The Warnings
Numerous experts, research studies, practitioners, and those selling products warn that we can be harmed daily by poor lifestyles; poor quality foods that contain antibiotics, growth hormones, harmful colorings. flavorings, and additives; detergents; makeup; plastic containers; electronic devices; dry cleaned clothes, insecticides and herbicides; 80,000 new chemicals being produced each year; first and second-hand cigarette smoke, petrochemicals and exhaust fumes, etc.

An MD Allergist says these cause “cancer, asthma, allergies, skin rashes, chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivities and other health problems.

“We are exposed to these things all day long, most of them without choice. We can do our best to try to avoid most of these things, but we actually can’t avoid them.“

How are we reacting to these warnings?
We’ve learned and been taught in many ways to stay away from things that harm us: Our nervous system, survival instincts, “gut feelings”, beliefs and fears about safety, disease, infection, addiction, and prevention cause us to behave in certain ways (like washing our hands and avoiding harmful things).

For the most part we take the “bumps in life” in stride, make changes in our routines to deal with them, and live in a generally healthy state. But what happens when our reactions to these warnings become over-reactions, and we:
• start being bothered and worried,
• develop phobias and obsessive-compulsive patterns,
• increase our levels of anxiety, over-analyzing, over-internalizing, over-guarding, over-protecting, and over-nurturing?

Our conscious and unconscious reaction to these “over-protective” thought patterns weakens our energy flows in our body, mind and energy fields.

What are the effects of weakening our energy?
Any single weakening thought does not have much of an effect on us. But how many of these thoughts do we have in a day? Four times an hour for our wakening hours is about 23,000 times a year. The repetitive weakening can cause energy blocks, which in turn can cause symptoms.

Many authors have traced the effects of the mind body connection both in negative and in positive ways. (In the November 2007, issue of Oracle 20-20, my article on page 17 “Re-thinking the Breast Cancer Scare” relates how over-protective thoughts can reduce energy flows to a woman’s breasts, which can open her up to getting lumps).

Whether the warnings are accurate or not, our belief that “we are at risk” is enough to “cause us to be at risk”!

One writer said, “The deadliest self fulfilling prophecy in our culture is that we degenerate as we age”. A participant at a workshop on aging asked the experts who were conducting the workshop “What’s the best way to go, heart attack or cancer? I know something is going to get me!” This is a prime example of buying into all the warnings.

From an energy perspective we do not degenerate because another year goes by, we degenerate because we do not take care of our symptoms. So, what are we to do to effectively deal with all these risks?

There are four suggestions.
First, get better educated. Gain a deeper understanding of how our thoughts and feelings impact us. Possibilities are:
• Heal Your Body A-Z, by Louise Hay
• Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, by Karol K. Truman
• Healer Wisdom – Beliefs by Disease and Trauma, by Valeria Moore is for those who want to go into much greater detail www.healerwisdom.com.

Second, develop a healthy skepticism. Realize that numerous people smoke and drink, or get exposed to many different risks, and still live long healthy lives.

In the book In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan writes “…American Nutritionists, can’t fathom how a people who enjoy their food as much as the French do, and blithely eat so many nutrients deemed toxic could have substantially lower rates of heart disease than we do on our elaborately engineered low-fat diets.”

Third, learn how to deal with/eliminate your symptoms. There are an increasing number of modalities that teach how to make symptoms go away. Find those that help you work on yourself as well as others, and that show demonstrable, speedy results.

Fourth, cultivate a life of positive thoughts and thankfulness. Clinical research demonstrates that laughter stimulates our immune response. Dr. Bruce Lipton describes how our beliefs affect us in The Biology of Belief. Mahatma Gandhi said:

“Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny.”

© Energetic Well Being, LeRoy Malouf, West Barnstable 2008.

LeRoy Malouf helps people to quickly eliminate their symptoms teaching them to do the work for themselves and others.The Yuen Method© Full Spectrum Wellness Workshops and the Positive Power of Being Neutral©. Call 508-375-6452. For his upcoming workshops, see the events calendars or visit his web site at ewbp.com.