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The Ultimate Cure: The Healing Energy Within Youby Jim Dreaver, D.C.
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All healing stems from the fundamental spiritual energy of life itself, the beauty and power that is the source of creation. This energy is a rich and vibrant reality that can be accessed in every moment. It is experienced in the body as aliveness and joy, in the heart as peace and love, and in the mind as clarity and wisdom. The more you open to it, the more it heals, renews, and transforms every aspect of your life. How to connect with this energy is the subject of my just-released book, The Ultimate Cure: The Healing Energy Within You. The theme of the book--and the goal, or "ultimate cure," of the healing journey--is to discover the happiness that is your true nature, that is the direct manifestation of the source energy within you. This happiness is completely independent of circumstances. Once you're in touch with it, everything takes on new meaning. Physical pain and illness either clear up completely, or become much more tolerable. Psychological and emotional conflict fall away. You no longer worry about anything, or struggle to make things happen. You're more in tune with the deeper creative rhythm of life. You begin to discover for yourself that when your intention is clear and you have no attachment to outcomes, things happen very quickly. Your relationships become richer and more satisfying. Life in general is more spontaneous, more effortless, and more truly rewarding on all levels. How do you get to this place, where you live each day in the "flow"? Here are the three elements that I have found to be most important: FIRST, and foremost, you must learn to be very present, grounded, and centered in your body. Tapping into the source of inner peace and happiness is so much easier when you're relaxed and comfortable in your body. Slow, deep, conscious breathing--all the way down into your belly--is an excellent technique for releasing physical stress and tension. Movement and exercise are very important too. I love to do yoga and run along the country roads near where I live. The secret is to learn how to move your own energy, so that it doesn't stay stuck or contracted. SECOND, your heart must be open. This means being sensitive to what you're feeling. It's allowing space for your emotions to be there. It's practicing self-acceptance, not judging yourself for the mistakes you've made. It's accepting, feeling, your own suffering, and being open to the lesson in it. (Once you get the lesson, you won't have to go through that particular form of suffering again). Then it's extending self-forgiveness out to others, especially those who have wounded you. When people do hurtful things, it's because, at a heart level, they're completely unconscious. They're out of touch with the source, with the underlying unity, beauty, and sacredness of life. Their souls are crying out. People who wound others are themselves very wounded. Only through compassion and forgiveness are these deep wounds healed. The THIRD component of this threefold approach to transformation has to do with quieting and clearing the mind--and, ultimately, getting free of the grip of ego, of the attachment to "I," "me," and "mine." Meditation teaches you to dispassionately witness, or observe, the thoughts, images, and sensations that arise in your awareness. This in itself is an incredibly liberating skill. It gets you unhooked from the ever-changing drama and chaos of worldly and mind/body phenomena, and brings you to ease, clarity, spaciousness. You start to tap into the deeper spiritual energy that is always here. Then you can begin to observe the "observer," this "self" you've taken yourself to be. Enlightenment is simply living without any self-image or self-concept. It's to live from the openness and spontaneity of your being. You still have an ego, but it becomes much more transparent. It doesn't get in the way. When you stop holding onto any image of your self (even as a "spiritual seeker") an enormous amount of energy is released. Your real beauty and magnificence start to shine through. Dr. Jim Dreaver lives and practices in Northern California. For more information, see his listing under Alternative Medicine in The Share Guide's Holistic Health Directory.
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