Ever get a challenge that you question its intent or the benefit? There’s a lot of that going around and it’s a difficult dilemma to take on because it can really screw up your day. Being diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening illness is enough to screw up your day so why add to the pressure. There’s something very important about how you take on your health challenge and how you outline your trip on your journey to wellness.
The truth is that “I did” beats “I will” any day of the week. Oddly enough that quote came from a cigarette advertisement and it boggles my mind how they came up with something so inspirational and challenging. What’s on your list of things to accomplish to achieve greater wellness? How are you shifting from the idea of healing to actually take actions to achieve healing. Health and healing is not an abstract concept. We can measure health and healing on the physical and emotional levels. We have anecdotal information about spiritual health and healing so action trumps the idea of acting.
You have a lot of choices when facing a health challenge. You can think about your illness theoretically and keep all the health and healing secrets in your head with the hope that it will translate into action. On the other hand, you can take what you know and believe about your beliefs related to health and healing and find ways to make them into real actions so that you can experience the power of the mind-body connection.
Think about telling someone you know and love about your hopes and dreams for health; what are they hoping to hear? They’re hoping that you are taking your diagnosis seriously, and more importantly that you’re doing everything possible to achieve wellness. It means they are waiting to hear about your ideas and how they’ve been translated into actions. The “I will” concept makes you less than credible. After a while people think you’re a future tripper but don’t carry through on your plans. Your health and healing journey becomes lip service and in the long run you won’t achieve the level of health and healing you deserve.
Think about what you’d like to tackle and by this time next week be able to say “I Did” instead of everyone sitting around waiting for you to say “I Will”.
Pilgrim Pathway/Surviving Strong 