If we delve inside the tiniest structure of our universe, we will find that the atom is a hollow structure. It is a tiny core with even tinier electrons spinning around it in a vast void generating some form of energy or electromagnetic waves.. This void and this energy are part of us and we are part of them. This is what we are made of… Physics tell us that the world around us is far beyond the compact mass we see with our naked eyes. And, we, human beings, are far beyond the compact mass of flesh and bones that we recognize, see or test in the labs. We are swimming in vast sea of energy. Our thoughts, consciousness, dreams and ideas are energy floating all around the universe. We gain or lose energy from and to our surrounding each second of our life.
 
Although our physical body is the only form we can normally detect, touch, see and feel, physical ailments originate somewhere beyond this physical body and can only show their symptoms when we neglect our energy warnings for some time.

Every cell in our body carry on its surface protein receptors that are sensitive to vibrational energy fields in our environment be them light, sound, electromagnetic waves emitted from our televisions, cell phones and computers, or be them emotional or mental vibrations emitted from our own thoughts and sensations and from other people around us. Our cells can ‘see', 'hear’ and vibrate in relation to their surroundings and their health largely depends on these environmental signals. Dr. Bruce Lipton, the famous cell biologist, compares the cell membrane to a silicon chip inside an electronic device. As a skilled engineer can program the computer chip, a smart human being, which means every one of us,  has the power to program his/her own cells, he teaches. 

In Natural healing practice, the first step towards healing is awareness. We need to be aware of our body whispers, listen to the hidden warnings and identify what needs to change in our life, our thinking pattern, our choices and our environment.

Your everyday choices, beliefs, and thinking patterns are the ‘program’ you are downloading into your cells, into EVERY cell of your body. Malfunctions in our physical body are primarily related to malfunctions in the energy supply we consciously or subconsciously deliver to our cells.

 It’s worth the investment
 
Your energy system holds the key for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
 I see the body energy system as a personal investment, an investment in an open market. Unlike a bank account where you leave your money and be able to retrieve it when you please, your energy system needs continuous monitoring, regulation, and decision-making. It requires that you are continuously aware, mindful, knowledgeable and active. It requires patience, risk calculations and sacrifices. Whatever you give out to the world, will return to you somehow, someday. The more you invest in love, peace, forgiveness, values, and self-esteem…. The more you receive from the same currency with all the benefits and rewards. And vice versa, the more you invest in or focus on anger, fear, worry or intolerance… the more you deplete your system and lose your capital. And, like an active market, you cannot isolate yourself satisfied with what you have. Your survival necessitates your daily participation. Isolation leads to stagnation which slowly depletes your savings and gradually ruins your 'business'.
 
Many of the people are still looking for the ‘magic pill’…  "Isn't there an easier way to restore our body energy and health?" They ask me. "There is no shortcuts in healing," I always reply. You may find the healing journey tedious and over whelming. There are few people who are willing to move out of their comfort zone, delve into the depth of their own soul and actually perform major changes not only in their lifestyle but in their mode of thinking, feeling and believing as well. People are reluctant; they may seek easier but temporary paths until they are struck by a major life or health disaster that forces them to reconsider their choices.
 
Energy healing is a journey, a life-long journey. And, like all journeys, it has its challenges, pains, and tribulations; yet still it holds tremendous joys, learning, and wisdom. Are you willing to take this journey? Are you willing to invest in your health, happiness and wellbeing? The answer remains totally yours.

​Why don’t all people fall ill in epidemics, or catch cold in the flu season?
Why don’t identical twins show same pattern of cancer, allergies, hypertension, diabetes, or heart problems if these, as we use to think, are gene related?
Why not all women who carry the BRCA genes fall pray to breast cancer and many women who do not have the genes get the cancer?
 
For every illness, there is a mental pattern. The vulnerability could be there in the genes and the virus and bacteria could surely be there in the air, but they need a fertile land to grow and manifest their symptoms. They need a trigger.

Whenever you feel a physical symptom creeping in, look for the mental pattern that triggered it, teaches Dr. Deepack Chopra.
 
Beliefs and thinking patterns are reflected onto our physical health. Our thoughts are stored somehow in all our cells. They dictate cells’ actions and reactions; they relate happiness and health or condemn misery and disease. Dr. Candice Pert, the internationally recognized pharmacologist who discovered the opiate receptor in the brain, spent years researching and exploring neuropeptides. She calls them ‘molecules of emotions’. These are chemical messengers circulating in our body connecting our systems, organs and cells. They have receptors on all body cells. The receptors for neuropeptides that signal brain happiness, elevated mood, or motivation, for instance, can also be found on our white blood cells (the cells of our immune system), stomach and intestine lining, and sexual organs… Does this mean that our immune cells, our stomach, and all our organs feel and understand our mood and emotions as well as our brain can perceive them? Dr. Pert surely believes so.
 
When you are sad, every cell in your body feels sad: your stomach is sad, your immune cells are sad, your liver is sad, your gallbladder is sad… When you are depressed, angry, frustrated, motivated, joyful, hopeful, grateful… all these emotions are converted into ‘molecules of emotions’ that deliver the message all over your body to every cell of your being.

When we are under stress or in emotional distress, when we hold anger, envy, fear or grudge… these feelings are translated in our body into chemical reactions led by a series of hormones, neuropeptides, and neurotransmitters.

Our brain does not differentiate between real or hypothetical danger. Whether you are attacked by a tiger or by the stock market index, the same stress hormones are released in your system: A blast of adrenaline that activates a fight or flight response. It raises your blood pressure, pumps sugar into your blood, speeds up your heart rate and slows down your digestion. The difference here is that in case of an attacking tiger, your running, fighting or fleeing dissipate the excess sugar in your blood and use up the extra energy, and as you retreat away from the danger, your whole system can rest and restore its natural state.

​On the other hand, when the attacking agent is an unfair boss, a global economy crisis, a disturbing teenager or an abusing spouse, you cannot run for your life, you swallow your fears and worries and just sit on your sofa suffering in silence. The triggered fight and flight response is thus here to stay and your adrenals keep pumping more hormones into your system; you stay alarmed, your cortisol level rises and with it comes further increase in blood sugar levels and reduction of immune response.
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Chronic stress down regulates our immune system ability to fight invaders and infections. It suppresses immune cells proliferation, hinders antibodies production, and suppresses the function of natural killer cells, the cells responsible for attacking tumor (including cancer cells), viruses and abnormal growth.

Science is increasingly proving the connection between mind and body. Rheovirus, for instance, the causative agent for common cold, is believed to use the receptor of norepinephrine to enter into the body cells. Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter that increases in our body when we are happy and fulfilled. When the levels of this neurotransmitter are elevated, it occupies its receptors rendering them unavailable for use by the virus. That’s why we rarely catch cold when we are in a good mood, satisfied and cheerful.
 
The idea of mind/body connection is as old as the famous Pavlov dogs of the 1920s that were conditioned to salivate upon hearing the bell without even seeing the food. Later, In the 30s Russian scientists proved that not only our digestive system, but our immune system could also be voluntarily conditioned. They injected rabbits and guinea pigs with mild bacterial shot to boost their immune system and coupled this immune boosting function with a physical stimulus such as trumpet blast. With time, animals have been able to boost their immunity upon hearing the trumpet sound alone.
Researches show that a mere dummy pill (placebo) can reduce pain, adjust blood pressure, and even dissolve tumors, if the patient really believes in its effect. Scientists now know that the placebo pill actually achieves its effect through triggering the body to release its ‘endogenous pharmaceutics’.

Our body has an amazing internal pharmacy with cure for every condition and mal function. It secretes it in the precise needed dose, and in the perfect time and location. It has the power to reduce hypertension, alleviate pain, prevent platelet aggregation that blocks arteries… and the list goes on. An adjusted state of mind coupled with unconditioned belief is all it takes to claim your internal medicine. But the question remains: How easy could it be?

The access to our ‘endogenous pharmaceutics’ is not as easy as it might seem. It is not just a matter of meditation, relaxation, positive thinking, or mental affirmations. For deep healing, we need to reverse a pattern engraved in every cell of our body. We need to reach each and every cell and talk to it in the language that it understands, in a higher ‘intelligence’, as Dr. Chopra calls it, which is delivered in the form of molecules: ‘molecules of emotions’.
 
​Thousands of cases of spontaneous healing have been recorded, but still, according to Dr. Chopra, the rate of spontaneous remission in cancer patients (this is cancer dissipating on its own without any medical intervention) is as low as one in twenty thousand cases.
 
In order for you to change your molecules of emotions, you need to change not only your life style and thinking mode, but most importantly, your deeply held beliefs. You need to dig deeply enough to reach beyond the casual surface. You need to work on your subconscious as well as your conscious mind.

​Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is a relatively new, yet rapidly growing field of science. The name PNI was coined in 1975, by Dr. Robert Ader, director of the division of behavioral and psychosocial medicine at New York's University of Rochester, to denote the relation between the psyche (our feelings, moods, and emotions), the nervous system (our thoughts and perceptions), and our physical health (immune system and hormonal production).

In the 70s, Robert Ader and Nicholas Cohen studied the subconscious ability of conditioning our immune system. Laboratory animals were given an immune-suppressive drug in saccharine sweetened solutions. Later, when the drug wasn’t administered, it only took the sweet taste to reduce their immunity.
It wasn’t until the 90s, though, that science could finally prove that we could actually control our immune functions consciously. Self-hypnosis, guided imagery, biofeedback, and visualization have been shown, without doubt, to boost immune system performance, increase white blood cell count, decrease plaque formation, and reduce hypertension.
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Today, we know that tiny cancerous growths are continuously formed in our body and it is the job of a healthy immune system with its natural killer cells to surround and eliminate these tumors. Since our emotions can be physiologically regarded as body release of specific chemicals (molecules of emotions), thus, depression, chronic stress or suppression of emotions result in massive disturbance of these chemicals’ natural flow. And, this in turn affects the performance of our immune system. Could this trigger cancer formation? Many physicians and naturopaths believe so. 

All honest emotions are healthy emotions. There are no good or bad emotions. How we express them and act upon them is what matters. A spiritual guru asking an oppressed man, an abused teenager, a rape victim, or a cancer patient to look in the mirror every morning and repeat “I love and forgive” or “I am whole and healthy”, is missing the whole point.

• The first step in dealing with stress, releasing negative emotions and/or changing a belief pattern is acknowledgement. We need to acknowledge our human needs and vulnerabilities… we need to acknowledge our right to feel angry, hurt, frustrated, anxious, or disappointed.
• Next we need to take control of our own action, assume responsibility for our life, and choose the appropriate way of reaction. Learn and heed the lesson then let it go. Only then we can genuinely replace our distorted feelings with positive image of love and care and achieve our true healing be it physical, emotional or spiritual.

You can read a book or attend a lecture about health and healing, understand and memorize every word, be totally convinced and committed, but will the required changes automatically appear in your life and become easily reflected on your state of health. Unfortunately the answer is No. Our analytical logical understanding is a function of our conscious mind, yet for the change to actually occur, we need to reach the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the one that actually controls our behaviors and reflexes and stores our beliefs. It is the one that holds the key to actual changes and healing and it is way more powerful than the conscious, analytical, logic mind.
But, how can you reach it? According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, the subconscious mind is a habit mind, it understands by repetition. Sincerely repeat, repeat and repeat the same action, belief and thought pattern over and over and over again until it becomes a habit.

Two key words here: Repeat & Sincerely

• Only by repeating the act or thought pattern over and over again, your subconscious mind will ‘get it’ and you will start to see some changes. Ask anyone who tried to change his eating habits, exercise pattern, or lifestyle… it is never easy. In general it is a 6, 6, 36 rule. We need 6 weeks to abort a bad habit, 6 weeks to adopt a new one, and 36 weeks for it to become part of our new life style.
• ‘Sincerely’ is another key here… If your action or thought defy logic… that’s to say if you do not deep inside believe that the change, the healing or the success is possible, then you are wasting your time… You need to sincerely believe that you are able to execute those change sin your life… You need to sincerely believe that you are loved, you are guided, you are protected by a Higher Power,  by God, who has all the Power, Wisdom and Mercy to guide you in your life path.

 

Community doesn’t just heal us… it connects us to a bigger purpose, a bigger meaning… it gives us the chance to discover ourselves, to reveal the best in us, to fulfil our mission on earth… yes, we do have a mission… a mission to spread love, to spread peace, to unite hearts and mend souls… it is the mission of each and every one of us, but our roles differ, our executions differ… each one of us brings his/her own experiences, talents, potentials, touches and additions… this is why we need one another… we complete each other… we heal each other…
 
All traditional medicine/ cultures placed community and belonging at the base of the pyramid of human needs… it is the foundation on which your whole life stands… it is essential to your life as your food and shelter… it is how we feel safety and security… We lost this meaning in our ‘modern’ civilized world… we lost it in the rush of everyday life and in the noisy buzz of social media… we lost it in the clutter of our own mind…
 
In his book ‘Tribe: On home coming & belonging”, S. Junger argues: “For many people, war feels better than peace, hardship can turn out to be a great blessing and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings. Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
 

​As we ‘modernised’ our lives, we found ourselves more and more able to detach from a community, we learned to take pride in our individualism… we learned to be self-sufficient and independent… And, without even realizing it, we cut off an essential part of our being… an essential component in our health formula… The need to belong… to belong to a community that supports us not just physically but intellectually, emotionally and spiritually as well.
 
How do I know that this is essential?
 
Look at the sky-rocketing rates of mental illnesses… The rates of depression, suicidal tendencies, anxiety and schizophrenia are directly proportionate to the rate of affluence and ‘civilization’ of a society…
 
As we became more ‘civilized’, our hearts grew further apart…
As we stuffed our plated and over fed our bodies, we starved our souls and depleted our spirits…
 
This is my invitation for all of us today to connect… connect on a deeper soulful level… an invitation for us to care again, love again, belong again… an invitation for us to unite…

Start with your family… gather around your kitchen table tonight and just talk… laugh… share stories, dreams and hopes… Then, extend the circle to your  friends, your community, your society… let’s build our circles of love… let’s draw them together… let those circles expand and touch each other… let them fuse into bigger and bigger circles of care and peace that will heal us and heal our world.

December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada.
 
So, today I want to honor all women out there who are struggling and suffering emotionally or physically. Emotional abuse could be as bad a physical abuse and I see case after case every day…

When you are struggling to cope with everyday life… when you become anxious and worried about your own safety and livelihood… when life becomes a constant argument over crossed boundaries, lost hopes, and denied basic rights… you are exhausted… Emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted … You are drained and depleted… you feel like a hamster on a wheel, tired and wired all the time.
 
Unfortunately, in our modern society, we also lost the support from caring community, society, family, and friends… You end up feeling not understood, not acknowledged for your role in life, for all your efforts and you end up not getting what you really deserve.
 
I met hundreds of women crippled by fear and worry over the future, the past and the present. They are over-burdened with responsibilities, unable to carry on any longer with an unending struggle and un-stoppable mind chatter.
They do not have the time or the resources to take care  of themselves and nurture their own needs
 
If you are, or any one you know is, in this position, please take few minutes today to reflect on your needs… Reflect on You!
Take few minutes to take a decision to stop the abuse… to say ‘No’ when your boundaries are crossed… take few minutes to ask for help… Seek assistance if you feel that you are vulnerable at this stage of your life or if you fear over your physical safety.
 
In her book Emotional blackmail, Dr. Susan Forward insists that “It Takes Two” for the abuse to keep on going… Make a decision today to stop being an active participant in your own abuse… Stop accepting what you feel is unreasonable under the name of being a ‘good wife’, ‘good daughter’, ‘a good employee’… or because you just want peace or fear changes… No one deserves to be treated un-fairly or dis-respectfully. No one deserves to keep giving without asking for acknowledgement in the least.
 
Stop putting yourself down and stop under-valuing yourself in the name of humility, gratitude or goodwill. Don’t let your self-worth and sense of security depend on someone else’s validation and acknowledgement… You are enough… You deserve to be loved, to be cared for… to be respected…
 
Kindness is not always a virtue. Sometimes, kindness is a crime. A crime against our own souls. It’s a crime when we fall in the same trap over and over again… it is a crime when we give so much till we are depleted and drained… it is a crime when we allow others to walk all over us and treat us like door mats.
 
I hope you all know me enough by now to know that this is in no way an invitation to be mean, obnoxious or ungrateful, this is just an invitation to stand up for your rights…
Nurture the beautiful caring loving heart of yours and keep caring and nurturing and spreading love and peace around you… but don’t ever forget to start with your own self… Start by nurturing your own soul…
 
Today, take a minute to listen to your body whispers… Listen to what your whispers are trying to tell you… Be them headache, hives, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, hot flashes, blood pressure disturbances, indigestion, poor immunity, inflammation, IBS, stomach and Intestinal problems, eating disorders, kidney problems, Bed-wetting, knee and back pain…
 
They are here for a reason… listen and start by changing your inner world so that you can change your outer world…
All you need is a decision… a decision to reclaim your rights, a decision to be brave enough and determined enough to do it.