Because we don’t truly understand our symptoms or what our body is trying to do, we think we need to suppress anything that is uncomfortable because we should not have to experience that. We could not be more wrong!
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We often think that memory is simply recalling facts, numbers, where we put the car keys. But memory is actually one of the ways in which our body restores itself and creates a healing response to injury and illness.
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During this period of time I am often asked what I recommend for preventing illness. In fact the best thing is also what I recommend for healing from illness. Joy. Let me explain to you why the emotion of joy is the best physiological medicine you can give your body.
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In the last year I have found myself sitting in front of patients with not just physical conditions, but emotional conditions. In finding solutions for these people, I began to see the similarities with people I've treated who had chronic immune disorders, unresolved head trauma, ADD, Autism and a plethora of other conditions that affected the nervous system and specifically the brain where inflammation, infection, injury or irritation can affect our neural connections.
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Growing up one of the phrases that I think I heard more often than any other was "it's all in your head!". This would usually be said in response to my stay home from school mystery illness, or when I tried to tell my mother that aliens had landed in the back yard. But the truth is that everything really is all in our head, every symptom, every illness, every ounce of healing.
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Have you ever noticed when you're driving, that you can almost think that you want to move over into the next lane, and the car that's in your way obligingly moves?
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I can't tell you the number of people who come in to see me for insomnia. Want to know the biggest reason they tell me? Something to do with their partner, a pet an open window, someone steals the blanket. I think the Vanderbilts had it right when they would always have separate bedrooms.
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This weekend is Mother's Day and I'm spending it with my mother. Now it may be the fact that it gives my mother lots of time to think, or it may be the grey Maine rain, but she is haunted by the fear of Alzheimer's Disease or dementia.
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Now we have all known commitmentphobes. Usually men, usually the great-looking men with flashing smiles who smell great and say all the right things. But we are all commitmentphobes of one sort or another.
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Many years ago I had the most wonderful old salty client. His name was Tom and he was a grizzly old Irish guy from Southie. He used to swear that a drop of the creature (a bit of imbibing) was the cure for every ill.
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Recently I had a difficult experience with a client. It took me a while to realize that all her protests were attempts to drown out her inner voice. She had blocked her ability to heal.
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I began my Sudoku journey ... easy, then on to medium, then on to tricky, then on to challenging, etc. Now I have developed a habitual rhythm to solving them and actually find them very relaxing and stress-reducing. My point here is that practice really does make perfect, and not just with mindful time wasters. It also is true with your body.
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