Episode 40: The Mind/Body Connection To Healing

Today’s episode is all about how the mind has the power to strongly affect the physical body in all ways. If you are not aware of mind/body healing, in a nutshell its premise is that your thoughts, emotions, mental patterns and life traumas are where dis-ease begin. Furthermore, each organ in the body attracts and stores a specific energy so that when one experiences a specific emotion that resonates with that organ, the emotion is drawn to that organ and affects the health of that organ. And if that emotion becomes so consistently overwhelming, it can penetrate the organ to the point where dis-ease or dysfunction is established in that organ. On today’s show, I’ll go into more detail about the organs and what they specifically attract to them on the emotional front as well as provide mind/body examples from my own experience that illustrate how what may appear as two or three ‘different’ physical issues, can connect to the same root emotional issue. Discover that root and you have the potential for healing what is ailing you.

BOOKS:

“Messages From The Body” by Michael J. Lincoln, Ph.D. [Absolutely EXCELLENT book]

“You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay

“Your Body’s Telling You: Love Yourself” by Lise Bourbeau

German New Medicine comprehensive list of illness/disease and their corresponding emotional connections:
https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/sbs_index.html

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Transcript

            Welcome to Episode 40. Today’s topic is “The Mind/Body Connection To Healing.”

            Before I launch into today’s episode, I want to tell all of you that I have a big show announcement that I’ll drop at the end of today’s episode. So stay tuned for that.

            Today’s episode is all about how the mind has the power to strongly affect the body in all ways. As a child, I grew up surrounded by many alternative practitioners who practiced and used the term “mind/body” healing to help their patients. This was long before Louise Hay wrote her groundbreaking book, “You Can Heal Your Life” in 1984. If you are not aware of mind/body healing, in a nutshell its premise is that your thoughts and emotions are responsible for your health physically, emotionally and mental. Furthermore, each organ in the body attracts and stores a specific energy so that when one experiences a specific emotion that resonates with that organ, the emotion is drawn to that specific organ and that organ holds and contains the energy of that emotion. And if that emotion becomes so consistently overwhelming, it can penetrate the organ to the point where dis-ease or dysfunction is established in that organ. And on today’s show, I’ll go into more detail about the organs and what they specifically attract to them on the emotional front. Now what I just laid out is very general and if you want to explore this subject in greater detail, there are plenty of good books and areas to study and it’s a fascinating subject matter in my opinion because it opens your eyes to an entirely different way of seeing illness, disease as well as minor inconveniences such as a headache or the common cold. 

Within the world of mind/body relationships, essentially there is nothing that happens to you that isn’t rooted in your emotional/mental framework. What you experience in your life from the second you’re born, and some say while you’re still in the womb, has the potential to draw to you a cascade of physical illnesses. And the idea is that when you become aware of how your thoughts, beliefs, life experiences and patterns have the power to create illness of all types, that awareness allows you to take ownership of that reality and through that ownership, you have a conscious choice to change the way you think and believe. Then through that conscious choice to change your thought processes, you have the potential to heal yourself and reverse an illness or disease. And I keep using the word “potential” because conscious awareness of these mind/body connections is the first step. Taking it further and adopting new mindsets, new belief systems, and essentially erasing decades of ground in mental programming, requires a daily, focused desire to overcome the destructive mental patterns that have essentially run you for perhaps as long as you’ve been alive. That’s not to say it cannot be done. It can be done. It has been done. But I want to be clear when I say that first you must accept that this is a reality in the way the body takes on illness and disease and that you have the power within you to change anything….and I mean anything….within you and create a new story, a new paradigm and a new physical reality. 

            Now, I’m well aware of how many people who hear about the mind/body connections for the first time often react. I know this because I’ve been on the receiving end from others who I share mind/body correlations with over many years who accuse me of being judgmental towards them. It’s not in the neighborhood of judgmental to bring up these absolutely proven…yes, PROVEN, connections. And furthermore, I’ve had a lifetime, so over sixty years to test them out. To take them from theory and apply them in real life and see if they do stand the test. And they always do. But even with that understanding, a lot of people absolutely refuse and refute the mind/body connection. People become highly agitated when I’ve talked about these connections to them. It always seems that the more agitated they react to it, the more it’s hitting the nail on the head and that’s hurting their ego simultaneously. It’s also really doing a number on their comfort zone. I’ve been called judgmental when I see a pattern in someone’s behavior that is contributing to their physical problem. I understand how it comes off to some as ‘judgmental’ because that person has often had to deal with a lot of judgment. But I’m coming from the place of observation because in many instances, I used to carry the same pattern and suffered the same physical problems.

Others who don’t have a kneejerk emotional reaction, often regard mind/body medicine as not grounded in science and simply refuse to open their eyes and take a step back and explore the correlations over time and with many different people until they recognize that yes, there is absolute truth to this. Really left brained leaning people will see mind/body correlations as coincidences. But the word coincidence breaks down to a “co-incident”. An incident that is connected or has a correlation to something else. Which is pretty much the definition of mind/body theory.

Now, when you do allow yourself to become open to this understanding, and you start making the mind/body connections to illness and issues you’re dealing with, I think it’s important to pay attention to the daily vocabulary you use to describe your experiences or your life. Because those words will be reflected back into how your body stores that experience. I knew someone who when someone asked him how he was doing, no matter what was happening in his life, he also answered with the same phrase. And that phrase was, “Oh, you know, same day, different struggle.” And one day I called him on it because not every single day of his life was a true struggle. But because that became is penetrating mantra, he not only attracted the energy of ‘struggle’ but experienced the energy draining reflection of the word “struggle.” That’s why you have to be aware of what words you are using on a daily basis to describe your life. Words like “struggle” or “hurdle” are felt in the body and absolutely create low energy, blocks and stagnation. For example, say you are someone who is always exhausted and you take a look at your beliefs and one of them is “I believe that life is a hurdle.” You know, something you have to run and jump over repeatedly with no end in sight. So you stop and you say, okay what happens when you run actual hurdles on a race course? Well, if you just run hurdles all day long, eventually you’re going to become exhausted and you won’t be capable of jumping any hurdles because your body will not allow you to. Have you seen people who run actual hurdles in a race? They usually collapse at the finish line or have to take a long moment to recover. If you never stop jumping metaphorical hurdles in your life, eventually, you are going to mentally and then emotionally wipe out. Within this “hurdle belief” system, there is this hardcore wiring within that belief, that anything worth accomplishing requires exhaustion to accomplish it. If you don’t burn yourself into toast, you didn’t do what it took to get the job done. Killing yourself is just part of the equation. And one of the worst things that can happen to someone like this is seeing other people achieving their goals and doing it quite easily or without infusing it with angst and fear and hyper seriousness but simply with focus, and motivation and enthusiasm. The person who only knows “jumping hurdles” as the only method or reality to accomplish goals, carries a quiet resentment for the ones who don’t seem to have to run that exhausting course. This demonstrates the strong walls that are built by people who are ill and who have invested themselves into a destructive belief system that is literally killing them but they don’t believe that there is any other way to operate. Those tall walls they build don’t allow a lot of reflection or the ability to see their own shit or how all they have to do is alter how they perceive their life and agree to make changes where possible and their chronic exhaustion could be gradually healed. 

So, in a case such as this, if they were open to exploring mind/body healing, they’d ask themselves, What would happen if I made the decision to NOT see life full of hurdles? What if all these things I perceive as hurdles are just the next thing on my to do list? Or maybe I have the power to remove some of these responsibilities seen as hurdles that are not serving me in my daily life? In this situation, what about if we stopped visualizing hurdles and talking about hurdles and waking up every day wondering how you’re going to jump that day’s hurdle and instead, see your life as a consistent walk with valleys and hills and steep grades occasionally but a lot of flat territory where you just walk and experience what’s around you. No hurdles in sight. Think about it, if you’re always jumping hurdles, you can’t look around you. You can’t take in anything except the next hurdle you have to negotiate. So that negative mindset prevents you from taking in life and seeing options that are always there to see if you are willing to stop focusing on what you perceive as a hurdle. And if you play this exercise through, you begin to understand that your perception and experience of “life being hard or a hurdle” is a self-fulfilling prophecy that you create every day. Your life is hard because you’re making sure it is hard and arduous and requires energy that you don’t have a lot left to give. 

Now, I’ve been involved in mind/body healing long enough to explore why some people are more prone to suffer the consequences of their mental and emotional programming than others who still have occasional issues but who never attract to them serious illness or diseases that create great consequences in their lives. It’s been repeatedly talked about how two people within the same household, born with two vastly different natures can have the same experience growing up but it will produce a different physical, mental and emotional reaction in each person. And through that mental emotional reaction, the body will absorb it and store it in whatever way the nature or personality of that individual is programmed by their nature to experience it. So you could have two siblings who have the same parents and live under the same roof. One whose nature is outgoing and brave and another one who is incredibly sensitive and withdrawn. They can both experience the same trauma and the outgoing brave one may embody more resilience to the trauma and be able to deflect that trauma and not absorb it as much as the one who is sensitive and withdrawn. That child would easily absorb it and not be able to let it go for years or perhaps their entire life. Thus, the intensely sensitive child creates the perfect soil that will grow multiple reflective illnesses and diseases. We’ve all heard the term: “Nature versus nurture.” As far as the field of mind/body medicine goes, I feel strongly that one’s nature dominates and steers one’s ship toward predictable reactions that create and deepen potential health issues.  I’m sure you’ve heard the quote: “Nature loads the gun, and your environment pulls the trigger.” I think that’s a perfect illustration of how mind/body theory works. The overly fragile, overly sensitive child always tends to end up with the physical issues that are reflective of that nature. The nervous system issues. Often weak immune systems. The propensity to carry low energy. The tendency to self-isolate and through self-isolation create a whole new set of challenges. The way to help someone who has this nature is to not deny it but to not enableit. The goal is always to strengthen it while recognizing that that type of baked in the cake nature will always present itself during times of stress. But that through strengthening it, you can help that person be able to maintain a quality of life that is not always burdened or defined by their overly sensitive blueprint. One of the best things you can offer someone like this is the lesson of adapting because adapting is required for getting through life. If you’re a highly sensitive individual and refuse to learn how to adapt, you are always going to feel victimized by your environment. And you are always going to blame “what’s out there” as a reason for why you can’t succeed or feel connected to life. I’m not saying a person with that nature will become a stage performer but they could if they learned how to adapt to their nature. A lot of actors have tremendous sensitivity and stage fright, but they learn to adapt and when they do, they funnel that energy into their performance. If they are taught to regulate their nervous system and find ways through that regulation to be socially involved, this is a positive way to turn a liability into a strength. 

I am living proof of what I just described. If my basic nature had been allowed to carry on without intervention or adaptation, I would never have had the ability to get up in front of people and speak, I would have stayed in a very isolated lifestyle and I would have been terrified of everything including speaking up when necessary. My nervous nature would have never been strengthened. But because my father recognized this nature early on and insisted that I overcome certain fears and move past them, over many years, I was able to be more comfortable in social situations and in groups to the point where when I was in my 30’s I was speaking and teaching in front of crowds as large as 500 to 800 people without faltering. Was I still nervous prior to doing this? Yes. But I had learned by that time many strategies and tricks to overcome that nervousness. Was my nature still nervous? Yes. But maturity and perspective helped to moderate those nerves. Maturity really can be the panacea to overcoming so much because the more experience you have the greater opportunity you have to overcome and adapt in a good way to overcome what might be a fragile or nervous nature. But you have to consciously direct your intention to the goal of overcoming a nature that builds limitations and because of that, attracts to you physical issues and potential illnesses that drag you down. 

The foundation of mind/body medicine is really this: When one’s nature meets one’s resistance, THAT is when the flow stops. And when the flow stops, the backup of emotional and mental debris builds up over years and forms the distortions within the individual and those distortions are what are formed into disease or illness or accidents. Because you attract to you the energy you are putting out. So if you not in flow and in heavy resistance, you will attract the same energy which will compound daily and build a structure in your body that reflects that resistance. 

If you need to prove mind/body medicine, I suggest you study something called “German New Medicine.” This is a fascinating deep study into the effects of one’s emotions and life experiences on our physical health. It was discovered by Dr. Hamer - H-A-M-E-R - after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer after the shocking death of his son. I can’t go into his whole story here but I encourage you to read more about Hamer’s experience and how he made the clear connection between the sudden shock of his son’s death and the eruption of Hamer’s cancer. This led him to create “German New Medicine,” where Hamer outlines a concise step-by-step explanation of how life experiences that are stress-producing on any level from moderate to highly traumatic, penetrate the unconscious mind and begin a cascade reaction inside the body that can lead to minor or major illness. In German New Medicine, they refer to a significant emotional stressor as a “conflict shock” and that shock, depending on the severity of it, targets a specific, predetermined area in the brain, causing what Hamer called a “lesion” in the brain that can actually be seen on a CT scan and shows up as a set of sharp concentric rings. If this “conflict shock,” as he put it, is not resolved or healed, the resonating shock energy in the brain continues to send distorted signals into the cells of the body and often toward an organ that stores the reflective emotional energy of the impact of that shock. And after years or decades of this reactive pattern, that organ “suddenly” becomes diseased. On the most severe side, the conflict shock that begins this domino effect toward serious or terminal illness has at least one of the following four things: The first one is the shock event is HIGHLY shocking, startling and surprising so that it stops you in your tracks. This could be experiencing the sudden tragic death of someone you dearly loved, or witnessing a tragic death, or being raped or abused and being completely taken out of your body by it or any number of events that send a violent shockwave of emotional debris through your system. The second thing is that the shocking event is highly dramatic and charged with a lot of emotion. The third ingredient that can add to it is that the event isolates you in some way either because you have to keep it secret or the emotions of it force you into your own self-isolation. The fourth component is that the event leads you to feel as if you are trapped by the trainwreck of emotional upheaval that it created so that you are at its mercy. You don’t know what to do or how to move forward and so you roost in this hovering state of undoing that captures you for years or decades until that energy metastasizes into an actual physical illness. Again, your eventual illness does not require all four of these to occur. However, my personal experience has been that generally three to four are present and vibrating within you in order to create disease. Because when you look at these four components, they feed off each other. Any shock that takes you to your knees will most likely be highly emotionally charged. And while it may not lead you to self-isolate, it could absolutely make you feel a perpetual sense of being trapped with no way out by virtue of how you can’t shake the event in your mind or body. And if part of the isolation you feel is from not being able to talk about what happened, then you’ve hit all four bullet points. There are a lot of women who have been raped and have kept it a secret for their entire life. That secretive energy is what breeds the suppression and what you bury tends to grow and multiply under the surface until it becomes so big that you can’t ignore it anymore. Like a tumor. A tumor can be benign or malignant and I’ve found the difference between whether it’s benign or malignant has a direct correlation to how one is able to manage the energy of the shock that allowed that tumor to exist. Some of it has to do with their inherent nature, as I’ve already mentioned, and some of it has to do with their ability to not internalize the experience to the point where it becomes a malignant energy. But one thing I do want to mention about Hamer’s theory is that he found that for the serious or terminal diagnoses, the intense conflict shock that sparks the destructive domino effect in the body and the time of diagnosis of the serious disease is anywhere from one to three years. Now, I’ve studied that timeline theory and found it to be accurate. However, in one case, there was a four-year span. But, as it turned out, when this individual got her diagnosis, which was cancer, the doctor felt that she’d been showing signs of it for at least one year prior to the diagnosis. So that would fit into Hamer’s one to three year span of time from the time of the shock to the time when the illness is made manifest and can be felt. 

So right now, I want to run through what I consider the basics of mind/body medicine but are certainly just a taster for you and if this interests you, I will post on the show notes the books I absolutely love and feel are imperative for your library if this subject interests you and also I will post the link to the detailed German New Medicine discoveries of hundreds of illnesses that were discovered by Hamer.

So here are the basics to whet your appetite. I’ve come up with eight emotions that I feel can create minor to major illnesses or diseases. I created this list based on what I’ve observed in my own life and in others. 

The emotions are anger, resentment (which many people refer to as “re-feeling anger), fear, guilt, grief, the inability to forgive or let go, the strong need to control yourself and/or others, and criticism, especially cruel or biting criticism. Now there are other emotions that correlate to physical problems but these eight seem to be umbrellas for other emotions that fall under their category. Like jealousy, for example. Jealousy when you break it down has a meanness to it and carries anger and criticism along with it. 

Now the right side of your body represents “Masculine Energy.” So this relates to externalizing your energy into the world, moving forward, letting go, expressing your unique power or talent into the world and doing all this with will force and is represented by “Father energy” which can relate to your own father or father figures or authority figures. The left side of your body represents “Feminine Energy.” So that’s all about taking in energy from the world, reflecting, receiving, a more passive than aggressive energy and is represented by “Mother energy.” This could be your actual mother, and often is. It can also be connected to one’s nurturing expression or their inability to express their nurturing side. 

To understand this briefly, I’ll use myself as an example. During my health journey, I was dealing with many physical issues that were all linked to the same scenarios that were playing out in my life at that time. I won’t go into every issue I had but the two main ones were a very serious case of TMJ on my LEFT jaw and a chronic muscular injury in my right hamstring that was worsened by a serious right ankle sprain I had that was made worse by reinjuring it four times in less than one year. Now these two issues were intricately connected by situations I had been forced to deal with that had reached an apex from which I felt I could no longer deal with. And yet, I had no way out. Remember that feeling trapped is one of the four signs I mentioned earlier in relationship to German New Medicine. My TMJ had been slowly getting worse over a period of seven years and it correlated to many situations in my life at that time where I had to grit my teeth, set my jaw and stay silent while I stood on the sidelines and observed what to me were completely unacceptable, abusive situations and behaviors from others in my life that I had little to no ability to either walk away from or stop from happening. I just had to put up with it. And one of the things I learned about the emotional side of TMJ, is a term in a book from “Messages From The Body,” a book I HIGHLY recommend if you’re drawn to this subject matter. And that term is “with TMJ, one has reached a point where this is an up with which you will no longer put!” And when I read that when I was deep into my worst TMJ, I absolutely recognized how my life experiences had reflected that untenable energy and it was no wonder that I developed serious TMJ. And I realized in that moment reading that statement, that if I was going to overcome this, I had to take back my power and stop putting up with a myriad of people and situations that were destructive to my life and to my wellbeing. And to start speaking up and expressing myself and stop putting up with situations that insulted my soul. And being that the TMJ was on my left side, I was taking in information – left is the receiving side – that I could not accept but continued to store on an energetic level in my jaw and face. 

Now my ankle and hamstring injury was on my right side. The right ankle has to do with moving or walking forward in your life. The hamstring muscle is connected to allowing one to take that step forward with ease and flow. But there’s a term that’s used when one is feeling emotionally held back or restricted. And that term is: “I feel hamstrung.” And if you are feeling hamstrung in life, there’s a good chance that if that continues into a chronic state of being, you will also have an issue with your hamstring muscle. Because any injury or issue with the hamstring muscle impairs, restricts, disables and even can paralyze one’s ability to move forward in their body and reflectively, in their life. Now add the right ankle sprain I dealt with four times in less than one year and realize that I’m literally unable to move forward with my leg and foot and that as it got worse, I became unable for a period of time, to walk forward without tremendous pain and restriction. And what was going on in my life prior to that, steadily for four years? Well, a continual restriction of my ability to actualize my creative projects, my publishing commitments at that time, and really anything else that had to do with my freedom to do and express myself without having to balance it against so many obligations that I had either been given or were given to me and that I wanted no part of. But I had no choice at that time in getting dragged into everybody else’s problems and all of that prevented me from often meeting hard deadlines for books I was contracted to write. And with all that, a growing, seething energy of both anger and bitter resentment toward those who seemingly couldn’t care less that I was completely overwhelmed and expected to show up and fix everything. So how does the body reflect that in addition to the TMJ? Well, with the TMJ I was restricted from being able to speak because it literally hurt too much to speak. So there’s the word “restriction” again. And with the right sided hamstring and ankle injury, I was also restricted severely in how I could navigate my world. And for a period of time, I did not navigate my world at all. I sat in a rocking chair and stared out a window and wondered how I got to that place. And fear consumed me. And that just fueled everything else that was going on. But that is where a literal lifetime of these emotions of rage and righteous umbrage that had been suppressed in me for multiple reasons, finally couldn’t take the suppression any longer and showed up as TMJ and hamstring and ankle sprains. 

How did I get out of this pattern? Well, it took almost two solid years of a lot of inner work and recognition of what I had allowed and not confronted in my life and from there, it was a slow steady progress toward rediscovering my power and that I had a right and an obligation to rightfully use that power when needed. Not to wield power indiscriminately. But to not allow myself to be suppressed or ignored or dismissed when my voice needed to be heard within various personal relationships in my life at that time. And boy did I exercise that right and I did it without giving a shit whether anyone liked or liked me for doing it. And the freedom that I felt from that ‘not giving a shit’ vibe, seemed to work in my favor as the months went on. Not giving a shit is another way of saying letting go of the need to fit into being liked. And if you let go of that need, it’s amazing how things can shift for you. So I had to first recognize the emotional connections of why I created these physical issues and then it was imperative to act upon it in order to change it and then heal it, from taking that action over and over, and also regulating my nervous system which had been severely abused and often destroyed from my life experiences, through consistently doing all that, I was eventually able to rise from the ashes of my own destruction and chart a path forward. But it wasn’t easy. Because I was having to deal and face many patterns that had been ingrained in my childhood and that I had to reframe or eliminate entirely.

So that story is a microcosm of looking at a chronic physical situation and making the emotional/mental connections to it. Now I’m going to run through the various organs in the body and what energy or emotion is considered the most closely attached to it. 

The liver is often known as “the ruling organ” because it promotes the function of all the organs. It rules the blood as well and your ability to sift and sort and detoxify whatever you bring into your body. The liver is connected to anger and resentment (which again is “re-feeling” anger), it’s also connected to chronic frustration and agitation. When it’s out of balance, you have the ability to attract depression, impatience, power mad behavior, overly ambitious to the point of becoming dangerously myopic, violence toward yourself and others, sudden emotional outbursts that can become out of control, headaches and many more. 

After the liver, we’ll go to the gallbladder. The gallbladder is responsible for decision making. And I was taught that it also had a close correlation to how you felt about money from on one end, having a lack of money or a poverty mindset or on the other end, an obsession with money that engulfed you. I always associate the gallbladder, when it is out of balance, with emotional bitterness because in herbal medicine, we use herbal bitters to heal and restore the gallbladder. But it has an emotional connection to actual bitterness of the spirit and mind. It also carries the condemnation of others, excessive pride and unexplained fearfulness with a lot of hard thoughts. There’s also the aspect of indecisiveness. Just a chronic vacillating between one option and another. Another outward trait of an unhealthy gallbladder is the tendency for excessive sighing. 

Next are the lungs. The lungs represent where you store and carry grief. It’s also where one stores lots of worry, emotional anguish, often is connected to being claustrophobic or feeling smothered by a family member or a partner, it’s also where we store emotional memories and can get stuck in nostalgia that has a sad reflection to it which circles back to the main energy of grief. And it’s not just the feeling of grief but also the suppression of grief over many years or decades. So look at those who have chronic lung issues like C.O.P.D. and reflect back ten, twenty or more years and see if the soil for feeling suffocated or not being able to “take in life” was built. 

The kidneys are the fear organ. So people who suffer from severe fear or had to deal with massive trauma that still haunts them to this day, often have weak kidneys. And this reflects back into the emotions of shame, reacting like you’re a wounded child when confronted, a severe lack of will power and motivation, low sex drive and impotence, poor memory and living in a constant state of negative mind set. The kidneys are where you hold and contain your life essence and when you drain that life essence from your kidneys especially through constant fear, you will age faster. People who have chronic kidney issues usually appear older than their chronological age.

Now the bladder is interesting because it is somewhat a kissing emotional cousin, so to speak, of the kidneys. But the bladder is where you store your ideas about life and your perceptions. And if you have a weak bladder, you are most likely prone to anxiety, disappointment, fear of letting go, holding onto old ideas that are past their shelf life and also holding onto outdated patterns that are no longer working for you. But I always associate the bladder with being “pissed off” at something or someone in your life that you feel you have no control over or an ability to escape. So if someone has an overactive bladder, that’s looked at in mind/body medicine as being irritated and anxious and being afraid to ‘let go’. Wrapped up in that emotional reaction is often the sense of being ‘out of control’ or having no control in your life and that reality or perception creates a lot of daily anxiety and low grade fear. I had an overactive bladder throughout my childhood and into my teenage years and it was intrinsically connected to a tremendous amount of anxiety and not being able or allowed to release and let go of it in constructive ways that would have given me an outlet to off gas a lot of my built-in frustration. I healed that issue in my twenties simply by getting distance from the people in my life who were contributing to this anxiety and also learning methods to manage and strengthen my nervous system. 

Next up is the stomach. And while it is physically there to contain and digest your food, it has an emotional job of reflecting how you take in nourishment from your environment and then how you digest that nourishment. So if your environment is starving you emotionally, or making it difficult for you to digest what is going on around you, you could have stomach issues. You’ve heard the term about not being able to “stomach” something. Meaning you reject it? When you are unable by your situation to not have the permission or ability to stomach a situation, that situation will often inflame you but you may not be able to express your anger or strong displeasure due to various reasons, and so that scenario, could easily produce something called gastritis which is the inflammation of the stomach lining. And allow it to become chronic, and you could develop Crohn’s Disease. 

Moving onto the colon, an unbalanced colon is connected to being unable to let go of things you have stored in your memory that you cannot and will not let go of. People who are hoarders often have colon issues. They are actively storing and collecting things that they don’t need and are creating a stagnant environment in their homes. And this reflects back to the colon where fecal matter and undigested food is held in the colon for sometimes days at a time and not released. So when someone is chronically constipated, they might want to take a look at their fear or insecurity regarding releasing that which no longer serves them any longer. Look at the refusal to let go of old hurts. Also look at the fear or apprehension around the sense of lack in one’s life. Primarily with the colon, it’s about the lack of love, security, protection. And all that relates to a major lack of flow in one’s daily experience. Because if you are stuck and stagnant, there’s not going to be flow.  

And again, before I wrap up today’s show and make my show announcement as I teased at the top of this episode, I encourage you to read more about the subject of mind/body health. Because I’ve been able to spend forty plus years testing it out and I’ve found that it is absolutely accurate. There’s always going to be nuances with each individual and whatever they are dealing with, but I know from my own health issues and having the ability to trace back in time various conflict shocks that led to x, y and z, I can say with 100% agreement that understanding these mind/body correlations helped me greatly when it came to truly overcoming whatever I was dealing with. Was it easy? No. But I found that having the courage to do the thing that I had been either suppressing or avoiding for any number of reasons and fears, was the medicine I needed to reverse multiple health issues and chronic injuries that I’d been told would “never” be corrected. And when you have reached a point where you are tired of being sick or dealing with a chronic issue, it’s amazing how you can tap into that required courage and shake up your world and discover how everything begins to shift and gradually improve in your physical body. 

            Now for the big show announcement: This podcast was born from me being asked to discuss my own personal journey of awakening and how I traversed the many obstacles and was able to heal the parts that needed to be made whole again. At first I was asked to write a book on this subject but I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to be able to verbally articulate my experience and have the ability to adjust and adapt whatever I wanted to discuss as I also continued to grow. And that’s exactly what I have done. But as I a writer, I always looked at this podcast like a book with chapters. And when I was developing this show over the course of eighteen months, I went through all the aspects that I experienced during my journey and recognized that anyone who ventures into transformational alchemical healing will also experience the same or similar stepping stones or will be required to overcome the same obstacles such as fear, or trauma or whatever is holding you back from being able to actualize your true self. So with that understanding, I designed this podcast so that every episode was akin to a chapter in a book on alchemical transformation of body, mind and spirit. When I started, my intention was a thirty-seven to forty chapter book. It couldn’t just go on and on indefinitely because one risked repeating themselves or simply boring the listener. And for me, this has always been a bone of contention I have with a lot of podcasts and a lot of personal transformation books and teaching audios that start off with solid information and then devolve into regurgitating old information. And I refuse to take part in that endeavor. 

So with all that said, I’m announcing today that I will do my final show of this podcast in two weeks and that show will be titled “Moving Forward.” I’ve literally been working on that episode since before I launched this podcast. Because I always knew this podcast was more like a limited series and had a necessary beginning, middle and end. Now to that, I’ve added certain aspects to my final show based on what I’ve experienced through doing this show. Part of that involves getting very deeply involved in the personal transformation movement which in all honesty, I don’t personally align with which is odd since my audience is people who are drawn to that movement. But obviously, if you’ve listened to my show since the beginning, I don’t toe the line and fall into the patterns and vernacular of the movement nor do I follow or agree with a lot of what this movement does tend to demand of those who are part of it. And as someone who took nearly every opportunity given to her over the eight years I have been involved strongly in this world of transformation, I can tell you that I feel I have sufficiently discussed every single aspect of it that I wanted to discuss. And that to drone on past that point is doing myself and you as my audience a big disservice. 

I appreciate every single one of you who have been a steady listener from day one and who have written me your beautiful emails and messages. For the foreseeable future, I’ll still maintain my Instagram page for The Alchemy of Natural Healing probably twice weekly and you can always communicate with me there if you want to. So please join me in two weeks for the final episode, “Moving Forward,” which I hope will inspire you to take whatever you’ve learned on my show and launch yourself into your own resurrection of body, mind and spirit. Think of the final show as a fond farewell as well as a cautionary tale of what I feel are the drawbacks of the personal transformation movement as it exists today and how to recognize those drawbacks and not allow yourself to get mired in that muddy soup that in my opinion, does not serve your highest and greatest good but rather, lulls you into a false sense that you are making headway and experiencing the changes that need to happen when in fact, you are being held hostage by mantras that don’t serve you and often unscrupulous methods and individuals who do not truly have your best interest at heart. So with that tease of the final show, I’ll sign off with my usual statement and that is that “Remember that awareness is a demanding mistress. Once she wakes you up, she won’t let you go back to sleep.”