Dear Friends,
Recently I have been learning about “pseudo seizures”. This is a complex disorder where emotional and psychological issues are thought to be the culprit behind the seizures and the person having them is unconscious regarding the psychological issues. Often times, there is a deep seated emotional trauma that converts to physical symptoms. This concept has fascinated me. However, when thinking more about this issue, I contemplate on how many illnesses and even injuries are rooted in emotional and spiritual causes.
When we experience things in our lives that are difficult sometimes it is hard to acknowledge the causes, as I feel most of us know. I believe that if we experience trauma at a very early age before verbal communication was possible then those issues can become “stuck” in our bodies energetically. The good news is there are ways to communicate with and release the issues. This release can be through modalities such as Counseling, Hypnotherapy, Bodytalk Therapy, Yuen Method, Reiki, Massage, Tapping, Homeopathy, Aromatherapy and many other body/mind/spirit and energetic approaches. Or we can release traumas simply by talking to a good friend.
Our bodies have an amazing, spectacular, tremendous physical intelligence. They are our very own biofeedback system! When we have a physical issue it is an opportunity for us to communicate with our bodies. For instance, in the case of someone having pseudo seizures perhaps the person is dealing with life too mentally and the brain/body is saying “lets get rid of some of this mental energy!. Or perhaps someone is experiencing low back pain then perhaps their body is saying “the pressures of life are getting to me, I don’t feel safe”.
I adore watching children at play. Especially children who have not endured significant emotional traumas in their young lives. Their bodies are fluid, adaptable. They fall, they get up and keep dancing, skipping, jumping. I have been observing the sweet 5 and 7 year old little girls who live next door ride their bikes in the Cul de sac where I live. They are filled with joy and enthusiasm and they radiate good health!
There are so many times as a nurse I have wanted to explore the patients emotional and spiritual landscape a bit more with them. However, even though I have the ability to look into a person on a deeper level and see/and feel energetic imbalances, I do not do this unless invited. And I know that everyone of us has the ability to shift patterns on our own by learning to inhabit and communicate with ourselves more clearly.
To experience a person or myself move beyond self imposed limitations, whether these limits are conscious or unconscious, is a beautiful thing. To help someone experience their body in a different way, and to learn to trust and understand the intelligence it offers is awesome!
When I say “self imposed” there is no judgement implied. All of us have areas in our lives that limit us due to our unconscious patterns we hold often as deep seated beliefs. That is the nature of being human. If we can slow down and ask our bodies what they are trying to tell us, we might be tremendously surprised. Each cell of our bodies has a wisdom all of its own. You can communicate with each cell to discover what it is wanting to thrive.
Or perhaps there is a group of cells that are desiring to communicate with you. You can scan your body until there is a place that draws your attention and then you can ask what this part of you is wanting! Your answer might come in a picture of an orange indicating you need more Vitamin C. Or you might get the smell of lavender indicating that you need to relax more. The more you engage all of your senses the greater understanding you will have of what is going on within your own beautiful being.
Learning to communicate with your own physical intelligence is an art and a talent that we all have access too. The more you engage with your being the more fun you will have. In fact, your body might be asking you to go out and have more fun and to be like a child again and skip, jump and sing with joy! Last week my chiropractor and his wife had a sign up showing a young girl blowing bubbles with her gum. Their sign stated, “Become like a kid again!” underneath the girl. They offered bubble gum to us, both natural and regular bubble gum that I had as a child, .
At first, I was surprised they would offer bubblegum with sugar. However, then I asked myself, if I were like a kid again, would I worry about the sugar? Absolutely not!! So I took a piece of each. Today I had my last piece of bubble gum and had so much fun blowing bubbles as I drove around running errands.
I have had several spiritual teachers over the years who taught me that it is our worry and fear that is often the culprit behind certain things such as food sensitivities. Each of them have stated that if we were able to embrace whatever were doing with joy and acceptance than eating that piece of pie with gluten crust would not hurt us. This would be because eating the pie would be aligned with our truth and our higher vibration.
I’m not saying that we should abandon new health habits that are making us feel good. But I am suggesting that maybe we can let our hair down a bit, become like a child and absolutely positively and completely enjoy something yummy on occasion whether it be food or an activity and trust that our cells have the ability to keep us healthy. It is when our cells pick up the message that something is wrong with what we are doing, then they take on the energy of the lower vibration of fear and illness can be created. One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves is to be aligned energetically with whatever we are doing.
To become like a kid again is to experience childlike innocence in play, eating, creating. It would be trusting our bodies again to tell us what they need and then trusting them to take good care of us. It would be feeling the joy in every cell that wants to perform perfectly for us if we can get our fears and worries out of the way.
Wishing you all the radiant health that comes from listening to your own physical intelligence and then experiencing life as a kid again! Run, jump, skip and sing! Your body will feel the joy and radiate health back to you much like my neighbor’s children!
Much love to all of you.
Rosemary