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When I was 20 years old, I was unstoppable. Nothing could stand in my way. Not even the minor car accident (in which a drunk driver rear-ended my car and I ended up with “just” a whiplash). Not even the excruciating pain in my neck which lasted years.

20 years later, “suddenly”, with no apparent reason, I could not move my arm. Only after visiting a chiropractor, who showed and explained me how big is the damage I have caused to my neck and spine, just from neglecting the injury, I realized what I have done. If I would only stop and do one of the things I know now (even just resting or applying a castor oil pack) the whole picture may have been different.

After few visits, I felt much better and pain was gone. Still unstoppable at that time, I then understood that this was just the beginning of my healing journey. Fixing a damage that has been accumulated in 20 years is not possible in a week. And this was my “Stop sign”. Up to that point, the easiest way for me to handle these “stop signs” was to ignore them. However, opening my eyes to view this sign, made me realize that this is my own responsibility to attend my own health. This is my own responsibility to find the time to give attention to my body or seek professional help to guide me how.

This has become a life journey, and as it keeps unfolding, I am fascinated by all the unstoppable souls who are crossing my way, seeking my friendly or my professional advice, and one thing keeps repeating over and over again:

Applying a castor oil pack has brought many of these souls to a very deep state of realization that a change needs to take place. Witnessing this phenomenon, either in my office or hearing from those who I suggested to apply the packs, brought me to the belief that deep state of relaxation has the amazing power to change lives – physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Castor oil, a very thick oil derived from the castor bean (Ricinus communis) seed, has been praised for many benefits. Among them: Enhancing relaxation, Decreasing inflammation, Increasing circulation of blood and lymph thus enhancing the immune system, Improving elimination of toxic substances, Promoting tissue healing, Decreasing pain, Lubricating ligaments, Improving digestion, Easing many conditions including uterine fibroid, non-malignant ovarian cysts, endometriosis, headaches, migraines, constipation, intestinal disorders, gallbladder/liver conditions, and probably many more.

A castor oil pack can be done in many ways. The way that works best for me is simply applying the oil on the belly, covering with a hand-towel, topping with a hot water bottle and laying down for at least one hour.

When applying the castor oil pack on the belly, the oil lubricates and stimulates all the tissues, organs and systems in this region. Along with that, the heat draws the blood vessels up closer to the skin as they vasodilate, and oil is being absorbed into the blood circulation as well, thus distributed through the whole body.

Lubricating and stimulating organs as the small intestine, bladder, colon, liver, uterus, which are part of systems that are inhibited when body is under stress (when the autonomic nervous system functions at its sympathetic / fight-or-flight state), signals the nervous system to shift to the relaxed state (parasympathetic state). This may cause a confusion for the person experiencing it, since many of us may have not “visited” the parasympathetic system for a very long time. We are trapped in the fight-or-flight loop and do not know how to find the moment to breath and recover.

Shifting to the parasympathetic system creates a space, allowing to view life in a clear and focused perspective. It allows me to be more centered into my own body, realizing that so many things are happening inside, while I keep myself very busy outside. This deep relaxation opens my mind to ask the real questions, which I have been avoiding for a long time:

Am I so busy working for others that I cannot find an hour for myself to walk outdoors or to engage in some movement?
Am I so busy running after everyone’s needs (my spouse, my kids, my cat, my dog, my friends, my neighbors, my, my, my, my, my…. Oh my) that I don’t have an hour to seek a professional guidance resolving my own issues?
Am I so busy being busy that I cannot find an hour to understand what relaxation really means?

In my eyes, a castor oil pack can be a major life changer. Such a simple action with such a powerful result. Even if at this moment, I am not able to answer all these questions, I have planted the seed, so when time is right – I will be ready to take the ownership over my life and start my journey.

And this is the real reason I love castor oil and I would keep telling everyone again and again and again that they should try a castor oil pack….

***Anat Shlagman is a Traditional Naturopath specializing in Relaxation, utilizing a unique tailored session, combined of Reflexology, Castor oil pack, Abdominal massage and Energy work, designed to bring the autonomic nervous system to its parasympathetic state.

Some sources

The Edgar Cayce ARE – https://edgarcayce.org/resources/holistic-health-database/therapies/castor-oil-packs/

The oil that heals – A physician’s successes with castor oil treatments – William A. McGarey, MD

Herbs of grace – Farida Sharan

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What If You Were a Healer?

December 17, 2025 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

Thinking about the word “healer”, we might find ourselves living in a misconception, backed up by the Oxford dictionary definition, that a healer is “a person who seeks to cure diseases or heal injuries by means other than conventional medical treatment”. This definition implies that the body is an object that requires a healer to engaged in the mission of actively healing it. Is that so? Does your body have no abilities other than waiting for someone to heal it?

What if your body already knows how to heal itself but lacks the proper environment to do it? What if a healer was the one who creates the environment for your body to heal, while trusting your body’s wisdom to do the work, without actively engaging in healing it? What if you could create that environment for your body? What if you were a healer?

When you accept yourself as a healer, you have one mission only – to nurture the environment for your body to heal itself. You do not need to actively heal your body. All you need to do is to create the environment so your body can reach the wisdom which is embedded in its genes to heal itself.

What would that environment be? Each body is different, thus each one of us will have individual needs. In order to understand your unique needs, best would be to open a line of communication between you and your body.

Pain or discomfort are the most common communications you would receive from your body, signaling you to pay attention to your actions, since something you do is not making your body comfortable. When you tend to the pain by checking what went wrong, your body will know that you are available to listen.

What could go wrong that might bring pain to your body?
Everything you can possibly imagine, in every aspect that you can possibly perceive – physically, emotionally or mentally.

Here are some examples to explore, feel free to venture into any other idea that will pop into your mind:

Starting with the Physical possibilities – can your body thrive with what you supply, or just survive?
1. Nourishment & hydration – what’s on your plate and in your cup?
2. Resting – How deep is your sleep?
3. Movement & touch – Are you tending your body with physical activity and physical touch?

Continue with the Emotional possibilities- can your body thrive with the way you feel, or just survive?
1. Love – Are you in a loving and caring environment – at home, at work, in life?
2. Anxiety/fear/stress – Are your demons controlling you?
3. Social – Do you feel surrounded by like-minded friends or feel lonely with no one to engage in a deep meaningful conversation?

Following with the Mental possibilities – can your body thrive with your perceptions or just survive?
1. Values – Can you protect your values or need to compromise them when conflicted?
2. Space – Are you giving yourself priority space on your to-do list?
3. Believes – Are the believes you hold created by society’s expectations or authentically generated according to your values?

Taking the time to ask yourself if your body thrives or survives is the first step as a healer to understand which environment your body needs in order to heal. Answering honestly without judgment will allow your body to open up and reveal it needs.

But what if you, probably like 99% of the people in the world, find that you have too many issues to address in order to be able to create your healing environment? This might be a bit discouraging, prompting you to face two opposing options:

Making the decision to ignore it all and continue your life as before without any changes.
Making the decision to start a slow process of change. This can be done by writing down a list of your issues, then choosing one issue from your list to address.

The freedom to make choices carries the heavy toll of owning the consequences of your actions: whatever you choose – you are the one who has to live with it. Yet, when your decision is made after you take the time to listen to your body, you might find it more motivating to choose to start a slow process of change, rather than ignoring it all.

Once you made the decision to start a slow process of change, you become a healer. Always remember that your exclusive role as a healer is to create the right environment for your own body to heal itself. You do not need to heal your body, nor your family/neighbors/friends’ bodies! Only focusing on the environment that your own body needs.

Will that be fast? Probably not. Will that be easy? Definitely not. This is a journey. Each one of us is a healer! Each one of us can create the environment for our own body to heal. And by doing so, each one of us can set the example for our families, neighbors and friends to follow our lead, tending to their own personal environments for their bodies to heal.

If you are not sure how to begin your journey, I invite you to come in for a session to reconnect with your own body, understand the environment that your body needs and realign your healing plans.

This holiday season, I am holding the prayers for each one of us to open ourselves to listen to our own body and spread light into the world from our own healing environments.

Wishing you all heart-filling holidays and a healing new year ahead!

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Can We Let All Storms Pass Alongside Us and Not Through Us?

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

These days, it looks as if our world is filled with storms: Political storms, medical storms, human rights storms, and any other agenda the mind can invent and turn into a storm…

Mysteriously enough, these storms seem to have the tendency to become a whirlpool that uproots and swirls us until we are slowly striped from our own personalities. It feels that in our panic of the storm, we act as if the only way to survive it is to let the storm peel away everything we have, and many times, after it passes, we might regret and re-think our actions.

Could there be a different way to survive a storm? A way in which we trust that our own personalities are worth standing rooted while letting the storm pass alongside us instead of swirling everything within while it passes through us?

Of course there is a way! But this way is not granted! An effort needs to be made to keep us strong facing a storm. I will explain how this can be done, but beforehand, let’s understand why we want to do so.

Remembering the legacy of Hersh Polin Goldberg, RIP, an American-Israeli 23 yrs old, who was kidnapped on October 7th, 2023, and was murdered along with 5 other young Israeli hostages while held captive for 11 months in the tunnels of Gaza. In his page-turner must-read book, “Hostage”, Eli Sharabi tells his own story and reflects how Hersh inspired every hostage he met with his famous sentence: “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’” Eli Sharabi, who was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri, held onto his own ‘why’ – returning to his British-Israeli wife and 2 teenage daughters – for 491 days, then was released from captivity only to discover that they were murdered on Oct 7th, 2023. May they all Rest in Peace.

Back to our storms, looking for our own, much less intense ‘whys’ to let storms pass alongside us without allowing them to pass through us. I will note here my thoughts, examining what is building our character and personality. Feel free to add as many of your thoughts as you need.

WHY?

Our character is made of critical thinking skills, which help us decern what benefits us and what does not. We operate these skills by asking questions. Keeping in mind that every question is relevant, when we are swept off into a stormy swirl, we might feel that our questions are dismissed without a satisfactory answer. Then, we might feel lost or even irrelevant.
Our uniqueness is part of our personality. Every decision we make, about our health, our money, our life, should be made in accordance with our unique needs, regardless to the popular (maybe even engineered) opinions about it. When we are swept off into a stormy swirl, while our unique necessities are mostly lessened, we might experience an unhealthy internal conflict between our physical, emotional and mental states, which can lead us to depression and/or physical illness.
Our own values are the foundational building blocks of our character and personalities. When we are swept off into a stormy swirl, we might feel that our values are compromised, maybe even to the level we feel as our whole self is being diminished. And this as well could lead to a physical or mental illness.

All of these sounds very gloomy, and many times we choose to disregard and continue our lives as if none of them exist. If you choose to do so and you are happy and healthy, then all is great. However, if you are not truly happy and not truly healthy, I would like to invite you to read further unfolding my opinion on how to make a brave decision to stop being swept into a stormy swirl.

How?

First and foremost, we need to tend our nervous system, and it is our window to the world. We act and react to everything that is happening around us through the state of our nervous system. The more our nervous system is on a survival mode, the more automatic and repetitive will be our response. When we succeed to relax our nervous system and take it out of its survival state, we can make time to create new plans of actions, which are more beneficial and upon repeating they can become automatic as well.

As I explain in my article, The Art of Healing Yourself, we have to create the environment for our body to meet its survival needs, in order to relax our nervous system: “What are these survival needs? Think about babies – what do they need? To sleep, to eat, to be touched, to be soothed, to be clean, to move and to learn how to coexist with others in the world. We may have grown out of our baby stage, but our needs have not changed. However, now, we are engaged with so many responsibilities which have become a priority over our basic needs.
Here begins our part as self-healers, by tending to our basic needs and helping our body meet them. How can we do that? Simply by going back to basics – returning to all the actions that we usually skip through our busy life. These actions are also known as the pillars of Traditional Naturopathy: Nourishment, Bodywork, Rest/sleep, Energy work, Herbal medicine, Hydrotherapy, Education, and Movement.”

Could a castor oil pack make a difference here? I have no doubt about it!!!!!

Is it worth all the trouble just to be able to allow the storm pass alongside you? I cannot make this decision for you. I can only advise to look back at your “why” list and decide from there. My journey, learning with great effort how to stand tall alongside storms, helped me understand, that even though my values and beliefs are different than anyone else’s, they are never less valid. And this is what I preach and teach ever since.

If you need my assistance to learn how to shine your wonderful personality and never allow any storm to diminish it, contact me. I am happy help!

And if you are around on November 9th, 2025, you are invited to a special hands-on event, led by Ariana Buksdorf and me, at the Hampton Inn Commerce Novi. All details in the following link: The Art of Caring for Self.

Always remember that a change is never easy, and it will happen only when you feel that you are ready for it. As we open the new Jewish year, may it be filled with blessed changes to lift us up to our best possible lives, and may we always find the strength to allow every storm to pass alongside us without swiping us up into its swirl!!!!!

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Is Your Liver the Best Place to Apply a Castor Oil Pack?

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

Many of you ask me where exactly the castor oil pack should be applied. The confusion comes from online suggestions to apply it on your liver (meaning on your right side, just below your ribcage).

Convincing as these suggestions may be, you are not always sure if you should listen to the net or choose a different area of your body for the castor application to maximize the benefits…

Before sharing my opinion, I would like to take a moment to review what all the fuss about castor oil is. Castor oil, a very thick oil derived from the castor (Ricinus communis) seed, has been praised for decades for its numerous benefits. Among them:

Easing various conditions as uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, headaches, migraines, constipation, intestinal disorders, gallbladder/liver conditions…
Improving digestion and elimination of toxic substances
Increasing circulation of blood and lymph and Decreasing inflammation
Enhancing fertility along with liver and immune function
Lubricating ligaments and Decreasing pain
Promoting tissue healing

Even though it’s long and includes many benefits, this list might be leaving out the most beneficial act of the castor oil: Whole-Body Activation by relaxing your nervous system.

The term castor oil pack is a fancy label to application of the oil on the skin, covering with a cotton towel or a flannel cloth and topping with a hot water bottle or a heating pad.

And yes! You can apply your pack on your liver, on your chest, on any sore joint and basically anywhere on your body including your belly button, with one caveat – the understanding that this will provide local lubrication of the treated tissue and nothing beyond! This lubrication will stimulate the applied tissue and encourage it to become engaged in its own healing, which is truly wonderful, and I do it all the time.

BUT…

What if castor oil packs can do more than local engagement? What if they can benefit you more than the described above?

What if Castor oil packs can provide a Whole-Body Activation by relaxing your nervous system, allowing your whole body to heal itself?

What is a Whole-Body Activation by relaxing your nervous system? This is a mechanism where your whole body becomes involved in its own healing, starting from shifting your autonomic nervous system into its parasympathetic deep relaxed state, and following through with a systemic transformation in every cell of your body.

How can you get this benefit?

Simple!!!

This activation will take place when you apply the castor oil pack on your entire belly – in the area from the edge of your ribcage to the pubic hair.

Lubricating and stimulating organs as the small intestine, bladder, colon, liver, uterus, which are part of systems that are inhibited when your body is under stress (when your autonomic nervous system functions at its sympathetic / fight-or-flight state), signals the nervous system to shift to the deep relaxed state – parasympathetic state.

Surprisingly enough, internal processes are very similar to the external world. You can think of the autonomic nervous system as expressing itself in one of two possible responses: War or Peace.

War response relates to the sympathetic state of your autonomic nervous system or the fight-or-flight state. When in war, your body is concerned with only one thing – survival. Every action it takes is meant to keep you standing on your own two feet. Nothing else, regardless to how much your body needs to compromise to accommodate it!! Your body may not even know that something is wrong, simply because it doesn’t have the energetic budget to check what is happening.

Peace response relates to the parasympathetic state of your autonomic nervous system or the rest-and-digest state. When in peace, the energetic budget opens, providing the means to detect and correct what needs your attention.

Bringing your nervous system to the parasympathetic state provides a Whole-Body Activation, which will create the environment for your body to start healing itself, no matter what conditions you are suffering from.

In my personal opinion, a Whole-Body Activation is the most important benefit of the castor oil packs. I have witnessed and experienced so many miraculous healings just from applying the castor packs on the entire belly.

Now sit back and imagine how wonderful it would be to combine it all – apply a castor pack on your belly for a Whole-Body Activation and add as many other castor packs as you wish on any area that needs your attention, for local engagement of the tissue to heal.

If you’d like, you can always follow my instructions or come in for a session to learn and experience how easy and amazing castor oil is….

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Spring Cleaning – New Perceptions

April 8, 2025 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

Spring is here. We can feel the shift in the air even though some days are still too cold. This is the time when many of us actively rid ourselves of what is not serving any longer. Some do so by an internal cleanse to clear body’s elimination channels, others by a physical cleaning of their homes and surroundings. All in order to create more space for something new to come.

This act of elimination is truly a productive action, but what if there are things that would benefit us more if we made an adjustment to the way we perceive them rather than getting rid of them?

Let’s take our fears for example. How many of us would love to get rid of any fear that paralyzes them? Fears that eventually forcing us to make important decisions while in an impaired state of mind, ending up with an outcome that we never wished for? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a way to clear these fears out, allowing you to make a new start without any hesitations? Of course it would! But would it be the most beneficial act for you?

What if changing your perception about your fears – viewing them as mirrors to your situation or as guides implying that a change is needed – would bring a more meaningful aspect into your life? What if turning your fears into your allies would carry more value than clearing them out?

Evolutionally, fear had an important roll – to warn you of a certain danger which requires the need to save yourself from. Back in the days when these dangers were actual threats to life (a bear, a fire…), you would be open to take the advice and make adjustments in order to survive. Evolving into modern life while daily tasks becoming significantly less dangerous, one would expect that the level of fear would subside.

In reality, even though your life mostly is not threatened, your fears never subsided. With that, because your life mostly is not threatened, your willingness to take the advice to make adjustments dissolved in the air.

It doesn’t make much sense, does it?

Succumbing to your fears comes from a deep ingrained thought that bad things will happen if you do not follow the popular/accepted solution. This solution might be great for some but not necessarily for you, and maybe without succumbing to your fears, you might be able to make a decision from a more neutral perspective. Yet, would you be able to trust that an original decision will be beneficial even when it is different than the popular thought?

Before you detach yourself from your fears to enable this trust, we need to establish a basic understanding that your fears have the power to affect you only when you are living in a survival mode. With that said, you might not always be aware that you are in this mode, simply because everyone around you operates the same – a behavior that has been rooted in our society as a normal state. Let me assure you that even though many of us live like that, it is not beneficial to any of us at all! Therefore, if you want to liberate yourself from this survival state you will need to create an environment where your body meets all its survival needs. I wrote long about it in my article The Art of Healing Yourself, with many suggestions.

In short, when this environment is created, your body will shift from a survival mode into a deep relaxed state where your perception completely transforms. It is important to understand that the situation you are dealing with will never change, and you will be facing the same challenges as before, whether your nervous system is relaxed or not. But the way you perceive the situation will be different, allowing you to take a fresh look and productive actions to resolve it.

Whenever you are ready so create this environment, you can start with these three simple steps (feel free to add as many more as you need!!!):

Breathe

First and foremost, stop in our tracks and take a deep breath!!! A shallow breath is not supportive to a relaxed state. A deep breath will convince your brain that “war is over” since there is time now to breath.

There are so many breathing techniques, which you can find all over the internet, and choose what works for you. I personally like the diaphragmatic breathing technique, in which you take long inhales and exhales while activating your diaphragm. I also advise everyone to put notes on mirrors, in cars, in kitchens, with the word “Breathe” so they can take one deep diaphragmatic breath whenever they see a note. It would be awesome if you can take few minutes to take few breaths but always remember that one is more than zero! No need to stress if you can fit only one breath in! Begin with what you can and embrace it!

Wim Hof’s method is also one of my favorites. He has an 11-minute video with his technique which is very meditative and calming.

You can also take a breathing class or a yoga class or singing class or scream your lungs out in the woods. Whatever makes you breathe!!! It doesn’t matter what you do – just breathe!!

Nourish

Nourishing your body will reduce its survival stress worrying for the next meal. When you routinely nourish your body with foods that it can use, your body will learn to trust that this need is fulfilled, and no stress is required for that any longer.

My go-to for nourishment is chicken soup / bone broth or root vegetables soup if you prefer a vegetarian version. This soup should be consumed daily, even few times a day.

Create a slowdown routine

Establishing a routine of slowing down your activities as you get closer to bed time will help prepare your body for a deeper rest. A repetitive routine will help your body to trust that you are serious in your intentions to relax and that regardless to what happened through the day – you will provide your nervous system an anchor to reset later in the evening. Here are few suggestions. Please do not limit yourself to these only:

Drinking a comforting tea in the evening such as Lemon balm, calendula, oat straw, chamomile, a combination of these or any other herb that you like and calms your nervous system down.
Epsom salts baths to relax your muscles.
Self-reflexology especially on your nervous system reflexes.
Reading real books to allow your imagination and creativity to thrive.
Set your cell phone to rest and recharge in a different room or floor if possible.
Castor oil packs to reset your nervous system.

First mission of every spring cleaning is to shine and polish who we are. When you create the environment for your body to deeply relax, you will be able to make the most effective use of the communication your body provides. And while understanding that the situation you are dealing with will never change, you will be able to manifest a new way to perceive your situation, allowing you to take a fresh look and productive actions to resolve it.

Would that be fast and easy? of course not! But you have the whole spring to work on it:)

And guess what – when spring is over, summer will always be moving in!!!!!!

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What If Our Own Words Were Not Empty?

January 21, 2025January 23, 2025 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

How often are we frustrated as we realize words that we have been told came without any foundation behind them? How often are we promised something, only to discover that it has been just a maybe? How often do we offer empty words ourselves?

Empty words come from a place where a commitment is not being honored. Historically, honoring commitments have been highly valued but somehow through the years it lost its prestige and became the first thing to compromise about. As appealing as it may sound to drop a commitment and be free to do everything we want, my own experience led me to believe that this compromise will take a toll on our emotional and mental states which in turn may evolve into a physical health issue.

What if this toll is too heavy for us to carry? Would there be a way for us to stay committed and follow our own values in a world that does not respect any? Since my personal view is that we should never let anyone’s behavior change our owns, I would like to share here my way to honor commitments and values in a world that would not do so.

First, we have to survey the strength of our internal commitments to our own selves before we can learn how to stand by our commitments to others, offering credible words and not just empty ones.

Then, we have to bring to our awareness that a promise we make to ourselves is as equally important as a promise we make to another person. Many times, we tend to regard ourselves as invisible, and then, EVERYTHING becomes more important than our word to ourselves: If we are tired and decide to rest but a friend calls to ask for a favor, we will be rushing to fulfil it as we are still on the phone; or if we made up our minds to stop eating junk food but are invited out for a pizza or ice cream then we quickly drop our intention.

For me, when I do not stand by my own word, I interpret this as being dishonest with myself. Living in a constant habit of being dishonest with myself makes it is impossible for me to change my habits towards others – offering sincere words when I have no idea what this really means.

Dishonesty, whether it comes from a survival need, or has been demonstrated by our surroundings as the only way to behave, creates a conflict within our internal environment which carries a great toll on our bodies. This toll often tends to manifest in a physical way – a rash, an ache, some weight gain, some digestive issues, some auto immune issues or many other deeper issues.

We might not be aware that we are being dishonest to ourselves, especially if this is the way we have been conducting our lives throughout our years. Thus, we might not even know that we are creating an internal conflict. The best test to reveal our honesty is to take a moment to observe our commitment to our own words – simple observation without judgement. If we discover signs of dishonesty to our own selves, maybe it is the time to do something different than we did before. Repeating the same actions will always bring the same results, so why not surprise our brain with a new way of thinking? Keeping these surprises small is the key for their success. Some simple examples are listed below. The examples are endless!! Please do not limit yourself to these only, just use them as a starting point:

Nourishment – committing to eating one nourishing dish every day, regardless to what we eat throughout the day (my go-to would be chicken soup/bone broth).
Sleep – committing to going to sleep five minutes earlier than we usually do every day.
Movement – committing to parking our car one parking spot further than we usually do when we are out.
Energy work – committing to saying one kind thing about us every morning
(my go-to would be: “I am awesome!!”).
Bodywork – committing to laying our hands on our feet for one minute every day. A simple hold! The heat of our hands will draw the blood to our feet and will operate the reflexes.
New experiences – committing to making one cup of herbal tea in the morning or in the evening (my go-to would be Calendula – calendula officinalis).
Breathe – committing to taking one deep breath every day (can put notes in the car or on the mirror as reminders).
Exploring our range of emotions – committing to listening to our body before we make a commitment in order to understand how we feel about that commitment. If we whole heartedly want to engage in a certain activity, then a commitment is definitely in order. But if we don’t really want to do it and feel guilted into it, then it is time to explore our range of emotions and allow our heart to make the decision if to commit.

Can a Castor oil pack on our abdomen assist in this process? No doubt about it!
A castor pack on the abdomen will be a spectacular pathway to our brain, as it has the ability to shift our nervous system into the parasympathetic state, which is the deepest relaxed state of our body. And once we are experiencing the parasympathetic state – our perception of everything we encounter becomes more sincere.

Of course, a castor oil pack is a commitment as well…. 😉

The secret to learn how to commit to ourselves is by making small meaningful and intentional commitments which we won’t need to break. Nothing extravagant! Nothing to show! Just opening a communication line within us in order to build a trust in our own selves. This will make us visible. Once we are visible, we will not be able to ignore our genuine promises to self and slowly begin honoring them.

When a heartfelt commitment comes from a deep intention to follow through, it will not encounter any internal conflict and will never lead us into a thought of breaking that commitment. This will allow our physical issues to settle down and heal. As we heal, we will learn to establish the habit of honoring our own word to our own selves, simply because we love the way a healthy body feels. We will not be able to go back to dishonesty once we discover what it is doing to us. This will lead us to the understanding that our word, whether promised to self or to others, must come from an earnest desire to commit. And when a word comes from a deep honest intention to fulfil it, it will never be empty, no matter to whom it is addressed.