When I was really sick with flare-ups from Crohn’s/Colitis, I had thoughts.  My thoughts sounded like this: “Am I going to make it to work?” “I can’t take another day off.” “There is no cure for this stupid disease; this disease is going to kill me!”

When I made the decision to work on healing myself, I made changes in my thoughts. I have been healed for over twenty years.  Now my thoughts are more like: “What’s for lunch?” “What are my plans for tomorrow?”

If you are truly looking for a cure to your illness, any illness, you need to move your thoughts from sickness to thoughts of health.  I know that some people might say to me, “There is no cure for Crohn’s or Colitis.”  Well that is not true. While “they” have not found a medical cure, people have cured themselves of Crohn’s. 

So my question is, why isn’t the medical community looking to the people who have cured themselves to help find a cure for all?  Maybe it’s time for a new thought.  

Now, imagine just for one second that someone told you there was a cure.  And, imagine that you believed them.  Would you try what they were telling you?  What if it cost you nothing? Would you try it? 

Free The Mind…The Body Will Follow.

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My book, I Healed My Crohn’s Colitis, is a simple and powerful book that shows you how I healed and gives you the tools to do the same. It is now available! Pick up your copy at any local bookstore or order online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Balboa Press Bookstore

I started a FaceBook group it is called Using your Mind and Thoughts to Heal Crohn’s Colitis. I hope you check it out.  http://goo.gl/gvjvO

I have been reading a lot about the subconscious mind and how it works.  I have been using the information in my meditation and also putting it together for a class that I am getting prepared to teach.  The more I am reading about it, the more I understand how I healed my Crohn’s Colitis.

By using meditation, I quieted my mind down to the level of the subconscious mind.  Then using imagery, I created what I wanted my body to do and I started working on what I wanted my life to be.

I know I have simplified this, however, this is how it works the best.  This is how I healed myself and now you can too.

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My book, I Healed My Crohn’s Colitis, is a simple and powerful book that shows you how I healed and gives you the tools to do the same. It is now available! Pick up your copy at any local bookstore or order online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Balboa Press Bookstore

I recently wrote about becoming aware of what triggers your illness. I want to say a little more about that. In my life, my trigger was stress and how I managed it.  I would swallow my stress and it had nowhere to go.  So like food that you eat, it started coming out the other end and created my illness, Crohn’s Colitis.

Everywhere we go in life we have stress one way or the other. There is physical stress like cold, hot, rain or snow and then there is emotional stress.  I believe in my life my emotional stress, if I let it go on, would have ended up killing me. 

Like I said, I swallowed my stress because in my family I was not taught how to handle stress or my emotions effectively. I didn’t want to look weak when I was overwhelmed, so I sucked it up.  I believe the body is like a jar and you can only fit so much in the jar until it overflows.

That’s why I tell everyone to look into stress management and look for tools to help you stop swallowing stress. This alone might help you cure your illness.  There are tons of books and learning materials out there that will help you. It is also the reason I wrote my book. I wanted to share the tools that I have found helpful and which ultimately cured my disease.

Meditation is a great tool to empty your mind and give it a rest.  But, it is hard to do when you’re in a stressful situation. You need to have something you can do on the fly or in the middle of your job. One of my favorite things to say when I start getting stressed over something in the moment that I am trying to fix or work through is: “I am not going to get sick over this.”  Those simple words bring  me back to reality about what is important.  There is nothing in this world worth getting sick over. And if you think worry is going to solve the problem, it’s not! 

To control my trigger I needed to create a mindset that I have done my best and if something does not work out, I need to believe that it was not meant to be and move on.  Nothing is worth getting sick over!

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  My book, I Healed My Crohn’s Colitis, is a simple and powerful book that shows you how I healed and gives you the tools to do the same. It is now available! Pick up your copy at any local bookstore or order online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Balboa Press Bookstore

We have come upon a new year again, how exciting!  I am looking at making some changes.  I just wrote up a new class about working on changing your subconscious mind.  In my mind’s eye I am creating my vision that my book goes to the four corners of the world and helps a lot of people.  I am seeing, in my visualization, that I am creating part of people’s healthcare by teaching them to use their own minds to heal their bodies.

I am seeing that large corporations are giving back to the world’s people.  I see governments working for their people; providing all with food, safe and healthy living conditions, education and religious freedom. I am also picturing the world’s people giving religious freedom to each other.

So what are you changing? What are you visualizing?  What do you want to see?

When I was real sick with Crohn’s, holiday time was tough on me.  Whenever I went to family or friend’s functions I felt that people were looking at me.  I was really skinny and my eyes were sunken. I was not fun to be around.  People would watch what I ate or did not eat. Then there were lots of questions about my health followed by suggestions about how to solve my illness. People would ask if I had tried this or that.  On top of it all I was not much of a holiday guy in the first place so that didn’t help either.

I know this sounds like I am whining but I am explaining how I felt because those feelings would trigger flare ups for me during the holidays.  As part of getting healthy I had to make changes in how I felt about holidays. I did. I still am not a big holiday guy but I am doing better.

The part of family get-togethers that was toughest on me was that I felt I did not fit into the family.  Being the youngest of 10 I felt I had to fight for my identity inside the family as I grew up.  When I got older, the tools of my life weren’t working in the real world and I needed to change how I thought and acted. It changed who I was; the role I played in my big family. So as I changed and went back to family get-togethers I felt I had to hide the new me and resuscitate the old me.  When I would show my family glimpses of the new me, and talk about meditation and healing, they thought I was nuts.

I am telling you all this because maybe some of you out there are experiencing the same feelings and asking yourselves how you can handle it. 

Here is what helped me: Know that they love you. Know that you don’t have to go away.  Know that it might not change, and know that you need to find understanding because they don’t have to change. You are the one who is sick and wants to get healthy.

I want you to know holidays are still tough on me sometimes.  But it is not worth getting a flare up!    

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I often talk with my clients about what triggers them.   I have clients who come to me for Body Energy Balancing and talk about when their illness started.  Sometimes they continue on to tell me what they are doing for their illness, maybe how they changed their diet or where they go for certain treatments or that they take this medicine or that herb.  I am all for it. I believe you need to explore every avenue. Hearing about what they have tried also shows me they are willing to work and they are doing their best to find answers.

After they have shared their story with me, I ask them what happened before the illness manifested. I ask them what triggered it.  Then they start to think or they ask me why.  Some tell me that they got sick after they lost their job or their father died or they got a divorce.  I believe Crohn’s or Colitis starts with a trigger, something to get it going.  Actually, I believe all illness has a trigger and we just need to look back to see what it is. Even in our day to day lives there might be triggers that could make us sick. We have to take a look.

What if you noticed that every year at a certain time of year you have a flare up and you asked yourself what the trigger was?  You could say it is the weather change or it is year end and all your projects are due, or it is holiday time.  These are all triggers! These could set you up to have a flare-up. 

So think about what I am talking about for a second and ask yourself what your trigger could be.  What sets you off? Watch your day to day triggers. Also go back to when you first got sick. What was going on in your life? Be truthful with yourself. It could be the key to healing your illness!