Posts Tagged ‘chronic pain’

Reversing “Incurable” Chronic Conditions

Monday, April 5th, 2010

1233If you have an “incurable” chronic condition, you may be asking yourself if there is any possibility that incurable conditions can be reversed. The answer is, “Yes.”

Just because modern allopathic medicine may not have a cure for your chronic condition, doesn’t mean that healing isn’t possible. The journey of self-healing is about discovering the power and the path within you.

If you have read my book, “The Root of All Healing,” you know that when I was faced with MS, I decided I was not going to live with that chronic condition forever. I decided I was not going to lose muscle strength, cognitive abilities, speech, vision, sex drive, or end up in a wheel chair.

I didn’t even become fearful that I might. I simply did not allow myself to spend any time with doubts that tried to creep in. I decided immediately that this was going to be a challenge worth every ounce of my self-healing attention and I went to work.

On the blog here, you’ve probably listened to the audio story about my friend Kevin, who lost actual muscle tissue, yet still rebuilt his knee until he was able to walk normally. Remember, he was told might end up in a wheel chair.

Colds and flu are supposed to be incurable. We are told we just need to ride them out, and yet I have turned both colds and flu around—stopping them in their tracks with sound and intention. I have friends that do the same with their own energy medicine.

How about you? Do you know someone that had an incurable health challenge, yet somehow healed? Have you heard about someone that overcame seemingly overwhelming odds?

For some of us, and maybe for you, overwhelming odds are motivating. Here is the opportunity. “No-known cure” means that it is time to find one—inside of you!

Think of it this way. You don’t have a small hill to climb. For whatever reasons, you have a mountain. But there you are, standing at the base of the mountain looking up. You could walk away and live with the condition. Or you can discover the equipment and tools you already have (inside of you), learn how to use them, find your inner strength and head up the mountain.

You can stay at the bottom of the mountain or climb it. The choice is yours to make. And it helps to know that it IS a choice. Here is the good news. You are passionately loved regardless of what you choose. You can’t fail or make a wrong choice. It is your life. If you have a chronic condition, life is going to be difficult whether you engage your healing power or your don’t. You get to choose how you want to be with the challenge.

Regardless of what you choose, I would offer this for your consideration. When the odds seem overwhelming, open to the abundant, unconditional love that is available to you. Then, whatever you choose, accepting this love will open up reserves of inner strength you may not have realized you have.

Once, when I was feeling quite stuck and meditating with the essence of my stuckness, a wise message came to me. “Open to the marvelous reality waiting for you on the other side of the stuckness.”

I did. And the stuckness vanished. The overwhelming odds disappeared. Soon, I was simply moving forward, grateful for each and every gift that came to help me. The really cool part is that it suddenly was profoundly easy!

I got so used to welcoming in this wonderful reality, I don’t even remember anymore what I was feeling so stuck about! But I can tell you at the time, my sense of overwhelm and doubt consumed me.

May I suggest that you welcome in the wonderful reality waiting for you on the other side of your health challenge. Welcome it in like you would welcome your most dear friend or loved one. If in that welcoming, you feel your healing beckoning you, surrender to the wonder of being at the top of the mountain. Then take one step and another, every day.

When the thought passes through your mind that this condition is incurable and non-reversible, just giggle because you now know a little secret about self-healing. There is something waiting for you to discover, beyond the word “incurable.”

Are You Feeling Emotionally Numb?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

winterbirdAre you feeling emotionally numb, but your body is in tremendous pain?

When someone asks you how you are feeling, do you shrug your shoulders, not really having a clue about what you are feeling?

It is very likely that because you are not feeling and acknowledging your emotions, they are screaming through your body as pain.

Fear, sorrow and anger simply need proper channels of recognition, and sometimes—expression. If your healing journey is anything like mine, I learned to suppress my feelings in order to protect myself from the intensity of what I was experiencing. I found my true emotions too overwhelming, and in my need to be in control, I did my best not to notice them, until they boiled out of me uncontrollably .

I’ve met people that didn’t think it was spiritually proper to feel angry, jealous or sad, and because those feelings were actually occurring, they suppressed them as a way to live a better spiritual life. What happens in this case is that because the person is not being completely truthful with themselves, the underlying feelings that long to be acknowledged become powerful motivators for unconscious and conscious self-sabotage. This plays out as—I’m doing all the right things, but nothing is working.

I’ve also met people having intense feelings like a deep under-current, but weren’t willing to acknowledge them. This can be a reaction to parents or loved ones that expressed their intense emotions without regard for the people around them—such as a parent lashing out at their child without considering the harm and damage they are doing. However, ignoring the feelings is like swimming in the ocean and ignoring that there is an under-tow. Eventually, the under-tow is going to pull you down.

Unfortunately, so many of us have had such negative experiences with emotions that we become afraid of them and attempt to conduct our lives around them. And yet, there is nothing spiritually or physically healthy about suppressing emotions.

Pent up, unexpressed feelings eventually break out—in bursts of anger, lengthy bouts of depression, and long-term physical illness.

As we discussed in the last article, emotions tell stories about our wounds and our beliefs. They are part of who we are. When we find healthy ways to honor them, we can release years of pent up angst and hurt, along with belief systems that may be limiting our capacity to heal.

There are all kinds of emotional release techniques available today, designed to support you in honoring your emotions, along with the beliefs and stories of our past that accompany them.

This does not mean, you will suddenly start lashing out at everyone around you. That is what happens when you are not honoring your emotions. When you acknowledge your feelings properly, you can then find appropriate ways to release without hurting people around you and without becoming overwhelmed.

You may have discovered that the more you pray for and intend healing, the more emotionally uncomfortable you feel or the more numb you become. These are clues that your illness has a strong footing in emotional trauma.

If you are feeling numb, or you know you are suppressing intense feeling, I suggest you do some research to find a healer or therapist that can support you in doing some emotional release work.

While you are looking for the right healer or therapist, I’d like to suggest you become acquainted with a Creation Meditation that is all about honoring all feelings; allowing difficult feelings to transform naturally in the embrace of your compassion. It is one of the most soothing meditations I’ve ever experienced for calming intense emotions. http://newdreamfoundation.com/forums/index.php/topic,75.0.html

Let me encourage you, to honor your emotional numbness and become acquainted with the emotions running beneath it. Very likely, your emotions are a major key in your healing journey.

Reverend Misa is the author of The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything.

Receiving the Gifts of Prayers Part I

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

cuppedhandssmThis weekend some wonderful initiated elders came to our house for a visioning retreat where they held individuals and groups across the world in their sacred feminine arms. In that space of profound love, tremendous healing can occur for those of us open to receive.

Though the ceremony is completed, the power of the ceremony continues and the healing energy is available to all of us.

As I held space for our elders, knowing that I was being graciously included in their prayers, I reminded myself that the benefit of such loving prayers are only truly received as I open myself and willing receiving the blessing.

And so I did, by giving thanks for their prayers and opening my heart to receive their love. Once my heart was filled with profound love, I invited the love to fill my entire body, including the broken and wounded places within me.

Opening to the precious gift of loving prayers requires more than saying or thinking about receiving them.

You really have to open your energetic field and one of the best ways to get that process going is to open your heart.

Here is one of the benefits to receiving prayers based in holding you in loving energy. It allows your own higher consciousness to determine what is right and best for you. The person holding the energy for you is not directing it; simply making the love available for you to use.

I invite you to take a few moments to sit quietly today and receive the love that was held for you this weekend. Allow your heart to open and your higher consciousness to know what to do, and allow yourself to receive the healing benefits their prayers.

The Root of All Healing

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

rohbookcover1The Root Of All Healing

Right now, Reverend Misa is launching her book, “The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything.” If you are health challenged, in chronic pain or know someone that would love to find relief from illness, this book lays out a clear and successful pathway to ultimate health.

Order this amazing book, The Root Of All Healing, and not only can you begin the rewarding journey back to vibrant health, but you can also take advantage of over 20 powerful gifts from other self-empowerment teachers, mentors, and guides.

True and Lasting Healing Is Within Your Reach

Monday, November 30th, 2009

rohbookcover2I woke up one morning with these words on the tip of my tongue, “The Root of All Healing.” What the heck is that, I wondered?


It happened two more days in a row. I knew it had to be something significant, but I had no clue what that might be.


Hoping to get some insight I called a couple of my colleagues, asking if they had any ideas for a tele-seminar we might do using this title. Well, they were busy or they thought the title was great but not theirs to address.


I knew I needed to do with this little gift, so I sat down to my computer and typed the title. I sat back and said to myself, “Don’t think, just type and let it come.” The next thing I knew I was typing the following, “7 Steps to Healing Anything.”


I reeled back and said out loud, “I know 7 steps to healing anything?”

It sounded so presumptuous and yet I couldn’t deny that something beyond my day-to-day thinking wanted to come through. I reminded myself that if I was willing to allow the Divine to flow through me, healing wisdom would find its way into words.


And the words came in the form of many years worth of observation—attending to what I had learned about how people heal. Coming from a background in special education, organizational development and acting, I had unconsciously been observing the motivators that caused people to remain ill or to  heal.


I had become a student of miracles, without even realizing it, until I began putting my observations down on paper.


My great discovery was that miracles are created by what is inside of us. I had come to realize that many of us remain ill because a need is getting met through that illness, that we aren’t even aware exists. Simply put, we are unconsciously motivated to be sick.


There is a way out, and the 7 steps that finally made their way into a book, show you how to unlock the miracles inside of you.


On Tuesday, December 1, my book is having its birthday party. I’m formally announcing that it is available for you and those you love.


Read it and discover your birth-right, the inner power that sustains you in being fully and completely well.


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The only way you get all of the gifts and the chance to win the reading is if you are on my mailing list, so sign up now.


Take the Time

Monday, November 16th, 2009

canoeMy sister-in-law recently crossed over to the other side of the veil and I traveled home for her memorial service. I noticed during this trip, as I have when other family members have died, that when someone I care about crosses over to the other side, I can’t help but slow down my life and reflect about what is really, really important to me.

When I was in my worst pain and discomfort, I discovered exactly the same thing. I needed to slow down enough to reflect on what was truly important to me and let the rest go, because quite frankly, the “rest” was either making me sick or contributing to it.

While I was visiting friends back home, a woman I know that just had major surgery said exactly the same thing. Before she had her surgery, she ended the contract work she was doing that was draining her energy. She just didn’t want to do work that didn’t fulfill her anymore. She knew that she needed to focus on healing and then make some decisions about work that would feed her spiritually as well as physically.

It is so easy to stick with work just because it pays the bills, even though it is not truly our work to do. You can identify that kind of work because you go to work and come home from it more exhausted than energized.

It is so much easier to maintain status quo than it is to make peace with friends and family, find time to meditate, or enjoy time with others. It is easier to stay in relationships that are familiar, but aren’t working for you because it is scarier to heal or leave them. It is easier to repeat non-productive patterns than it is to make change, yet those very patterns may be shortening your life.

Yet, how are you supposed to stay healthy, when your energy is drained and you are stressed?

Once again, I find myself committing to paying attention to what is truly important in my life and making whatever changes I need to make sure that what I do fulfills me. Fulfillment is a powerful way to enjoy life more and put energy into my health.

How about you? If you made the time to get really still and clear, what is truly important in your life?

Told He Would Never Walk Again

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Hello Dear Friend, Today’s story is so important for two reasons. First, although we often hear that women are naturally more intuitive than men, Kevin followed his intuition and was able to heal fully when he was told that he would never walk normally again. The second lesson is that he was able to do this before he ever became involved in what he now knows is energetic healing! Simply his deep and full intent to heal aligned him with the proper path to full health. Listen in, I know you’ll find this story powerful and inspiring:

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Path to Self-Healing Empowerment

Monday, July 6th, 2009
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Judy’s Story – Getting Past the Helplessness

The following is a story written by a friend of mine who shared this with me when she heard I was writing a book about self-healing. Her experience is powerful testimony to the importance of self-involvement in one’s healing process.

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