Healing Spirituality and Affirmations

Prayer, chanting, repeating a word to concentrate, or meditation can lower blood pressure, decease heart disease, cure infertility, and decrease AIDS symptoms. Relaxation and meditation decreases the number of doctors visits a person needs to make by up to 36%. As many as 40-50% of infertility patients conceived after beginning the practice. Pain and surgical healing time are lessened with this approach. Meditation can de-stress your life and allow the negative impact of stress on the body to dissolve. While many people have known and believed for years that meditation, visualizations and positive affirmations can keep your mind, body and spirit healthy, it wasn't taken seriously by the established medical community. Then a Harvard medical professor published findings of his study using these techniques. Finally, scientific proof had shown that Spirituality Heals.

Even though there is still resistance to these ideas, they are becoming more accepted within the medical establishment and by the public in general. But what took so long and why are these techniques being so praised now? Many people such as Louise Hay, Shakti Gawain, Dr. Bernie Siegel and others have been teaching these ideas for years. It's a very simple answer - money. HMO's and managed care want to keep costs down. Anything that could possibly do that is taken seriously.

Whatever the reason, more and more people are now understanding that the way to mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health is through the mind. Just as our spirit is what we are so is our health what we are. Being healthy is normal and natural,; being ill is not. We all have the power to take control of our lives and manifest our own destiny. A healthy destiny, not the one that the world looks upon today. That normal is pain, suffering and disease.

The first step on the road to health is to believe that you do have control. This doesn't mean that medications or medical intervention is never necessary. What is does mean is that you can reduce the use of both and in some instances, such as high blood pressure, even eliminate it. To learn to believe, you must visualize it.

Visualization is a simple yet very powerful tool. Close your eyes and see yourself as a healthy, vibrant person. See the fit way you do things. Life is a joy because you have the energy and vitality to do all the things you want to do. See it in your mind. Se yourself doing favorite things. See yourself going for a medical check-up and the doctor telling you everything is normal and you are healthy. SEE these pictures. Take yourself through the scenes just as though you are watching a movie. The difference is, this movie will play over and over again - until you believe it is real. Then you will make it become real.

The next step is to affirm the visualizations. Many of us are so used to viewing our health through a negative scene that this may be difficult. We may be around people who think negatively. Affirmations are statements of acceptance that one uses to allow the manifestation of your destiny. They are powerful and positive thoughts and statements sent out to the universe. To do positive affirmations, you need to eliminate the negativity around you. If that means going to a different room, going for a walk, or finding a quiet space that is all yours. You must get away from negative thoughts and energies around you so that all your positive thoughts remain positive. As you say them out loud and to yourself, the affirmations are becoming a part of your conscious, then subconscious thoughts. Repetition will drive them deeper into your being so that they become a vital part of you. You must affirm each day that there is one more powerful than you, be this the Universe, Mother or Father of us. Whatever your belief system, it all still fits. Next, you need to know that healthy is normal. Third, to know that your spirit, which is you, is connected to the all-powerful being in your life. You will repeat everyday: "I am a valuable person. I deserve to be valued. I am a healthy being. It is normal to be healthy and vital. My health is part of my being and my being is connected to the higher self. " Soon, this will be the normal way you approach your health. Not the negative way the world has made it.

Visualizations and affirmations are important, but how do we bring it all together and de-stress. The answer is very simple - meditation. During meditation, you will re-play the movie you have set up. During meditation, you will repeat your affirmations. Meditation will de-stress you. Many people do not have any idea how to meditate.

Meditation is simple, yet requires concentration, preparation and some items to make your thoughts clear and positive. The preparation is both psychological and physical. (This is a fast overview of medittion. More detailed instructions for meditative technique are available.) The psychological means that you must talk to yourself and give yourself permission to have 30-60 minutes of time where only you are the concern; that all other activities may cease; that all other thoughts can be left until after your time with yourself.

Physical preparation includes finding a quiet time in your day when negativity is at a minimum. It may mean going to a special place that is yours alone at a time when there is the least amount of activity around. Find a comfortable chair or area to sit. A place that will not intrude on your thoughts. Your body must be relaxed. This can be done with yoga or other exercises, a hot bath, deep breathing. Lighting incense sometimes helps. Do whatever relaxes your body. You may also find it helpful to use an object to fixate on when you are beginning meditation. Candles work well since the flicker of the flame requires concentration.

Once all the preparations are in place and you are relaxed, sit and concentrate on your object while slowly breathing in - and - out. Empty all thoughts from your mind so that all you can see or think of is your object and your breathing. With each breath in tell yourself that your are breathing in the energy of the Universe. Breathe out the stress and relax each muscle of your body beginning at your feet and moving up. Do this until your entire body is deeply relaxed. Then begin the movie in your mind, repeating your affirmations as it plays. Allow yourself to SEE and BELIEVE. At the end of your meditation session, you will be surprised at how refreshed and invigorated you feel.

By practicing these techniques 30-60 minutes a day, you will soon notice that you are feeling happier and healthier than you have ever felt. You will also find a peace within yourself you have not known before. This is because the realization that you manifest your destiny gives you a power that you have never known. Once the technique is very familiar to you and you are ready, you can move on to other visualizations and affirmations for your life.


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