The Five Basics

Today I wanted to briefly touch on one aspect of what Dr. Darren Weissman refers to as the Five Essential Acts of Self-Love (or the Five Basics).  They include: Water, Food, Rest, Exercise, and Owning Your Own Power. 

Complete Health in your own House of Health requires balance in all areas:
     - Body (Physical)
     - Mind (Mental)
     - Spirit (Spiritual)


As you work on one area, it will naturally effect the other areas, but can also throw the balance off.  Sometimes you may need to focus more on one area where you are weak to help strengthen the other areas.  But just as you wouldn't spend all your time in the kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom of your physical house, focusing too much, or only relying on one area creates imbalance or stress.  To effectively create balance in your body, life, and relationships, working on all three areas is essential.  As you strengthen all three together, while using the Five Essential Acts of Self-Love, you will create the strong foundation to reinforce and support your overall health and well-being.  I will be going more in depth and covering each of these Five Basics over the next couple of weeks.  I'd like to suggest that before you read over them, make an inventory of where you're at in each area, and where you'd like to make some improvements, or see some changes.  I'll do the same and share my thoughts at the end of each post.  I hope you enjoy!


To Your Balanced House of Health and Mine,
Kathy    

How Our Experiences Affect Us

An example I like to use with my clients has to do with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Imagine you're driving down the highway and all the sudden you notice a red car coming the other direction towards you.  With no time to stop, you collide with the red car and find yourself unconscious.  Now, fast forward a few months (or even years)....Ask yourself, what would happen whenever you see the color red?  Your body would freak out as if it were preparing for another accident, right?  Perhaps it would cause you to freeze, tighten up, feel sick, or even cause you to blank out. 
 
While that's an extreme example, it rings true to our everyday life on a similar scale.  Our body is taking in all the information around us through all our senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch/feel) and keeps it for future reference.  When we come across something that reminds us of something we've experienced from the past, our body remembers and pulls that information out and reacts the same way it did before, often with strong responses.  So basically, we are re-experiencing the same feelings and emotions as before.  While this is an amazing protective mechanism our body has, what if it is reacting from a limiting belief when we were say 4 years of age?  Would that be helpful for dealing with issues today if we were coming from that 4 year old perspective?  Absolutely not.  Our body, mind, and spirit are amazing at protecting us, and will go to all costs to do so.  It is our opportunity and journey here to learn how these beautiful "gifts" of protection have been helping us and consciously connect to the language our body is speaking to us and to consciously choose differently for the present. 

Begin to notice what happens to you as you experience life.  Do certain things or situations trigger you?  If you haven't noticed before, begin today to notice what happens inside yourself.  When you notice your body reacting with strong emotions, feelings, tensing up, or reacting differently, thank your body for that protection mechanism.  But then let it know it's coming from something in the past and is no longer valuable to you anymore.  Then you can replace it with how you do choose to live.  I am grateful for the "gift" of asthma because it was protecting me from a limiting belief and of "I can't fully take in life around me".  Now that I recognize where it came from, I choose to thank my body for the gift, and then choose to let life and air flow easily through me.

Here's to your beautiful protective mechanisms and mine,
Kathy

Epiphany of the Day

This morning, while getting ready for a meeting, I was thinking about my body's beautiful protective mechanisms, and the Core Limiting Beliefs created by my subconscious as one of those mechanisms of protecting me.  Usually, when I'm in front of a crowd (ok, lets face it....pretty much anyone),  I don't have a whole lot to say.  The Limiting Belief of "I don't have anything to share with anyone" is a great protective mechanism.   For example, it has kept me out of many "scary" situations in which I may have been hurt (or embarrassed) inserting my foot into my mouth, or even worse, not having anything come out of my gaping, moving mouth.  So quite literally, it's helped me so I don't look stupid staring open-mouth at people.  That's a great protection, right?  While this may sound a bit silly, this limiting belief has actually been quite debilitating for me.  It stems back from as long as I could remember that I was told by everyone around me that I was a great listener.  And while this is a true statement, I am a great listener, I took this belief internally as "I have to listen to people and I am NOT good at speaking."  Well, this belief has led to a lifetime of holding back my thoughts & feelings, and left me feeling like I needed to listen to everyone's problems.  My body was protecting me with this belief of having to stay silent from getting hurt by saying the wrong thing, or not having anything to say because I didn't feel my thoughts were valuable. Meanwhile, my body was internalizing all the things people were sharing with me, and everything that I never voiced.  So I developed an eating disorder partly due to this amazing protection.  That was a huge ah-ha moment this morning. So with this new epiphany, I was faced with a choice. I could go to this meeting and continue my old limiting belief and habit of just listening, OR I could actually speak up & connect with people.  What did I choose?  I chose to face my fear with faith and spoke up. I thanked my body for that beautiful protection, but told it that it was no longer needed because I was no longer in the same environment when it was created.  I gave thanks for the old belief, but then chose to abandon it and choose the belief that I do have something worthwhile to share and that people are interested in me and what I have to say.  It was awesome to stand in my own power and love and appreciate myself, and be able to love and appreciate what everyone else had to bring to the meeting. It was a huge success. Hooray! So what is one way your body is protecting you? How can you face that Limiting Belief with love & gratitude for the protection it served you in the past, but know you are no longer in the past, and let go of that belief that is no longer serving you anymore?  Need help seeing gratitude for your past beliefs?  Let me know and I'll show you how to see the beautiful gift life has given you from any and all moments you've experienced.

Here's to overcoming beliefs that no longer have value.
Best Wishes,
Kathy

Just what is My House of Health?

Have you ever thought or stated that you want to be healthier? What exactly does that mean to you? Are you thinking about your physical health and relating to your body? Or are you meaning your Mental, or Emotional health? Or maybe a combination of all three? Well, I've been pondering on the meaning of health a lot the past few years as I've had to overcome my own health challenges. It is something I've become very passionate about and love teaching what I've learned. I've had several clients tell me I should write a book. And while this isn't a published book, it is a journal of ideas and information that will hopefully help many of you that are struggling along your own personal journey to health.

Health is defined as the condition of your body, mind, and spirit. Complete, or total health then, would include balance in all three areas. When we are out of balance in one area, it can (and often does) affect the other areas. Personally, I love the comparison of our body to a house for our spirit and mind. I love that! In pondering about my own house of health (body, mind, and spirit), I've often wondered what kind of condition it is in. Hence, the website name "My House of Health". My hope for this blog-site is to inspire, inform, and empower you to reclaim your own personal House of Health and create balance in all areas of your body, life, and relationships. So if you are interested in experiencing greater health (in all areas of your body, mind, and spirit), stick with me and we'll adventure out on an exciting and beautiful journey to creating balanced health together.


To Your House of Health and Mine,
With Much Love & Gratitude,

Kathy Heinsohn