HEALING BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT (HBMS)

HBMS

HBMS is a process that encompasses all essential elements of our beings — the body, mind, and spirit. It embodies our thoughts and beliefs, our motivations and inspirations, our strengths and our weaknesses — all that we truly are. HBMS focuses on healing and recovery through energy and spiritual elements.

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT

These three are in allegiance and cannot be separated. Therefore, denial, limited thinking, suppressed emotions, and spiritual neglect, aggravate our physiology, causing illness.

OTHER PRACTICES

Healing may include medical, psychiatric, and various alternative therapies depending on an individual’s specific situation ... and these may be recommended.

BELIEF

One of the challenges of HBMS is the willingness to cherish ourselves just as we are, right now. Of equal importance is recognizing and accepting the enormous power of the mind. We each carry within our unconscious thoughts, all of the significant people and events in our lives. We humans unwittingly adopt what we hear. Our thoughts are driven by family, TV and news broadcasts, friends and colleagues, and those conscious and unconscious thoughts nurture our belief systems. As well intentioned as these sources may be, their perspective is just that, and their ideas have more to do with educating us about what they think and what is true for them, and less to do with what we think and what is true for us. Their advice commonly runs contrary to the direction we are being lead by our wise inner selves. We are left confused, with feelings of shame and guilt, and mindsets of denial and limiting beliefs.

MIND POWER

Multiple Personalities or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a condition in which a single person displays multiple, separate, identities or personalities. Each has its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. Medically, one personality may have an illness that interestingly is not present when the personality changes. Same body, different mind and thought patterns resulting in a different physiological manifestation.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

• Behavioural Medicine: associated with the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)
• Publication: Journal of Behavioral Medicine, applying behavioral science in the prevention of illness
• Book: The Promise of Energy Psychology collectively authored by Feinstein, Eden, and Craig

CHANGING LIMITING BELIEFS

HBMS is accomplished by gently opening our thoughts to the possibility that we create our realities through our belief systems and thought processes. With this awareness dawns the realization that every event in our lives, including our illnesses, are brought on by us. When we understand that disease is an expression of ones attitude and habitual way of looking at things, we begin to recognize that we already have the power to make these important changes. HBMS encourages us to review and sort through existing beliefs to determine which are ours and which are not. No self-limiting thought can go unchallenged. By eliminating erroneous cognitive patterns, we make room for thoughts and attitudes more compatible with our wiser selves.

SHADOW SELF

When our diligent efforts do not produce the results we seek, we are experiencing the effects of our shadow self. Our shadow is represented by the masks we wear, and the masquerade is fed by our fears. We worry about what people will think of us if they find out what we are really like, and so we all keep a part of ourselves hidden from public view - and often from ourselves as well.

We are able to identify our shadow by noticing the behaviours we project onto others. Every quality we see in another person exists in us, or we would not recognize it. We know we are projecting when someone else’s actions affect us, when we buy into them emotionally. This projection includes our talents, and this can be recognized by our adulation or glorification of others. We are probably not projecting if we simply notice another’s attributes with interest.

Understand that everyone has a shadow. This is, of course, unless they are standing in the dark.

SHADOW RESEARCH

• Carl Jung: Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.
• Joseph Campbell: The shadow can represent our darkest desires, our untapped resources, or even rejected qualities. It can also symbolize our greatest fears and phobias.
• Deepak Chopra: In order to have manifestation you need to have opposing energies. All experience is the result of contrast. To have a shadow is normal. If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on the inside, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

HBMS is self-honesty. We all show a representation of ourselves to the world that denies those parts we do not like. It is our shadow side that we project onto others when we point our fingers in judgment. Our ultimate healing depends on acknowledging and accepting all of ourselves. What we resist, persists. There is nothing here to be feared. It is in our darkness that we find our light.

HEALING

Begin to appreciate that we each hold the key to our own well-being. It is always up to us as individuals. Innately we know this, but it has been forgotten. It needs only to be restored. Choosing compassion, forgiveness and love, for yourself first and then for others, is integral to healing and recovery. This is the nature of HBMS. It brings your power, your truth, and your love back to you.