Use Your Inner Power To Heal Your Body…
Do you know that you can draw on your inner power to heal your body and soothe your soul?
In our over-achiever, over-doer culture, we are often so busy trying to get “more” out of life and living from ‘shoulds’ that we actually, unwittingly, bring stress, pain and illness to ourselves. We get out of balance – heavy on the work-accomplishment, ‘doing’ parts of our lives and too light on the play, relaxation, fun, just ‘being’ side of the scale.
One of the ways to help ourselves take inventory is to get in touch with our inner child, our emotional self -- the playful, fun, creative part of ourselves. When we are overloaded with work and stress, the child part of us gets crushed, pushed down, ignored. No time for it. What happens is that another aspect of the inner child, the vulnerable child, comes forth in the way of symptoms. We may feel sick, sensitive, tired, depressed or have aches and pains. When our feelings aren’t allowed, honored and expressed (due to cultural discouragement, fear of rejection, or we just don’t take the time to tune in and identify a feeling, etc.), the energy is still there, hiding in the body, and can show up as a symptom.
A powerful healing process is to have a written dialog with our vulnerable child directly or with our body directly. This method of journaling can give us profound insights about the relationship between our wounded inner child and our physical condition. Lucia Capacchione has written several books on this very subject. For more information about how to work with your symptoms through journaling and drawing, please contact me at 949-459-1080. You can also visit Lucia Capacchione’s website at http://luciac.com/index.html for more information about the Creative Journal Expressive Arts processes (several of which are working with the body) and library of available books.
©2008/2009 Beverly Staley, MS, Certified Life Coach
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