I have noticed in the last few months, in my own life as well as with so many of my clients and friends, physical pain is one of the highest complaints. We’re moving into higher levels of consciousness, this is contributing to us being pushed to resolve, feel and to process anything and everything that has not been processed or resolved. Trauma and stress is held in the physical body.
Neuropeptides form an intercellular language that communicates with every system in your body constantly transmitting information. More importantly it is the neuropeptides that link the limbic system with the rest of your body that transmits your emotions and translates into chemical messages. Emotions like fear panic shame anger and hate all of these can undermine the normal functioning of the nervous system leading to deliberating nervous conditions in the same way joy happiness loving kindness and forgiveness can increase your well-being leading to a balanced calm and healthy nervous system. Pain shows up when there are unresolved emotions, traumas, and experiences.
Pain in any part of the body is a signal that something is off kilter that either you are stretching too far going in the wrong direction trying to do too much on your own or repressing too many psycho emotional issues, so that the flow of communication has damaged.
I’ve never felt comfortable or safe in my body as I have had many sexual violations and surgeries since a child. This applies to so many other people too. As a coach and healer for 20 years I have come to realize that most of us are not comfortable in our bodies most of the time. We disconnect from our bodies. And so many of us women have bad self-body images. We’ve never liked how we looked, and are so critical of our hair/ our eyes/ our wrinkles /the legs, you name it. Which is why the beauty industry is so massive and anorexia as well as many other eating disorders diseases are just continuing to grow.
I have had an eating disorder throughout my life and still addressing it but healing from them. Anorexia is a form of starving yourself, it’s the one thing you can control, you can control what you put in your body or what you don’t put in your body. Addiction too, stem from unresolved trauma, the more we dislike our bodies or how we feel in it, we can tend to become addicted to various things whether it is shopping, gambling, alcohol whatever. We distract ourselves and we disassociate from ourselves, and this is a big trigger for physical pain.
Pain is an indication that something is wrong, that you need to pay attention to hear what it has to say. Invariably the area of physical pain is representing a psycho emotional pain, and when you start to listen to your body, you can insights to why it is in pain.
I’ve started to listen now to my body and come home into my vessel that holds my soul and tune into and ask my body what’s really going on here. I’m being kinder to my body, I’m learning to not criticize her or judge her for what she looks like or what she’s not accomplishing. I’m honoring that this body has carried and is carrying so much trauma stored, so just by being with my bodyand listening to what she has to say and apologizing to her, she is healing.
So, I encourage everybody to do the same, be kinder to yourself, treat yourself like you would treat a puppy or a little child. See how it heals!