I get emails every day from people looking for therapy to get to the underlying stress behind their health issue.
Some of these people have serious conditions while others are noticing the physical effects of stress for the first time.
An email arrived from someone who wanted help with his life-long under-active thyroid problems and I replied with the details of my programme. His reply the next day was indignant “I’d expect my thyroid to be fixed in 3 x 90min sessions at the most really.”
“The Secret” and the marketing around the Law of Attraction have been great in increasing awareness of the long reach of positive thinking – however, I believe they’ve left the most crucial bit out -namely, the need for positive action.
A caged bird can think about freedom and the big blue sky all she wants, but it’s not going to come unless someone opens the door of the cage or she finds a way to do it herself.
And even when the door is open, her wings need to be strengthened so that she can re-learn how to fly the long distances she’s dreamt of flying. She needs to learn how to land, how to swoop, how to hunt food, what to eat, what to avoid…
And so it is when you’ve been suffering from a physical or emotional illness – from thyroid problems to depression.
- Present: The issue needs attention.
- Past: The things that led to the issue occurring in the first place need attention.
- Future: Your ongoing behaviour, self-image and recovery needs attention.
Miracles certainly do happen – I’ve helped people change track, feel better, overcome problems they’ve suffered for decades. Many of these people noticed something change from their very first session – but there were also others who took a good few weeks before that shift finally came to tumble the rest of the blocks away.
Miracles do happen. I’ve seen them. But they’re not magic and they don’t happen from voodoo – they happened because my clients did the work.
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Hi Reeta,
And building on your excellent thoughts, work is in itself miraculous.
What I mean is, so much is possible in any spectrum of life with the concentrated application of our efforts.
I’m constantly amazed by the fruits of sustained and dedicated application.
Work, for me, has always been ‘an ongoing meditation of the miraculous’.
I hope this makes sense to you.
Best of life, Robin
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Yes, it makes perfect sense.
“An ongoing meditation of the miraculous” – I love this! It’s insightful on a number of levels.
Thanks for dropping by Robin.
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It’s great to hear from your perspective that things aren’t a “quick fix” and can’t simply be “done for” someone. Good stuff usually takes time and effort – if not, I’d question (a) why hasn’t “everyone” done it, and (b) is it really worthwhile?
Applying yourself to the changes that you want to make is the first step; cracking on and doing something about those changes is step two. The right people with the right motivations can help you with these things, but ultimately, it is up to each one of us as individuals to do what needs to be done.
The reward of the change is so much greater if you know that you are the one that made it happen…
Hi Simon –
Your comment reminds me of a fable. There’s a a man watching a butterfly hatch out of it’s coccoon and he’s mesmerised by its stunning beauty.
The next year, he comes across a coccoon and it’s fallen and wedged beneath a pile of stones that are weighing down on it. There’s no way the butterfly is going to hatch out of that coccoon. He worries about the butterfly and wants to help.
But instead of limiting his intervention to just moving the stones away, he gets a knife and cuts the coccoon open and is disappointed to see the butterfly is pale and insipid with no colour.
The moral of the story is that the butterfly earned its beauty through the effort it put into its own transformation.
I always loved that story – thanks for reminding me of it!