SELF-SABOTAGE IS A REAL THING AND IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU

If you only knew how many people we encounter where self-sabotage gets in their way from healing their dis-ease. In today's culture people expect to heal over night, to feel great right away, and for all their problems to be miraculously fixed. How long did you ignore your health condition? How long have you been seeking the right practitioner to help you? How many years have you been living in agony? Having unrealistic expectations about your healing process will only keep you in a crisis. It's very important that we manage your expectations. You will not get better over night. Please don't think you will. It's very rare that you will be miraculously healed from all of your ailments without having to do all the hard work that comes with it.It's unfortunate that our healthcare system requires you to spend money on health insurance to see practitioners that you are not satisfied with and then have to pay out of pocket for alternative care. You get what you pay for. If you want to be taken care of by the best then you have to look outside of your health insurance network. We all wish we lived in a better system but for now, this is just how it is. If we can accept this and stop wishing for things to be different, we can move on to what's more important - your healing.

SHOPPING AROUND

We understand that the journey to health and well-being can be very confusing. We live in the information age where Dr. Google can tell you anything about anything. This can be great if you know how to use it wisely, and it can also bite you in the butt. With so many opposing view points who knows what to think and believe?This is where mastering following your gut and intuition will save you. What feels right to you? The more detached you are from yourself and the less grounded you are, the harder it is to decipher what feels right. Let's put in this way - the more you shop around for opinions the more confused you will be. Surely you've heard of the phrase, "Too many cooks in the kitchen." It's hard to have all the health practitioners agree on one course of treatment simply because when it comes to holistic medicine there are many different ways to heal the body.Just think about all the different medical disciplines we have like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy, Ayurveda and Botanical Medicine to name a few. There are so many different ways to heal the same ailment. Imagine when you go to all these different practitioners and you listen to them all and they all have a great game plan for you but then you try and tell the TCM practitioner about your Ayurvedic treatment plan, asking the TCM practitioner what their opinion is about it? Well, the TCM practitioner already told you what their opinion is, took their time to diagnose you, understand you, listen to you and has alread developed a plan for you.As you spend more money for more opinions you do less of any one treatment plan because you're not fully committed but desperate to get better- these two things are not in harmony. Years later, you are still with the same health condition, only it has gotten a lot worse. I know this game all to well. You are in your own way, sabotaging your healing process and no one really has the heart to tell you bluntly that this is the case. Instead the practitioner will "fire" you as their patient and let you be on your merry way of seeking more opinions and getting nowhere.Maybe our information overload has lead us to seek more information to the point where it is detrimental to our healing. It's like being in the rat race but for trying to get better.

IN MOST INSTANCES, LESS IS MORE

Listen, I'm a maximalist at heart but even I have to oftentimes take it down a few notches. I know it in myself and I can recognize easily in others. Things get really sticky when you two different school of thoughts especially those seen between conventional vs. alternative medicine. On some things these two school of thoughts will never agree. Oftentimes, patients want to feel comforted that if the two practitioners speak they will agree - this is hardly ever the case, esp. when it comes to cancer. When it comes to cancer, it appears that the physician that can scare you the most and speak the worse about the other will win you over. We see this over and over again and it's really sad and unfortunate.

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IS EXPENSIVE

It sure is. Eating organic is expensive. Traveling is expensive. Having nice things is expensive. Living the life of your dreams is expensive. Fine quality products are expensive. It has always been this way and it will always be this way. But you know what is even more expensive? Being sick and getting cancer. In today's day and age, if you don't take care of yourself and focus on preventative medicine, 1 in 2 people will get cancer. That's the cancer statistic today that is common knowledge.I'm not a financial advisor so I can't advise you about money, how to make it or how to spend it. I wish I can tell you money is an illusion and it's just energy - even though it really is. But money isn't the real problem here. Money is just an excuse to not stretch yourself. A person's attitude is the main problem that gets in the way of his or her healing. A person's limiting beliefs, self-sabotage and ego. That's what we've seen. And it's difficult because most often than not you don't even catch yourself when you are running off a limiting belief.Before you come on board as an Indigo client, let's discuss when it means to be committed.

COMMITMENT

Nothing will frustrate a health practitioner more than a client coming in and being fully excited about the plan of action and personalized treatment plan, to walk away, come back and be full of doubts.We understand you are scared. It's okay to be scared. It's okay to feel in the dark. Embrace it. The dark, those shadows that come out, it's all apart of your healing process, it's all apart of being human.

TOUGH LOVE