New relationship to your body

Two weeks ago I told you about my experience taking on the shame and baggage of others only to have my sweet body deal with skin cancer for years. When I finally figured it out, the last two remaining lesions healed spontaneously within one week. For nearly three years prior to this healing – my interior was twisted in knots and I could practically power a generator with the physical and emotional symptoms of PTSD.

Transformations like this are almost impossible without integrating the quantum idea that observation (ie. the contents of your mind) becomes your reality - including your physical body. This mind-body-reality runs parallel with the knowing that all of us, to varying degrees, are psychic sponges.

So, if our mind creates AND we’re permeable to thoughts, feelings and forces around us, what’s a human to do?

We can start by commanding our mind and harnessing awareness and observation of our thoughts and importantly, not judging or reacting to them. This is by far and away the hardest task, because we are by nature reactionary, we like to believe our thoughts. Our brains are shaped by this reactivity and when wired to stress, gossip, drama and trauma, getting off this wheel requires an olympic level commitment. This is a fundamentally repetitive process, which over time, eases as your brain is reshaped and hardwired to well-being [more on neuroplasticity in future newsletters].

As for the permeability of us in which we end up living at the effect of others, there is a magic tool for that. Last week I discussed ASKING your body what it wants. Now we tweak this question and turn it toward every thought, feeling, emotion, ache, pain, chronic condition we may be experiencing. We can ask all of it: Who does this belong to?

In his book, Body Whispering, Dr. Dain Heer explains that if you feel a sense of lightness, it’s not yours and it’s also not your job to figure out where it came from. Simply thank your body for its awareness and return whatever it is to the sender, bonus is to say a clearing statement to discharge the energy behind it.

Conversely, if you get a heavy feeling, you can claim responsibility for what your body is trying to make you aware of. Some judgement, some fixed point of view which isn’t true for you is festering within or perhaps you took on the dis-ease as a means of healing it for others. Now, the seismic shift I experienced required me to hire a coach. They helped me to see what I’d been blind to, they were brutally honest with me. They helped me to see where I’d been committed to a victim identity, called me out on where I was abdicating power and helped me to see that I was shaming myself instead of claiming myself.

So, are you ready to apply this new tool? Are you ready to see your body as the key to all that’s locked up within you? Do you need some coaching? Let me know, I’m here to support you.