Life is About Change! Isn’t It?

We get ourselves all "stressed out" trying to "fit in" to our environment.

We have been doing that since we were children.

We make adjustments to our way of acting or thinking so that we feel congruent in our lives.

We blend in, we schmoose and we go with the flow. If the truth were known, now that we’ve perfected our adaptations, we’d prefer NOT to change. Life in the rut may not be very adventurous, but at least it’s predictable.

Why would we want to change anyway? Do you remember the first time you wished your life or some circumstance of it was different? How did you know that it wasn’t satisfactory as it was? Did you just think it? Did someone tell you? Maybe you even got ill. Or did you feel a sense of dissatisfaction welling up from within. Did you manage to squelch that yearning, or did you try to get out of the rut? Very often people try to change by adding more to their lives - more experience (work, sex, travel or activities), more input (books, TV, movies, music or computers), and more stuff (possessions and money)! Trying to change by repeatedly doing something that hasn’t worked in the past won’t help.

We must stop moving away from our centers in order to find peace. The self that needs to be found can be found and is there when we look under the accumulation of stuff we call our lives.

Why don’t we all just do it then? How is it possible that we can fight to stay in a situation (rut) that we desperately want out of? How many contradicting opinions are there within us, that we can both accept and reject a situation at the same moment in time? First of all, we need to awaken to the knowledge that resolution is possible. Then we need to seek out, request, be drawn to or stumble over a method that works for us. So many have gone before on this. They have been able to tap in to the collective unconscious and bring back answers. The important thing to note is that these fore-goers were not unique. We can all do this. If you ask the aspect of yourself that knows something much better is possible to show you how things could be, what would it show you? Is that vision of what is possible within your frame of reality? Would you be willing to do whatever it takes to make that vision a reality?

We claim we are seeking change but is it possible that we have changed too much already from the whole and perfect beings we started out as? We need to change back to the authentic selves, which were deserted long ago? Another way to describe this move toward the authentic self is this; by moving back toward the wholeness that we all once knew, we are actually moving forward to become fully ourselves, beings for whom change is not a problem. So, change, as we refer to it, is really the search for the real, whole authentic self. In our efforts to heal we may feel like we have gained peace, clarity, ability, health or self respect but, we have actually solved or removed that which inhibited us from knowing we had these qualities all along. Where we are going is where we have come from. As we move closer to our authentic selves we realize that what we are missing, what we yearn to change to and where we are going is a reconnection with all that is, the great I AM.

Here’s where the Western Canadian Holistic Health website comes in. Enter, all the therapists, healers, gurus, wellness centers, stores and classes that offer to help you change your body, mind and/or spirit, and help you look for the real you. Eureka! A smorgasbord of alternative health practices. Where to start? First you read about the methods that interest you here and follow the links they give you from their pages to other material. When you find a few that feel right, you phone to see if there is a feeling of fit with the practitioner or consultant. (They want you to phone. That’s why they advertise!) Now take your short list of possibilities and set it aside for a while. Ask your inner wisdom to indicate which is the best choice or choices for you.

You must be aware that you need not look for someone to tell you what you should do. Someone else’s answers may not work for you. All we need is enough information, guidance and healing to be able to access our own truth. Your authentic self knows what you need to do to get back to it. Trust it!

Somewhere near the halfway point in writing this article I decided to read the other articles that had been put up for this first issue, to see what the other writers were discussing. I see a significant resonance between them all. Ruth Waserman talks about change as having the courage to discard negative energy fields and thought patterns that promote the belief that we are missing something. Aaron McNaught calls us to understand our innate and eternal perfection, which is ours by birthright. He says if we understand that what we truly are is what we have been looking for, our illusion of imperfection can be let go. Loretta Mohl works with the distress that holding painful memories can cause in the physical body. Patricia Barclay identifies sacred space within everything and everyone. She says your soul self, if listened to, will guide your changes. Michael Stodola looks at the effect of our ignorance on Mother Earth and how trained intervention can clear these influences restoring the natural harmony. We are all saying similar things from various perspectives! Perhaps this first issue of Body Mind Spirit Magazine is calling forth a message. The message: WE WERE ONCE WHOLE AND CONNECTED IN SPIRIT. WE CAN BE AGAIN. ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN

I chose Core Belief Engineering as a way of retracing the steps back to my authentic self; or rather, it chose me. This method gently and painstakingly searches out and peels away years of belief, decisions and environmental influences allowing the individual to become more and more of who they really are (authentic self). Elly Roselle and her Core Belief Engineering classes appeared on my doorstep before I was even conscious enough to seek them out. I intuitively recognized this method was a fit for my particular mind/body system. Now, I’m proud to be a part of the Core Belief Engineering (CBE) organization as a certified practitioner. There is a network of "CBE’ers" across Canada, fondly known to each other as "CBE bears" who are products of training schools in White Rock, BC and Charles Bourg, Quebec. The trust and support that has developed between members of this group is indeed a blessing to me.

I appreciate the hard work of Jeni Mayer and her associates in putting up first the web site and then this magazine. I envision their great success as they serve an ever-increasing need in our community.

By Fay Minifie