If you know you would benefit from choosing to move your body more, read on to get past your excuses.

Can you remember what it was like to feel fit and have abundant energy? To feel really alive? To sleep like a log, and wake up alert and ready for the day? All this and more is much more likely to be yours when you choose to make movement a way of life.

Our bodies are made to move – just watch young children who are rarely still!

Somehow we lost the impetus to move our bodies, and spend long hours sitting, often motionless in front of computers or the TV. Despite knowing the benefits of moving, we actually choose to stagnate!

Choosing to move beyond the excuses

Here’s the key – it’s all about choice – your choice! If someone offered you a million pounds, or dollars, for really moving your body every day for a month, I’m sure you’d choose a way past your excuses!

I don’t have time

Check how many hours a day you spend on the computer or watching TV – how about exchanging some of that to move?

Think of the benefits of movement – feeling more alert and focused likely means you’ll get through other tasks and chores more quickly, thus freeing up time.

If you really feel pushed for time, remember moving your body doesn’t have to be a separate activity like swimming or going to the gym, you can integrate it into your everyday living – try walking to the shops, some DIY, or gardening.

It’s your time, you can choose how you use it!

I’ll get onto it tomorrow

Aah, procrastination is an easy excuse! The trouble is tomorrow never comes.

However  small, choose some movement you’ll do today – how about a short walk after reading this article?

Then visualise yourself fit and energised, and plan your movement for tomorrow.

My body isn’t up to it

It’s easy to avoid moving because of a sore hip, or some other ailment. Whatever situation you find yourself in, you’ll be able to move your body in some way.

Draw inspiration from those who compete in the Paralympics overcoming great physical adversity to be supremely fit. Think of people like Christopher Reeves who did daily exercises in the hope of one day being able to move again. Your body can move, and the more you move it, the better it will get.

I don’t have the energy

For most of us the lack of movement that contributes to feeling lethargic, so it’s a question of getting moving to feel the benefits.

If you have ME it’s a question of doing a little movement, and following your medical practitioner’s advice.

I don’t have the clothes/equipment/money

There are plenty of ways of moving in your everyday clothes, that don’t require equipment or funds, such as walking, jogging, yoga, Tai Chi. Choose to look for ways to move more that suit your situation.

I’m happy as I am

Yes, it’s always easy to stay in your comfort zone! Check out with yourself – are you really living life to the full? If you’ve got this far reading this article, I expect you know deep down you and your body would benefit from more movement.

Another excuse?

I think you get the picture – simply focus on the benefits and choose your way past it!

Still stuck?

If your excuses persist, a Delicious Healing session will help change your whole perspective on moving by dissolving any sub-conscious conditioning.

Take action

Once this article is posted, I’m off to don my wate rproofs and re-start my daily lunchtime walks. I’ve also chosen to practice the Tai Chi I’m learning on Tuesdays 5 times a week. My new choice is to get up and move if I’ve been sitting at the computer for half an hour.

Be it walking, gardening, housework, rebounding, dance, cycling, yoga, Tai Chi, the gym, jogging or any other way of moving – what extra movement will you do today?

If you are currently unfit and plan to take up a new activity, check with your medical practitioner first.

The Delicious Nugget: Your body is made to move and you know the benefits of moving, so it’s up to you to choose to let go of your buts and get moving!

Do you have a niggly feeling that’s bothering you?

Instead of pushing it away which may eventually affect your health, try surfing along with it until it dissolves.

Just as the wave that the surfer rides eventually dissolves, so will your feeling. All you need to do is be with the feeling, allow it to build to its peak, and then dissolve away of its own accord. The good thing is that, usually, when you allow yourself to experience the anger, fear, pain or sorrow it doesn’t turn out to be as bad as you anticipated!

I suggest you start with a small niggly feeling, rather than your biggest fear!

You can work with the simple guidelines above, or, if you prefer to be guided, listen to my recording below.

As a bonus, this recording is also imbued with the (as yet unnamed) frequencies of the spheres – they will activate the highest healing frequency that’s appropriate for you right now. More on that soon…

To listen, turn on your speakers, press the arrow, sit back and relax!

5 mins

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Do share what happens to that niggling feeling…

Have you noticed how healing methods are getting simpler and quicker?

You’ve probably heard people say the most important part of healing is your intent. Experiments in the quantum field have shown without doubt that the consciousness of the observer influences the outcome.

What if you could achieve healing (or anything else), purely through your intent?

A few days ago I set off to drive 400 miles from Scotland to Cambridge. It was snowing, and the main road south closed, so long queues meant the first 40 miles took me three hours.  Being late afternoon and already dark I considered turning back, then I remembered that asking thymus energy to run would keep my energy up and my body comfortable, so I simply asked thymus energy to run. Six hours later, including just one 5 minute comfort stop, I arrived in Cambridge still bright and alert, feeling only marginally stiff when I got out of the car!

My intent when I asked for the thymus energy to run was to allow it to run in the best way to keep me comfortable and alert. I was confident that would be the case, as I’ve experienced the benefits of thymus energy before. Having asked it to run, I forgot about it and time passed quickly as the roads cleared and I listened to a long, engaging workshop on my iPod.

In this case my intent was that a ‘preventative’ healing method I’d used before would work simply through my intention, and it did!

After doing some chores in Cambridge I felt a sharp pain near the tip of my thumb, where I found a tiny cut, that kept opening up whenever I pressed my thumb (amazing how much we use our thumbs!). Fed up with this annoyance persisting for a couple of days, before going to sleep I asked for the highest healing available to me to help heal the cut. By morning there was no pain when I pressed my thumb, and the base layer of skin had healed over the cut. A minor example, however I often find it’s good to start out small!

In this case, I didn’t draw on any healing method, I simply asked for the highest available energy I could access to help my thumb to heal, and it did!  I let go of all the training wheels I’d learned through a range of healing modalities.

If healikng by intent resonates, have a go, and please share how it goes for you.

The Delicious Nugget: You can access healing purely through your intent – to ‘shortcut’ a method you already know, or without reference to any method at all.

A TV advert convinced me to try juicing, and for the next six months I started my day with freshly made juice.

So, what are the ins and outs of smoothies and juices?

Ingredients

A green smoothie is a blend of fruits and green leaves whizzed up in a blender.

My typical green smoothie includes: mango/pineapple/apple + banana/avocado + spinach/kale/lettuce + lemon slice + celery stick. Yum!

Because of the fibre content a smoothie is quite satisfying – more like a meal.

A green juice is extracted from a mix of fruits and green leaves, with the addition of vegetables.

My typical green juice includes: cucumber + carrots/courgette + celery + mango/pineapple/apple + spinach/kale/lettuce. Yum!

For me, the main advantage of juice is the sheer vitality and lightness I feel after drinking one!  I’ve also noticed that a juice including bitter greens such as kale or dandelion leaves, doesn’t taste as bitter as the equivalent smoothie.

Equipment

To make a smoothie you need a powerful blender, though a stick blender is adequate for occasional use, eg when travelling.

There’s a wide range of electric juicers on the market; do make sure you get one that will juice greens if you want to include them in your juices. The more expensive juicers are more efficient in extracting juice. Modestly priced hand juicers are also available, however it’s worth investing in an electric one if you plan to make juices often, as they speed up the process dramatically.

If space is an issue, a blender will make a smaller footprint on your work surface than a juicer (unless you get one of the new ‘vertical’ juicers). We had to put our food processor away to make room for the juicer!

A mid range juicer is likely to be at least twice the price of a mid range blender, so if already have a blender, it may make sense to start with smoothies, as we did.

Time

Smoothies win hands-down for preparation time. It only takes a couple of minutes to load and run the blender, pour the smoothie into a glass, and rinse the blender. A smoothie is always my choice on mornings when I’m in a hurry.

It takes me about 7 minutes to cut up the fruit and veg, keep loading the juicer, and then dismantle and wash the parts. On the other hand, when I do have time, the whole juicing process is now so automatic, it’s become a morning meditation!

Nutrition

With a smoothie, your body receives the whole of the fruit and greens. When the cell walls of greens are broken down by the blender, amino acids – which are the building blocks of protein that are needed for growth and repair – are released.

With a juice you get a more nutrient-dense drink, with a higher concentration of vitamins and minerals, which is helpful for cleansing and healing.

Blood sugar

The ‘whole’ food in a smoothie is more balanced since there is less concentration of the natural fruit sugars that you get with juicing. Sugar is released over a longer period, and blood sugar remains more stable.

However, depending what  you will be doing next, the quick energy boost from the more concentrated sugars in fresh juice may be what you’re looking for!

Digestion

A big advantage of juices is the ease with which the body can assimilate the liquid and all the vitamins and minerals it contains. This can be helpful when you’re ill, convalescing of have a compromised digestion which would struggle with the fibre in a smoothie.

On the other hand, fibre has a regulating and cleansing effect on the digestive tract which many people find beneficial.

Cost

If you use the same ingredients to make a juice and a smoothie, you’ll get around twice the quantity of smoothie, because the smoothie is bulked up by the fibre that is discarded from juice. This makes juicing appear more expensive.

On the other hand, since juices use more vegetables such as carrots, beet and celery, which are generally cheaper to buy than fruit, the difference in cost my not be as much as it seems when you look at the pulp coming out of the juicer!

My conclusion

Having spent extensive periods of smoothie only, followed by juice only, I now oscillate between the two as the mood, hunger level, available ingredients and my time takes me. If my digestion were upset, or I were recovering from illness I would take juices for a while. Best of all, check each day what your body would like!

The Delicious Nugget: Green smoothies and juices are both good for you – smoothies give all-round nutrition includthe building blocks of proteis from greens, while juices yield a higher concentration of micro-nutrients and fruit sugar and  are more easily assimilated and good for cleansing the body. If you have the equipment for both, check ‘Which does your body want today?’

If your healing hasn’t really taken off yet, you may be partially tuned into the ‘not willing to heal’ channel. Surprisingly, there can be plenty of reasons to be unwilling to heal!

If part of you thinks ‘I really want to get better’, while another part thinks ‘Hmm, I’d have to go back to work’, and a further sub-conscious part believes ‘I don’t deserve to heal’ or ‘This is too old to heal’, you’re sending out very mixed vibrations which the universe is matching with equally mixed results of ‘stop-start’ healing.

To heal with speed and ease, you need to tune your vibration as purely as you can to the ‘complete willingness to heal’ channel. The first step is to check if you have some unwillingness to heal.

Intuit your willingness to heal

It’s more than likely that at least part of any unwillingness to heal comes from your sub-conscious beliefs. Your intuition will give you an overall sense of your unwillingness to heal, including any sub-conscious aspects. Don’t worry there’s no need to identify what these aspects are.

Ask yourself:

Truth, how willing am I  to heal?

Then scan the numbered list below, and see which number is true for you. There are several ways to do this, you could:

• check which number jumps out at you / makes you feels light
• dowse for a ‘yes’
• check for a positive muscle test.

The key is to trust the first response your intuition gives you.

0  Not at all willing

1  Slightly willing

2  Fairly willing

3  Very willing

4  Completely willing

If your response is anything between 0 & 3 it’s likely that you have some unwillingness to heal. It’s not a problem that you have no idea what it is; healing modalities like TAT will help you gracefully resolve your unwillingness without any need to identify the cause.

Check the advantages of not healing

Have you ever stopped to consider the advantages of not healing? It may seem an odd question, but when you think about it there may be some real advantages of your present condition. For example, not being well enough to do things you’d rather avoid, getting lots of attention, people doing things for you, and so on.

Ask yourself:

What are the advantages of me not healing?

If you’re drawing a blank here, you could always check out with someone you trust who knows you well. An outside perspective can often be revealing.

Identifying advantages of not healing gives you a new perspective, from which you can review your  desire to heal.

Next

If this article has prompted you to an awareness that, so far, you’ve not been completely willing to heal, congratulations – your unwillingness is the first thing to address through your healing modality of choice.

The Delicious Nugget: There can be a world of difference between wanting to feel better, and being truly willing to get better. Becoming aware of any unwillingness to heal may just get your healing rolling in a big way!

Right now, ‘How comfortable are you?’

At the Qi Gong class, our teacher kept asking ‘How comfortable are you?’, explaining that if our bodies were not completely relaxed the energy flows would be restricted, and the benefits of our movements diminished.

Whatever you plan to do with the next few hours of your time, and that includes sleep, having a relaxed and comfortable body will help you do it more effectively.

Here are 3 quick ways to relax your whole body that I use regularly. I suggest you scan the headings and see which one jumps out for you! Best to avoid them when you’re driving though.

Yin breath

Take an ordinary breath in, and then imagine that your out-breath is coming from a place the size of a walnut located inside your head – between your ears, and behind your third eye.

Take another ordinary breath in, followed by breathing from this place inside your head for a few breaths.

Once you have the hang of your outbreath going from inside your head, repeat it – this time saying to yourself on your out-breat:

‘Be the breath’.

Keep repeating the Yin Breath until you feel fully relaxed.

When I first learned this Yin breath from Alain Herriott in 2007 it instantly relaxed my whole body, so I’ve been using it ever since. Now just one Yin breath instantly relaxes me completely!

Asking

For those of you who use Access Consciousness tools, here’s the question I use when I find myself in an uncomfortable position while running someone’s Bars.

Ask, in your head:

‘What energy, space and consciousness can I be that would allow my whole body to relax with ease?’

Simply live in that question (rather than look for an answer). For me, while I live with the question, I find my body makes tiny adjustments, which don’t disturb the position of my hands on the person’s head, allowing my body to relax completely even though I appear to be in an awkward position.

TAT Pose

If you practice TAT, you’ll know that the TAT Pose itself has a very relaxing effect on  your whole energy system.

If you’re new to TAT, you’ll see a 2 minute video showing the TAT Pose here.

The main thing is to find a comfortable position to take the Pose, so your arms don’t get tired while you hold them up to the front and back of your head. Some people find it most relaxing to lie down, and have some cushions to support their arms.

Simply hold the TAT Pose for up to 5 minutes (and no more than a maximum of 10 minutes in any 1 day).

I’ve been using these methods for years, with a little practice you’ll soon find the one you chose gives you rapid results.

You may be surprised at some of the positions where you can relax. Alain Herriott had us do an exercise where we were to relax on the floor with a tennis ball under our backs – we did so!

The Delicious Nugget: Deeply relaxing your body until it is very comfortable will raise your potency for whatever lies ahead.

Have you ever done some healing, only to be disappointed that your symptoms persist?

Most people who come to me for help with their healing would like to end up with a reduction in their symptoms, be it a sore back, feeling low or some other discomfort. This is often what they achieve. Other times people are clearly disappointed that their symptoms persist – what’s gone wrong?

I booked three healing sessions, hoping to improve my eyesight, so I wouldn’t need to wear reading glasses. I was also open to the healing perhaps taking another direction. Three weeks later, there was no significant change in my eyes, I could still only read the newspaper in daylight or with a strong light. However, I did notice that my attitude to my eyes had changed – I felt more accepting of them, with some satisfaction that releasing my resistance towards them may be a step towards restoring 20/20 vision….

As I reflected on my experience, I suddenly realised that while autumn had arrived I was still wearing sandals, and my hands and feet were warm. Ever since the shock of an emergency op fifteen years ago I had felt the cold.

I realised my youthful warmth had returned, and was very pleased with this unexpected outcome from my healing sessions, and glad that I’d been open to something else showing up!

Eric Pearl, of The Reconnection, talks about ‘allowing the power that made you to be the power that heals you’. While the power that made you remains a mystery, it’s clear that it has an intelligence beyond that of the mind. So, when you undertake healing, how about letting go of specific intentions, and surrendering to the intelligence of the power that made you? This explains why with Reconnective Healing we encourage you to be open to the healing taking its own course.

With TAT we start with a very broad ‘intention’ – so broad it allows anything to show up:

This healing is for the benefit of my ancestors, my family, everyone involved, all parts of me, all points of view I’ve ever held, and everyone who would like to benefit. This healing will happen safely and easily.

When I run a TAT session for myself, or facilitate one with a client, I notice the healing outcome often shows up as a conscious change in perspective, which is so pronounced that the presenting issue no longer seems like a problem. People often end up with a perspective that they wouldn’t even have considered at the start of the session.

From an Access Consciousness perspective, making an intention is like putting on blinkers – creating tunnel vision for specific results – what about all the other possible results outside the tunnel we’re not allowing ourselves to receive?

In an Access Bars session, running the Circle Of Manifestation Bar, enables you to let go of redundant thoughts and beliefs about how your healing shows up, so you can be open to all possibilities!

Are you ready to surrender your intention to the wisdom of your energy system, and be open to where your healing takes you? If you do, one thing’s for sure, you’ll have an exciting time!

The Delicious Nugget: Making a specific healing intention may blinker you to a higher priority of your energy system. Another option is to surrender your healing to the wisdom of the power that made you. Which feels light to you?

What if  98% of the discomfort you experience doesn’t even belong to you?

What would your health look like if you took that on board?

We are all far more ‘psychic’ that we realise, continually picking up on each other’s thoughts, feelings and pain.

Ever noticed how going into a room of joyful people gives you a lift, whereas going into a roomful of arguing people takes you down? That’s you picking up other peoples’ vibrations.

Ever been thinking about someone, and soon after they call you? That’s the pair of you connecting energetically.

It’s as if each of us has an antenna, which is continually picking up all the vibrations – including thoughts, feelings and physical sensations – that other people are emitting. Unfortunately the antenna didn’t come with a firewall to block what we don’t want to receive!

You don’t need to know whose it is

I easily recognised the recurring thought “I have to do things perfectly” as coming from my parents. However, you don’t need to know who the vibration has come from, so the pain in your knee, or your fear of moving house, may come from sources you’re not aware of, and that’s fine.

How to let go of vibrations that aren’t yours

Ask who it belongs to

Take your attention to your discomfort, ad notice how heavy, or contracted, your energy feels. Then, silently, ask yourself:

‘Truth, who does this belong to?’

Now check whether your energy stays heavy, or gets lighter. If it gets lighter, the discomfort is someone else’s, so you can return it to the sender. Over 90% of the time your discomfort belongs to somebody else.

Occasionally the energy stays heavy, in which case it either belongs to the earth or to you.

Ask ‘Truth, does this belong to the earth?’ and check whether your energy stays heavy, or gets lighter. If it gets lighter, the discomfort belongs to the earth.

Return with consciousness

Sometimes people feel reluctant to return discomfort to the sender, feeling it may harm them. On the contrary, when we return energy to the sender with consciousness, we help the person to resolve it at their end.

a) Return to sender

With the discomfort in mind, say in your head ‘Return to sender, with consciousness’, and repeat up to three times, or until the energy feels light.

b) Return to the earth

With the discomfort in mind, say ‘Return to the earth on three: 1, 2, 3’ and either blow the energy away, or flick it away with your fingers. You may need to do this up to three times, or until the energy feels light.

If it’s yours

If the discomfort doesn’t belong to someone else, or to the earth, you’ve bought into it, and will need to use a healing method to dissolve it.

Asking ‘Who does this belong to?’  and ‘Returning to sender’ whenever you remember for all thoughts, feelings and sensations for 3 days, will release so much baggage you’ll be a new person, with renewed health!

The Delicious Nugget We’re all more psychic than we think, continually picking up other peoples’ vibrations. Asking ‘Who does this belong to?’, and then returning to sender easily releases your discomfort.

And feeling good is bound to improve your health too!

We tend to think of love as something we give others, or receive from them. How about giving yourself some love?

‘Love is something we can choose, the same way we choose anger, or hate, or sadness. We can choose love. It’s always a choice within us. Let’s begin right now in this moment to choose love. It’s the most powerful healing force there is.’
~ Louise L. Hay, “The Power is Within You”

Just as dark can’t exist in the presence of light, discomfort can’t exist in the presence of love.

The question

After a couple of weeks of low energy and low mood, I woke up tired, and chose not to let this continue. What came to mind was the idea of giving myself love for no reason, so with nothing to lose, I simply asked myself:

Could I give myself love for no reason?

At first my response was a hesitant ‘Maybe’ – after all giving myself love wasn’t something I was used to doing. I asked the question again, and got a slightly more positive ‘Well, OK’.

Over and over

With my Sedona training, I know the value of persisting with a question, so I kept asking the question, over and over again, for ten minutes or so. By then my mood and energy had lightened considerably, so I was motivated to keep giving myself love for no reason whenever I remembered throughout the day.

Easing the wheels

Like me, the first person I helped to give herself love for no reason, got hesitant responses at first, so if that happens for you, here are some variations on the question that may help:

Could I give myself a little love for no reason?

Could I give myself a little more love for no reason?

Could I allow myself to receive love for no reason?

Whenever you remember

I’ve been using the question for a few weeks now, whenever it comes to mind, which is more some days than others, particularly when something comes up that bothers me. I’m amazed how easily it resolves the disquiet into quiet!

Give it a try!

Could I give myself love for no reason?

The Delicious Nugget: To resolve disquiet into quiet simply give yourself some love!

If you were able to figure out with your mind how to resolve your sore back, wouldn’t you have done so by now? You probably need to access another source of information and awareness – your heart  – the place in your body where you feel things, so you can use your feelings to heal more quickly.

For me it’s like driving off with my handbrake on – I notice there’s a drag on the car, and wonder why I’m going so slowly, until I suddenly remember to release the handbrake, and away I go with speed and ease!

Wouldn’t it be good to be able to remove the drag on your healing as easily as releasing your handbrake?

The trick with many energy healing methods is to turn off your brain and drop into your heart, or feeling area. However, because of our left-brain, analytical culture, it can be really difficult to switch off your brain, which can chatter its way round and round the problem, with no access to a solution.

You may be surprised that your heart has brain cells, and they were created before your heart was, while you were in your mother’s womb. So by moving your awareness to your heart, you can access another type of wisdom.

Two quick ways to disengage your brain

Put your hand on your heart

Simply placing your hand over your heart moves your awareness down from your mind to you to your heart – your feeling area.

Bow your head

Bowing your head also disengages your brain, and moves your focus to your heart – where you feel things.

Whatever energy healing method you’re using, try disengaging your brain – at least for part of the time, and experience your healing process speeding up!

The Delicious Nugget: Disengaging your brain helps you tune more readily into your feelings, and speeds up your energy healing.