A Different Kind of Healing

What is the difference between emotional healing and physical healing?  It might be easy to describe physical healing as the actual repair of body tissues back to normal again.  And for emotional healing, one might think about the release of a destructive, patterned way of thinking, or maybe of forgiveness.  Lately I can describe emotional healing as becoming aware of a new possibility for my life that I did not see as a possibility prior to the awareness.  I am thinking a lot lately about how these two types of healing go together in every instance we can think of.  I believe that you can try to separate physical and emotional healing, but that really they are inseparable.  There are thoughts and emotions that go along with every physical encounter.  To heal one, is to affect the other.  Everything is connected in this way. 
John Barnes (www.myofascialrelease.com) talks about each cell in our body having an intelligence.  Emotional healing happens in our bodies and our minds together, inseparable. 
The next time you feel pain in your body, begin to be aware of it, connecting with the physical sensations, and the emotional ones.  It is through this awareness that there can be whole body healing. 
What are your thoughts about the mind-body connection and how you have noticed it in your life?

Unblocking Your Healing Ability

Listen to the constant chatter in your mind one day.  What is it saying to you?  Pay attention to the messages that you are giving yourself each and every day.  Are they positive or negative?  Are they even true?  How do you know if they are true or not and why?  Sometimes we prevent ourselves from achieving our full potential in life and in our own healing by what we think or believe to be true.  What we don't realize is that that thought came from an old "tape" that we have been playing back to ourselves for a long time.  And the tape was recorded based on a meaning we gave to something that happened.  The tape is about the meaning we gave, not necessarily about the actual event that occurred.  Something happens and we think it means this or that.  That belief then runs the way we live. 
The body has an inner wisdom and we are all naturally biased toward health, not disease.  We tend to restrict this natural healing with our negative thoughts and beliefs. 
How do you think about your own body's ability to heal?  Pay attention to what you think and believe and listen for the tapes.  Practice being aware of your thoughts.  Without awareness there is no choice!