4 Steps to Prepare Your Body and Mind for Healing

Accepting your past is the first step.

My staff is often asked, “What do I need to do to prepare for my healing work with Patti?” The best answer? Information, information, information. Read the descriptions, blog posts, my book God Within: The Day God’s Train Stopped, and call my office with any questions. As the year begins, many of you are taking steps to improve your physical and emotional health. Here are a few tips to help you prepare. Share your thoughts in the comments!

1. Understand the Role of Your Past

Our bodies remember everything. Everything we’ve ever said or thought is stored in the cells of our body. When we look at our world, we look through the lens of our past. We carry with us the emotional history that comes attached to our everyday life. Each emotion felt and every word said or thought is a physical manifestation in our bodies. In essence, therefore, when we look at our current life, we look at it from the history that has already been established within our body.

In my profession, I help to reveal the manifestations that so many people overlook within themselves. It is important to take ten steps backwards in order to see the big picture and gain some perspective in whatever current situation we find ourselves involved. You cannot see the forest through the trees; everything is about perception.

2. Be Honest with Yourself

When I work with someone, I help them see what needs to change to heal. As much as it is impossible to change what you do not know, it is essential in healing to be honest with yourself about what you do know. What is it really that is making you happy or unhappy? Sometimes answers come from within, but talking with someone else helps us gain perspective. It can be a trusted family member, friend or counselor… anyone to help reveal what we have stored and why. Once we understand and know ourselves, only then are we given the insight so essential to change.

3. Realize the Significance of Perception

If you and I shared an event together, such as watching a sunset, we may have two completely different experiences. You might watch the sunset in total serenity, remembering childhood days of playing until the sun went down. I might watch it with anxiety, remembering an old fear of the dark that I battled with even into adulthood. We look at the events within the context of our personal history.

We also experience life not just based on our history but also in how we communicate in our everyday speech. I may be an auditory person and you may be visual, so you may remember seeing the colors of the sunset and I may remember hearing the crickets waking up for their nightly song.

This is the basis of perception: what form of communication we use and what our individual history is. The words we would use to describe that sunset and the emotion we attach to it is what we will store within our “immune system”.

What we are storing becomes so important because negative words that you speak and every negative thought that you think has an emotion attached to it. This negativity is being stored within your body without you ever knowing it. As it flows through you, it starts to slow down and begins to create a density ultimately leading to a “blockage” in your immune system. These blockages can cause physical illness or disease.

4. Hold Yourself Accountable for Your Perceptions; Choose to Live Beautifully

Our words and the emotions we attach to them shape our reality. A sunset, for example, is just a sunset—but how we describe it affects our mind and body. Saying, “What an incredible sunset!” or noticing the clouds’ beauty can strengthen your immune system and overall well-being.

Conversely, if you look at the event and think, “What a waste of time! I missed the game on T.V. for this? ” or, “What a blah ending to a terrible day,” then such thoughts are negative and will flow into your immune system as such. These are the kind of observations that, like the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, will eventually create a blockage. This is how an illness can begin.

It is vital to know and remember that each of us has the ability to choose how to respond. Indeed, since it is your perception of life that creates the experience, then choose to live beautifully!