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Charity (faithville, Us) on 08/31/2021
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I remember when my medical policy would not cover mental health treatments and my doctors would tell me it's all in my head. The out of pocket was shocking and most people didn't get much help and fought all kinds of physical issues. They didn't cover any naturopaths either. How convenient. My eyes and teeth weren't covered by my health insurance either. They were separate policies. We live in a strange world controlled by dollars and cents. No real sense to it. I was very discouraged. I will say a lot of what goes on in our health does originate with our mind and our eyes and our teeth. What a silly world we live in. Humans, go figure.

Anyways this post is about thoughts. Journaling is good for your health because it helps you see what is happening and go back and analyze it so you can find unhealed or unhealthy patterns. I have a lot of full journals. I also ripped out lots of pages to start fires in the woodstove. I am not just rambling here. Your mind has a lot going on with side effects. Thoughts are called ANTS automatic negative thoughts steal your life away. Imagination can change your life and future and thoughts create what you see. The thoughts are the lenses your eyes look through to see. Is your glass half empty or half full? Are your lenses rose colored or blue? Journaling gives you a chance to make changes, take notes, write out a plan and take back your future. You are in charge of your thoughts. 3x5 cards in your pocket can help a lot. I also make 8 x 11 sheets and post them around where I look often to remind myself what I am overcoming and what sentences I am using to do that. I make a list of things I want to tackle and write out my plan of attack. Fear NOT is one of my signs. Forgive is one and Love is another. Your thoughts can take you places you don't want to go if you don't pay attention to them and make choices about how you want to think. It will affect your long term health. Every day I am healthier and stronger than I was yesterday and I overcome. Blessings, Charity

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Replied By Charity (faithville, Us) on 09/01/2021

Forgiveness was a battle I could not understand. I had posted on my fridge a large note page saying forgive them for they know not what they do. Daily I seemed to wage this battle in my emotions. The day before I had forgiven and then the battle was back. The thoughts and then emotions. Those ANTS would visit me and tell me how unforgiving and how unloving I was and I was the cause of all the problems. I would forgive again and keep on task. I had chosen to overcome any unforgiveness. Any choices you make to be loving or forgiving will cost your flesh ( mind, will, emotions) dis comfort but in the end the freedom from not having those emotions will follow. Emotions do many things. First they dehydrate the body as it goes into fight or flight mode. Then the stress affects the body in negative ways. A lot of energy is spent on what if`ing in case those who hurt you get back into your boundaries again. There is nothing wrong with healthy boundaries. Forgiveness does not mean being in dangerous situations or allowing people to come into your boundaries and never address that there is a problem. You can ask them to forgive you because they are doing thus and so and you have a problem constantly trying to forgive them. You would like a solution, but if one cannot be agreed upon it would be better to limit interaction. I personally left my parents, when they were unable to go to therapy with me to work out old problems and new ones as no one had changed. That was a 20 year departure. My siblings left me because I separated from my parents. I respected their space. I never raised my voice or called them names or raged. I did continue to pursue my own recovery. Unforgiveness and being unloving only make you feel trapped and dis eased. I took a boundaries class, paid for counselling, went through many support healing groups and met new friends . As you recover, you may have to find new friends if yours are not growing with you or the ones not growing will hold you back from your own healing and restoration. You cannot love or forgive others if you don't know how to love and forgive yourself. Hope this helps someone. Blessings, charity
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Replied By Charity (faithville, Us) on 09/02/2021

the ants (automatic negative thoughts) have also marched in my mind as constant thoughts about sickness and pain. What makes me so aware of pain? Why am I hurting? This takes me back to forgiveness. Unforgiveness does bring the tormentors but I have forgiven and do so daily . The mind will use these thoughts to make you hyper focused on trying to solve physical ails because it hurts or looks awful. I study this a lot, after so much time in pain for various reasons. As much as forgiveness was a mental battle . Placebos work because our mind creates . We battle fears and symptoms . Our mind can struggle with constant thoughts of body symptoms, ( like unforgiveness battles ), we can out wit them. I am not that smart or I wouldn't have to go look for answers all day and night . Natural chemistry and the natural realm have been a challenge for me. My brain is an artist. This morning I saw a vision of me with a paint brush, I am not a painter. I saw that I put some blue water color on it and painted the sky with blue which is grace and I need lots of that everyday. Then I got some light red and washed the sky with a sunrise and I felt warm and loved. I thought about how we can take charge of our health . I have studied this out for decades and the rule is you follow those that found their solutions . I have listened to those who share their how~ to on healing journeys and they say if they allow their thoughts to stay with the body and its' ails, they get sicker. What you focus on grows. Turning those thoughts to creating desired outcome and not on trying to solve symptoms. There is a place to take a supplement routine to attack a problem but after 40 yrs you might conclude a new tactic should be employed to acquire solutions. I am ready for a New Normal. I have a few ideas. Get a little box and call it a Worry Box and write your worries on little papers and put them in there and if you start to think of something you put in that box already stop the thought and say to yourself, Worry has not solved that and say the opposite of what that worry was about. Example. My leg has a huge sore on it and it hurts. My leg self heals and is fully recovering better than before . I would say apply cures with faith that the situation will quickly resolve, and keep speaking outcome to it if your mind brings ants, bring butterflies in their place with good news and happy outcome thoughts. The people I follow said the more they chased healing, the further away it went and they got sicker. When they resolved that their body self healed and controlled their thoughts about it being resolved it worked out. I am on that journey not as a works, but as a knowing that I am creating what I focus on. The glass is full and overflowing, I share my abundance with you, be refreshed, Blessings, Charity

Luke 10:19 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes(sickness) and scorpions(disease) and to overcome all the power of the enemy( ANTS); nothing will harm you.

Replied By Charity (faithville, Us) on 09/08/2021

FASTING is good and bad for your health. If you plan to start a fast, please lock up your gun and dispose of any ammo, this could get ugly. I have done a bit of fasting from people and things and food and thoughts. It's work and my flesh starts getting all upset about the change. For some people who change as a way to cope, sitting still and not doing anything will bring out those hidden issues. I can say, don't fast more than a couple things at a time, or you will probably fail . And stay clear of people who start a keto diet, until they stabilize. I usually set a goal and a time limit. I have been fasting all year. Some of them as follows: limit my time on internet, fast from talking on phone for a week, fast from writing online, fast from email, fast from chocolate, fast from thinking about a situation, I am on a fast from church, and I fast from buying things. A Fast can also mean adding exercise or more water or vegetables or routines . I fast a mile walk a day and 20 minutes sun bathing and sometimes that is down right excruciating, as the sweat runs off my skin. A fast requires a lot of self control. A fast is an agreement you are making with yourself to make a change and your self is probably going to benefit but not be as happy as you are about it. Flesh has appetites. Anyone with mental issues should fast off of food that is already prepared and contained. They put addictive chemicals to get more people to purchase their products frequently. I have been an addict as a young person and it is not easy to quit habits. I take some supplements every four days, if I run out it won't be withdrawal time. I ran out of tryptophan and I thought I got the flu. I take that every four days now. I use to do aerobics and go running and if you miss a day you just feel off. I am taking some time away from writing on internet and do some inner cleansing, so if you don't see me posting, I will be off fighting my flesh and those darn ANTS. Blessings, Charity