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How does healing work?

Healing works on all levels; at the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level

Going back thousands of years, ancient civilisations and cultures worked with life force, chi, qi, prana. They knew that underneath the solidness of the body, there were energy pathways and points, and in their understanding, sickness was a disturbance or blockage in the natural energetic system which eventually manifested in dis-ease. We can make simple sense of this when we look at something like ‘stress’ and just how much it affects our body. Stress starts off as what we can consider a mental event; we have a thought or hold a belief or perception about something (either current or more often than not a story about a future potential problem or past event) and because the mind does not know the difference between an imagined threat or a real one, the same fear response is activated in the body. The thought is an energetic blueprint that starts a sequence of events and a cascade of biological and emotional responses in the body, most of the blueprints for this go unnoticed as they are hidden in the subconscious mind or are so ingrained we don’t even know we are having them until we experience physical distress or symptoms. 

The initial response is to trigger the sympathetic nervous system, also known as fight or flight, and we begin to release hormones and stress chemicals that flood the body, speeding up heart rate and stopping key processes in the body, like digestion. Is it any wonder that so many of us are experiencing gut and stomach issues, when we are almost permanently disrupting the natural processes and harmony of the body with our thinking! 

The survival stress response is very useful if we are genuinely needing this energy to run or act spontaneously, however this is rarely the case and most of the population across the world is operating more often than not, in an unhealthy and unsustainable fight or flight response, probably most of their waking day and without finding the opportunity to regulate regulated this energy and the body into parasympathetic arousal, i.e. rest and rejuvenation. 

Thoughts also create an emotional reaction, primarily as a result of the mental story/beliefs we are holding but then combined with the physical sensations we are now experiencing in our body due to the stress arousal, it can feel overwhelming and difficult to integrate and regulate what’s present in the moment. 

Healing works on all levels; at the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level of our experience to soothe, regulate and support the body and mind to return to equilibrium and relax the nervous system. In all my sessions, I take a wholistic approach, and the aim is to understand the interconnectedness and relationships between the physical and the mental/emotional, with a focus on healing the root cause. We work with the symptoms presenting in your body and life, rather than the label, because our understanding is that symptoms are the bodies messengers and essentially part of the bodies process and way of restoring harmony. In the traditional western and mainstream view of medicine, symptoms are perceived and treated as the enemy, and the solution is often to medicate and essentially banish the symptoms instead of understanding what is really going on, why its happening and how we can nourish and support the body to recalibrate. Our understanding is that the body is innately intelligent and is always working for you. It does not attack you or turn on you and is in fact so miraculous we are only beginning to understand what we can achieve and do. This is a radical but powerful shift to make, and one of the guiding principles of the alchemist’s way. You only have to consider something common as the symptom of diarrhoea. In mainstream medicine, normally some form of pharmaceutical drug is given to put a halt to the symptom, and once the symptom is stifled and stopped, you are considered well again and problem solved? However, this is actually quite insane if we think about it! The body, in its innate wisdom has decided that it needs to eliminate something from the body, i.e. a pathogen, an imbalance in gut flora, something that our body doesn’t need or want, even stuck emotions can manifest in this way. So really, the truth is we were sick before the symptom. The symptom, as unpleasant as it may be is the healing and the medicine! Our primary job is to support the process and learn to decipher the creation message in this, and how we can nourish the body better going forward.

The focus of a healing session Is to work with and through the layers of your experience and perception, to explore what’s showing up for you physically/emotionally and in doing so, identify and transform the original root cause. All disease, in fact all reality begins in the energetic realm, and so must be tackled there in order to create long term change and transformation. Healing takes place in layers, each one a peeling back and stripping away of whatever is preventing us from being naturally healthy. Patterns, beliefs, stories can be identified and transformed, stuck emotions (energy in motion) can finally be released and expressed in safe and healthy ways, we can address and identify trauma pathways and learn how to regulate our nervous system responses, ultimately letting go of what no longer serves us as we walk along the healing path. We make this journey to reclaim and integrate those aspects of our self and our power we have forgotten. 


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