Health is not something that can be obtained only by exercising, and certainly wishing and hoping that youth can be maintained by the next great anti-oxidant or energy juice is yet another self-deception. I’m all for these things as supplements to the main ingredient for health on a spirit, mind and body level – emotional health.

When we as a society stop conditioning ourselves to run and hide from feelings and emotions, we will really reform health care. In fact, it can finally move from disease care to real health maintenance. Just look at the word “disease”. You can break it down to “dis – ease, or “not at ease”.

This is the source of most of our disease. Stress is a sensation of overwhelm, and when we live in our heads to the neglect of our hearts and bodies, it’s no wonder heart disease and stiff bodies start to develop over time. It is not age that is doing it; it is the fact that negatively charged emotions that have been repressed over time takes its toll.

These emotions are hiding out in the body at a cellular level for sure and I believe also in the bio-energetic fields of the body. When I started facing my feelings and learning how to change the way I thought about emotions and feelings, I really became empowered to change my life.

We are conditioned to repress our feelings and emotions. The problem is, when you keep repressing them, they only re-circulate and “build up steam” within your body. For example high blood pressure, or hypertension is really just “life under pressure”.

Of course, if you keep pushing the lid down on your emotional body, when you do occasionally release it, it feels scary and overwhelming. I used to be terrified of negative feelings. I’ve learned though that this is all illusion and that I did not blow up once I retrained my brain to stop fearing feelings and live within (embody) my body instead of living in my head. Stop right now and notice your feet. Feel your legs.  “Being in your body” brings more energy into your body which raises health and vitality.  Your energy flows where your attention goes.

Most of us walk around numb all day and are too busy to notice how we are feeling. After accumulating years of negative emotions, we start to avoid even wanting to feel our body or stay in present awareness because we don’t want to deal with pain. Well, I learned its pay now or pay later.

Since I started facing my fear about running from feelings and emotions, I no longer am afraid and I discovered it was yet another childhood “boogeyman under the bed”, a fear all in my head. I’ve learned how to release old emotional memory energy from my body, and gratefully I can say I am a very healthy person.

In fact, the more I learn about energy and the role of mind and emotion on our bodies, I’ve been able to heal issues that use to bother me when I was “emotionally blocked”. My body is even more healthy and flexible now.

Emotional blocks are like the cataracts that I used to remove when I was a practicing eye surgeon. They block the light that allows you to see your vision for your life clearly.

Not clear about where you are going and why? Not feeling passionate about life anymore? Consider healing the blind spots of emotional blockages and you can, as I did, start to shine the light on your energy drainers and raise your level of health and vitality.

Tags: Confidence, Emotional Healing, Emotional Health, Empowerment, Staying Healthy

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