But I was healthy before I was sick

Believe it or not the title of today’s post was actual words spoken by a real person. I guess what they were trying to convey was that there weren’t any indications of illness prior to the diagnosis. They made it sound as if everyone who gets a diagnosis shows signs and symptoms from birth and what we’re all waiting for is the manifestation of the illness.

The truth is that everyone was healthy before their diagnosis. Even if you were diagnosed at 2 days old, the previous two days, at least in the minds of everyone around you, you were healthy. I guess I find the line humorous because it implies that the person shouldn’t have been diagnosed with an illness because they were healthy. That’s the insidious nature of disease, it sneaks up on most and catches you when you least expect it. It’s able to do that because no one expects to be ill.

So what do you do with the notion of health? Can you be healthy once again following the diagnosis? Does health lie on a continuum? Do your expectations fall on a continuum? Those diagnosed with an illness can experience increased health because for many a diagnosis shifts their consciousness about their health and their bodies. It shifts caring for the body, mind, and soul from passive to active. That’s the greatest shift you can ever make about anything in your life; the ability to do it with intention.

When you make the shift from passive to active participation of consciousness you become engaged in your own life, not just related to health but on a variety of life experiences. You develop the understanding and the capacity to generalize your active consciousness to other arenas increasing your level of health in all areas of your life. You’ll find your relationships get healthier, your career gets healthier, and your spirit gets healthier.

Yes you were healthy before you were sick, but the cells in your body have a memory. They are able to remember being well so work toward activating that memory and improving your health.

Your body reflects your Mind

When you think of fitness, healthy or change your lifestyle, you probably think of a diet, exercise and supplements. What you may not realize is that nothing you do on the outside can never be long term without first addressing what is happening inside. Until you get your thoughts into form, create a healthy mind and change your thinking for you, you can never create the vision you have of yourself.

As you know, what you eat when you eat and how you eat all play a role in optimal health of your body. However, what you do not realize yet is that every thought you have, whether conscious or unconscious (more difficult to master), effects how you react to food and exercise you participate in.

The science of quantum physics says that our world is made of energy. All things, the car you drive to the air you breathe the thoughts which come and go (or get stuck in) your mind, are made of different velocities of particles of energy. These energetic particles are attracted to the same vibrations. The universal law of attraction states, “which is as it is called.” Birds of a feather flock together. What do you think of what you attract more of your life.

So if you have limiting beliefs subconscious mind that you may or may not even be aware of (such as losing weight will change my life and scared, I am not a “thin person” or I never been able to keep weight on no matter how I do) that are directly in conflict with your conscious desires (as I’m going to lose this weight once and for all, I develop my muscles or I’ll get my body fat down ) of the subconscious beliefs almost always prevail.

The reason this happens is two-fold. One, the subconscious is a very powerful force in your life. Primarily, your subconscious mind’s main responsibility is to keep you alive. No matter what else happens, it must keep your heart beating, your lungs taking in oxygen and your blood pumping. It also keeps you alive from a safety standpoint.

Your subconscious is comprised of multiple beliefs, which are represented by parts that are all looking out for your best interest. A great majority of your beliefs are often beliefs that have been with you for many, many years. As a child, you are an open book. You are ready to learn and grow and thrive. As things begin to happen, positive and negative, you begin adopting beliefs to assist you in surviving as a human. Given you are still a child, the resources available are limited, so many of the beliefs you adopt end up being a bit limited as well. They work great for the time, but may not work great as you grow and learn more and develop more resources. However, and this is where most people get stuck, those beliefs become engrained in your subconscious and never get challenged. You begin to react from these beliefs without even knowing you are doing so. They, in essence, become habitual responses that begin creating the patterns and themes of your life. You may change your conscious beliefs and desires, but your subconscious, the 88% of your mind that takes its responsibility of keeping you safe and alive very seriously, is not changing. These beliefs actually become blocks that sabotage your efforts and you don’t even know you are doing it.

The second reason your subconscious is most likely going to win out is that when you have conflicting intentions (as you do if your conscious mind has a desire and your subconscious mind has a different intention), is that your conscious mind has less energy and focusing power. If your subconscious makes up 88% of your mind and your conscious mind is the other 12%, using the science mentioned earlier that like attracts like, the majority of your energy is actually being focused on your subconscious intention. You end up with what you don’t want and you don’t understand why.

The only way to create change in your external world is to uncover what beliefs are actually being held onto by your subconscious mind. This is true of making money, advancing in your career and most definitely for losing weight, getting into shape and creating a healthy body.

When you have first identified where you are, you then can identify where you want to be. This is how you uncover where the conflicts are living. Using tools like Neuro-Linguistic Programming, the Nine Environments of Holistic Living, the Law of Attraction and the Process of Deliberate Creation, you can remove the blocks that no longer serve you, replace them with those that do and develop a daily plan for manifesting that which you most want to create for your life.

Fitness, weight loss and health begin in the mind and then manifest in the body. It is time to begin your quest toward total transformation. The power is yours. You simply need to begin.