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August
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Healthy Alternatives
is
published by
iHealth Center for Integrated Wellness
Founder/President: Kweethai
Neill
Publisher/Editor:
Steve Stork
Change Your
Mind. Change Your Life.
The missing
link in Health Education is Spirit.
This newsletter conveys ancient knowledge to
a modern audience. We don't refute science; we ask you to
look beyond it. |
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Be
healthy & happy, inside & out
"The iHealth model is the simplest way to
express the real role of any health
educator.
The
"i" in iHealth has several meanings. First, it represents
integrated, or whole, including wellness within mind,
body, and spirit. Second, it represents the
individual; you have to take responsibility for
personal change. Third, the "i" is in lowercase. When you have
attained the life you desire, you change from a lowercase "i"
to a capital "I." The capital "I" represents the power of the
universe, or God. When your individual divinity is aligned
with the Universal Cosmos, or God--or, when you find the
holiness within your own spirit and understand that it is
connected with the divinity of the universe, or God--you are
healthy."
--Adapted from Hypnotherapy: An Alternative
Approach to Health and Happiness (2008)by
Kweethai Neill
Health Education can never be fully effective if
all it does is convey health knowledge.
Most
adults admit to knowing what they should be doing relative to
maintaining good health. Such admissions are quickly followed
by excuses and alibis for not doing it. Something in the
subconscious mind prevents you from adopting new habits you
know to be positive and beneficial. Why is
that?
The missing link is the ability to say, "I am
good enough." Many
people are subject to a subconscious mindset that they do
not deserve to be happy or healthy. It may arise from either a
traumatic event or chronic abuse mistakenly construed as
relating to a personal fault or inadequacy. Regardless, once
in place the subconscious mind seeks to maintain that mindset
as its own truth. And it fosters self-betraying behaviors and
negative habits to reinforce and perpetuate that
truth. In order to adopt new,
positive habits, you must acknowledge your
self-defeating behaviors and re-write the software of your
subconscious in order to eliminate them.
The
challenge for the conscientious health educator is to interact
with students and clients in ways that remove psycho-social
barriers to desirable behaviors they are already familiar
with. In other words, external behaviors must be integrated
with internal feelings and sensations. That's one of the
precepts of the iHealth model of Integrated
Wellness. |