The healing process
During my time of the “next health crisis,” I frequently felt overwhelmed or like I was chasing my tail. My doctors didn’t know what was wrong. I felt like there might be more than one thing going on, but I couldn’t do the protocols for everything all at the same time. I needed to work in small chunks, so I didn’t get overwhelmed. I learned to focus on one main thing, then transition to the next piece. Although I couldn’t heal everything in one swoop, as each specific issue started to heal, the overall system improved, and I started feeling better. A few things were constant throughout, such as the support of an exceptionally gifted practitioner in energy healing.
The different parts of my healing journey
- Self-care
- taking care of me had to be a priority
- Heavy metal detoxing
- Digestion
- Inherited family trauma
- Energy work
- Practitioner
- Muscle testing myself
- Not just about yes/no. I started asking, “on a scale of 1-5 (5 being great), how good is this item for my body? If the answer was a 4 or 5, I ate it or used it; if lower, I found another option.
- Learning to heal and work with my own energy body
- Eating real food
- Organic fruits and veggies
- Grass-fed meat
- Sustainable fish (wild-caught but in an environmentally sustainable way)
- Avoiding
- Processed foods and foods with flavorings/preservatives. “Natural Flavorings” is a way for companies to hide ingredients. Those ingredients are not always healthy even though they are labeled “natural.”
- Extreme diets, especially long-term (high-protein, low-carb, etc.). Some of the more restrictive diets I’ve been on put me into “hyper-vigilance” mode around everything I ate. I found that the hyper-vigilance caused such a high level of stress that I was doing more harm than good even though I was supposedly eating what was “good for me.” Hah!
- Supplements
- Simplifying
- Declutter – clutter holds energy.
- Reducing Stress
- as much as possible and within your control
- Stress is a huge deterrent to healing and can make it challenging to calm the body down.
- Being in nature
- Learning to live and enjoy life again
Supporting the body in healing
- Listening to the body
- The body “knows” what it needs to heal. Pay attention and find/listen to that voice.
- Be gentle with yourself
- Don’t beat yourself up or overly criticize yourself
- Don’t overdo
- Don’t take care of everyone but you
- Nature
- The energy of feeling the sun, hearing the birds and a moving stream.
- Movement
- The body wants to move. I’m not talking about traditional exercise here. The main point is not to be too sedentary.
- Rest
- Get plenty of sleep
- 20-minute power naps
- 5-10 minute break to calm the body down (when I didn’t have time for a longer rest/nap)