Citrine
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This will be post #1 in my assessment of what’s been happening with cvd and what’s making everyone sick. There is so much to cover that I’m having to break it up into several post. First we have to understand the body systems in play and what our bodies are telling us. I’m kicking it off with one of the most ignored and misunderstood keys to our health - our feelings and emotions. Now before you roll your eyes stick with me on this one. I know I used to treat this topic like “whatever - new age hippie weirdos” but once I understood what power the emotions have over the body the doors blew wide open! Symptoms and illness that seem to have no cause suddenly made sense and the body’s messages were heard loud and clear! So let’s dig in!
We all know the effects that depression and heartache can have on the body. It’s we’ll know long term depression can cause weight gain, sleep disruption, headaches, heart effects, and much more. It is possible to die of a literal broken heart. No doubt you have seen or heard of long time married couples dying at close times - they literally cannot live without each other. The brain too can kill the body. We have worked with people that were so terrified of a certain disease, like cancer, their constant obsession with it caused their body to manifest it. What you focus on grows.
The body is wonderfully made and is always sending and receiving messages. Emotions are energy and chemical reactions in the body. Have you ever had a negative experience that triggered a physical symptom? Someone may lose their job and begin experiencing migraines or you may go through a divorce and develop acid reflux. This energy can also get trapped in the body and each organ and body system correlates to a specific emotion. Grief is often trapped in the lungs 🫁. People in mourning often describe feeling it’s hard to breathe after their loss. This is a time people often get sick with respiratory issues that can progress into pneumonia or just a cough that won’t go away. The body also has a memory. One brother came to us looking for the cause of his “June colds”. Every June he got sick and lasted almost the entire month. After some digging he revealed his first wife had died young after only a few years of marriage from cancer and he cared for until her death in June. He had tried to tell himself he was “over it” but his body clearly was not. We addressed the emotional root of his illness and he no longer experienced them. When someone experiences reoccurring illness around the same time or the anniversary of something it’s often the body reliving an event.
Another common body system to express our emotions is our back. People can go their whole life thinking they just have a “bad back” when the reality is their back is often expressing emotions. The most common is low back pain. Of course if you’ve had a back injury that is another matter. This is focusing on low back pain without an obvious cause. The low back expresses anxiety about lack of support, particularly lack of financial support. My husband was a young father of three with his first wife in the 80s. There was a recession happening and work was scarce (he was in construction trades). He worried constantly about being able to provide for his young family. One morning getting out of bed his low back just completely locked up, couldn’t even get to the bathroom on his own. He was a young, healthy man with no injuries. He was unable to work for weeks and no doctor or chiropractor was able to find anything wrong with him. One chiropractors only advice was for him to try not to be so stressed all the time. He spent several decades off and on with these episodes of back problems. He can now look back and see they were often connected to how their finances were at the time. Now he never has those back issues and doesn’t even think about his back anymore. The shoulders are another big emotional key. People will often start to experience should pain or even frozen shoulder seemingly out of nowhere. The should literally represents shouldering responsibility that is too much to bare. I experienced this for the first time caring for my dad up to his death. We were with him constantly for years and it was clear the end was near. We were exhausted and overwhelmed and didn’t want to face what was coming. That week out of nowhere my right shoulder began to ache and by that evening I could hardly move it. I could barely dress myself for days but I knew what it was and why it was happening. Within a few days of my dad’s passing I woke up one morning with no pain and could move it normally. I hadn’t done anything different but the circumstances were different, it was done. Shoulder surgeries are some of the most unsuccessful surgeries that I see. Surgeons are more than happy to perform them $$$ but often patients are no better or even worse after. Nothing was resolved and now the trauma of surgery has been added. You can’t operate on an emotion.
One of the most extreme emotional illness I dealt with was a young mother in a nearby congregation. She came to me for help with all over crippling body pain. She said her nerves felt like she was being electrically shocked all the time. She had been dealing with this for years and it was making her life miserable. She had been to countless doctors and specialist. They ran every test possible and just came up “inconclusive“ and no actual diagnosis. This left her on high pain meds, bloated, using a walker, and having to wear large Velcro mens shoes so nothing would touch her body. We did the scan with my machine to determine the cause of her pain. I was surprised to see her results were all emotional and heavily rooted with mother pain. I asked her “did something happen to your mother?” Ummm yeah. She broke down shaking and told me eight years before on the night her and her fiancé got engaged they went to dinner with her parents. As they were driving to the restaurant they got in a horrible car accident. She held her mothers hand as she died. Her father, in shock and grief, blamed her because she picked the restaurant. Her constant pain was her body reacting to the belief that she didn’t deserve to be alive and that she had caused her mothers death. The doctors couldn’t find a cause because they were literally chasing a “ghost”. We addressed her grief and the pain stopped within days.
That is some of the ways emotions affect our physical health. My next post I will cover how to read your body’s messages. BTW I’m building to what I think cvd is - this is just one piece.
We all know the effects that depression and heartache can have on the body. It’s we’ll know long term depression can cause weight gain, sleep disruption, headaches, heart effects, and much more. It is possible to die of a literal broken heart. No doubt you have seen or heard of long time married couples dying at close times - they literally cannot live without each other. The brain too can kill the body. We have worked with people that were so terrified of a certain disease, like cancer, their constant obsession with it caused their body to manifest it. What you focus on grows.
The body is wonderfully made and is always sending and receiving messages. Emotions are energy and chemical reactions in the body. Have you ever had a negative experience that triggered a physical symptom? Someone may lose their job and begin experiencing migraines or you may go through a divorce and develop acid reflux. This energy can also get trapped in the body and each organ and body system correlates to a specific emotion. Grief is often trapped in the lungs 🫁. People in mourning often describe feeling it’s hard to breathe after their loss. This is a time people often get sick with respiratory issues that can progress into pneumonia or just a cough that won’t go away. The body also has a memory. One brother came to us looking for the cause of his “June colds”. Every June he got sick and lasted almost the entire month. After some digging he revealed his first wife had died young after only a few years of marriage from cancer and he cared for until her death in June. He had tried to tell himself he was “over it” but his body clearly was not. We addressed the emotional root of his illness and he no longer experienced them. When someone experiences reoccurring illness around the same time or the anniversary of something it’s often the body reliving an event.
Another common body system to express our emotions is our back. People can go their whole life thinking they just have a “bad back” when the reality is their back is often expressing emotions. The most common is low back pain. Of course if you’ve had a back injury that is another matter. This is focusing on low back pain without an obvious cause. The low back expresses anxiety about lack of support, particularly lack of financial support. My husband was a young father of three with his first wife in the 80s. There was a recession happening and work was scarce (he was in construction trades). He worried constantly about being able to provide for his young family. One morning getting out of bed his low back just completely locked up, couldn’t even get to the bathroom on his own. He was a young, healthy man with no injuries. He was unable to work for weeks and no doctor or chiropractor was able to find anything wrong with him. One chiropractors only advice was for him to try not to be so stressed all the time. He spent several decades off and on with these episodes of back problems. He can now look back and see they were often connected to how their finances were at the time. Now he never has those back issues and doesn’t even think about his back anymore. The shoulders are another big emotional key. People will often start to experience should pain or even frozen shoulder seemingly out of nowhere. The should literally represents shouldering responsibility that is too much to bare. I experienced this for the first time caring for my dad up to his death. We were with him constantly for years and it was clear the end was near. We were exhausted and overwhelmed and didn’t want to face what was coming. That week out of nowhere my right shoulder began to ache and by that evening I could hardly move it. I could barely dress myself for days but I knew what it was and why it was happening. Within a few days of my dad’s passing I woke up one morning with no pain and could move it normally. I hadn’t done anything different but the circumstances were different, it was done. Shoulder surgeries are some of the most unsuccessful surgeries that I see. Surgeons are more than happy to perform them $$$ but often patients are no better or even worse after. Nothing was resolved and now the trauma of surgery has been added. You can’t operate on an emotion.
One of the most extreme emotional illness I dealt with was a young mother in a nearby congregation. She came to me for help with all over crippling body pain. She said her nerves felt like she was being electrically shocked all the time. She had been dealing with this for years and it was making her life miserable. She had been to countless doctors and specialist. They ran every test possible and just came up “inconclusive“ and no actual diagnosis. This left her on high pain meds, bloated, using a walker, and having to wear large Velcro mens shoes so nothing would touch her body. We did the scan with my machine to determine the cause of her pain. I was surprised to see her results were all emotional and heavily rooted with mother pain. I asked her “did something happen to your mother?” Ummm yeah. She broke down shaking and told me eight years before on the night her and her fiancé got engaged they went to dinner with her parents. As they were driving to the restaurant they got in a horrible car accident. She held her mothers hand as she died. Her father, in shock and grief, blamed her because she picked the restaurant. Her constant pain was her body reacting to the belief that she didn’t deserve to be alive and that she had caused her mothers death. The doctors couldn’t find a cause because they were literally chasing a “ghost”. We addressed her grief and the pain stopped within days.
That is some of the ways emotions affect our physical health. My next post I will cover how to read your body’s messages. BTW I’m building to what I think cvd is - this is just one piece.
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