The Body Never Lies.
As the walking autobiography of our life experiences, our bodies carry ancient wisdom. Our bodies carry out over six million processes simultaneously and instinctually, without us ever thinking about it! Yet, many of us are disconnected from our bodies and have forgotten this intimate communication and communion. The disconnection from our Mother Earth in these times stems from this loss of connection with the sacred temple of our own bodies. For healing to begin, we must come home to our bodies and remember how to listen to their ancient wisdom.

The Mind, Body, Emotions and Spirit are not Separate.
Our spiritual dis-ease and feelings of separation, isolation and disconnection often stem from a deep inner split of the mind from the body and emotions. In healing, we re-member, re-awaken, and re-connect the innate communication of body, mind and emotions and use this inner wisdom for self-awareness, self-healing and self-expression. To be ill is to be disconnected from the whole; to heal simply means being connected with the whole.

Healing Happens From the Inside Out, Not the Outside In.
When we want to change or blame others (rather than go to the source of our own pain), we have betrayed ourselves with the lie that someone outside us can fix anything for us or make us feel safe, loved or whole. When someone "pushes our buttons," it is because we have buttons to push! Focusing on the source of one's own pain is the true path of the inner healer. Going outside the self has created most of our addictions as strategies to escape the present moment. Hell is the experience where we cannot love or forgive the self. Healing this split involves welcoming home the unlovable within.

Healing is a Journey from the Head Back to the Heart, From Logic Back to Love.
As we begin to be home in our bodies, we often remember the past experiences that we didn't know how to process and, instead, stuffed inside. This is why we started living more in our heads than in our hearts and bodies in the first place! We forgot how to feel our lives, to express our hearts in the moment. When these experiences go unexpressed, the body and emotions can eventually no longer hold onto them and they begin to signal us through physical and emotional aches and pains. This is often when we reach for medication or many other addictive behaviors to escape or try to "fix" it. It is no wonder the deeper wisdom of our bodies and feelings have become strangers! This is the very moment when healing can take place. By trusting our deeper knowing or "gut feeling" as the inner teacher, we allow ourselves to be guided back to intuition, back to feeling and healing, and back to our own creativity and imagination.

We Cannot Heal What We Refuse to Feel.
When we have lost connection to our hearts and how to feel our lives, it often results in a kind of schizophrenia where we think one thing, feel another, and say a third! In coming home to the body, we come home to our feelings, dark and light. As ritual artist and healer Gabrielle Roth shares, "When we are grounded in our bodies, pure in our hearts, clear in our minds and suffused with the spirit of life, then we are living are our birthright."

We have but one Spirit, expressing itself in many forms. The gifts of our emotions -- fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion -- are sacred teachers for our healing. When we repress our sadness or anger, we also repress our joy. We stop trusting our feelings. The greatest source of depression comes from not trusting our gut, expressing our true feelings in the moment and acting on what we know. Healing is natural when there is a compassionate space that allows us to explore and reclaim the full spectrum of human emotion.

There is Nothing to Fix.
Not trying to change anything but creating a sacred space within and around us by witnessing and listening with the heart of acceptance, compassion and truth is the key to transformation.

You are What you Eat -- Physically, Emotionally, Mentally and Spiritually!
To maintain our total well being, it is important to look at what foods we are eating. We are polluting our Mother Earth because we are polluting our own bodies. This is not only true of physical foods that we eat, but also of emotional, mental and spiritual foods. Toxic thoughts are just as damaging to our Spirit as bad foods. In fact, it is often our toxic thoughts and emotions that lead us to eating foods that are not healthy for us. When we become aware and no longer feed these toxic thoughts, they move on. Finding the proper food is everything in maintaining our total well being.

It is Not About Finding the Truth, It's About Shedding the Lies.
At the core of each of us is a divine, pure spirit, pure truth. There are many masks of fear that we have identified with as who we are. Self-awareness through meditation brings a personal experience with our divine true nature and begins to shed the false identities or false self-systems. When it becomes more painful to live in the false self-system than in the authentic self, we have arrived at the crossroads where our healing journey takes a huge growth spurt and the true flower of our being shines forth!