All Is Well: Heal Your Body With Medicine, Affirmations, and Intuition (4 page)

diet, environment, genetics, and injury

The Intuitive Emergency Dashboard

So how do we tap into our body’s intuition to read and inter-

pret the messages it is trying to send us?

Think of your body as a car dashboard; it has a series of emer-

gency warning lights—regions that light up symptomatically

when something in your life needs attention. Who hasn’t experi-

enced that irritating gas light? Always going on at an inopportune

time, this dashboard warning light aggravates you when you drive

your car until it’s so low on fuel that it’s almost running on fumes.

Similarly, if an area of your life is empty—or running on excess—a

part of your body will hint, murmur, even scream out in distress.

You have seven warning lights, each consisting of a group of

organs. The health of the organs in each group is associated with

specific types of thought patterns and behaviors. For example, the

organs associated with feeling safe and secure in the world are

the bones, blood, immune system, and skin. If you do not feel

safe and secure, you are more likely to experience illness in one

of these organs than if you do. We refer to this group of organs as

an
emotional center
because their health is connected to the same

emotional issues.

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Each chapter in this book is dedicated to the health of the or-

gans of one emotional center. For example, Chapter 4 looks at the

organs of the first emotional center—the bones, blood, organs of

the immune system, and skin—and helps you interpret what ill-

ness in each of those organs means. It looks at the balance in your

life surrounding the core emotion associated with the organs. So,

in essence, if your sense of safety and security has been thrown

out of balance, you will likely become ill in your first emotional

center organs.

Just as we need a balanced diet to be healthy, we also need

to make sure we have healthy sources of love and happiness. By

working to invest our energy among various areas of life—family,

money, work, relationships, communication, education, and spiri-

tuality—we can create physical and emotional health.

How to Use This Book

When Louise and I began our discussions about how to create

the most useful book for you, we decided to structure it so
you

could look up the part of your body that is experiencing illness

and work from there—just like in
You Can Heal Your Life
. However,

you must remember that people are not simply individual organs

bound together, so the illness in one part of your body will gener-

ally affect the health of another part. And emotions about feeling

safe and secure in your family (first emotional center) also play

into emotions about self-esteem (third emotional center). To fully

heal, you must look at your life as a whole while giving extra at-

tention to the organ or illness that’s causing you the most trouble.

Feel free to flip directly to the part of the book discussing your

personal problem area, but remember that you may also find im-

portant information about other imbalances in your life by read-

ing through the entire book. Having a complete picture of your

strengths and weaknesses can help you create a long-term plan for

a healthy life in all your emotional centers.

As you work your way through the book, I’ll help you tap into

your body’s intuition surrounding the organs in each emotional

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center so you can understand the messages your body is sending.

But remember, only you can decide what your body is really tell-

ing you. This book is a general guide that matches what is com-

monly seen and what the science mostly supports.

After you have determined what your body is telling you, Lou-

ise and I will walk you through healing techniques that address

the numerous reasons why we get sick. While we won’t give spe-

cific medical advice in this book because good medical advice is

unique to each individual, we will provide case studies that give

you an idea of some of the basic types of medical interventions to

consider. More important, we will lay out affirmations that you

can repeat to yourself multiple times throughout your day and

behavioral suggestions that you can immediately incorporate into

your own life. These tools will help you change your thoughts and

habits to create health.

There is one thing to note about the case studies. These sec-

tions highlight the extremes of people with problems in a single

emotional center. However, it’s important to remember that most

people don’t have just one problem—they can have many, whether

it’s infertility, arthritis, and fatigue or some other combination

of issues. In our case studies we focus only on the predominant

issue that is associated with each emotional center. To cover all

the imbalances and problems in each person’s life would lead to

an encyclopedic tome that wouldn’t be nearly as accessible to the

vast majority of people as we have crafted this book to be. So don’t

be surprised if you recognize yourself in
many
of the descriptions

we lay out.

While you’re reading, your intuition may scream out, or per-

haps it will simply make a quiet squeak. The important thing is to

listen to what comes up and work with it.

I’ve learned a couple very important guiding principles

throughout my career: The first is that every single one of us, no

matter our uniqueness, no matter what our personality quirks or

our past emotional or physical trials, all of us can improve our

health. The second is that we need to be open to every healing

modality available to create health and happiness. Whether it’s

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vitamins and nutritional supplements, herbs and medicines, sur-

gery, meditation, affirmations, or psychotherapy, everything can

be helpful if you use it under the guidance of a skilled, healing

professional you trust.
All Is Well
will help you find the combina-

tion of methods that is right for you.

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self-assessMent QuIz

Louise and I have each worked with thousands of people, and

one of the most important parts of this work is our initial intake—

let’s just call it a getting-to-know-you process. This process allows

us to assess where you stand now with your health and your emo-

tions and gives us hints about the best way to help you.

The quiz in this chapter will guide you in doing the same

thing for yourself. And by the time you finish it, you should have

a better idea of where to start on your path to healing.

There are seven sections, each with questions covering both

physical health problems and lifestyle habits. Answer yes or no

to each of the questions. At the end of the quiz, there is a scoring

guide to help you evaluate your current emotional and physical

health. Then have a close friend take the quiz as though that per-

son were you and compare the scores. It’s helpful to get outside per-

spectives because sometimes we cannot see our own lives clearly.

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Quiz

Section 1

Body Health Questions:

1. Do you have arthritis?

2. Do you have spinal problems, disk disease, or scoliosis?

3. Do you have osteoporosis?

4. Are you prone to accidents, muscle spasms, or

chronic pain?

5. Do you have anemia, bleeding disorders, or a

tendency toward viruses or fatigue?

6. Do you have psoriasis, eczema, acne, or other skin

disorders?

Lifestyle Questions:

1. Do you tend to give more than you receive?

2. Do you have trouble feeling loved by an independent

person?

3. When you see someone in pain, do you feel that you

have to rescue them?

4. Are you not good with group politics, or do you lack

social savvy?

5. Were you bullied growing up?

6. Are you bullied in your current life?

7. Does your health tend to suffer during changes in

seasons?

8. Does change make you nervous?

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All Is Well
Self-Assessment Quiz

9. Is the boundary between your moods and someone

else’s too easily penetrated?

10. Were or are you the black sheep of the family?

11. Are you the person everyone automatically goes to

when they have a problem?

12. Do you tend to burn bridges in relationships after

arguments?

Section 2

Body Health Questions:

1. Do you have health concerns associated with your

female reproductive organs—your uterus or ovaries,

for example?

2. Do you have vaginitis or other vagina problems?

3. Do you have problems with your male reproductive

organs: prostate, testicles, or others?

4. Do you experience impotence or problems with

sexual desire?

Lifestyle Questions:

1.
If you lend money to a loved one, do you have a hard

time charging interest?

2.
Do you usually go into debt during the holidays?

3.
Do you thrive on competition, or do people tend to

say you are just a little too competitive?

4.
Have you ever broken up a relationship over a career

choice?

5.
Do you have a lifelong pattern of being overeducated

and underemployed?

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Section 3

Body Health Questions:

1. Do you have digestion problems, such as a peptic

ulcer?

2. Do you have problems with addiction?

3. Are you overweight?

4. Do you have anorexia or bulimia?

Lifestyle Questions:

1. Do you think it’s vain to have a facial?

2. Do you tend to attract people who have trouble with

addiction?

3. Do you know exactly how much fat there is in your

love handle and hip region?

4. Do you have compulsive habits—shopping or eating,

for example—that you use to calm your nerves?

5. Is your personal style—your fashion, mannerisms,

and even your way of speaking—behind the times?

Section 4

Body Health Questions:

1. Do you have problems with your arteries or blood

vessels?

2. Do you have arteriosclerosis?

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Self-Assessment Quiz

3. Do you have hypertension?

4. Do you have high cholesterol?

5. Have you had a heart attack?

6. Do you have asthma?

7. Do you have any breast disorders?

Lifestyle Questions:

1. Do people often tell you how you are feeling?

2. Have you been told that you are too sensitive?

3. Are your moods sensitive to weather and season

changes?

4. Have you cried at work?

5. Do you cry easily?

6. Is it hard for you to get angry at a loved one?

7. Do you have a short fuse?

8. Do you stay home or away from people because you

feel overwhelmed by emotion?

Section 5

Body Health Questions:

1. Do you have jaw problems?

2. Do you have thyroid problems?

3. Do you have neck problems?

4. Do you often get a sore throat?

5. Do you have other throat problems?

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Lifestyle Questions:

1. Did you have trouble following directions when

you were young?

2. Do you have trouble following directions now?

3. Is it hard for you to concentrate on cell phones or

a speakerphone call?

4. Do you tend to have long arguments or

misunderstandings with friends or loved ones over

e-mail?

5. Do you say yes simply to end an argument?

6. Do you have dyslexia or problems with stuttering,

learning languages, or public speaking?

7. Do you communicate better with animals than

people?

8. Do people often turn to you to fight their battles

for them?

Section 6

Body Health Questions:

1. Do you have problems with insomnia?

2. Do you get migraine headaches?

3. Are you worried about getting or looking older?

4. Do you have Alzheimer’s disease?

5. Have you had cataracts?