If You Thought Stress Was Making You Sick – You Were Right!
Leading experts such as Dr Candace Pert, Dr Bruce Lipton, Dr Gabor Maté, Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr Lissa Rankin, Lynne McTaggart and many others around the world now agree how seriously stress and negative emotions impact our bodies.
Hating your job, being in a bad relationship, worrying about money, falling out with family or friends, spreading yourself too thin or giving yourself impossible social or work pressure and deadlines all contribute to your stress levels. While none of this is usually life-threatening, our amygdalas and our bodies don’t know that. They don’t know the difference between perceived or imagined threat and the real thing. So our biology prepares to fight, flee or freeze anyway!
Scientific research is uncovering the biological and chemical path stress takes to manifest as physical illness. Stress knocks our bodies off balance and triggers a cascade of stress hormones which influence your body via the autonomic nervous system. When our bodies are in flight, fight or freeze mode they have less energy available to maintain our immune systems and to heal and repair. It stands to reason then that chronic stress can easily lead to poor health and illness.
Practices such as Emotional Freedom Technique and meditation help us reach the deeper place within ourselves. The place which lies beyond the stress responses of fight, flight or freeze. The place in which we can re-connect with our true selves and our bodies, soothe our minds and heal our bodies.
If you love EFT tapping you’ll love our What Your Body Wants To Hear meditations. Based on EFT principles What Your Body Wants To Hear meditations (which are great to tap along with) help you release painful, negative emotions and help/ allow your body to heal naturally. These meditations guide you gently through releasing the painful emotional issues generally known to be held in specific parts of the body. Helping you to focus on the area of your body that is crying out for you attention by the very fact that it is manifesting pain. As you lovingly release these emotions, open yourself to a new appreciation for your body and the possibility of a more positive, less painful future you are then led into powerful, positive affirmations for the state of health and wellness you want to create and experience.
The What Your Body Wants to Hear meditation series offers a wide range of meditations to help you release stress and painful emotions held in specific areas of your body.
Our ever popular FREE Release, Heal & Transform Fear MP3.helps you make a start on releasing whatever fear you are holding on to in any area of your mind, body or energy field.
It’s that time of year again so I thought a short Emotional Freedom Technique session to help you ease cold symptoms might be useful.
The common cold often arises from the simple belief that there is such a thing as a “Cold Season”. If we buy into this belief it’s pretty certain that we’ll develop a cold! Feelings of overwhelm, being overworked, carrying too much responsibility, being under too much pressure, feeling scattered and not taking time to listen to your body and slow down also often result in us developing colds.
If you are feeling under the weather check to see if you are feeling any of these emotions. That will give you ideas for what to tap on. But you can get started right now by following the suggestions below.
If you are not familiar with E.F.T. Just follow the tapping points illustrated below.
Starting at the Side of Hand Point say your set up statement out loud if possible and tap gently on the Side of the Hand with two or three fingers of your other hand.
“Even though I have this cold, I deeply and completely love, accept and forgive myself”. Repeat this three times then tap the Eyebrow Point gently around ten times saying “I have this cold”. Move to the Side Of Eye point and repeat, “I have this cold”. Repeat this at all the tapping points finishing off with the Top of Your Head point.
Return to your Side of Hand Point and say “Even though I have this cold, I know it’s my body’s way of giving me a message, maybe it just wants to me to slow down and take some time out. Or maybe it wants me to look after myself a bit more. Maybe I’ve just been doing to much and need to rest, nurture and love myself more. I deeply and completely love, accept and forgive myself and I am grateful to my body for giving me this message. Repeat this three times.
Move to the Eyebrow Point and tap gently around ten times saying “My body is giving me this message, I am grateful. I now choose to listen to my body and take good care of myself”.
Repeat this at all the tapping points finishing off with the Top of Your Head point.
Back to the Side of Hand Point and say, “Even though I have (state symptom), I deeply and completely love, accept and forgive myself and my body. I am now listening to my body’s messages”. Again, repeat this three times then tap round the points using the reminder phrase, “This symptom (whatever the symptom is, i.e. this blocked nose etc).
You can then do a round for each of your symptoms.
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3 Key Emotional Reasons for Broken, Sprained & Swollen Ankles
A Spate of Ankle Injuries!
I have heard a few stories recently about injured ankles so thought I’d write a brief post about what is really going on with us when we hurt our ankles. On the face of it you might say it’s just down to the wintry weather. I don’t believe that for a moment! There is always a deeper reason for everything that happens to us, or more precisely, experiences we create.
If you have hurt, broken or damaged your ankle, the first and most important emotional issue to look at is support! Your ankles reflect the support we all depend on from people around us and more importantly our inner support system. This inner support system consists of the psychological and emotional beliefs that give our lives meaning and purpose. It includes the emotional support of our loved ones or spiritual or religious convictions. If any of that is taken away, doubted or questioned there is nothing left to hold us upright. This can happen when we are shocked, traumatised, betrayed or rejected and feel unable to stand alone.
Our ankles are essential in keeping us upright, therefore they may collapse when we can no longer stand it or when the weight is just too much to bear.
A Sprained or Twisted Ankle
Our ankles also allow us to be flexible. A sprained or twisted ankle, implies a lack of flexibility in the direction we are going. The strain is too much and causes the energy to buckle or twist, i.e. to go in all directions at once.
A Swollen Ankle
A swollen ankle indicates that you are holding emotional energy, frustration or resistance to letting go.
A Broken Ankle
A broken ankle indicates a very deep emotional conflict about the ground you are standing on. Perhaps you are resisting making a change in the direction of your life, questioning your beliefs or are afraid or unable to stand up for yourself. Ask yourself what does your broken ankle prevent you from doing and what does your broken ankle allow you do to?
Your body is amazing! Do you believe that? Or do you just see that you no longer fit in to your clothes, “ugly” stretch marks or swollen ankles?
Research suggests that up to 80% of pregnant women report moderate to severe dissatisfaction with their bodies. A quick google search of “I hate my pregnant body” confirms this. What message is that sending to your body or your unborn child? How does it contribute to your happiness or well-being?
Make peace with, accept and love your amazing pregnant body. Focus on the miracle of new life and enjoy your special time with these gentle and loving healing affirmations.
Affirmations To Support Your Body Through Pregnancy
The First Step – Clearing & Releasing Statements To Stop Negative Mind Chatter
With every breath I take, I am sending love and gratitude to my changing, pregnant, body! Yes! Yes! Yes.
Every part of me is getting the optimum benefit from this exercise!
With every breath I take, I am sending, love, gratitude and healing to my relationship with my changing, pregnant, body!
I release any hatred I feel towards my body!
I release any disgust I feel about my body!
I release any loathing I feel towards my body!
I release any dissatisfaction I feel about my body!
I release any depression I have about my body!
I release any anger I have about my changing, pregnant body!
I release any way, I feel that I have disappeared!
I clear any way, I feel I have been taken over!
I clear any way I feel that my body isn’t my own any more!
I clear any ways I feel completely out of control!
I release the fear that I am at the mercy of my body!
I release the fear that I am at the mercy of my hormones!
I release any guilt I feel for feeling this way!
I release blame!
I release conflict!
I release worry!
I release shame!
I release all the ways I feel like a whale!
I release the belief that my body is ruined!
I release the fear that I will never get my body or my life back!
I release resentment!
I release all this fear!
I release the feelings of powerlessness I have about my body!
I clear any and all ways that I hate my body!
I clear all the conflicting emotions I have about my pregnancy and my body!
I release the belief that I am fat and ugly!
I release the belief that no one will every find me attractive again!
I release the belief that there is something wrong with me for feeling these feelings!
I release all the self loathing I feel!
I clear all the ways I hate all this fat!
I clear all the ways I hate my cellulite!
I clear all the ways I hate these stretch marks!
I clear all the ways I hate all this swelling!
I clear all the ways, I am fighting my body!
I clear all the ways I hate my body being taken over!
I clear all the ways I just hate all this weight that I am putting on!
I clear all the ways I hate how my breasts look!
I clear all the ways I hate that my hips have got wider!
I clear all the ways I I hate that my legs have got fat!
I clear all the ways I hate how big I am getting!
I clear all the ways I hate everybody telling me what to do!
I clear all the ways I feel tired and sick and sick and tired!
I clear all the ways I feel so bloated!
I clear all the ways I believe I am not good enough!
I clear all the ways I feel when everyone gives me their opinions whether I want them or not!
I clear all the ways I believe I will never feel sexy again!
I clear all the ways I’ll never get my pre-pregnancy body back again!
I clear all the ways my life is disappearing before my eyes!
I clear all the ways I have lost myself!
I clear all the ways I don’t believe my body is perfect exactly as it is!
I release the belief that I don’t have the power to create a perfect body!
I release and completely let go of the idea that by body is fat and ugly. I now realise, my body is doing the very best it can to support and protect myself and my baby!
I release and let go of the belief that I am at the mercy of my body!
I release and let go of the belief that I have been taken over. I now remember that this experience is a co-creation!
Afformations To Prepare Your Subconscious Mind To Accept & Receive Positive Affirmations
Why do I feel so peaceful now?
Why do I feeling loving and loved now?
Why do I feel accepting now?
Why do I feel so forgiving now?
Why do I feel so harmonious now?
Why am I loveable?
Why am I reassured?
Why am I trusting?
Why do I forgive myself?
Why am I so allowing now?
Why am I worthy?
Why am I contented?
Why am I safe?
Why am I powerful?
Why do I accept myself and my feelings?
Why do I accept my body?
Why do I feel peaceful about my body now?
Why do I easily release the need to be unworthy?
Why do I forgive myself?
Why do I feel safe and secure?
Why am I open to the possibility that I could love my body?
Why am I completely free to choose how I feel about my body?
Why do I no longer carry those old, corrosive beliefs and attitudes about my body?
What Your Body AND Your Baby Want To Hear – Affirmations For Pregnancy
The new science of Epigenetics is showing us just how important the messages we send to our bodies and unborn babies are. Not only do our stress hormones affect our babies, our thoughts and emotions also affect them.
Conflicting advice from “experts” (let’s face it, when you are pregnant, everyone is an “expert”) can make your head spin! What should be a special time becomes a time of worry and anxiety. Even worse, guilt then sets in as you worry about what your worry is doing to your baby. Relax together and enjoy your special time with our peaceful, loving affirmations.
Affirmations to Support Your Pregnancy
With every breath I take, I am sending love and gratitude to every single cell in my body! Yes! Yes” Yes!
With every breath I take, I am sending love and gratitude to my body and my baby!
Every part of me is getting the maximum benefit from this exercise!
With every breath I take, I am sending love, gratitude and healing to my relationship with my pregnancy!
The First Step – Clearing & Releasing Statements To Stop Negative Mind Chatter
I release all the ways I am worrying about my pregnancy!
I release all the ways I am worrying about my baby!
I release all the ways I am worrying about worrying!
I release my fear of miscarriage!
I release my concerns about my own health!
I release any way I feel violated by medical procedures!
I clear any way I feel lonely and scared!
I clear all the ways no one understands!
I clear all the ways I am overwhelmed!
I clear all the ways I can’t cope!
I release the fear that I won’t be able to feed my baby!
I release the fear than I won’t bond with my baby!
I release my worry about my baby’s health!
I release my concerns about doing everything right!
I release all the ways I feel this huge weight of responsibility!
I release my worry about not maintaining a positive outlook!
I release any guilt about the way I feel!
I release any shame I feel about my feelings!
I release my worry about all the conflicting and confusing messages about what is best for my baby!
I clear all the ways I don’t know what I am supposed to eat and not eat for the health of my baby!
I clear all the ways I get restless!
I clear all the ways I an nervous!
I release any and ALL anxiety!
I release my fear of what the birth will really be like!
I release my emotions around not being in control!
I release any worries about my life being changed forever!
I release any financial concerns I may be dwelling on!
I release any feelings of being invaded!
I release my feelings that my body is no longer my own!
I release all the ways I fear I might be harming my baby!
I release any guilt I have about not enjoying my pregnancy!
I release any anger I have about people invading my personal space!
I release my feelings of being vulnerable!
I release my attachment to media scare stories!
I release my attachment to other peoples’ scare stories!
I release my attachment to other peoples’ opinions!
I release the fear that I will never get my body or my life back!
I release the fear that I won’t be able to cope!
I release the fear that I will be a bad mother!
I release any resentment!
I release any feelings of powerlessness!
I release my fear of the pain!
I clear all the conflicting emotions I have about this pregnancy!
I release the belief that I just can’t do this!
I release conflict, worry, shame and blame!
I release and completely let go of all these fears and worries! I now know, most of them are unfounded and unhelpful!
Afformations To Prepare Your Subconscious Mind To Accept & Receive Positive Affirmations
Why do I feel so peaceful now?
Why do I feel reassured?
Why do I feel comforted?
Why am I able to trust now?
Why do I feel secure?
Why do I feel so calm now?
Why do I feel tranquil?
Why do I feel serene now?
Why am I safe?
Why am I loved and loving?
Why is it easy to relax and let go of fear and worry?
Why am I powerful?
Why am I content?
Why am I courageous now?
Why do I accept myself and my feelings now?
Why am I worry free now?
Why am I completely free to choose how I feel?
Why do I no longer carry all those old, fear based, negative beliefs and emotions?
Why am I able to relax and bliss out with my baby?
Why can I easily connect with my baby with love and bonding?
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Starting at the Side of Hand Point say your set up statement out loud if possible and tap gently on the Side of the Hand with two or three fingers of your other hand.
