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Introduction
Healing Journey
Guidelines
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Healing Journey Guidelines
"Enjoyable activities have clear goals, stable rules
and inspired
challenges well matched to skills."
— from the book, "Flow"
Move toward solutions. Put most of your attention on the solution. |
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| Do all the exercises at least once. There is no right or wrong way to do the exercises,
only personal experience and creative growth. Whatever you experience is valid.
You may benefit from the repetition of some exercises until you become familiar with
the technique. The exercises engage skills you may use to develop new ways of living
and working. |
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| You may want to enlist the support of a friend or partner to share your experiences.
Support is one of the 4 pillars (knowledgeable healer, right medicine, patient
cooperation) of healing. I learned through periods of isolation and suffering that I
need support. Now I actively seek support and I am continually learning how to
support others. |
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| We perceive life through our senses. By increasing our
sensory perceptions we enlarge our experience of living and our sense of aliveness. Whenever you feel spaced out or lost,
use your senses to bring you back. Smell what you are smelling. See what you are seeing.
Hear what you are hearing. Feel the sensation that you are feeling. This works for me about
90% of the time. The other 10%, I often need the break that spacing-out offers me. |
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Only consume as much as you can
digest, physically, mentally, emotionally and
spiritually. Some material may be totally new to you. You may want to go back
over the material, discuss it with a friend or just sit with it for awhile. The first book I
read on consciousness, I reread seven times and I am still digesting its contents. |
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| Take care of your Liver. Organic Dandelion root tea and diluted lemon water
are excellent for the liver. Add them to your diet. |
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| Nourish yourself. |
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| Rework the contents of your
consciousness until you achieve the level of function
and contentment you want. When discontent, look inside yourself first to see if a shift
of perception changes how you feel. We will explore new and exciting ways of
shifting perception. |
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Workbook • 12 |
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| Stay close to your growing
edges. If you notice that you are experiencing an
unhealthy amount of depression then look to where you have moved away from
your personal direction for growth. You only need to move 1/4 of an inch in the
right direction to start feeling better. |
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| Use an essential oil of your choice when studying to
anchor your new knowledge. When you want to recall experiences and information gained from the course, smell
the oil to help stimulate your recall.
Anchor: purposely connect something less tangible
like information with something more tangible like a specific scent. |
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| The seasons affect our well being. Working with the
seasons develops a natural order to our rituals of well being. Using this natural order is a great advantage. Keep a
journal for each season. Record your experiences so you can reflect on them as the years pass. |
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| We live in two worlds simultaneously. One is our everyday world and how we
identify ourselves. The other is the hidden world. To achieve a solid sense of well being it
is essential to understand both worlds. We call one world our
Ordinary World and the other world our Dream
World |
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| There are three active forces that govern life. They are
Wind (Vata -Ether &Air) that governs movement.
Fire (Pitta - Fire & Water) that governs transformations.
Water (Kapha - Earth & Water) which governs growth. All individuals are born
with varying blends of all three. By understanding our unique blend we are in a
better position to make more informed decisions. I have replaced the words vata,
pitta, kapha with the English words wind, fire and water. |
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| Herbs are special category of plants that help us maintain higher levels of
health. They offer us an ecologically sound system of health care. Herbs are a
renewable resource and many of them can be grown locally. |
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| Sad but true, most people's lives are a series of interruptions and disruptions.
How we choose to view and utilize disruptions has a pronounced effect on our level
of wellness. |
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| A sense of personal growth is essential to a feeling of well being. There are
many effective methods to choose from that encourage growth. |
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Workbook • 13 |
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| We need support, knowledge and guidance to achieve and maintain a high level of
wellness. |
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| Constantly remind yourself to focus on the
person more than the disease. |
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| Gentleness brings greater changes. In working your way through the material in
this book, be aware that you will have the season that you are working on again
next year and the next etc. Be gentle with yourself! |
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"Educate not
medicate"
Bernard Jensen, a leader in the field of natural medicine.
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Introduction
Healing Journey
Guidelines
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