by Megan Otto for Kim Knight Health

From the moment we are born the body has an intelligence system designed to look after us.

‘Hey you up there!  See that rash, growth, sneeze? It’s a message from your body. Are you listening?!’ Kim Knight, health and personal development coach explains symptoms are intelligent communication from the body to the head. “We are brought up in our society to think the head is king but actually the gut activates before the...

We continue on our journey of what is needed if you wish to reverse symptoms of illness:

1. A willingness to let go of attachment to one’s diagnosis or condition ‘label’, and instead understand it's just a word created to describe a group of symptoms.

2. Find the right therapist to help guide in the right direction, and preferably one who has walked the path themselves.

3. Understand that it is a mix of both the right therapist and right therapy which will allows you to feel...

Continuing on from the first 10 tips, here are 10 more...

1. Do you have a willingness to get out of the thinking head and into the feeling body to allow emotional energy to move, clear and transform?
   
   
2. Do you understand your natural state is health, and if you are not experiencing this, it's a sign you have gone off track, and need to get back on track?
   
   
3. Do you have a willingness to explore where you have not gone before?
   
   
4. Do you understand there are certain ‘laws of health’...

If you are still looking for answers to heal from chronic illness, you might want to check if you are ticking all these boxes…

1. Do you have a true understanding from a holistic mind-body perspective of what really creates illness?
   
   
2. Do you understand that no matter the physical symptom or condition, there is almost always an emotional and mental cause, even when the head thinks there isn’t or can't see it… yet.
   
   
3. Do you know that physical symptoms can often not...

What I am about to share took me years to learn: about 25 years to be precise!

Because it was such a long journey, one could say the ‘long’ route up the mountain, and it took me a long time to work out the short cut to the top, this is what I’d love to share with you, so that you can speed up your recovery a hundred-fold.

Lessons in Hindsight

If someone had come to me 25 years ago when I was struggling to overcome depression, adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue and a...

"A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure". -Brianna Wiest

The Secrets to Health

In 30 years of exploring the secrets to health, there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that SELF CARE is one of the top 3 behaviours we MUST engage in if we are looking to:

• reverse symptoms of illness
• ...

MCT Series - part 3 - Fear

In order to know how to manage and clear (get rid of) negative emotions, we need to understand several things including:

• What exactly are feelings (ie, what do they feel like and where are they located in your body?)
• What are the causes of the emotion (including the 'surface' and 'root' causes)
• What are the harmful consequences of emotions (so you have an impetus for wanting to stop experiencing them)
• The important...

MCT Series - part 2 - Grief

In order to know how to manage and clear (get rid of) negative emotions, we need to understand several things including:

• What exactly are feelings (ie, what do they feel like and where are they located in your body?)
• What are the causes of the emotion (including the 'surface' and 'root' causes)
• What are the harmful consequences of emotions (so you have an impetus for wanting to stop experiencing them)
• The important...

MCT Series - part 1 - Anger

In order to know how to manage and clear (get rid of) negative emotions, we need to understand several things including:

• What exactly is this feeling (ie, what does it feel like and where do you feel it in your body?)
• What are the causes of the anger (including the 'surface' and 'root' causes)
• What are the harmful consequences of this emotion (so you have an impetus for wanting to stop experiencing it)
• The intelligent role emotions play in safe-guarding...