Healing Happens Slowly

Healing happens in every moment.  Healing happens below the surface and is not always visible to the naked eye while in process.  Some injuries are slight and only require a short period of healing.  That’s when we feel healthy and believe that our body is functioning well.

However, the healing process is often more complex and myseterious than we realize.  For more serious injuries and chronic ailments our healing process may appear convoluted and even non-existent.  Traditional medical treatments as well as alternative and complementary procedures may appear to be failing us.  When healing is not immediately forthcoming, most of us become quite discouraged and even despondent.

But there is a profound wisdom in our body.  We may not currently know why our body is holding on to an ailment but there is always a reason.  The solution is to pay attention to the minute sensations that may reveal something to us that larger, grosser movements do not.

F.M. Alexander, a Shakespearian actor in the early 20th century, had lost his voice and was not healing by traditional means.  He decided to study his own body to find the solution.  Looking in the mirror, he discovered that his chin was protruding.  Through meticulous, carefully orchestrated, tiny movements, he unravelled the holographic body mechanism that was interfering with projection of his voice.  That was how he started The Alexander Technique, a body therapy method that has helped actors, dancers, athletes, musicians and people in all walks of life to overcome and heal from chronic physical problems.

Are you currently struggling with a physical problem that just won’t heal?  Have you ever taken the time to observe yourself making tiny, tiny movements?  Have you created a simple dialogue with that body part or organ system to reveal to you some previously unknown meaning?  Many people have overcome seemingly insurmountable physical problems through tenacious self-discovery, self-reflection and making small almost imperceptible movements in the direction of ease.

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Healing Dreams and Goals

What are your dreams and goals for 2010?  Have you contemplated, pondered and listed your goals?  Have you thought about, imagined and visualized your dreams already manifested?  If not, what is stopping you?

I set my goals early, visualized myself already at the top of the mountain looking down, and started taking steps.  I climbed easily, step by step, putting myself wholeheartedly into my intentions.  And then, seemingly without warning, my world came crashing down.  I was taking steps — but other people, those I was associated with or people I relied upon, were not.  Phone calls that I expected did not come.  Tech support that I needed was not available.  Emotional support was not forthcoming.  Does that sound familiar to you?  Have you ever started out with excitement and enthusiasm only to be stopped dead in your tracks by delays, frustrations, problems, lack of support and even seemingly insurmountable obstacles?

While wallowing in my personal review of all the ways I have not succeeded in my life, I wracked my brain to determine what had triggered such a seemingly negative reversal of my upward climb.  A close friend and colleague from my early training program had gotten sick and passed away.  Several other influential colleagues in two different professional organizations had died within the last few months.  Currently involved in three training programs at the same time and varous different projects, I had a continual sense of overwhelm and doubt about my ability to accomplilsh all that I had set out to do.  In the process, I had temporarily forgotten how to celebrate, play and enjoy the company of others.

Sharing my emotional turmoil with others has brought varying responses.  One person listened for awhile and then said, “Enough!”  My mastermind group listened, supported, clarified and cast a new perspective on my current dilemma.  A study buddy reminded me about the power of our childhood beliefs that have never left us.  And I remembered my father’s words, “Children should be seen and not heard.”  With that admonition, how could I possibly put my work out into the world, be highly visible, and expect to flourish?

Then I remembered the words of Napoleon Hill, author of the ever popular book Think and Grow Rich. He talked about developing the mindset of people we would like to emulate.  He described his way of dialoguing with his imagined mastermind group  and incorporating into his own thought processes their distinct ways of thinking, their methods for setting goals, determining a course of action, and overcoming problems and obstacles that arise.

I wondered to myself, “How might a truly successful and confident person handle my current difficulties?”  Without a second thought I realized that he or she would not waste hours and days mulling over the problem but would seek a solution by finding the person or persons who could help.  I reached out for technical assistance.  I reached out for emotional support.  I was reminded to review not only my failures but all those many accomplishments I have achieved over the years.

One month has passed.  I have taken many small steps toward the goals I have set for this year.  Although my path has been strewn with roadblocks, debris and emotional turmoil, my vision is focused on the wide open field and the sky above.  The path is not always clear.  The steps are not always easy.  But I am determined to keep putting one foot in front of the other, stepping forward steadily toward fulfillment of my dreams.

How are you doing on your path toward your dreams?  Please share your thoughts, successes, and yes, even your temporary blocks and obstacles.  Put it out in full view for you to look at, examine and eliminate.  Let this year be the one that surpasses all others.

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New Year — New Dreams — Get Started Now!

 

Happy New Year to us all.  My wish and prayer is for healing, love-filled days and nights, with enough abundance and prosperity for us all.  Is that too big a dream?  If the law of attraction is true, and I believe it is, visualizing and trusting that abundance, healing and love are within our reach,  will bring it to us.

Are you ready to live your dream?  Has something in your past been holding you back?  Have you repeated habitual thoughts and words of doubt and lack and self-effacement?  Have you forgotten your connection to others and to everything that is? 

This New Year, 2010, greeting is my reminder to you.  We are all in this life together.  We are not alone, even though it often feels that way.  Our feelings, emotions and thoughts are fleeting, elusive and not always true.  If we pay attention to the signals and symptoms in our body, we may discover what is stopping and blocking us from moving toward our dream.

I want to begin this present New Year with gratitude.  I am grateful for all the love I feel from friends and family (and I have a very small family now).  I appreciate all the well wishes sent by my newfound online social media friends – from all around the globe.  I acknowledge all those marketers who are teaching us the “tricks” toward attaining abundance.  I absorb the warmth and love being shared by spiritually-minded, loving teachers, authors and others.  I am grateful for my physical health (in spite of a few screaming body parts).  I enjoy my own mental health, mental clarity, vision and increasing wisdom.  I love all my emotions (from joyous ones to downright painful ones) and I appreciate all of my experiences (positive and negative) for the lessons provided.

What would life be like without any struggles, any barriers, or any emotional variances?  It could be like living in sunny, warm Florida and wishing for some cooler weather, even a touch of snow.  If we have only positive emotions, uplifting experiences and everything going according to our own plans, what would be the purpose for our life?  What would we desire or strive for?

This is the time, right now at the start of this New Year – a decade into the 21st century – to choose a vision for your life, to acknowlege and accept your current reality (no matter how much it differs from your dream), and to step out into the world – confident, unafraid and willing to do what it takes.  What does it take to reach your dream?

Susan Boyle had a dream since she was about 13 years old.  She sang and practiced her singing and performed her songs.  To anyone who knew Susan Boyle prior to April 2009, they probably could not have imagined the transformation that would soon happen to her life.  When she performed her amazing rendition of I Had A Dream from Les Miserables as one of many hopeful contestants on Britain’s Got Talent, the audience was blown away and so was the rest of the world.  Part of Susan Boyle’s dream came true on that fateful day.  And then, more recently, she sang a duet with the lady who had been her idol for many years.  http://budurl.com/SusanBoyleEPaige

Are you struggling with some seemingly insurmountable healh problem?  What steps have you taken, you yourself, to study potential treatments that your doctors may not recommend?  Read in this article about how two courageous men (Johnny Delirious and Ron Siemientkowski) healed their own bodies – when everyone else thought it was hopeless.  http://budurl.com/Healthgoals.

This is the year to begin.  Take those small steps now.  Ask yourself at least once every day, every week or every month, “What steps have I taken toward living my dream this day, this week, this month?”  Start taking those tiny steps now and watch those tiny steps lead to greater and more fulfilling success as the days and weeks and months of 2010 unfold.

Are you ready to live your dream?  I know I am.

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Why Isn’t My Journey Easy?

Have you ever looked at other people’s lives and wondered, why isn’t my life easy?  Why don’t I have the life I want and have always dreamed of?  Why do some people have so much and others have so little?  Why do I work so hard at trying to get what I want, yet I often feel as though I am just treading water, barely surviving, or even slipping backwards.

Life is a great equalizer.  We cannot look at anybody else to discover our own path.  No matter how it appears on the surface, we can never really know about the internal workings of the mind and consciousness of anybody else.  All we can know is what we see, the outer manifestations, the material goods, and the images projected.  We do not know the soul’s purpose, the life mission or the overwhelming challenges that anyone else is facing in their own personal journey.

How many of us have actually explored, discovered and are consciously following our own life purpose, our unique personal mission, or our soul’s inner longing?  When we allow ourselves to temporarily disengage from the treadmill of our daily lives, when we give ourselves some quiet time and solitude – alone with our own consciousness – that is when we may be able to connect with our own inner knowing.

But discovering our life path, soul’s journey, purpose here on earth is only the beginning of the process.  That is why we are given an entire lifetime.  There is something we are here to accomplish.  We can continually distract ourselves, focusing on momentary pleasures or life threatening fears, but sooner or later we bump up against our own consciousness.

Are you ready to discover your life’s purpose and live as if your life depended on achieving your life mission?  A good friend, Diane Schwartz, shared a thought with me that will forever change the way I view this lifelong process of self-discovery.  When we are feeling most upset, most down, most angry, most uncomfortable, that is when we have the greatest opportunity for self-actualization, spiritual connection and profound creative expression.  When we are most happy, fulfilled and satisfied, the creative juices may begin to dry up in apathy and boredom.  We are more likely to lose the hunger, the drive and the need for internal discovery.

Necessity is the mother of invention.  The next time you feel discouraged, upset, hurt or angry, step back, allow yourself to reflect, to dialogue within, and to burst with your own unique creative expression.

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Find just the right ebook to guide you with a step by step series of theories, facts and exercises, click on the link below.

http://www.createhealingandlovenow.com/special.htm

To find out more about me, contact me directly, or receive a personal consultation:

http://www.DrEricaWellness.com or http://www.SexualReawakening.com

Please feel free to add your own comments or describe your own experiences in your personal life journey.  I look forward to sharing thoughts and feelings, experiences, insights and loving communications with you.  My goal is to create healing and love in the world.  Your willingness to participate adds one more person to be filling the world with healing and love.  Let’s work together now to journey into the recesses of our own heart and mind so that we can become a beacon of light to others.

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Why is my life the way it is right now?

Have you ever wondered, “Why is my life the way it is right now?”  And then, have you taken the time to really focus on this and discover the answer? Your life is, believe it or not, a product of your own creation.  YOU CREATE YOUR LIFE.  Your thoughts and beliefs, actions and attitudes attract to you  the right people and circumstances to help build and play in your drama.

Just for now, imagine that your life is a Hollywood drama.  Give it a title.  For example, “The Adventures of Sally”- or “Football Star Goes Bad, or “Poor Little Susie,” or “The Stud,”  or “Rita and her Five Kids.”  Take a few moments to review your life as if you were watching it in a movie.  Allow your feeligs to emerge as you reminisce about past events.  Smile about those happy moments and feel the sadness and grief of those more painful times.

Now, in this moment, decide.  How do I want my life to be – tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, five years from now or ten years from now?  Think big.  As Donald Trump says, ”It’s just as easy to think big as to think small.”  

Dream big.  Think big.  If you reach for the stars, you may only reach the moon – or the clouds – but you will be way above the earth.  So start today, right  now.  Dream. Imagine.  Visualize. 

http://budurl.com/Createloveheal

Find just the right ebook to guide you with a step by step series of theories, facts and exercises, click on the link below.

http://www.createhealingandlovenow.com/special.htm

To find out more about me, contact me directly, or receive a personal consultation:

http://www.DrEricaWellness.com or http://www.SexualReawakening.com

Welcome to my blog.  I look forward to sharing thoughts and feelings, experiences, insights and loving communications with you.  My goal is to create healing and love in the world.  Your willingness to participate adds one more person to be filling the world with healing and love.  Let’s work together now to tip the balance and open the hearts of those who haven’t yet found the love within them.

Dr. Erica

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Let’s Begin Our Healing Journey

A journey of a thousand steps, a journey of a lifetime, a journey into the depths of your consciousness begins with one small step.  One tiny, almost imperceptible step taken with full focus provides the energy and impetus to take the next step, and then the step after that.  Any significant journey begins with some preparation, thought, imagination and readiness.  Are you ready to begin?

Here we go?  Answer this one question.  Respond with your most immediate and instant response.  Don’t linger and ponder and try to figure out the best answer.  Just go for it.  What do you have to lose?  Remember, this is only the very first step in a long, long journey.  Every journey begins with one simple step.  Although the question you are about to answer appears to be very simple, it is actually quite complex and profound.  For each and every one of us, there are many ways to respond.  Different aspects of your life and your being will be in the forefront at different times, sometimes even within the span of a few minutes.

Your question for today is:  WHO ARE YOU?

Who are you?  What words do you use to define yourself at this moment in time?  Are you choosing words that emanate from within you or are these words that you have often heard from others?  Are these the words you want to use to describe YOU or are they the words you think you have to use?  Do you believe these words are the truth about who you are?  Do you think that maybe, just maybe, there are some words that could describe you but you haven’t quite found those words yet – or – you haven’t quite allowed that part of yourself to come forth and be exposed?

Don’t stop here.  Ask yourself this same question at different times today, tomorrow and the next day.  Ask yourself this question for an entire week.  Discover for yourself what words you are currently using to define who you are, who you believe you are and who others have told you that you are.

Remember, every significant journey begins with a small step.  In responding to this simple question, you have begun that journey.  if you take the journey slowly, step by step, it will feel easy and effortless and perhaps even joyful.  It will feel like the gradual opening of the petals of a flower, gradual peeling away of the layers of an onion, gradual exploration into the depths of your own consciousness.

http://budurl.com/Createloveheal 

Find just the right ebook to guide you with a step by step series of theories, facts and exercises, click on the link below.

http://www.createhealingandlovenow.com/special.htm

To find out more about me, contact me directly, or receive a personal consultation:

http://www.DrEricaWellness.com or http://www.SexualReawakening.com

Welcome to my blog.  I look forward to sharing thoughts and feelings, experiences, insights and loving communications with you.  My goal is to create healing and love in the world.  Your willingness to participate adds one more person to be filling the world with healing and love.  Let’s work together now to tip the balance and open the hearts of those who haven’t yet found the love within them.

Dr. Erica

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Are You Ready to Take a Healing Journey?

Are you ready to take a healing journey with me? This is a step by step exploration into the depths of your own consciousness. As you ask yourself the right questions, the important questions, the questions you may have been avoiding, you will begin to remove layer after layer of old thoughts, others people’s thoughts, and thoughts that no longer serve you.

Together with me, as your educated guide, you will discover what you need to be able to create and allow healing to happen in your life.  Love is the essential element that allows healing to occur.  If you feel love for others and loved by others and your heart is open, you cannot help but receive what is offered.  When you allow love into your life and allow your heart to be filled with love, abundance seems to surround you in everything you do.

However, life tends to throw us some curve balls, some daggers, some ongoing painful events and situations.  For some of us the pain begins at a very young age.  Some of us are spared the pain in our early years, but be forewarned: When you feel pain, you know you are alive.  My neighbor, Charley, recently died suddenly.  He was in a car accident and had a heart attack.  Nobody knows which happened first.  The end result is that he is no longer feeling any pain.  He is no longer alive.

Once you accept that life is not all wine and roses, beautiful sentiments, romance, adventure, excitement and joy, you can begin the process of eliminating potential sources of pain and attracting more and more and more of potential sources of joy.  However, even with the most positive attitude, the most open energetic body-mind-spirit that you could possibly create, you cannot completely eliminate pain while you are alive.  Even if your thoughts are pure and above reproach, you are affected by the thoughts and actions of everyone around you, both near and far.

You and I are sensory beings.  Your senses repond to the world around you.  Every second you are bombarded by sensual stimuli and you respond in some way.   Of course, you cannot possibly respond to every single fragment of stimulation, so your powerful mind-body-spirit utilizes its own unique filtration system.  Each of us responds to certain stimuli and filters out many others.  Which stimuli you respond to and which ones you naturally filter out can determine your destiny.

As you take these small and deliberate steps into your own consciousness, you will naturally increase and expand your ability to respond to different stimuli.  As you allow new stimuli to enter your system, the pathways in your brain will adjust to accomodate the new input and allow you to integrate these sensations into new cognitive (thought) patterns.  Your new thoughts help you to create a bigger and larger perspective of your own life which allows you to understand, appreciate and develop empathy with others whose thought patterns and lifestyles differ greatly from your own.

As you naturally become more aware, more accepting, more inclusive, and more understanding of yourself and others, the world seems to reach out to you in unexpected and delightful ways.  If you continue on this path toward healing your consciousness and creating more and more love in your life, the law of attraction (which is always operating) seems to bring to you whatever it is that you need and desire now.

If something I have said here strikes a cord with you, if you are truly ready to follow a path toward creating healing and love now, then you have come to the right place.  First step, click on the link below and take the Create Healing and Love Now quiz.  If you remain in the queue, you will receive (usually once/week), a short sample of insight, theory and exercises to help you move along this incredible path toward physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual reawakening. 

http://budurl.com/Createloveheal

Find just the right ebook to guide you with a step by step series of theories, facts and exercises, click on the link below.

http://www.createhealingandlovenow.com/special.htm

To find out more about me, contact me directly, or receive a personal consultation:

http://www.DrEricaWellness.com or http://www.SexualReawakening.com

Welcome to my blog.  I look forward to sharing thoughts and feelings, experiences, insights and loving communications with you.  My goal is to create healing and love in the world.  Your willingness to participate adds one more person to be filling the world with healing and love.  Let’s work together now to tip the balance and open the hearts of those who haven’t yet found the love within them.

Dr. Erica

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