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"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit,
I can, because I'm the Earth.
I won't give up until the Earth gives up."
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Springing into Life by Beth Prins Leas
 Spring is a time of rebirthing and transformation as life bursts forth from the earth. Those colored eggs were originally a symbol of the fertility of the Goddess of Spring. The Spring Equinox is a time of balance when light and dark are equal. From there we move forward with the free will of the Earth taking over! Living in harmony with the seasons means that in the Spring we have the opportunity to authentically explore and reclaim our own sacred will and power. If we think about Spring as a time of renewal, it is the time of action and risk taking - of moving our intentions and visions out into the world.
This is the perfect time to improve your health on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. So many of our health projects come from the abusive use of food and drugs. Abuses and addictions touch almost every person's life - reflecting a struggle between the light and the dark.
So consider a 'Spring Break'. Try a day or week without caffeine, alcohol or sugar- replacing them with a new habit - drinking more water, walking or meditating for example.
When you change your self-destructive habits to a dynamic of self-care through both your internal healing process as well as a change in lifestyle you begin to move your body, your health and your life toward its highest potential. As you develop more nurturing and supportive habits - eating well, exercising regularly, learning to cope with stress and developing motivating attitudes - you will experience greater vitality, more positive relationships and improved health.
This path may require us to overcome resistance to change, fear of failure and other doubts whose voices have taken up residence in the deeper recesses of our beings.
Identifying these old patterns is only part of the healing journey. To actually change belief systems that no longer serve a healthy psyche requires us to go deeper - to work at the cellular level where the body holds past traumas, learned behaviors and negative beliefs.
This is how we are able to experience an integrated healing transformation - releasing old habits that we have been struggling against, often for years, with minimal results. Many kinds of mind/body therapies can be explored which will help us be successful on our healing journey.
Since everything is rooted in energy, we can choose to either remain in our holding patterns, building up unreleased emotions, or we can find ways of moving and shifting into new paradigms. Exercise, massage, reflexology, breath practices, meditation, imagery work, hypnotherapy and energy clearing are just some of the ways to break addictive behaviors, freeing the will to express itself in productive, life enhancing activities.
So with Spring modeling rebirth and transformation for us, this is an ideal time to explore the root of our behaviors and step into our deeper power, daring to live more fully and authentically.
One of the truths I have discovered from my experience in integrative health is that the insights, understandings and realizations which have the greatest power to transform people's lives are those they reach for themselves. The healing comes from the process of discovering our own unique truth.
Keys to unlocking the door:Openness -
readiness to let go of old thought patterns and beliefs
in a spirit of exploration and discovery.
Commitment -
to your health, well being and personal growth -
a recognition that they are important and
deserve having energy devoted to them.
Awareness -
knowing what you are doing and
why you choose that option from all those available.
The inner healer is that part of us which knows wholeness and seeks to re-establish unity whenever possible. Integrative healthcare is an enlightened approach to healing which lies not in turning our backs on medical practitioners - whether 'traditional' or 'complementary' - nor in substituting the Inner Healer for other forms of medicine - but to view our own health care as a partnership between the two.
Your partner in holistic health -
Beth |
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Beth Prins Leas is founding director of the Total Life Care Center, LLC (1997) and a gifted energy healer using Jin Shin Jyutsu and Reiki. Through her extensive work over the past 18 years with adults and children facing challenges as great as cancer and hiv, Beth has witnessed the healing power of people becoming partners in their own health care.
As a practitioner and teacher, Beth's focus is on empowering you through the use of self-help techniques designed to awaken your inner healer.
TLC Center is Fairfield County's largest holistic health center - with over 90 Practitioner Members. From Acupuncture to Zero Balancing, TLC Center has you covered - offering private sessions, workshops, classes and events designed to support you in Total Life Care.
203.853.4852
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