OPTIMUM HEALTH RELIES ON sound communication between the body, mind, and spirit. When the lines of communication remain intact, the body has a unique ability to maintain health and balance. However, breakdown of this communication system may lead to physical, mental, or spiritual imbalances.

Our soul plays a vital role in revealing this communication breakdown through manifesting physical symptoms and sensations. Dr. Christine Northrup, MD theorizes that your "...health depends on what's going on with your mind, body and soul, and your symptoms are actually your soul's way of bringing deeper issues to your attention." The problem is in knowing how to decipher the language of the soul and what it may be revealing to us.

All of our thoughts, beliefs and emotions have an impact on our body, mind and spirit either positively or negatively. However, this presents a problem since the subconscious mind is a million times more powerful than our conscious mind. It holds many of our beliefs which are deeply rooted and usually not consciously perceived, making real change a challenge.

Internally, all our thoughts, beliefs and emotions hold energy frequencies that can either harm or heal the body. Through stress, traumas, emotional or physical imbalances, these energy systems can become depleted and toxic. In addition, our energies can be influenced by external factors such as our environment and life experiences. Such complex body-mind interactions can be better understood when we look at the relationship between our energies and emotions when dealing with fear or anger.

When we experience a fearful event an energetic reaction ripples throughout the body system. Fears are considered cold producing emotions that lower our energy frequencies. Since the energies lower, they can cause imbalances in the lower chakras and their associated structures. In this particular example, the bladder and kidneys may be affected. From an eastern healing perspective, the kidneys are considered our internal heating system and are analogous to a furnace. Physically we would sense this energy imbalance as cold feet and a drop in body temperature. To compensate, the kidneys may increase frequency of urination to rid the body of the lower energies (fear).

Anger on the other hand is a heat producing emotion which tends to cause our energies to rise. Imbalances due to anger tend to cause disruptions in our higher chakras and may affect physical structures such as the heart and liver. Physically we sense this shift in energy as heat rising towards the face in the form of a red flush, increased body temperature and/or sweating. Since the liver meridian ends in the eye region, a person may also experience red, itchy irritated eyes. In doing so, the physical body is attempting to release excess heat from the body (anger).

When an emotional charge is connected to a particular event, we are more likely to absorb the energy of the experience into our system. For example, our chakra centers act as memory banks that "...code your experiences in their energies, just as memories are chemically coded in your neurons. An imprint of every emotionally significant event you have experienced is believed to be recorded in your chakra energies." (David Feinstein, PhD) Once imprinted, these energies stay with us until they are freed from our bodymind.

It is has been theorized that positive thinking alone cannot release the negative impact of such emotionally charged states from our system. Although it "...is a good idea, much better than negative thinking, but while you are engaged in positive thoughts using the conscious mind, the subconscious mind with its limiting and self-sabotaging programs is running the show! Consequently, positive thinking does not improve the situation for most people." (Dr. Bruce Lipton)

To make real improvements in our situations we may have to go within, not without and clear away some of the old beliefs that may be locked in our system. To do this, deeper unconscious thoughts and blocked memories may have to be addressed. However, once brought to conscious awareness for healing, and released through our energetic system, a ripple effect of healing will spread throughout the bodymind. Then we are in a position to make real, lasting change.

Bodymind Counselling (BMC) is an effective form of healing that can assist you in achieving just that! It is gentle, powerful, non-intrusive and deeply respectful. Through Spiritual guidance and assistance, BMC is able to facilitate bringing deep rooted limiting beliefs to conscious awareness. When this happens, the communication system between the body, mind and spirit is then strengthened. Then through mental awareness, spiritual directives and affirmations, the bodymind complex is 'reminded' of its inherent capacity to heal, setting in motion the energies needed to restore health and balance.

The greatest obstacle to your health and well-being is the subconscious disconnection from your emotions.
-Dr. Darren Weissman

© 2008, Angela Colleen
Art courtesy of www.sacredcenters.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Angela Colleen an Energy Medicine Practitioner whose life work and passion has been to study the relationship between the subconscious mind and the energy systems of the body. Angela draws on both the Western & Eastern Philosophies of healing to obtain an overall picture of her client’s Energetic health. She is a facilitator who helps bring deep rooted limiting beliefs to conscious awareness. Then with specific Energy Medicine techniques she assists the client in clearing these blockages from the bodymind. By integrating one’s Spirit & honoring the client’s innate healing abilities, her work assists in restoring the Body-Mind-Connection. Her mission is to motivate, uplift and inspire others to find the power within to heal themselves. www.thebodymindconnection.ca