Emotions and Health - Part 2

Emotions and Health - Affirmations

Affirmations are "self-talk" statements.  These are statements which we tell ourselves on every aspect of life and are so powerful - just because we are the only ones who we listen to. 

When structured correctly positive affirmations can have a great influence on your thoughts and your mindset.  This can increase your enthusiasm, motivate you to achieve your goals and provide you with surplus resource of mental energy as these prepare your mind for what you want to achieve.

Continuing from the part 1, below are the next set of dis-ease and the emotions which are associated with that, along with the affirmations which could help in faster healing. 

Part: Elbows
Issue:  Pain and stiffness
Probable Cause:  Elbows and arms signify a lack of capacity & ability to hold the experiences of life. Resisting change of directions and acceptance.
Emotional affirmation:   “I easily flow with new experiences, new directions and new changes“
Physical treatment:   Just wrap your hands around yourself as if hugging your own self and say this to yourself.  "I trust, love, accept, approve and forgive myself." As many times as possible everyday. 
  

Part: Hands
Issue:  Pain and lack of strength
Probable Cause:  Pain in the hands may be caused by all ways of dealing with hold & handle, clutch & grip, grasping & letting go.
Emotional affirmation:  “I choose to handle all my experiences with love and with joy and with ease. “
Physical treatment:  Hold a pen/pencil tightly in your hand as if you are holding a situation in your life and then when ready to "Release" the situation just throw the pen/pencil with full force & free yourself. 
 

Part:  Abdomen
Issue:  Abdominal cramps.
Probable Cause:  Fear, stopping the process
Emotional affirmation:  “I trust the process of life.  I am safe. “
Physical treatment:  Place your hands on the belly button (navel) & do 4-4-4-4 count breathing.
4 count Inhale; 4 count Hold; 4 count Exhale; 4 count Hold.
Do it as long as comfortable. 

Part: Hips
Issue:  Lack of flexibility and difficulty in movement
Probable Cause:   Major thrust in moving forward
Emotional affirmation:  “I am in perfect balance.  I move forward in life with ease and with joy at every age. “
Physical treatment: Sit on the floor placing the legs straight.  Try to twist your hips with hands stretched on both the sides.  Do 3 rounds with 5 reps each. 

Part: Knees
Issue:  Stiffness and knee pain
Probable Cause:  Pain in the knee is a sign of pride & ego
Emotional affirmation:  “I am flexible and flowing. “
Physical treatment: Lie down on the floor, place the left ankle over the right knee & move the right knee up & down for 5 minutes. Then do the same with right ankle placing it above the left knee for 5 minutes

 

Part:  Calves
Issue:  Calf stiffness and cramps
Probable Cause:  Calf pain is caused by stress, emotional tension
Emotional affirmation:  “I am relaxed and I am control of the situation.  I believe in the positive outcome”
Physical treatment:  Press the tender point 20 times located exactly in the center of the calf(behind). Twice daily.

 

Part:  Ankles
Issue:  Ankle pain and stiffness
Probable Cause:  Pain in ankles mean lack of ability to receive pleasure.
Emotional affirmation:  “I deserve to rejoice in life.  I accept all the pleasure life has to offer.”
Physical treatment: Lie down on the floor, legs slightly apart & rotate the ankles clock-anticlockwise 50 times

 
Part:  Feet
Issue:   Feet pain
Probable Cause:  Feet pain represents our lack of ability to understand one self, life or others
Emotional affirmation:  “My understanding is clear, and I am willing to change with the times.  I am safe”.
Physical treatment: Take a tennis ball & place it under the feet & roll on it. Can do it while sitting or standing
 

Most of the dis-ease pschosomatic .  Change of mindset can help a long way to get back to our comfortable self.

Creating Habit!

    What is a Habit?  It is a repeating unconscious pattern of behavior which is not an outcome of conscious thought.  In simple term, it is just like a clock alarm - which executes when it reaches the mark, unfazed by any external factors.  So are the habits, these are actions which are a result of a trigger.  The trigger and the action are not controlled consciously.  There is nothing called a bad habit or a good habit, it is just the favorable/unfavorable outcome of the habit decides the characteristics of it.

    How is a habit formed?  The super powerful brain of us, sometimes choose to become lazy in order to cut down its workload and try to map every input received to an action.  When same action is repeated continuously for a same input, it decides just to map the input to the reaction and execute it every time it gets the same input, bypassing all the thought process, excluding the external factors and ignoring the alternative favorable outcome.  Thus we end up unconsciously acting to a situation in a same way, until we consciously decide to change it.  It is like getting back to home from office in our car.  The input would be to get to home in car, once we get used to it, are we consciously driving the vehicle, trying to analyze the speed of it and changing the gear, and taking right/left turns in the road?  It just happens as a habit and our super powerful brain relaxes itself with some good music on the way back home.

    Now the interesting part – Can we understand the automatic thought patterns, set the required trigger and by thus create a habit all by yourself – consciously!  Is this possible? – Yes it is.  But you need to know exactly what you wish for and what the trigger is, if not the whole thing would go wrong and you would end up with too much thing to correct.

    To have this set up initially, you need to first know what exactly you are looking for as the outcome and what is the trigger which can get it going.  Once this process map of this is completely figured out, all you have to do is kick start the trigger consciously and take it through to the outcome you want, slowly doing it step by step.  You might have to do this for a couple of times after which you would notice yourself that your brain doesn’t even wait for you to take you through to the steps, it will just run past all the process and end up in the final outcome.  Thus, you have created a habit!

    Once a habit is set, it would take another habit to override the earlier one – in other terms, erasing the brain map of input to trigger and rewriting another one.

    This above chunk of text maybe too complicated to understand, but this is something you and me have been doing day in and day out, right from brushing our teeth to going to bed.

    You can try a simple trick! – Try asking why you do some act of yours until you really find out why?

     Happy working on your brain!

    ~MindEngineering!