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Stage 6: Meaningful Success + My Self
11 years + After Diagnosis
What IS Meaningful Success + My Self?
First let’s be clear what it is NOT.
Meaningful Success + My Self is NOT:
About Control or Self Control.
It’s the opposite......letting go of fears, inhibitions, limiting beliefs. As Eckhart Tolle said:“Mastery of life is the opposite of control. You become aligned with the greater consciousness.
It acts, speaks, does the works.”- A Permanent Symptom Free State.
Actually that may be neither healthy nor desirable!
As you see in Core, pain, inflammation and symptoms are the body’s natural response to something out of balance. Like a Warning.
You need to know when that is happening and act accordingly.
Similarly, health is not just about being symptom free. The World Health Organisation and Dr Joel Robbins respectively confirm this with:
“Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is a state of optimal wellbeing.”
“Optimal wellbeing...goes beyond the curing of illness to one of achieving wellness.
The truth is, your health is much more than being just symptom free and is your responsibility.
You are the only person who can make the lifestyle decisions that contribute to your wellbeing.”
Meaningful Success + My Self IS:
- Taking Responsibility for your health and wellbeing.
- Addressing the REAL causes of your MS, especially the inner issues.
- Enjoying vibrant health, wellbeing, wealth and happiness.
- Feeling, looking, being energised, purposeful, free.
- Knowing who you are and Living Your Truth: being true to you, what you want in life and how to achieve it.
- Understanding and living Unconditional love of yourself and others
- Peace of mind, heart body and soul
- Living in and being Grateful for the moment
- Genuine friendship and camaraderie with like minded others
- Receiving admiration from and respect of others who Feel your new energy, enthusiasm, purposefulness and attractiveness.
- Knowing how your perception of money affects your health and happiness, enabling you to identify what is Really important to you.
- Exploring, accepting and treasuring your Vulnerability as a source of strength not weakness
In essence you will live the words of Robin Sharma:
“We Are Infinite Potential, Ideal Health, Unconditional Love and Pure Fearlessness.
Everything We Want To Be We Already Are”
With ‘Meaningful Success + My Self’ you will be in harmony and at peace physically, emotionally, psychologically, sexually and spiritually. In this balanced state, there is no fertile breeding ground for fear, worry, stress and the resulting illnesses.
When You Live Your Truth nothing can hurt or upset you. Fear has no role to play.
’Meaningful Success + My Self’ is accepting what is, letting go, and not trying to fight reality, like I did! (And still do sometimes!)
The Heart Of Meaningful Success + My Self
The core, the Heart of Meaningful Success + My Self is
Unconditional Love
When you ARE Unconditional Love you are FREE.
Free to be, do and have anything. You are not limited by the fears, judgements, beliefs or any sources of stress, which are often more disabling than MS itself.
You embrace and love what is and accept responsibility for you. As Dr Bernie Siegel says:
“Unconditional love is your immune system’s most powerful stimulant.”
Meaningful Success + My Self starts with learning to love yourself unconditionally.
When you love yourself, you respect yourself, you are response - able (able to respond) and you treat others similarly. Your health and wellbeing are your number One priority, and you treat your body, heart, mind and soul with the love and respect they need to flourish.
In the humorous words of Jerry Lewis, from the original ‘Nutty Professor’ movie:
“If you don’t love yourself, how do you expect others to?”
Fundamentally, you welcome...
Vulnerability
Love Is…
It’s only when you are totally vulnerable that you achieve self realization, self truth and unconditional love. Vibrant health and happiness then flow naturally.
True Vulnerability Silences Your Ego. Then Your Truth Speaks.
Marc Sircus Ac., OMD agrees:
“The greatest thing we require for health and proper function is love.
At the center of our beings is our hearts wanting to love and be loved.......
One of life’s great secrets is the power of the heart
and what a return to its vulnerability offers a person sick and dying of disease.
Vulnerability may feel like a weakness to be avoided, but it offers a healing strength second to none
because through our vulnerability we return to the nature of our true beings.”
I have found being vulnerable very hard.
I was brought up and trained to be tough, to fight my way through Civilian and Military life. Somehow, whatever the ‘awfulness’ of the pain or the situation, I always managed to be ‘in control’. I beleived that being vulnerable, out of control, meant being weak.
As Marc above indicates, how wrong I was!
My ‘awakening’ came like a lightening bolt.
This experience should not have been painful. It was minor compared to other tough situations I had been in, yet......
A terrifying, painful session of Botox injections for my spasms shook me to the core. Pain, shame, anger engulfed me. I cried like a baby unrestrained. As if many years of supressed emotion were suddenly unblocked.
For the first time I was naked in my vulnerability with another person.
The insight was profound. My true healing began.
I realised that it’s only when you are totally vulnerable that you achieve self realization, self truth and unconditional love.
What Does Meaningful Success + My Self Mean To Me?
Slumbering Mountain Flow
To me, ‘Meaningful Success + My Self’ means I embody the words of Maya Angelou:
“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and
arrives at her destination true to herself
and only to herself.”
Now I can see how MS has been a gift. It forced me to stop, ask and answer: Who Am I? What Do I want? Why?
In so doing, I am opening myself to vulnerability, inner peace, unconditional love, vibrant health and happiness.
I do not yet have all the answers. but, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, I know my Destination.......
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it within us or find it not.”
What Does Meaningful Success + My Self Mean To You?
I hope that by sharing My Story you see how MS can enable you to greater self knowledge, happiness and health.
It does NOT disable you UNLESS you allow it to.
Believe me, if you did all you are capable of doing, you would astonish yourself!
Indeed......
YOU are Uniquely Beautiful and Talented.
Please allow yourself to find, believe and live that Truth..........
“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
yet they pass by themselves without wondering.”
St. Augustine
Are You Ready To Start ‘Wondering’ ?
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