stress is at the root of your illness, here’s why that’s a good thing!
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disclaimer: This is not medical advice. This is intended to educate, inspire and support you in your self healing journey. Speak to your medical professional. Some content might be sensitive; I invite you to practice self-harmonizing.
Sitting across from your doctor, you hear the news, “you have this illness, and the plan is…”
Their voice begins to trail off as they speak about the plan regarding which medications you’ll be on and how you can expect your life to be shunted from this diagnosis… from your diagnosis.
There’s a part of you that is happy to have confirmation of what you suspected; you feel validated, it wasn’t in your head.
And now with a diagnosis, you can treat it, right?
Not exactly.
A diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll heal.
Far more commonly, a diagnosis means you’ll be placed on medication(s) to suppress symptoms that will certainly impact other areas of your body-mind-energy.
In Dr. Bruce Lipton's book, the Biology of Belief, he demonstrates the idea that when we insert a drug, it doesn’t just impact system A (where the illness exists), it impacts system B, D, E, etc. and how they all impact one another.
image from Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton
Current conventional healthcare isn’t really health-care, but sadly, sickness management.
Suppressing symptoms not only alters all other systems in the body (shown above), it also wastes time as the underlying issues remain untreated, continuing to disrupt the organism (you) more and more… until you can’t ignore it.
You can consult with a number of doctors who believe this to be true: Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Christian Gonzales, Drs. Sonny and Shy, Dr. Will Cole, Dr. Molly, Dr. Carrie B, Dr. David Perlmutter, among others.
I’m really so grateful to live in a time with so many Functional, holistic, and quantum doctors rising to the forefront of medicine.
a rude awakening
For me, I was 12 years old and the doctor told me I had arthritis, bursitis and tendonitis in my hips.
She said I would have to quit playing soccer and be on continuous NSAIDs. The alternative was I’d be in a wheelchair or have hip replacement surgery by age 30.
A subtle voice, an inner knowing, guided me in a different direction.
somatics
One of my Kundalini Yoga teacher trainers would often say; “listen to the whispers so you don’t have to hear the screams”
That’s somatics for you; reconnecting to the innate wisdom and whispers of the body. To heal and restore the body back to vibrancy, connection to self and other, and well-being.
Reflecting back on my dad’s health who died “suddenly” from pancreatic cancer last September, he had numerous whispers before the scream of cancer came crashing in.
Psoriasis
Diverticulitis
Back pain
These whispers eventually became much, much louder. They became a scream of cancer.
There is immense value in learning to listen to the subtle whispers.
epigenetics
We used to think genes caused illness and dis-ease.
Mid 20th century science leaned heavily on genetic determinism; meaning your health (physical, mental, etc.) was determined by your genes.
By the end of the Human Genome Project… we were stunned to learn we didn’t have over 100,000 genes as speculated, that we have a mere 19,000 genes.
This meant it couldn’t be the genes themselves that lead to a wide variety of appearances, experiences and illnesses, something else as at play here: the environment.
Ill-ness is a result of epigenetics, of the relationship between environment and genes.
Environment includes:
the food you eat
when you eat
pesticides and other chemicals ingested
gut health
blood sugar/glucose spikes
movement/exercise
fascial health (tensegrity)
hydration
sweating
emotions
alcohol
air quality
hormone disruptors
literally infinite other environmental* factors (see this for 60 examples)
*Environment is external environment, internal environment, relational environment.
These all stress your system, in a good way or bad.
Essentially, they can cause your genes to express one way or another; on or off, healthy or dis-eased.
That's a good thing!
That’s a great thing!
That means you are responsible for your health! Responsible as in response-able; you are ABLE to respond to your circumstances!
You are NOT the victim (another thing we say in Kundalini Yoga; victim becomes the victor).
You can change your health, your circumstances, your experience of life.
How?
You heal your relationship stress (and environmental stressors), of course.
infinite love,
Stephanie
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