HEALTH
mentally tortured, emotionally anxious, and overwhelmingly stressful life? Yet we as human beings
feel so unworthy of creating a lifestyle, career and
relationships that make us feel good, alive and well
on a daily basis.
Although objectively it seems natural to desire a
healthy and happy life, the guilt, fear and underlying hurt inside us persistently hold us back. They
leave us feeling disconnected and trickle down inside like acid slowly eating us alive from within. Addiction and suicide can be understood in this light.
No one wants to live believing they must always
be more, do more, or have more to find happiness,
health, peace or love. But this is a psychological
symptom of past internalized hurt caused by others and ourselves, which when left unresolved,
leads us to live in our head in an attempt to protect
our heart from further pain and also leaves us feeling alone and insecure.
As children we learned to make our feelings, needs
and desires wrong, and now for years we’ve endured a limited life of poor self-care and toxic selftalk. We need to swing the pendulum of attention
toward transforming our dysfunctional mental
and emotional life if we want our body to reflect a
healthy internal environment moving forward.
Traditional Chinese Medicine offers one the most
practical and logical insights into how our thoughts
and emotions can lead either to health and happiness or to depression and disease. From this worldview the causes of physical disease directly correlate to the flow of energy and blood in the body.
In simple terms, when energy and blood are free
flowing daily we experience health and happiness.
But when they stagnate we will eventually encounter pain, tiredness, depression, and the toxic buildups that cause illness.
The belief is that blood in the body follows the
flow of life force energy. The best example of this is
the energetic beat or pulse of the heart that causes blood to flow within our veins and carries our
immune cells, hormones, vitamins, minerals and
other nutrients to all corners of the body. What is
often overlooked in western medicine is the link
between internalized thoughts and emotions that,
coupled with fear and the resulting inaction, lead
9 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
A 40-year-old person, who
has on average been awake
for 16 hours every day, has
lived 840,960,000 moments
or seconds. That’s 14,016,000
minutes of life experience,
where this person is feeling
and thinking something directly
connected to their deeper
wounds, needs and desires.
to a decrease in the healthy flow first of energy and
then of blood.
A 40-year-old person, who has on average been
awake for 16 hours every day, has lived 840,960,000
moments or seconds. That’s 14,016,000 minutes
of life experience, where this person is feeling and
thinking something directly connected to their
deeper wounds, needs and desires. Objectively
much of this inner process is made up of unresolved
emotional pain and negative thoughts, which constantly circle the mind and body and are rarely expressed or addressed in a way we’re at peace with.
Both thought and emotion are subtle forms of
atomic energy, which when repressed constantly over time cause internal stress, limited oxygen
intake, and imbalances in molecular and cellular
processes. It also causes the flow of life force energy and blood to slow down and become severely
blocked. Due primarily to the various X[