The day I started to believe in Conscious Medicine

My sister has for a long time talked about Conscious Medicine - if you have  liver complaint its because you are storing Anger, if you have Diabetes it could be you have a control issue etc etc.  I believed what she said but didn't really understand it and how it could be possible but I was recently reading Louise Hay's book You Can Heal Your Life and had read the list of ailments and what emotion it relates to.  There was interesting one that said Black Heads are small outbursts of anger, well I never get spots or black heads and I had just had 3 all on the right side of my face and I can relate these to 3 out bursts of anger when I was on my most recent job.  Isn't that a bit weird!

Then yesterday I had lunch with a friend of mine who has been having a tough time, her husband left her and their 2 kids and has taken her for every penny she has so to be fair she feels a lot of rejection, anger and frustration around this.  My friend has just recovered from Pancreatitis which was caused by a Gallstone passing.  At lunch we talked about Louise Hay's book and the potential meaning of the illness that my friend had just been through - she herself recognised that Gall and Bile were words that she would associated with her split from her husband and these words, of course, directly relate to her illness.

So I went home at the end of the day and pulled out Louise's book and read about Pancreatitis and Gall Stones and this is what it said:

Pancreatitis:

Rejection.  Anger and frustration because life seems to have lost its sweetness.

Gallstones:

Bitterness. Hard thoughts. Condemning. Pride

It is so accurate to how my friend has been feeling and how she has held on to all her rejection, anger and frustration and this has made her ill.

This directly relates to my learning of the Dr Bach Flower Remedies, although the remedies do not directly heal disease they do help you to heal the emotions that have caused that disease.

Now I really really believe Dr Bach was correct in his work which is to find the emotion that might cause disease and work on that.

Last night I started to read a book on Conscious Medicine and it talks about many different healing techniques that they class as Conscious Medicine.  EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is one of these healing techniques.  The Book tells some stories about how EFT has really help change sick people into happy healthy people.  Now I have done my 3 levels of EFT and passed my written exam and just have my 3 cast studies to do I totally get EFT and it has helped me in so many situations - during my Ayauscha ceremony in the jungle I would not have coped if I hadn't been able to tap on my chest - this is now my automatic stress buster using the palm of my hand to tap my chest.  It also works when I am having an asthma attack and waiting for the inhalers to kick in, tapping on my chest helps me to cope and even when I haven't had an inhaler it has really helped to make my asthma symptoms better.

So I do know already that Conscious Medicine does work but it wasn't until reading about my friend and her symptoms and what she has been going through that I realised that I actually believe this to be true and that just Positive Thinking in itself can heal you of many ailments.

Knowing and believing should be the same thing but I think that I knew these things work for me but never made a connection in a way to illnesses in other people.  Now I actually believe the way forward is to work on our emotional issues and that will help us all to feel better.

I wonder if that is why I have been so drawn to the Bach Flower Remedies and EFT rather than other therapies - I really want to work on the emotional level and these two therapies really help me to do this.

suzxxx

Remembering the dead and anniversaries...

I try deliberately not to remember the anniversaries of the deaths of people and animals that have passed through my life.  I think we as humans hang on to these anniversaries as a way of holding on to our grief which I think we think we need to hold on to.

My little sister died 31 years ago but I don't automatically know how many years ago it was she died.  I have to stop and work it out.  I also, most of the time, allow the 6th February (her death date) and 8th April (her birth date) to pass by without event because these dates are not scarred into my brain.

I had a great friend who died on 11th July nearly 11 years ago and last summer I got a text from a friend of this friend saying they were having a get together as it was 10 years since Alistair had died.  I didn't go because I was working but also why do we have to wait exactly 10 years and only have a drink on the date that he died?  can't we just have a drink any time and raise a glass to the big man?!  I find this side of human thought a weird one - where does it come from that we have to mark the anniversaries of births and deaths and be happy and sad on each of those occasions?

Having a birthday on 26th December I prefer to keep a low profile and get over my hangover from christmas day than to have a big celebration.  When I had my 40th birthday celebrations I had it a month after my birthday - many thought this was weird but the date actually doesn't mean anything to me - of course I wanted to celebrate being 40 and fabulous (well ok maybe an old fabulous!) but I didn't HAVE to do it on my actual birth date.

This week anniversaries of deaths were brought to mind for me as I saw a Facebook link to a thing about how loyal dogs are and it reminded me that Poppy, the last of my old dogs, died 2 years ago on 1st April.  I had missed her anniversary by a day which when you think about it that date should be scarred in my brain as its April fools day but I just don't hold that kind of information in my brain and the fact she died two years ago on Monday is not what is important, what is important is what we had when she was alive.

My big sister has this incredible memory for everyone's birthdays, anniversaries, death dates etc etc but I just don't - weird isn't it how two people with the same DNA can be so different.

So when you don't get a birthday card from me, don't worry its not that I don't wish you a happy birth date its just not how my brain functions and huge apologies in advance if I miss the anniversary of your death date!!!  and apologies again if I forget to be sad on the anniversary of the day you died!

So the reason for writing about this in my blog is to say, don't hold dates of the sad things that happen in life - its a waste of gigabite space in the old memory bank.  Please remember the happy good times with that person/friend/soulmate/dog/cat/chicken/sheep etc etc  now that is a much better use of the memory bank and being able to draw on and reflect on those memories no matter the date or the year is a very special thing to do.

suzxxx