Healing is a powerful word, possibly the most important word in any dictionary. When we choose the healing path – in love, in marriage, in business, in health – life is good. When we feel separate, apart and judgemental of our self, our body and others, we put up barriers that may block the healing that is available in every moment.
Listen to the words of Vince Lombardi, the famous winning football coach, and think about yourself, your health, and your own healing process.
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the ONLY thing.”
Could you benefit by thinking that success IS an option, the only option?
Vince Lombardi’s life and coaching philosophy “transcends football” and “captures the fundamentals of success – in any sport, any business, in love and relationships, and in health and healing.
We don’t often think about healing as a “success” practice. Many of us think it is just a matter of luck, good fortune or ill fate when we do not heal. But just as there is a formula for success in business, in sports, in love and in marriage, there is also a tried and true formula for success in health and healing. Do we sometimes fail to gain or maintain our health even with the most dedicated approach? Of course! But so many people have healed from life-threatening and serious illness and disease, physical and emotional, and they did it through determination, research, consistency, support and love for their body and their life.
GET THE REPLAYS FOR
THE MIRACULOUS HEALING MASTER CLASS SUMMIT
Health and healing are powerful words. Without our health, every day becomes a struggle to survive and overcome. We cannot concentrate our focus on other goals because the needs of our body take over. Without surrendering and allowing our own healing to occur, we are living a life of servitude, a life of helpless acceptance of outside forces. In every moment, and especially when we are faced with dangerous and life-threatening situations and illnesses, we always have the choice to either choose life, choose healing, or surrender to the will of others.
When we allow love to fill our heart and mind, miracles can and do happen. Love is the salve that soothes our wounds, brings us closer to others and connects us to the source of all healing, to universal energy, to God. When we feel love emanating from within, we also know that love is coming toward us from people, animals and even things around us. We feel surrounded by and bathed in love.
That is the magical healing solution – feeling bathed in love. When our body hurts and we say: “I have a bad back”, “I have bad knees”, “I have bad digestion”, we are giving suggestions that we don’t love and don’t want to pamper our body. We are treating our beloved body as if it were a bad child deserving punishment or even abandonment.
Don’t punish your body. Don’t abandon yourself. Find a way to get back to love.
Love your body by paying attention to its needs. You will get lots of messages. All you need to do is pay attention. And do your own research. Study about whatever hurts you. Don’t just trust the words of well-meaning doctors, family, colleagues, neighbors and friends. Trust yourself. Listen to yourself. Study yourself. Discover what you want, need and desire. Dig deeper to uncover those hidden longings that you’ve been hiding from the world and even from yourself.
Healing found by searching deep into your own mind, your own thoughts and feelings, not by cutting away the bad parts and removing anything that is not functioning up to par. Healing is an inside job. Look for the source of your symptoms and you may be amazed at what you discover.
GET THE REPLAYS FOR
THE MIRACULOUS HEALING MASTER CLASS SUMMIT
My beautiful friend Mary Blake, spiritual healer extraordinaire, once offered me a healing for a physical problem I was having. I expected her to do what she does so well, bring me into a deep trance, a theta wave state, and then ask some questions about my current physical condition. She started by asking me to sit quietly, focus, breathe deeply, relax my body part by part. That was what I had expected.
And then …. She asked me to release my grief and sorrow, to let go of my fears and worries, to forgive those who have disappointed and hurt me, to feel compassion for those who have mistreated me, to imagine hugging myself and feeling such deep compassion and love for me…. And she went on and on, asking me to let go of all those hurtful emotions I had been clinging to for years, maybe a lifetime, maybe several lifetimes. (She happens to skillfully practice multi-life therapy).
When the session had ended I was not instantly healed. However, I finally understood the emotional vestiges in my body-mind-spirit that were manifesting in outward physical discomfort and illness. That session brought me back to my inner knowing about what really leads to dis-ease and illness and what it really takes to heal from the inside out.
Recently, while interviewing one of the speakers for the Miraculous Healing Summit, Brandy Gillmore, a master intuitive healer, I was once again confronted with some of my own deep-seated longing and issues stemming back to my childhood and related to interactions within my marriage. It ia amazing how these childhood wounds creep into our current life situations over and over again. Even when we think we have it handled, the memories stored in our bodies have an uncanny way of reappearing outwardly as symptoms, physical and relational.
I have taken Vince Lombardi’s words and I have changed the focus from success on the playing field to success in healing. The words are his; the changes in red are mine. You can apply these same life principles to your life purpose, brand, product or service.
Commitment
Healing is not a some time thing, It is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…You do them right all the time.”
Truth
“Truth is knowing that your health and healing are shaped by your every day choices.”
Excellence
“Health must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have. And each day there’s a new encounter, each week there’s a new challenge. All of the display, all of the noise and all of the glamour, and all of the color and all of the excitement, all of the rings and all of the money – these are the things that linger only in the memory. But the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win – these are the things that endure.”
Results
“Healing is not everything – but making the effort to heal is.”
Passion
“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. Say I do, mean it, live it and demand it of the other players in your life – including yourself!”
Habit
“The difference between a successful healing and others is not a lack of love, not a lack of desire, but rather a lack of will.”
My beloved father’s favorite saying was: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” I have changed that to: Where there’s love, there IS a way.” I believe that, do you?
Mental Toughness (and Emotional Sensitivity and Resilience)
“If you’re lucky enough to be someone with a lot of head and a lot of heart, you are never going to accept being second or giving up without giving it everything you’ve got.”
Be prepared to put the one your love first! YOU!!!
Discipline
“The difference between those who find a way to heal and those who don’t is often not lack of strength, not lack of knowledge, but rather lack of will.”
Ask yourself now: “Do I have the Will to Heal the Vince Lombardi way? Do I have the Will to:
- Forgive 70 x 7
- Overcome my doubts and fears and insecurities
- Give up my need to be right
- Endure “longsuffering” periods with grit and determination to win
- Keep love alive no matter what?
Nurture Your Own Body, Mind And Spirit
As If Your Life Depends Upon It.
IT DOES!
GET THE REPLAYS FOR THE MIRACULOUS HEALING
MASTER CLASS VIRTUAL SUMMIT NOW
GET ACCESS TO THE MEN AND LOVE SERIES
32 expert conversations that will turn your mind inside out about men – who they really are, what they really want and what they really need to thrive in this world.
GET ACCESS TO THE LOVE ME TOUCH ME HEAL ME SUMMIT 
44 experts speaking about touch, touch therapy, somatic awareness, creative arts healing, body oriented psychotherapy and the healing power of gentle touch
GET ACCESS TO THE SEXUAL REAWAKENING SUMMIT
32 leading sexologists – therapists, counselors, educators, authors, researchers, trainers talk about sexuality, its many facets and a variety of healing methods
GET ACCESS TO THE HEALING RECOVERY RETREAT
23 Practitioners, individual therapists, coaches, interventionists, authors, and reps from leading facilities talk about recovery from addiction, loss, trauma and more
GET ACCESS TO THE WOMEN AND LOVE SUMMIT
47 Thought Leaders, psychotherapists, coaches, best-selling authors, women and men talk about what women want, need and how they can have the love they desire
READ A LOVING AND HEALING BOOK
LISTEN TO AN INSPIRATIONAL RADIO SHOW
LEARN HOW TO HEAL THROUGH LOVE
Like my Healing Through Love Facebook Page
Join my Google+ Relationship Healing Mastermind Community
Let this be YOUR TIME TO CREATE TRUE HEALING IN YOUR LIFE
Contact Me for a Love Mastery Healing Session
With love and caring,
Love Mentor and Relationship Healer
Where There Is Love There IS A Way
Dr. Erica Goodstone
Latest posts by Dr. Erica Goodstone (see all)
- Aging Beautifully - October 6, 2024
- How Are You Feeling? - August 12, 2023
-
Love Vs Hate How Much Love Can We Share To Eliminate Hate? - July 23, 2022
Hi Erica,
Healing does take a lot of our state of mind. “I have bad digestion” only enhances the problem. When turned around with love and in a theta state, our bodies start working with us. “my digestion isn’t a problem”
Our words, thought of and/or spoken are powerful, more than we give credit to. When practicing healing, we need to choose our words wisely and go with the knowingness that we are pretty powerful ourselves.
I’ve done so several times myself when diagnosed with one thing or another. I do take a doctor’s advice, but speedy recovery is what baffles them all the time lol.
Healing is up to us. We need to know deep down inside that we can do it.
-Donna
Donna,
So true. Everyone on my summit and all the people I have heard who tell about how they healed, it always boils down to following some treatment protocol and having a mindset that supports the healing process.
Erica
Hi Erica,
Your article is great and I love it for being informative. As you mentioned, “The difference between those who find a way to heal and those who don’t is often not lack of strength, not lack of knowledge, but rather lack of will.” this is a remarkable advice for all because I believe in positivity. Some ailment only needs a positive mindset for one to heal faster. And if you do not have the will power to maintain a positive mindset, you hinder yourself from healing.
Thank you for sharing.
Moss,
Thank you for stopping by. Yes, the more I listen to people who have healed and the healers who have helped them, I know it is possible. But the requirement is to be dedicated, consistent and to take all the steps (diet, exercise, detoxing, emotional healing, sleep, rest, mindfulness….)
I love it Erica 😉 When healing is your only choice, it is all you do. Your intent manifests because sickness, fear, and pain are not options. Sure you may suffer a bit here and there but won’t cling to the past when your predominant intent is to heal through opening up. I recall beating myself up horribly over blogging and business results in the past, Be open, and feeling the punishment habit, allowed me to heal where now I just help folks and keep meeting new people, and simply see my blogging results as extra’s, or bonuses. Thanks for sharing!
Ryan
Ryan,
I just checked now and saw that your comments went into spam by mistake. Thank you for sharing, especially about beating yourself up over business results. I have certainly done that. In fact, I have currently done that for my Miraculous Healing Master Class Summit that is currently live. It feels so much like a reflection upon me when people don’t sign up or unsubscribe or if speakers don’t share as they had agreed to do. But then I remember why I created the summit and it was all about informing people, giving them, the subscribers, a chance to discover their own way to heal.
Warmly,
Erica
Hi Erica,
What a great post. I also believe that healing comes a lot from our own belief in ourselves and our determination. You have given so much great advice and offer so much help.
I can see what this site has become from the beginning when it was only a vision in your mind. So happy to see that it’s becoming the healing center that you envisioned.
Hi Monna,
Thank you for your words of support. I just keep adding to this site. Each summit has been a gift, speaking with leading experts and healers on different aspects of life. So many people have mastered a piece of the life puzzle. Together we can heal whatever needs healing but none of us can do it all alone.
And we also need that special connection to source, however we manage to get there.
Warmly,
Erica
Hi, I heard Healing naturally happens when time goes but this post is really awesome. Yes, paying attention is very important. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Sazia,
Yes, healing is possible – and – it requires really paying attention to details – diet, exercise, internal and external cleansing, emotional release and the will to heal and survive and thrive.
Warmly,
Dr. Erica
Dr. Goodstone, Thank you for such a beautifully written post. I felt my heart look deeply at the words and find the meaning deep within. I haven’t compared success to healing before. As if they were different ends of the spectrum…but I love how you melded them so perfectly. Often the outward manifestation of long-term pain and illnesses is not the result of a simple injury or bacteria/disease, but the hidden pain, the stress, the anxieties that have never been resolved.
What meant the most to me was this, “And then …. She asked me to release my grief and sorrow, to let go of my fears and worries, to forgive those who have disappointed and hurt me, to feel compassion for those who have mistreated me.” I know how hard that is. I know the deep, raw, vulnerable feelings that come when asked to release these feelings…and the subsequent struggle within. But, I also know the feeling of freedom and lightness when releasing those and giving forgiveness.
Is it easy? Absolutely not. But it is worth it.
Thank you for such a beautiful article. I really appreciated it. ~ Johanna
Johanna,
You are so right, healing does not necessarily happen quickly and it is often not easy. The people on my Miraculous Healing Summit did not find a quick and easy path to healing. Each one endured their own pain and suffering and did not give up. They believed it was possible to heal and the found their own way eventually. And the key is that they didn’t stop there. They now assist others to heal.
Warmly,
Erica
Healing … so many levels to explore. Health and being your own advocate is so important. I don’t think the medical community has it right for all ailments. Thank goodness there’s more access to natural methods of healing health issues. But I think one has to be willing to look internally, within to begin to heal. It comes from within. The answers are not always in the hands of others. All the summits you’ve put together are impressive 🙂 much love …
Lesly,
I have always known that but then I managed to keep looking outside for answers. My recent Miraculous Healing Summit has been such a powerful reminder to look within, to search for my own unique healing path based upon my own issues, blocks, thought patterns and unique chemistry. Humans really are fascinating beings.
Warmly,
Erica