We all have emotions. We are emotional beings and our emotions are experienced in response to our environment. Emotions are a normal part of life, as we experience and interpret the world through them. In order to lead a healthy, full life, we need to move through all emotions fluently. Emotions are supposed to be felt, processed by the body, mind, and spirit connection, and then at some point let go of. This is usually the trajectory of positive emotions which result in you feeling good. On the other hand, those “not as good” emotions often follow a different trajectory. Read more about how trapped emotions can cause imbalances in your body and life…
More than 75% of illnesses stem from stress in the body
When we look more deeply into illness' and the underlying meaning and cause of them, we realise that everything goes back to either feeling connected, loved and relaxed, or feeling disconnected, in fear, and stressed.
With this in mind, it’s important that we have an understanding of what stress is, why we experience it and what actually happens in the body as a result of it. We can then use this information to support ourselves and our clients with signs and symptoms of stress.
Read on for 15 telltale signs that will help you (and you clients) avoid burnout…
Our body is a representation of our subconscious. It holds onto all sorts of memories, beliefs and perceptions for us, a ton of messages. These messages might show up in the form of niggling feelings, dreams or passing thoughts, or get stored in the body in form of tension, blockages, constrictions, flattening sensations and emotions. Like a child that wants undivided attention, our body will only let these messages go, if we are willing to stop and acknowledge and then release them, but this is often easier said than done…
When I was 16 I got very sick, couldn't go to school for many weeks and nothing that the medical system did for me seemed to help. On the contrary, the more I listened to their advice and ignored my inner feeling going "no way, don't do that", the worse I got.
I was quite stressed out and overwhelmed at the time with one of my close friends wanting to commit suicide, me coaching her and my boyfriend and her not getting along. There was a lot of other stuff going on, but this situation just tipped it over.
Read on, if you'd like to hear what happened next and how my body taught me that I had to listen to it.
