What is SHIELD? Everyone needs a spiritual "shield" to help them quickly shift out of the Fear Response and stay in joy and love more often. The SHIELD is both a calming visualization as well as a mnemonic device for remembering these simple steps to the Love Response. When stressors come into your life, use your SHIELD to combat your Fear Response and replace it with the Love Response.
S Slow down and visualize a shield of loving, healing white light.
H Honor your feelings, experiences, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors without judgment. Just observe your feelings as if you were a silent witness. Remember that they are pointing you to hidden wounds.
I Inhale.
E and don't forget to Exhale. This will deactivate the Fear Response and shift your physiology, so that you can become quiet enough to understand the root cause of your Fear Response.
L Listen to your thoughts, emotions, and sensations in your body as you ask the Big Four Questions:
>> Why am I reacting this way?
>> What wound from my past is this current situation reopening?
>> Why do I feel bad in this situation?
>> In what way is this situation reminding me that I am not enough or do not have enough?
Listen to the answers and what your unconscious mind is trying to tell you.
D Decide to heal yourself and change your physiology. Use Positive Verbal Commands to override your negative beliefs and substitute your Active Belief system in its place.
About Love Response:
Fear, anger, and anxiety-the side effects of life's everyday stresses-are natural and sometimes helpful, but when they go on for too long they can lead to a list of debilitating ailments that are now so common we assume they are unavoidable: insomnia, heart disease, arthritis, gastrointestinal problems, and more. THE LOVE RESPONSE: Your Prescription to Turn Off Fear, Anger, and Anxiety to Achieve Vibrant Health and Transform Your Life by Dr. Eva Selhub with Divina Infusion gives us the first practical program that provides the framework, tools and techniques to rid your body of the ravaging effects of these stressors, overcome hurtful past life events, and shape an empowered personal future.
THE LOVE RESPONSE is a medically grounded book that shows us how to change our body's physiology quickly and lastingly through the deliberate evocation of a series of biochemical reactions in the body that lower blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and adrenaline levels, counteract the unhealthy effects of fear and stress and allow us to experience the myriad health benefits of nature's own antidote: love and affection. Moving beyond the hopeful advice of Positive Psychology, Dr. Selhub's groundbreaking work shows us how to actually change the body's chemical responses in times of stress, neutralizing adrenaline, cortisol and other detrimental substances in the blood, a revolutionary concept she calls Positive Physiology. She also helps us to reprogram our innate responses to everyday challenges by guiding us through a 3-tiered plan to evoke Positive Physiology through THE LOVE RESPONSE in all areas of our lives:
- Social love - not only intimate relationships but also family, friends, and pets
- Self-love - treating yourself with care and tenderness, often the hardest step
- Spiritual love - contributing to the world beyond your personal needs
THE LOVE RESPONSE provides all the techniques you need to transform anger into compassion, release your fears, overcome shame, embrace self-acceptance, connect through empathy, and, ultimately, strengthen your natural ability to heal-keeping your body and mind in a state of flow and resilience, and promoting life-long health.
About the Author:
Eva M. Selhub, M.D., is the senior staff physician at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. An integrative health specialist and the founder of Alight Medicine for Learning and Healing in Newton Massachusetts, she is also a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Selhub has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and has trained healthcare professionals from all over the world. She has been published in medical journals and featured in national publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Self, Shape, Fitness, and Journal of Woman's Health, and has appeared on radio and television in connection with her work. She lives in Boston.
>> For more information about Dr. Selhub and her work, visit www.loveresponse.com
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