Note: Moving forward in my writing I’m going to do a little paradigm shift in my teaching. I will be moving from discussing health issues to now focusing on emotional issues to help bring your body into peace, rest, joy and love. The foundation that I began with was helping you make lifestyle changes so that your health can turn around. That is also the purpose to my Study Guide Your Journey to Wholeness.
This foundation was to help you understand that if you’re not well and you feel lousy, it’s going to be hard to even deal with working on obtaining healing from your emotional imbalances. It will be hard to distinguish if the yuckiness you’re feeling is because you’re still dealing with the emotional imbalances from your hurt or is it because of your ill health.
My hope for you …
My hope is that you will go back and listen to my teachings on health and wellness if that is still an issue for you. Let’s get your body in a good state of health and homeostasis so as you begin to focus on emotional healing, that you begin to start feeling better.
Remember when you have a gut that is out of balance, you can deal with depression or anxiety. Your gut is your second brain. Battling both issues (emotional imbalances and ill-health) can make it harder than it needs to be.
Again, moving forward, I’m going to focus on emotional issues to help guide you into that place of peace, rest, joy and having life to its fullest. Periodically, I will pepper in some health teaching.
Today I want to talk with you about vision. Do you have a vision for your life or are you just existing and living day by day? God does have a plan and a purpose for you and when you know what it is and start moving towards it, life is so much better.
Sometimes it’s hard to envision what our purpose for being here on this earth is all about because the trauma, hurts and pain from our past gives us cloudy lenses. Also, the sad part is we may not even be aware that there is a false belief clouding our lenses and holding us back because it has become part of our life.
My “light bulb” moment
Recently, I had a little “light bulb” moment of recognizing a wrong belief system that I have had in my life for years. I thought I had worked through it all, but the Lord showed me there was still some residue there and it was regarding my work.
This particular day I had some writing to do on my computer and decided to sit on my bed instead of at my desk. It was a little chilly, so I went downstairs to get a quilt. I chose the quilt that my daughter made for me for my 50th Birthday. It is one of my favorite quilts … especially because she made it for me.
As I sat on my bed with this quilt over me, a life story began to unfold. I was looking at the quilt and thinking how this was the very first quilt she ever made and she did it with such confidence. She had such confidence in making it that I asked her 10 years later to show me how to begin mine. I was going to make the same quilt with her when she did, but life got in the way. So, 10 years later when I wanted to make my quilt, I pulled out the pattern and was so overwhelmed I almost gave up. I felt completely incompetent and stupid. Why? Because of this belief system I accepted into my life as a child that said I’m incapable, stupid, can’t learn, etc.
Learning something new!
Now, understand that not knowing how to make a quilt was normal. I never made one. But what was not normal was my belief system that I can’t learn. That was something that came upon me as a young child (thanks some people in my life). I eventually made that quilt four years ago and have made 34 more different quilts since then. Quilting has brought tremendous emotional healing to me.
But the light bulb that went off in my mind, while sitting on my bed, looking at the quilt my daughter made me, I realized there was a little residue in me still. It had to do with my business. In my unconscious mind, I was thinking failure, defeat. As I began to think of how my daughter effortlessly made this quilt and even began showing me how, I realized that I accomplished the craft of quilting as well.
For years, though, I was in this bondage that I could not do something, couldn’t learn something new and I was too stupid to accomplish something I didn’t know how to do. Sure, I would from time to time get the courage to do something new. But the minute I hit a hard spot or a roadblock I would hear that record playing, “See you’re too stupid to do this. Why do you even bother?” I would then become paralyzed.
I am an overcomer!
That record not only played in my mind (conscious or unconscious), but there were these invisible chains around me that tied me down to defeat. I realized while sitting on my bed, that I am an overcomer. I did get beyond being paralyzed with quilting and it was actually my quilting that helped me move past this belief system. But there was still a little residue there that I was allowing. Thankfully, the Lord is so gracious, merciful, loving and healing that He had brought this awareness to me so I could fully let it go. My daughter’s quilt opened my eyes to it.
Now if that record starts to pop up in my head, I won’t let it stay there. I have a new record that I play saying, “I can do all things through Christ because He strengthens me.” And the beautiful thing is He can strengthen you to overcome what may have you, bound.
Don’t stay stuck with cloudy lenses. It’s like having cataracts. You don’t even realize you have it because the lens of your eyes gradually gets cloudy. This can be the same with your vision for your life. Your unhealed pain just seems to compound year after year and before you know it, you have no vision. Sadly, people perish for lack of vision.
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” Albert Einstein
Don’t let what’s inside of you die before you leave this earth. A new year is approaching us and people tend to look at that time as a “new start.” But know that you can have a “fresh start” every day. You don’t need to wait until a new year comes or a special day on the calendar. Have a fresh start today … right this minute.
I can help you move into a new vision, new hope, new dreams, new joy and new peace. Together we can uncover what’s missing in your life and get you back on that path that will fill your days with excitement as you awaken each day.
Your Spiritual Life & Health Coach … believing in you!
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