Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.
Special Guest: Debra Meehl D.D. (http://www.meehlfoundation.org/)
In this episode of “Healing From Within” your host Sheryl Glick author of
The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love is delighted to
welcome Debra Meehl D.D. author of Joyful Transformation which integrates
the principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with the tenets of
the New Thought Movement to guide readers through the 22 key areas of life
transformation.
Listeners of Healing from Within well-know Sheryl and her guests share
intimate experiences with various dimensions of life energy or Universal
Source to create an environment for self-investigation and self-mastery of
emotions in order to improve health, relationships, and a better alliance
with both spiritual and physical life concerns and to truly value life in
all its complexities.
In today’s episode Debra Meehl who is an interdenominational pastoral
counselor, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills trainer and a Board
Certified Hypnotist is also the founder of the Meehl Foundation a non-
profit residential treatment center in Texas. Debra speaks at national
conferences on the topic of Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality
Disorder with substance abuse. We will discuss finding life’s purpose
defeating debilitating irrational beliefs and negative self-talk and
discover as well as recognize and cope with triggers that derail progress
toward authentic change.
Debra shares the challenges of losing her mother at the age of two and
being raised by grandparents in rather less than optimal conditions yet
suggests that those challenges helped her greatly to trust in her own
intuitiveness and to develop great compassion for others. Sheryl suggests
to us that as nothing in our life plan has been left to chance or luck we
are experiencing a divine path to awakening and remembering our inner soul
being not matter what the outside world looks like.
Debra tells us that Joyful Transformation is a psycho spiritual self-help
guide and tells us what does psycho spiritual means and how does it
applies to transformation. Exploring the words Awareness and Mindfulness
show us how we begin to open up to change and recognizing our own part in
any dysfunctional behavior. She shares that “Awareness is an understanding
of a situation or subject at the present time, based on information or
experience.” I think a more concise definition, for our purposes, would
be: “understanding of a situation at the present time based on
experience.” If we accept this definition, we see then that awareness is
the outward expression of mindfulness. If mindfulness is the ability to
watch your thoughts, awareness a conscious understanding of your reaction
to your thoughts and what is happening to and around you as a result.
Mindfulness is centered on what is happening in you, while awareness is
concerned with what’s happening to you. It’s the difference between what
you experience and what you do with that experience, then my self-talk. Do
I blame others, do I blame god, do I blame myself, my stars, or my birth
order? So, why is this important? Well, in any environment you simply
cannot afford to go through each day blissfully unaware.
Our thoughts and beliefs = our feelings and emotions = our actions and
reactions.
“This is one of those statements that I had to repeat over and over again
in order to ‘get it.’ Part of being aware of our mind, body, and soul is
to become aware of our thoughts and beliefs. Thoughts cause emotions, and
emotions drive us to action. This is the pattern or our human experience,
but your personal experience has a pattern as well. …And being able to
recognize and alter those patterns is precisely why mindfulness and
awareness are so important. By looking for patterns in ourselves, we can
begin to be even more mindful of our lives. Pay close attention to changes
in your mood, demeanor, and body language.
