Do you ever feel like life is getting on top of you…that there is too much to do and not enough time to do it...or maybe you just don't have the energy?

Have you had the feeling that there has to be more to life than what is currently on offer?

Life seems to be getting busier and busier with more emotions arising and not much down time to recoup. We seem to be constantly doing something or feeling some emotion. People are feeling tired, exhausted and emotional and are reaching for coffee and or sugar to give them a boost of energy to get through the day, everyday.

We just need to chat to any doctor, GP or specialist, to find out that people and their bodies are not coping with the pressures and emotions of today’s world.  Statistics on illness and disease are on the rise - especially diabetes, cancer, lung conditions, heart disease, and mental illness such as depression and anxiety. The health care industry is finding it hard to keep up with the demand that this increase in illness and disease is placing on the health care system and the health care practitioners themselves.

This spike in emotional issues, illness and disease and the increased intake of artificial stimulants is telling us that something isn’t right. What we are not hearing is that the way we are living is hurting us and our bodies.

"The human body is the marker of all truth."
                                                          ~ Serge Benhayon, 1999

This means that our body can tell us anything we want to know because it is with us in everything we do and everything we experience. It is there when we pour ourselves a glass of water, when we are anxious, when we have a late night, and it is there for every interaction we have with another. Our body is there for every single moment and every event that happens in our lives. Therefore, our body is the best indicator we have to knowing how we are choosing to live and the impact those choices are having on our health and well-being.

So why do we hurt ouselves and our bodies the way we do?

The simple answer is because we don’t really know ourselves.  We are absorbing the world rather than observing it.  This means that we are breathing in the world instead of breathing our own breath. By not breathing our own breath we have lost touch with ourselves and that means we are at the mercy of what is happening in the world. We are unable to care for ourselves the way we need to be cared for, therefore we are not able to listen to what our bodies are saying.  Instead we choose to numb ourselves to how our bodies truly feel through distraction, entertainment, stimulation, devotion to our kids, working longer hours, drugs and alcohol, food, emotions, medication, excessive mental activity…the list goes on.

But…do we truly feel fulfilled by all this?

If we are really honest the answer is no, instead we feel sad, angry, anxious, tired, lonely, empty, grumpy, hurt, victimised, bullied, lethargic, annoyed, dismayed, and even desperate at times (to name but a few).  Our emotional state impacts on us in ways that we are not aware of. Emotions affect our health and well-being. They have been linked to being the leading cause of illness and disease. What happens to the unresolved hurt and pain we have from childhood or the angry outburst that occurred last week? Where does it all go? The truth is it goes into the body.

What happened to feeling joy, harmony, stillness and sometimes just a little bit lovely?

We have been overloaded with what we should be doing, what we should be saying, what we should be looking like, what we should be buying, how we should be feeling etc.  We are being filled with ideals and beliefs about how our lives should be and sadly, "WHAT WE DO becomes WHO WE ARE." ~ SB

 The question is…how is that working for us?

The truthful answer is not very well if we take the state of our bodies and emotional health into account!

So how can we change this?

We can start by being as honest as we are able to - being honest about the state of our bodies and about the lack of joy, harmony, and stillness in our lives. By being in as much honesty as we can we begin to change the disharmony in our lives and start to repair the body. We start to see the truth of how we are living, how we are treating ourselves and how our emotional state impacts on us.  This can of course be confronting at times and sometimes very hard to do but through honesty we can expose the dishonesty we have been living in that has affected us in so many different ways. We can start to heal the unresolved pain and hurt, anger, depression, anxiety etc we have stored inside. We can start to repair our relationship with ourselves and in turn repair the other relationships we have in our lives.

Once the decision has been made to bring more honesty into our lives we begin to understand that we have been living a false life.  We have been living to someone else’s standards and expectations.  This has happened because we lost touch with ourselves and we don't know who we are anymore.  What is really underneath all those emotions, expectations and shoulds?

How well do we really know ourselves?

Do you know who you are?

Underneath all those ideals, beliefs and emotions is us.  We need to discard what is not us in order to find out who we truly are.  We can then begin to live a life with truth in it and lay a foundation that is built on who we are and not what we do or who we should be. We then bring who we are into what we do.

At Inner-Heart Counselling & Healing Services we are here to assist in the uncovering of who you are by supporting the healing of what is in the way, so you can truly heal and begin to discover who you really are.