Creating Optimal Health

Building the foundation for Health and Wellness requires an inventory process to be taken that is specific, dynamic and captures the individual’s body blueprint, which is a code that is unique to each of us that tells us all about who we are and how our body works.

Like an architect creates a blueprint to be used as a map to capture the design of a home, we can create a blueprint as a guide to help discover what our body wants us to hear. This blueprint acts as a map, or compass, guiding us in the direction our body wants to follow.

For example, if we are holding an extra 10 lbs of weight specially located around our waist, the body is directing us that it has “a craving for the sweetness in life”. The extra weight is the body’s way to make sure you are getting this message. Exercise is only part of the answer; the first step is the recognition of this feeling. The second step is finding the solution and creating tools to resolve the body’s emotional craving. Decoding the body’s message is always an individual process and requires collecting data for the blueprint to see the pattern.

Collecting the data
Many women have developed self defeating patterns, such as making choices that take away their power as opposed to empowering themselves, not understanding boundaries, or living a cycle of repeating drama between the ” Victim”, the “Rescuer” and the “Persecutor”.

These self-defeating patterns need to be broken down and many woman can only see the details according to the pattern she is identifying with at the moment. Therefore, collecting the day to day information about who you are and what is going on with your body will help you to identify all of these patterns. But many women need help in how to honestly collect the information necessary to create their blueprint.  A few suggestions to get started are:

• Write down a history/inventory of your overall health; include all medical issues/breakthroughs, emotional traumas you’ve experienced as well as cultural and/or spiritual beliefs.
• Gather documentation of all your lab tests and their results.
• Write down all of the physical symptoms you have as if they could all be taken away with a magic wand.
• Find someone you trust, who you can feel safe with, to tell your story to, that can walk you through the tough questions about what is really going on in your life.

Decoding the data
By gathering all of this information, and by finding someone you trust to share your story with, you create a safe setting to discover the self defeating patterns and triggers that have been developing in your day to day life.

Decoding this information, the blueprint, is a way to start seeing the answers that may have seemed invisible, this information must be felt and not just seen. Identifying and using this information affects our choices of how to nourish and care for the physical body and how to create harmony as in a well tuned instrument. Think about it, when an instrument is out of tune or not creating a pleasant sound, tuning is required to allow the instrument to function properly and in harmony again.

Your body is the same way when it is lacking something or is nutritionally out of tune. When the vessel, (the body), is empty it will search for something to fill it up or bring it back to harmony.  The body’s natural instinct is to heal itself, while maintaining a healthy balance of weight and optimal energetic levels. And once these patterns are identified, and validated, it lifts the pressure or burden you may have been carrying. A sense of permission is granted to move forward on this journey of rebuilding the foundation with ease and grace.

Fine tuning and building a new foundation
Once the clarity of the patterns has shown up it is time to fine tune your body and heart. In order to do this one must first find the courage and want to change one’s patterns.  This requires practice and patience to create new behaviors that will support the shift.

Tools need to be created to help delete the old patterns that have been worn as the truth for so long and at the same time support this new way of thinking and being…

What you need is to create a tool belt fully designed to support you so that you won’t crash―stay strong throughout the day― as well as ways to create a feeling of safety and complete control over your life.

These tools can be used as a map to govern you toward a quicker success. This process is designed to empower you by helping to identify who you are, where you are as well as when and why the body is having problems and/or symptoms. These answers may help you, if necessary to find someone you trust, to help you in fine tuning your blueprint.  Some of the fine tuning tools may include the following suggestions:

• Testing—Have testing done to identify what the weak links are that trigger the imbalance or symptom. Identifying the causes and knowing why you are feeling the way you are will empower you.
• Feeling—Use your feelings and intuition to help you identify how something, such as the foods you are eating, are affecting your energy, awareness, and even emotions. (Believe me on an intuitive level, there is so much more to learn and understand.)
• Education—Learn all you can about what is affecting you. For instance, have someone educate you on the nutritional values of foods; addressing how foods are affecting you and help you to identify the foods that will support the re-balancing process as well as help get the most healing and spiritual value out of what you eat. Through subtle shifts in our diet we can re-awaken your natural beauty, inner happiness and physical energy.
• Connections—The foods we crave can also indicate what we are lacking both physically and mentally. For example, if we are carving sweets, we may want more sweetness out of our life while spices may indicate the desire for more passion in life. Sticky starches can indicate a deeper and more profound need for comfort.
• Ask for Help—Don’t be afraid to reach out for help from others, from support to guidance…

These are just a few suggestions to get started. When creating an individual body blueprint, each individual needs to tailor programs according to their life style to ensure sustainable and optimal health. And remember a body blueprint is a living document that needs to be continually monitored, modified, and re-decoded as we continue to grow and change.

Cheryl Diane’s magnitude and passion is apparent in her company Creating Optimal Health™, which is a full-service wellness center dedicated to helping individuals live naturally. Focusing on the energy of food, diet, exercise and total wellness, Cheryl Diane counsels and empowers her clients to live a life enriched with joy, wellness, and balance.

(originally published at ARC Association)