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Mind Body Spirit
For thousands of years traditions of healing, medicine and wisdom have been handed down across all cultures. I would like to offer a personal perspective on this subject.
We are all fundamentally the same. We are all expressions of universal creativity in human form. Our underlying nature is a unified field of consciousness, but each one of us expresses a unique form and life process. Is a wave separate from the ocean? Yes, and no, depending upon one's perception.
As we acquire understanding of our true nature and the world around us we release unhealthy patterns and gain greater health and vitality. This is a unique process for each person and requires a genuine commitment to oneself. Positive changes are achieved with careful attention to the life process that includes our thoughts, feelings, relationships, diet, lifestyle, exercise, work and sleep.
All our experiences are interconnected. For example, our emotional and psychological processes affect each other and travel through the nervous and hormonal systems to be expressed in our physical health. Profound or long held beliefs and feelings cause a significant change in our physical state. It is equally the case that deep or sustained changes in our physical health cause a real change in our emotional and psychological state.
We always have choices that can influence our health, although sometimes an illness or dysfunction cannot be altered easily and we may have to accept the condition while doing everything possible to relieve pain and discomfort. We can benefit from both traditional and modern understanding by exploring the integration of this combined pool of knowledge.
If we establish strong foundations for health with a balanced approach in the everyday world we may also choose to develop our self awareness through traditional practices such as meditation, prayer, visualisation and authentic ethical conduct. Increased self awareness requires a corresponding integration of expanded consciousness and higher frequencies of energy.
Human development is a complex matter and is achieved through work and attention over time. We all have to face multiple developmental processes and they do not all evolve in a linear fashion at the same speed. Each stage of development brings new challenges and we must embrace new insights and wisdom while being careful to heal and resolve any unfinished business from the past.
Ultimately, as we recognise ourselves, others and all life as expressions of the very same consciousness, we transform our health. Through this recognition we experience compassion and create a different world around us. This is the spiritual process that reveals our deeper life purpose - to express a unified, yet individuated state of being.
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