Wellness and Healing Crises

It is a new year! Welcome in 2018. The beginning of a fresh year often sparks new or renewed interest in making positive changes in one's life. There is a long standing tradition of making "New Year's Resolutions." At our wellness center, we see an increased interest in our various services by potential and new clients seeking to improve or enhance their physical, mental, emotional or spiritual well being - and that is a great thing. Whether attributed to the spark of a new year, or some other motivator or catalyst, anything that promotes self-improvement and wellness is welcome.

A positive attitude is a primary factor in obtaining our goals - isn't it? We always help our client's try and stay focused on the positive side of things. Our therapeutic hypnosis always tries to help our client's conscious and unconscious aspects tend to their strengths. Our massage & bodywork always targets improvement. Our energy work always highlights inner strength and spiritual positivism. One of our primary goals is to always be a cheerleader for improvement. We always avoid the negative in order to use whatever we can offer to focus on the positive. However, this might be the perfect time to take a step back and provide a little disclaimer about health, wellness and balance.

Why be such a Debbie Downer (I hope no one that reads this is really named that and takes offense) at this optimistic time of the year?  Being aware and forewarned prepares us and gives strength for overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to sustaining our improvement and positive outcomes over the long run. Sometimes, in some situations, our attempts at improvement are met with a natural and inherent resistance to change.

Whether we are seeking physical, mental, emotional or spiritual improvement; an attempted positive shift in the status quo, even from a status quo that is not the best for us, toward improvement, can be met with initial resistance or setbacks. This is the nature of a "healing crisis." There may be rebellious factors in our mind, body, environment, family, or spirit that are slow to change or downright resistant to our efforts. These change challenges are normal, acceptable and expected. In fact, these obstacles represent a vary reliable marker that we are on the correct track toward improvement. By definition, changing the status quo requires meeting and overcoming the natural challenges mustered to keep the status quo in place.

We could choose to quit, stop or back-off from our intended goals when we meet this resistance. This is what many people do when their New Year's Resolution isn't turning out exactly how they expected. A good intention quickly becomes an aborted attempt. Or, we can welcome the resistance; acknowledge it as a sign along the pathway toward our goal; push forward with our desire for improvement; knowing that in order to improve, we must overcome the stagnated and sluggish energy or errant thinking that created our lack of balance and wellness.

Knowing.... most certainly as you can..... that your desire to improve may be challenged by the natural resistance to change..... can offer you a tool to be used in your favor..... in preparation for your growth and goal accomplishment - you now know this... and whether aware or unaware... can use it to your advantage to obtain your goals and resolutions. (a little hypnotic verbiage there)

As pictured above, like a drop of water, in the water, creating a point of change; I hope you have a wonderful year, and it is what it needs to be, for you.   Cick here for more info about Wishing Wellness