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My Wellness Awakening
I recently spent a week in the North Okanagan at
the newly opened Alive Health Resort, a place that
I thought would offer me a chance to get away from
my busy life for some much-needed rest.
But it was not to be. Instead, I found myself in
an intensive program designed to teach me how to
live healthfully and authentically. I did enjoy
some great sleeps, fabulous food and a few spa packages
that helped revitalize me. More importantly, though,
I experienced an educational experience that was
part classroom, part spiritual connection, both
to myself and to the group of people who joined
me at the resort.
The timing couldn’t have been better. I recently
underwent a radioactive iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
that left me with no thyroid function at all. Before
going to the resort, I’d begun taking medication
that would eventually restore my body’s functions,
but I hadn’t been on it long enough for it
to have made a difference. I was still feeling very
beaten-up and sorry for myself.
Alive Health Resort changed my mind. Between the
moment I stepped in the door and the time I returned
to my real life and all its responsibilities, I
switched my perspective from that of victim to master
of my own wellness.
It might have been due, in part, to the educational
lectures on the Eight Natural Doctors that gave
me some incredible insight into our physiology and
the need to live naturally. It could have been the
emotional wellness seminars that filled me with
the idea that I could heal myself by learning how
to address and share my emotional issues.
I must also credit the other guests. The things
they shared gave me some perspective on "how
well I do life" myself. It’s impossible
to spend a week with a group of people without making
some deep connections. Several people suffered from
challenging or debilitating illnesses. Others were
searching for a greater understanding into how they
could live a more abundant life. One thing we all
shared was a commitment to self-responsibility.
No matter what we were dealing with in the present,
we learned we can shape our futures by choosing
to face up to ourselves.
For me, it means that I must address some deep-rooted
issues that I believe have contributed to my illness,
and which keep me from truly embracing health and
wellness.
The pursuit of total wellness requires that we actively
seek to uncover areas of weakness so that we can
change, grow and ultimately, heal. Of course as
much as we’d like to, we can’t all take
a week’s holiday from our busy lives in order
to make that happen. We can, however, make time
on a regular basis to look within ourselves and
strive to foster new attitudes that will serve us
as we seek wellness today and for life. It’s
a commitment that I, for one, am ready to make!
Sherry Robb,
Publisher,
OH! Our Health Magazine 05/04
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