Written by: Ulrika Sullivan, Executive Contributor
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Have you ever thought that changing just that ONE THING in your life would solve your issues and you’d feel better? What may sound like THE solution, for example, that new exercise regime, or finally go to therapy, then you’ll feel better and your issues are gone?
Did it work?
If it did congratulations, but most likely by changing just that one thing, or applying only one approach and hoping it would resolve often won’t work.
Sometimes we see ourselves as separate from the whole and we focus on one thing at a time. Understandably, it can be difficult to launch multiple changes in our lives at one single time.
Therefore we often resort to starting small, starting with the one obvious thing,
and seeing how it goes…
And then maybe if it all goes well we expand from there.
Do you know what this one-way approach to change does to us?
It makes us think linear, sequentially and compartmentalized instead of holistically and viewing things from a whole perspective.
However, the sequential way of approaching personal change and transformation is on its way out. Instead, the desire for wholeness and a holistic, multidimensional way of approaching change is emerging.
This is the time to decide if we want to take charge of ourselves and respond from a place of inner wisdom and wholeness.
What does wholeness mean to you?
For the longest time, I was the person who followed the sequential and compartmentalized approach to change. I thought if I change something over here for example at work to favor my career, I could leave what’s over there in my personal life alone.
Similarly, I thought if I only address my hurting shoulder, I can leave my desire for better self-esteem alone.
That didn’t work so well.
I didn’t feel good about myself 100% because even if my shoulder pain was gone, I still needed to find a way to believe in myself.
What I do in my career affects my personal life. And my personal life affects my health. My health is affecting my relationships and my relationships affect my emotional health, and so on…
I soon recognized that I didn’t feel better about myself if I only focused on one thing at a time.
I didn’t feel whole.
I didn’t realize that everything in my life is linked together.
Wholeness is a sense of belonging and being part of something bigger than ourselves, instead of separate from the whole.
With a sense of wholeness comes inner peace and balance physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And wholeness can be achieved if we see ourselves and others as unique but part of everything and everyone around us.
So how do we begin a path to wholeness?
In my opinion, wholeness can be achieved only when we use a multidimensional approach to life. For example, a single imbalance may be quite easy to detect. For example, physical imbalance by a hurting shoulder, or emotionally for example by a depression diagnosis. We do something to address the shoulder or the depression in alignment with the sequential approach and with sometimes limited results. However, the problem remains perhaps now
showing somewhere else, and we are not feeling better because we didn’t address the issue from a holistic perspective.
What I’m talking about here is if we see ourselves and others as multidimensional, we need to use multidimensional tools to heal.
Using a multidimensional perspective we would consider energetic and spiritual healing as essential as physical, emotional, or mental healing. For example, Reiki is an energy healing modality working both with the physical and with energy at the same time. We are made up of energy, so if our energy is off, or we feel resistance because we keep working against our own natural energy in our daily lives.
If we are not in harmony with our own natural energy we may experience both mental, emotional and physical issues.
Another example is personal transformation. I believe that personal transformation can be accelerated if the approach is multidimensional. For example, many coaches approach coaching only from a talk-coaching perspective.
I suggest energy healing in parallel with talk coaching to help support both emotional and mental balance along with spiritual and energetic alignment for inner and outer balance.
One approach alone may not be sufficient to feel better overall.
So if you are trying to feel better, don’t just address the obvious reason, go deeper. Identify where your imbalances are.
First, I recommend getting to know your natural energy makeup first. This way you can learn how you uniquely run energy, then start to identify in what situations you work against your own energy.
For example, is the job you have in alignment with your natural energy. You may discover that your natural energy does not fit the work you do. (If you are currently frustrated about your job, that may be a sign!). Or your current exercise regimen may not fit your natural energy at all and your body is not happy.
You may be dealing with emotional baggage that you keep ignoring and instead of releasing the resistance, you may feel pain in your lower back.
Wholeness is a state of harmony.
When we go through personal transformation and major changes, emotional and mental change is important to address, but the body needs to transform as well during personal changes.
This is where wholeness and inner and outer balance come in. Wholeness comes from living from the heart and intuition, and not living from our mind. To maintain balance we need to learn how to come back to our center of harmony again and again.
Having a practice to come back to center helps us maintain a multidimensional perspective is essential so that we can know when we’re out of balance. If you’re curious about how you uniquely could feel better and come into a feeling of wholeness and maintain balance in your life.
Ulrika Sullivan is the Best-selling Author of Wisdom Beyond What You Know: How to Shift from Being Driven by the Mind to Living from the Heart and Intuition, and founder of the Beyond the Mind membership community which is created to help integrate heart-centered and multidimensional living into our lives.
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Ulrika Sullivan, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Ulrika Sullivan is an intuitive spiritual life coach, yoga teacher, and energy healer. After leaving a stressful multitasking corporate career that left her feeling on autopilot, Ulrika realized she didn’t know who she truly was. A complete inner shift led her to her “point-of-no-return” when she with clarity connected with her true self, natural talents, and life purpose. Ever since Ulrika is successfully helping busy working women to connect with their own intuition, find their inner calm, self-love, and life balance, so that they can live with more ease and flow. Ulrika is the host of the podcast “New Light Living ‒ See Your Life in a New Light”.
