Written by Tonya Sheridan

Step five for having more energy in your life is to have Health Insurance. No, I am not talking about the kind of insurance where you pay atrocious amounts of money every month to a company whose main interest is the profits of it’s shareholders and then you have to beg, plea and sometimes have to take legal action to have them pay if you actually become sick. I am talking about building your energy stores so that you have “reserve” on hand for when life becomes hectic. It’s about being proactive.

 When you are so stressed out and depleted or just barely holding it together, it’s much more difficult to handle a crisis when it comes up. Things seem much worse than what they are and then it’s difficult to get a good perspective on the situation. Without a clear view, you can actually make things worse instead of better.

 So, how do you create your own Health Insurance? You have to take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We have touched on the physical part in previous weeks with nutrition and exercise, the mental and emotional parts by reducing stress caused by unnecessary worry, procrastination and energy drainers. Although all of these things are important, the most important part of Health Insurance is the spiritual. By using either visualization, meditation, prayer or a combination of the three you will be innoculating yourself with Joy. When you practice these methods on a daily basis you will be astonished at how much joy you will experience from the inner spiritual change that will occur. There is being alive and then there is being spiritually alive, realizing we are a soul housed inside a physical body. Nurturing your spirituality is where the biggest change will occur in your energy, your health and the quality of your Life!

 I was very blessed to have been raised with two very spiritual women in my life who taught me that real happiness comes from inside…my Grandmothers.  One of my grandmothers, who was diagnosed with cancer when she was in her 50’s, lived to be 92yrs old. She was very spiritual and she attributed her recovery to prayer and visualization. She had a positive attitude, inner strength and one of the many life lessons she taught me in life was to focus on spirituality. This is where her strength came from. The last time I saw her, a few months before she passed away, she told me that one of the lessons she lived by was “never make money your God”, that is where people go wrong in their life.

 My other Grandmother makes me smile when I think about her, I still feel her around me to this day. She grew up in poverty, had 9 children and a very hard life, but you would never had known it if you met her. She always had a smile on her face, a great sense of humor and loved to sing and dance around the house. She taught me about Joy and that true Joy came from the spirit.  Generous to a fault, if she had one dollar left and someone needed it, she would give it to them. Up until the day she died, when she was in her 80’s, she had the brightest blue eyes you have ever seen. Unlike some people who lose the light in their eyes as they get older, hers actually got brighter. Even as her body declined, her soul stayed bright.

One more thing to about my Grandmothers…both of them lost children, one of them lost a son and the other two sons…my father and two of my uncles. No parent should have to bury their own children. Despite their loss they carried on with life, and not just going through the motions either, they really Lived. If it were not for their spirituality, they would have lived in depression and suffered physical illness due to the depression.

 Spend time each day for visualization, meditation and prayer. You don’t need a lot of time, even just 15 minutes a day is good. Take this time for yourself every single day and you will receive back a hundred times that in Life energy. Now that’s Health Insurance!

 Tonya Sheridan

Lifestyle Coach

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