10 Ways to Regain Your Health

Take the Journey to Reclaiming Wellness

By Inna Segal

In our stressed out nation, more people are experiencing health issues large and small. From stress ailments to serious issues, we hear all the time from friends who “are not feeling well” or who are “under the weather.”

Pressure and suppressed emotions have a detrimental effect on our health and wellbeing. More and more people are suffering with larger and small health issues and feeling ‘under the weather’

If you feel that life has taken a toll on your mind, body and spirit, you can start to actively participate in your own healing. Below are 10 ways that you can use to improve your health and connect to the wisdom of your body.

Inna Segal is the creator of Visionary Intuitive Healing® and the best selling author of The Secret Language of Your Body. For more details about Inna please visit www.innasegal.com.

Make Your Health a Priority

In order to heal, it is necessary to commit to making your health a priority. This means believing you are a valuable being, who deserves brilliant health and wellbeing. Making your health a priority also gives you an opportunity to examine your thinking. Are you open minded and willing to explore the root causes of your dis-ease or discomfort, and work on releasing the negativity which may have contributed to your condition? Or is your definition of healing taking a pill and perhaps shutting your body down?

True healing means listening to the messages your body is trying to give you, then making changes which create ease rather then dis-ease, and flow rather then stuckness in your body and your life.

Feel Your Emotions

Feel your emotions rather then keeping them buried. Many people spend much of their time thinking rather than feeling, because they find the experience of feeling uncomfortable. When unwelcome feelings come up they try to shut them down by being distracted, watching TV, eating junk food, talking on the phone, reading a book, listening to music, smoking, taking drugs, etc. However, your feelings hold the key to your wellbeing. They tell you what is honouring you and what is not, if your life is flowing the way it’s meant to or if you are moving in the wrong direction. Your feelings give you the opportunity to expand, purify pain, create your ideal weight, change and break down the armor which prevents you experiencing health, peace and joy.

Sometimes in order to heal people need to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Most people say that once they stop resisting the unpleasant feelings and feel them, they discover something important that the intelligence of their body was trying to tell them. Once they receive the insight the unpleasant feeling usually dissolves and a sense of freedom pervades.

Breathe Deeply and Consciously

Many people breathe shallowly, thus keeping the body tight, stagnant and working harder. When you breathe slowly, deeply and consciously you can feel your body, tune into your intuition, calm your mind, relax, and help purify the blood. You also experience an increase in energy and wellbeing as the breath circulates energy around your body.

Try this now: Close your eyes place your hands on your lungs and breathe deeply and slowly for a minute. As you are breathing check how your body feels. Is it heavy or light? Is it tight or relaxed? Are you stressed and chaotic or peaceful and calm? As you breathe slowly and deeply focus on relaxing your body and letting go of stress. You might even visualise a golden yellow colour moving though your body and purifying it.

Eat Healthily and with Awareness

Most people know what constitutes a healthy diet. Yet in our stressed and busy lives, it is easy to go for fast food, which usually contains lots of fat, sugar, caffeine and unhealthy chemicals. Often people eat quickly, on the go, without being consciously aware of what they are eating, or truly tasting and enjoying their food. This leads them to eat more than what their body requires.

Being healthy means eating healthy food which nourishes your body, giving you energy, vitality and wellbeing. Taking time to choose healthy food, that you eat slowly and chew consciously gives your body the opportunity to heal and regenerate quickly and easily. So next time when you are eating something slow down and really taste it.

Listen to Your Body

Listen to your body. Recognize when you need to rest, play, have fun and work. What are your cycles? When are you at your best? What can you do to make your life more productive? When people don’t listen to their bodies is when stress, tension, fear, overwhelm, anxiety and dis-ease set in. If you are a person who is constantly saying that you don’t have time to look after yourself, than ask yourself do you have time to get sick?

Take a few minutes’ break every couple of hours. Stretching, deep breathing or even a short meditation can make the difference between feeling tired, stagnant and stressed or healthy, creative and relaxed.

One of the best way to listen to your body is to place your hands on your heart or the part of your body which feels stuck and breathe into it. Then ask yourself if there was a thought which would be stuck in my body and make me feel tense what would it be? When you become aware of the thought you can let it go or make the changes necessary.

Add More Color to Your Life

Colors can make people feel heavy, depressed and fatigued or light, vibrant and joyful. Become aware of what colours make you feel great and what qualities those colors have. Then add these colors to your life. For example, this could mean painting your walls green because green makes you feel relaxed and tranquil. Or wear a bright orange dress or a shirt to make you feel vibrant and energized.

You can bring flowers into your home or spend more time in nature. You may also want to check your wardrobe. If your clothes are not very colourful it might be time for some shopping.

You can also use colours for healing by visualising yourself being surrounded by different colours. Green, blue and pink are healing, relaxing and peaceful. What ever you do, make your life colourful.

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