GOOD MEDICINE BAG™
“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shallnot be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
BuddhaKey Messages
1. Trust that your body already knows what it needs to do to keep you healthyand strong in body, mind and spirit.
2. Re-learning how to turn on the Endorphin Effect, as William Bloom calls it,
empowers you with the knowledge and skills to build your health, vitality andwell-being.
3. Endorphins are your body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Their general effectis to remove stress and pain from your body. When this happens your body ismore relaxed and that allows all the super-dooper antibodies to travel freely
throughout your body and do any healing and repair work that is needed. Ohand of course they build good health and wellbeing.
4. If you don’t know how to release pressure safely, reduce your stress levels or
manage yourself in stressful situations, your brain freaks out. It gets scaredthat it is under threat and that triggers your body’s natural survival response –fight-flight-freeze. Your body is then flooded with the stress chemicals
adrenaline and cortisol. These chemicals make your body tense up and stopthe endorphins from doing their job well.
5. In a nut shell, you do not feel good. If stress goes unmanaged for too long,
you become toxic. Your emotional and physical health suffers, even yourspiritual fitness can waiver. Your immune system becomes compromised and2

you are a lot more open to catching the flu, viruses and developing more
serious health related conditions.
6. The mood of your mind directly affects the state of your body. The state ofyour body directly impacts the state of your mind. This significantly influences
the way you make decisions, how you relate to people and how you behave…

Think about decisions you have madewhen you were in a bad mood? What was
the impact of those decisions on you?
What was the impact of those decisions onother people?

7. The Good Medicine Bag strategy we are sharing with you here is a simple,
fun loving way of turning on your body’s natural feel good chemicals –Endorphins.
8. The more you feel good the more endorphins are swimming around yourbody, building your immune system, keeping you young, helping you to thinkbetter, giving you energy and helping you live longer.

Key Questions
1. What are other simple feel good practices you can do on a daily basis to turnon the endorphin effect?

Key Actions – MAKING YOUR OWN SACRED GOOD MEDICINE BAG
1. Make or buy yourself a small bag no bigger than the palm of your hand…weuse organza bags in our programs.
2. Choose a bag you really like and it makes you feel good when you see it,hold it, talk about it and even think about it. It must fit comfortably in the palm

3of your hand. It needs to be this size so that you can carry it in your pocket,
your handbag or man-bag or brief case.
3. Collect the following items and put them in your good medicine bag. It’s
important that you choose thoughtfully the items you place in this bag.

The intention of using the Good Medicine
Bag is to train you in how to ‘empower
yourself” to feel good and release
Endorphins into your body whenever youwant!

4. As you place each item into your GMB - smile, feel all the good feelings thatthese items inspire in you. Then in a confident and proud voice say “I love
this name the item, it makes me feel good – YES!”
5. If you want to say more about each item before you put it in your bag – good,
go for it – get creative and have fun…Just make sure you say YES at the end.
This positively and powerfully anchors the experience into your memory.
Something which makes you feel happy
Something that reminds you of a good childhood memory
Something which powerfully grounds you in your culture
Something which positively connects you to your family or other significant
peopleSomething which reminds you of one success which had a powerful impact on
your life
Any other items which represent memories which are very special to you

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6. When all your items are in your GMB stand up straight and confident andallow yourself to feel powerful and peaceful. Cup your GMB in both yourhands over your heart and think about all the sacred items you have put into
your bag. As you think about them smile, breathe deeply and feel the lovegenerate from your heart into your good medicine bag.

7. Carry your GMB with you. Look over it and spend a couple of minutes each
day having a play with the items …you can change the items as often as you
want… Soak up the positive energy you are consciously generating andenjoy all the good feelings and the benefits that follow…

Recommended Reading
The Endorphin Effect by William Bloom
I love my Good Medicine Bag and so do my kids. My 4 year old
Archie has made his own.
We have the power to tap into our inner resources and control thedirection of our own lives, sometimes we just need theencouragement and confidence to use it…
Send us a photo on our FaceBook page of you and your Good
Medicine Bag.

Wendy and Vicki