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As a human being you consist of your body, your mind, your emotions and your spirit. When one of these parts become unhealthy or negative your overall energy system is effected. It is your energy system that unites mind, body and spirit. Restoring a healthy energy flow will help kick-start you back to harmony and health. Ultimately this is how energy therapies work.
One way to help yourself is to consult an energy therapist (as well as your GP). However you are able to to positively impact your own energy system, restore harmony and feelings of well being you and improve your energy in the long term.
How do you do this? Firstly look at how you are mentally responding to your illness. Of course no-one consciously wants to be ill. Begin by asking yourself what it is that would bring you more peace of mind. This may not mean a physical cure but a sense of relief. Whatever it is you identify work towards giving yourself that. It may mean being in bed and resting instead of forcing your body to perform daily tasks. It may be calling work, asking a friend for help or finally deciding to sort or organize something that is outstanding in your life. It may seem to have nothing to do with your illness whatsoever. However the relief, the movement towards peace of mind will help restore harmony and thus help you heal.
Secondly, ask yourself how you are emotionally. Are you frustrated? Feeling let down? Guilty? Angry? Hopeless? Suffering from mood swings? However you are feeling, allow yourself to feel this way without fighting it. Accepting emotion allows the emotion to run it's course and thus pass through. Fighting it creates a push and pull war like feeling in your body and uses up energy that could better be used for healing.
For some people admitting how you feel may be difficult, let alone accepting it. Remember that although you can mentally enforce a personal position through your will power this only denies another part of you. This denial creates chaos in your system and uses enormous amounts of personal energy- so much so that willfully enforcing your position in life may mean eventual burn out.
If admitting how you feel to yourself or others is difficult for you the easiest way to remedy this is to get professional help and support as you begin to do something that different/terrifying/humiliating/seemingly irrelevant, to you.
Spiritually you might like to ask yourself, "How am I?". Many people never ask this and others don't really know what this questions means. Ask yourself how you are feeling about your life and life in general. Are you engaged you on the inside? Not just physically and mentally involved in day to day tasks. Do you generally feel a sense of connection to yourself and those around you? What is it that deep down you know you need to do or would like to do?
Spiritually, illness can act as a gateway of transformation, giving you an opportunity to stop, assess and make changes that you might not have done if you had continued to be healthy. Taking time to ask yourself these questions is like giving yourself an overall audit or appraisal. At work we all know how beneficial these can be but very few of us ever take the time to give ourselves an internal audit. Sometimes this is because we fear the answer. There's a wonderful phrase used by some that says, "Whatever you resist, persists". This means that you can never really get rid of nagging doubts, fears or concerns- all you can do is avoid them. Whilst you may believe that you currently do not have the strength or courage to feel, look or deal with them, avoiding them only creates blockages in your energy field that will resurface in the future. Blockages also use up energy that you could be better using elsewhere. It is far healthier strategy to acknowledge an issue and to consciously work to gather strength to deal with it. You may need help with this.
Asking yourself any of these questions- on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level- will help you restore the balance in your system and energy fields. This will help you heal and create an even better life moving forward. All effort here is rewarded...
