You Have an Inner Healer...

Yes, it's true. I know many of you believe it's up to your doctor to heal you. It isn't. Love or hate me for saying so, but the real healer is yourself. You allow or block healing energy from flowing through you.

I've seen it time and again. Someone comes into my office and says, "Heal me." I tell them and everyone like them the same thing, "I can only facilitate your energy to flow within you...it's up to you to allow it to flow and keep it flowing and nurture that."

"How am I supposed to do that?", they ask, annoyed that I don't offer a one-and-done session or a magic pill.

It's a life style. A healing journey you must not only agree to and embark upon, but an agreement with yourself to excavate that within you that needs releasing and healing.

Whether it's a physical bacteria, an old mental mindset from childhood or an emotional trauma that is asking you to heal it. I guarantee you that you need to look within only a little and the answers to how you can heal yourself will come rushing forth.

Don't believe me? That's ok. But I dare you to try this for a week...buy a brand new journal (I get the cheapo Walmart art sketching notebooks) and set your timer for 7 minutes for each of these questions. Write non-stop. Do not stop writing for those 7 minutes, do not edit what or how you've written. Answer these questions everyday for a week:

• What am I currently holding onto that feels heavy, exhausting, or draining?”

• “Where in my body do I feel tension or emotional residue—and what might that sensation be trying to communicate?”

• “What am I afraid will happen if I let this go?''

Don't read what you've written until the week is ended. After one week, read it all. You'll likely feel all manner of emotions the whole week and that is on purpose. Withholding the expression of emotions is one of humanities biggest causes of dis-eases.

In subsequent blog posts, I'll relay what to do with this information once it is out of you onto the page.

For now, get writing. This is called, therapeutic writing.

Hug!

Regina Cannella, Dipl.Ac., L.Ac., M.Ac.