I am just beginning the book, "Goddesses Never Age" by Christiane Northrup, MD and so far I love where she is going with this book.
"Beliefs and Biology"
"The most important thing you need to know about your health is that the health of your body and its organs does not exist separate from your emotional well-being, your thoughts, your cultural programming, and your spiritual outlook. Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good news because your thoughts and beliefs can be brought under your conscious control and, when necessary, surrendered to the healing power of Spirit (much more on that later). This is the part of health that Western medicine always leaves out, but trust me, it's where your real power resides, with no exceptions. Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues and organs. There's no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That's the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body."
"Let me be clear here. If something has shown up in your body as a health concern, you most likely aren't consciously aware of why it is there. If you had been conscious of the issue or emotion, it would not have had to show up physically because you would have already addressed it. Please try your best not to resist this truth. Have the courage to go deep within and ask yourself the following: "What is going on in my life, and my thoughts and beliefs, that I can learn from this situation? What is the soul lesson for me here? How can I grow from this?"
"Ayurvedic and Eastern medicine practitioners are well aware of the energetic connections between various systems in the body, but Western medicine practitioners tend to look at one system in isolation. In fact, this mind/body split is built right into the fabric of our society. No podiatrist is likely to look at how you bear weight on your feet and ask you about whether you have any unprocessed emotions or stressful situations causing you sadness, anger, or grief. If he or she did, you'd probably recoil and feel defensive or blamed, thus blocking access to that line of inquiry. Yet even if your having hand problems that are you can relate to not having an ergonomic workstation, or if you've injured your hand in an accident, getting in touch with the unprocessed emotions that you may be holding in the tissues in your arm and hand might alleviate the pain and allow this part of your body to repair itself. And remember that you probably don't know what the lesson really is until after it has be resolved." Christian
What I love about this book she is looking at the thoughts and beliefs and the unprocessed or unexpressed emotions. The body never lies. If there are issues, don't look at the body, but check out your life and ask the pain what message it is here to bring.
I have been asking that of my sciatic nerve on my left side. So far nothing.
However, when I walked over 4 miles, I began to feel emotion bubbling up.
My intention is to keep asking the pain what it is here to tell me.
I love that Goddesses never age....I can see this with My Lady and Art.
