| Healthcare Reform in the United States has been | | | | valuable thing on earth. |
| getting a lot of press lately, and one thing seems | | | | Good intellectual health is clear of mental blocks and |
| certain; we continue to place a monetary value on | | | | free of judgments. Instead of having self-limiting |
| life. Something that should be a right is being used for | | | | beliefs, you see that all is possible. Rather than |
| extreme profit and individuals all across the world pay | | | | judgments, you observe the truth about this |
| the price. No matter where you are in the world, you | | | | moment. When you free yourself of self-limiting |
| cannot count on a government or privatized | | | | beliefs, you stop asking why something isn't possible |
| healthcare system. It's time to depend on yourself | | | | for you and begin asking how you can bring what |
| for the best care in the world. | | | | you desire to fruition. You no longer search for |
| There are 4 areas of health that should be focused | | | | reasons why you can't have something, and instead |
| on and they exist in the following hierarchy: Spiritual | | | | search for how to make it possible. |
| Health, Intellectual Health, Emotional Health & | | | | Many millionaires failed at several different businesses |
| Physical Health. | | | | before they found success. They knew they could |
| Think of each level as including the levels below it. | | | | do it. They just needed to find the right combination |
| When we address our spiritual health, we are in | | | | of planning, materials, and process to make it |
| effect including the other areas. What most of us do | | | | possible. Success was never in question. Finding a |
| is address only our physical health, and we only do | | | | way to that success was what they focused on. |
| that when we want physical pain to go away or to | | | | Regardless of what it is you would like in your life, |
| be more visually pleasing. This article will take you | | | | you must first believe that it is possible. By doing so, |
| through all 4 levels, beginning with the lowest level | | | | you release the creative genius that is trapped in |
| and moving towards the highest. | | | | your subconscious mind, and you allow your soul to |
| Physical Health | | | | provide some direction through intuition towards |
| The physical health level is really where we see the | | | | what you seek. |
| results of our view of the world. It is where | | | | Next, you must believe that you deserve it. In truth, |
| symptoms of problems show themselves when we | | | | there is no such thing as deserving or not deserving |
| do not pay attention to the other signs we receive | | | | something. That is something that we made up in |
| from the other levels. As an example, a person that | | | | society as a way of controlling the behaviors of |
| went through a bitter divorce 25 years ago, but still | | | | others. If you do this, then you are deserving, but if |
| holds on to the anger associated with that | | | | you don't, or you do that, you are not deserving. |
| relationship may later develop cancer, ulcers, or | | | | Spiritual truth is significantly higher than societal truth, |
| asthma. These are all conditions associated with | | | | and the spiritual truth is that abundance is available |
| holding on to anger, or feelings of being trapped by | | | | for everyone. You need only realize that it is yours |
| anger. We will treat the physical symptom of the | | | | for the taking. To believe that you are not deserving |
| much deeper issue, but we very rarely look for the | | | | is to create another self-limiting belief. It is only true if |
| source of the problem, which lies in our thinking. | | | | you believe it to be. |
| Caroline Myss publishes wonderful material about this | | | | Lastly, remain observant to the opportunities that will |
| phenomenon, if you are interested in understanding | | | | come pouring into your life. They may have always |
| this point further. | | | | been there, but you may not have been able to see |
| The other side to physical health is understanding | | | | them. Or, because of your change in thought, you |
| that while you are not your body, you as soul | | | | are now attracting opportunity to you. Either way, |
| experience the physical realm through your body. | | | | look for the opportunities that can lead you where |
| Your body is a container. Actually, it's more like a | | | | you want to go, and then pursue them with the |
| vehicle. So as a visualization, your body is the car | | | | confidence that you can do it. |
| that gets you from here to there and back again, | | | | Freedom from judgment is the other side of good |
| and you (soul) are the driver. Your senses are like | | | | intellectual health. When you observe the truth of the |
| the indicators on a car dashboard. They collect and | | | | moment, you aren't making a declaration as to what |
| communicate data about the environment around | | | | someone or something is. Rather, you are stating |
| you, about the status of the vehicle, and they can | | | | what that person or situation is expressing now. So, |
| alert you to potential physical issues. | | | | when you see a guy slam a door in anger, you don't |
| When your car breaks down, you are stuck without | | | | label him an angry person. Instead, you understand |
| transportation. The same is true of your body. When | | | | that right now, he is angry. |
| it is severely damaged, it will limit your mobility. When | | | | The judgment that he is an angry person will have |
| the damage is taken to the extreme, it can no longer | | | | you see him that way regardless of how pleasant he |
| hold the driver. Also, you can have small issues that | | | | is. However, the observation that he is angry right |
| mount up to cause a major breakdown. Most of us | | | | now allows for him to not be angry in the next |
| actually take better care of our cars and homes than | | | | moment. Rather than putting a label on him to wear |
| we do ourselves. We'll spend the extra dollars on our | | | | for all eternity, you are allowing yourself to see what |
| cars for top-notch oil, regular car maintenance | | | | else is to this individual. You can observe what he is |
| appointments, and carefully watch the miles we put | | | | expressing in every moment you are in his presence, |
| on it. However, we will not pay extra money for | | | | which will give you much stronger indications as to |
| more healthy and natural foods, regular doctor and | | | | the type of person he is. Just as no one knows |
| dentist appointments, and ensure that we are | | | | everything there is to know about you, you cannot |
| receiving enough water and rest. | | | | know everything there is to know about him. So by |
| Emotional Health | | | | observing instead of judging, you are allowing for |
| The emotional health level deals with our ups and our | | | | that which you do not know about him to become |
| downs, and the lack of balance we feel emotionally. | | | | known. |
| We have poor emotional health when we allow our | | | | Spiritual Health |
| emotions to run back and forth between extremes, | | | | Spiritual health is the understanding of who you really |
| or when we give our ability to control our emotions | | | | are. Good spiritual health allows you to see that you |
| over to someone else. The extremes we run may | | | | are a part of spiritual energy and that same energy |
| be between depression and high points of temporary | | | | of creation is a part of you. In essence you are it |
| happiness. It may be between anger and indifference. | | | | and it is you. Everything is of spiritual energy. |
| It may be between cockiness and insecurity. Poor | | | | Therefore, everything is connected through spiritual |
| emotional health also results when we allow others to | | | | energy. When you understand this truth, you begin |
| "push our buttons." In reality, we are simply reacting | | | | to see that you can understand other people by |
| to them in the way that we always react to a similar | | | | seeking internally to understand yourself. Rather than |
| situation. We have an emotional trigger that someone | | | | searching for God out there in the heavens |
| has figured out how to set off. Our conditioned | | | | somewhere, you know that you only need to look |
| response kicks in, and we feel as if we are out of | | | | internally to see that the energy of God has been |
| control of the results. | | | | inside of you all along. You carry within you the |
| Good emotional health lies within a middle approach | | | | answer to every question ever asked or that has |
| to our emotions and within taking responsibility for | | | | yet to be asked. You are infinity extended in all |
| how we respond emotionally. For example, between | | | | directions. Everyone and everything is simply an |
| cockiness and insecurity lies a healthy confidence and | | | | individual expression of that oneness. |
| courage. Between anger and indifference lies | | | | To see this oneness in all things will change how you |
| blamelessness and forgiveness. Between depression | | | | interact with the world. You will see yourself inside of |
| and temporary happiness lies healthy self-esteem and | | | | each and every person you encounter. You will see |
| bliss. The key to stopping the emotional extremes is | | | | the world in multiple dimensions, and not just the one |
| to center oneself in the middle of situations. In | | | | dimension (surface) that we rely on today. You will |
| learning how not to take things so personally or to | | | | understand that energy is all there is, and that |
| ignore them completely is the key to seriously looking | | | | everything is energy. Rather than seeing the |
| at and taking responsibility for your emotions. Your | | | | permanence of everything, you will see that |
| emotional response is always your decision, | | | | everything is transitioning into something else. |
| regardless of whether or not you consciously make | | | | Everything is a process. Change is the only constant. |
| that decision. And when our emotional health is poor, | | | | When you meditate or pray for something to |
| we can feel the effects physically. | | | | manifest in your life, that prayer is extended |
| The other side to good emotional health is taking | | | | inwardly, and you know that it must be created, |
| responsibility for your emotional responses. Eleanor | | | | because you and the creative energy are one. |
| Roosevelt once stated, "No one can hurt your | | | | Poor spiritual health is seeing everything as separate |
| feelings without your permission." In other words, | | | | and seeing who we are as the body we inhabit. Just |
| people do and say what they will, and you choose | | | | in seeing that everything is separate, competition and |
| how you will respond to it. We are so used to playing | | | | indifference to the suffering of others is automatically |
| the victim role in our lives to escape responsibility | | | | born. You will not see yourself in other people |
| that we habitually respond the same way in like | | | | because to you, who they are is separate and |
| situations over and over again. To us it feels as if | | | | distinct from you. The mantra here is, "every man |
| someone else always controls how we feel. In | | | | for himself." When someone is having a difficulty, you |
| actuality, you decide how you will feel each and | | | | think, "better him than me." When you have a |
| every time. When you choose to take on that | | | | struggle, you ask, "why me." When you pray, it is |
| responsibility, you take away the emotional remote | | | | more of a hope that this being you call God will |
| control you previously gave away to anyone that | | | | choose to not victimize you anymore and bring you |
| wanted to push your buttons. | | | | what you request. Friends are people that don't |
| Intellectual Health | | | | cause you pain and that bring you pleasure. Enemies |
| Our intellectual health deals with how we think about | | | | are people you see as standing in the way of your |
| ourselves, other people, and the world around us. | | | | happiness or ushering pain into your life. You see |
| This is the level of our thoughts, beliefs, and | | | | yourself as either victimizer or victim depending on |
| judgments. Poor intellectual health consists of | | | | the circumstances. |
| self-limiting beliefs and the trafficking of judgments. | | | | Good spiritual health dictates that you need no one's |
| Self-limiting beliefs are those beliefs we invest our | | | | approval, because everything is an expression of the |
| energy into that prevents us from being all that we | | | | same source. Poor spiritual health produces good and |
| can be. Examples may be, "I'm not deserving of a lot | | | | bad, benevolent and evil, and right and wrong. Good |
| of money," "I'll never find love," "They will never | | | | spiritual health teaches that you are born to express |
| promote me," "Beautiful women aren't attracted to | | | | the spiritual energy that lies at your center. Poor |
| me," "There are no good single men out there," and | | | | spiritual health teaches that you were born evil from |
| "I don't deserve the very best." | | | | day one, and that you must be delivered from that |
| What happens is that we create and believe these | | | | evil through organized religious rituals by those that |
| self-limiting beliefs, and then our actions flow from | | | | are "appointed" to speak with God on your behalf. |
| them. So, when we believe that we don't deserve a | | | | Good spiritual health will show you that every |
| lot of money, we don't seek, and are not open to, | | | | moment of your life is a spiritual expression. Poor |
| opportunities to create wealth. When we believe that | | | | spiritual health ensures that certain moments, |
| we will never find love, we simply stop trying, and | | | | locations, and clothing are sacred, while others are of |
| we may even reject what appears to be love | | | | the devil. |
| because we can't believe it is possible for us. When | | | | Good spiritual health says that everything is one. Poor |
| we believe that beautiful women or handsome and | | | | spiritual health shows us a battle between God and |
| good single men are not available or interested in us, | | | | Satan (or whatever the comparable gladiators are in |
| we don't see them when they are right in front of | | | | your way of thinking), which will determine our fates. |
| us, and we don't believe they can be really attracted | | | | Good spiritual health says that heaven exists in every |
| to us, even when they show us all the signs. When | | | | moment of life, and that we can experience it if we |
| you don't believe that you deserve the best, ask | | | | allow ourselves to. Poor spiritual health says that the |
| yourself what you are willing to accept. | | | | God that loves you will send you to hell if you don't |
| Judgments create mental barriers between the truth | | | | do what He says through your "free will" and will |
| and us. When you believe that someone is ugly | | | | send you to heaven if you do. Good spiritual health |
| based on whatever criteria you use, you fail to see | | | | promotes unconditional love at all times. Poor spiritual |
| the beauty they also possess. When you judge | | | | health promotes conditional love based on the good |
| someone as bad, you may have caught them in a | | | | or evil that you do in life. |
| rare moment, but will never know what value they | | | | Of the four areas of health, spiritual health is the |
| can add to your life because of how you decided to | | | | most powerful. It is up to you to see that by taking |
| now see them. Your judgment prevents you from | | | | a spiritual approach to the various areas of your life, |
| seeing anything other than your judgment. In | | | | you can have health in all areas of your life. To see |
| essence, you've made a decision about how you will | | | | yourself as separate and distinct, to give your power |
| see that person going forward. The phrase, "the first | | | | to communicate with divinity away to someone else, |
| impression is a lasting one," testifies to the affect our | | | | and to live as both victim and victimizer is the life you |
| judgments have on people. With little to no | | | | live today, which is not working towards your bliss |
| information about a person or situation, we quickly | | | | and internal peace. Good spiritual health is to live |
| judge it and see it in that light for a very long time or | | | | within heaven on earth, while poor spiritual health is |
| even until our death. Even when all subsequent | | | | to live a hellish existence on earth. Both are here and |
| behavior and situations run counter to your | | | | now, and both are within your choice to experience |
| judgment, you hold onto it as if it were the most | | | | and express. |