{"id":855,"date":"2013-05-05T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2013-05-05T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T14:45:34","slug":"feel-deal-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Feel, Deal, Heal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/feel-deal-heal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-857\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/feel-deal-heal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I had the opportunity to see a Dr Oz interview with a lady by the name of Iyanla Vanzant, her website can be found <a title=\"Iyanla Vanzant\" href=\"http:\/\/iyanlavanzant.com\/\">here.<\/a>\u00a0 Ms Vanzant is a spiritual leader who has been for thirty years inspiring people with her words of wisdom, hope and guided healing modalities.\u00a0 Through her own journey in life, she found her voice to liberating herself with empowerment that helped her through her own healing process\u00a0and she has been spreading the word on how to do so ever since.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview with Dr Oz, \u00a0she spoke of the importance of what she calls &#8220;Feel, Deal, Heal&#8221;.\u00a0 She expressed that this is an important pathway to anyone finding themselves on a journey to improving their life, and create a healthy body and mind connection.\u00a0 This idea resonated with me as to how to approach ourselves and those we love as we care for our health and continue on our pathways.<\/p>\n<p>When we take time to &#8220;Feel&#8221; we are giving ourselves permission to have those emotions and honor them as part of who we are.\u00a0 When we allow for them to rest within us they manifest themselves in other ways that had we just acknowledge and allowed them to surface would have presented us with an opportunity rather than an obstacle to our health.\u00a0 When we find ourselves only wanting to embrace what makes us feel good we create an imbalance.\u00a0 We honor ourselves more when we take away labels for how we are feeling and just embrace them all.\u00a0 This way we give equally to our feelings and give our emotions the chance to flow through us effortlessly.<\/p>\n<p>One practice that I have found recently to encourage this is to sit with myself in the morning and allow whatever to surface to come.\u00a0 Whether its thoughts or feelings that bring me comfort or agitation, doesn&#8217;t matter, what I focus on is just feeling them, comfortably in my safe surroundings.\u00a0 When I do so I see how giving time to my emotions provides the space for me to have them and then let them go.<\/p>\n<p>When we take time to &#8220;Deal&#8221; we are creating a relationship with ourselves that says what we feel is important and needs to be cared for.\u00a0 This may mean a conversation with a loved one.\u00a0 Prior to doing so a conversation with ourselves is often what sets the tone for how we deal with the emotion with them.\u00a0 If we take the opportunity to be conscious of our feelings and express them to ourselves fully and then share them with those we love, we can be more aware of how we enter into the conversation.\u00a0 This is not always possible to practice, however what is more important is that we actively engage in the process of opening up our feelings and expressing them.<\/p>\n<p>When we take time to &#8220;Feel&#8221;, and then\u00a0&#8220;Deal&#8221; we are furthering our ability to &#8220;Heal&#8221;.\u00a0 Healing is a matter of body and mind.\u00a0 When we seek to create more of what we would like in our lives we are practicing\u00a0healing.\u00a0 When we choose to buy foods that are nourishing to our bodies we are practicing healing.\u00a0 When we take time to have our feelings and share them honestly we are practicing\u00a0healing.<\/p>\n<p>Make time to &#8220;Feel&#8221;, &#8220;Deal&#8221; and &#8220;Heal&#8221;.\u00a0 When you are practicing this in your day acknowledge these efforts and reward yourself with a smile.\u00a0 You will be smiling all day long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to see a Dr Oz interview with a lady by the name of Iyanla Vanzant, her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}