Healing from the Inside Out
The Power of Choosing to Improve Your Quality of Life and Wellness
Each of us has the ability to choose. You can decide what to eat each day, what clothes to wear, what restaurants to go to; you have the ability to choose what you want in life and what you don’t want.
Of course, some things you can’t choose like what color our skin is, what size feet we have, what day of the week it is, but you do have the ability to choose something that is really, really important.
How You Feel
The practice of developing wellness in your life shows you that you do have the ability to choose how you feel.
You can consciously influence your emotions and your self. You can use mental training strategies like self-hypnosis and meditation to encourage certain states and feelings within your mind.
You can choose how to react to a certain situation or to a certain person. You can control your emotions so that you don’t fall into negative, degenerative, or destructive thought processes. You can even use the power of choice to heal.
Healing from the Inside Out
The power of choice is very similar to the power of intention. When you hold an intention in your mind, you are attracting the result of that intention into your life. When you make a choice, you are attracting the result of that choice into your life. Therefore, if you learn to be very aware of your choices, and also be aware of where your choices will lead you, then you can learn to remove destructive and negative influences from your life.
When you remove negativity and destructiveness from your life, you feel an all-pervading sense of wellness within your daily way of life. When you can learn to promote this feeling on a regular basis, the natural result is healing in the spirit.
Healing the Spirit is Healing Both Body & Mind
The Spirit, the awareness of the entire cosmos, is connected to everything that is contained within it, indeed, they are one. Obviously, that includes you, and me, and everyone else. Therefore, when the Spirit is encouraged to heal, meaning, when healing is promoted within ourselves and without ourselves, naturally we experience healing on all levels.
What Is Healing?
Healing, or more specifically spiritual healing, does not actually have anything to do with physical health. I know this may shock some of you, who are reading this, but it doesn’t and it’s actually pretty obvious why not when you can see the big picture.
For example, a person with a terminal illness can still have a very powerful and aware spirit.
A person who is incredibly fit and healthy physically can be completely negative in their minds and still practice many destructive forms of behavior.
Indeed spiritual awakening occurs to many people who are on their ‘death-bed’ so what are we talking about when we use the term ‘healing’?
What Healing Is
Having a complete awareness of what you are, knowing that in reality everything is okay, and understanding your position and function in life, that is what real healing is about. On the other hand, there is suffering.
Being lost in life, being confused about what is real and what is not, being angry and traumatized by past experiences, holding onto judgements and opinions about people, things or places which leads you to a feeling of separateness, these things are all in the realm of suffering.
True healing can only occur when all of these things are overcome, when suffering is brought to an end inside your heart. In reality, true healing and true spiritual wellness can only occur when the source of your suffering has been extinguished.
In the End
When it comes down to it, you have the ability to choose whether or not you suffer. By choosing not to suffer you are encouraging healing within your spirit. When healing is encouraged within your spirit, this has the natural effect of developing inner peace within your heart.
To truly heal, to remove all of the anguish, all of the confusion, all of the aggression, all of the conflict, all you have do is make a choice, a choice not to suffer, not to feed your problems, but instead, to take away the source of your inspiration.
Only you can do that for yourself.
If you can choose not to promote suffering in your life, naturally this has the effect of promoting greater quality of life and greater health. But even if your physical health is bad, as will be the case with most of us as we age and grow older, you can still have a mindset that doesn’t experience this as suffering, but simply sees that it is a part of the natural order of things.
For those of us who have health problems in our younger years, by making the choice to stop doing anything negative or destructive, one can encourage greater physical health as well as mental and spiritual health.
In order to do this, all you have to do is make a choice.