'Medication to Meditation' - Avital Miller, Author, Healing Happens
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Avital Miller, the author of the best-selling book, Healing Happens, inspires people to experience boundless energy, absolute happiness, and true success in order to live the best life possible.
She draws her wisdom from being a program manager at Microsoft, entrepreneur, yoga and fitness director, and living in a spiritual yoga community. She is an award-winning international keynote speaker, healing breakthrough facilitator, and a global dancer.
Today at Women's Economic Forum in Delhi, she shared her journey with BW BusinessWorld.
“Years ago I fell ill and got an autoimmune disorder but I decided to take life into my hands. At the time I was a Yoga instructor. I still decided to show up. Despite all odds, I was known as an energiser bunny. I learned a lot after I fell ill and am still learning,” Avital shared.
She got into meditation, did extensive research and slowly started tapering off her medication, what Avital describes as her journey from “medication to meditation”.
Along the way, she met many people who too were looking for remedies.
“I realised that if so many are overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges, the world needs to know what I have learned. I wanted to know what other people did for success in healing. I realised that whatever helped me as a program manager at Microsoft as a leader were very similar to what I needed in my personal relationships and for my health. Success strategies in one area are the same as in other areas both for personal and professional.”
At which point she became Inspired to write.
“I recognized that more people want to know if so many people are healing beyond the doctors prognosis. The healing that I went through lead to talk of a book and that is where Healing Happens came to life. So I started writing and compiling this book. I engaged with 18 health and healing experts of all different types east and west mediines sharing what they did to heal others or them selves. People can do sound therapy, tweak their diet, physical therapy, affirmations, meditation and shift mindset. Essentially gain more awareness that they have a choice,” she says.
What is key according to her is to get inspiration from the stories and to learn actual techniques so they can heal themselves.
I want people to see a bigger picture an open their minds to more possibilities. With which the question will emerge is that if an average person can do what can I do, why cant I heal myself?” she stresses.
She emphasizes the importance of not working against ones self in their healing or business, but with ones self.
“If we think something is wrong and hate it we are stressing on the negatives. If we put love, that’s harmonious with healing. If we focus on the disease at work and life we get more. If we focus on our reason to live everything in our life becomes more empowered and magnetic.”
Avital believes that it is important to let people be who they are and love them as they are and encourages people to work with love.
3 ways to work with love:
“Love exists always no matter what. You have to consciously tune into it. Where you are going to be in the cycle of it is determined by you. We are all connected, everyone is part of that whole. Love people until they learn to love themselves. Love even when someone is cutting you off. Love them when they don’t love you. Unconditionally love, don’t take abuse, send them love all the same,” is what she suggests.
The opposite of the state of love is fear, contraction or withdrawing.
“When we stay present as leaders at home and at work, we keep giving. When we get fearful of peoples response and we step back there is no giving. When you contract and withdraw you are not loving either. So establish your reason for living. When we love we are living our purpose. When we withdraw we are often forgetting our reason to live and often gives people health issues. “
Through Healing Happens, Avital expounds on success strategies. Key of which are:
-Focus on your reason to live
-Don’t listen to everything you hear
-Do what you can do-active participants we make a huge impact
-Ask what is the gift and look beyond roadblocks
Along the way “Healing Happens”.
