If you suffer from chronic stress and pain these techniques can help you…

I am no stranger to chronic pain.  Not only did pain dominate my life for 4 years, but it also increased my levels of stress substantially.  It is not an easy living each day with pain. 

Along with pain most people deal with varying levels of depression and stress.  I know I did.  It took a Jedi Knight mindset to ignore the pain and push through each day.

But did you know that chronic pain might not be a physical problem? 

Yes, the pain is real and what you are feeling physically is too. 

But what if I told you that most chronic pain holds a key in the mind?

It has been scientifically proven that many aches and pains that are chronic are rooted in the brain.  As in your emotions, negative mental chatter, and inability to handle one more bit of stress can actually affect different brain centres and manifest into the body. 

In other words, your mind can refer pain into the physical body. 

Do you have pain in your body with an unknown cause? 

Or maybe you have found the cause.  But have you ever noticed that some people can have the exact same issue and have no problem at all?  

No Pain At All?

In the book The Hidden Psychology of Pain, by Dr. James Alexander, he talks about John Sarno’s work. 

John Sarno found that medicine knew very little about chronic pain.  He observed in his research there was no neat relationship between damage in the body and the existence of pain. 

In other words, people with chronic pain when examined with x-ray and other diagnostic tools were found to have no structural abnormalities at all.

It was also found that people with no pain at all who participated in the research, that a high percentage of them showed evidence of structural pathology of the spine but had no pain at all. 

How can that be?

Could it be that the key to healing chronic pain is in the mind?

Throughout Western and Eastern Medicine there are countless stories of people healing their pain via the mind. 

Placebo Effect

In Western Medicine it is known as the placebo effect.  This is when in controlled double blind studies there is a group of people who consume a medication and a group of people who believe they are getting the medicine, even though they are getting a sugar pill.

The interesting thing is that just as many people heal who didn’t get the medication as the people who did.  They healed because they believed the medication would heal them.  Their belief, their mind healed their body….

Have you used a placebo to stimulate healing?

In Eastern Medicine, meditation appears to work for pain relief as it reduces brain activity in your somatosensory cortex.  This area in the brain decides the feeling of where and how intense pain should be in the body.  

More than that, Eastern Traditions are now exploring the power of your thoughts as a mind body therapy in pain. 

Therapies like Neuro-linguistic Programming and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy help to reprogram a your response to pain as well as change negative thought patterns, which stimulate a chronic stress response.

I have had success with some of these techniques.  Not only did they help muffle the pain in my body, but they also helped me to be at peace with my body no matter the situation.

5 Techniques to Reduce Chronic Pain and Stress.

1. Mindfulness Meditation – Mindfulness is a very effective meditation technique for relaxing the mind and body to turn down the stress response.  It has been proven effective for pain relief and pain management.  Mindfulness is simply becoming aware of your breath, relaxing your mind to such a point that you lose track of your body.  Your body becomes so relaxed, that all pain diminishes.

Mindfulness meditation helps put you into a deep Theta brain state, where anything is possible.  Not only does pain become more manageable and in some cases disappears, but you find yourself in a more peaceful, happy state in your day-to-day life. 

2. Hypnosis –Hypnosis is scientifically verified and an effective technique that allows you to tap into your subconscious mind and promote change.

Hypnosis allows you to create desired changes in behaviour, emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing.

It’s a powerful visualization technique that you can learn to use for things like pain reduction, healing, weight loss, quitting smoking, anxiety, and PTSD.  

It allows you to gain control of undesired behaviours and make changes.

3. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – CBT focuses on developing coping strategies that solve current problems such as pain, depression, anxiety and allows you to consciously change your thoughts, behaviours, and beliefs. 

CBT has been proven to give the person practicing it new ways to cope and look at things.  It has been shown to be effective for pain relief.

4. Visualization – Visualization is a technique that incorporates the power of the mind to heal the body.  In a meditative state, you see the problem you would like to see healed being resolved. 

You are essentially telling your body what you want with your mind.  You literally visualize yourself in perfect health. Some people will even visualize going into the problem such as pain and seeing it healing.  The mind is very powerful. If you believe it, you will see it happen.

5. Placebo Effect – This is where you choose a food or an object that you believe will heal your body.  You make this food, such as a green drink for example your placebo.  Every time you drink this green drink you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the medicine you need to heal your body.  Much like people that believe taking a medication.  When in fact they are taking a sugar pill and heal anyways.   The green drink becomes your placebo.  The trick is, believing in it.  If your mind truly believes this will heal you, it most likely will. 

Have you tried any of these techniques and had success?   

I know I have.

I truly believe in the phrase ‘Mind Over Matter!’ 

Do you have a mind body success story? 

I would love to hear about it.  The more people that share their stories, the more people will know what is possible.   Comment below.

I recently discovered a great technique from Mo Gawdat on how to get into a state of happiness within 7 seconds.  I’ve been using it with clients with great results in my Distance Healing Sessions.

Before I tell you the technique, I will define happiness and unhappiness.

Happiness occurs when life meets or beats your expectations of an experience or event. 

For example, is you go out for dinner and the meal you have is as good as you expected it to be or better.

Whereas Unhappiness occurs when an experience or event doesn’t meet your expectations. 

An example of unhappiness: you go out for dinner and the meal is worse that you expected.

The common denominator with happiness and unhappiness are thoughts.

80% of unhappiness is due to negative thoughts.

Consider when you feel unhappy as a survival mechanism and a signal to take specific actions if you want to return to happiness. 

The first thing to do is acknowledge you feel unhappy. 

The second thing is: What is the trigger? 

If it’s a situation in the world like a flood or war on the other side of the world.  Has your life changed at all from it?

If not, can you accept it?  And can you do anything about it? 

Ask yourself the questions: “What can I do about it, how can I make the world a better place from this situation that triggered my unhappiness or how can I become stronger from the situation?” 

These questions take you out the of emotional and stressful thoughts (feeling helpless/hopeless) into acceptance and or action thoughts.

When you discover the trigger of your unhappiness, ask yourself whether the thought is true or false? 

I work with many people that suffer from depression and anxiety.  Many of their feelings are the result of believing a lie that was either told to them when they were young, or they told themselves from a negative experience they had.

Have you ever been bullied by someone that resulted in you not feeling good about yourself and unloved.

If you continued to tell yourself the lie that you are not good enough and unloved it results in feeling more stressed and symptoms of chronic stress.

Chronic Stress Symptoms

• Easily triggered
• Emotional withdrawal
• Suppressing yourself
• Fearful of expressing yourself
• Shame
• Guilt
• Decreased immunity
• Chest tightness
• Trouble letting go
• Low energy
• Sleeping problems and insomnia
• Unfocused and cloudy thinking
• Changes in appetite
• Aches and pains
• Increase in alcohol and drug use

Diseases associated with chronic stress are linked to other conditions, both psychological and physical. These include:

• Hypertension, heart disease, obesity and metabolic syndrome, Type II diabetes, and arthritis
• Addiction to alcohol, nicotine and/or prescription drugs, and behavioral-related such as addiction to the internet, food, or gambling
• Mood disorders and anxiety disorders, which are common secondary diagnoses for people with chronic stress.

Hypertension, depression, addiction, and anxiety disorders are the conditions most related to chronic stress.

If you can relate to living in chronic stress, take the following steps to overcome it.

• Acknowledge your unhappy (negative feelings).
• Write out the thoughts you have that trigger your stress. 
• Ask yourself are the thoughts true or false?  (FYI: all thoughts of not being good enough and unlovable are a lie.) If they are false let them go by taking 10 deep breaths. Close your eyes, focus on the center of your chest, and say to yourself, “I release any lies that I tell myself that are not serving me in my highest and greatest good.”  Notice how you feel when you say this.  

By saying this prayer, you are giving your soul and God permission to cleanse the lies from you. 

• If it is True.  Ask yourself, “What can I do to fix it?”

This moves you into the problem-solving part of your brain and helps make you and the world a better place.

• If you can’t do anything about it and things can’t change.  Like someone dying in a car accident or stuck in traffic.  Ask yourself, “Can I accept the situation or experience and make my life better despite the problem."

Make sure that you go to happy and useful thoughts. 

If your thoughts aren’t useful, tell your brain not to give you thoughts that aren’t helpful. 

On average it takes 21 days to remove negativity and change the brain.  So be patient and persistent.

By investing 5-10mins into improving your mindset every day and how you interpret stress you will spend much more time feeling happy than you ever had before.

If you find that you need additional help overcoming chronic stress, I will gladly help you via Distance Healing Sessions.

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What would your life look like if you had more energy each day?

Here's a list of things that more energy does:

• You feel better
• You can adapt to stress easier
• It's easier to problem solve
• You're a better communicator
• You have a stronger memory
• Improved balance and coordination 
• You heal faster

What is something you notice when you have more energy?  Comment below.

4 Things that Help Increase Energy

• Get natural light exposure into your eyes 30-60mins after waking to increase morning cortisol. 
• Do light exercise like go for a walk, stretching, and or Qi Gong to warm up your core temperature.
• Delay caffeine intake 90-120mins after waking to avoid an afternoon crash.
• Do a morning meditation where you connect with God, Jesus and or the Holy Spirit and focus on at least 3 things you are grateful for to summon with a positive mindset. 

What is something you do to increase your energy? Comment below.

Many people come to me for my keen sense of Medical Intuition. 

As a child I knew things about people without them telling me.  But my intuition was not as good as it is now because I work on developing it, connecting with it and putting my full trust into it everyday. 

You have the ability to connect to your intuition too. 

Signs of intuition are:

• Gut feelings
• Knowing things before they happen
• Knowing things about people without them telling you
• Hearing your conscience

If you would like to strengthen and improve your intuition check out my Activate Your Inner Medical Intuitive Course here.

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4 Tips to Improve Intuition

1. Practice Calming Your Mind Everyday

To develop a calm mind, I recommend practicing mindfulness meditation.  This is where you focus on one thing like the air coming in and out of your nose for 10-45mins per day. You can do this sitting, laying or even walking. 

2. Know where to Receive Intuitive Messages

• Heart/chest is where you feel your intuition.
• Head/brain is where you hear and see your intuition.

3. Pursue your Passions, hobbies and interests.

This is your intuition speaking to you.  Pursue them.  If you invest enough time and energy into them one day you could make a career from them and it will become your purpose.

4. Who do you want to become?

Ask yourself this question and share it below.  

If you would like to develop your intuition and healing ability to more check out the Intuitive Energy Healing Course here.  

Have you ever felt stressed during traffic jam, gotten upset to the point of wanting to yell.  

This happens because your nervous system is conditioned to react stressfully in that situation. 

But what if you could respond differently.  Rather than freakout, take some deep breaths and realize “I’m a traffic jam, how can I make the best use of my time right now?”

By doing this you avoid excess stress and emotional pain, along with wasting energy on being unproductive.   In turn you make better use of your time and create more healthy energy for yourself.

Some things you can to are  call a friend, listen to a podcast or good music, tell yourself, “I love myself unconditionally,” or remind yourself how grateful you are to have a car. These are just a few examples.  There are a number of things you can do to increase your wellness during that time….

What is something you would do?

How do you Regulate the Nervous System?

• Practice

What are your stress triggers?

Take a moment and write them down.

Examples of Stress Triggers:

• Weather
• Politics
• Family members
• Loud noises
• Violence
• Certain smells
• Your work/job
• Travel
• The unknown
• Meeting new people
• Your health
• Money

How to Heal Stress Triggers

• Go to calm relaxing space like a quiet room or out in nature. 
• Take 10 deep breaths
• Get into a calm state of mind
• Close your eyes and visualize being in the situation that normally triggers you, but instead being calm and peaceful in it.
• See yourself handling the situation with ease. 

Example: see yourself having a positive interaction with the family member that normally stresses you out.  See yourself being present with them and listening to them.  See yourself articulating your thoughts and feelings in a calm manner to them. 

Practice doing this until you feel peaceful about the situation that used to stress you out. 

Don’t be surprised how good you feel in that situation next time you are in it. 

Do you suffer from sleeping problems like insomnia?  You definitely want to hear this.

The number one cause of insomnia is stress.  However, it’s not always clear as to what is causing the stress.

I’m going to help you figure that out.  Along with what you can do to overcome the stress so you can sleep better at night and have more energy during the day. 

The top things you need to do to sleep better are:

• Remove electronic devices, such as TVs, computers, and smart phones, from your bedroom.
• Avoiding large meals, caffeine, and alcohol before bedtime.  No food 3hrs before bed and no caffeine 8hrs before bed because it can take up to 8hr to clear out of your body.   If you rely on caffeine for energy and can’t function without it comment before. 
• Get some exercise. Being physically active during the day can help you fall asleep more easily at night.
• Using room-darkening shades, earplugs, a fan, or other devices to create an environment that suits your needs.
• Do calming activities before bedtime, such as taking a bath or using relaxation techniques can promote better sleep.
• Spend time outside in natural sunlight during the day has been shown to improve sleep.

All the info you just read is all available through a quick Google search, however I find many people don’t want to make the changes necessary to improve their sleep. 

Here’s why…..

Food, caffeine, alcohol, and entertainment are providing the person with a feeling of pleasure. 

Are you someone that struggles with changing your lifestyle habits, even though you know they aren’t good for you and have a negative impact on your sleep?

#1 reason that stops a person that knows better is negative feelings about oneself.

Pray every day – Connect with Jesus Christ/God and ask for the strength and power to overcome your negative feelings.

Example of a prayer is: “Thank you Jesus for providing me the strength and energy to overcome the negative feelings I have about myself.”

Pray first thing in the morning and before bed for strongest impact. 

Next, connect with those negative feelings.  Ask yourself, why do I have these feelings? 

It’s important to be aware of why they are there, so you can deal with them accordingly. 

For example, if you have negative feelings about yourself due to feelings of guilt.  It’s important to forgive yourself for your past mistakes or failures.  If you need help forgiving yourself, ask Jesus for support.

Prayer: Thank you Jesus for giving me the strength to forgive myself for my past mistakes and failures. 

These types of prayer help you to surrender, so you can let go of the emotional pain limiting your life, stressing you out affecting yourself.

If negative feelings are not responsible for your struggles with stopping habits that keep you await at night. 

Ask yourself, “What feeling do I want more of.”  Often it is something very simple like comfort, joy, love or calmness. 

Use similar prayers as above to fill your soul with what you need to feel full.

Example of prayer: Thank you Jesus/God for giving me to strength to experience more calmness in my life. 

Find the prayers that work well for you and spend a few minutes doing them every day.  Overtime you will feel more enriched.

If you would like more help getting over your sleeping troubles I can help you through my Distance Healing Sessions. 

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“Past failure is not a predictor of your future success.”

What would your life look like if you forgave yourself from your past mistakes and weaknesses?

All change begins with being honest with yourself. 

To be healthy you must have a healthy belief about it. 

Have you ever thought, “I’m not healthy because I don’t deserve it.” Or “I am not healthy because my mother isn’t (or someone else you are related to).” 

Thoughts like these, stem from shame and self-doubt resulting in feeling like a victim.  This type of mentality takes away personal responsibility and power to heal.  Leaving the person feeling helpless, hopeless and blaming others for their problems. 

To have the power to heal you must first have more energy.  Second you must take full responsibility for your health and positive transformation. 

Look at any negative beliefs you have about health and flip them to healthy ones and embody those beliefs. 

For example, if you flip the negative beliefs above to a positive one like “I am so happy and grateful I am healthy.”

Do your best to visualize and see that you’ve already achieved this and embody the feeling of it. 

The more you do this the more your brain will believe it. 

Your brain doesn’t know the difference if something has happened in real life or made up in your brain. 

Every time you have strong feelings, your brain produces the chemicals in alignment with the feelings.  For example, when you feel grateful your brain produces serotonin and dopamine and when you feel fear you produce adrenaline and cortisol.    

Also, you will become aware ways of being and staying healthy that you didn’t notice before because your awareness was focused on negative beliefs and feelings about health. 

It’s important to consciously focus on what you want each day first thing in the morning to set your intentions for the day.   

“The greatest gift you can give to the world is being the healthiest version of yourself.”

Self-doubt is not a signal to stop.  Doubt is a signal to learn. 

If you are not growing, you die or at least a part of you does.  Hence, if you’ve ever done the same thing day in and day out you feel bored, uninspired, and often drained.    

The secret to happiness is progress.  People feel alive when they are growing.  

But it can be scary.  The fastest way for you to break free of your comfort zone is by working with a person or people that have done what you want to achieve. 

If you don’t have goals, life will give you problems to help you create goals. 

For example, if you are struggling with chronic digestive problems.  Now your goal is to get rid of (heal) those digestive problems. 

However, to truly heal from any health problem you have to change who you are to prevent the symptoms from returning.   

Find a role model no matter your age.  Do what they are doing so you can be the greatest version of yourself. 

Find someone that is really good at what you want and train with them. 

Commit to what you want to learn each year. 

Schedule it. 

To do this you will have to conquer any fears of not having enough time and money. 

Find help with conquering fears of not enough time here

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