This process allows us to assess where you stand now with your health and your emotions and gives us hints about the best way to help you. The quiz in this chapter will guide you in doing the same thing for yourself. And by the time you finish it, you should have a better idea of where to start on your path to healing.
There are seven sections, each with questions covering both physical health problems and lifestyle habits. Answer yes or no to each of the questions. At the end of the quiz, there is a scoring guide to help you evaluate your current emotional and physical health.
Section 1
Body Health Questions:
1. Do you have arthritis?
2. Do you have spinal problems, disk disease, or scoliosis?
3. Do you have osteoporosis?
4. Are you prone to accidents, muscle spasms, or chronic pain?
5. Do you have anemia, bleeding disorders, or a tendency toward viruses or fatigue?
6. Do you have psoriasis, eczema, acne, or other skin disorders?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. Do you tend to give more than you receive?
2. Do you have trouble feeling loved by an independent person?
3. When you see someone in pain, do you feel that you have to rescue them?
4. Are you not good with group politics, or do you lack social savvy?
5. Were you bullied growing up?
6. Are you bullied in your current life?
7. Does your health tend to suffer during changes in seasons?
8. Does change make you nervous?
9. Is the boundary between your moods and someone else’s too easily penetrated?
10. Were or are you the black sheep of the family?
11. Are you the person everyone automatically goes to when they have a problem?
12. Do you tend to burn bridges in relationships after arguments?
Section 2
Body Health Questions:
1. Do you have health concerns associated with your female reproductive organs—your uterus or ovaries, for example?
2. Do you have vaginitis or other vagina problems?
3. Do you have problems with your male reproductive organs: prostate, testicles, or others?
4. Do you experience impotence or problems with sexual desire?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. If you lend money to a loved one, do you have a hard time charging interest?
2. Do you usually go into debt during the holidays?
3. Do you thrive on competition, or do people tend to say you are just a little too competitive?
4. Have you ever broken up a relationship over a career choice?
5. Do you have a lifelong pattern of being overeducated and underemployed?
Section 3
Body Health Questions:
1. Do you have digestion problems, such as a peptic ulcer?
2. Do you have problems with addiction?
3. Are you overweight?
4. Do you have anorexia or bulimia?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. Do you think it’s vain to have a facial?
2. Do you tend to attract people who have trouble with addiction?
3. Do you know exactly how much fat there is in your love handle and hip region?
4. Do you have compulsive habits—shopping or eating, for example—that you use to calm your nerves?
5. Is your personal style—your fashion, mannerisms, and even your way of speaking—behind the times?
Section 4
Body Health Questions:
1. Do you have problems with your arteries or blood vessels?
2. Do you have arteriosclerosis?
3. Do you have hypertension?
4. Do you have high cholesterol?
5. Have you had a heart attack?
6. Do you have asthma?
7. Do you have any breast disorders?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. Do people often tell you how you are feeling?
2. Have you been told that you are too sensitive?
3. Are your moods sensitive to weather and season changes?
4. Have you cried at work?
5. Do you cry easily?
6. Is it hard for you to get angry at a loved one?
7. Do you have a short fuse?
8. Do you stay home or away from people because you feel overwhelmed by emotion?
Section 5
Body Health Questions:
1. Do you have jaw problems?
2. Do you have thyroid problems?
3. Do you have neck problems?
4. Do you often get a sore throat?
5. Do you have other throat problems?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. Did you have trouble following directions when you were young?
2. Do you have trouble following directions now?
3. Is it hard for you to concentrate on cell phones or a speakerphone call?
4. Do you tend to have long arguments or
misunderstandings with friends or loved ones over e-mail?
5. Do you say yes simply to end an argument?
6. Do you have dyslexia or problems with stuttering, learning languages, or public speaking?
7. Do you communicate better with animals than people?
8. Do people often turn to you to fight their battles for them?
Section 6
Body Health Questions:
1. Do you have problems with insomnia?
2. Do you get migraine headaches?
3. Are you worried about getting or looking older?
4. Do you have Alzheimer’s disease?
5. Have you had cataracts?
6. Do you experience dizziness?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. Do you have trouble keeping within the word limits on essay tests?
2. Do you have problems with multiple-choice tests?
3. Is your mind always in the clouds?
4. Do you drag your feet when it comes to learning new technology?
5. Have you ever experienced serious trauma or abuse?
6. Can you feel “spirit” when you’re in nature?
Section 7
Body Health Questions:
1. Are you experiencing a chronic illness?
2. Have you been diagnosed with an incurable disease?
3. Do you have cancer?
4. Is your health so bad that you are on the verge of death?
Lifestyle Questions:
1. Do you have a driven, indomitable spirit?
2. Are you always working—never taking a sick day?
3. Are you lost as to what your true life’s purpose is?
4. Do you tend to have one life or health crisis after another?
5. Do most of your friends and family seem to be moving away or leaving you in other ways?
Scoring
To score the quiz, simply count the number of yeses in each section.
Section 1
We Are Family—The First Emotional Center: Bones, Joints, Blood, Immune System, and Skin
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 6 questions: You are truly at home in the world, and your healthy bones, joints, blood, and immune system reflect this. Your health challenges are likely to be in other areas.
• 7 to 11 questions: You have occasional family problems, and that twinge of joint pain, the frustration of skin problems, or the discomfort of immune system issues will let you know. So make sure to tune in and try to get these things under control before they grow into something much worse.
• 12 to 18 questions: Brace yourself! It’s time to reevaluate how to get family or other group support. You need to focus on the health of the first emotional center right away by working to create a more secure life.
Section 2
It Takes Two—The Second Emotional Center: Bladder, Reproductive Organs, Lower Back, and Hips
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 2 questions: You are truly a powerhouse in your capacity to financially and romantically negotiate your way through life. With your ability to balance love and money, your health challenges are more likely to come from other body regions.
• 3 to 5 questions: You have average ups and downs with love and finances. However, that occasional hormonal mood swing or lower-back pain may indicate that you need to look for an unstable relationship or financial issue somewhere. Just remember to keep vigilant in your efforts.
• 6 to 9 questions: Your life has been a struggle over how to handle both financial independence and intimate relationships. Your health challenges with lower-back and hip pain or hormonal, reproductive, or bladder problems are likely to help give you intuitive warnings that you need to find a better way to balance money and love.
Section 3
A New Attitude—The Third Emotional Center: Digestive System, Weight, Adrenal Glands, Pancreas, and Addiction
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 2 questions: You have an innate sense that you are lovable and can focus on your own needs, yet you have enough discipline and responsibility to handle a job and meet your responsibilities to others. Take a bow. This is rare. With your capacity to balance your own identity, your challenges are more likely to come from other body regions.
• 3 to 5 questions: Your occasional struggles with work and your self-esteem are likely to materialize in only occasional problems of indigestion, constipation, bowel irregularity, or weight concerns. So keep an eye out for any growing imbalances in these areas.
• 6 to 9 questions: You know you have self-esteem issues. Your lifelong struggle to feel empowered by a career and to simultaneously love yourself is likely to have resulted in illness of your digestive tract and kidneys or in issues with weight or addiction.
Section 4
Sweet Emotion—The Fourth Emotional Center: Heart, Lungs, and Breasts
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 4 questions: You are one of those rare individuals who can take care of a child, an aging parent, or anyone for that matter and still manage to keep your wits about you. You were born with a strong mental and emotional constitution. Good for you.
• 5 to 10 questions: Your heart, respiratory, or breast problems might signal sadness, anxiety, or frustration with a child or partner, but you won’t be sidetracked for long. You have resilience, and somehow you know how to bounce back!
• 11 to 15 questions: Watch out! Your lifelong struggle managing your emotions in your relationships can make life seem like a soap opera or bad reality show. Sometimes you may want to run away and live in a monastery just to get away from it all. But your health is within reach.
Section 5
Something to Talk About—The Fifth Emotional Center: Mouth, Neck, and Thyroid
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 4 questions: Congratulations on your impressive communication skills. You know how to express your own needs and listen to the point of view of those around you. You know yourself and how to be strong and empathetic at the same time. Good for you.
• 5 to 8 questions: You have only the occasional disagreement with friends, children, parents, co-workers, or your partner. And even though you lock horns, your conflict doesn’t last long and neither do the health problems that tend to develop in your neck, thyroid, jaw, or mouth. When a communication style isn’t working, you will temporarily get neck or jaw tightness or dental problems that will quickly help you reevaluate a better way to communicate.
• 9 to 13 questions: You probably don’t need to hear this from us, but you have had a lifelong struggle to feel heard and understood by others. You’ve also had problems listening to those around you. It’s important that you learn to communicate while being aware of all sides of a situation—peacefully having a voice and simultaneously hearing.
Section 6
Suddenly I See—The Sixth Emotional Center: Brain, Eyes, and Ears
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 3 questions: How do you do it? You are one of those rare individuals who was born with a stable mind-set and doesn’t tend to struggle with the unknown. Call it faith. Or call it traveling through life on autopilot. It doesn’t matter. You’ve learned not to struggle, and you gracefully adapt to the changes in life. Your health problems are probably not to be found in the brain, eyes, and ears.
• 4 to 8 questions: You have only the occasional problem struggling with pessimism and narrow-mindedness about the future. However, an inner voice eventually tells you that your mind is not your friend. And the headache, dry eyes, or bout of dizziness that occurs when you are in a pessimistic funk will soon get your attention and force you to look at your world with a healthier perspective.
• 9 to 12 questions: Take a deep breath. The cause of your problems is your lifelong struggle to clearly see and hear the world as it really is. You need to widen your scope of perception, making your mind-set more adaptive and flexible. By being open to how life flows, and releasing your expectations about how you think life should be, you can create better health in your brain, eyes, and ears.
Section 7
Changes—The Seventh Emotional Center: Chronic and Degenerative Disorders and Life-Threatening Illnesses
If you answered yes to:
• 0 to 2 questions: You are at a stable point in life. You’ve watched other people suffer health disasters but you’ve remained healthy. Congratulations, and keep it up.
• 3 to 5 questions: You have only the occasional medical issue. Your faith may have been tested on those few times when you got the painful medical results back from the doctor. Since you’ve had these experiences before, keep an eye out for anything your body may be trying to tell you before it gets to the point of dealing with these dramatic situations again.
• 6 to 9 questions: Don’t worry; you have company. You’ve known for a while that you need help. You meditate, pray, and have an array of medical support people to help guide you through the crises. However, you are worn down. To have a better life, you need to examine how to change and grow in partnership with Divine spirit.
ALL IS WELL
MONA LISA SCHULZ & LOUISE L. HAY
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