Dimensions of wellness can have a flat tire 2

The question was this. If not all of our dimensions of wellness are always in top form, can we change that, and if so how?

Granted we cannot escape ourselves. We always turn up, just like the bird's image in the car mirror. We don't even fully escape ourselves at night – as anyone who remembers their dreams would know. Even asleep we're cooking.

You got laid off yesterday. Today when you woke up, all the shock came back in a nanosecond. You're flying to Maui this morning for a dream vacation. You are not likely to wake up and wonder, gee what's on my schedule today. We may be more with ourselves than we want, that's just the way we homo sapiens sapiens are constructed. We are also constantly a work in progress from womb to grave.

That's both bad and good news. Obviously it means there will be fallout from one dimension to another as we develop, change, grow and experience life. It also means we can use our strengths to cope with our challenges. When I was working through health challenges I relied on my spiritual and emotional dimensions to pull more than their regular weight to help bring my life back into balance. They stepped right up to the plate for me big time!

How did that happen? What was the underlying source that helped me? Perhaps you have had similar experiences where some part of you surpassed your own expectations and helped bring you more than you had even anticipated. It can almost feel magical.

Enter the deeper places in ourselves

If I were to carry the wheel of the dimensions of wellness around looking for a place that seemed to fit it best, I would put it on the top of a pyramid, and let threads from each of the dimensions sink into it, like ribbons hanging down in an upside down tent.

In the depths of that pyramid-shaped place are the deeper parts of our mind – the subconscious and unconscious. I believe they are the source of our strengths and our weaknesses, our ability to heal, and the cause of our lives as they move in and out of balance and imbalance.

If we want to control change in our lives, the easiest way is to connect regularly with the subconscious, the deeper part of our mind.

In my book I offer many exercises on working with our subconscious mind. I'd like to suggest one here as a great starting place for working safely on your own with your subconscious mind. It is an excerpt from "ABC's of Turning Dark Nights into Sunny Days: a guide to finding your way through crisis."

This part of the book is setting the stage, finding a comfortable place from which to do all other work with the subconscious mind.

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