The Health Creation Principles - Spirit

Principles for our SPIRIT and relationship with life: 

Principle 7
Being true to yourself

To have clear purpose, meaning and have joy in living

One of the most profound principles in the Health Creation programme.

This is where you learn to ask your clients:

What is right about you?

What are your strengths and passions?

What did you love doing as a child?

What nourishes your soul and lifts your spirit?

These are the things we then encourage our clients to do more of to nurture themselves and allow time for their own development, their own creativity, their own joy.

As the ability to become true to ourselves increases, so does our life energy and consciousness.   Our sense of purpose and joy in living expands and brings about a clean, clear and vital state that our body can optimally work in.  Deepak Chopra described it as leaping into a greatly enhanced ability to self-heal.

We all have a core essence inside us that resonates and responds when we are in the company of what it is.  Art, colour, music, nature, etc  That's what we are reconnecting with, setting aside the sub personas of who we "should" be and who we are "expected" to be by our families, culture, profession, neighbourhood etc.

Discovering or uncovering who or what is driving you in the present and who you truly are can make for BIG change in a person's life.  This doesn't mean we don't go there, we most certainly do but with empathy and with our clients permission as with all the principles.

The "Know Yourself" audio files included in the programme are helpful to the person "Becoming True to Yourself" to enable and empower to reach their full potential for happiness and fulfilment.

How incredible to share the journey in a person's life to help them find themselves.

Bring to light the passion and purpose that is in each and everyone of us

Principle 8
Energy

To enjoy high levels of energy and vitality and joy in living

The founders of traditional medicine going back thousands of years understood that energy and vitality has a very strong grounding in our health. Homeopathy knows it as "Vital Force", Indian yoga calls it "Prana", Chinese acupuncture know it as "Chi", Native Americans refer to it as "Manitou",  for Hawaiians it's "Manu" and in the Māori tradition, it is Mauri.  Other nations will have their term for it also, this is just a selection.

The Western world with it's science and technology had separated from it somewhat and now people are finding their way back to it again.

In this segment, we learn about what builds our energy reserve, what/who robs it and how we build it again.  We look at the prospect of living life in our "energy reserve" and what that means for our health.  A bit like living in your overdraft for the whole month - how stressful and depleting would that be.

Feeling dispirited, weak, exhausted can all be factors in low energy and poor health can follow quickly.   There is a critical stage of 30% that we examine.  To get out of this stage clients have to gently engage in the most feasible ways for them to get a jumpstart that will allow them to then move back up the energy ladder.  Letting go of other's needs and caring for your own and allowing yourself to receive can be the first stepping stone.

Once clients are back above 30% again then it is more possible for them to do other things that will be helpful for them such as tai chi, relaxation etc.

Being aware of how energy is spent, used, rebuild it is very important as we move through life.  How do you spend your energy and how much joy do you get from these areas is of vital importance.  Some people or places can be like black holes in that they drain energy out of the people around them.  There are people who are more energy sensitive than others and this means they can lose track of how they feel themselves, carry symptoms of others around them and become particularly compromised if they fail to make space for themselves.

Again, in this programme there are some beautiful exercises to show what is energy draining for clients and uncover their paths to raising energy

Unleash the inner fire - it is the life force energy within

Principle 9
Inner Strength

Cultivate inner peace and sources of spiritual uplift

Inner Strength or spirituality is a knowing that we are a significant part of a purposeful unfolding of Life in our universe with something bigger than just ourself.

This is definitely the path where we find our way of having inner strength or becoming spiritual.  It might be though nature, prayer, meditation, contemplation, creativity, art music etc.  This is the time to be completely authentic and find what works for you.  It may mean that you try different things to see if they are a good fit for you and if not set them aside with thanks for the experience.

Meditation and contemplation can be a good place to start if just to quieten your mind as you practice and do it with the intention of finding your path to your inner strength and spirituality.  What feels right, what draws you in, what do you want to know more about, what areas have you thought of years ago but were too busy in your life to explore them?  You will see the word practice is in bold, and that's because it's a key word.  When we find what helps us with our inner strength, it's not just a case of doing it once and then we are strong forever, we need to do it again and again on a regular basis.  We always get more of what we put our energy and focus on, so more feelings of being spiritual or inner strength need daily or at least regular tending.

People who work on this path, find themselves more inclined to detach from the business of life.  Material things may become less important as they "come home" to themselves.  Very often they lose the fear of death seeing it as a transition rather than an ending this can make for a much calmer passage at that time of their life.

Spiritual nourishment can simply be taking time and space for yourself - remember you are a "human being" rather than a "human doing" is a way I like to look at it.

Other ways could include:

  • having a loving relationship with ourself, others and life itself

  • being at peace with ourself and others

  • developing a still centre to where we can return in a heartbeat

  • living life authentically and being true to our nature

We explore:

What do we mean by spirit?

What do we mean by spiritual health?

How do we develop inner strength to help us in challenging times?

What is our spiritual practice that opens our heart?

How do we manifest our conscious desires?

Awaken who you are, discard who you are not