Becoming Minimalist

I'm becoming a minimalist, reading how to un-complicate my life, down-sizing in possessions, mental clutter and emotional clutter.
For a more peaceful lifestyle, freedom from mental stress, I recommend looking up minimalist living. I'm loving it. It's reminding me of how I felt really free when I had to live on 2 outfits when on a 2-week stay in Russia and Ukraine. I only took 4 outfits/suits, tops and bottoms. But the weather had become unusually hot, so I couldn't wear 2 of them. I had to alternate every day with only 2 outfits. It was great not to have to decide what to wear. I felt a freedom to always know what I was going to wear today, what I was going to wear tomorrow, and so on. I always pack light when traveling, especially European travel, where I have to carry my luggage a long haul through transport stations and walking many steps each day to and from accommodations.
I'm already doing a minimalist wardrobe and downsizing all my drawers, closets and
kitchen. So much there that I don't use, which I was saving for that huge banquet someday. It's too much clutter to keep carrying around like a tortoise shell on your back, and then stacking more on top of that.
Suggested reading: www.becomingminimalist.com Articles I recommend on this site:
Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. Doing Fewer Things More Often. How Giving Away 1,000 Books Made Me Love Reading Again.
www.marcandangel.com The article called 25 Lessons When You're Ready for a Simpler Life
 

Disclaimer

My posts and techniques are for information and educational purposes. I am not a medical doctor. I do not diagnose medical conditions. If you are looking for natural methods to feel better and improve your life, then this page may direct you. You must accept responsibility for your own health.

Forgive and Forget

Forgive and Forget

Not so easy, eh?

When you have a grievance toward someone, if at all possible, forget it! Dismiss it! Forgive. Forgive yourself for taking it so seriously that it has encumbered your peace. Forgive the other person for not knowing any better. Forgive the “act” for coming into your life to spoil your peace. Forgive the person for not having the ability to understand. Your life and time are too precious to allow the incident to take up space. Give yourself permission to Let Go.

Only if you cannot do this, then go to the person and try to resolve it peacefully.

If that doesn’t resolve things, then Forgive and Let Go. Allow room for peace in your life. Forget it as much as possible. Let Go and move forward not allowing this situation to rob you of any more energy, peace or thoughts. Do not allow this to continue to "control" your life.

Interestingly, in the ancient writings of Greek Holy Scripture, the admonition is to 'forgive one another freely.' There's a healing in this.

1. First Forget It

2. If you cannot forget it, then Address It with the other person
3. If this fails to produce desired results, Forget It and Let It Go. Set yourself Free.
(Forgiveness does not mean that you excuse the other person's behavior. It means that it no longer has a hold on you. Forgiveness sets YOU free. The responsibility of the act, or the debt, now rests with the other person.)

Weed and Root

I help people feel better, live longer and have more time for the things they love.
Spring is here, and you go out to your yard and find dandelions and thistles. You try to pull those things up, but the root is still there and the weed comes back.
I can FIX you with a system that will, not only cut down the weed, but, dig out the root that's blocking your way to success in starting on a life you love.
How would you like to have more pleasure, more time, improve business, increase motivation, improve health, and eliminate stress and anxiety? Have more time for the people you love?
My work involves a system that speeds up healing by getting the weeds out of your life!
Be Naturally Restored!

Our Factory

The human body is a factory. A factory has to have fuel. So we take in fuel, we feed the factory food. The fuel goes out to run all the different departments, enabling the workers to perform their tasks in the most efficient way. If we put in junk fuel/food, the factory will not run properly. Once fuel is burned up, or junk food is introduced into the system, a waste product remains which has to be eliminated. A factory cannot store waste product indefinitely or the factory will break down. Waste products are eliminated through exhaling, through pores/windows, or through a complex elimination process. Sometimes you see a factory with a flame at the top of a chimney. That is combustible waste being eliminated.

The same is true of our emotional factory. We take in emotional fuel, influences, all day, every day. We are influenced by people, words, feelings, events, all our experiences. Many are good and keep us fed emotionally. A lot consists of junk food, causing hurt feelings, physical aches, fatigue, and other emotional upsets. We tend to store instead of eliminate that emotional waste, so there is a build up of emotional baggage that no longer serves us.

Naturally Restored Holistic Healing was designed to help you in a gentle way to eliminate emotional waste, the effects of emotional junk food, making room for healthy emotions and a life you love.
We FEED our emotional factory with rest, meditation, prayer, loving relationships, good music, art, poetry, hobbies. We take in emotional junk food when there's a divorce, a sad event, a confrontation with another person, abuse, financial set-back, a career failure, a death of a loved one, etc.
Emotional enetgy healing can restore our "factory" and get it up and running in a productive way that frees up energy to invite the things we love into our lives. The result is an emotional "factory" that produces love, harmony and forgiveness, as well as, success in other areas of our lives.

Emotions and Well-Being, Ancient Evidence

Here's a little gem I discovered in some reading material to provide ancient support on the relationship between nerves, muscles, muscle response and health. This is useful information in connection with the "modern" practice in holistic circles using applied kinesiology/muscle testing.

Many aspects of modern medicine may not be as modern as some think. In fact, a number of today's common medical practices were already in place centuries ago in some lands. Consider, for example, the history of medicine in medieval times in the Middle East.
... Avicenna, a leader in the medical field, hailed from Bukhara, in modern Uzbekistan. He became one of the great physicians, philosophers, astronomers and mathematicians of the 11th century. Avicenna wrote an encyclopedia, The Canon of Medicine, which covered the whole range of known medical knowledge.
Avicenna stated in his Canon that tuberculosis is contagious, that disease can spread through water and soil, that emotions affect physical well-being, and that nerves transmit both pain and impulses for muscle contraction.
So, the art of muscle testing, applied kinesiology, is based on historical writings and discoveries of medical men from early times.

Religion and Limiting Beliefs

Religion: As a supportive therapist, I would never presume to pass judgment on someone’s long-cherished Faith in a so-called fundamentalist religion. After all, I’m working with each individual’s “limiting beliefs”, so what a person’s limiting belief may be regarding that Faith is not necessarily the Truth, even though they believe it to be true. For someone else, that limiting belief is not true. So, in my Practice, it’s not my job to judge a limiting belief as a basic tenant of that Faith. It’s true for the client, and it’s my job to walk her through letting go of that limiting belief and forgiving herself for allowing it to affect her life in some way. Compare this with a traditional Faith, not a so-called “fundamentalist” Faith. For example, even though there is documentation that clergy have molested little boys, ruining their lives, and seemingly getting just a slap on the hand, there are still new members joining that Faith, and old members clinging to it. So, while, for some, that Faith has associated with it a limiting belief that’s far from good, for others, that Faith is a wonderful haven. Each view is true for each respective individual.

 
Very few of my clients come from fundamentalist religion. Most of my clients come from a background of traditional religion and they have their limiting beliefs, as well. I don’t believe that the Faith, itself, is necessarily the guilty party. In my experience, limiting beliefs are influenced by parents and other authoritative figures. A particular religion may seem like the worst thing to some people, while, to others, it is cherished. A cult is only a cult to those who don’t believe in it. Any religion can be labeled a cult. But that’s another topic.

What’s the comparison? What percentage of clients have I had with a background from traditional religion and what percentage of clients have I had with a background from a fundamentalist religion? It can be a challenge to hold back in our personal opinion with a client when it comes to religion, especially if it’s an area we’ve had to work out in our own lives.