Healing Keys - Janie's Blog

It's Time - Self-Care

noreply@blogger.com (Janie) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:58:00 +0000

Self Care

Value Your Self

and Receive Healing Energy

Many of my sessions over the past weeks have revolved around lack of self worth. Lack of self-care so clearly leads us to exhaustion and illness. When we do our best to feel better about ourselves through the approval of others we forget about what would be good for us and do our best to please, sacrificing ourselves and our health in the process.

This attempt to get positive feelings about ourselves simply doesn’t work. We may end up with people feeling positively towards us but this won’t change how we feel about ourselves deep down.

The opportunity that is arising this month is to bust lack of self value and embrace self care.

This can bring up surprising challenges for us as this commitment to ourselves bares any issues blocking our self value. The way through is to commit to looking after yourself.

Take that walk that you’ve been wanting to take, visit that spa, have that special meal that you’ve been wanting. Whatever it is, It’s time.

KEY
Sit quietly and visualize yourself standing right in front of you. Notice how you look.

Ask yourself what it is that would really nurture you and listen for the answer. Be willing to give this to yourself, whatever it is.

Be willing to receive the energy of this nurturing and when you’ve received this, ask again. What else would really nurture you?

Keep asking and receiving - until you feel complete.

Please join me in dedicating this month, the month of June, to nurturing and loving ourselves. This is self-care month.

Love

Janie

Flu and Cold

noreply@blogger.com (Janie) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:39:00 +0000

Flu and Cold

Dear Friends,

Fall is here, and the leaf colours are fantastic everywhere. I hope it’s just as beautiful for you wherever you are.

It’s a funny thing – or is it ? - that in the Northern Hemisphere as autumn ends the flu and cold season begins. I have been wondering why this is. There are lots of theories about the physical reasons for this. Cold stressing the body – more bugs with the damp – people inside more with closer contact - etc. But what is going on with the mind:body connection ?

I have been working with some ideas. In winter we have less light and it is wetter. Water is a metaphor for emotion, so there is more emotion within us and around us. We spend more time indoors - perhaps we go inward more, bringing issues up for clearing. Both cold and flu are about moving emotion and, at some level, we have become overwhelmed.

One of the best ways through emotional overwhelm is to simply feel our feelings. We can take a little time (and a warm place) and just feel our feelings, whatever feelings they are, as deeply as we can. At the beginning of winter these feelings can often start with sadness.

Another way to handle emotional overwhelm is to ask Spirit for help and to move into our centre.

I’m approaching winter in a new way: welcoming it as a natural time for grounding and slowing down, welcoming the time to look inward. We can clear ourselves by:-

Asking Spirit for help
Centering
Feeling our feelings
Bringing in light instead of looking for it outside of ourselves
Seeing that even the wettest, darkest and bleakest-seeming winter has it’s own natural grace and beauty.

I am changing my mind about the onset of Winter . . Thanks for being inspiring !

With Love

Janie

from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Here are our Metaphors for Cold and Flu from the book , Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor by Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst.

Cold

This is a virus infection of the upper respiratory tract. A cold is showing us that we are sad and are holding on to someone or something, because of our fear of moving forward. We have losses that we have not finished mourning.

Influenza ('Flu)

The flu is a systemic viral infection, which reflects a strong feeling of being victimized. Sometimes there is a strong feeling that something is ending, and we don’t see a new beginning. We feel assaulted, exhausted emotionally and physically, and want to shrink away. We are knotting ourselves up over something and feeling a bit overwhelmed. As with all illnesses, but especially with the flu, we need to rest or slowdown, to reintegrate and re-center, and once more become willing to move forward. The flu represents how we are trying to escape the present situation and fly away.

Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst's eBook
Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor
is available on the website
http://www.healingkeys.com/healingbodyebook.htm

Welcome

noreply@blogger.com (Janie) — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:04:00 +0000

Welcome, looking forward to posting on my new blog.

My new website is to be healingkeys.com and i'm very excited about the energy that's coming through for this project. Feels like it's at the core of us.

much love
janie
xxx