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Dear Spiritual Workout:
I have always had a lot of medical “issues” and am feeling exhausted from it all. Even though I have a full-time job and a family, it seems like my real full-time job is to schedule and attend doctor’s appointments and figure out how to pay for everything, fighting with insurance companies all the time. I obviously have to take care of my health, and my meds often help but something doesn’t seem right. Thoughts?

Dear Reader:
“Exhausted” and “something doesn’t seem right” are, off the bat, what’s got my attention — along, of course, with my sympathies for what sounds like a chronic struggle. I do a lot of work with clients who are experiencing serious medical conditions/diagnoses because the system most of us are operating within tends to de-emphasize the power of our minds, beliefs, and emotions when it comes to our physical health. I thus encourage you to do what you can to throw a wrench, if you will, into the exhausting dynamic that has taken hold in your life, to engage some sort of reset, and re-focus your attention on what I assume is your desire: to feel good. How much of your precious time and energy is focused on feeling good right now? On that intention? Your intuition — via an unmistakable feeling such as “exhausted” and via your sense that “something doesn’t seem right” — is sending you a message that could be included and considered along with the messages you’re getting from doctor’s offices, labs, and insurance companies. As always, that is yours to listen to or ignore. But I remind you that this practice believes wholeheartedly in the power of listening to such guidance because it is always in our best soul-level interest.

Dear Spiritual Workout:
Why is it so hard to stop caring about what other people think of me? I know it’s the right thing to do, I trust the voices of those who say how harmful it is to be like this, but I can’t stop. Can Spiritual Workout help with this?

Dear Reader:
Perhaps the best way to help is to help you see that when you invest your precious time, energy, and trust in beliefs like “it’s so hard” and “I can’t stop,” that’s exactly what you will experience — as you can see. Next, your (quite common) complaint stems from a dearth of connection to the being part of the human you are. That’s the spiritual part of Spiritual Workout. It’s about listening to inspiration. It’s about investing our precious time, energy, and trust in beliefs like “my worth and value is determined by me” and “I am the only one who knows when I’m aligned with what’s true and right for me,” which sound right when we are connected to this aspect of ourselves. When we’re not, we are left with seeking validation from outside sources, which leave us vulnerable all day every day to whims of others, which cannot and will not ever satisfy us. Indeed, creating such transformations is exactly what SW is all about and, I promise you, it can be done.

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Dear Reader
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