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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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In my last blog I wrote about 5 Biggest Obstacles that can stop you from achieving your health goals.  If you haven’t read it yet, click here.

In this blog I’m going to tell you how to overcome the Obstacle of Time when it's interfering with your health.

Not having enough time is one of the most common excuses people use as their reason for not being healthy.

I get it.  I've used the excuse of time many times.  But I realized that it wasn't helping me.  It was only holding me back.

Have you ever said:

• I don’t have enough time to exercise.
• I don’t have enough time to meditate.
• I don’t have enough time to prepare healthy meals.
• I don’t have enough time to go see a practitioner that will help me.

The real reason behind it if you use time as an excuse is you are not making the time.  And it likely you just haven’t developed the skill of how to best utilize your time. 

What if you had massive success doing what you need to do to achieve your health goals.  Would you make the time then?

If you feel short on time for health or want to make more time to create better health for yourself start with looking at where you could be wasting your time. 

How much time do you spend watching TV per day, scrolling social media, or some other form of entertainment that only gives you short term happiness.  But doesn’t move you any closer to your health goals?

The US average daily stats for watching TV, social media, gaming and browsing websites are:

• TV – 3hr 16min
• Social Media – 1hr 27mins
• Gaming – 1hr 46mins
• Browsing Websites – 51mins

That’s over 7hrs per day if someone is doing all these things.  Over 49hrs per week, over 196hrs per month and over 2352hrs per year. 

But say you are only consuming 1hr per day.  That’s 7hrs per week, 28hrs per month and 336hr per year. 

How different would your health be if you invested that time into your health (or another important goal)? 

Your time is more valuable than money. 

If you were offered $100million dollars, but you would have to die tomorrow would you take the money or would you want to live longer?

Leave a comment below with your answer.  But I’m guessing you would choose to live longer.

To value time, you must change your mindset of it. 

It can be difficult at first if this is a new perspective for you.  

To help, wake up each day and remind yourself, “I’m going to make the most of this day and my time.” 

To help with that write out WHY TIME is so valuable to you. 

Write out at the beginning of each week what are 1-2 most important things you want to do each day for your health and make sure you do those things within the first 2hrs upon waking.    

Once you develop the habit of this you will see how beneficial this is for you and the changes that come along with it. 

Comment below if you know what 1-2 of the most important things are for your health goals.

If you would like to learn more about how to better use your time to achieve your goals I recommend reading or listening to the audio book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris.  It will help you develop the skills you need to better utilize your time and more.    

Click here for The 4-Hour Workweek

I’ve decided to post about each of the 5 Biggest Obstacles separately to help with implementation. 

Next post will be about How to Overcome the Obstacle of Money if it is in the way of you achieving your health goals.  Stay tuned. 

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Do you have a big health goal you want to achieve?

But feel there is something getting in your way of achieving it?

You are not alone. 

As a teenager I wanted to learn how to heal myself because I had several symptoms that made me feel awful. 

Little did I know that this goal started shifting my life in a direction that I could have never imagined. 

Something you are likely aware of though, when you set goals, obstacles begin showing up because you start moving out of your comfort zone into the unknown.

I’ve learned that there are 5 Big Obstacles you want to be aware of, so you can deal with them if they arise.  

Knowing what the obstacles are and how to deal with them makes it much easier to overcome them.  Then you don’t get stuck or lose faith in yourself and give up on your health goals.   

Look at obstacles as an opportunity for growth.  On the other side of them is the thing you really want.

5 Big Obstacles that show up when pursuing your goals:

• Time – “Believing you don’t have enough time to do the thing you want.”
• Money – “Believing you don’t have enough money to purchase what you need.”
• Spouse – “My spouse won’t allow me or doesn’t support me going after goal.”
• Fear – shows up when you view your life from a place of lack, victimhood, doubt and or failure.
• Shame and Self-Doubt – this is signaling that past failures are controlling your reality. 

When I first wanted to go to Chinese Medicine College to become a TCM doctor my girlfriend at the time told me if you do that, I will break-up with you. 

She thought it was weird and gross and I allowed her opinion to influence me out of going at the time.  So, instead I signed up at the local community college to pursue a degree in Environmental Technologies.   

However, 1 month later we broke up.  I was already signed up for the Environmental program, but something felt off the whole time. 

When I began the program, I started getting a strong voice in my head saying, “YOU NEED TO GO TO CHINESE MEDICINE SCHOOL.” 

I tried to ignore the voice, but it kept getting louder and louder, until finally, after being in the program for just 4 days I told myself, “Enough, I will go to Chinese Medicine School!”

That day, I called the Chinese Medicine College and asked them if they had space for me. 

I was put through to the dean and he said “Yes, we have room for you.  Come in on Monday to start."    

In that moment a huge weight lifted off me.   

The first day I started everything felt right.  I knew I was in the right place, and it was one of the best choices I made for myself.  

From making that one choice it opened so many more doorways for me to improving my health, overcoming many symptoms, along with helping people all over the world.   

None of this would have happened if I didn’t take the first step.  Plus, I met Keri at Chinese Medicine College. 

Next week I’m going to release the info on how to work through the 5 Big Obstacles, so you can achieve your health goals easier.   Stay tuned…

Becoming clear on the things in your lives that are driving your body towards negative stress and less joy is huge for healing.

You may know right away what your top stressors are. However, if you don't, you may have gotten used to living on auto-pilot and may not even recognize that you have any stress at all.

Getting in touch with what is creating negative stress and less joy is crucial for your healing so that you can consciously choose to change it.

Below is a guided intuitive meditation.  I suggest getting quiet with yourself to ask your body what your biggest stressors are and what you can do to bring more ease, peace and joy into these areas of your life. Or, if you need to let these stressors go, what is blocking you from doing so?

Questions to Ask Yourself

• What areas of my life are holding stress for me? 
• What can I do to bring more peace and ease to these stressful areas of my life?
• Do I need to let them go?
• Do I need to do something different?
• What is my body asking for in these situations or stressful areas?
• What area of my body am I holding this stress?
• How do I release these stressors from the tissues, organs of my body?

Join me in this Guided Healing Meditation to Connect with your Heart. 

In this guided meditation I take in on an intuitive journey to see what lies within your heart.   

I use this meditation when I need answers about making important decisions and to bring in new information into my consciousness to support positive change.    

So, if there are questions you need answers to, relationships you need healing with, set aside 24mins to connect with your heart.

Can Self-Love actually be enough to power intentional healing of the body?  

Most people think that love requires other people, but even self-love has the power to move mountains. Love really does have the power to heal us from the inside out. In fact, love has been proven to heal wounds at rapid paces. 

So, what exactly is Self-Love??? 

How can we know if we are truly loving ourselves unconditionally? 

This has taken me a lot of thought. 

When I was hard on myself and especially my body, my body internalized that self-judgement with chronic body wide pain. 

My body ached and burned for me to pay attention to it and love it just the way it was. It took me a lot of time to learn how to love myself. I think I am still mastering it and it may end up being my personal soul work in this life. 

Self-love has taught me that I am loving to myself when….. 

• I take the time to slow down in my life. When I allow for more flow and ease and give up the stress of trying to control situations. 
• Self-love to me has been the ability to look inward and ask myself questions while listening for my soul's answers. Listening to my intuition, my soul’s whispers have been my greatest ally. 
• Self-love has been revelling in the perfection that I truly am. Perfect right now. Every body part, every thought, every curve, every pound.
• Self-love is trusting my instincts and saying no when I need to rest or relax. This has not been easy for me. As an empath, I want to heal the world. Saying no has been an art for me. 
• Self-love has been about being kind and patient with myself and really accepting myself as a perfect creation of god/creator/spirit. 
• Self-love is about letting go of my judgements towards myself. I have learned that I am my worst critic. Quieting my inner critic with love and respect has been a vital part of my daily practice. It is sort of like brain gym for my negative Nancy. Correcting her behaviour when I notice her coming to visit. 
• Self-love is embracing my sensitivity. I tend to be a little emotional at times and can easily cry. Embracing this sensitivity has been so freeing for me. I have learned that showing my emotions in all situations has deepened my relationships with people and myself. 
• Self-love has been letting go of my past mistakes and forgiving myself. Thanking my soul for the knowledge and learning that came with it. After all, my biggest challenges have been my greatest teacher.  
• Self-love has been honouring my truth even when it is hard. Even when others disagree. I am still working on this one.  
• Self-love is about letting go of relationships and things that no longer align with my highest and best interest. 

It has also been about taking myself on dates, buying myself flowers and being my very best friend. It is about knowing that I deserve the best and giving myself permission to give that best to myself. I love to treat myself to the very best when I can. 

We can also lean into loving our partners/spouses/friends and even animal companions more. Making time for hugs and cuddles. Love of all kinds releases lovely hormones like dopamine and oxytocin. They relax the stress response and really make the body ripe for miracles. 

When we feel a lack of self-love, love and connection, we are more susceptible to imbalances in the body. Our bodies are so wise. The body shifts as our frequencies shift.

When we are out of cinq with love we can be more susceptible to...

• Chronic inflammation
• Immune system imbalances
• Elevated blood pressure
• Increased cortisol levels
• Pain
• Fatigue
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Increased reactivity to stress

This is really because lack of love can activate our stress response. 

When we feel love in our hearts we….

• Have more flexibility
• Immune systems are balanced
• Pain is less
• Your Heart beats stronger
• Hormones are better balanced
• Feel happy 
• Sleep deeper
• Blood sugars are more stable. 
• Exercise more, and our blood chemistry physically changes

SELF LOVE 

For me, it has been about learning to say no, taking time for myself and really turning my attention to self-care. 

Self-love has been about being kind to myself and loving every curve and dimple on my body. It has been about being my biggest fan, and my very best friend. 

It has been about being patient with myself and knowing that there is a great timing for everything. 

It has also been about self-forgiveness and even permission to let out the parts of myself that are not all that pretty. 

Self-love has been my greatest healing journey. 

Do you practice self-love? 

I would love to hear about it.  Leave your comments below.

Keri Fulmore
Medical Intuitive & Functional Medicine Practitioner

This is something I have been doing for many years and I feel that it has been a huge factor in my development and nourishing of my healing abilities, along with the maintenance of my own health.

What I am referring to is Meditating with a Tree. 

You know that feeling when you go for a walk or spend time in a forest; how relaxed and balanced you feel during and after.

That is because you are taking in some of the healing energies available to you.  So, what if you took the time to place your hands on a healthy tree and allowed yourself to feel the energy that it wants to share with you on an even deeper level?

This is what I do.  More specifically, I ask if the tree has a message for me, if it has a healing for me and if it has anything it wants to share with me.

You see trees have spirits too, they are alive, and they communicate through frequency.  Once you attune to the frequency you can understand their language. But that is for another conversation. 

If you want to increase your life force, as in help your body be and feel healthier, heal faster from illnesses and injuries, become more adaptable to stress, increase your intuition and simple become more resilient I recommend doing this simple of act of Meditating with a Tree.

The act of Meditating with Trees has a long history and there are many great people throughout history that proclaimed they gained healing power and enlightenment via meditating with a tree.

Two specific people are Buddha and Jesus Christ. 

How I Meditate with a TREE 

The way I meditate with a tree is I look for a strong healthy tree somewhere where I will not be disturbed (this can even be in your own yard).  I stand in front of it placing my hands on the trunk in a comfortable location with my eyes closed.  I breath naturally and allow myself to feel the energy of the tree. 

The more you do this the more sensitive you become to the subtle energy of the tree. 

If you have never done this before I recommend using the same tree daily to develop a relationship with it.  You will be amazed that overtime you will feel the love from that tree before you even touch it because it will be projecting to you when you are close by and even from further distances. 

To help deepen your relationship with the tree ask it questions like the ones I wrote above.  Along with asking it, “is there anything I can do for you?”  Trees love it when you give back to them.  This can be as simple of projecting love to them or visualizing them healthy. 

If you are hearing for the first time, it might sound strange.  But, think about it, you have nothing to lose.  If anything, you have much to gain. 

I’d love to hear from you.  Let me know if you have ever meditated with a tree and what your experience was like?

As a child and teenager, I suffered from severe irritability.  I felt like a ticking time bomb ready to go off if someone said or did something to trigger me.  It was rare if I didn’t wake up irritated and frustrated.

But these intense feelings I felt were the result of what was going on inside of me, creating perpetual stress.    

On an unconscious level I was attached to anger, frustration, fear and sadness to many people without realizing it.   

This was because at different points in my past I felt these people had hurt me through their words and actions. 

Though it was me that was still holding onto those painful experiences, because I didn’t know how to process them. 

Those experiences were kind of like undigested food rotting in my stomach, creating all kinds of different problems.

Those unprocessed negative experiences were telling my central nervous system (CNS) on an unconscious level to be in a state of fight or flight all the time, causing me to feel terrible.  

This made it very hard for me to relax and feel comfortable with myself and others. 

Physically, this affected my sleep, digestion and caused my body to feel tense and tight all the time.

At the time, I had no idea that I was still being affected from past experiences until I did this….

Quieted my mind and listened through meditation. 

When I first began meditating at age 20yrs old, I had a flood of negative feelings, thoughts and images arise to my consciousness.  It was quite scary and intimidating at first.  

But, I quickly learned an EXERCISE (listen to it below) that was centred around focusing on loving myself and other people. 

This powerful exercise helped me process the painful experiences, so I could finally overcome the pain they were causing me. 

It helped me to realize that I needed to forgive the people that hurt me and send love to them (including myself). 

All the negative feelings I was creating on a day to day basis were creating so much tension in my body that they were continually creating a toxic state for myself. 

As a result the physical, mental and emotional symptoms quickly resolved.

Clearing the stress in my mind also enhanced my intuition because it was no longer being blocked by stress and negativity.

When I decided to stop and observe, rather than reacted to every thought and feeling I experienced, it allowed me to create change.

Looking back at it now I find it amazing how simple it was to process the old emotional pain when I decided to let love in and let go. 

If you are anything like I was, the following Loving Kindness Exercise may be one of the most important things you do for your healing and moving forward with your life.    

Greatness doesn’t happen overnight, it’s created through regular consistent investment of your time and energy. 

You’re already putting your energy into things, why not direct your time and energy into things that help you to thrive.

Below I share 5 things I have been doing to help me increase my health and happiness and I know you will benefit from them too!

5 Things to Make 2019 Great

1. Exercise for 1hr daily. 

If you want to take your health to the next level exercise is the way to do it.  I have been working out, lifting weights and swimming 3-4 days per week for 2 months.  In that short amount of time I have built up more muscle mass, am physically stronger, improved my endurance and energy level, feel less stressed, and haven’t gotten a sick (in the most notorious time of year to get sick).  

On top of all that, I walk 1-2 hrs per day with my dogs.

There are so many benefits to exercise like:

• Stronger lungs = more oxygen to your muscles and brain = more energy.
• Protection from flus and colds.  Exercise increases immunoglobulins, which are proteins that help bolster your immune system and ward off infection.
• Mental calmness - Mood-enhancing chemicals, like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, flood your brain for a couple of hours post-exercise and for up to a day if you've competed in an endurance event, like a marathon. Stress? What stress?
• Healthy weight - You're blasting calories, even at rest. "For every 100 calories you burn during your workout, you can expect to burn 15 calories after," Example, If you went on a three-mile run, you would torch about 300 calories, which could mean zapping an extra 45 later.
• Healthy Heart – After every sweat session you lower your blood pressure for up to 16hrs.
• Risk of diabetes goes down - The more you work out, the greater your sensitivity to insulin. That, in turn, lowers your blood sugar levels, reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes.
• Physically stronger – regular exercise strengthens your muscles, bones and organs, helping to prevent weakness as you age.
• Anti-aging – Fitness buffs have more telomeres. The DNA that bookends our chromosomes and protects them from damage, which can slow the aging process, studies show.
• Melt away fat – After 4 weeks of regular exercise, your body ditches flab and gains muscle.  Overweight people who took part in a four-week program of moderate aerobic exercise in an Australian study reduced ab fat by 12%.  Wow, that’s fantastic!

2. Love yourself every day!

I have been focusing on loving myself unconditionally for the last 6yrs.

The benefits I have gained from this are:

• Less stress
• Attracted more friends into my life
• Developed healthier relationship with family and friends.
• Heal faster physically
• Feel more optimistic about life.

The trick to loving yourself is to tell yourself, “I love myself unconditionally,” and allow yourself to feel the how you react to that statement.

Allow yourself to fully embrace the feelings created by loving yourself unconditionally.

The next thing, I recommend you do is ask yourself, “What do I want to do today that will help me love myself even more?”

Ask yourself this question in a quiet & calm place and listen to the answer your body gives back to you.

3. Set a goal of something you really want to do for yourself? 

This could be a trip, get into better shape and health, learn a new skill or make a new friend.  

This is not limited to one goal, set as many as you would like, but remember to take action to make them happen.

4. Go somewhere you have never been before.

This helps you get out of routine, your comfort zone and realize there’s more to life than what is going on in your world.

I know when I go somewhere I haven’t been before I experience a lot of unexpected happiness. This is due to growing and learning new things, which stimulates serotonin production.

5. Meditate on a daily basis.

Meditation is amazing at showing you where you could be limiting yourself.  Limits create stagnation and stagnation is the root of all imbalances: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical.

Therefore, by meditating you have the ability to make the unconscious conscious and see how you are affecting yourself and make the changes needed to live a fulfilling life.

To help align with the happier and healthier version of yourself I have created the Meditation Removing Restrictions for you.

Have you ever wondered if SELF HEALING was possible for YOU?  

Perhaps you have read stories of miraculous healings in other people.  

I too wondered the same thing when my life turned upside down.  I was doing great.  I was eating all the right foods, exercising, loving my children, had a loving husband, but I learned that wasn't enough. 

One day suddenly out of nowhere I found myself in the 'dark night of the soul', or a very tomultuous health storm.  I was crippled with head to toe pain, burning, shaking, tremors and crippled posture.  I could barely get out of bed, let alone take care of my kids.  Doctor's told me I was normal and there was nothing wrong with me.  I had lost all hope.  

I didn't believe healing could happen to me, that is until I decided to take my power back.  Until I decided to take healing into my own hands.  

Find out what I did to heal my body in video below......  and what you can do to!

You are more powerful than you could ever imagine and if I can do it, so can you!

Self Healing Video