The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony — Introduction
A Guide to Freeing You to Create Your Life
Have you felt the joy of harmony in your life?
Or, do you believe it has passed you by?
Perhaps you have enjoyed harmonious moments, though do not seem to be able to maintain its steady state?
Then what do feel about harmony, and is it important in your life?
According to the Cambridge English dictionary, harmony:
“is the combination of separate but related parts in a way that uses their similarities to bring unity to a painting, drawing, or other art.”
This quote from Napoleon Hill for me provides a clearer understanding:
“One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.”
It was trying to understand the dis-harmony exhibited by my body which set me on the journey to initially learn more about my body. Then began the next step of how can I use this to help others.
Why was I seeking to learn the messages my body was sending me, though I was not listening?
Quite simply, the intensity of the pain and dis-comfort I was experiencing.
Yes, I had had sports injuries etc., hardly surprising as I was playing competitive rugby until I was 40. As I sought solutions, I realised the medical system was just treating symptoms and not the root cause.
For me pain management was not an option, it was permanent relief I was seeking.
The result of my journey, The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony.
It was my last bout of intense back pain which began about a month before we left England to live in Portugal, that provided the prompt to write it.
For by then I had linked the emotions of events in my life to bouts of pain and dis-comfort. This 5 minute video provides more overview of my story and conclusions from my journey.
Each of the Seven Secrets is linked to one of our body´s prime seven chakras, or energy centres. Though because I was afraid what others might think, there was no mention of a chakra in the book, nor the fact I am a shaman even though shamanic practices are mentioned!
My premise built on the awareness everything is energy. When it flows freely we enjoy a vibrant healthy life. When there is a blockage pain and dis-comfort are felt.
With the intent of learning how to heal myself I went looking for evidence as to what creates a blockage.
Which led me to stress.
It is not a one-off event, meaning the wear-and-tear does not stop once the stressful situation is over.
Physical Pain and Dis-Comfort Indicates Your Body Wants To Be Free
Rather it is stored in your body’s energy system and has the capability to create deep and debilitating “blocks”.
Which is why stress does far more than just make you feel worn out and run down. It places undue pressure on your immune system. It wears the body down, lowers its natural defences and recovery mechanism. The full price of stress is paid by all aspects of your entire being — your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies.
The blocks create a lack of harmony between what you are doing and your values and purpose. Often manifesting in a pain or illness, usually as inflammation in a part of your body. This correlates to a block or imbalance in the energy flowing around it.
The result can vary from physical symptoms such as headaches, skin rashes and digestive issues to emotional and mental challenges. They include sadness, lack of focus and an inability to be excited by your life.
The good news is you can identify the sources of these blocks and so clear them. That way, you will be free of the old paradigms and create space for what you truly desire in your life. The book includes case studies of how I have used what I learnt to help others be free of pain and dis-harmony.
I have also summarised in The Seven Secrets my understanding of the science which led me to conclude it is our beliefs and the conflicts they create which cause the pain and dis-comfort.
These conflicts reside within each of us. Usually their roots are in something we believe about ourselves, our life and its direction.
The beliefs could have been created in early childhood, another life or inherited through our ancestral lineage.
Why We Focus On Our Past
Almost always we are not aware of these unconscious beliefs, though they direct ALL aspects of your life. Less than 5% of our daily actions, deeds, thoughts and words are from our conscious mind.
One of the sources cited in my book is Bruce Lipton. In a recent interview he explains how it is our addiction to our past which keeps us from living a healthy, happy, peaceful life. Rather it is wishing and dreaming which will create harmony in our lives.
Why are we fixated by our past?
Because when humans evolved in the savannas of Africa over the last 5 million years, they were surrounded by a world of severe and immediate danger.
To deal with this constant presence of danger, our brains evolved an ancient piece of the temporal lobe called the amygdala, which scans everything we see and hear for signs of danger. And when it senses danger, it puts us on *red alert.*
We record every event and experience so that we know how to react when what is recorded as dangerous re-appears. For this reason we pay 10x more attention to negative news than to positive news.
What you allow into your mind influences your thoughts, conversations, and feelings, driving fear and anxiety for many. These emotional states are associated with increased levels of cortisol, commonly known as the “stress hormone,” which often causes inflammation and reduces the immune system’s efficacy.
Interpreting the body’s energy — its signals — is at the core of the most ancient medical practices and beliefs. This includes the traditional medicine of India (Ayurveda), the traditional medicine of China, and the indigenous peoples’ shamanic practices.
Creating Harmony In Our Bodies
These practices work on the premise that our energy always seeks to create health in spite of what we do to ourselves emotionally and physically.
In order to channel and process all that energy, your system is equipped with energy centres known as chakras…
…whilst your body has a multitude of these energy centres, there are seven major ones that are crucial to your creating harmony in your life. Their energy flows in a clockwise direction from the base of the spine to the crown of the head and back again.
Each centre resonates at a slightly different frequency and each regulates different aspects of your physical and emotional being.
In The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony I have linked certain beliefs to each of the seven prime energy centres or Secrets.
For example, my lower back pain is one of the symptoms I have identified in Secret #1.
The lower back is the fulcrum around which all movement takes place. Just try reaching with your hand for something if your back is locked!
My story of what I learnt is available over these chapters:
Chapter 1 — Why Harmony May Be Missing in Your Life
Chapter 2 — Scientific Evidence of Support
Chapter 3 — Answers the question: “Why is my back killing me?”
Chapter 4 — Answers the question: “What is pissing me off?”
Chapter 5 — Answers the question: “What is my gut telling me?”
Chapter 6 — Answers the question: “What do I feel in my heart?”
Chapter 7 — Answers the question: “Why do I have trouble speaking up?”
Chapter 8 — Answers the question: “How do I achieve clarity and focus?”
Chapter 9 — Answers the question: “Where am I going, and what is the point to it all?”
Chakras do not just exist in our bodies, they are present on Mother Earth, too. These major power points of the planet mimic the chakra points in our bodies.
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To Listening To The Messages From Your Body
“The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony” is available for purchase by clicking on the title.
Reviews from readers in various countries can be read here.
Copyright © Gregory Reece-Smith
Publisher: Divine Time Books, LLC
ABOUT GREGORY
Gregory Reece-Smith, aka the Shamanic CEO, is a Creator and International Best-Selling Author. His diverse background includes being the CEO of a public company and coaching fledgling businesses as well as international executive teams such as IKEA. His passion is using his skills and wisdom to inspire others to lead, find their inner strength, and connect feelings they may have repressed in achieving success. Upsetting deeply held beliefs so all are free to accelerate their life and so their business.
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