If you’re thinking how tired you are because you feel sick with an illness that won’t go away, you may want to come up with the Ultimate Prayer for Christmas. After all, Santa is watching all good girls and boys. Surely God has us in His sight, too.

Go to Him with any request, distress or need. If you’re really ill with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or other long term, distressing, life-changing, hard-to-live-with problems, such as autoimmune illnesses, then praying the ultimate prayer for Christmas could be the best thing you ever do. Please look deeply at this now to see what doing so might offer you in the coming months and years ahead.

A little history first. The followers of this Health Matters Show blog and podcast recently completed prayers that began as days one through seven. (If you missed any of them, just go backwards from this date and take your time catching up. They are all in sequence from December 20, 2013 back.) Each reader had the opportunity to learn new things about “how” to pray, “what” to say and, hopefully, begin to see changes manifest in the body, mind and spirit. *FACT: Each of us is composed of all of these three parts equally, so it’s important to address them individually when we pray.*

As you and I approach Our Heavenly Father in prayer, we begin this sacred time with an attitude of respect and awe. We praise Him for all that He is doing and will do in our lives. We recount our blessings.

In the past, you may have struggled with the language of praise, especially on those days when you felt at your worst. Know that God doesn’t expect you to say things that are not in your heart. If you’re struggling to hang on, He is there with you. The Holy Spirit offers comfort and His strong presence to lean on. He bolsters you during the good times and bad, on the days when Fibromyalgia leaves you aching and sore, on the days when Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sucks out your energy to such an extent that even your brain cannot function! An surely there are a lot of autoimmune illnesses with their own special twist on agony, too. He is the answer to them all.

It is precisely during such bad times that you and I are the most emotionally vulnerable. We have an aching need to draw close to our almighty and powerful God, the one source in our lives who is capable of healing us. In our weakness, it is possible to be strong because… He is there. The hope of a healthier tomorrow manifests because of His promises.

So, let’s get started on the next step of this important “prayer process”. On this day and the days ahead, take the time to write down…

All the transgressions ever done TO YOU. This may seem too tedious, but this process will be well worth the results you get. *If you’re not keeping daily records yet, I encourage you to keep a private notebook of at least this data. It is just for you. Once you write down this information, you’ll find yourself referring to the contents time and again.

Dear One, When we human beings are injured physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually, the inner record of such a misdeed becomes a permanent record within us….UNLESS you can find a way to deal with it and REMOVE it! The record of damage affects your psyche, thus creating more damage and dysfunctionality. Think of your life as the old 45 records that played on a turntable. A scratched (*trauma) record has the potential to play over and over on again in such a distorted manner. AND it will each time it is triggered by old sounds, a familiar smell, a certain kind of touch or a linked memory. Each time this happens, the damage from the trauma is recreated within you! This is bad.

We perceive triggers through our five senses or when we recall old memories.

When something or someone truly affects you enough to cause you harm, that emotional memory gets set up to play like a record within you and it can occur when triggered at any time and often over and over again. Think of how this process might work for people suffering with PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Such an example may help to make this make more sense to you because if your old trauma is severe enough, you may functioning exactly like someone suffering with this illness. Wartime men and women suffering from PTSD are returning home from the battlefields everyday now. Their minds are bombarded with thousands of memories that can put them back in the thick of action within a split second. When that happens, the trauma recorded way back when the event took place is suddenly re-created. They relive the horror again. In the worst cases, PTSD can occur for a lifetime, unless the person affected can find a way to heal from the horrible trauma.

Now you scoff, I was never in a war. But I ask, did you have horrible, old arguments with anyone? Did you ever fall and get physically hurt or were you involved in a car wreck? Did someone abuse you? Do you go around day in and day out with an overwhelming sense of self doubt? Do you feel that you’re not good enough, perfect enough, good looking enough or worthy enough… to enjoy good health again?!? If so, know that people suffering with chronic illnesses like Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome become “almost automatic” candidates for poor health when their spiritual soul holds onto these occurrences inside of them as trauma, danger or simply as scary, harmful memories. If you believe the lies of these memories, why would your body behave or act any differently?

Such traumatic records have the potential to keep playing on and on. If so, they will impact you until you get rid of them. They are often the root cause of either poor immunity and, oppositely, overabundant immune system reactions that are expressed as autoimmune illnesses!

Please, as you construct your Ultimate Prayer for Christmas, don’t be afraid to turn over a new leaf in 2014. Make it one in which you have the courage to dig deeper into your past and really investigate your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual history. If something feels uncomfortable or makes you want to NOT go there, know that deep down there is something important behind such an emotion. Such feelings are the very ones that you should pursue. Don’t be afraid to ask the hard questions and then come up with the right answers.

If you don’t want to handle this big task all by yourself, feel free to contact me at Cinda Crawford. As an ordained minister, an energy healing coach and someone you wants to see you feeling better in 2014, I am available to help you through your own healing journey. Yes, to get the ultimate prayer for Christmas to work, you have to pray it and then do it. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. TAKE ACTION and have a better chance to get rid of Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and autoimmune illnesses this year.

Have a wonderful holiday and a very Merry Christmas,

Cinda Crawford, your host of the Health Matters Show