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I’m supposed to be 14 days into Lissa Rankin’s 40 Day Whole Health Challenge. But I had a revelation this week. Why does this have to be a 40 Day challenge?

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The entire challenge is digital and pre-recorded. While Lissa will only send daily emails for 40 days, I’ll have access to the content well beyond that. So, I asked myself, why don’t I just do this challenge at my own pace? For some, this revelation might seem super obvious. But for me, it wasn’t. I’m so used to be a Rule Follower that I never feel comfortable bending the rules.

But to take this challenge seriously and spend adequate time with the content, I need more than 40 days. We’re covering a lot of content that I find really compelling, and I want to give it the time and attention it deserves.

My 40 Day Challenge will probably be more like an 80 Day Challenge, and I’m ok with that. This week, instead of moving to Step 2, I am re-dedicating myself to Step 1: Believing that healing is possible. Part of my homework is to come up with a mantra that reaffirms this belief. Lisa gave us this mantra as an example: “I am whole, healthy, and free of symptoms.”

And, as she told us, saying it once a day isn’t going to do it.

So I’m going to spend some time meditating on my mantra, hopefully landing on one that is uplifting, inspirational, and a joy to repeat many, many, many times a day.

2020 is my year of non-striving: doing less, being more. But I am still very easily pulled into my default striving mode, especially when I get excited about a topic, I read about some successful woman and feel like that’s who I “should” be … or it’s really late at night, and I somehow find myself on the 40daywholehealthchallenge.com webpage and then bam! I’ve suddenly signed myself up for Lissa Rankin’s 40 Day Whole Health Challenge.

Oh, and, by the way, the challenge starts the next day cause it’s an online class, and I didn’t read all the details before I jumped right in. I guess there’s no time like the present! So, here I am! I am six days into the 40 Day Whole Health Challenge!

But signing up for this class didn’t come entirely out of nowhere.

Last year, I read Lissa Rankin’s book, Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself. Having already read Dr. Joe Dispenza’s books, You Are the Placebo and Becoming Supernatural, a lot of the ideas that Lissa presents in her book were familiar to me. Both Dr. Joe and Lissa talk about the idea that the body can often heal itself and how we can use the power of our minds to heal ourselves.

I’m excited, nervous, and curious for this class. I am super happy to be exploring The Woo in a structured environment.

I like having teachers, and steps to follow, and a path laid clear for me – helping me understand how I’ll get from point A to point B.
I like that during the class, Lissa will walk us through her 6 steps of healing.
And since I paid for the course, I know I’ll take it seriously and dedicate time to understanding and exploring the content.

The thing is that, as I explore The Woo, I oscillate between believing 100% that I can cure myself … to believing this is all crazy and I’m being taken for a ride. Is my mind really that powerful? Can I really believe my way to better health? Can my mind heal what western medicine cannot?

I honestly don’t know. But what I like about Dr. Joe and Lissa Rankin is that they come at these questions from a scientific research and medical background. They are using that knowledge to explore how the mind can make the body sick — and how the mind can make the body well.

I have no idea what I’ll get out of this 40-day challenge. Right now, the biggest goal I have is pursuing Step 1 of this 6 step journey: Believing that healing is possible.

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