The Hobbit's Tool Box

Have you ever read a blog post that "DING" made a light bulb go on and you just want everyone to look at this cool thing you found?

@MysticalHobbit, my twitter-friend, intuitive healer and oracle card reader wrote a article (inspired in turn by the 'sistersimpson' blog) about how we all have a toolbox, but sometimes forget to use the tools in them. She was applying the toolbox concept to another topic, but it certainly fits with Holistic Health and stress management too.

 All too often, people get all pitchforks and torches over their favorite kind of health care. Anything that isn't mainstream medicine is all quacks and snake oil...or on the other side, anything that is mainstream medicine will nigh on kill you. I don't see it as being so black and white. I see it as two different tools in the healer's toolkit. There are things that need every bell and whistle that modern medicine has at its disposal: trauma or cardiovascular emergency for example. Other things need the holistic approach, such as stress reduction and healthy lifestyles. A majority of health issues bridge the gap and benefit from a thoughtful integration of both mainstream and holistic techniques. Each is a tool in the healer's toolkit, each with a lot of moving parts...labs, x-rays, surgery, Reiki, acupuncture, Ayurveda, pills, and herbs...all have their place and value, when used with a little common sense.

When it comes to dealing with stress...or just dealing with life as a human being on planet Earth...the tool box analogy applies too. Everyone perceives and tolerates stress (both physical and psychological) a little differently. We all come into the world with different toolkits. But that doesn't mean the tools are glued inside. We can add new tools, get rid of broken ones - or dig out the fantastic but forgotten ones. But having a big shiny well-stocked tool box isn't going to help a thing if you don't use it. @MysticalHobbit gets right to the core of it when she asked "What toolbox do you have and what's in it?" Healers, counselors and card readers...we have a whole hardware store of coping and healing tools for you to use, but if you don't look in your toolbox to see what is there, and see what is needed, there isn't as much that we can do to help.

 Look at in terms of Dharma Drum Mountain's Four Steps for Dealing With a Problem:
 
face it
accept it
deal with it
let go of it

 Tool kits are step 3... you use your toolkit to deal with a problem. Before you can do that, you have to know that you need to reach for your coping tool box in the first place. First, face it...admit the problem exists. Second accept it...not roll over and acquiesce to it...but understand the problem for what it is.After you've looked the problem in the eye for what it is - no denial, no minimizing - then you can reach into your tool box and fix it.

 That is where healers and intutives can help. If you don't have the right tools for the job...come see us. That's where we energy healers, card readers, holistic consultants, and so on - are at our best. We can help understand a problem and help you stock your toolkit for coping with stress.

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