The new year arrives and everything feels fresh, filled with opportunity and growth. The new year always feels to me like collectively we are awarded a “mulligan”, a chance to correct and “do over” those areas where we fell short in 2020.
Unless this is your first look at our blog articles, you know we emphasize training and coaching for developing greater Self-awareness. Self-awareness might seem somewhat of a sterile term, but it emphasizes Feeling better, Getting better and Doing better.
Let’s examine the subject of “feeling better” today. Annually, polling organizations in the United States ask a large sampling of people, “How happy are you?” The number of positive responses has consistently been falling over the last two decades. In the year 2020 alone, the health scare created by COVID-19, the economic hardships that accompanied it, and the historic political unrest bringing the emotional balance of the country to new lows. The news outlets parade stories of sick, scared, and angry people across our TV screens every single day.
What can we do about it?
First and foremost, be a person who develops strong relationships. No single character strength comes close to being as important for happiness and success in life as the ability to form enduring, meaningful relationships. Necessary precursors of such relationships include trustworthiness, being non-judgmental, honesty, empathy, mutual respect, humor, and meaningful communication. It happens that possessing these characteristics essential to close relationships are the same traits that will keep you emotionally balanced in times of disruption and stress.
In every blog for the next several months I plan to relate at least one example of a positive step anyone/everyone can take to feel better. There are so many available, truly profound emotional, mental, and physical healing techniques, I’ll never run out of examples.
Here’s another wonderful example of an elevating principle for physical and emotional health. John Sarno, M.D., a physician in New York specializing in pain management, realized in the 1970’s that small per centage of the thousands of his patients who underwent surgery to relieve pain (especially back pain) experienced any substantial, permanent relief. Further, after much investigation he realized that most of the pain his patients experienced was psychosomatic in nature, i.e. the root cause being emotional.
Dr. Sarno developed a series of seminars in which he and psychologists counseled patients with significant chronic pain to understand almost all such pain had an emotional cause, and also taught them how to alter their beliefs, values and attitudes to eliminate the pain. Including the few patients who required a little extra one-to-one counseling, over 90% of Sarno’s patients who attended the seminars experienced total or almost total, permanent cessation of pain. It is regrettable to state that a significant number of Sarno’s patients refused to attend the seminars only because they couldn’t belief that the source of their pain was emotional, and that psychotherapy was all that was needed to resolve their pain. That so many fail to heal due only to lack of belief in the possibility of such healing is a sadly common condition in societies all over the world.
We have facilitated the resolution of physical and emotional pain for numerous clients using simple, effective protocols. Give us a call to discuss how our coaching can dramatically improve your happiness and success. Remember, one single discovery can change everything for you.
Our online course, 4 Steps to Freedom, Happiness, Confidence and Self-discovery, is a great, inexpensive place to start. Visit our website, OneSingleDiscovery.com, or call us at 574-850-9912.
Want to learn more about our course? Read what Charlie said: “I thought self-awareness was a new catchphrase and not something that applied to me. At the same time I was struggling with contentment at work and wrestling with the confidence to start my own business. Wow I’m glad I gave this course a try. Self-awareness was significant to where I am at today – with a higher salary, performing at my peek, and doing what I love.”
Tom Searcy, BCC
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