18/10/2025
Are You Content with Your Lot?
It has been wisely said,
‘Contentment is Greater than a Kingdom’.
What is ‘Contentment’?
To me, ‘Feeling Whole and Happy with Who I am, where I am and the direction I am going!’
Recently I penned a post about the importance of keeping fit and I take nothing away from this however, I’ve had a quiet inner voice ‘nudging me’ to ‘write more’.
Physical fitness is an important part of our well being however, it is not the most important!
In my clinical practice I constantly see patients with various health issues and yes, getting fit would be helpful but this is most often not the key to their lasting recovery, revitalisation and quality of life rejuvenation. There is another wise saying I appreciate:
‘You can lose all your money and you have lost a lot.
You can lose your health and you have lost much more.
Bu if you lose your peace of mind, You have lost Everything!’
Yes this is very true and I must be honest, many of the individuals I give consultations to are suffering from ‘Lack of Peace of Mind’. Put another way,
‘Lack of peace of mind is a driving cause behind their disease conditions’.
An unsettled, ‘disturbed’ mind can affect the entire life of the person. Their physical body, attitude and mindset, relationships, work, what they perceive to be reality, everything! Indeed, the verse in the Proverbs comes to mind,
‘A broken Spirit dries the bones’.
Medicines including well formulated herbals and supplements can ‘dull the emotional disturbances for a time, but these are not cures. One of the greatest remedies for re-igniting and fanning a positively charged spark of the Human Spirit is described well in the beautiful words of Dr. Edward Bach:
“There is no true healing without a change in outlook,
peace of mind and inner happiness.”
To keep it simple, let’s think of ‘lack of peace of mind’ as anything that causes you to ‘feel down emotionally’. This is a wave of negative ‘energy in motion’(emotion) radiating throughout your entire body. Negative emotion is any thoughts or feelings that disturb you, lower and bring down your healthy vibration and expression of life.
Constant feelings of negative emotion such as resentment, hate, jealousy, anger, being overwhelmed, ‘something is wrong’, failure and regret, melancholy, anything that causes a constant background sense of being unsettled, disturbed, dis-eased or unhappy.
The most common and disruptive mindsets and emotions I see are:
Fear and Worry particularly fear of the unknown. A constant fear/worry they have a serious disease developing that may not even exist.
When a person has a problem or situation they are not dealing with. This destructive thought pattern can cause all sorts of physical symptoms and reinforce mental distress and illusions.
Other emotional roots of disease include:
Prolonged sadness or suppressed self-expression
Relationship breakdowns in general with partners, children, family and friends.
Prolonged lack of peace, love and respect in a relationship is a very real cause of dis-ease, lowered vitality and chronic illness.
Prolonged grieving, ‘being brokenhearted’.
A prolonged sense of guilt.
Prolonged Un-forgiveness and ‘blaming’ particularly parents, ex-partners, children, family members, someone!
Please notice I use the word ‘prolonged’. Short bursts of negative emotional reactions are not healthy for the body however:
All long-term held negative thoughts, feelings and emotions have a devastating effect upon the wellness and functional integrity of the human frame, mind and psyche.
Continuous negative energy in motion poisons the blood.
It adversely affects the functionality of the brain and entire body. Feeling emotionally down is a moving, radiating vibration, a ‘disturbance in the force’ so to speak. A disruption to the body’s Vital Force known in Naturopathic language as ‘Vis Medicatrix Naturae’, Latin for ‘The healing power of nature’. This is the harmonious flow of intellectual energy creating and maintaining the body’s all important ‘homeostasis’ which is simply ‘balance and harmony of function’ within the cells, tissues, organs and systems of the body.
Negative emotion is confusing, disruptive and can be corrosive to the loving community of cells that make up our body. ‘There is an intellect on all levels within the body. All the cells are living, breathing, listening and ‘responding’ to the messages being transmitted from the brain.
I give more counselling these days than ever before. Not because people are more negative (although this is seen be true in some groups and cohorts) but because my experience has given me an insight into when dis-ease is coming from negative emotion. Throughout my career I have genuinely sort to understand the universal Law of ‘Cause and Effect’ in relation to health and disease. How and why things happen the way they do as there are no coincidences in nature and the universe. Everything is happening as a direct result of a cause. Through feeling my way during a consultation, underlying causative factors directly contributing to chronic disease are usually identified so long as the patient is being totally open and honest.
This is how my ‘Psycho Regulation Massage’ evolved and why it has been very helpful.
Developing a dialog while distracting the person’s attention to areas of the body that are holding ‘suppressed emotion’, together we are able to Identify and deal with causative factors that have really been sabotaging the patients health and happiness often for years!
If you are not happy with your Lot, Find out why. Identify and deal with it!
Let go of negative emotion! Anything that is getting you down!
If nothing changes, nothing changes! Turning points and breakthroughs often require courage and change. ‘Courage is the ability to see things as they are.’ If you need help, I’m here.
I like this prayer very much:
‘O God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.’
Life Is - What we choose to make it!
‘I’d rather live one day as a lion (being true to myself) than 100 years as a sheep!’ What about you?
While here, make the most of this wonderful journey called ‘life.’ Make it one of Self discovery, happiness and that golden word ‘Contentment’!
Do some Soul Landscaping within your Lot. Shape it to be ‘Your Happy Place’ and Enjoy it while you can!
‘Enjoy it while you can’? In this physical ‘relative’ universe in which we live, everything is in a constant state of movement and change. Movement in space creates ‘time’ and this is for a very good reason. It stops everything happening at once and this provides a workable component for us to use. Time is opportunity. Be awake, be aware and importantly, be flexible. See the Big picture and Find your Peace and Be at Peace in it. See the changes coming and prepare for them without haste or worry. But this is another post altogether!
Finally, Slow down a little. Don’t worry, don’t hurry and take time to smell the flowers!
Be thankful for ‘Your Lot!’ Who you are and what you have. This is a great place to start!
Love and Light to you,
Dr. Peter
‘Contentment really is - Greater than a Kingdom’.
