Physician Healer
Dolls, Daisies and Decisions
Those are the 3 words that came to my mind just now. I didn’t think about it further. They just appeared in my mind so that became this week’s title of my blog. I am curious, though. What exactly do those 3 words really mean to me? There must have been a reason why those were the first words in my mind. What is the connection, I wonder? Interestingly enough, as soon as that question started floating around, I realized there was one common thread to all 3 words. It is our ability to decide.
I remember when I was little, I really wanted this doll I saw on TV for Christmas or for my birthday. It was a doll whose hair I could cut and it would miraculously grow back. You just had to pull it down as it probably had a spooling mechanism inside. I could also color the hair and then wash it out afterwards. Oh, I really, really wanted that doll, but Mom wasn’t particularly fond of dolls. She thought it was because of something that happened when she was little. Popular in her day, she was given a beautiful Shirley Temple doll with her face made of porcelain, and she used to keep it next to her while she slept.
One night, she awakened in the middle of the night to a bad dream and when she turned to the side, she forgot that her precious doll was next to her. The doll spooked her, she grabbed the doll’s hair and threw her across the room. The face shattered and the doll was thrown away. After that, she found all dolls rather unpleasant. So, instead of dolls, I had stuffed bunnies. And, as I grew older, I wasn’t an avid fan of dolls either. Was that my decision or was that a decision made for me and now became part of my mindset programming? I trust it is the latter. Dr. Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief) says that about from age 0 to 7 we passively download everything around us, behaviors of the adults around us and whatever is happening in the world during those years.
Regarding daisies, my mom loved flowers even though she was very much allergic to them. We rarely had them in the house. On certain occasions, when my dad did bring flowers home, she would take an allergy pill, have a box of Kleenex nearby, so that she could enjoy them in the house. Sometimes, Dad would cut the roses or chrysanthemums that bloomed in our backyard and bring them into the house. Mom even did that herself sometimes. She simply loved flowers, her favorite being roses and her least favorite being daisies. Whenever anyone has asked, roses have always been my favorite flowers, and daisies, not so much. Again, I ask myself if this was decided for me as a result of external influences during my formative years when the mind was this sponge.
For many of us, we unconsciously and automatically believe in things that our parents or other adults or the environment around us have told us it was or wasn’t right to believe in. So, when we become our authentic selves, do our beliefs change? This is a question that has fascinated me for quite some time. I often wonder if the depression or anxiety we express stems from the inner conflict within us, an incongruency between the core of who we really are and what is accepted and validated by others. Our preprogramming is so strong that frequently we cast aside our wants and maintain the status quo set by others.
In all the years I’ve been practicing, it was only when I started performing on and teaching Meridian Meditation to individuals to do daily on their own, that I started noticing significant transformation in all aspects of their health. There are no words to describe that look of revelation and how incredible it feels when their eyes are clear and bright as if I could see through into their souls, and the sense of profound relief they express.
And, the only explanation is that their underlying preprogrammed mindset is being chipped away and replaced by their own authentic core beliefs. This is when they share with me how their relationships and careers have changed. Some have left their old jobs and started their own businesses, while some decided to take the vacations they had placed on hold for years. The changes were profound for all of them.
The relevance of the above in circling back to the power of our ability to decide is that so many of us have unconsciously made decisions that were conditioned and influenced by others when we were children. We have been giving away our power all this time, so now as adults when we are asked to make decisions, we are at a loss. We tend to make decisions unconsciously that don’t ultimately serve us. A simple example of how we regularly give away our decision is how many times we go out with friends and ask them or the waiter/waitress what’s good on the menu. Do we all have the same taste buds?
However, on a more serious note, sadly, more often than not, it is the lack of effective decision-making in deciding how we want to feel when we have chronic health issues that perpetuates our inability to feel anything other than misery, fear and worry about our condition projected into the future. It is said that both faith and fear require that we “decide” to believe in something that we cannot see. Then, why do most of us not “decide” to have faith that in the future, we can feel healthy, resilient and strong? It is our mental chatter originating from the old programs in our mindset.
It is incredible that on a daily basis, I talk to individuals who spend more time trying to argue against their innate ability to heal than taking steps toward how they can extricate themselves from illness, almost as if they were fighting to stay in the sick role. One reason can be explained by Kyle Cease (The Illusion of Money) in his recent YouTube podcast when he provides an explanation on why we stay in relationships that we don’t even want to be in.
“…we’re stuck via attachment so we’re in relationships not out of love, it’s out of attachment and if you allow yourself to become the love that you are and really say it’s okay whatever falls apart on the way…was an unnatural stuckness…if your memory formed when the stuckness started, then you actually think that stuckness is home and I could go right to your prison and open the gates and you’d never want to leave it because this is home until you get outside and see how cool it is…”
Recently, I came across observations Dr. Joe Dispenza (Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself) made. He noticed that what kept his clients in the sick role was their decision to focus all of their attention on their sick routine rather than decide to redirect their energy to create a new future of wellness. We stay in the safety of the familiar. He discovered that incorporating meditation is vital as it provides the inner work to release the individual’s association to past emotional reactions linked to their illness to free up energy they could then use to invest in a new outcome. Energy always flows where attention goes.
There is also a tremendous amount of emotional energy that is released from whatever our mind focuses on, especially on what we don’t like about our situation. There is an increased release of adrenaline with this stress response and it is connected to the individual’s “addiction” to feeling poorly and induces that person to persist in complaining about feeling unwell, instead of actively changing the mindset to turn the ship around by redirecting our emotional energy. How many times do we go even further with the sick role and in an anticipatory manner, we also expect to be ill tomorrow? As a society, we’ve become exceptionally skilled in securing future seats for our disease.
This then leads us to the next question,
“How? How do I get on a different path, a path to begin feeling better, a path to healing?”
Just DECIDE.
This is the first step. Committing to a decision. Doesn’t this seem so ridiculously simple? Then, why are we not all doing this?
Perhaps we are in the habit of telling ourselves that others can but we lack the ability. But, the truth is what is possible for one is possible for everyone. We are all equal in energy and spirit, are we not?
Once we make a decision to feel better, to disentangle ourselves from our old, familiar addictive patterns, the mindset senses a thought change and a new message is subsequently sent to the body, changing the vibrational frequency or energy field. The cooperation between the mind and the body starts siphoning energy that was previously used to maintain the sick role and redirecting it to build the new wellness model for us.
Then, inevitably, the egoic mental chatter creeps in and tries to stop us from changing by telling us this isn’t going to work, or this is silly, or getting better is impossible, or we are delusional, or we’re never going to get better, or a long list of whatever else the ego says to convince us to stay stuck and sick.
And, my answer remains — there will always be 2 options, stay the same but stop complaining or try something new. It is a choice. It is a decision.
By continuing our daily meditation practice combined with purposefully taking our mindset by the reigns and through the use of repetition, persistence and consistency, we can effectively dial down our addiction to the past conditions of pain and sickness, as well as our participation in our anticipated future perpetuation of disease to ultimately redirect available energy to craft and design a more vibrant thriving life ahead. Dr. Bruce Lipton states,
“The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.”
He explains that the belief that our genes control the quality of our lives is outdated in light of what we now know about genetics. He continues with,
“Genes are simply the blueprints and our consciousness is the architect.”
Whatever we think becomes our reality.
So, right now, decide what you want, how you want to feel and commit to that decision. There is always magic on the other side.
Meditation and Relaxation
1) Sit comfortably at your favorite place and close your eyes. Breathe slowly in through your nose and track that breath all the way down to the belly (5-7 seconds) and release slowly through your mouth (5-6 seconds). Repeat 2-3 more times.
2) This week, access the following Meridian endpoints gently tapping with one or both hands using your fingertips (remember you can choose your own or alternate amongst the ones listed below. See previous blogs for more examples):
—Chest points on one or both sides
—Hand points on the blade area, can alternate or continue with one hand
—Side of the body or rib area, can alternate or continue with one side
—Brow points near the forehead on one or both sides
—Corner of the eye on one or both sides
—Under the eye on one or both sides
—Under the nose above the upper lip
—Under the lower lip at the dip
—Return to chest points on one or both sides
3) Intentional Statements to use while accessing the above Meridian points (remember to put as much emotion as you can to anchor the feeling)
—Why am I more grateful than I’ve ever been now that I didn’t notice before?
—Why am I surrounded by so much love that I didn’t notice before?
—Why is my body stronger than ever now that I didn’t notice before?
—Why am I more resilient than ever now that I didn’t notice before?
—Why is my body healing faster than ever now that I didn’t notice before?
—Why am I the healthiest I’ve ever been now that I didn’t notice before?
—Why am I living my version of an awesome life now that I didn’t notice before?
4) Conclude with the breathing exercises in 1) and if it is the morning, remember to journal at least 5 gratitudes and really immerse your emotions feeling grateful before getting ready for the day. If it is before bedtime, just get ready to turn in for the night. Also, think about saying the gratitudes out loud in front of a mirror. And, one of the most important things to remember is that your egoic mental chatter will try to rain on your parade but if you persist, the body doesn’t know what is true or not. It will behave according to what we feed it most.
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For those of you celebrating Easter weekend, we wish you all Easter blessings. Until next time, we send you much to be grateful for🐇🐣
With Love and Gratitude🙌♥️
Dr. Celeste
