Keep Focused on Where You Want To Go

Being February, cross country skiing is a favourite activity. When I help people find their intuitive knowing through workshops, I often have asked people to go for a walk to find answers in nature. It comes in various ways to people.

Personally I find that often nature and the outdoors speak to me through metaphors. Recently when skiing, I was finding myself on some trails that posed a bit of a challenge to me. If I worried about landing off the trail and into a creek or trees, my body took me there and I would fall in advance to protect myself . I watched myself and noticed how what I was doing resembled our travels on life’s path.

Before long I realized that as long as I could be disciplined enough to keep my eyes focused on the trail ahead where I wanted to be, my body could brilliantly take me there.

Next time I faced a challenging hill, I made a point of looking at the trail where I wanted to go. Oh I was so strongly tempted to let my eyes go to the object I feared and whenever I succumbed, my body took me to the very thing I feared.

As long as I kept focused on the path I wanted to choose, I was able to competently follow my eyes. I now use this metaphor when facing some challenges in life. I acknowledge the things I fear but find that by focusing my attention on where I want to go, I get there.

If you have some examples of metaphors from nature and the outdoors, perhaps you will share them with me and I will post them on this site for others to read.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Marie Knapp

marieknapp@rogers.com

Shelly Kuypers RN

Paradise Hill

Email: paradisesk@hotmail.com

Phone: 306-344-4638

Healing Modalities: Reiki, Therapeutic Touch

A Nia Experience

This afternoon, I spent two hours engaged in a Nia workshop. Nia is movement to music encorporating a combination of dance, martial arts and healing arts. Those of you familiar with energy flow may notice how the movement opens up your chakras and moves the energy through the joints. For me it is a form of self care.

As with Yoga, many people attend without realizing the underlying connection to energy flow. And it doesn’t matter.

I would like to point out that CHNA recognizes energy therapies supported by research. I am telling you about Nia as a means of exercising and at the same time possibly becoming aware of energy shifts in yourself. It is meant to be enjoyed. Personally I love it. :0)

Healing and thought energy

I was sitting down in my living room this morning having decided to spend just a few minutes skimming through Bruce Lipton’s Biology of Belief again. The reading only lasted a couple of minutes because something in there triggered a thought. It took me back to a conversation I had recently had with someone who was reading about the supplements prescribed by her naturopath. The book described how the body works and what it is “supposed to do”. She was amazed and commented “how does the body know to do these things and how to do it”? Perfect question. How does the body know? Well, the body is brilliant. It just knows.

Science and the mind have been life savers and have helped many people live a close to normal life that could not have otherwise done so. When the body is in crisis, the work the mind has done to try and unravel the mysteries of the body is helpful in trying to get it back on track. Using research to uncover what the well body does, can lead to ways to interfere with the disease or trauma to get the body working again.

Healing is different. Healing is about allowing the body, in fact the whole self, to do the work it does know how to do well. Healing is about allowing our body, mind, emotions and spirit to be its best in the circumstances in which we find ourselves even when in crisis.

Healing through a grieving process, for example, allows us to grieve well. Healing through a tough diagnosis allows us to be fully human with love for ourselves and others.

Healing with energy is a way to help create the right energetic environment in which healing can best take place. Our thoughts are energy too. Through our thoughts, we can allow ourselves to submit to the wisdom of the body rather than fight it. Healing is about being with the flow and being good to ourselves in the process, acknowledging the difficulties, feeling the emotional pains in our body and asking for guidance from that source greater than ourselves.

Thanks for listening. Now I will get back to Bruce lipton’s book and see what other things are triggered.

Wishing you health, joy, healing and love

Marie Knapp