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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“Life challenges us, and through challenge we grow.
Sometimes what makes the difference is having a hand to hold along the way
at the time you need it most, until you are once again able to
walk in your beauty, strength and truth unaided, ready to offer the same to another…”

I believe our whole life is a journey - a journey during which many things happen to us - some are wonderful and amazing, and others create challenges and difficult times. I view these challenges as opportunities to grow, to evolve - however, it is easier when we have the right people alongside us to assist us on our journey.

As I walk alongside and work with my clients, we take many different kinds of journeys.

As we work together, I witness people begin to understand and re-discover the deeper meaning of what to is to become truly well. As part of this transformation, gifts and potential are often revealed within them, and dreams are realised, sometimes more than they could possibly have imagined.

Many of my clients have suffered from abuse and/or addiction. I enable them to leave behind years of hurt and pain, through the gentle healing power of listening and touch, and by offering a supportive, steady and progressive way forward.

In addition to offering Golden Way Reiki Healing, it is my way to take my personal experiences, to grow through them - and then to offer what I have learned to help others as best I may, sometimes with very practical suggestions! If something has worked for me, then it may well work for you too…

What I recognise is that we are all somewhere on our journey, including me, we are all “Unfinished Songs”…

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“Over the last few years I have experienced the benefits which Reiki does deliver - especially removing any negativity and resetting your point of view.”
Peter Brown ~ Cheltenham, Jan 2022

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Can you sense the uplift and movement that comes from moving out of the inner, introspective energies at the end of Winter as we transition into the outward moving, fresh, budding ones of early Spring?

These changeable days of sunshine and showers are heralding seasonal transition and giving rise to some beautiful rainbows!

How do you maintain your balance whilst shifting through the transitions of life?
Much is written about “work/life” balance, but what does it mean to take a balanced approached to wellbeing and health?

Here at Honour Being, I recognise that we have many different aspects to our being ~ and there are complex reasons that we become out of balance.

We are not simply body, mind and spirit ~ we are also energetic and emotional beings. And each aspect may move out of balance. Each aspect has its own specific issues, and yet is interconnected within us as a whole and complete being.

And we are also subject to many influences around and outside us.

So how do we take a balanced approach to life and healing, when there are just so many different choices available to us?

We can choose to work with many different therapists/healers in order to find restoration ~ and sometimes we need to do a specific “deeper dive”.

Often we may be drawn to see health as solely located in one aspect of our being, for example physical health may seen as the predominant factor, or mental health may become the sole focus.

This is unbalanced and ultimately will lead to greater imbalance.

Our body is truly our personal temple, and nurturing and caring for our body is essential. It is our “earth suit” and we are only gifted one of those in each lifetime.

However, it is also a vessel for Spirit to inhabit, and is the container of all of our thoughts, emotions and energy. Our emotional experiences and wounds ultimately give rise to physical pain and illness, if left unaddressed, and affect the way we view the world.

The way we view the world, then influences our expectations, and life responds by meeting those expectations. This is the reason I begin by offering healing to the emotional hurts. Perceptions and expectations organically begin to shift and change.

Experiences become more positive and life-affirming, creating more positive thought processes. Neural pathways begin to change, transforming self-limiting beliefs.

This is not short term, “quick fix” work, but requires dedication and determination from both myself and each person I work with.

Through subtle and very specific Reiki training, I am able to work with each and every aspect of your being in a manner which gently returns you to balance and alignment.

We begin by gently asking what happened to make it so?

And how come the balance has been lost?

And then the intelligence of Reiki moves to where the healing is needed.

Returning you to balance.

One step at a time.

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I came to her a wreck of a man, physically and mentally. Elizabeth put me gently but firmly back on the path to self-healing with enormous compassion and deftness of her art. “
(Alex C ~ Gloucester, January 2022)

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