An honest review on self-application from an injured Life Coach.
¨It is all learning!¨ Is a bit of a mantra for me. I can’t remember where I got it from, maybe my mother. Who also liked to say, “Everything is okay, the comb is lying in the butter” Ha! Oh, how I miss her.
I have learned so much from my Training with John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St. Clair and Michael Carroll about congruence and self-application. I guess if you want to be congruent you must live what you preach. Now that I’m recovering from a back injury I have plenty of time to look around in my own life, what am I supposed to learn from this? Patience jumps right out at me! And applying all that I have learned from to enhance my own healing; to apply my golden rule you have to work more not less to keep your health and fitness up as you grow older. I still go to Pilates 6 times a week and work with the amazing Pilates instructor Sonia Perez Figueredo in personalized sessions. I work with the pain, not against it, and keep my body strong and healthy so it can heal. It means no alcohol and very healthy food. I even managed to convince the spine specialist of this and he asked for a consult, as I made him laugh when I told him “I’m not a doctor, I don’t know anything about illnesses, I only know how to achieve good health”.
I also meditate regularly one guided meditation I use is from Dauchsy, called “Heal While you Sleep” and he begins explaining how we can heal ourselves with the unconscious mind. (He calls it the subconscious mind but as John Grinder says it must be called the unconscious mind because sub indicates that it is under something and thus that we know where it is in the brain, and we don’t. So I stick to the unconscious).
Sorry for the detour, in the guided meditation Dauchsy point that there is no known cure for a virus at this point, it is only our own body that can heal itself from that invasion and even when we get medication from a doctor, it is the body that transforms these chemicals into useful tools in a healing process. More over I had two sessions on-line with my colleague Fernando Muñoz, who guided me through what we know as the Healer within, a New Code NLP pattern that activates your unconscious to enhance your healing.
Dr. Bruce Lipton talks about the placebo effect, the cases where you are being told that you are given the perfect medicine for a given condition and instead they give you a sugar pill, and the patient feels better because the power of suggestion makes the person heal him or herself. And Dr. Lipton takes it even further: if the placebo is positive thinking, how does the negative thinking affects us? The Non-cebo effect, we can effectively make ourselves ill, with our thoughts – the same way we can heal.
So I’m applying all the guns, so to speak, I’m training not only Pilates 6 times a week, but I also do exercises at home 5 times, 5 min at a time and I have replaced my chair in front of my computer screen with a Pilates ball. I apply ice, I have a corset (doctors orders) and I meditate every day, to enhance my healing process and I eat extra healthy. The fact is that even though my perceptions is, that this is a painfully slow process, my spine specialist thought I had healed at an amazing speed for the last week.
Instead of being frustrated about the pain, the set back in my normal training, of not being able to go anywhere or be as social as I normally am, not being able to ride (which I love) for the time being and moving at a turtle’s pace, I can be grateful that I have all these tools, that I have access to the best medical care, that I’m being well cared for, that I get to spend a lot of time in my own company, which has inspired me to create more content for my blog, than I have for a long time. I am grateful that I get to be congruent and experiment first hand that what I preach does work, remember that in the end the tortoise won against the hare.