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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Metaphysical Meaning Behind Thyroid Problems

First lets look at what the thyroid does for you physically, with this excerpt from http://www.emedicinehealth.com/thyroid_problems/article_em.htm: "The thyroid gland is located on the front part of the neck below the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple). The gland produces thyroid hormones, which regulate body metabolism. Thyroid hormones are important in regulating body energy, the body’s use of other hormones and vitamins, and the growth and maturation of body tissues.

Primary topic: Healing

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Metaphysical Considerations for Healing Teeth

What intrigued me about this question from one of my readers is that if indeed the inquirer is asking about teeth, as opposed to gums or nerves, many of us have some misconceptions about bones being rigid and permanent once we become adults. If they are rigid and fixed, we might wonder if there is anything natural we can do to heal them. First let’s look at what bones need physically in order to be healthy and then we’ll look at the metaphysical nature of decaying teeth.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Discovering Your Inutition for Self-Healing

Someone recently asked me, “As an intuitive, how do you make decisions about what medical or healing care to receive? When I’m not feeling well or I’ve had an injury, I just go to the doctor. How do you figure out what to do?” No one had ever asked me that question. I really had to think about it. I made an agreement with Spirit many years ago that I would continue to strengthen my sound healing gift for the service of others. In return I expected that when I needed healing or medical help it would be obvious to me and the right help would be there at the right time.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Sound Your Feelings

My healing took a huge leap forward when I discovered that my own sounds could heal. So one of the first skills I teach new sound healers to develop is the ability to sound their feelings. Why?

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Empaths and Self-Healing

As someone that has provided healing support and readings to empaths for several years, I've discovered that not all empaths are alike. The way empaths process their empathic responses are different, and what they need to do to remain balanced mentally, physically and emotionally also vary. There is certainly some similarity in the very nature of being empathic, but I’ve been amazed at the unique ways in which empaths need to be present with their compassionate nature.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Turning Regrets Into Blessings

Some of the most significant feelings we have that can keep us trapped in our pain include, regret, guilt, and shame. Many of us have an easier time forgiving someone else than we do ourselves. If we don’t transform these feelings they easily lead to depression and even serious illnesses.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Breathing Meditation for Centering and Self-Healing

One of the first things you need to do when you are choosing to fully engage in a self-healing practice is to quiet your body and mind, bringing your body into a relaxed state that allows healing to occur. Getting to this relaxed state is the challenge and the opportunity. As I discuss at greater length in my book, The Root of All Healing, you cannot heal by will alone. In other words, you can’t make healing happen. You open to healing by allowing it to happen.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Quieting the Mind to Assist You in Your Healing

In your healing journey, you may have heard about the importance of quieting your mind in order to receive intuitive insights and guidance to assist you in your healing. But if you have never meditated before, the thought of doing so can be overwhelming. And if you have ever sat down to meditate, only to become agitated and frustrated, as you experience the turbulent chatter of your mind and a body that it not used to being still, you may not be anxious to utilize quiet contemplation as a healing approach.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Sound Healing—Releasing Stressed Muscles

Muscular pains or tension have sounds. When you know the physical pain is associated with emotional pain, the physical pain can release when you honor the physical stress with sound. This can be very challenging for those of us taught to only make “nice” sounds. But discomfort is not particularly nice, and like most things in life, it likes to be recognized as it is, without being forced to change.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How to Set Clear Healing Intentions That Work

It is your responsibility as the receiver of other people’s prayers to set the intention for prayers and energetic forms of spiritual healing that are in alignment with your own your clear desire. That means your intention needs to be very clear. A clear intention is dependent upon how you feel spiritually strong. Are you someone that visualizes, hears or feels things easily? Do you get strong impressions that are more like knowing something? Most of us have one or two means of spiritual perception that are strongest for us.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Looking for Miracles Is Different Than Believing In Them

When someone comes to me looking for an instantaneous healing, I know we are not likely to make very much progress. Are you wondering why? Doesn’t it seem to make sense that the more the person is able to believe in instant healing, the more likely it is going to happen? Indeed, I love to offer healing sounds and support to people that believe in the power of energetic healing because we are most likely to get results. However, there is a difference between believing in miracles and looking for them. Someone looking for miracles is usually desperately hunting to find a solution.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Being Present in the Moment to Heal the Pain of the Past

Emotional pain from the past can lodge in the body and become physical pain in the present. If you ignore the emotional pain, you are basically ignoring the root cause of the physical pain, and may find yourself remaining in physical discomfort. This is a difficult concept for many of us to grasp—the connection between emotional stress and physical illness.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Quieting the Mind Through Sound Healing

It has frequently surprised students when I suggest that sound healing is as much, if not more, about quieting the mind and listening as it is about making sounds. Many of us can make sounds, but we access the sounds that have the ability to heal from the well of our silence.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Creativity—A Doorway to Intuition

If you aren’t certain about where to begin accessing your intuition or you want to be able to tap into more of your intuitive guidance, one of the best and most enjoyable ways to access you inner wisdom is through creative expression. Why? Inspiration and intuition are kissing cousins. Ask a gardener why she planted certain flowers together in a bed, and she’ll tell you about how they are compatible, of appropriate heights and widths and then she’ll end up telling you she just thought they would look good together.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Use Your Emotions to Help You Heal

Emotions tell stories about what is really going on. You’ve just got to be willing to sit with the uncomfortable ones long enough and with enough self-honesty to discover what they are telling you about what you need for your healing. This is going to make a lot more sense if I share a couple of poignant stories from my life. Years ago, I was in loving relationship where my sexual energy started to fully awaken and blossom.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Metaphysical Meaning Behind Depression

Depression affects many of us at some point in our lives. If you are suffering from a chronic condition, serious injury, loss, or emotional trauma, you might find yourself suffering from depression.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Discover The Natural Healing Gift of Negative Ions

To date, I haven’t met anyone that has told me they can see them, taste them or smell negative ions. Yet, in nature, they are there all around us. Visit the ocean and you are in the company of negative ions. Visit the mountains, splash around in a stream, or take a walk in the woods and you’ll be breathing in negative ions. How do you know when you are in the presence of negative ions? You feel better. You relax and you feel more at ease with yourself and with life. That’s because negative ions increase the levels of serotonin in your body.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How to Approach Self-Healing—Are Positive Emotions Enough?

Knowing how to approach your self-healing process can be a real quandary, particularly if you don’t have a favorite and specific energy healing modality. You can spend a lot of energy just figuring out how to think of self-healing in a general context. Recently, one of my readers asked a really great question regarding a general approach to self-healing. It was significant enough that I sent it to several of my colleagues for their consideration and comments.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Eliminating the Internal Complaint Department

A while back my husband and I were in a class where we were asked to spend a day keeping a tally of how often we complained. I thought I was a pretty positive person so this exercise would be pretty easy to do. Oh my gosh, was I surprised to discover how often I was thinking complaining thoughts, though I wasn’t expressing them. I was complaining all right, just not out loud. We were also asked to notice our patterns of thoughts. Did we tend to complain about other friends, co-workers, politics, our bodies, our helplessness, injustice, past abuses, lovers, etc.?

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How Do I Heal From Guilt?

This is such an excellent question. Guilt is at the core of many illnesses. Its partner is regret. As long as we are living in emotional pain rooted in the past, we are going to have a difficult time healing in the present. Guilt is anger with yourself for some choice you have made. The cells of the body can harbor the energy of guilt inside of them and when they do, your body inflames and congests in response. In fact, you may find that you heal, only to have a recurrence of a condition. Guilt doesn’t let us off the hook for very long and your physical symptoms may be reflecting that.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Reversing “Incurable” Chronic Conditions Through Self-Healing

If you have an “incurable” condition, you may be asking yourself if there is any possibility that incurable conditions can be reversed. The answer is, “Yes.” Just because modern allopathic medicine may not have a cure, doesn’t mean that healing isn’t possible. The journey of self-healing is about discovering the power and the path within you. If you have read my book, “The Root of All Healing,” you know that when I was faced with MS, I decided I was not going to live with that forever.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Intuition—Pathway to Wellness

Intuition is one of those elusive concepts that many of us know we should be using to enhance our opportunities for healing, but often, don’t quite know how to access. I remember a friend that had been a meditator for many years asking me how he would know when his intuition was speaking to him. I was taken aback. I had assumed that because he had been an active meditator at one time in his life, that he would automatically be open to and recognize his intuitive wisdom, but that was not the case.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Your Life Path and Self-Healing Are Entwined

For many years I thought my real spiritual work would begin once I was fully healed. What I didn’t understand was that my self-healing was my spiritual path. It wasn’t that I needed to get better and then I would have the energy to devote to my spiritual awakening. It was the other way around. Discovering my unique spiritual gifts—and learning how to apply them in every area of my life including my healing and awakening—was the journey. In fact, much of my awakening has taken place as I have been focused on self-healing!

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Helping the Body Catch Up With Your Consciousness

After reading my recent article on Diabetes and Self-Healing, one of our readers told me that although she has diabetes, she believes she is quite adept at fulfilling the spiritual-emotional need behind this condition—acknowledging the sweetness in life. But that realization hadn’t caused her diabetes to go away. This is a significant observation in her journey.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Nature’s Rhythms and Healing

One of the great ironies in life is that in order to accelerate your healing, you have to slow down. —Misa Hopkins, The Root of All Healing In our crazy, busy lives driving to the office, working in fast-paced environments, watching hours of television, and keeping up a rather intense pace until it’s time to go to bed, we are missing something vital to our health—connection with nature.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How Healing Objectives Could Help You

I know this might sound really strange if you have never set a healing objective, but like all things we create, clarity of intention makes a difference in healing too. Of course, creating intentions that truly motivate you is where healing objectives can help you make and see progress. Before you grab your paper and pencil, I invite you to become very still for a moment and allow yourself to reflect on how you will feel in your body when you are well: —Perhaps you will feel flexible in your body or have more vitality.r

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Can I Do to Experience More Energy Overall?

As I’m writing a response to this question today, I am feeling tired. I’m not entirely sure whether I’ve taxed my body with what I’m currently healing or the planetary alignment is tugging on my energy. Fortunately, I’m feeling emotionally stable, though many years ago, emotional upheaval was the greatest pull on my energy.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

When Healing Doesn’t Happen

This morning, as I was meditating, I had one of those special moments of awakening. As I was in the moment, I remembered that the last time I had a profound experience of awakening, I tried to cling to it, thinking, “I want life to be like this forever.” The moment I attached to the experience, it stopped.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Prayer, Depression and Healing

Winter can be such a challenging time when it comes to depression. The days are shorter, in the US more people die in winter than in warmer seasons, and grey skies can dampen your spirits. Of course, physical illness, stress, emotional turmoil, and abusive experiences from our past or present all contribute. And if you are an empath you may have bouts of depression for reasons that may be difficult to trace. I spent many years being depressed, and recently, with the loss of a few people in my life, I found myself feeling the heavy feelings of depression once again.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Chronic Illness—I Just Want Someone to Tell Me How to Fix It

I was at a party recently where I was telling someone about my book. Not everyone is enamored with the concept of self-healing and taking full responsibility for your healing journey. In this case, the woman I was speaking with said out loud what I believe a lot of us really want but don’t admit. She candidly admitted, “I don’t really want to figure it for myself. I want someone to tell me what is wrong and how to fix it.”

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Intuition—Fact That Has Not Yet Been Proven

I was just going about my day, when a little voice in the back of my head said, “Turn on the television.” “What?” I argued with myself. “I don’t watch TV during the day. Sure, at night when I’m winding down my day, but day-time hours are for being productive.”

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How Do You Uncover Limiting Beliefs in Self-Healing?

This question came from one of my readers, and I think it is a really significant question to be asking. Limiting beliefs are often hidden from our view, so how are you supposed to do something about them if you don’t know what they are and how to find them.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Energy Healing and Cell Renewal

I was recently asked a question regarding how to encourage cell renewal for a specific organ. Here is the wonder of energy healing: you don’t have to understand the organ or have a detailed intention in order to heal it energetically. Some years ago my doctor told me one of my fallopian tubes was collapsed. She understood I was an energy healer and was supportive when I told her I wanted to do some energy work before doing any further tests that might lead to surgery.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

From Bliss in Meditation to Anger in Life

Have you had the experience of leaving a luscious other-worldly experience only to come back to this reality feeling cranky? I’ve caught myself more than once thinking to myself, “That’s real spiritual, Misa! Open your heart wide in compassion during your meditation and then, in this world, get critical with someone when they are trying to do their best.” Oddly, these instances seem to occur in proximity to the end of my meditations and dreams.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Can I Do to Get More Sleep at Night?

Insomnia challenges so many of us. I remember nights lying in bed thinking about everything I thought just had to be done, sacrificing my health and my rest to my busy mind. Resting is a natural state, but isn’t it interesting how many of us at some time in our lives have found it to be a state so difficult to experience? For those of us that live in cultures where achieving is revered, it can be difficult to accept that action and achieving are only half of the human equation for mastery as human beings.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Holidays, Family Dynamics and Self-Healing

During this holiday season, if you spend more time with your family, you may find your buttons getting pushed. Here is the thing about healing. Those buttons—those are the very places where you store pent up feelings and ignore unmet core needs that lead to or contribute to illnesses. This holiday could provide a significant opportunity to do some fundamental healing that will allow your mind and body to find greater healing. Families are where our deepest unmet needs rise to the surface.

Primary topic: Healing

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Healing Focus for 2012

How should you focus your attention for healing this year? Each year has a unique energy of its own. In order to bring the most to your healing intentions, you probably want to align with the natural and cosmic energies of the year. This year is about alignment.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Metaphysical Meaning Behind Osteoarthritis

The Mayo clinic offers us this definition for osteoarthritis: "Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting millions of people around the world. Often called wear-and-tear arthritis, osteoarthritis occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of your bones wears down over time. While osteoarthritis can damage any joint in your body, the disorder most commonly affects joints in your hands, neck, lower back, knees and hips.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Metaphysical Meaning Behind Back and Neck Pain

The physical causes of back and neck pain vary widely from a herniated disc, osteoarthritis, spinal deformity from childhood, or an injury—with these being just some of the major causes. For more information about physical causes visit: http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/tc/low-back-pain-cause.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How Do You Stay Positive When You Feel Sick and Tired?

As someone who has spent a lot of her time in the shop healing, I can really relate to this question. And yet, that’s what the journey is really all about—learning how to maintain such a positive and clear state of being that it is difficult for anything physical, mental or emotional to harm you.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Self-Healing and Being Empathic

A little known fact that every person who is healing should consider.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Metaphysical Meaning Behind Osteoporosis

Whenever I meditate on metaphysical roots, I encourage you to do the same. What you get for yourself might have more meaning for you personally, and there may be nuances in your own intuitive and psychic insights that could make a significant difference for you. Here is a definition for osteoporosis from the U.S. National Library of Medicine: Osteoporosis occurs when the body fails to form enough new bone, when too much old bone is reabsorbed by the body, or both.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

The Energy Behind Rheumatoid Arhtritis

One of my readers asked about healing rheumatoid arthritis, so I meditated with this and got some insights about the energetic belief behind this autoimmune disease. I was surprised to discover that this is an autoimmune disease, which I researched after I did the meditation. In my meditations with other auto-immune conditions, from an emotional and spiritual perspective the body is attacking itself because we have a self-attacking belief.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

The Difference Between Self-Responsibility and Self-Blame in Healing

Have you ever found yourself assuming responsibility for the reality you are experiencing, only to realize that instead of blaming someone else for how you are feeling, you are now blaming yourself? Shifting blame isn’t really assuming responsibility, but if you are like most of us, you have probably done it at some time. As you know, if you have read chapter five of my book, blame is a form of self-punishment that prevents healing from occurring. Blame perpetuates anger because we are looking for a way out of the helplessness that we are feeling. http://www.RootOfAllHealing.com

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Intuitive Perspective About Arteries, the Heart and Self-Healing

One of our readers asked about healing in regard to arteries of the hearts, so I took this conce into meditation. I received a perspective about the spiritual and emotional nature of arteries that I thought many of us might appreciate. It is a little bit different than what Louise Hay so beautifully offers to us, but it is indeed in alignment with her perspective.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

High Blood Pressure and You!

One of my readers asked about healing high blood pressure. You’ll read the results of my meditation regarding high blood pressure below, but first lets take a look at some research. According to an article at: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/high_blood_pressure/article_em.htm,rn"High blood pressure has become the second most common reason for medical office visits in the United States." Further this same article warns us:r

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Cell Regeneration

If you have ever wondered if cells in your body can actually regenerate, they can. That might be very difficult to believe if you have a chronic condition or if you have been told there is no cure. But there is evidence that cells can and do regenerate.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How to Create Safe and Quiet Space to Enhance Your Healing

The greatest mysteries to healing in life are right here in front of us, part of us, each and every day. The reason we do not recognize them is because we are so busy surviving.We rarely slow down long enough to notice the spirit of life hidden within every living thing.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Metaphysical Meaning Behind Osteoarthritis

The Mayo clinic offers us this definition for osteoarthritis: "Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting millions of people around the world. Often called wear-and-tear arthritis, osteoarthritis occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of your bones wears down over time. While osteoarthritis can damage any joint in your body, the disorder most commonly affects joints in your hands, neck, lower back, knees and hips.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Frozen By Fear

The reasons we are afraid are, in many ways, as unique as we are, and often need to be addressed individually. But let us explore the root of fear as it relates to healing.

Primary topic: Healing

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