GFSH Issue #14: What’s the most powerful negative impact on your health?

First I want to thank you for receiving the Guide for Self-Healing newsletter and allowing me to share my thoughts and experiences with you. I really appreciated the responses I received about what health challenges people have, as it helped me to articulate my mission statement at GFSH and how I can bring the most unique and valuable services to you.

Some of you reported that, “I do all really good things for myself - I eat organic foods, don’t eat sugar or processed foods, take cod liver oil and good quality supplements, but still I have these nagging health issues that just won’t budge.”

So I’ll get to this, but first, I have to level with you…

I talk so much about diet and supplements, and I know that sounds like my website is just another one of those..well, “alternative” healing resources where we substitute nutrition and herbs and all that good stuff for drugs and all that nasty stuff :).

And it’s true that I do teach people how to individualize their diet and supplements and figure out what kinds of natural healing methods are suited to them. And that is a unique service that I don’t see being done anywhere else, truly individualizing things for each person, with no bias for a particular product or method, just what this person actually needs.

So the news is that even then, that’s only the foundation, not the whole structure. Yeah, really.

I remember back in the mid-80’s when I was listening to Gary Null’s natural health radio program out of NYC, and he started saying something radical. I mean, I was studying homeopathy even then, and energy medicine, radionics, all that radical stuff. But what he said was the most radical thing I’d heard so far, and I never forgot it (and I paraphrase) -

“You could have the most ideal diet and supplements, but you’re going to be susceptible to illness if you’re under stress. In other words, the most powerful negative impact on your health is stress.”

I know, seems like a losing battle, and stress seems like a monster in the closet that we kind of want to ignore. But the message I want to get across is that we can make it more workable, and begin by cutting through our sabotaging beliefs.

Now we have cell biologist Bruce Lipton, and physician Ryke Geerd Hamer who show us exactly how this works.. it’s no longer just some intangible notion that somehow the mind affects the body, or that beliefs limit us somehow - we actually know the mechanisms by which beliefs and emotions change our physiology.

So this really brings me to my mission statement. Everyone thinks that natural healing is about diet, supplements, and using the various healing modalities like chiropractic, acupuncture, energy healing, etc. Those things are all valuable, and in my consulting work my aim is to put that foundation in place.

But many people in these times have rather complex health issues, even if they seem to be functioning “well enough.” Sometimes those active changes alone don’t work deeply enough. The whole issue of stress, or more broadly the emotional and spiritual aspect of health is being ignored, because it’s not tangible and not as easy to get at. (By spiritual I don’t mean religious, but your personal sense of life’s meaning and purpose and how you tap into that deeper purpose in everyday life.).

So, this can seem very complicated, but it doesn’t need to be.. although, there has to be an understanding that real healing is a process. My services really aren’t about quick-fix results, because you generally don’t get that without breaking the law (natural law :).

You can do things to help yourself feel better in the meantime, sure, but if you want the real deal in the longer run, if you have the patience and courage to go the path less travelled, not the path of least resistance, you can receive unimaginable rewards.

And if you don’t think you have the patience and courage, but you want to go this route, just remember that what is blocking your inherent patience and courage is only false belief, and your willingness to work through them is their death sentence.

Sit with that for a minute!

So I offer my services as the sherpa guide through the wilderness of what we call Regimen. Regimen includes diet, nutrition, supplements, exercise, sleep, drinking water, and lifestyle issues that promote balance in your life. That’s the foundation for any path to health - you can’t get far without it. The lifestyle issues include ongoing personal development, a process of understanding the deeper emotional issues that are blocking the full expression of who you are.

Thanks again for helping me to clarify what I’m bringing out in my consulting work more and more. I want to bridge the gap between the concrete world of nutrition (which, let’s face it, can get boring after a while!) and the whole wide open frontier of personal development.

We don’t need to split them up into separate camps and go to the nutritionist for diet info and then to the shrink for emotional support. It’s all connected, really, and I can help you feel a little less schizophrenically split with all the dizzying array of health-related stuff that you attend to.

I remember the feeling of overwhelm all too well. And it’s not because there’s too much work to do, but because it’s too confusing to be juggling so many different pieces and trying to make them fit together somehow - like trying to make the pieces of your life stick together with scotch tape. Talk about stress!

So, I’ll be talking more about Bruce Lipton’s work, www.brucelipton.com, fascinating stuff if you have any interest in biology.. or even if you have a limited tolerance for biochemistry (like I do) but you find it intriguing that your genes do NOT control your biology - that your beliefs about yourself and the world do. (Yes, a geneticist is saying that!)

For right now, here’s what you can do. Quick exercise. Take inventory. Look at what’s not working in your life, and ask yourself, “Has this or something like it happened before?” Maybe there’s a pattern there. Maybe there’s something that you contribute to it with false beliefs about yourself or about what you deserve, or limiting ideas about what is possible. You don’t have to figure it out right now. Just take a look and see where the patterns are.

Until next time,

Be well,
Karen