How To - Healing Resentment

                    

It may seem to readers that have been following this blog for the past couple of days that the theme seems to be about healing and therefore about self care or self love.  That is true.  However, there are so many aspects to the harm that we do to ourselves that we need many ways of undoing the harm, and many ways to promote healing.  One of the most common destructive emotions I see in clients is resentment.

I like this exercise on releasing resentment.  It appears in many books and articles.  The exercise write up comes from the blog http://indigointentions.com/a-quick-exercise-to-dissolve-resentment.htm. 

Dissolving Resentment

Dissolving resentment can be simple, not easy but simple. One of the best exercises I have used in my own life and offered to my clients is an exercise that Louise Hay shares in her book, “You Can Heal Your Life” and she point out that this is an old Emmet Fox exercise that helps to dissolve resentment. Since it helps to dissolve the resentment, it will also help you in forgiving others and in forgiving yourself.

• Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths and when you feel relaxed, imagine yourself in a special place. This special place can be anywhere that your imagination takes you, perhaps somewhere in nature or to a special forgiveness room that you can return to again and again when doing forgiveness work.

• In the spirit of forgiving others, think of someone who you resent in some way or someone who has upset, hurt or offended you. See this person sitting in front of you, at a distance that feels comfortable to you. If for any reason it is not comfortable for you to invite this person into the sacred space that you have created with your imagination envision them behind a wall of glass or in a room across from yours or see them on the TV screen, be creative and do what feels comfortable.

• When you see this person clearly, visualize good things happening to this person – things that would be meaningful to him. See him or her smiling and happy. Hold the image for a few minutes and then let it fade away.

• Now take a moment to do the same for yourself. Once the image of the other person fades, see good things happening to you. See yourself smiling and happy. Feel how good this feels. Close your session with gratitude.

Remember, the information in this blog  is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider for a medical condition.

Have a beautiful day!

Judy

The Healing Tool - Ho'oponopono

This week seems to be about me talking about healing and healing methods.  Our friend, Theo, introduced my husband and me to Ho'oponopono when he was visiting us in 2005.  He talked about the process as part of the training that he undertook to become a Huna (one who can connect to the highest wisdom within and with the Universe). He talked about how the process changed him over the course of several months.  

It is a process that I have adopted as part of my self work.  It is a process that I have shared with many.  I hope that you find it helpful.

              

The Hawaiians' have a practice that allows them to clear themselves of issues. The following definition of Ho'oponopono comes from Uplift Connect at http://upliftconnect.com/hawaiian-practice-of-forgiveness/.

What is ho’oponopono?

On the surface level, many people have understood ho’oponopono to be a mantra where one repeats the words ‘I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you’ as a form of mental and spiritual cleaning that could be compared to Buddhist techniques for clearing karma. It has been defined as a forgiveness and reconciliation practice, cleansing of ‘errors of thought’ – the origin of problems and sickness in the physical world, according the the Hawaiian worldview. The literal translation is ‘to put to right; to put in order or shape, correct, revise, adjust, amend, regulate, arrange, rectify, tidy up, make orderly or neat.”

The process that you can use is neatly summarized in the website at http://www.ancienthuna.com/ho-oponopono.htm.  

Try the process and see how it works for you.

The Process of Ho'oponopono:

1. Bring to mind anyone with whom you do not feel total alignment or support, etc.
2. In your mind's eye, construct a small stage below you
3. Imagine an infinite source of love and healing flowing from a source above the top of your head (from your Higher Self), and open up the top of your head, and let the source of love and healing flow down inside your body, fill up the body, and overflow out your heart to heal up the person on the stage. Be sure it is all right for you to heal the person and that they accept the healing.
4. When the healing is complete, have a discussion with the person and forgive them, and have them forgive you.
5. Next, let go of the person, and see them floating away. As they do, cut the aka cord that connects the two of you (if appropriate). If you are healing in a current primary relationship, then assimilate the person inside you.
6. Do this with every person in your life with whom you are incomplete, or not aligned.
   The final test is, can you see the person or think of them without feeling any negative emotions. If you do feel negative emotions when you do, then do the process again.

Remember, the information in this blog  is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider for a medical condition. 

Remember, too, that links to websites change over time so at some point, the links may not work.

Many blessings,

Judy

Liver Detoxing Drink Recipe

  

                                    Picture of detox drink is from an email that includes the recipe

After Christmas, many of us work to change our eating habits and begin exercising to lose weight and streamline our bodies. I decided to detox.  I like detoxes that are simple and do not do any harm.

Health experts and nutritionists tell us to be more conscious of the toxins around us  - in our food, in our water, and in the air that we breathe.  I started looking for natural ways to cleanse the body.  You can find lots of recipes on line, in magazines, and in books.  

I like this recipe because it is easy and tastes okay.  And it seems to work. 

  

FAT FLUSH, LIVER CLEANSE, METABOLISM BOOSTING DETOX DRINK

1/2 apple, 

1/2 medium cucumber, 

2 capfuls organic apple cider vinegar, 

1/3 tsp tumeric powder 

1/4 tsp pepper (to activate tumeric)

400ml water (1 ¾ cups) 

Add lemon and honey if you want to add more flavour

Many Blessings,

Judy