A new paradigm of wealth

We would all like to be wealthy, would we not? That is, wealthy in life, in love, in family, in friendships, in having abundance in every way so we are lacking in nothing. True wealth is much more than money. This is common sense........Is it not?....... Or is it? Look around the people you know and ask yourself, who is living without limits? And I don't mean breaking the law!

We know much more than we apply to our own lives. Imagine how our lives would be if we simply applied what we already know?!

Eg We know health is more than the health of our bodies. What if you are 'healthy' physically, but have mental issues? or spiritual issues from past wounds? Are you really healthy? Of course not.

We know to be truly healthy, we have to have healthy minds, bodies and spirit. Each is inter-related and cannot be divorced from the other. Each aspect is an integral part of who we are. So why then does modern medicine continue to ignore this common sense? And to treat only the body? Or only the mind, and not also the spirit?

Its a matter of training, one assumes. Doctors are trained to heal the body, but not the mind or spirit. Phychiastrists are trained to see the brain as a combination of chemical reactions, so they apply drugs to balance the chemicals produced in their patients' brains. Pastors are trained to deal with spiritual disease, so have a tendency so see everything from a spiritual point of view.

Or to be blunt, if you are only taught how to use a hammer, you tend to see all problems as nails sticking out! Slowly other forms of treatment which were previously dismissed are becoming increasingly accepted as credible treatments. Acupuncture, naturopathy, herbal medicines abound.

Here's an blinding thought...

Physical illness (as opposed to physical trauma caused by accidents, injury or physical assaults) is caused by a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental physical input. In other words, garbage in garbage out! So be careful what you habitually eat! And be careful how you habitually move!

Mental illness is caused by a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental mental input. Again garbage in, garbage out! So be careful what you habitually think!

Spiritual illness is caused by a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental spiritual input. Again garage in, garbage out! So be careful what you believe!

And what are the common sense implications of the above? Why, they are common sense of course and you already know the answers!

To heal the body, eat and move right,...... always.
To heal the mind, think right, ....... always.
To heal the spirit, believe right, ....... always.

We all do some of these things, some of the time. The key to lasting health, is making these behaviors into our habits so they become our chosen lifestyle and not something we do just when we are feeling sick in the body, worried in the mind or stressed in the spirit.

Obvious again, you say? So why don't you apply it? If you did, you wouldn't be reading this! Ha Ha Ha....got you there, didn't I?

So why don't we do what we know? What's stopping us from living life to our full potential? Or settling for something less then we were meant to be? From living life out of a sens of abundance?

Here are some possible clues:

- Conflicting beliefs: take us one step forward and two steps back
- Wrong beliefs: take us down the wrong path
- Inadequate beliefs: take us only part way
- laziness: make us sluggish
- fear of failure: freezes us
- fear of success!: freezes us!
- fear of rocking the boat so we do nothing and become observers of life
- because no-one expects us too! ....so we don't even try beyond a certain level
- because it seems like too much work! to go against the trend and forces of everything around us
- apathy: not caring one way or the other

The good news is there are tools and ideas that can address each one of these blockages. And because we are body, mind and spirit, the tools must also be tools and ideas for the body, for the mind and for the spirit.

But are you ready to change? ........Are you ready to give up beliefs that are holding you back and replace them with beliefs that will spur you on to achieve what you never thought possible?

Do you know, that even as I write these words, I am asking myself the same questions?

I am daring myself to go where I have not gone before. And if I can take the challenge, why not you as well?

What is a value system, but a strongly held belief, passed down through the generations? Everything can be changed..... by a renewing of the mind.