Ah it’s a new year and time for your proverbial new year’s resolutions What will they be? Or maybe this year you’ll just forget about it What’s the use when you have chronic disease like the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, chronic prostatitis, IBS, GERD, and fibromylagia)? Yogi Berra, the baseball philosopher with a great knack for simplifying life and its puzzles said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you probably wind up somewhere else” This is problematic because it may in the end get us to a place that’s WORSE than where we are right now
The most powerful force in the energy field is intention because it produces direction for the mindbody
The value of resolutions is that they provide intention or direction It’s not so important whether they’re achieved but rather that they are stated repeated
Intention grows with repetition The mindbody is always eavesdropping on your thoughts Always listening to your desires and intentions If you dont have intentions then the mindbody doesn’t go anywhere It stays where you are because that’s what your thoughts are going….no where But if the mindbody hears a direction, focus, intention it will gear to take you there
Now it may not take you there right away That’s really a problem of our impatience We literally turn into what we think, believe, and feel By and by the mindbody hears we are serious about this intention and it will indeed take you where you are intending Repetition repetition repetition This sets the stage for success with your intentions
Think them and then ink them There’s something magical about writing down your intentions(aka resolutions) because they are much more likely to be realized if you do so
Review them every day so life’s distractions don’t interfere with the direction
Make your intentions very specific Saying you want all of your symptoms to go away really won’t work very well….but setting the intention about
Put your intentions in the positive and present tense “I don’t want to eat peanut butter(coffee etc) anymore” can be replaced by “I want to find a nutritional replacement for peanut butter”
Meditate and journal The value of meditation is to help focus one’s attention on the present There are different forms of meditation….some actively work at quieting the mind and that’s good but combining the quieting with focus about a particular problem like the IC bladder pain syndrome helps one link your desire of healing the problem with the intention of doing so Things will obviously come up about the symptoms that you’re having If you think about them long enough insights will occur When insights come journal them because it will help with focus and making your intention(aka resolve) stronger In our previous example “I want to find a nutritional replacement for peanut butter” when repeated over and over again will bring up alternatives that may never have occurred to you before…..or someone might suggest to you an alternative out of the blue that you had not entertained and bring that to your awareness…or you’re shopping at the store and suddenly you begin seeing all kinds of alternatives to peanut butter The possiblities are infinite
And make your intentions a priority In and of itself just setting the intention to DO the repetition of your intentions on a daily basis can be valuable
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