Excerpt

Heal Yourself

This book is about self-healing. Its about bringing back together those parts of you that have been split-off. We all have had to split-off parts of ourselves in order to cope with whatever was happening to us. Our body, mind and spirit have had to divide in order to survive. Splitting up was necessary, and its now time to come back together.

I know we are able to bring our parts back together and heal because Ive done it, and now Im sharing what I learned. Lets begin with what we have been taught.

We have been domesticated to fit into society. We were taught what to do, what not to do, what to believe, and what not to believe. To question was often, if not always, a dangerous undertaking. I dont know about you, but questioning authority has gotten me into trouble a few times.

Its not that our parents and teachers were purposely doing a job on us. They were passing along what they learned and, in most cases, did the best they could. We watched, listened and developed our beliefs from our childhood experiences. When we were hurt, mom took care of us. We were little boys and girls in a big world and looked to others for comfort and healing. We learned that others had the power to heal. What we didnt learn was that we could heal ourselves.

You will learn to heal yourself using abilities you already have. If you are able to think and have an imagination, you will find something useful within these pages. This book is for people who want answers and havent been satisfied with traditional therapies.

I found that some people arent helped by traditional approaches to therapy, and I wanted to know why. I have always been a curious type who drove my parents nuts asking why. Now Im a retired naval aviator turned clinical social worker still wanting to understand how something works and to discover the truth about life.

I retired from the Navy after 26 years, and had to discover who I was going to be next since I was no longer a naval officer. The time had come to move into a new profession and to discover my true self.

Did I find my next profession, or did it find me? Maybe I found myself and, in doing so, I became who I had been all the time.

This book will help you find ways to break out of your personal prison. We live within a cellblock made of limiting beliefs and guarded by fear. Our body, mind and spirit are held captive by our past. Lets start by looking at how each of these primary elements can be healed.

Body

Healing your body refers to eliminating symptoms caused by emotional issues or past events that have been caught and stored within the fabric of your physiology. Your body stores unfinished emotional and physical trauma. If you cant digest an event, it gets stored in your body. When your body is full, it converts what you have stored into a physical problem.

Mind

Dealing with your conscious mind is straightforward because you are aware of your thoughts and know what you believe and dont believe. You are able to check on any irrational thinking and limiting beliefs that shape your outlook and contribute to negative outcomes. What you think has a lot to do with how you feel and what you can door not do. If you believe that you will end up alone and a bag lady, I suggest you either change your belief or stake out your corner.

The contents of your subconscious mind are unseen and mostly unknown. If your mind were the ocean, your conscious mind would be from the surface down to the depth you could dive. Your subconscious would extend into the abyss. Here is where the gold is located, carefully guarded by underwater dragons. Your challenge is to enter the abyss, slay the dragons and get the gold. Of course, the dragons are your fears.

Spirit

As for spirit, I havent seen one. Spirit is a lot like a magnet, you cant see it, but you can observe its effects on other things. Just as magnetism consists of lines of force, you can think of spirit has having lines of force that activates your brain. You arent your brain; you use your brain. Thats right, you are spirit flowing through your physical body. I use several words when referring to spirit. I like the term energetic body because the implication is that we are energy. The label isnt so important as the concept that we have an energy field that moves into and around our physical body.

This book will provide you with information and experiences that will teach you how to communicate with and heal your body, mind and spirit.

My goal is to help you restore energetic unity and empower free will and free choice by: 1) freeing your body of unprocessed trauma, 2) freeing your conscious and subconscious mind of repressed emotions, experiences and irrational beliefs, and bring together fragmented parts of your subconscious and 3) freeing your spirit from unhealthy attachments to others and bring back fragmented parts of your energy field.

Before ending this short introduction to this short book, Im going to make some suggestions as to how to proceed. I hope you stop often to notice your thoughts.

I hope your reading experience will be like eating a fine meal: take your time, enjoy each bite, and feel satisfied when you finish. Enjoy.