, take a deep breath to integrate that into your physical body, exhale and open your eyes.*

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Every morning write down something you are grateful for, and run your visualization. Do it again at lunchtime, dinnertime and in bed as you fall asleep. And again when you wake up in the morning.

Get your mind and subconscious busy on creating THAT experience for you!

You may even want to make a vision board that you see every day. Vision boards have proven over and over again to be powerful tools for many people. Make it work for you.

Let’s circle back to that verbiage from the beginning… No more naming and claiming the experiences we don’t want. We are making a commitment right now to stop perpetuating our own misery.

Let’s shift this, and try something like…

“In the past” or “Up to now, I have experienced some health challenges; but I am constantly in a state of healing, and these touch points of discomfort (formerly known as symptoms) have given me information on how I can make changes and shifts to line up with the healing my body is creating. I’m progressing in my healing every day. Even on days when I experience something uncomfortable, I am being given information to work with to help me engage in my healing.”

That’s an example, you can come up with your own!

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