https://howimhealing.com/blogs/blog.atomHow I'm Healing - Learnings2020-08-22T14:30:00-06:00How I'm Healinghttps://howimhealing.com/blogs/blog/ways-to-introducing-new-supplements2020-08-22T14:30:00-06:002021-01-23T14:24:40-07:00Ways to Introduce New SupplementsAllison B
I've been working on introducing new supplements and I'd like to share a couple of ways I'm changing my brain's association to them.
1. Simply changing the bottle they’re in. This beautiful blue bottle on the right is from a Goddess Provisions box I received last year and makes me feel magical! ✨
2. Stickers! I decorate all my bottles with fun colorful stickers and washi tape. Hearts, rainbows, crystals, you name it – whatever brings me joy. 🌈 💜
Before I take each supplement I hold it in my hand, smile, and I thank it for working so hard to help me heal.]]>
https://howimhealing.com/blogs/blog/making-a-new-choice2020-08-17T14:30:00-06:002021-01-23T14:29:01-07:00Making A New ChoiceAllison B It’s a pattern for me to go right to bed right when I have a certain symptom. I close the blinds, pull the covers over my head, tighten up my body and resist, resist, resist.
Being in bed makes my limbic system happy because I’m safe in bed, I’m in avoidance and isolation and that means nothing can harm me. But what it’s really doing is strengthening old pathways.
One day it finally occurred to me, what if I made a new choice? What if I decide to do something different rather than going straight to bed?
I could go outside, sit by a tree and put my feet in the grass. I could listen to an uplifting podcast or take a bath. Even if I just take 3 slow deep breaths and relax the tension in my body I’m making a new choice and I’m pruning away at those old unhealthy pathways.
I’m just now starting to work at breaking this pattern and it feels good to finally be conscious of what I was doing. I now know that it’s a form of avoidance and isolation, which are both behavioral patterns of the past and moving forward, I will make a conscious effort to redirect and say “Even though I’m feeling this way, I’m going to make a new choice”.]]>
https://howimhealing.com/blogs/blog/gratitude-%E2%98%80%EF%B8%8F2020-08-16T14:00:00-06:002021-01-23T14:17:37-07:00How I've Been Waking Up Easier In The Morning.Allison BratnickIn the past, it would be really hard for me to get out of bed in the morning. The moment I woke up my brain went straight to focusing on my symptoms and body scanning.
To help with this, no matter how hard it was, upon waking I would say “I feel amazing!” then I would immediately get out of bed, throw my hands up in the air and say “I am grateful for another day to rewire my brain!” then I would go into a round (mental rehearsal) and include a future visualization around waking up and feeling amazing in the morning.
For the first few weeks, it was hard work. After a few weeks though it became easier and now that I’ve been doing it for months I actually look forward to it every morning!
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What are some things you do to start the morning off right? I’d love to hear!