“When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.”
Francisco Varela
… No one in their right mind would voluntarily suffer any longer from a cold or a cramp than ineluctably – the same is with stress and tension. Whether self-help consists of hot tea and vitamins against a cold, anticonvulsive interactions against a cramp, or relaxation and relief in case of stress or tension (as it was for me while I was healing overload-induced RA) is always a question of possibilities determined by our skills.
By developing our skills to the fullest, we can expand our possibilities and help ourselves protect, strengthen, and do good, which is our primary responsibility.
Our self-help skills are based on our abilities to:
- sense what is going on both inside and outside
- move, relax and use force consciously
- use pictorial imagination willfully
- use our intuition alongside our wit
Every single one of these abilities can be put to use to heal if we decide and are willing to implement this decision:
consistently,
with every breath,
with every move.
Suppose this requires more effort and a significant change in our habits. In that case, we often undertake it only when spurred on by a pressing problem and our suffering reaches a level where we are willing to pursue new experiences seriously.
For the self-help necessary for active learning, searching, observing, trying out, and training on my own initiative, my comfort zone fell by the wayside. It changed my mindset, which initially felt strange.
Through my experiences and skills, my possibilities expanded, opening new perspectives, allowing me to meet interesting people, and enabling me to find more and better information through exchange and self-study. I can share my experiences and encourage others to take more initiative.
And when it comes to HeilÜben, it is like everything else: You can’t make something out of anything.
So, I had to practice this new approach to treating myself better.
In our ever-changing lives with diverse internal and external challenges, staying or becoming as healthy as possible is a vital personal orientation. Developing our skills and understanding of ourselves makes the difference between growing with our challenges or compromising our health because of them.
Expanding our knowledge and skills means we have more and better alternatives, new experiences, and knowledge at our disposal, enabling us to face complex challenges better. We train our healing skills exemplarily and use them in our daily lives according to our requirements. With this, we are increasingly adopting them into our habits.
From this descends a more stable capacity that allows us, put under stress, to stay healthier.
With the same HeilÜben programme I used more than 20 years ago to heal myself from my rheumatoid arthritis, today, everyone can learn to unmask and eliminate harmful tension in their everyday lives.
HeilÜben draws attention to the harm caused by tension in everyday life and suggests ways to prevent or eliminate it.
HeilÜben is a self-help method that serves to pass on experience. It is intended to help the user develop their potential in dealing with their conscious imagination, emotions, sensations, posture, and movement, to, as I did at that time, recognise and reduce harmful tension in good time. It is there to help you do the same I did back then: being healthier.
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