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Finding Your Voice In The Silence

2/17/2018

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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
​-Doug Larson


Isn't it funny how we can run from ourselves by filling silence with sound? Stay focused on the chatter and you'll never hear what truly matters. I'll admit, I'm an addict to sound but so are you. From the moment you wake up, there's a screen in your face or sounds in your ears. How can you learn to listen if there's so much noise in the way? 
Some of us use this technique as a way to hide from ourselves because we haven't yet mastered self-talk and are still too afraid to try. If I'm busy following this week's political scandal I can't worry about my business. Others don't even know they're doing it. Blocking out their own voice for so long, they barely even hear it anymore. 
Your marriage with yourself must include the most fundamental of principles: listening to your partner. In our study, we are our own partners- and if you don't start listening to yourself you'll easily listen to others and be led astray. I feel like I'm always surrounded by rejection, and if I listen to their voices I'd never write another thing.

Be comfortable in silence, opt to turn off the tv today or drive to work without the radio. But be warned that when you venture into your silence you'll not only hear your voice but that of your fears as well. I've taken perfectly innocent bike rides to clear my mind that turned into 30-minute sessions of how I'm an utter failure. 
The self-talk radio will begin to blare it's top greatest hits about why you're a loser, a failure, incapable, selfish, unlovable, a bad parent, a bad child-maybe you've heard them before?
And this is where the temptation to plug in earbuds will be overwhelming because your silence is too painful. But as love guided me through negative self-talk, so wisdom guided me to silence where I found my healing and you can too.
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It starts with silence, then follows with listening. Many thoughts will pass your mind. Simple thoughts of budgets, family, bills… but stay silent longer and your thoughts will begin to deepen. Your fears ever more present, but your dreams will be too. 

​For me, the conversation usually goes something like this: "I should ask Jackie to go out dancing with me this Friday! We haven't been out in forever and I wanna go do something fun." But just as soon as my thoughts wander to dreams, the self-talk radio starts playing. "You'll go out Friday IF you don't get sick you mean. Who's gonna drive your anxiety riddled self? What're you gonna wear? You don't have any clothes, plus they probably don't even wanna hang out with you anyway. Look at you." And that's about the point I'd go running and screaming back into my bed to hide under the covers. 
But someone far wiser than me said our thoughts are but leaves in the stream of our consciousness. We have the power to pick each up, examine them, and let them go. We have the choice to keep them or to allow them to wash by us. 
This is one of the foundations of meditation, to allow the peaceful journey of thoughts and emotions into your stream of consciousness. So when I start seeing those emotions of fear, anxiety and low self-esteem swim by, I can let them do just that- go by. I'm in control and I can choose not to hold onto them. And if I do decide to pick up my anxiety and cradle it for a while, I know that I can always set it down too. The choice is completely mine.
​But just like you wouldn't only listen to your spouse for 3 minutes a day when you wake up, you also can't just listen to yourself for a few minutes a day.  
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​You are your greatest partner in this life, so listen and listen often-not just 3 minutes a day cross-legged on your floor, not just at the gym or in the shower. Truly give yourself the opportunity to listen and feel throughout the day- you got some important stuff to say!
As you watch your thoughts float by, remember that you and you alone are in control over what to do with them. Pick them up. Hold them. Let them go. Watch the stream flow. Find your voice in the silence. 

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Touch Your Inspiration 

11/14/2016

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Touch Your Inspiration

Many of us aren’t living our dreams, we are living our fears. Our actions are more attuned with our fears and self imposed limitations than our ability to dream and create.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are no real limitations in life, only “rules”, but no one said we have to follow them.

Even though this article is entitled “touch your inspirations," none of us can do that without first accepting fear and not allowing it to control our lives. In short, get out of your own way.

Have you ever heard someone on television that really spoke to your heart? Ever been in a room and seen someone whom you knew you’d like to meet? Maybe you’ve read a book and the author changed your life; perhaps it’s someone you personally know that inspires you. Everyone of us has been next to a person that inspired them, whether from afar, or in the same room. They incorporate everything we are striving to be, or wish to be. They’ve been where you are and made it out. They succeeded.

Becoming who we are purposed to be, (not “supposed” to be”) is a long journey, and none of us, no matter how stubborn, can do it on our own. ”But it’s scary out there” I hear some of you saying, and that’s all the more reason you need to reach up and out to those who’ve walked it before you.

Touching Inspiration

”I don’t want to be that weird guy who walks up to a complete stranger.”

“There’s no point in me emailing them, no one will ever read it.”

“I don’t even know what I’d say anyway.”

And that’s the problem You are responding by fear, not by your dreams. Let’s translate that. “I’m afraid they will not accept me.” “I’m scared that I will be disappointed so I would rather not try.” Lastly, “I’m worried that I’m not ‘up to par". That is fear talking. In order to touch inspiration, we must be willing to step outside of the “rules” and decide to make choices based on our dreams.

Find that person that inspires you, and tell them so. See a mom of 4 in the grocery store juggling a list, two toddlers and a teenager- tell her she inspires you. If someone has changed your life by putting themselves out in the arena -contact them and tell them so. Sure, you might not know what to say; maybe no one ever reads the email, maybe you’ll sound like a complete nutter…maybe. Or maybe, when you break the the conventional rules and touch your inspiration, it will touch you right back.

This exercise is more for you, than it is your inspiration, because it puts you in a state of gratitude. When you flood your brain with questions like, “Who would be my inspiration?” you are asking your brain to search for that which you are grateful for, those people who helped make what you are today and drive you to be better tomorrow. You become grateful in that very moment, wherever you are. And when you act upon those thoughts of “Who do I want to become?” you are living your dreams, not living your fears.

Challenge Accepted

Find someone who inspires you. Touching the person who has made the impossible possible helps you realize that your ideas are also possible and inspires you to keeping going.

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Know Your Headache

9/14/2016

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Know Your Headache

There are over 45 million Americans that have severe enough headaches to take them to the E.R every year. 1

It has been spoken and written often by our politicians, that in order to defeat our enemy, we must know our enemy. If you suffer from chronic headaches, the very first step is learning who the enemy is. So before you grab the bottle of Tylenol, learn what’s actually happening to your body first.

If we give a man a pill, it will help him for a day. If we teach him how to heal himself, it will help him for a lifetime. So which do you want? The easy solution sold to you, or the truth?

Tension Headaches

The majority of headache are considered “tension” headaches. These can have symptoms wide ranging between sufferers. A tension headache the tightening of muscles in your head. Literally. This can be caused by several factors, but the overall theme is stress. Life stress, food sensitivities, bright lights, illness, and even changes in the atmospheric pressure.

Vascular Headaches

Vascular headaches, a group that includes migraines, are thought to involve abnormal function of the brain's blood vessels or vascular system. 2 “The blood vessels in the head become enlarged, distended and inflamed, which alters the normal pulsation of the vessels and leads to a throbbing pain that usually worsens with physical activity.

Vascular headache is one of the four major types of headache, alongside muscle contraction (tension), traction and inflammatory headache. “ (from: News Medical Life and Science)

No one has been able to define specifically why these blood vessels tighten, but we know there are a few triggers like what you eat. Ripened cheese, cheddar, Brie, among others, onions, pickles, cured meats, avocados, fresh bread, red wine, sour cream, nuts, chocolate, coffee, tea, cola and alcohol are all things you should try avoiding. In an experiment at a Texas Neurology Clinic, over 25% of migraine sufferers improved when they stopped eating these foods. Also, anything that’s going to restrict your blood vessels will trigger vascular headaches.

Chemical Headaches 3

Use and long term use of commercial and over the counter pain relievers (to CURE headaches) causes headaches and/or makes them more severe. Some of the big players are codeine, acetaminophen, Demerol, ibuprofen and even aspirin. Yes. Aspirin.

A 1994 study soundly concluded a relationship between chronic acetaminophen use and kidney failure.

What’s “chronic” defined as, you ask? Try 1 pill a day for a year or more.

The survey also indicated that people who take large quantities of other pain relievers, such as ibuprofen, naproxen acetaminophen, may increase their chances of kidney failure eight-fold. 4

When the New England Center for Headache, took people who experience chronic headaches off their daily dose of five or six painkillers, the results were clear. Two-thirds of the folks said they were having less headaches by the end of the month! 60 days later, 45% said they were experiencing even less pain than when they were on the prescriptions/medications. To top it off, these participants also no longer had to suffer with the side effects of those medications such as dizziness, insomnia, lowered immune system, digestive problems and more.

No Matter Which You Suffer From

There are some simple steps you can take now to prevent/treat most headaches.

Dehydration is the most common cause of headaches, so knowing that, you have even more reason to drink more water. Remember that when we become adults, we no longer feel thirst until we’re already dehydrated. So go get a glass!

Low Blood Sugar can cause headaches in the late morning, late afternoon and after naps.

Eating every 2-3 hours will help keep your blood sugar steady. (not spiking and dropping) So many people suffer chronic headaches (nearly daily) just because they don’t eat enough during the day.

Stop Staring at your Screen! Do you have less than perfect eyesight and not wearing glasses? Straining your eyes, especially on a computer screen can trigger headaches. So take a break! Let your eyes dilate and relax. You’re not a machine.

Knowing your enemy will help you defeat your enemy. Clearly, you taking pills for the last few decades hasn’t gotten you anywhere… why not try the holistic version of healing?

For more detailed information on specific headaches and treatments, please visit our DIYHealing Category in our Healing Blog.

  1. According to the National Headache Foundation ↩︎
  2. Stanford Healthcare ↩︎
  3. An Eat2Live Created Term ↩︎
  4. Herbs for Health & Healing by Kathi Keville ↩︎
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