It’s not enough to eat healthy and avoid sugars or processed foods to say you are leading a healthy lifestyle.

It’s not enough to also just be vegan. It’s not even enough to eat organic. None of that really matters or works for your optimal health unless you properly combine foods and learn which foods combine with what.

Proper food combination basics will be covered in this blog post. To find out how to actually maintain a healthy balanced lifestyle, please read on!

6 years ago I discovered through a book the food combining principles and since then I was hooked and tried to eat as much as possible in accordance to what the principles stated. To understand the food combining principles you need to understand the categories of food, because each category of food can get combined or not with the other one.

There are several classifications but to make it simple, as this is about the basics of food combining, this is what food is categorised into:

Carbohydrates (mainly containing bread, grains, pasta, starch, sugars)

-Starches: bananas, potatoes, all pasta product, rice, breads, cakes, pies, refined cereals etc

- Sugars: whole, brown and raw cane sugar, fructose, honey, maple syrup, dried sweet fruits (dates, raisins, figs, prunes)

Protein (made up of light and concentrated protein)

-Light protein: nuts (almonds, cashew, hazel, hickory, peanuts, gooseberry, pecans, pistachio, soy, walnuts), seeds (sunflower, pine), peas, beans, lentils, coconuts, avocados (although some would class this as FAT)

-Concentrated protein (meat, fish, fowl, eggs, milk, cheese, although milk and cheese also enter the DAIRY category)

Fat (animal and vegetable oils)

-Animal fat: butter, cream, lard, tallow, fatty meats

-Vegetable fat: olive, soy bean, sunflower seed, sesame, safflower corn and ALL NUT OILS

Vegetables (starchy and non starchy vegetables)

- Starchy: acorn and butternut squash, lima beans, peas, corn, water chestnuts, artichokes, potatoes

- Non-starchy vegetables: bamboo shoots, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, romaine, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, chard, cucumber, eggplant, endive, kale, lettuce (boston, bibb, leaf, romaine), parsnip, pepper (sweet), sprouts (mung bean, wheat, barley) turnip

Fruits (acid, sub-acid and sweet and melons)

-Acid fruits: currant, grapefruit, guava, lemon, lime, orange, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, tamarind, tangerine, TOMATO

Acid fruits also include VINEGAR

- Sub acid fruits: apple, apricot, blackberry, cherimoya, cherry, elderberry, gooseberry, grape, huckleberry, nectarine, peach, pear, plum, quince, raspberry, sapodilla

- Sweet fruits: banana, carob, date, fig, prune, raisins, dried fruits, persimmon, mango, papaya, sapote

- Melons: banana melon, cantaloupe, casaba, Christmas melon, Persian melon, Crenshaw melon, watermelon, honeydew melon, muskmelon, nutmeg melon

Now, all these may seem a bit confusing, especially when at a first glance you spot some foods belonging to more than one category. But it is actually not that difficult to comprehend why they belong into various categories.

First of all, all foods have protein and carbs but some have a higher percentage of one or the other and based on that they belong to a different category.

As an example and maybe also an exception, peanuts, lentils and all cereals are considered as protein and starch combinations.

However, peanuts and lentils when you prepare them to eat, they are going to be PROTEIN. Cereals will always be carbs because of what our bodies do with it when we eat them. You will also notice that banana is a sweet fruit and also a starch (carbohydrate) and that’s because being a sweet fruit it has a lot of carbs. It is considered a sweet fruit, and because it is so sweet it is a carb, because of the amount of fructose it contains.

The same goes for dates and figs and all dried fruits, that are sweet fruits yet also classify themselves as sugars, again, because of the amount of sugar contained through its natural form in the fruit, fructose, it is a carbohydrate because of it. Again, potatoes are vegetables but because of the amount of starch, they also fall under the starches (carbohydrates) category more being better combined with other vegetables and not with protein.

And this is how we reach the food combining principles.

There are 9 RULES to properly combining food and the reason we apply and we must start to obey them is because different foods activate different enzymes in the body. Different enzymes in the body mean that the food is digested easier, faster or slower, harder. For this reason, we always want to eat first the fruits as they are digested within 40 minutes maximum. And we always eat fruits on an empty stomach.

We also never combine fruits with anything else apart from vegetables (and we exclude potatoes from ever being combined to fruits, as potatoes are actually carbs as discussed above) Why do we need to combine foods? To properly digest the food we eat. And why do we need that? Because that’s the only way the food nutrients can end up enhancing, boosting and maintaining our optimal health levels. That’s how we do not get sick. That’s how we have maximum of energy. That’s how we properly enjoy food and we properly fuel our bodies to take us where we want to go.

Now, the main thing about digestion is that to actually happen we need a specific type of acidity or alkalinity environment to our stomach and that’s because a certain type of environment is needed to be able to break the food and get the nutrients, vitamins, minerals and all the good stuff out and into our cells. So that this can occur in our stomach and in our intestines we must eat certain foods with certain foods.

These are the rules of food combining:

1. We never combine carbohydrates with carbohydrates (as an example would be bananas with oats, dried fruits with cereals, rice with syrup, sugars with cereals, jam on bread, bread with honey, you get the point)

2. We never combine carbohydrates with acid fruits (as an example tomatoes with rice or any other cereals, lime or lemons with rice, vinegar in rice, tomatoes with bread etc)

3. We never combine carbohydrates with protein (WE SHOULD NEVER EAT rice with chicken, rice with meat, with fish, with eggs, with dairy products as cheese, cheddar, we SHOULD NEVER EAT any cereals or bread or pasta with any type of protein no matter if it is light or concentrated, therefore cereals with nuts and seeds it is not properly digested)

4. We never combine carbohydrate with sugars (never — this will trigger your insulin resistance, this is a calorie bomb too, it is a lot of toxicity for the body to work with, as sugar is TOXIC)

5. We never combine protein and acid fruits (meaning as an example fish and lemons, tomatoes and meat, tomatoes and eggs, milk and dairy products with strawberry, orange, grapefruit, pineapple, tangerine, guava, currants)

6. We never combine protein with another protein (fish and eggs, meat and eggs, eggs and dairy, cheese, cheese and meat, nuts and seeds with eggs or fish or other type of meat)

7. We never combine protein and fat (butter, cream, oils with meat, eggs, cheese etc)

8. We never combine melons with anything else. They must be eaten on their own on an empty stomach.

9. We NEVER combine MILK or MILK PRODUCTS (DAIRY) WITH ANY OTHER PRODUCTS (so milk or yogurt and cereals and fruits, it’s a NO NO)

And you might wonder and ask in total confusion Then, what can I eat?

Proper food combinations that are beneficial to our health include vegetables with any kind of other food category. You can have vegetables with carbohydrates, with protein and with fruits. They go with everything. You can have fats with carbohydrates such as butter, oils with cereals, pasta, bread. You can have protein with vegetables. This is how we should actually have protein in our bodies to properly be digested. Concentrated protein must always be eaten in combination with vegetables because protein has other harmful substances that go through out liver and to properly clean that out, we need green vegetables (and lots of it) to be able to have a functional cleansed (all the time) liver.

I mean when you look at all the food combination basics, you will think:

a)this is non-sense, there is not much I can eat (yes, you can, you simply need to re-arrange the foods you eat)

b)if this is the correct way, why is it that everyone on the planet does not eat like this (because as with lots of other things, we are made believe that this is the right way, society, our grandparents, parents, school, so called doctors that are actually thought in their studies how to treat and not how to prevent and so on; I bet rich healthy people do not eat the junk food we all eat, and would most likely have access to the best of the best, including information which in turn transforms people, and this food combining principles should transform yours too, in a very good way!)

c)but I have no digestion issues (you might not experience this now, as you might be younger, you may not have had the experience of not having this experience now, that you believe to be right, just try it, what are you going to lose?).

Hey, this is not an opinion I have, these are researched information and knowledge that I have known about 6 years, yet more recently I have noticed that more and more people abide by the basics of food combination and they do see positive breakthrough in their diet, lifestyle and overall health.

Of course, if we confront yourself with a disease now, you might not be able to cope with the information and I urge you to document yourself and do as much research as possible to start eating more the foods you do eat in the proper healthy way. I wish you all best of health, but honestly, you do need to avoid sugars if not all the time, at least as much as possible from processed foods.

Nowadays, it is very hard to actually avoid it as even bread has sugar. But if all other foods we eat have it, and then we top it up with more processed sugars, what does that do to our health, I ask you, what do you think? We should have about 20–25 grams per day of sugar. And to me, that’s quite a lot still.

But that’s the maximum recommendation if you really need to get sugar. But if you go even to a vegan or organic food health store, and take a look at their organic vegan sweets, you will immediately notice that a small bar of chocolate has at least 10 grams, and that if you are lucky. Most of them have at least 25 grams already. In one bar. Imagine having 3–4 snacks like that in a day. TOXIC. That’s all I am going to say.

AVOID SUGAR AT ALL COST. START LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY COMBINE FOOD and you should be fine. You will feel the difference, I guarantee.

When I first started combining foods based on those rules, the immediate most recognisable benefit or change was that I did feel bloated anymore. When you are bloated, it’s because whatever you ate did not combine well and was not able to be digested. It happens because certain foods require an acidic environment and some of them need an alkaline environment.

When you mix the plus and the minus, you neutralise the effect of the enzymes that work to provide that environment. When you neutralise that, no digestion occurs. The food just rots in your stomach. Undigested. That can trigger fungus, bacteria, candida and all sorts of other diseases.

FOOD IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF SICKNESS OR OF HEALTHFULNESS.

These food combining basics actually teach us to eat not to feel full (although even with these rules, we can still eat and feel full) but to actually feel lighter and energised by the food we have.

Examples: In the morning you can eat fruits on their own or fruits with vegetables in smoothies (spinach, kale, apples). In the afternoon, you can eat pasta with vegetables/soup/rice with vegetables or any other cereals with different vegetables (there’s lots of recipes online). At dinner, you can have protein with vegetables. You actually do have a lot of options, but you just need to re-arrange the way you eat all the food categories. It does not mean you discard one type of food. It means you incorporate it in an optimal food combination for proper digestion and full intake of its vitamins, minerals, nutrients.

You also have to take into consideration the time each food category takes to be digested and broken down in all the nutrients. So fruits are the fastest to be digested in around 40 minutes. Carbohydrates take around 2–3 hours and protein needs between 3 to 4 hours. This means that you will feel hungry after that amount of time has passed. And it also means, once those hours have passed, you can now eat something else, of course, properly combined again.

I am following this for a couple of years and more recently have taken a big change in these basics and around 70% of the time I follow the rules of food combining. Obviously I am not able all the time to reach 100% (although there are a lot of days in which I do attain that and my energy levels, mental clarity and health is optimal) but I strive on achieving it. I also have been dairy free (apart from organic butter) for around a year now, do not really eat that much meat and have 5/7 gluten free days. So, my choices in terms of health are even more restricted, but I choose to do this because milk, cheese, cheddar, yoghurt have a toxic effect unfortunately for me and have had to learn this on the hard way. Through years of trials and errors and hopes and eventually acceptance. I choose to not have meat except when I really crave it and that’s usually rare (once every couple of months). I do have eggs and that’s the organic ones. Not free range. There’s a big difference and if the chicken is fed with GMO, it’s pointless to get free range (I mean in a way, I get it, for the chicken lives, but it is actually more a marketing strategy than actually something beneficial to your health). You must buy organic eggs. I try to eat as much as possible organic and vegan.

Eating this way, will prove to you that your body really knows what is doing and you must trust it when it sends you signals that specific food combinations or specific foods are not desired.

Try the food combining basics for one week! And see the differences for yourself!

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“Where you look, affects how you feel. If something is bothering you, how you feel about it will literally change on whether you look off to your right or your left. Our eyes and brains are intricately woven together, and vision is the primary way that we, as humans, orient ourselves to our environment. Signals sent from our eyes are deeply processed in the brain. The brain then reflexively and intuitively redirects where we look, moment to moment.

The brain is an incredible processing machine that digests and organises everything we experience.

Trauma can overwhelm the brain’s processing capacity, leaving behind pieces of trauma, frozen in an unprocessed state.

Brainspotting uses our field of vision to find where we are holding these traumas in our brain. Just as the eyes naturally scan the outside environment for information, they can also be used to scan our inside environments — our brains — for information.

Brainspotting uses the visual field to turn the “scanner” back on itself and guide the brain to find the lost internal information. By keeping the gaze focused on the specific external spot, we maintain the brain’s focus on the specific internal spot where trauma is stored, in order to promote the deep processing that leads to the trauma’s release and resolution.”

I discovered brainspotting because I was curious about the psychology development courses offered by the British Psychological Society in UK and wanted to register as a psychologist with them. Brainspotting is a new therapy focused on the movement of the eyes and the gaze that stops in a specific point which heals the trauma experiences, releasing the unprocessed thoughts about it or the information received at that point in time, when trauma occurred.

I have always been extremely passionate about new therapies and new ways of working within the field of psychology so I looked further into it. Brainspotting was actually discovered and branded, if I can say that, by Dr. David Grand who was working with a client of his using the Natural Flow EMDR therapeutic approach. In this type of therapy, the client is guided to uncritically observe, step by step, what they experience, including memories, thoughts, emotions or sensations in their body and EDMR uses left-right eyes movements to stimulate the opposite hemispheres of the brain, back and forth. While working with that, Dr. David Grand observed that there were various and different rapid eye movements when the client would gaze at a specific spot. He used a pointer to direct the clients’ gaze and asked them to tell him how they felt. After trying on the approach with many of his clients, he realised a new therapy must emerge. I then looked into ways of reading more about it, and naturally I bought his book, “Brainspotting, the revolutionary new therapy for rapid and effective change”.

Even though the book came to the market in 2013, I was not aware of this new discovery and reading more about it, testing it myself and also taking on an online course, made me want to share this with you. This is a type of therapy that go beyond the mind to gain direct access to the brain. Brainspotting is built on a model where the therapist simultaneously attunes to the client and the client’s brain processes.

“Eye positions correlate to our own internal body experience and our psychology is expressed by the deepest parts of our brains and bodies: our reflexes. The brain is the ultimate scanner. monitoring every cell in the body, as well as itself, on a 24/7 basis. Any type of injury is both physical and psychological trauma to the nervous system and so they become inexorably intertwined.

The healing process of Brainspotting is a creative one, and it can unleash and expand creativity in artists. Because it works simultaneously with the right brain and the left brain, it both mirrors and integrates the neural art and science. It is exactly like this — where you look affects how you feel.”

I have taken the Brainspotting online course on udemy, and if you want to discover more about this type of therapy, I would highly recommend to get an idea of what it means and try it for yourself with the exercises in this mini-course, because you can also do brainspotting on yourself too.

However, the type of brainspotting you can do yourself would need to be focused on work related tasks, creativity, performance and overall well-being as deep traumas would require a specialist for guidance and proper brainspotting therapy.

Whenever I read about brainspotting initially my mind went to the thought that I have no traumas, this is not something I may be interested in, because I am more focused on self-care, mindfulness and positive psychology, work psychology etc. However, that was a wrong way of thinking, a misconception. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved with that experience. This means that there are specific stimuli that may stress me and others which may impact your nerves, depending on the subject’s internal responses, adjustments to external situations and experiences.

Do you have an interest in Psychology, Therapy or anything related to Well Being, Self — Care and Help and Mindfulness?

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd to avoid facing their own souls, once wrote Carl Jung.

We are all biased with different thinking patterns and brain shortcuts that we created in time to have time to cope with life and change. Sometimes these cognitive distortions make it hard for us to progress in life, and the universe keeps throwing at us the same lessons in different formats, and we still don’t get it. So, by the end of the year, let’s work together to restructure those mental biases we all deal with.

There are 13 common cognitive distortions that I will be briefly explaining and you could work on one at a time until the end of the year to make sure you step into the new one with a bright fresh thinking.

Overgeneralising

You see a constant, negative pattern based on one event. Maybe you think that if you did not get the position you applied for, you are not good enough and you think there is no point in applying to a future job ad. But you base your future thoughts and eventually behaviours around a single event. Step out of your mind and don’t take your thoughts so seriously.

2.Blaming / Denying

You blame others for your problems or mistakes OR you blame yourself when it wasn’t entirely your fault. You could say that you did not obtain that job because you did not have connections or because the company liked a specific type of personality or that you did not prepare for the interview. If you indeed did not prepare for the interview, that’s easily fixed, next time, you know what you need to focus more on, since you passed the CV screening. If you believe that the company or another person is to blame for your failure, think again, maybe you should consider that when you put the blame entirely on others for something you did not achieved, it could be that you are avoiding to feel the real emotions behind your lack of success. The real emotion behind that could lay in the truth that you did not prepare enough, did not have enough experience, did not have enough of confidence to show it, and so on. Always try to see beyond the surfaced emotion and train of thoughts.

3.Shoulds

you have a rigid code of conduct dictating how you and others should behave. You criticise yourself harshly when you fail to follow these rules. Should lists are so dangerous to the mind. They are transforming you into a perfectionist, into a critic and that’s not at all equal to self-love and mindfulness and good judgement. On the contrary, shoulds are infectious and must be replaced with something more kind to ourselves: the right to make mistakes, the patience to learn from one’s mistakes and the determination to challenge an existing no-longer serving belief, such as the “should theory”. Also, to gain more understanding on the topic, have a read here on the crossroads between should and must in the pursuit of happiness.

4.All or nothing thinking

You see things as absolutes, no grey areas. This ties very well with the one above. Give yourself permission to make mistakes and to understand that all things come and go. There is no white or black, as much as we would all want to shortcut things that we go through, and categorise it to make our lives easier, life is complex, so, so is our thinking.

5.Negativity bias

You notice all the negatives, but fail to notice the positives. For this one, sometimes, our parents have raised us with their own biases as their own knowledge to keep us safe from the world and to protect our future reckless choices by implementing a fear emotion in us every time we might get attracted by adventurous thoughts or behaviours. It’s ok to let go of that. Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo and even if a positive attitude does not spare you of negatives happening in your life, you should know, we need negatives too to develop the positives. There is something good in every bad, and something bad in every good. There is no white or black.

6. Catastrophising

You always expect the worst. As much as this could be a self-defensive mechanism, and sometimes it turns out to be good to have this idea in your head, as you actually get surprised by life, and something resplendent is thrown at you, this should be rarely thought or used. You cannot always expect the worst. You are made up of an energy of your thoughts. If you only believe bad things will happen, guess what will you be attracting in your life? Remember, you are energy. I will share with you a secret. Remember when you tell yourself or to others: “Don’t forget to… something?”. Do you remember what actually always happens? You forget or they forget. Why? Because you have trained your mind into a NO suggestion. Do NOT remember to do that. Instead, use the phrase “Remember to do this/ I will remember to….”. Use it and let me know how it worked for you in the comments! Also, to change this thinking pattern, I will give another example. Let’s say you think — “I can’t stand this” — to restructure this cognitive distortion you could say “I am severely distressed, but I will handle it. I can manage it!”.

ONLY GROW THOUGHTS IN YOUR BRAIN THAT YOU WOULDN’T MIND PUTTING IN A VASE.

7.Labelling

You label yourself negatively. You always speak of yourself with use of negative words. Sometimes we do this, because we lack confidence in ourselves and we tend to use less than positive thinking and sayings so that whoever hears us, can actually demount our beliefs. But when you are alone, there is no one to tell you otherwise. You never believe the mirror, and if you did, it would anyway tell you the opposite of what you want to actually hear, because you are saying it to yourself, in the hope you can cling to something that can save your day. Again, as Carl Jung pointed out, “people would do anything, to avoid facing their own souls.” Stop using bad words, such as poor, inferior, unacceptable, imperfect, defective, faulty, careless, miserable, rotten, incompetent, inept, awful, appalling, terrible, pathetic, useless, lousy, deficient and start replacing them with superb, jubilant, adorable, alluring, attractive, blooming, celestial, classy, dandy, elegant, divine, enchanting, exquisite (my favourite word) fancy, fabulous, gorgeous, incomparable, irresistible, magnetic, mesmerising, ravishing, splendid, sublime, top-notch. Because you are all of that and beyond. You are beautiful. And you deserve to live your life knowing that.

8.Magical thinking

You think everything will be better when … (you’re thinner, smarter, richer, get a new job, etc). You will not be better if you live believing something that has a potentiality to not come true because you are not acting upon it. Even if you do act upon it, a lot of the times, this magical thinking relates to not really being practical about what could lead you in the spot you believe it’s going to transform you into this queen of happiness. Again, you should refer to the above, but do not believe your thoughts, and don’t take them so seriously. All things come and go in life, and practising mindfulness and gratefulness is more achievable and can break down these thinking patterns of magically becoming something you think you want, when deep down, there is something else you need to focus on. Remember Carl Jung: “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” What are you avoiding by making use of magical thinking?

9.Over-personalizing

You make things personal, when they aren’t. You believe other people’s opinions are facts. You think what other people do or say is in reaction to you. I used to be a daily user of this destructive habit. Working in a call centre, you get a lot of people annoyed at the service or product and they say things such as “You do not understand”, “You think you know it all”, “You must listen to me, I am the customer” and I would easily get demotivated, annoyed, angry and sometimes even believe of myself of being incompetent. But I guess, you need to go through it to get out of it. Just be aware of this cognitive distortion and distort it in your favour. Instead of thinking of yourself to do everything well because you cannot cope with another negative feedback, say something like “I would prefer to perform well, but it’s not a disaster if I don’t.”

10.Mind -reading

you make assumptions about what other people are thinking. And we all are culprits on this one. We make assumptions because we are judgemental. And this is hard to get rid of. To reach that though, you first need to acknowledge there is a problem. That way you are half way through. For this, you can train yourself when speaking to people by listening in a mindful way, being fully present, without trying to control the conversation or the person you are speaking to think your way or convince them of something and to be free of judging their perspective. Rather, try understanding their perspective and see through their glasses. What do they see? What would they want to hear from you? What would you like to hear if you were in their shoes?

11.Double standard

You hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else. I am the personification of this cognitive distortion. I am a perfectionist and I am still figuring out how to restructure this distortion in my mind. A lot of the times, people experiencing double standard demand a lot of themselves, are severe to themselves if they do not stand up to their own elevated expectations of what they should have accomplished and they may surround themselves with people who aren’t that professional. Sometimes they do, but they immediately feel the person and when they see that everyone that they’ve met so far fails their standards, they might start to overgeneralize and more biases are born. Be careful what you tolerate, you are teaching people how to treat you. If you demand a lot of yourself, and show this to others, they might start asking more from you, because they believe of you being capable of delivering more than anticipated. This puts you in a position of stress and pressure to accommodate your standard to even higher ones, because for a person with a double standard, nothing is ever good enough.

12. Fallacy of fairness

you think things should work out according to what you think is fair. People do not have the same standard as you do. People have their own level of fairness and correctness and consciousness. I get a lot frustrated by the fact that people do not see things as I see them and this thinking pattern falls into this category because I expect them to think the same way regarding specific general topics, such as cleanliness, as an example. The truth is, people are unique and so is their viewing on the world, and so is their behaviour. What you think is trash might be someone else’s treasure and vice-versa. That’s how you need to think all aspects of life to heal this cognitive distortion. Also, do remember that “everything that irritates us about others, can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” as Carl Jung said.

13.Emotional Reasoning

you think your feelings are reality. In fact, they only portray your perception of the world. They are unique and they do not mean they are highlighting the reality around you. If you feel crap, it does not mean you are horrible. That’s just your interpretation of an emotion. Step out of that behavioural pattern and be kind to yourself. Appreciate what you have and who you are and who you are becoming. To reconstruct this cognitive distortion of emotional reasoning, you have to start thinking that your mental health is to be treated with the same importance as your physical health. When you think “I am worthless/ I feel worthless” do believe that YOUR EMOTIONS DO NOT DICTATE YOUR REALITY and say it to you out loud: “My emotions do not dictate my reality”.

BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF AS NOTHING IN NATURE BLOOMS ALL YEAR ROUND.

More words to heal you and start the transformation process until the end of the year:

GATHER COURAGE LIKE WILDFLOWERS. (Jak Major)

Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place, you think you have been buried but actually you have been planted.

I would like to end today’s post with one word, this is EQUANIMITY.

Equanimity is a mental calmness, composure and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation. I believe that all these cognitive distortions are ways we use to cope with life and the experiences we face. We need mindfulness and lots of self-care to achieve this equanimity thinking pattern and I am confident with enough information and explanation and exposure to uplifting content; we can all be examples of challenging our existing beliefs and restructuring our most common cognitive distortions that stop us from truly come to terms with tranquillity and peace and our own unique story of life or career success.

WHICH COGNITIVE DISTORTION DO YOU FIND YOURSELF HARD TO OVERCOME?

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I have always striven to eat as healthy as possible and for a very long time, I thought I was having a good eating lifestyle taking into consideration the facts that I do not drink, I do not smoke, I do not drink coffee, I do not eat fast food, I do not eat processed foods or microwaved food. I do not eat dairy, with the only exception being butter. I eat meat once a month or on Esther and Christmas (you cannot refuse food from your parents), and that’s usually some sort of fish. But I was eating chocolate. Lots of sweets and sugar. And that compensates for all the other bad eating habits. Sugar is the most toxic substance for the human body. Sugar is poison. Sugar is the main cause of obesity, chronic diseases, cholesterol issues, heart attacks, cardiovascular problems and ALL other diseases.

Change No 1 — Sugar Free

I have struggled many, many years with my chocolate addiction and you might not believe me, but I was eating a whole bar of chocolate per day for many years when I was younger, however, I had always been thin and skinny so people really ever believe me when I explain that I too know how it is to live with a sweet tooth condition or sugar addiction. My mood was up and down, my skin was always having problems, issues with my stomach because of so much processed sweets.

Many years ago, I discovered the science of food combining, that was around 7 years ago, I acted on the principles of proper healthy food combinations and indeed, I felt lighter, I felt my body was able to digest food better and I liked knowing I was doing it. At that point I was still eating chocolate and sweets. Whenever I started eating more mindfully back then, I must have forgotten to read the chapter with sweets or something, because I cannot understand how such an important aspect of the food combining principles has missed my eyes and mind. This basic, most important, in my opinion, principle, is this:

YOU NEVER EAT SWEETS, SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, DESERTS AFTER ANY MEALS. SUGAR MUST NOT BE COMBINED WITH MEALS.

When sugar is combined with meals it creates indigestion first of all, but then the liver transforms it into ALCOHOL. So, I was basically an alcoholic for so many years without even thinking that it was in fact eating sugar that created it.

In November 2017, I came across the food combining principles again, and only by pure hazard, I was reading about gluten and breads and sugar references popped my eyes. When I read that sugar must never be combined with other foods as it converts into alcohol in the liver, going into the bloodstream, affecting not only the liver but the whole body, I just could not eat it anymore. That’s how my sugar addiction was cured. Once and for good!

Realising that I was poisoning myself on a daily basis with each meal, as I had no meal with no little sweet treat, and there were no going outs, even if it was to buy groceries, that I would not buy something sweet and small to eat on the way home. That something small and sweet was usually a vegan chocolate, an organic chocolate. Cakes, pastries and cookies, biscuits had been left behind around 1 year ago, because of the too many E’s in them, and I just wanted to clean up my diet, even if it meant to get rid of small things, like biscuits which I would anyway eat occasionally.

I still cannot believe how much alcohol I had in these last years. I am surprised I am not an alcoholic. Oh, wait, but I am! You might not know but alcohol is actually made up of sugar. Sugar is the most powerful toxin in the food industry and we do not even know we consume something that it is so dangerous to our health. It does not kill you instantly. It will kill you slowly everyday so that eventually, after a lifetime of suffering from all illnesses and sicknesses you endured, you die because of the chaos created in your body. Sugar is nowadays in so many foods. There is no bread on the market that does not contain sugar. There is no canned food that does not contain sugar. Sugar is also a natural preservative. Therefore, the food industry loves it. If you take a look at the label of each processed food that you buy, you will be horrified to notice you are actually dosing your brain with so much sugar that without knowing, your brain is now addicted to it. If you do not get a strong wake up call, you will not give it up.

You might say to yourself, no, I am not addicted to sugar. I just need to eat something sweet; I just want a bit of sweetness. It’s like hearing myself from outside my body, as if I would be a witness of my past self. I know those words by heart. Have you ever wondered why you need that little sweet thing? Why do you need to have it after each meal, in between meals, and pretty much all the time?

You are like conditioned by your addicted brain to go in search of the sugar. In search of everything is sweet. In search of death. Command your brain and put a stop on this illusion that you need sugar in your life. That you cannot live without sweets. That everyone on Earth is eating sweets and sugar and that your grandma was eating a cup of tea with sugar every day and she is 90 years old now very happy and healthy. Forget about the reasons your mind is trying to convince you that sugar is not bad. It is bad. It is the cause of all diseases. Look it up.

I had been sugar free for 2–3 months now. I did not feel the need for sugar or chocolate at all. I am happy to continue with this healthy eating habit in 2018 and I wish to inspire you to start appreciate your body as it cleans you up every day of all this toxin and other substances that should never enter our bodies, and to inspire you to at least read more about it. Only if you come across an information that strikes you, you will change something. But that can only happen if you are determined to understand, to read, to do your research. You do not need to believe me.

But I urge you to seek the answers, especially if you are willing to make a change, to try improve your eating habits, to enhance your body’s energy and to help it cure you, to help it help you. Your body needs good food to function properly and to be able to support your endeavours, in order to help you achieve your goals, whether they are personal, physical or career objectives.

Change No 2. — Less Gluten and Gluten Free Days

I mean, it is not just a trend or a posh lifestyle. It is extremely important to start consuming less gluten. I do not believe I will be gluten free entirely, but I am already doing gluten free days and making sure I am consuming less and less gluten on a daily basis. You know the drill with gluten, it is hard to digest. Or this is what you are told. But it’s not just that, or the fact that you feel sluggish during the day, or the fact that you feel tired all the time, as these are my symptoms.

You see, the problem is not necessarily the gluten itself, but the way our bodies react to it. It creates an inflammatory reaction in the body, in the intestines, creating small scratches which to get cured, the body needs to put extra effort into fixing that, so inflammation occurs.

Which again, prolongs the process of digesting other foods you intake as the intestines are in a bit of convalescence mode, and think about it, as this happens daily, with each meal you eat something containing gluten. It is also something a bit hard to avoid, and the other day I bought buckwheat flour, which is naturally gluten free, however the seller put on the label that it may contain gluten as it was stored together with other grains which were not gluten free and therefore the gluten can get transferred to the gluten free flours or grains.

So, it is a lot of work that you need to do if you want to go gluten free. If it’s not stated on the label or on the front of the packaging or somewhere that it is gluten free you might end up with a product that you thought it is good for you, and instead to be the opposite. As in my case. I mean, the struggle is real.

I have decided to make my own gluten free bread, organic and homemade, much tastier and healthier than the ones in commerce. I use organic yeast to grow the bread and I also intend on learning how to do sourdough bread. But that’s probably once I have mastered the gluten free bread.

I do not wish to give up gluten because I have a health issue with it, but because I wish to prevent that from happening. Therefore, my logic tells me to eat less and less gluten and avoid it as much as possible. Have gluten free days. Make my own gluten free bread (which is so tasty and healthy). Eat other nutritious grains such as the highly praised quinoa. Now, you know the reason it’s so on top of everything. And everywhere.

Mind this: it is not the gluten the problem, it is the way your body reacts to gluten that the issues is, and for which we need to be careful. I have made a commitment to myself to only eat gluten in weekends and not the same type of gluten, from the same grain, but from other grains, such as amaranth, another nutritious vintage grain, that we should all consume more of. I am not for eating rice, as for rice to be harvested it is very unhealthy for the people living in the area and it is not eco-friendly, although you would think that something which nature has given would be ecologic for the environment. But no. Look it up. You will be surprised. And anyway, too much carbs are not healthy either.

Change No 3 — A TOTAL GREEN Veggies Day per week

I also intend on incorporating in my lifestyle a day in the week to eat only greens, vegetables and nothing else. I do want to eat more greens every day, however a study has been conducted and I heard about it on Thomas Delauer Youtube channel and I think it is an amazing discovery that if you go plant based one day per week, you are able to give your body all the vitamins and nutrients needed for a whole week.

Of course, this does not mean that you should stop consuming vegetables during the other 6 days of the week, it simply means that research proved that only one day per week being green can impact positively on our health in such way, that it will maintain your health to an almost optimal level. Plant based diets have proved to give a boost of energy through their vitamins and nutrients and all the minerals’ vegetables contain and so, having only one day per week in this style, can help a lot. Imagine going 3 days. But I would like to start small.

Greens help out to clean out the liver, the body of all the toxins and it also provides the body with all minerals and vitamins needed. Only one day per week going green will give all the minerals and vitamins required by the body for that week. And this should be appreciated again by our bodies and our minds. Understanding the power plants and herbs and spices have, we can cure our bodies. We can maintain a optimal health level and we can go after what we want to achieve because we are not stopped by the lethargy of our body trying to fight over another infection or cold or illness that invaded our bodies.

Change No 4 — Intermittent Fasting for 3–4 Days per week

I have started doing intermittent fasting last year in May 2017(but at that time I did not know or remember that sugar must not be combined with meals, rather eaten separately, on an empty stomach, if you really need to, and drink lots of water to get it out of your system and to clean the bloodstream of its toxins) and I am still on it since December 2017, properly doing it, giving up sugar from my meals. If you do not know, intermittent fasting means to have an eating window of 6–8 hours in which you have either 2 meals or 3, and the time that passes from your last meal today until the first meal the next day is at least 16 hours or 18 hours. I found that 18 hours fast was better received by my body however I do stick with the 16 hours for hormonal balance.

When I started doing intermittent fasting back in May last year, I had been doing it every day for 3 months, because my cycle stopped after the second month, I decided to have the fasting period shorter and I diminished it to 13 hours. After the first month in this eating habit, my cycle came so I started again IF, but this time, increased the fasting period with 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. Next month, my cycle again stopped. So, I stopped the IF for around 2 weeks, time in which I actually got sick, catching a flu or cold or something that knocked me down completely for around 3 weeks. In those 3 weeks I had had 1 or 2 days per week with 16 hours fast simply because I did not need to eat or felt the need to ingest food and because I felt my body needed time to process the flu and destroy the bad bacteria. After I got well, in the middle of November, I started IF with again 16 hours fast. Some days with 18 hours, some days with 12 hours. I was not keeping track because I got accustomed to not eating in the morning and to not eat after 9 o’clock.

In November I came across the healthy and proper food combination and stopped having sugar with my meals. I had something sweet homemade once a week on an empty stomach and then from December as mentioned above completely gave it up. I feel much healthy without the poison. It is probably the most hidden unknown poison in our food. Since December 2017, I stopped keeping track of my IF, in the sense that I feel better having only 3 or 4 days per week. Hormonal balance is also extremely important for women health and I believe I should not be taking a habit if it affects my overall balance, even if it is a healthy habit. IF cleans up your liver and your body of toxins, if done properly, with lots of vegetables and greens apart from the regular natural healthy food intake.

However, you can still benefit from IF (and fasting in general is very good for the health, for the brain, for the mind and for overall wellness) by doing it a couple of times per week. I would also like to start fasting once a month or every 2 weeks (water fast), for the same benefits. This is one thing I had not tried — to fast for one day. But there’s a start for everything. So, this year, I am committed to 3 days per week IF, 1 day fasting probably at the beginning I will have it once am month, and the reason for this twist I am making, is to not interfere with my hormonal balance, since I noticed having it like this, my cycle gets healthy again.

Change No 5 — Regular Physical Activity and Increase of daily exercise

I cannot really remember the last time I had put my heart to run. I do cycle to work, however I cycle slowly, occasionally I have the energy to speed up but I would not count that as physical exercise. Would you? Therefore, this year, I would really want to incorporate in my lifestyle regular physical activity, and I will do this at home, to start small. Baby steps. If I would choose to go to the gym now, in the physical condition I find myself now, I will have a sore body for a whole month.

The baby steps I would like to take consist of stretching my body, small weights lift, body exercise and walk more. Increase my daily steps. Ever since I cycle to work (which started around 3 years ago), I stopped walking. I used to walk to work and from work back home and when doing groceries and that was for more than 2 hours per day in total, which is a total contradiction to the number of steps I take nowadays. At most 20 minutes.

Walking is highly de-stressing, calming and providing enhancements to our mental health. It is natural to walk and I must start using my feel more often. Working on a computer and staying on a chair all day long is stressful, unhealthy and totally useless to my healthy lifestyle and eating habits if I don’t do some form of exercise too. That’s a personal resolution too for new year.

WHAT CHANGES DO YOU INTEND ON MAKING FOR YOUR HEALTH THIS YEAR?

Your health is the most important asset you will ever owe. Treat it with care. Your health is also your right. But, as with many human rights, sometimes you need to fight for it. And this fight, is with your own self.

STOP THIS SUGAR NON SENSE INTAKE IN YOUR BODY

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I attended an event some years back in Belfast with John-Paul Flintoff, who is a speaker, writer, blogger, journalist, coach and creator of the What’s bugging you? maps.

He is an inspiration in the sense that his art is something practical, simple, yet so helpful and meaningful, or at least that’s how it feels to me. His brand is beautifully presented on his main website: http://www.flintoff.org

WHAT IS THIS WHAT’S BUGGING YOU?

According to the creator, John-Paul Flintoff, it is a map designed to help you find your solution to the problem you encounter. It is a tool to move you from the problem perspective into the perspective of a solution, and thus into a more positive approach to your life, to your world.

The What’s bugging you? map looks like a map, and it includes some essential questions you need to ask yourself to discover your own solution to the problem you face in your world.

I particularly enjoy the step which says: “Name those limiting beliefs (it’s good to recognize them when they pop up -which they always do).”

WHAT IS A LIMITING BELIEF?

Just as the name states, it is a personal conviction that limits our actions. Because you believe so much in it, it will stop you from doing that thing you think it’s not good to do or you are not entitled to it.

Even though you think you have nothing like that, believe you, you have collected several throughout your experience so far.

Here are some examples:

• I am not good enough.
• I lost my purpose in life
• Better to be one of the heard than called a weirdo
• I cannot be vulnerable to anyone or anything
• I do not have that formal education it is required
• I cannot be happy until I reach that
• Life is so hard
• My parents are to blame for everything
• I don’t need any help, I can do it on my own
• Love is painful, I don’t need that
• I cannot be happy unless I am in a relationship
• It’s too late for me to pursue my passion, my dream
• I can never be a fully functioning person, not after all I have been through
• I cannot trust anyone
• I am so alone

There are some limiting beliefs you may feel you own as well, from those included on the map such as:

• I am too old
• I am not attractive
• Nobody wants what I am interested in
• My creative work is not good enough
• Nobody cares anyway

It is important to recognize your own limiting beliefs and then to deal with healing them.

I found some helpful insights into this on PurposeFairy blog. Here are the links:

• http://www.purposefairy.com/1904/how-to-heal-your-limiting-beliefs/
• http://www.purposefairy.com/10123/10-steps-to-healing-your-negative-beliefs/

Now, in order to help you let go of those limiting beliefs, here’s another article to teach you how to have positive vibrant radiant helpful beliefs that don’t limit you, they take you where you need to go. Closer to your dreams.

http://www.purposefairy.com/80796/15-healthy-beliefs-to-be-stubborn-about/

And do you remember my previous articles about positive efficient affirmations to live a happy life ?

In case you missed that, feel free to browse them here.

I will link them for you:

• https://vocal.media/motivation/living-a-life-full-of-positive-affirmations
• https://vocal.media/motivation/positive-efficient-affirmations-to-map-your-future

What’s bugging you?

for me, it’s more than a map to help you discover a solution to a problem, it is an essential question to take you through life, through your experiences. I find it’s fundamental to discover exactly what’s bugging you, as this is the right path to your own way to map your future, to create a vision to live by.

When there are things bugging you, it means you need to change something, it means you are on a new challenging path put there on your way as an obstacle you need to overcome in order to make you grow. To teach you something. What is it that really it’s bugging you? Is it the need for more money, is it a health issue, is it a need to have your own family, is it lack of love, is it a job that you wish to have, is it a dream you feel you are too old to dream about? Whatever it’s bugging you, bear in mind that it will not stop bugging you unless you work on it in some way or another.

For me, a lack of a specific direction or spreading myself in too many parts, is bugging me. Apart from this map, these effective questions you must ask yourself and be true to yourself, there are some Bach remedies that I found very efficient to help you unleash your actions and intentions wisely and beautifully to bring you that bliss everyone wants.

If you are not aware of the Bach Flower Remedies, please have a quick read on the following article I presented at: https://vocal.media/longevity/dr-bach-flower-remedy-therapy

First one, Wild Oat Bach Remedy. Wild oat remedy is efficient when there’s uncertainty over one’s direction in life. It is also helpful for those who feel they have come to a cross-roads in life and do not know which way to go. They want to do something fulfilling but are not certain in which direction they should channel their energies. They may have tried several careers or a variety of lifestyles but still do not feel content. They are the “lost souls” who feel they have not yet found their niche in life and are filled with dissatisfaction. This remedy will help these people to see the way ahead more clearly so that they may pursue their true vocation.

Second one, Walnut Bach Remedy. Walnut remedy is the remedy for change. It is the remedy for protection from change and unwanted influences. It helps those who have difficulty settling into a new environment, new job or routine, a different country or a new home. It helps to break the link with the past so that life can start afresh, free from old ties and memories. It is helpful during any change in life, from marriage, divorce or moving house to major growth cycles like teething, puberty and menopause and it can help with the adjustment to childbirth and to all sort of changes happening in one’s life. Including the need for change however a fear over how to do it.

This remedy helps us to keep to our chosen path in life, protecting us from the ideas and influences of others that may lead us astray, and from those disturbing environmental influences which disrupt our peace and taunt our thoughts, and which may cause us to lose sight of our true destination. And this is the main reason, I take this Bach Flower therapy remedy. This remedy helps to guide us through any events in life so that we do not lose our way. When something is bugging you, this is a necessity.

Third remedy, it’s Impatiens Bach Remedy. And as the name suggests, it is for the state of impatience and irritability. Those of this temperament tend to be quick in thought and action. Everything is done in a hurry, they cannot wait. I feel I am impatient a lot of the times. And this is something that is bugging me. It may very well be something that it’s bugging you and you are not aware of it. You are not conscious of this trait of yours. And somehow, I feel these days we are all so impatient.

People with this nature can become quite brusque with those who are slow and may be tempted to finish a sentence for them, or try to finish the job they are doing. Impatiens people tend to be restless, fretful and jumpy. They move and talk quickly and their body language can too give them away — fidgeting, looking at their watch, edging towards the door in their haste. The remedy simply helps these people to regain their poise so that life is not so rushed; so that they may take their time and enjoy the pleasure of life at a normal pace. It is also helpful for any mental agitation state, having a calming effect.

These are my way of dealing with the What’s bugging you question. It may help you as well, and when it does, I would love to hear from you.

Overall, What’s bugging you? is indeed a helpful tool to manage your life, your beliefs and thus, your actions.

GO GET YOURS AND STOP PROCRASTINATING OVER WHAT’S BUGGING YOU, DEAL WITH IT.

How the mind makes use of information gathered from the external world has been a major concern for philosophers and psychologists throughout history. Exactly how do we use the information gained through our senses? In the early 1970s cognitive and mathematical psychologist Roger Shepard proposes new theories of how the brain processes “sense data”. Shepard argued that our brains not only process sense data, but also make inferences from it, based on an internal model of the physical world where we can visualize objects in 3D.

The experiment he used to prove this, in which subjects tried to ascertain whether 2 tables — each drawn from a different angle — were the same, showed that we are able to perform what Shepard called “mental rotation”: turning one of the tables in our mind’s eye for comparison. Perception, Shepard said, is “externally guided hallucination” and he described the processes of dreaming and hallucination as “internally simulated perception.”

Until very recently, our perception of risk and the way that we make our decisions was considered to be more a matter of probability and statistics than psychology. When faced with uncertainty, people base their decisions on “rule of thumb” — on specific examples or small samples.

Consequently, judgments can frequently be wrong, as they are based on information that comes easily to mind, rather than that has actual probability. We tend to overestimate the likelihood of things with low probability (such as a plane crash) and underestimate those with a higher probability (such as crashing while drink driving).

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?

First of all, perception is the main ingredient we require to gather the information and either make decisions or negotiate. We need specific tools to make sure our minds do not wander on different places than the correct path. In order for us to make better decisions, to negotiate, to understand how to handle different type of information, Mapology Guides have come up with new brain maps, brain tools to help us cope with the difficult task of making decisions and negotiating, which are the main activities of our day to day lives.

Because we are constantly on the lookout for causal connections, let’s use specific tools that will improve our cognitive journeys and enhance our positive marks into the practical world. The way we perceive the environment therefore can be guided. So let’s use something unique, creative and positive to do that.

You can purchase your creative brain tools maps here!

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Last November I had an encounter with a health consultant and something simply clicked in my head with regards to sugar and sweets. The health consultant was mentioning about specific foods which should not be consumed as per my blood type, if I remember correctly. We were discussing the fact that I don’t cope very well, well not me, but my body, does not cope very well with dairy. Particularly milk. We went on to discuss about the fact that dairy should not be consumed with anything else.

At that point in time, I already had enough info about certain food combinations, but for some reason, dairy was never something that I considered that much, probably because I do not really eat dairy on a daily basis and when I do consume it, I am very particular about what I can eat because over the years I have learned how to listen to my body and its reactions to what I put in it. And, maybe because I am not that much into dairy, that I never really put that much effort into it, as the only thing that I would eat would be butter, meaning on a regular basis.

And, it got to that point that this health consultant said to me that dairy products are not to be eaten with anything else as they digest very slow or cannot be digested if mixed up with anything else. Not sure how the conversation went to sweets, well, I do, it’s because I used to have a strong addiction towards chocolate, and he mentioned that sugar consumed with any other type of food ferments in the stomach, causing indigestion and moreover, alcohol. Oh, wait, I remember, it’s because I had done some analysis for my liver.

And my liver came back as if I was a bit of an alcoholic. But I am a particular alcoholic. The last time I remember having a sip of wine was ages ago. I don’t even drink on New Years Eve or on any special occasions, not because I have something against it, but because it is extremely dehydrating to the body and of course, because I do not wish to put my liver to do overtime. It’s not like it pays off. If you get the joke. My liver does enough of taking care of that huge amount of sweets I used to do. And it does a lot now, trying to clean up the mess left behind from more than 30 years with that lifestyle.

So, when I heard that my liver believes I am an alcoholic, a little light popped up around my senses as if it was the emergency line screaming OMG. But, why? It turns out my sweet tooth is the culprit. So, naturally, it determined me to stop even more the cravings. I was already doing intermittent fasting, and my sweet tooth already was vastly diminished to what it compared to be, and was already switching to more so believed at the time “natural” and “organic” sweets. But that is still sugar.

No matter what other beautiful or green label you add to sugar, that is still sugar and it will behave in your body the same way a non organic sweet or an artificial sweet would do. Sugar is the most toxic thing ever invented and we consume it daily. The sugar was transforming me into an alcoholic. I care about my liver very much. My liver is very important to me. We have a strong connection, I mean, it cleans my body of harmful things I eat and it is the most important organ in the body, having to deal with producing protein, breaking down old and damaged blood cells, breaks down the fats and produces energy. You name it. It is a detoxifying organ as well and it metabolizes drugs. No, not that kind of drugs. The medicines or supplements we take. How can I not be careful with it?

I did not stop sugar right away as with my addiction, I would have probably went into chocolate withdrawal. I ate less and less every day and payed more attention to the sugar and how I felt about it, I was becoming more mindful around my thoughts about sugar and sweets. After around 2 weeks, I completely gave up pastry, cookies, biscuits, sweets, organic sweets, natural sweets, or fruits in high amounts of fructose. I was not consuming sodas or any other things like that anyway, when I was drinking my tea, it was without sugar and I rarely have coffee, like once in a couple of years. It was especially hard the first few days but then, the more time passed, the better I felt and I realised how free I had come to become.

Free from the prison my brain crayoned for me, telling me, I need a bit of sugar to deal with this, I need a bit of sugar to care for myself, to love myself, I need a bit of chocolate, my brain is foggy. It was foggy because it was too much sugar. Not because it was too little of it. I had become free of the thought what type of organic natural chocolate to buy, or when should I eat that piece of chocolate, or when is the next break to have a sweet snack to cope with today? Free from drama. Free from chocolate drama and all its aftermath: OMG, I ate so much, OMG I am fat, OMG cellulite. ETC.

I have been sugar free for around 4 months. I have to say it was amazing. I am back on sugar now, but do not imagine I went into a sugar free type of an experience for a detox period (even though I know this is how it may sound like), I wanted to do this to stop having days in which everything I ate was sugary no matter if that was gluten free and organic. Due to this, I am able to control my urges far better than before and that’s because I am more mindful of the sugar and its consequences and of the brain’s addiction or maybe of my brain’s lack of something and I start analysing what is making me feel this need of sugar.

During these 4 months of sugar free, I realised that whenever I was craving sweets, it was not because I was in the mood for something sweet, which was what my brain was manipulating me into believing, as the brain was manipulated by the toxin called sugar, it was because there was 1 possibility out of 3 options:

-emotional lack of some sort of a feeling, usually not feeling loved or lack of perception of love

-being bored and my brain needing something to get it stimulated

-inertia from past habits to have something sweet or social copy paste of some sort (if a colleague was having a snack, the habit of eating snacks together, or even by myself, as a form of caring for myself, you know, the idea that you need time for yourself and you would treat yourself with something to enjoy the experience more, to carpe diem shit, but this time, really harmfully twisted, it’s like a sort of live today to die tomorrow)

Sugar when consumed with bread, dairy, pastries, meat, eggs, ANY TYPE OF FOOD, it converts in alcohol in the liver. ALCOHOL. Eating daily like this will more than likely bring health issues and I bet that if you also consume alcohol regularly, it will be even more harmful. Sugar is dangerous. It’s an assumed type of danger we all take, a risk if you want. But with all risks, we need to take precautions. The precaution in the case of sugar is to eat less, consume it mindfully and understand that it is a toxin. It’s toxic. No matter what your brain is telling you now, because it’s actually the brain that is addicted rather than your body, and your brain is confused, it is toxic and you must engrave that in your brain. You must associate sugary things with toxicity. And not just any type of toxicity, it’s the type that will kill you for sure, but obviously, slowly, so that you won’t know it was its fault.

To stop your sugar addiction, I recommend watching the documentary That sugar Film. It will bring a bit more clarity to your confused brain. And I am sorry if I am a bit harsh. So, is sugar. Harsh, but sweet. I can be sweet too. And tell you that you can do it like I do, consume maximum 20 grams of sugar per day. Even though I do make sure I have lots of days from the 7 days per week, sugar free. And by sugar free I mean free from the artificial sugar, and the hidden sugar. There is a lot of sugar in bread, in salami, in hummus, in milk, in pre-packaged food, in yogurt. I cannot think of anything else now, not because there would not be a zillion other products that have sugar, but because I stopped consuming lots of them, and I cannot name any now, since they’re not on my radar. I should have written this when I still did have them popping my brain each time I was hungry. Months ago.

If you do eat bread, ham, salami, pre-packaged food, lots of sandwiches, Subways, or Macs or whatever else you have, let me tell you something, you are consuming sugar. Sugar is also a great so-called “natural” preservative. You can find it in canned foods. Everywhere. It’s everywhere. It’s really everywhere. It’s very, very hard to actually find something with no sugar. Maybe those food products on which it is especially written SUGAR FREE. And most of the times, some of those, do have sugar, but it has the scientific name of other type of sugar: xylitol, corn syrup, inverted corn syrup, maize syrup, and all sorts of other chemical artificial sugars. It’s still sugar. This even worse, as it is more chemical.

You really have no idea what you put in your body. Then you wonder, why you are sick, why you gained weight, why you are not losing the weight, why you’re moody. Why. Why. Why. Lots of whys. Because the answer is SUGAR. If food is the main culprit of all diseases, then by logic, since all food contains sugar, and sugar is toxic, sugar is the main culprit of all diseases. Remove sugar and you will gain clarity of thought and of body weight. You will be healthier than ever before. Sugar and sweets is so toxic that the body needs to take the vitamins and minerals and nutrients to actually clean up the body from the toxic waste it leaves. By using our vitamins and nutrients to remove the sugar, we are left with no vitamins and nutrients for our main organs so that our bodies can show health. That’s how harsh sugar is. The sweeter it is, the more it endangers your health.

Sugar free means health. Clarity of thought. Clarity of moods. Less ups and downs in happiness and sadness. More mindfulness. Sugar free comes with a better understanding of one’s self. With a deeper meaning and a greater comprehension around the brain and the differences between the brain and the mind and the consciousness. You will realise you are more peaceful when you are sugar free and the one thing that will probably remain the rest of your life after a sugar free experience or treatment or detox, whatever you want to name it, is the blunt fact that you do not think all the time about food and you are not the food you eat, not in that sense, that what you eat is what you look like. You are not defined by food. You do not live to eat. You eat to be able to live. See the difference. Better, taste the difference with your own sugar free experience. I dare you!

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For us, women, to tap into our feminine energy is vital and it is about being committed to ourselves, first and foremost, and this means being committed to our own spiritual and personal growth, living with intention and passion while striving to contribute to our immediate world and the world at large in a positive and meaningful way.

Your life and my life is our vision quest, and so it’s up to each of us to design it, it’s about how we conduct and carry ourselves onto the path we have selected and most of all, how we follow through. To tap more into our feminine energy we also need to know the things that actually kill our femininity.

Here are 10 things that kill women feminine power and energy.

1. A woman should only communicate with people that love her and that she loves back. She should not allow for herself any areas of conflict in any way. A woman should not communicate with those that she does not like, those people that we all have in our lives that are simply disagreeable. One of the worst mistakes a woman can do is to do something that she does not like or enjoy doing because this consumes a great amount of feminine energy which kills her spirit. This does not mean that you should not communicate at all as obviously this is quite impossible in today’s society. This refers to the fact that women should be very brief when discussing with someone unpleasant to them. When we try to make ourselves pleasant to other people we might dislike or find that we need to dissimulate we do not like them, we waste our feminine energy.

2. Lack of personal care and physical exercise to take care of our bodies. A woman that does not take care of herself cannot take care of anyone. It’s cheap to look decent and groomed and neat, tidy. A man will always admire a women that is elegant, that is well groomed, a woman that loves herself and that has respect for herself. When a woman fails to take care of herself, she won’t feel good with her own self, and her energy drops and she starts emanating negativity or she is rejected by other people. A woman has to shine and she must not blur herself by self damaging her own feminine power by not caring for herself.

3. Lack of emotions. Emotions belong to those that have a soul and feel all emotions. We all have emotions because we have a soul. Emotions cannot all the time be just positive. But you also have to be careful about who you let to see your painful spot as you might be vulnerable and they might hit you right there. Live your emotions. Women cry at movies, women laugh and express themselves and they must do this, and live fully, be cheerful, be positive, be alive and enjoy moments as this is something that makes a woman live in her energy, in her feminine power. Femininity is all about expressing yourself with no fear.

4. Women must have hobbies. Women must be creative, they need to create beauty, energy around them. Even if she is only cleaning the house or doing a hobby she is owning her creativity. She is doing that hobby to recharge herself. Expressing her creativity is filling up her energy with more feminine and positive energy. Lack of hobbies is a thing that can diminish and eventually kill a woman’s energy. If a woman does not create something, even as small as it may be, then her energy stagnates. Anything that a woman does with her own hands is called and it is tapping into her creativity. When she is creating something beautiful, whether that’s doing the dishes, planting a flower, anything at all feminine wise, when she does anything that is beautiful after she puts her effort into it, she becomes beautiful.

5 . The need to dominate and to rule is killing women’s feminine energy. When the woman has a responsible man aside her, she knows she can rely on him and she won’t have this urge to rule or do it herself. No matter how you think about it, there are things that are exclusive to men and things that are exclusive to women.

6. Women should not become slaves for their men. They need to respect themselves and yes, the woman maintains the relationship, the woman takes care of the home, the woman caters more for him, however, the man is the one that should bring in money and he should cater for her in other ways. But if she fails in this, if she is too picky with him, if she keeps on taking care of him as if he is incapable of doing so, treating him as a boy instead of a man, taking the role of the mother way too often, she will kill her energy, her femininity. No real man wishes to have beside him a slave that does it all. That’s why men rule and women obey. It’s more to talk here, but there is also the common sense and good manners code.

7. Women must be unique. Women should not compare themselves with other women as they kill their own energy by doing so. A woman should never see in another woman a rival, a potential threat to her home and that can only occur and be felt if the woman is fully accepting herself and embraces her own feminine power and her own unique feminine goddess energy. The reason this does not happen is because women, instead of being together, they hate each other, they want to be someone else, as they fear or they lack the knowledge to discover their own uniqueness. When women compare themselves with other women they consume a lot of energy.

8. A woman should not have the desire to fight for something to prove she is better, she is more beautiful and she is more intelligent. A woman does not need to prove this, and a woman should not feel she is competing with any other woman, as this activity only drains life out of a woman and our of her unique feminine energy.

9. A woman must communicate with other women. This is a powerful source of energy for a woman. Obviously, this is with who she likes to be around. A woman should have some very closed friends with whom she speaks as she takes a lot of energy by speaking with other females. Women can only gain this energy by being around and communicating to other women.

10. Lack of personal space and time. A woman must have time for herself, for her own businesses and dealings in life. Always make sure you do something for YOURSELF and not for others or for something or to someone to prove to, as mentioned a woman should not compete with other women and should not feel the need to compete because she is unique, different and perfect as she is, simply because she is taking care of herself and she is already doing everything that she enjoys, she is creative, she makes time for herself and for her hobbies and she is doing only what she likes.

Remember: The 2 most important days in your life are the one you are born and the day you find out why.

A million likes won’t make you like yourself. A flower does not cry when you do not notice it. Its worth was never dependant on your attention. It is beautiful whether you see it or not. You are that FLOWER. We, women are flowers. Pour all your love into you. Fall in love with yourself, again and again.

AS YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR ENERGY, YOUR ENERGY WILL TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.

Sometimes, what is meant for you, can’t find you because you are simply not being yourself. That’s why it’s important to tap into your own creative feminine divine power.

“Be the moon and inspire people, even when you’re far from full”, I read the other day.

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I have first heard about the connection between physical disease and emotions back in 2008 when I was still a student of Psychology. During that year, I became very passionate about Positive Psychology (soon I will be writing about it too) and a new interest or therapy, an alternative healing method named the Bach Flower Therapy, created by Edward Bach who was a doctor and a homeopath. The Bach Flower therapy relies on the fact that healing our emotions is relevant for overcoming our diseases.

If you need a brief overview regarding the Bach flower Therapies, have a read here.

The Bach flower Therapies seem to add up to the writings of Louise Hay. A bestselling author and a teacher by profession, Hay’s ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ have done a beautiful job at building connection between the physical diseases and the mental diseases. If in Bach flower therapy, flowers have the potential to heal our emotional challenges, in emotional causes of diseases and positive affirmations of Louise Hay, to heal these emotional challenges, we have the ability to heal ourselves. In her work, the premise is that our thoughts create what happens in our life, including our health issues. Her suggested remedy is to say affirmations to change our thought patterns, and therefore change the problems in our life. Bach flower therapy relies on including specific flower extracts to heal certain emotions that are connected to physical diseases. I think both these approaches can offer a wider perspective over healing and over mental and emotional states of mind. It can aid our understanding of ourselves which in turn helps a lot the understanding of disease, therefore clarifying our emotions and our thinking patterns, we can change our lives. It’s our underlying emotions that create our physical problems, as well as what happens in our life. It’s also our emotions that create the thoughts that we have. And it’s our resistance to feeling those emotions that causes the physical ailment to manifest.

If you are new to this idea of healing yourself with understanding your emotions and mental patterns and their impact on your physical symptoms, then I recommend you start your introductory reading with this blog post — Spiritual causes of diseases and illnesses — ( just in case the link doesn’t work, you can find it under my stories)

Louise M Hay is also known for her work regarding positive affirmations. I have written about this a couple of years back, in a post here and here too, if you wish to have a read and include in your healing.

Here’s a brief overview of Louise M Hay’s explanations relating to healing our bodies ailments with positive affirmations connected to healing the negative emotions and thoughts that have gathered in our hearts and minds in time.

ORGAN-WISE PROBLEM

Problems with the head: Feeling that something is wrong with “us”.

Hair problems: Lack of strength; tension.

Ear problems: Unwillingness to hear what’s going on around you; anger about what is heard.

Stomach problems: Inability to assimilate new experiences, fear of new ideas.

Neck problems: Stubbornness; inability to see the other side of the equation.

Throat problems: Feeling inadequate to stand for yourself; repressed anger; swallowing emotional hurt.

Back problems: Lack of support. Upper back: lack of emotional support, holding back love; Middle back: Guilt; Lower back: lack of financial support, fear of money.

Eye Problems: Not liking what you see in your life; Not wanting to see the past, present or the future; Not seeing Truth.

Knee problem: Inflexibility; stubbornness; inability to bend; ego.

Lung problems: Feeling that we do not have the right to live life fully.

Mouth problems: Incapacity to take ideas; closed mind; set opinions.

Nerve problems: Confused thinking; fear; struggle; anxiety.

Breast problems: Over-mothering a place, person, a thing or an experience.

Heart problems: Denying yourself joy and love.

Bladder problems: Being pissed off.

Colon problems: Inability to let go; holding on to the old.

Leg problems: Inability to move forward; reluctance for the future.

DISEASES/CONDITIONS

Allergies: Who are you allergic to? False ego and sensitivity

Cold: Confusion, dis-order, small hurts; Family and calendar beliefs.

Diabetes: Sense of sorrow; No sweetness in life.

Fatigue: Resistance, boredom; Lack of love for what you do.

Gas pains: Gripping undigested ideas; Gulping air from fear.

Headaches: Invalidating the self; emotional upsets; uncertainty.

Migraine: Putting too much pressure on yourself; wanting to be perfect; suppressed anger.

Sinus: Irritation with someone in your life; someone bearing down on you.

Itching: Unsatisfied desires; remorse; guilt.

Jaundice: Prejudice; discoloured beliefs.

Overweight: Need for protection; insecurity; seeking love; fear of loss; stuffing feelings.

Frequent pains: Punishment for guilt; blockage; belief in bondage.

Rheumatism: Resentment; lack of love; chronic bitterness; feeling of revenge.

Ulcers: Anxiety; fear of not being good enough.

Venereal disease: Belief that sex is sinful; sexual guilt; need for punishment.

Warts: Self-hatred; believing you are ugly; guilt.

Constipation: Inability to let go; tendency to over-save.

Varicose veins: Having to stand for a job you hate.

Arthritis: Constant pattern of criticism of self and others; need to be perfect.

Boils, cuts, fevers, sores, inflammations: Anger

Cancer: deep resentment for a long time; disappointment; hopelessness.

Stiffness: Stiffness in the mind; clinging to old ways.

Swelling: Stagnation in emotional thinking; bottled-up tears; blaming others for your limitations.

Tumours: Running old grudges; staying hurt for long time.

Here is a list of emotional causes of physical pain or diseases as a reference tool to understand the emotional root cause of an ailment. Below each listed ailment is an affirmation to recite to shift the energy and bring greater healing.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASE STARTING WITH A

ABDOMINAL CRAMPS: Fear. Stopping the process.

Affirmation: I trust the process of life. I am safe.

ABSCESS: Fermenting thoughts over hurts, slights and revenge.

Affirmation: I allow my thoughts to be free. The past is over. I am at peace.

ACCIDENTS: Inability to speak up for the self. Rebellion against authority. Belief in violence.

Affirmation: I release in me that created this. I am at Peace. I am worthwhile.

ACHES: Longing for love. Longing to be held.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. I am loving and lovable

ACNE: Not Accepting or disliking self.

Affirmation: I am a Divine expression of life. I love and accept myself where I am right now.

ADENOIDS: Family friction, arguments. Child feeling unwelcome, in a way.

Affirmation: This child is wanted and welcomed and deeply loved.

ADDICTIONS: Running away from self, Not facing the fear. Not knowing how to love the self.

Affirmation: I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.

ADDISON’S DISEASE: Severe emotional malnutrition. Anger at the self.

Affirmation: I lovingly take care of my body, my mind, and my emotions

ADRENAL PROBLEMS: Defeatism. No longer caring for the self. Anxiety.

Affirmation: I love & approve of myself. It is safe for me to care for myself.

AGING PROBLEMS: Social beliefs. Old thinking. Fear of being one’s self. Rejection of the now.

Affirmation: I love and accept myself at every age. Each moment in life is perfect.

AIDS: Feeling defenceless and hopeless. A strong belief in not being good enough. Denial of the true inner being, or sexual guilt

Affirmation: I am Divine, Magnificent expression of Life. I rejoice in my sexuality. I rejoice in all that i am. I love myself.

ALCOHOLISM / ABUSE: Futility, guilt, inadequacy, self-rejection

Affirmation: I live in the now. Each moment is new. I choose to see my self-worth. I love and approve of myself.

ALLERGY & HAY-FEVER: You are allergic to someone who or yourself denies your power. Irritated to Life.

Affirmation: The world is safe and friendly. I am safe. I am at peace with life.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: Desire to leave the planet. The inability to face life as it is.

Affirmation: Everything happens in the right time, space, sequence. Divine right action is taking place at all times.

AMNESIA: Fear. Running from life. Inability to stand up for the self.

Affirmation: Intelligence, courage and self-worth are always present. It is safe to be alive.

ANAEMIA: Yes but, Attitude. Lack of Joy. Fear of Life. Feeling not good enough.

Affirmation: It is safe for me to experience joy in every area of my life. I love life.

ANKLE PROBLEMS: Inflexibility and guilt. Inability to receive pleasure/ Represent mobility & Direction

Affirmation: I deserve to rejoice in life. I accept all the pleasure life has to offer. I move forward easily in life.

ANORECTAL BLEEDING: Anger & Frustration.

Affirmation: I trust the process of life. Only right and good action is taking place in my life.

ANOREXIA: Denying the self and life. Extreme fear of rejection.

Affirmation: It is safe for me. I am wonderful just as I am. I choose joy and self-acceptance.

ANUS: Releasing point. Dumping ground.

Affirmation: I easily and comfortably release that which is no longer needed in life.

ANUS/ ABSCESS: Anger in relation to what you don’t want to release.

Affirmation: It is safe to let go. Only that which I no longer need leaves my life.

ANUS BLEEDING: (See ANORECTAL Bleeding)

ANUS, FISTULA: Incomplete releasing of trash. Holding onto garbage of the past.

Affirmation: It is with love that I totally release the past. I am free. I am love.

ANUS, ITCHING: Guilt over the past. Remorse.

Affirmation: I lovingly forgive myself. I am free.

ANUS PAIN: Guilt. Desire for punishment. Not good enough.

Affirmation: The past is over. I choose to love and approve of myself in the now.

ANXIETY / NERVOUSNESS: Distrust the natural flow & process of life.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself and I trust in the process of life. I am safe.

APATHY: Resistance to feeling. Deadening of the self. Fear.

Affirmation: It is safe to feel. I am open myself to life. I am willing to experience life.

APPENDICITIS: Fear. Fear of life. Blocking the flow of good.

Affirmation: I am safe & relax. I let life flow joyously.

APPETITE, EXCESSIVE: Fear. Needing protection. Judging the emotions.

Affirmation: I am safe. It is safe to feel. My feelings are normal & acceptable.

APPETITE, LOSS OF: Fear. Protecting the self. Distrusting life.

Affirmation: I love & approve of myself. I am safe. Life is safe & joyous.

ARM PROBLEMS: Represent the capacity & ability to hold the experience of life.

Affirmation: I lovingly hold & embrace my experiences with ease & joy.

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS: Resistance, tension. Hardened narrow-mindedness. Refusing to see good.

Affirmation: I am completely open to life and to joy. I choose to see with love.

ARTERIES: Carry the joy of life.

Affirmation: I am filled with joy. It flows through me with every beat of my heart.

ARTHRITIS: Feeling unloved, criticism, resentment, bitterness. Feeling not good enough.

Affirmation: I am love. I now choose to love and approve of myself. I see others with love.

ARTHRITIC FINGERS: A desire to punish. Blame. Feeling victimized.

Affirmation: I see with love & understanding. I hold all my experiences up to the light of love.

ASPHYXIATING ATTACKS: Fear. Distrusting the life. Stuck in childhood.

Affirmation: It is safe to grow up. The world is safe. I am safe.

ASTHMA: Unresolved guilt. Smother love. Inability to breathe for one’s self. Feeling stifled. Suppressed crying.

Affirmation: It is safe now for me to take charge of my own life. I choose to be free.

ATHLETE’S FOOT: Frustration at not being accepted. Inability to move forward with ease.

Affirmations: I love and approve of myself. I give permission myself to go ahead. It’s safe to move.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASE STARTING WITH B

BACKS: Represent the support of life.

Affirmation: I know that life always supports me.

BACK PROBLEMS:

- UPPER: Lack of emotional support, or feeling unloved.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. Life supports and loves me.

- MIDDLE: Guilt. Stuck in all that stuff back there or get off my back.

Affirmation: I release the past. I am free to move forward with love in my heart.

- LOWER: Financial woes and concerns. Fear of money. Lack of financial support.

Affirmation: I trust the process of life. All I need is taken care of. I am safe.

BABY ASTHMA: Fear of life. Not wanting to be here.

Affirmation: The child is safe and loved. The child is welcomed & cherished.

BAD BREATH: Anger & Revenge thoughts. Experiences backing up.

Affirmation: I release the past with love. I choose to voice only love.

BALANCE, LOSS OF: Scattered thinking. Not centred.

Affirmation: I centre myself in safety and accept the perfection of my life. All is well.

BALDNESS: Fear, tension. Trying to control everything and not trusting in the process of life.

Affirmation: I am safe. I love and approve of myself. I trust life.

BED-WETTING: Fear of parent. Usually Father

Affirmation: This child is seen with love, with compassion & with understanding. All is well.

BELCHING: Fear, gulping life too quickly.

Affirmation: There is time & space for everything i need to do. I am at peace.

BIRTH DEFECTS: Karmic. You selected to come out that way. We choose our parents.

Affirmation: Every experience is perfect for our growth process. I am at peace with where I am.

BLACKHEADS (Pimples): Feeling Dirty and Unloved

Affirmation: I love & approve of myself. I am loving and lovable.

BLADDER PROBLEMS: Anxiety. Holding on to old ideas. Fear of letting go. Being pissed off.

Affirmation: I comfortably and easily release the old and welcome the new in my life. I am safe.

BLEEDING: Joy running out. Anger, But where?

Affirmation: I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.

BLEEDING GUMS: Lack of joy in the decisions made in life.

Affirmation: I trust that right actions are always taking place in my life. I am at peace.

BLISTERS: Resistance. Lack of emotional protection.

Affirmation: I gently flow with life and each new experience. All is well.

BLOOD: Represents joy in the body, flowing freely.

Affirmation: I am the joy of life expressing and receiving.

BLOOD PROBLEMS: Lack of joy. Lack of circulation ideas.

Affirmation: Joyous new ideas are circulating freely within me.

- Anaemic: (SEE ANAEMIA)

- Blood Clotting: Closing down the flow of joy.

Affirmation: I awaken new life within me. I flow.

BLOOD PRESSURE:

- HIGH (Hypertension): Longstanding emotional problems not solved.

Affirmation: I joyously release the past. I am at peace.

- LOW: Lack of love as a child. Defeatism. “What’s the use? It won’t work anyway.”

Affirmation: I now choose to live in the ever-joyous NOW. My life is a joy.

BODY ODOR: Fear. Dislike of the self. Fear of others.

Affirmation: I love approve of myself. I am safe.

BOILS: Anger, boiling over. Seething.

Affirmation: I express love and joy. I am at peace.

BONES: Represent the structure of the universe.

Affirmation: I am well-structured and balanced.

BONE PROBLEMS:

- BREAKS: Rebelling against authority.

Affirmation: I am the only authority in my world for I am the only one who thinks in my mind.

- DEFORMITY: Mental pressure and tightness. Muscles can’t stretch. Loss of mental mobility.

Affirmation: I breathe in life fully. I relax and trust the flow and process of life.

BOWEL: Represents the release of waste. Fear of letting go of the old and no longer needed.

Affirmation: I freely and easily release the old and joyously welcome the new.

BRAIN: Represents the computer, the switchboard.

TUMOR: Incorrect computerized beliefs. Stubborn. Refusing to change the old patterns.

Affirmation: It is easy for me to reprogram the computer of my mind. All of life is change & my life is ever new.

BREAST: Represents mothering & nurturing.

Affirmation: I take in & give out nourishment in perfect balance.

BREAST (left): Feeling unloved, refusal to nourish oneself. Putting everyone else first.

Affirmation: I am loved and nourished by all around me.

BREAST (right): Over protection, over bearing, difficulty in giving love.

Affirmation: I embrace and trust life knowing that I am safe and loved. I choose to love and be loved.

BREAST PROBLEMS -Cysts, Lumps, Soreness: Over mothering, Over protection, Over bearing attitudes. Cutting off nourishment.

Affirmation: I am free to be me & i allow others the freedom to be who they are. It is safe for all of us to grow up.

BREATH: Represents the ability to take in life.

BREATHING PROBLEMS: Fear or the refusal to take in life. Not feeling worthy to take up space.

Affirmation: It is my birth right to live fully and freely. I am worth loving. I now choose to live life fully.

BRIGHT’S DISEASE: Feeling like a kid who can’t do it right & isn’t good enough. A failure. Loss.

Affirmation: I love & approve of myself. I care for me. I totally adequate at all times.

BRONCHITIS: Inflamed family environment. Arguments and yelling. Rarely silent.

Affirmation: I experience peace and harmony within myself and all around me. All is well.

BRUISES: Self-punishment.

Affirmation: I love and cherish myself. I am kind and gentle with myself. All is well.

BULIMIA: Hopeless terror. Purging self-hatred.

Affirmation: I am loved, nourished and supported by life. It is safe for me to be alive.

BURNS: Anger, burning up inside.

Affirmation: I create only peace and harmony within myself and in my environment. I deserve to feel good.

BURSITIS: Repressed anger. Wanting to hit someone.

Affirmation: Love relaxes & releases all unlike itself.

BUTTOCKS: Represents power. Loose buttocks, Loss of power.

Affirmation: I use my power wisely. I am strong. I feel safe. All is well.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASE STARTING WITH C

CALLUSES: Hardened concepts & Ideas. Fear solidified.

Affirmation: It is safe to see & experience new ideas & new ways. I am open & receptive to good.

CANKER SORES: Festering words held back by the lips. Blame

Affirmation: I create only joyful experiences in my loving world.

CANCER: What’s eating at you? Deep hurt, secret or grief. Long Standing Resentment.

Affirmation: I lovingly forgive and release all of the past. I choose to fill my life with joy. I love and approve of myself.

CARBUNCLE: Poisonous anger about personal injustices.

Affirmation: I release the past and allow love to heal every area of my life.

CAR SICKNESS: Fear. Bondage. Feeling of being trapped.

Affirmation: I move with ease through time & space, only love surrounds me.

CARPAL TUNNEL: Anger and frustrations at life’s seeming injustices.

Affirmation: I now choose to create a life that is abundant. I am at ease.

CATARACTS: Inability to see ahead with joy. Dark future.

Affirmation: Life is eternal & filled with joy. I look forward to every moment.

CHILDHOOD DISEASES: Belief in calendars, social concepts, and false laws. Childish behaviour in the adults around them.

Affirmation: The child is Divinely protected & surrounded by Love. We claim mental immunity.

CHILLS: Mental contraction. Pulling away & in. Desire to retreat

Affirmation: I am safe & secure at all times. Love surrounds me & protects me. All is well.

CHRONIC DISEASES: A refusal to change. Fear of the future. Not feeling safe.

Affirmation: I am willing to change & to grow. I create a safe new future.

CHOLESTEROL (High): Clogging the channels of joy.

Affirmation: I choose to love life. My channels of Joy are wide open. It is safe to receive.

CIRCULATION: Lack of joy or the lack of circulation of ideas.

Affirmation: Joyous new ideas are circulating freely within me

COLDS: Too much going on at once. Mental confusion and disorder.

Affirmation: I allow my mind to relax and be at peace. Clarity and harmony are within me and all around me.

COLD SORES: Festering angry words and fear of expressing them.

Affirmation: I only create peaceful experiences because I love myself. All is well.

COLIC: Mental irritation. Annoyance with surroundings

Affirmation: This child only responds to love and loving thoughts. All is peaceful.

COLITIS: Over-exacting parents. Feeling of oppression & defeat. Great need for affection

Affirmation: I love & approve of myself. I create my own joy. I choose to be a winner in life.

COMA: Fear. Trying to escape from something or someone.

Affirmation: We surround you with safety and love. We create a space for you to heal. You are loved.

CONJUNCTIVITIS: Anger & Frustration at what you are looking in at life.

Affirmation: I see with eyes of love. There is a harmonious solution & i accept it now.

CONSTIPATION: Refusing to release old ideas

Affirmation: As I release the past, the new and fresh and vital enter. I allow life to flow through me.

CORONARY THROMBOSIS: Feeling alone & Scared. Not good enough. Don’t do enough. Will never make it.

Affirmation: I am one with all life. The universe totally supports me. All is well.

COUGHS: A desire to bark at the world. “Listen to me!”

Affirmation: I am noticed and appreciated in the most positive ways. I am loved.

CRAMPS: Tension. Fear. Gripping. Holding on.

Affirmation: I relax & allow my mind to be peaceful.

CROUP: (SEE BRONCHITIS)

CRYING: Tears are the river of life. Shed in joy as well as sadness and fear.

Affirmation: I am peaceful with all of my emotions. I love & approve of myself.

CUSHING’S DISEASE: Mental imbalance. Over production of crushing ideas. A feeling of being over-powered

Affirmation: I lovingly balance my mind & my body. I now choose thoughts that make me feel good.

CUTS: Punishment for not following your own rules.

Affirmation: I create a life filled with rewards.

CYSTS: Running the old painful movie. Nursing hurts. A false growth.

Affirmation: The movies of my mind are beautiful because I choose to make them so. I love me.

CYSTIC FIBROSIS: A thick belief that life won’t work for you. Poor me.

Affirmation: I love life & life loves me. I now choose to take in life fully and freely.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASE STARTING WITH D

DEPRESSION: Anger, hopelessness.

Affirmation: I now go beyond other people’s fears and limitations. I create my own life.

DIABETES: Longing for what might have been. No sweetness left in life.

Affirmation: This moment is filled with joy. I now choose to experience the sweetness of today.

DIARRHEA: Fear and rejecting. Running off or away from something/someone.

Affirmation: My intake, assimilation and elimination are in perfect order. I am at peace with life.

DIZZINESS: Flighty, scattered thinking.

Affirmation: I am deeply centred and at peace with life. It is safe for me to be alive and joyous.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASE STARTING WITH E

EAR PROBLEMS: Not wanting to hear. Anger or too much turmoil

Affirmation: I hear with Love

ELBOW PROBLEMS: Not being flexible, not able to change directions or accept new experiences.

Affirmation: I easily flow with new experiences, new directions and new changes.

EYE (Astigmatism): Fear of “seeing” the self.

Affirmation: I am now willing to see my own beauty and magnificence.

EYES (Cataracts): Inability to see ahead with joy.

Affirmation: Life is eternal and filled with Joy

EYE PROBLEMS: (Children): Not wanting to see what’s going on in the family.

Affirmation: Harmony and joy and beauty and safety now surround the child.

EYE (Farsighted): Fear of the present.

Affirmation: I am safe in the here and now. I see that clearly

EYE (Near-sighted): Fear of the future.

Affirmation: I accept life and am always safe

EYE STY: Looking at life through angry eyes. Angry at someone.

Affirmation: I choose to see everyone and everything with joy and love.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASE STARTING WITH F

FAINTING: Fear, can’t cope, blacking out what’s really going on.

Affirmation: I am strong and powerful and I have the knowledge and ability to handle everything in my life

FEET PROBLEMS: Fear of the future or not wanting to move forward.

Affirmation: I understand clearly and I am willing to change with the times. I am safe.

FEMALE PROBLEMS: Denial of the self and rejecting the feminine aspects within.

Affirmation: I rejoice in the feminine. I love being a woman and I love my body

FEVERS and INFECTIONS: Anger, burning up.

Affirmation: I am the cool, calm expression of peace and love

FIBROID’S: Nursing a hurt from a partner, a blow to the feminine ego

Affirmation: I release the pattern in me that attracted this experience. I create only good in my life.

FINGER (Thumb): Worry, always thinking. Being ‘under someone’s thumb’.

Affirmation: My mind is at peace

FINGER (Index): Fear of authority, or egotistical; abusing your authority.

Affirmation: I am secure

FLU: Responding to mass negativity. Putting too much faith in statistics.

Affirmation: I am beyond group beliefs or the calendar. I am free from all congestion and influence.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH G

GAS PAIN (Flatulence): Undigested ideas or concerns.

Affirmation: I relax and let life flow through me with ease.

GRAY HAIR: Stress, feeling under pressure and strain.

Affirmation: I am strong and capable. I am at peace and comfortable in every area of my life.

GUM PROBLEMS: Inability to back up decisions. Being wish-washy about life.

Affirmation: I am a decisive person. I follow through and support myself with love

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH H

HAND PROBLEMS: Grasping on to tight, not wanting to let go. Not ‘handling’ things well.

Affirmation: I choose to handle all my experiences with love and with joy and with ease.

HEADACHE: Self-criticism. Not wanting to accept what is going on.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. I see myself and what I do with eyes of love. I am safe.

HEART ATTACK: Squeezing all the joy out of life, in favour of money or position.

Affirmation: I bring joy back to the centre of my heart. I express love to all.

HEARTBURN (Re-flux): Clutching onto fear. Not trusting in the process of life.

Affirmation: I breathe freely and fully. I am safe. I trust the process of life.

HEART PROBLEMS: Lack of joy, dealing with issues from anger, not love.

Affirmation: My heart beats to the rhythm of love.

HEMORRHOIDS: Fear of deadlines. Afraid to let go and move on.

Affirmation: I release all that is unlike love. There is time and space for everything I want to do.

HERNIA: Ruptured relationships, feeling the burdens.

Affirmation: My mind is cleansed and free. I leave the past and move into the new. All is well.

HIP PROBLEMS: Fear of going forward in major decisions.

Affirmation: I am in perfect balance. I move forward in life with ease and with joy at every age.

HIVES (rash or Urticaria): Small, hidden fears. Mountains out of molehills.

Affirmation: I bring peace to every corner of my life.

HYPERACTIVITY: Feeling pressured and frantic.

Affirmation: I am safe. All pressure dissolves. I AM good enough.

HYPERVENTILATION: Resisting change. Not being able to take it all in.

Affirmation: I am safe everywhere in the Universe. I love myself and trust the process of life.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH I

IMPOTENCE: Sexual guilt or pressure, feeling spite against a previous mate.

Affirmation: I now allow the full power of my sexuality to flow with ease and with joy.

INDIGESTION: Dread or anxiety about a recent or coming event.

Affirmation: I digest and assimilate all new experiences peacefully and joyously.

INFECTION: Irritation, anger or annoyance about a recent situation.

Affirmation: I choose to be peaceful and harmonious.

INSOMNIA: It is associated with feelings of fear and guilt and not trusting the process of life. Anxiety issues.

Affirmation: I lovingly release the day and slip into peaceful sleep, knowing tomorrow will take of itself.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH K

KIDNEY PROBLEMS: Criticism, disappointment, failure. Shame. Reacting like a little kid.

Affirmation: [Divine] Right is always taking place in my life. Only good comes from each experience. It is safe to grow up.

KIDNEY STONES: Lumps of un-dissolved anger.

Affirmation: I dissolve all past problems with ease.

KNEE PROBLEMS: Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Inflexibility. Won’t give in.

Affirmation: Forgiveness. Understanding. Compassion. I bend, flow with ease & all is well.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH L

LARYNGITIS: Fear of speaking up.

Affirmation: I am flexible and flowing

LEFT SIDE OF BODY: The feminine side. Represents receptivity, taking in, women, mother, and love.

Affirmation: My feminine energy is beautifully balanced.

LEG PROBLEMS: Fear of the future, not being able to carry things forward.

Affirmation: I move forward with confidence and joy, knowing that all is well in my future.

LIVER PROBLEMS: (Hepatitis) Resistance to change. Fear, anger, and hatred. Liver is the seat of anger and rage.

Affirmation: My mind is cleansed & free. I leave the past & move into the new. All is well.

LUNG PROBLEMS: Depression, grief or fear of life. Not feeling worthy.

Affirmation: I have the capacity to take in the fullness of life. I lovingly live life to the full

LUPUS: A giving up. Better to die than stand up for one’s self. Anger and punishment.

Affirmation: I speak up for myself freely and easily. I claim my own power. I love and approve of myself. I am free and safe.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH M

MENOPAUSE: Fear of no longer being wanted.

Affirmation: I am balanced and peaceful in all changes of cycles and know that I am loved.

MENTAL ALERTNESS & SENILITY: Returning to the “safety” of childhood. Demanding care and attention.

Affirmation: I am safe and life is peaceful. The intelligence of the Universe operates at every level of life.

MIGRAINE HEADACHE: Sexual fears, or fear of being close, letting someone in too close. Feeling driven or pressured.

Affirmation: I relax into the flow of life and let life provide all that I need easily and comfortably. I love Life!

MENSTRUAL IMBALANCE/PMS: Rejection of one’s femininity. Guilt or feeling “dirty”.

Affirmation: My bodily processes are a natural part of life. I love and approve of myself.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH N

NAUSEA: Fear, rejecting an idea or experience.

Affirmation: I am safe. I trust the process of life to bring only good to me.

NECK PROBLEMS: Refusing to see another’s side or position. Stubbornness. Who/what is being a pain in the neck?

Affirmation: It is in flexibility that I see.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH O

OSTEOPOROSIS: Feeling there is no support left in life.

Affirmation: I stand up for myself and Life supports me in unexpected, loving ways.

OVERWEIGHT: Fear, feeling a deep need for emotional protection. Running away from feelings, insecurity. Over sensitivity. Often represents fear and shows a need for protection. Fear may be a cover for hidden anger and a resistance to forgive. Running away from feelings. Insecurity, self-rejection and seeking fulfilment.

Weight issues at certain areas of Body:

- Arms: Anger at being denied love.

- Belly: Anger at being denied nourishment.

- Hips: Lumps of stubborn anger at the parents.

- Thighs: Packed childhood anger. Often rage at the father.

Affirmation: I am at peace with my own feelings. I am safe where I am. I create my own security. I love and approve of myself.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH P

PAIN: Self-punishment, feeling emotional guilt.

Affirmation: I lovingly release the past. They are free and I am free. All is well in my heart now.

PANCREAS: Represents the sweetness of life.

PANCREATITIS: Rejection. Anger and frustration because life seems to have lost its sweetness.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself and I alone create sweetness and joy in my life.

PARALYSIS: Fear, Terror. Escaping a situation or a person. Resistance.

Affirmation: I am one with all of life. I am safe and I behave totally adequate for all situations.

PARKINSON’S DISEASE: Fear and intense desire to control everything and everyone.

Affirmation: I relax knowing that I’m safe. Life is with me and I trust the process of life.

PEPTIC ULCER: Fear. A belief that you are not good enough. Anxious to please.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. I am at peace with myself. I am wonderful.

PHLEBITIS: Anger and frustration. Blaming others for the limitation and lack of joy in life.

Affirmation: Joy now flows freely within me and I am at peace with life.

PILES: See Haemorrhoids.

PINK EYE: Anger and frustration. Not wanting to see.

Affirmation: I release the need to be right. I am at peace. I love and approve of myself.

PITUITARY GLAND: Represents the control centre.

Affirmation: My mind and body are in perfect balance.

PLANTAR WART: Anger at the very basis of your understanding. Spreading frustration about the future.

Affirmation: I move forward with confidence and ease. I trust and flow with the process of life.

PNEUMONIA: Desperate. Tired of life. Emotional wounds that are not allowed to heal.

Affirmation: I freely take in Divine ideas, which are filled with the breath and the intelligence of life. This is a new moment.

POLIO: Paralyzing jealousy. A desire to stop someone.

Affirmation: There is enough for everyone. I create my good and my freedom with loving thoughts.

POST NASAL DRIP: Inner crying. Childish tears. Victim.

Affirmation: I acknowledge and accept that I am the creative power in my world. I now choose to enjoy my life.

(P.M.S) POST MENSTRUAL SYNDROME: Allowing confusion to reign. Giving power to outside influences. Rejection of the feminine processes.

Affirmation: I now take charge of my mind and my life. I am powerful, dynamite woman. Every part of my body functions perfectly. I love me.

PSORIASIS: Fear of being hurt. Deadening the senses and the senses. Refusing to accept responsibility for our own feelings.

Affirmation: I am alive to the joys of living. I deserve and accept the very best in life. I love and approve of myself.

PROSTATE: Represents the masculine principle.

Affirmation: I accept and rejoice in my masculinity

PROSTATE PROBLEMS: Mental fears weakening the masculinity. Sexual pressure and feelings of guilt or inadequacy.

Affirmation: I accept my own power. I embrace life and feel young in spirit. I love and approve of myself.

PUBIC BONE: Represents protection.

PUBIC HAIR: Represents both attraction and hiding. Neither children nor the elderly has pubic hair.

PYORRHOEA: Anger at the inability to make decisions. Wishy-washy people.

Affirmation: I approve of myself and my decisions are always perfect for me.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH Q

QUINSY: A strong belief that you cannot speak up for yourself and ask for your needs.

Affirmation: It is my birth right to have my needs met. I now ask for what I want with love and with ease.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH R

RABIES: Anger. A belief that violence is the answer.

Affirmation: I am surrounded indwelled with peace.

RASH: Irritation over delays. A babyish way to get attention.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. I am at peace with the process of life.

RESPIRATORY AILMENTS: Fear of taking in life fully.

Affirmation: I am safe. I love my life.

RHEUMATISM: Feeling victimised. Lack of love. Chronic bitterness. Resentment.

Affirmation: I create my own experiences. As I love and approve of myself and others, it gets better and better.

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: Deep criticism of authority. Feeling very put upon.

Affirmation: I am my own authority. I love and approve of myself. Life is good.

RICKETS: Emotional malnutrition. Lack of love and security.

Affirmation: I am secured and nourished by the love of the Universe itself.

RIGHT SIDE OF BODY: Giving out, letting go, masculine energy, men, the father.

Affirmation: I balance my masculine energy easily and effortlessly.

RINGWORM: Allowing others to get under your skin. Not feeling good enough or clean enough.

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. No person, place or thing has any power over me. I am free.

ROUND SHOULDERS: Carrying the burdens of life. Helpless and hopeless.

Affirmation: I stand up and free. I love and approve of myself. My life gets better every day.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH S

SAGGING LINES: Sagging lines on face comes from sagging thoughts in the mind. Resentment of life.

Affirmation: I express the joy of living & allow myself to totally enjoy every moment of every day. I become young again.

SCABIES: Infected thinking. Allowing others to get under your skin.

Affirmation: I am the living, loving, joyous expression of life. I am on my own 2 feet.

SCIATICA: Being hypocritical. Fear of money & of the future.

Affirmation: I move into my better mood. My good is everywhere and I am safe and secure.

SCOLIOSIS: See Round Shoulders

SCRATCHES: Feeling life tears at you, that life is a rip-off.

Affirmation: I am grateful for my life’s generosity to me. I am blessed.

SEA SICKNESS: Fear. Fear of Death. Lack of control.

Affirmation: I am totally safe in the Universe. I am at peace everywhere. I trust life.

SENILITY: Returning to the so-called safety of childhood. Demanding care & attention. A form of control those around you. Escapism.

Affirmation: Divine protection. Safety. Peace. The intelligence of the Universe operates at every level of life.

SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA: A belief that one is not good enough that destroys the very joy of life.

Affirmation: The child lives and breathes the joy of life and is nourished by love. God works miracles every day.

SEIZURES: Running away from the self, family or from life.

Affirmation: I am at home in the Universe. I am safe and secure and understood.

SHOULDERS: Are meant to carry joy not burdens.

SHOULDER PROBLEMS: Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. Feeling like life is a burden.

Affirmation: I choose to allow all of my experiences to be joyous and loving.

SHINGLES: Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Fear & tension. Too sensitive.

Affirmation: I am relaxed & peaceful because I trust the process of life. All is well in my world.

SINUS PROBLEMS: Irritation to someone, usually someone close to you.

Affirmation: I choose to declare peace and harmony with all the individuals around me. I surround myself with love and goodwill.

SKIN: Protects our individuality. A sense organ.

SKIN CONDITIONS: Anxiety, fear, feeling threatened. Old buried guck.

Affirmation: I lovingly protect myself with thoughts of joy and peace. The past is forgiven & forgotten. I am free in this moment.

SLIPPED DISK: Feeling unsupported in life.

Affirmation: Life supports all of my thoughts; therefore, I love and approve of myself and all is well.

SOLAR PLEXUS: Ignoring ‘gut reactions’, or your own intuitions.

Affirmation: I trust my inner voice. I am strong, wise and powerful.

SORE THROAT: Holding in angry words. Feeling unable to express the self.

Affirmation: I release all restrictions, and I am free to be me.

SNORING: Stubborn refusal to let go of old patterns.

Affirmation: I release all that is unlike love and joy in my mind. I move from the past into the new and fresh and vital.

SPASMS: I release all restrictions, and I am free to be me.

Affirmation: I release, I relax and let go. I am safe in life.

SPINE: Flexible support of life.

Affirmation: I am supported by life.

SPINAL CURVATURE: The inability to flow with the support of life. Fear and trying to hold onto new ideas. Distrusting life. Lack of integrity. No courage of convictions.

Affirmation: I release all fears. I now trust the process of life. I know that life is for me. I stand up for love.

SPLEEN: Obsessions. Being obsessed about things.

Affirmation: I love & approve of myself. I trust the process of life to be there for me. I am safe. All is well

SPRAINS: Anger & Resistance. Not wanting to move in a certain direction in life.

Affirmation: I trust the process of life to take me only to my highest good. I am at peace.

STERILITY: Fear & resistance to the process of life. Not needing to go through the parenting experience.

Affirmation: I trust in the process of life. I am always in the right place, doing the right thing at the right time. I love & approve of myself.

STIFFNESS: Rigid, stiff thinking.

Affirmation: I am safe enough to be flexible in my mind.

STIFF NECK: Un-bending bull-headedness

Affirmation: It is safe to see other viewpoints.

STOMACH: Holds nourishment. Digest ideas & feelings.

Affirmation: I digest life experiences with ease.

STOMACH and INTESTINAL PROBLEMS: Dread, fear of the new, or not feeling nourished.

Affirmation: Life agrees with me. I assimilate the new every moment of everyday. All is well. I relax and allow my mind to be peaceful.

STROKE: Insecurity, lack of self-expression. Not being allowed to cry.

Affirmation: Life is change, and I adapt easily to the new. I accept life — past, present and future.

STUTTERING: Insecurity. Lack of expression. Not being allowed to cry.

Affirmation: I am free to speak up for myself. I am now secure in my own Expression. I only communicate with Love.

SWELLING: Being stuck in thinking. Clogged, painful ideas.

Affirmation: My thoughts flow freely & easily. I move through ideas with ease.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH T

TAPEWORM: Strong belief in being a victim & unclean. Helpless to the seeming attitudes of others.

Affirmation: Others only reflect the good feelings I have about myself. I love & approve of all that I am.

TETANUS: A need to release angry festering thoughts.

Affirmation: I allow the love from my own heart to wash through me and cleanse and heal every part of my body & my emotions.

TEETH PROBLEMS: Being indecisive, not being able to break down ideas for analysis and decisions.

Affirmation: I make my decisions based on the principles of truth, and I rest assured knowing that only the right action is taking place in my life.

TINNITUS: Refusal to listen. Not hearing the inner voice. Stubbornness.

Affirmation: I trust my higher self. I listen with love to my inner voice. I release all that is not the action of love.

TESTICULAR PROBLEMS: Not accepting masculine principles, or the masculinity within.

Affirmation: I am accepting masculine principles, or the masculinity within me.

THROAT: Avenue of expression. Channel of Creativity.

THROAT PROBLEMS: The inability to speak up for oneself. Swallowed anger. Stifled creativity. Refusal to change.

Affirmation: Its okay to make noise. I express myself freely & joyously. I speak up for myself with ease. I express my creativity. I am willing to change.

THRUSH (VAGINAL INFECTION): Feeling sexually abused or exploited. Feelings of guilt, shame or repressed sexual feelings, or being intimate with the wrong person.

Affirmation: I let go off my past; I am free and feeling good about myself. I am doing right things at present.

THYROID PROBLEMS: Humiliation. Feeling repressed or put down. Feeling as if you never get to do what you want.

Affirmation: I move beyond old limitations and allow myself to express freely and creatively.

TONSILLITIES: Fear. Repressed emotions. Stifled Creativity.

Affirmation: My good now flows freely. Divine ideas express through me. I am at peace.

TOES: Represents the minor details of the future.

Affirmation: All details take care of themselves.

TUBERCULOSIS: Wasting away from selfishness. Possessive. Cruel thoughts. Revenge

Affirmation: As I love & approve of myself, I create a joyful, peaceful world to live in.

TUMORS: Nursing old hurts and shocks. Building on remorse.

Affirmation: I lovingly release the past and turn my attention to this new day.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH U

ULCERS: Fear, a strong belief that you are not good enough. “What is eating away at you?”

Affirmation: I love and approve of myself. I am at peace. I am calm.

URINARY PROBLEMS: Feeling pissed off! Usually at the opposite sex or lover.

Affirmation: I release the pattern in my consciousness that created this condition. I am willing to change. I love and approve of myself.

UTERUS: Represents the home of creativity.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH V

VAGINITIS: Anger at mate. Sexual guilt. Punishing the self.

Affirmation: Others mirror the love and self-approval I have for myself. I rejoice in my sexuality.

VARICOSE VEINS: Standing in a situation you hate. Feeling over worked and overburdened.

Affirmation: I stand in truth and live and move in joy. I love life, and circulate freely.

VENERAL DISEASE: Sexual guilt. Need for punishment. Belief that the genitals are sinful or dirty.

Affirmation: I loving & joyously accept my sexuality & its expression.

VERTIGO: Flighty, Scattered thinking. A refusal to look.

Affirmation: I am deeply centred and peaceful in life. I am safe for me to be alive and joyous.

VITILIGO: Not belonging. Feeling completely outside of things. Not one of the groups.

Affirmation: I am the very centre of life and I am totally connected in love.

VULVA: Represents vulnerability.

EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF DISEASES STARTING WITH W

WARTS: Little expression of hate. Belief in ugliness.

Affirmation: I am the love and the beauty of life in full expression.

WISDOM TOOTH IMPACTED: Not giving mental space to create a firm foundation.

Affirmation: I open my consciousness to the expansion of life. There is plenty of space for me to grow and change.

WRIST: Represents movements and ease.

Affirmation: I handle all my experiences with wisdom, with love and ease.

I hope that this list of emotional sources of disease helps you. Low-frequency emotions are the primary way that we weaken our energetic field, lowering our immune system such that disease states may develop. If you look within, you will discover that your inner voice and feelings hold some of the answers to healing the physical body. Better understanding our emotions and knowing how to express them safely helps you to align with healthier outcomes. This list is based on the work of Louise Hay and featured in her book, Heal Your Body.

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How many of us can accept the idea that disease is the result of a way of thinking that is not beneficial to us and can also be because we have accumulated a cocktail of negative emotions that weaken our immune system?

How much or how can we live with this acceptance when we are ill or confronting with a disease and its symptoms? Even though it may sound hard to accept that there is something else behind the disease and that this disease can actually help you to become a better person, to resolve certain wrong thinking patterns, to give up bad habits from the past — forced by the disease itself and forced by what this disease is limiting you to do — step by step, you start not only, to heal yourself but you also help the medicines to work much better and faster with your mind and your soul and after you overcome it, you become a much wiser person and have more harmonious relationships with people.

The more we live, the more we experience. We get a cold, a flu, viruses and bacteria, we hurt ourselves daily, as children we experience harm more often. The supreme cause of all disease can be found in the realm of the other dimension — in the same regions from which the disease extracts its initial power to harm us. For that reason, it is important to understand that it is not sufficient to just annihilate the effect of the disease, but to also heal the root cause of it, that is the spiritual and emotional cause. There are 3 classic causes of disease. These are interior negative moods, which appear in us because of our traumatic or negative life experiences.

The first is the lack of harmony.

Lack of harmony is what we experience when life suddenly loses its meaning, or when we lose the important connection with life itself. As an example, let’s think of an elderly couple. After a very long marriage, suddenly, one of them dies. It’s possible that they may not had had a perfect relationship. Even so, between them, there was a beautiful connection, the liaison appeared due to everything beautiful they both got involved into. The partner that survived may go into a crisis because they lost their partner, and shortly, he/she may develop an illness that would make them disappear from Earth too. This is lack of harmony.

The state of lack of harmony that people might experience as a reaction to these type of life experiences, results in a diminishing of personal power. This happens all of a sudden, on one hand, and on the other hand, it can also be catastrophic, because it’s shaken our foundation, as an example, when people lose their work place, and hence the means to live, to survive. When we experience the loss of power, our energetic matrix is affected and we become vulnerable to disease.

Second classic cause of disease is FEAR. A person that goes through life fearful is 2 times more prone to illness because the anxiety diminishes quite aggressively and progressively the good state of being, and this will impact on the feeling of feeling safe in the world. Wellbeing is the state on which our health system is built on. When this foundation is affected negatively, our immune system capacity to function is weakened.

When our immune system is weakened, we are in danger. It’s easy to spot the connections: fear and anxiety produce a lack of harmony in ourselves, in our energy flow. In the same way, lack of harmony creates fear and both collide and they affect each other weakening our immune system. Disease is a natural cause of this weakness because it has a way in.

Another cause of disease, a classic one, is the loss of one’s soul. This is the most serious cause that can lead to premature death and severe diseases.

This loss of soul is usually a reaction to a trauma. We often say “he lost his will to live etc”. It’s like someone lost their willpower over life. ANY TRAUMA IS A LOSS OF PART OF THE SOUL OR THE SOUL ITSELF. Post-traumatic stress syndrome is something that relates to this.

SOME SYMPTOMS FOR THIS LOSS OF PART OF THE SOUL ARE:

1.the feeling that you are divided, that you are not entirely present in the moment time

2.memory blockages — unable to remember parts of one’s life

3.lack of capacity to feel the love from someone or to receive love from people

4.emotional ignorance/remote emotions

5.subtle emotions and feelings of apathy or non-attention

6.Lack of enthusiasm and initiative

7.LACK OF JOY (If you need to treat this, check out my blog post on how to express your joy — here)

8.Lack of ability to progress in life

9.Lack of discerning capacity

10.Chronic negativity

11.Addictions

12.Suicidal thoughts and/or behaviours

13.Melancholy and the feeling of being desperate

14.Chronic depression

Although this phrase “loss of soul” is not something you would hear all day long, we do usually use language that says or has the same meaning: “When I went through that, I felt like a part of me died” or ever since, I had stopped being the same person I was before the accident” or “I feel like I lost something and I cannot be the same again”. When we talk about the loss of soul, and if you think about this yourself, if you had been through different episodes in your life that were hard or traumatic (trauma is experienced differently by all of us), everyone says that “they have lost a PART OF THEIR SOUL”, and NO ONE KNOWS THAT THE PARTS THAT WERE LOST CAN ACTUALLY BE RECOVERED.

Simply reading and thinking about any of the above can be a huge step towards healing.

In the next blog post, I will be adding a list of illnesses and their spiritual cause. Check it out here — https://medium.com/@annaelle.gina/emotional-and-mental-causes-of-diseases-6e72e06d4e4c

EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL CAUSES OF DISEASES

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I am reading “All grown up” by Jami Attenberg and I got to a chapter in which a very successful, beautiful, wise and independent artist is presented through main character’s eyes. I will quote everything down below as I believe you have experienced as well the feelings portrayed. It is that feeling that someone gives you that they embody everything you wish to be. It is the human being you dream to be, it is that creativity you aspire to show to the world and that will create your future, your freedom, your happiness.

“I sit at the feet of Felicia, the most famous instructor in our program. I am in her apartment in her Logan Square building, which she restored on her own. Like she took a book on home improvement out of the library, read it, and then just did the sparkling and electrical wiring and tiling herself because it needed to be done. She dresses in all black, jeans, T-shirts, lacy see-through things sometimes, and she has an amazing body, tough, sinewy, tan arms and a tight ass, and long fairy-dust hair, blond-grey, which she wears in braids sometimes. Also, Felicia has incredible jewellery, the real stuff, diamonds and gold and platinum, most of it inherited from an affluent aunt who never had children of her own, although Felicia did apprentice with a jeweller for a while so some of it she made herself. She has 3 solo gallery shows in the next year, one of them in Berlin, and has been commissioned to do an installation in Brazil, where she was basically given a town square to do with whatever she likes. Nothing she owns comes from a man. Everything she touches turns into something bigger. She has made herself out of scratch. I am 26 and I would cut my left tit to be her.”

The emotions those readings give you? You must have felt that with someone too. That is a form of admiring someone so much that their entire life is what you dream your life would become. Reading further “I go wherever she wants me to go and I tell her she’s perfect without her having to ask. I begin to skip classes whenever Felicia calls me. I don’t even think to say no.” A role model. An idol. A dream life. But what I actually desire is that feeling that I imagine she has when I see that person, when anyone else meets this idol of mine. As this expression of perfect life embodied in this person that everyone at some point in their life have met or seen, is surely sparkling those feelings of freedom and success and independence into everyone’s souls.

That goal or dream or objective that you have to be like that and to inspire to someone else those emotions and actions is not always something that society tolerates. Because you must make a career, you must have a house in order to be successful, so that you can feel accomplished, so that you can finally be happy.

And that’s not how it should be. To have a career, to have that house, to achieve that success are all means goals. When you wish for something SO that you can feel or be in a certain way is a means goal. The end goal, the one that makes you truly happy is the one that follows after the SO.

I want to have my own house SO that I can be free and stress free of any mortgages. SO, I don’t have to work all the time to pay financial obligations. I want to be independent SO I can travel whenever I feel like and don’t bother with begging for days off work. Everything that follows the SO is an End Goal, the one that offers you that something that truly gives you happiness and peace of mind. It is that feeling we pursue. That is what makes us happy and to be able to say to others we are indeed successful.

Here are 3 most important questions for you to start writing down your end goals and stop pursuing what society tells you to:

1. What do you want to experience in this life? What do you want to see, to be like, to feel, to travel, what is your lifestyle?

2. How do you want to grow to be able to experience life and be able to do in this life? What are you gifted at, what more do you need to be able to do what you want to do?

3. What is your contribution in this life to other people? How do you want to help with the people in this life? What did you experience and learn that you can teach to others? What do you want to give?

Give yourself 3 minutes ONLY to answer each category: Experience, Growth, Contribution. Why only 3 minutes? Because if it’s more than that, your rational mind will alert you about limits that are not helping you become the extraordinary human being you are. Such limits include stupid questions like, who are you to dream you can be the best writer, who are you to deserve luxury and richness, what can you possibly offer to others when you can barely help yourself with your life, career, love etc? You see, all that is what society tells you, it tells you that you cannot be that Felicia you adore. It wants you to obey and not dream as Felicia did and how it worked for her. But I want to tell you, you owe it to yourself to dream, and take that Felicia type human being from your environment and turn it into You. Because there is no monopoly on dreams. Everyone else is concerned in either hating or embracing Felicia, because society wants you to be like that, concerned within your limits. Dream beyond those limits.

How would the world look like if we were all like Felicia? A better, happier place simply because everyone does what they love, what their souls want their bodies to do for them.

Become Felicia. Dream beyond those limits.

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