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Healthy Uncertainty

Written by Lissa Rankin M.D. from http://www.MindOverMedicine.com:   “We cling to that illusion of “certainty” because it feels safe.  Even if the certainty we cling to makes us miserable, we hang on for dear life because change is scary, and uncertainty feels dangerous.

IMG_0079But there’s a beautiful gift on the other side of the fear of uncertainty.  When you finally make peace with your fear of the unknown, you discover something magical, that on the other side of the uncertainty is possibility, potential, and the magical realization that anything could happen even miracles.

If you’re sick or injured or even just battling some niggling symptom now, the uncertainty of the outcome of your health condition might make you feel fearful or anxious. But here’s what I hope to leave you with.  If you can heal your emotional and spiritual self and become whole, anything is possible even spontaneous recovery– on the other side of the uncertainty.

In order to live a vital life, prevent disease, or optimize your current state of health, you need:

• Healthy relationships, including a strong network of family, friends, loved ones, and colleagues
• A healthy, meaningful way to spend your days, whether you work outside the home or in it
• A healthy, fully expressed creative life that allows your soul to sing its song
• A healthy spiritual life, including a sense of connection to the sacred in life
• A healthy sexual life that allows you the freedom to express your sexual self
• A healthy financial life, free of undue financial stress, which ensures that the essential needs of your body are met
• A healthy environment, free of toxins, natural disaster hazards, radiation, and other unhealthy factors that threaten the health of the body
• A healthy mental and emotional life, characterized by optimism, happiness, and freedom from fear, anxiety, depression, and other mental health ailments
• A healthy lifestyle that support the physical health of the body, such as good nutrition, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and avoidance of unhealthy hang ups and addictions”

How healthy are YOU?   If you are like me truly honest with your state of living; we are all in some sort of denial like most of us tend to do because its easier than facing the truth…All I know is I want a healthy 10 out of 10 on this list!

I am certainly going to check out her upcoming book release to find out more from Mind Over Medicine…who doesn’t want to Feel Better in times of such Uncertainty?  Live & Love Better?   Find True Fulfillment?   Have Vitality?   I’ve already traded in my Golden Handcuffs which is a really good beginning!