The
incredible power of your emotions and
your mind!
The
importance of our emotions can not be
underestimated. When we have a deeper
understanding of how they affect us, we
can use them to help in our healing and
creating a better life for ourselves. In
addition, no treatise on the subject of
the emotions would be complete with out
understanding the power of our minds in
affecting our emotional reality.
For so
long emotions have been something to be
kept under control and a perception of
weakness has often been associated with
an emotional display. In fact, nothing
could be further from the truth. The
suppression of our emotions is one of
the fastest ways of setting up an
energetic disturbance in our bodies.
Emotion = energy in motion, and when an
energetic disturbance or blockage occurs
within, we are then at risk of creating
dis-ease, cellular damage, etc.
Disease
can be healed if we are willing to
change the way we think and believe and
act! (Louise Hay )
Incredible
examples of healing have been attributed
to the healing power of the emotions. A
prime example is American author,
Brandon Bays who shares her amazing
story in her book” The Journey”.She
tells of how she completely cured
herself of a football sized tumor, by
exploring the layers of emotion
associated with the tumor and completely
resolving all issues around them. The
book shows the role our emotions have in
creating the reality we experience and
an effective way of changing that
reality.
Emotions
are now recognised as having a sound
scientific basis. Dr Candace Pert in her
book, Molecules of Emotion states, “For
me the key concept is that the emotions
exist in the body as informational
chemicals, the neuropeptides and
receptors, and they also exist in
another realm, the one we experience as
feeling, inspiration, love-beyond the
physical. The emotions move back and
forth, flowing freely between both
places, and in that sense, they connect
the physical and nonphysical. We know
that the way health occurs in the
physical body has to do with the flow of
the biochemicals of emotion.
“My
work has taught me that there is a
physical reality to the emotions”
The body
becomes the battlefield for the war
games of the mind. All the unresolved
thoughts and emotions, the negativity we
hold on to, shows up in the body and
makes us sick.
The power
of the mind to create, is without
dispute one of our most powerful allies.
Unfortunately for many it is more like
an enemy as we have not learned to
control our thinking and the negative
and fear based thought patterns that we
create, result in a reality that we do
not want. Correct thinking aligned with
powerful emotional energy can truly
change your life.
This being
the case then it is obvious that the way
we feel is going to have a major impact
on the health of our physical body. It
is widely recognised that negative
emotions create harmful chemicals in our
bodies and that positive emotions create
uplifting, feel good chemicals. Any
feeling sustained for a period of time
is going to produce the corresponding
biochemical reaction with resultant
effect on the body.
What it
means to be antidepressed i.e., happy.
According to Dr Candace Pert, “happiness
is what we feel when our biochemicals of
emotion, the neuropeptides and their
receptors are open and flowing freely
throughout the psychosomatic network,
integrating and coordinating our
systems, organs and cells in a smooth
and rhythmic movement. Health and
happiness are often mentioned in the
same breath and maybe this is why:
Physiology and emotions are inseparable.
I believe that happiness is our natural
state, that bliss is hardwired. Only
when our systems get blocked, shut down,
and disarrayed do we experience the mood
disorders that add up to unhappiness in
the extreme.”
If it is
true that happiness is hardwired, what
is it then that causes our systems to
get blocked and shut down? It is the
thoughts we think and the emotions and
feelings we create that are not of
happiness, love, positiveness, etc. One
set of thinking ( positive ) leads to
physiological harmony, well being, and
good health, the other ( negative )
leads to the opposite.
Ever
notice when the flu is going around how
someone who is positive, happy and
motivated, shrugs it off. It just
doesn't get a look in. The immune
response to their positiveness is to
grow stronger. The person who is
negative, emotionally fragile, and
lacking motivation is the one who
“catches” everything going around.
Vibrationally ( we are all energetic
vibrations ) like attracts like. “Which
way do you choose to vibrate”? It is
empowering when we realise the choices
we make on how we think and feel,
determines what we attract into our
life. Emotions, directed by our thoughts
have the ability to create the reality
we are experiencing in any given moment.
Knowing this we can then choose to take
responsibility for our state of health
and well being?
Lyn
Grabhorn in her book “Excuse me your
life is waiting” says, it only takes 16
seconds to link up vibrationally to
whatever we're focusing on. Only16
seconds of pure, focused thought, good
or bad, negative or positive. In that
brief time we start to vibrate on the
same frequency as whatever we have been
emotionally thinking about, which means
we're ripe for attracting that thing if
we keep it up.” That is incredibly
empowering as it shows we can alter the
circumstances of our lives through
learning to create the emotional
response to draw what we want into our
lives.
How does
this work? By using the power of your
thoughts to imagine ( image in ) what it
would feel like to have for instance,
unlimited money and be debt free. Think
about what this would allow you to do
and how it would feel to be able to do
these things such as, take holidays when
you want, buy your loved ones expensive
gifts, donate to charities, sponsor
children, and whatever else is important
to you. What is the feeling that
elicits? By getting into the feeling
space of joy, happiness, and the freedom
that allows you, you then begin to
magnetise those things to you. The
Universe works to precise and exact laws
to provide whatever we believe we can
have and our emotions are the driving
force behind the manifestation of our
dreams and desires. Our thoughts and
emotions create the feelings. As we hold
the emotions, and experience that
wonderful feeling of having what we
want, it then moves those things into
our lives. If you can see it, believe it
and feel it, you can create it.
We can
apply the same principles to our health
and well being i.e. Whatever physical
challenge we might be experiencing, if
we choose to see ( power of thought )
ourselves as being in perfect health,
and feel the emotion of what that is
like, we then begin to feel differently
and create a different reality. Is this
denial of the apparent physical reality
that you are experiencing? Absolutely.
It is an essential part of you
overcoming your illness. Whatever you
focus your attention on, you will
continue to draw into your life.
Identify with your illness and you give
it power. Is it difficult to think about
being well and in perfect health and not
deviate from that thinking when you are
faced with an apparently entirely
different reality? Yes of course. Their
would be fewer more difficult things to
contemplate. Is it possible? Absolutely,
but in order to do it we must control
our thinking and not have it control us.
Our choice of what we focus our
attention on determines the end result.
Author
Gregg Braden, tells a story of a woman
in a non medical healing hospital in
china who is lying on a gurney hooked up
to an ultrasound machine with an an
image of a 3 inch cancerous tumor in her
kidney, up on a screen. Standing around
the gurney are 3 healers who are simply
holding a picture in their minds of the
woman being completely healed. They have
an unshakable belief that she is
completely healed and in perfect health
and are chanting a word that means those
things. As they continue to watch the
screen, the tumor begins to vibrate and
dissolve and is completely gone in 2
minutes and 30 seconds. There is no
scarring left on the kidney. They then
clap, give thanks and say, next patient.
To them it is a natural occurrence. To
us it would appear to be a miracle. I
believe their is a latent power within
all of us that allows for these
“miracles” to occur. To begin to work
with the power of our mind and emotions
is a powerful step in the direction of
understanding our own tremendous healing
and creative potential.
References:
“Molecules of Emotion” by Dr Candace
Pert.
“Excuse me, your life is waiting” by Lyn
Grabhorn.
“The Journey” by Brandon Bays.
“The lost mode of prayer” by Gregg
Braden
“You can heal your life” by Louise Hay. |
