2 Steps to Wellness

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Today, I’d like to share 2 simple steps to increasing wellness in your life.

I love Abraham Hicks‘ explanation that wellness is being in vibrational alignment with your Higher Self / Source Energy. 

So is there a recipe for well-being? Absolutely! The ingredients will be different for everyone, but what you dish out will be the same – a healthy, happy life.

Let your alignment with Well-Being be first and foremost and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be, do or have – but your dominant intent is to be JOYFUL.
~Abraham Hicks

So here’s what you need to do to feel good in body, mind, and spirit. These are your steps to wellness:

1. Figure out what brings you into alignment with Source Energy.
2. Add more of that and take out the rest.

“There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance – and in any moment, you are allowing it or not.”
~Abraham Hicks

You’re unique. There’s no one on this planet exactly like you.

Doesn’t it make sense that your recipe for well-being will be different than mine?

I appreciate the guidance world knowledge is providing me, but I’ve learned to check within to see what’s true for me. Take diet for example.  I’ve seen lots of articles on the benefits of tomatoes and onions, but I react to both. So what’s healthy for most people isn’t necessarily healthy for me.

Take a look at the ingredients in your life right now.  How do they make you feel?

• what you focus on – is your glass half empty or half full?
• your perceptions of people, things, the world in general
• the stories you tell about yourself and your life
• the people you choose to spend time with
• the movies, TV shows, books, magazines you take in
• your lifestyle choices
• your environment – what you surround yourself with
• your work
• your diet
• etc.

Often it’s not what we eat or do, but how we do it. About 10 years ago, I had what some would call the perfect vegan diet. Plus I was wheat and sugar free and avoided the long list of foods I’d become sensitive to. I stuck to it 99% for 3 years.  But I was so strict on myself that medical intuitives pointed out it wasn’t serving me.  My intentions were good, but I wasn’t being loving. So it didn’t matter what I ate…  Now I check in on a daily basis and my body tells me what I need. Last month, I was moved to eat a hamburger I spotted in the freezer in the natural foods section. I hadn’t had a hamburger in years. But because it was an answer to an inner call, I felt great about it.

Are you aware of how your choices make you feel? Do they help you spiral upwards on the Emotional Scale or spiral downward? Do they bring you closer to joy, empowerment, love, appreciation? Or do they bring you closer to fear, grief, depression, powerlessness?

Everything moves you.  But which way are you moving?

It takes practice to increase your moment-by-moment choice-by-choice awareness, but it’s worth it.

The cost of repressing, denying, avoiding, or overreacting to our emotions, is high. We’ve been paying it all our lives. As children, we learned to fulfill the conditions of everyone around us, trying to make them happy and ignoring our own emotional guidance system. The result is that we’ve lost touch with the messages of our bodies, minds, and spirits and end up in a state of physical, mental, or spiritual dis-ease. We end up unhappy and unhealthy. As Abraham  explains,

“Until the stakes are really high, most of you are … chronically holding yourselves away from the vibration of alignment that is so natural to you, so a little bit of attention to how you feel as a determination to feel better more of the time will take an effort.”

Once you’ve tuned in to how things make you feel on the Emotional Scale, add more of what nourishes you in body, mind, and spirit.

• Reach for the thoughts that make you feel good.
• Read the books and watch the movies that uplift you.
• Bless and appreciate the food you feel drawn to on any particular day.
• Make time for the hobbies you’re passionate about.
• Focus on the parts of your life that already bring you into alignment with Source Energy.
• Add love, beauty, and positive energy to your life.
• Find ways to connect to your Higher Self and Source.
• Take an action step in the direction of your dreams
• Appreciate those people, places, and things whose presence raises your vibration.
• Get the coaching, treatments, or services that resonate with your True Self.

And when you become conscious of what stops you from allowing wellness in, remove those things from your recipe.

• Get rid of the objects you associate with negative or painful times in your life.
• Change your job or change your thoughts about your job and co-workers.
• Stop filling yourself with substitutes to unconditional love: binge eating, drinking, drugs, shopping, etc.
• Don’t participate in gossiping, complaining, blaming.
• Recognize that some relationships aren’t meant forever.
• etc.

What’s your recipe for wellness? Listen in. Your answers are within you.  As you journey through the world, pay attention to what makes you feel good and leave out the rest.