Taking Responsibility for Your Health

Whether you use alternative healing modalities or receive traditional Western medical care, your treatment will be more effective if you show up as an open-minded and willing partner. Taking an active role in your health can lead to a better outcome.

Staying grounded and centered can help you gain more clarity about your situation, making it easier to decide how to proceed.  

When I feel something is out of balance, I first take a thorough inventory of my symptoms. Details include what was happening when they started and looking carefully to determine if I was doing anything different before the symptoms appeared. Then, I decide what action I will take.

Recently, I had an opportunity to practice what I teach. For a week, I would feel fine one day and so sick the next that I could barely get out of bed. On my “off” days, I was extremely exhausted and achy. It didn’t make sense that I felt good one day and could barely function the next.

First, I closely reviewed everything that had happened when I started feeling poorly. I realized I had been eating chocolate every day. It was gluten-free cake, so I thought eating it was fine. I had also been consuming some foods with regular flour; since it wasn’t causing me to bloat, I assumed it was not a problem. Those were the only dietary differences; I cut them out.

My next step was to dig deeper into how I spent my time before I started feeling sick. I identified two significant things: I had been working a lot and was on the verge of feeling burned out. There were also some things I did not want to do, but I did them anyway.

After two days of cutting back on my work and tweaking my diet, I felt like myself again. After a few weeks, I participated in something I did not want to attend. I received several Spirit messages asking me to cancel, but unfortunately, I ignored them. Guess what?!? The extreme fatigue and achy body came back.

I realized what was happening this time and spoke frankly with my Spirit Guides. “Thank you for getting my attention with the fatigue and aches. I promise I will not keep agreeing to do things I don’t want to do. You do not need to cause me to be sick this time — I see and hear your message loud and clear.”

Although I had already started to feel achy and tired, I felt fine by the time I got home that day.

If I had not been willing to take responsibility for my health, I might have blamed the healer (me) when I started feeling poorly again. Rather than assume my “healer” didn’t do a good job the first time, I intuitively knew to review everything again. 

Sometimes, people who receive healing will blame their healer or doctor if their problems resurface or persist. These clients want to be “fixed” but do not want to do any personal work to help heal. If you have an alternative healing or medical treatment and don’t make individual changes that your healer or doctor recommends, don’t expect the healing results to last. It will be difficult to have genuine, lasting healing if you continue with the habits and behaviors that contributed to your getting sick. 

I would love to hear what you do to take responsibility for your health.

Peace & Blessings,

Chloe