Healing Possibilities Blog

Did you know that emotional issues can cause physical pain? It is also referred to as cellular memory. When a traumatic event happens in your life the emotions from that experience gets locked in the cells of your body and causes dis-ease, illness, or a restriction. It may not present itself initially in your body, but over time it will show up. I’ve seen people who have taken on fear and anxiety from their mother while still in the womb, mothers who never released the pain from a miscarriage, and adults that still hold the trauma of physical abuse. How is this possible? Have you ever felt someone else’s pain? Tensed up from the sight of a child falling? Take that to the extreme. The emotions of a traumatic experience stay lodged in the body until we are willing or ready to release them. If you have an illness that just isn’t going away it may be an emotional blockage. My daughter’s molar had been causing her a tremendous amount of pain. I remembered that when she was ten the dentist was to replace the sealants and I was sent out of the room. There was a cavity and they never advised me that they would freeze her and fill the tooth. It was her first filling and traumatizing. That trauma was surfacing now, five years later. I walked her through a few steps to release the emotional pain and there was relief and surprise in her face afterward. If the emotions hadn’t been released she may have eventually endured a root cannel. Healing is powerful.

A healing crisis doesn’t always happen after a treatment, but when it does some people confuse it and think the treatment has made them feel worse. Which is kind of true, but it’s a good thing. The majority of people start holistic healing as a last resort, although this has changed in recent years. Their body may be in a weakened state or they may be ill. Maybe they’re not sick, but something needs to change. Either way their body is working at less then an optimum state and toxins are trapped in their tissue. Circulation increases in the body when tissues and organs are worked on during a session. Because of this, toxins are released and enter the blood stream, then are eliminated by the liver, kidneys, bowel, and skin. What some would call a healing crisis are the physical symptoms of a runny nose, cold, diarrhea, stomach aches, aches and pains, headaches, or fatigue. These symptoms are actually part of your recovery as you enter a more deeply healed state. Please keep in mind that this is actually a good sign and indicates that healing is taking place. Once the toxins have released, the body adjusts and feels much better. When healing takes place your system will begin operating on a higher level of efficiency and you will have less ailments and more energy. Drinking water is the key to helping this process move along more quickly.

Below you will find an article I wrote for our local newspaper. I hope it helps put your healing in perspective.

There is a misconception that CranioSacral is work done only on the skull. Cranio means head, but sacral means tailbone and what guides me in this work is the flow of the cerebral fluid that runs from the tailbone, up the spine into the head where it flushes toxins away from the brain. There’s actually a pulse to the flow of the cerebral fluid and when that pulse is not “normal” because the flow is blocked, that allows me to locate the issue in your body. Let’s say you have a car. Your car gets a dent, no big deal, the car will still run. Now let’s say your car has 20 dents! It might not work so well, the door may not open and close like it use to. The trunk and/or hood may not work like it use to. The dash lights and/or windows might eventually malfunction. Your gas mileage will ultimately be affected. You can see the damage and will probably get repairs done before you start having too much of a problem. It’s much harder to see the damage on our bodies. The damage done from a stubbed toe, a slip and fall, carrying a child on our hip, carrying lumber on our shoulder, the repetitive action of a soccer or hockey player. Little bits of damage are done to our bodies every day, so we don’t see or feel its significance. Then one day when we’re 30+ years old we wonder what’s happened to us!

There are so many different cycles, rhythms and patterns going on in our lives, sometimes. it‘s hard to know where they’re coming from or what is causing our stress, or perhaps you just feeling out of sorts. Of course much of our day-to-day ups and downs come from our eating and sleeping habits, exercise routine, and relationships. For some time it has been my goal to balance out the high peaks and low dips to more of a plateau. I watch my diet, exercise regularly, I love to sleep, so I rest when I can…I watch my numerology chart, which had a bigger impact than I thought, and of course there is the cycle of the moon to pay attention to!! Other things factor in as well, relationships; I have discarded the ones that are of no benefit to me. I have been lucky enough to finally find the perfect work environment. I’ve de-cluttered my house and that has, surprisingly, de-cluttered my brain! I no longer have to make “lists”; my memory has improved greatly…less stress, more brain power! And as a family we have simplified our schedule. The peaks and dips have become more like rolling hills and life is much more manageable. Throw in a couple of teenage daughters and believe it or not life is still manageable. I’m not saying that there isn’t the occasional sharp turn in the road or some other obstacle, but with all the plateau time even the largest of obstacles are easily managed. My life is not boring, it has given me time to “smell the roses.” If you’re working on smoothing out some of your large peaks and deep valleys, please remember that everything takes time, not days, not months…but it’s all possible. Discard what you no longer need and invite in all that’s good!