Heal Yourself with Writing | By Catherine Ann Jones The following is an excerpt from the "Heal Yourself with Writing" on-line course. If you would like to enroll in the course, click here. We all know the value of psychology in uncovering our deepest feelings and the importance of catharsis in temporarily releasing our pain. Yet while psychological techniques may help prepare us for the journey of healing, they often are not enough to lead us through the deeper way of transformation. Healing without transformation risks re-living negative patterns over and over -sometimes even reinforcing them by repetition, rather than truly putting them behind us. What psychology does well is help us understand how we feel. What psychology doesn't always do is provide the way through. Einstein once remarked that significant problems cannot be solved at the same level of the thinking which created them. Only by rising to a higher or deeper level can an ultimate solution to psychological problems be found. Our lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we remember them. Memory can be either disabling or enabling. Dr. Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor and author of Man's Search for Meaning wrote that "...everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." What we think or imagine in fact is our reality, both individually and collectively. Healing and transformation is possible only through changing one's perspective from within. It is by making meaning out of memory that true healing and empowerment can occur. What story are you living? How do you choose to remember your story? Negative Patterns Negative patterns sometimes evolve for a reason. A child growing up in an alcoholic and/or abusive environment may create a wall around him or her for protection. Such defensive methods may actually ensure surviving emotionally and physically through challenging and threatening times in our lives. Years pass, however, and though now safe, these walls and other defensive mechanisms may sabotage our personal and professional lives. The wall is no longer needed yet it remains. It has become habitual. The first step is to become aware of what we have built around us. What stories we continue to tell ourselves to fortify the wall. Stories from the past live on in us long after the cause or effect is gone. For more information visit: > Heal Yourself with Writing | DailyOM Course Spotlight by Krishanti Wahla Do you want to start getting what you REALLY WANT (instead of just settling for what you think you deserve)? Do you want to reinvent yourself, creating a positive, powerful, sparkling, radiant presence that announces to the world how much you LOVE yourself and your life? Imagine the energy of your true spirit amplified across the entire spectrum. Imagine your spirit shaping the whole of your experience, creating lasting excitement, happiness and fulfillment. Believe it or not, you already hold the power to all this (and so much more). You just need to tap into the right internal energy. And this course will show you how! Your self-image is a combination of both your energetic vibration and your physical form. It informs the world of who you are, what you think of yourself, and how you expect to be treated. If your self-image is not in alignment with your true spirit, your vibration will feel tired, shabby, and low. Under these circumstances, you'll live a life pining away for those few bright spots that peek out amidst the ho-hum drudgery of daily monotony. Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. Fit and Fierce Over 40 2. Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting the Soul 3. A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back! 4. Break the Grip of Emotional Abuse 5. 21 Day Booty Core 6. Break the Grip of Past Lovers 7. 21 Day Yoga Shred For Men 8. 21 Days to Phenomenal Abdominals 9. 14 Days of Strength and Stretching 10. Overcoming Body Shame
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