This is probably one of the more common areas that Healers work within and a quick example before I go into detail would be stomach ulcers. Even science or modern-day medicine talks about the harmfulness of holding so much stress within somebody’s body that it translates into physical symptoms.

We often neglect the connection between our emotional health and our physical health and how quickly that can be altered or without undue care and attention how fast it can push our body out of balance. A positive example of this is a nursing mother, how fast her body will react when she hears her baby cry and it’s not every cry, it’s a very specific, hungry cry most mothers report that their milk immediately starts to run. Now I think the bulk of society looks to write this off as only a miracle of pregnancy, but what if we used it to understand how much our body actually listens to us not only on our intellectual side but our emotional side. Just imagine for yourself for a moment that as you’re sitting here reading this your body is listening to every reaction and emotion that you are having in real time and is responding appropriately. That is both a very powerful and scary statement depending on your level of mindfulness within yourself. This is often why mindfulness becomes such a big integral part of somebody’s journey when not only discovering one’s gifts but when somebody is recovering or unpacking trauma within their own life to be able to actively participate and maintain control over not only their intellectual mind but their emotional reactions as well.

If we symbolize how energy moves through our body as it enters into the top of our head through our crown, flows down the main river through our core, and exits through our root, close to our bum. Now if we consider the main river that flows through our body, understanding nature and rivers there are many smaller streams that branch off out of the main river, these flow down our arms, our legs and through different areas which some people call medians. To conceptualize this a little further, let’s picture a river and what would happen if we were to dam it up. Well above the flow of the dam the water level would rise, it would collect debris and change the landscape of the shore and the riverbank from its natural environment. If this dam is allowed to stay long term, downstream of the dam starts to starve of that water and other things that depend on it, start to die off or wither and again the shore bank changes because of the lack of water. If we look at the way that energy flows through our body exactly the same but instead of an actual dam in our body, we see it as a blockage or an impasse that we are holding on to. Back to the first example about keeping yourself in a state of stress all the time can lead to multiple problems in the GI tract. It’s not that that one emotional reaction has stayed with you, it’s that you keep revisiting the same emotional reaction over and over holding that higher state of stress and producing more and more of that bad energy which symbolically looks a lot like what happens when you dam up a river.

As a Healer, conceptually speaking, yes you can grab hold of a person and flood them with light to clear out all that excess of energy but without doing the work to figure out why that’s happening, what you’re doing is going to be temporary. Taking the time to dive into the context will never lead you wrong, quite the opposite it will not only elevate you amongst the industry, but it’ll also elevate you to your client. In a healthy circumstance this may look like an initial temporary release from that feeling in order for the client to become grounded enough or feel safe enough to talk about why they’re keeping themselves in such a heightened state for long periods of time. Once you discover the root of the problem then maybe the Healer switches hats more to a coach or a guide or even a teacher to teach some skills, in order to process and deal with those emotional reactions or that situation better.