Transformation is a daily commitment to changing the way you’re living. It does not happen overnight. It is not a miracle. It is not a 1 time session with a healer, a medicine journey or a vacation.
Transformation takes time.
It is a slow steady series of unraveling, upturning, getting run over by wild horses and picking yourself back up from the mud.
It is not a yoga vacation in the Bahamas.
Not to say a yoga vacation in the Bahamas is not healing for the nervous system and our well being, but when you go back to your life, it will hit you again full throttle.
If we have suffered from deep developmental trauma for example, our journey of healing may take half a lifetime, as we our required to upturn the entire foundation upon which we have built our lives.
Believe me, I know.
If we have been entwined in a relationship to ourselves that thinks we are unworthy, undesirable, unloved and need to prove ourselves to the world, it is not 1 medicine journey where we see god and see our connection to all life that will shift things permanently.
It helps, absolutely, but the true integration is by rewiring the neural pathways in our brain that take daily triggers and send them to controlled responses learned out of years of repetition.
Hence, the daily commitment to transformation.
We must learn to become acute listeners and witnesses of our own inner world. We must learn to watch our nervous system, our body reactions, our thoughts.
We become so in tune with ourselves that we notice when our automatic reaction is headed one direction and we can consciously direct it down a different course.
This takes practice. Daily practice.
Western society promotes allopathy. Basically we only go to a doctor when we are sick. We go to a doctor to fix a problem that has already arisen in our body.
Often the bodies manifestation of a sickness, disease, or malady is not new. It is slowly building in the body over years, whether it be an unresolved trauma, stuck anger, a job we hate, a relationship we “deal” with, or continued actions or practices that weigh on our body or are toxic to our health.
If we knew how to listen to our bodies much earlier in the story, we would not have to react only when it cries out “emergency.”
In eastern medicine a good doctor is not one who cures a malady, rather a good doctor is one who supports you to remain in health.
You see a doctor before you have a problem to make sure that the health of your body is being maintained in the proper way, holistically.
Our being is a whole entity. We are not just a body of separate parts, our body works in symphony with every other part of our body, along with the bacteria and microorganisms within. It also works in symbiosis with our brain, processing thoughts, energy and input from our environment at all times.
We affect the mind, we affect the body.
We take in toxic energies, it affects our health.
We think toxic thoughts, it affects our bodies.
Transformation requirers a complete shift of everything we input into our being-ness. Our environment, our relationships, the old trauma patterns and belief systems that break down our immune system and keep energy stuck, our thoughts, the energy we surround ourself with, the food we intake, everything affects our overall well being.
Transformation is hard to do alone. It requires relationship with people that create a sense of security, understanding, community, compassion and love.
We are whole beings within our own bodies as we are a “whole” being as a planet. Interconnected both energetically and physically. No man is an island. No man can do it all alone.
We literally die without touch and interaction.
Transformation can be done, but it requirers a true commitment to live a healthy whole life geared towards long term well being.
One of the first steps is to find a person or therapist who will create a safe container to support you on your journey. You will go through the ups and downs and you want to be assured that the person who is supporting you truly gets the journey and can be your greatest fan along the way while offering keys to support you to open the doors to your own inner wisdom.
If you’d like to experience somatic therapy and it’s benefits to supporting life transformation, apply for a a first session to see if it’s a good fit for you.
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