IntuitiveBridges - Alan Bridges

This past week news came out of California that was almost completely buried by the tragedy of the fires there. But I am so glad that it caught my eye because its results are most interesting. It’s more proof from scientists that how we feel can impact our health.

The researchers took a team of volunteers and asked them a battery of questions regarding their friendships and how much they felt that they were a part of today’s society. Based on the responses, they then scored each individual on their level of perceived social inclusion. The participants then underwent a series of physical examinations, including blood tests.

What they found should change how we live. And no, this isn’t an exaggeration. Read on.

The test results of those who believed that they had a support network and were part of society were normal. But the tests of those who classed themselves as having little contact with other people and as having no support besides themselves – in other words those who considered themselves lonely – yielded some very interesting and consistent results.

Researchers found that the white blood cells of members of the lonely group were less active. These people had weaker immune systems and higher rates of tissue inflammation. Moreover, these people also scored higher on the likelihood of developing heart disease.

But that’s not the most interesting aspects of their findings. You see, what mattered was not whether one person was alone or not. What mattered was how they perceived themselves. In other words, some people with lots of friends still fell into the lonely group while some with few friends didn’t. It was all down to how the participants viewed their lot in life.

This is actually quite profound – even if it doesn’t come as a surprise to some of us. What this study offers scientific proof of is what I have held to be true all my life – namely that what we believe and what we perceive to be true affects us at the most basic and internal physical level.

Those participants who felt lonely had cell tissue damage and aspects of physical disease that could not be explained by another cause. The only difference between the groups was their perception of themselves in today’s society.

Now, it might be easy to dismiss this study for those of us who don’t feel lonely and have a quality support network in place. But to do so would be very short-sighted as the implications of these findings are very broad in application.

It can be boiled down to this – what we believe, what we feel can produce very real adverse health effects.

It’s my experience that people know at some level when a belief is harming them in some way. They may not talk about it in terms of energy or health, but they know when it’s costing them something. However, too often we sweep our feelings under the carpet as if in doing so we somehow prove how grown up we are.

The more conscious we are of a feeling, belief or perception that’s not right for us, the more urgent it is that we do something about it. In the past, doing something about it involved months if not years on the therapist’s couch. Talking about it was all that we knew to do. Healing, when and if it came, took a very long time.

Today, however, we have options. Many of us know what used to be limited to the few – that emotions are signals from our energy body that need to be paid attention to.

If you are feeling lonely or anything else that you know not to be positive, then you owe it to yourself to take steps today to feel better. If you don’t, you can rest assured that you are paying a price. Perhaps you’ll squeak by. Perhaps you will become ill. Is that a gamble you are willing to take?

Most of you know of my many years in the field of energy medicine. But what you might not know is that I am a certified, registered and licensed energy healer and practitioner. I have tended not to publicise these qualifications too widely because I believe that healing should be active, not passive.

I’m not an advocate of exclusive reliance on healing modalities with which the client sits back and has healing done to them. As someone who successfully healed himself, I have always felt that being too passive in the healing process is something of a handicap.

Recently, I have started working with a number of my clients to heal their energy bodies. My healing sessions are simultaneously instructive and interactive. I teach my clients what they need to know to heal themselves with my assistance and what they need to do to ensure that they are taking active responsibility for their health. And using my skills and abilities I link to their energy bodies to restore, repair and re-establish balance. In short, it’s a whole new way to experience healing.

Remember, it’s never too late to heal. To find out more and to book your healing session, click here.

And this week over at PsychicBridges, I look at the importance of how a psychic answers a client’s question, which can actually trump the answer itself. Find out what I have to say here.

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Until next week,

Kindest regards,