What does being in balance mean to you?

I’ve been doing some research on how people bring themselves back to health from serious illness. According to my research, there are 10 Keys common to recovery and wellbeing in the amazing stories I’ve read. These Keys (in no particular order) are:

Connection to spirit
Listening to your intutition
Strong reasons for living
A strong social network (includes pets)
Increasing positive emotion
Taking control of your health
Releasing emotional feelings and distress
Exercise
Herbs and supplementation
Healthy diet and nutrition

How many of these Keys have a in place in your life? The tendency is to focus on some and not others. When I look at them, I can see clearly which ones have a strong place in my life ~ and which ones I definitely need to bring in to create a truly healthy balance.

Can you identify how each one connects to a different element of your Being: Spirit, Mind, Energy, Emotion and Body?

We can wait until we have developed an illness to bring these Keys into our lives ~ or, more wisely, we can ensure that they are in place, decreasing the likelihood of illness… and the research also shows that having this balance can even outweigh and change DNA… How about that?

For example, some people have a strong natural connection to spirit, and pay less attention to the needs of the physical body through healthy diet and exercise. Some focus everything on physical wellbeing, and pay no attention to finding stillness or connecting to spirit. Some have a very strong social network of family and friends, and yet still store all the hurtful emotional experiences up inside them.

So, to counteract my innate tendency towards the serious (!), I’m making it a goal to bring more joyful, playful times into my life. And because I’m single and still relatively new to where I live, I’m increasing my social network through joining a wonderful Yoga community, growing my circle of soul sisters ~ and planning to buy a puppy for companionship, joy and all that unconditional loving :-)

Which Keys are the ones missing in your life?

Which Keys would help to bring you more into balance?

How might you do that?

In coming Blogs, I’m going to focus on each Key in turn, looking at how it helps to generate balance, and suggesting a few simple steps to bring it into your life ~ besides working through Reiki!

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”Reiki is not a quick fix to an ache or pain, but it is an investment in you. It heals you from inside. I have absolute trust ... Reiki and Elizabeth’s help me feel more balanced.””

— Teresa H (Oxon, 2016

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“Whatever exists outwardly must first exist inwardly…”

Emotional release begins from within...

The emotional woundings and hurts from our lives build up seemingly little by little.

And little by little they compress into our being, held within the fluids and interconnective tissues of our body.

Then little by little our physical bodies begin to speak to us by sending out their own messages of pain.

We ignore these messages at our peril.

BUT some of us are very very good at ignoring these messages.

Sometimes our bodies have to shout very loudly, sometimes they have to scream, sometimes they have to REFUSE to move any more.

Until we begin to pay attention.

Until we find the right way, the right person, the right healing art for us to enable the release ~ safely, slowly, gently... knowing we are held... knowing that the emotional release need not be unbearably painful, but can dissolve and let go just as the body lets go, little by little...

And then, instead of feeling frustration with the body which will no longer do what we WANT, we can learn to feel GRATITUDE to the body that has served us so well and sent us the messages we need to hear...

And then we can begin to MOVE once more in GRACE and FREEDOM...

To find out how Reiki can assist with emotional release and healing, click on the button below.

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“Reiki is not a quick fix to an ache or pain, but it is an investment in you. It heals you from inside. … they will be released because you are ready.”
(Teresa H ~ Oxon, 2016)

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