Creative healing is holistic healing in that it requires you to address your whole life. Dis-ease in any part of your life can lead to disease in your body.  Addressing your whole life is no simple matter, so the way to begin creative healing is through intention.

What Is An Intention?

An intention is a statement of purpose to achieve something you want. It focuses your mind on your goal, brings ideas on how to get there, and gives meaning to the actions you take as a result of these ideas.  But it is more than a desire to do something – it is a commitment to do it.

Imagine that you want to be an Olympic athlete. In order to achieve your goal you would have to do more than just want it, otherwise you would be unlikely to train regularly and rigorously enough to get on the Olympic team, let alone win a medal. It’s the same with holistic healing. To achieve wellness you have to be committed to it in order to consciously make the sometimes-difficult lifestyle changes that will get you there.

Holistic creative healing and becoming an Olympian are similar in that they are long-term endeavours that are achieved step by step. Becoming an Olympian will require consciously mastering your sport and achieving success in local and regional competitions before entering at the national level. Similarly, to achieve holistic healing and wellness you have to bring every area of your life into some kind of balance, which at the very least means living consciously in each of them. So while having the big prize as an end goal, set an holistic healing intention for each step along the way.

Decide What You Want

Start by looking at an area, or situation in your life that you would like to heal or change. Imagine how you would like it to be. Don’t limit yourself to what you think is possible, but go for what you deeply desire – the outcome that will give you the most joy.

It’s important to know how you will recognize when you have achieved this creative healing intention, so you will celebrate it and move on to the next step. What will your senses tell you? What emotions will you feel? How else might you know?

Set Your Intention

State your intention in positive terms as if it had already happened. For example, if you have a painful condition that impedes your mobility your creative healing intention might be “I am moving easily and comfortably.” Apparently, the subconscious hears negative terms as though they were positive, so “I am moving without pain” would be heard as “I am moving with pain” – the opposite of what you want.

Create Your Desire

Repeat your healing intention once or twice a day (on awakening and just befoe sleep are best) while vividly imagining yourself doing or having the thing you intend. Imagination is critical in bringing an intention into reality, because it changes your image of yourself and creates physical and physiological changes in your body.  The body is unable to tell the difference between something imagined and something real.  As you imagine an outcome, feel the emotion you will feel when it happens. Positive emotions are very powerful in effecting change.

One way to overcome disbelief that you can achieve what you want is not to imagine a static image, but one that changes as you move towards your intention. Suppose you have a mobility problem – what would be the first thing that you would see that tells you it is improving. Maybe your balance would improve or you would be able to walk a little further than you can right now. Once you have achieved that, then imagine how the next step will look and feel.

Don’t immediately determine how you will create what you want, or worry about how holistic healing will happen. Instead be open to any ideas that come to you. Then put them into action to see if they are helpful.

Celebrate With Gratitude

Celebrate and be grateful for any movement towards your goal of holistic creative healing and wellness. Gratitude and love are powerful emotions that can change body, mind, and spirit.

Keep Spirits High By Monitoring Progress

Finally, keep a journal of your progress, or at least list your successes. If at any time you feel overwhelmed or that you are not getting anywhere, read your journal, or look at your list and realize that you have already created positive changes and can continue to do so.

You can use this holistic creative healing intention process to creatively heal your body, emotions, or relationships, to find a job that expresses who you are, or for any other part of your life that you want to change.

WHEE (Whole Health – Easily and Effectively) tapping technique was developed by holistic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Benor to provide quick and effective natural pain relief, for both physical and psychological pain.

Pain relievers are the most common over-the-counter and prescribed drugs and cause tens of thousands of deaths, and even more hospitalizations, in North America every year.  Effective natural pain relief that is free from side-effects is vital if the treatment for pain is not to be worse than the pain itself – an aspect of  of creative health.  Luckily, WHEE not only fits these criteria, but it may also stop the pain permanently within a short space of time.

As the time that Dr Benor was given to treat patients under managed care got shorter and shorter, he looked for effective treatments that worked quickly and that patients could use safely at home between visits.  He started by treating patients with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), then progressed to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), a tapping technique which got faster results, and which patients could do themselves, and then to a combination of these which he called  Wholistic Hybrid from EMDR and EFT.  The first WHEE was born, but was later renamed under the same acronym, and its use was extended to cover many different physical and emotional/psychological problems.

When possible it is best to learn the technique when you are not in severe pain or distress.

Step 1:  Determine how severe the pain is on a scale of 0 (none)  to 10 (the worst it can possibly be).  This is known as the Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS).

Step 2: Tap each side of your body with 3-5 rhythmic taps, alternating from one side to the other.  Places to tap can be: your eyebrows, generally at the end closes to the nose; or your arms (wrap them around the front of your body and tap the upper arms with the opposite hand).  If you wish to do it inconspicuously, tap your feet, by tapping the sole of each foot on the floor,  or your teeth, by using your tongue to tap them on the left and right sides.

Step 3: While alternately tapping the right and left sides of the body back-and-forth continuously, keep repeating an affirmation such as, “Even though I have this pain, I deeply and unconditionally love and accept myself.”  If you cannot say that truthfully, then say whatever is most uplifting and true for you.  For example you could say “I know that… God Loves me…the Universe is on my side…I love nature…I love my children..” whichever of these fit.

Step 4:  After tapping for a few minutes, repeat the SUDS again.  It should have gone down.  Repeat the tapping and checking until it is down to zero.  However, in the case of long-standing chronic pain, you may not want to get down to zero immediately, since to suddenly be without any pain may actually make you uncomfortable in certain situations.   In this case reduce the pain to level where you feel comfortable, then reduce it gradually in subsequent sessions.

Step 5.  If the SUDS does not decrease, then gently massage the releasing point.  Feel around about an inch under the mid-point of one collar bone until you find a spot that is sore, then massage it for about 30 seconds without an affirmation, and repeat the WHEE process.

As well as being an effective natural pain relief, WHEE can also be used for many problems including anxiety, panic, fear or other negative feelings and thoughts.  Learn more about using WHEE for effective natural pain relief and other situations.

Photocredit:  A. Strakey