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!
Laura, I'm very interested in hearing and learning more about taping new messages over those old tapes about healing. It's kind of "un-learning" and relearning new behaviors and thought patterns. It seems to be a combination of knowing what to do when there is an injury, taking the action right away, as well as continuing the action (not a "once and done" process). Thoughts?
ReplyDeleteHi Laura,
ReplyDeleteI had an interesting revelation about this years ago when my kids were in elementary school... the mornings were extremely stressful as I had to get myself ready for work and them ready for school. We were always running late and I found myself yelling at them which was not the way I wanted to say good bye to them in the morning.
I was "in therapy" at the time and did some work on this issue. What I found was that the source of my yelling at my children was the tape running in my head that was yelling at me!
I was transferring the stress from my own yelling at myself in my head to my children.
Once I realized that I was able to recognize it and be more patient and understand of them as we got ready for school and work in the morning.
Diane