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How Emotions Inform Your Life for Wellness and Well-being

Emotions inform your life for wellness and well-being. When your body-mind system perceives stress, it can respond with or without tension. This is based on the learning you received in early childhood related to attachment, safe expression of feelings such as anger, grief, joy or frustration.

You respond to life based on how you experienced what was happening to your parents or between your parents. An infant or small child pick up when their parent is stressed or unable to be emotionally present. When this happens, the small child learns how to repress basic needs to compensate for the need to attach through inhibiting or stopping the expression of emotions to not lose that bonding.

Abuse or neglect in families can show up as physical, emotional mental or even at the spirit level. If your parents were unable to give you the nourishment you needed to feel loved, or were unable to witness you and acknowledge your emotions to support your emotional development, this impacts how you create relationships and respond as you go through life.

Your survival and emotional brains continue to influence your behavior responses today. The template of your earlier experiences and family system rules about acceptable emotional response creates unconscious patterns for attempting to get your basic needs met in your relationships with others.

According to Dr. Gabor Mate, stressful childhood conditioning creates confusion about boundaries that can result in the inability to engage in healthy fight or flight responses. This repression of the ability to be assertive leads to a state of helplessness.

The imbalance and confusion within your body-mind system can lead to a belief that it is more important to meet the needs of others than take care of yourself based on your stressful early childhood relationships.

When your body-mind is imprinted with unconscious limiting beliefs, attitudes and thought patterns, this leads to relationships and body responses that represent unmet life or spirit level needs.

When your emotions are repressed, you are unable to work with them to inform you about what is happening within your body, or you lose your ability to discern situations and relationships that are depleting or toxic to your emotional well-being. It is then, also, that your immune system has more difficulty discerning what is self and what is not-self to create healthy boundaries.

Emotions are a vital part of your PNI (Psychoendoneuroimmunological) System which includes the connections between your emotional, nervous, immune and hormonal mechanisms. This means that the impact of stress on your emotions relates directly to your nervous system, hormonal and immune response affecting your health and sense of well-being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoneuroimmunology

What you experience emotionally influences your neurotransmitter, hormonal and immune system responses. Repressed emotions can have a negative impact on overreaction or depletion of healthy internal systemic responses. Over time this can lead to the destruction of internal resources to effectively deal with immunity, vital energy levels, and health.

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headaches, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or hopeless unhappiness. ~Hans Selye

Disorder in your body-mind system results over time with an inability to discern true feelings, danger, or personal needs leading to exhaustion, depression, addiction, disease, and self-destructiveness.

Emotions inform your life and response to it. It is what you do with the information that emotions offer you that creates an opportunity for essential insight, expression and life-enhancing body-mind system response. Accessing your emotions through your body wisdom is a vital skill for creating greater integrity in your wellness and well-being.

According to psychologist Ross Buck, there are three levels of emotional response. This is how your body-mind system signals and reacts to what is happening to you and around you to resolve stress. By tuning in to what is happening inside, what you observe your body is doing, and what feelings you are experiencing, you can begin to build the foundation for conscious self-care.

1. Notice physiological changes in your body including your heart rate, breathing patterns and blood pressure. When your body experiences emotional stress, the muscles in your eyes contract, your stomach can become irritated and your muscles tighten for “fight or flight.” Notice where you feel the tension in your body, and where you feel numb. These signals can guide you to acknowledge your stress. It is an invitation to work with stressful situations or to explore healthy self-care.
2. Observe body language to feel and express emotions through gestures, facial expressions, mannerisms, and posture. Your body-mind system responds in this powerful way when interacting and bonding with others. The expression on a person’s face or the way your body is held can give you an enormous amount of sensed information. If you are not sensing what is happening in your own body, it becomes difficult to feel and read other people and life situations. Make time to tune in to how your body is letting you know how you are holding your self together, protecting, expressing or showing you where you stand.
3. Identify your subjective awareness. Tuning in to how you feel is key to creating a connection between your emotions and your body’s response. Do you feel angry, happy, sad, frustrated, hurt, tired, hungry, lonely, or scared? This allows you to draw upon what your body-mind system is telling you about your experience now. It creates the possibility to work with and respond to the need for authentic self-care. If you notice that you experience the same kind of emotional stress over and over, it is pointing to an unmet need or systemic root that deserves your time and awareness.

Resonance Repatterning® sessions get to the root of what you need to experience a positive and sustainable change in your life. Your body is a map of your life’s experiences. It is through working with this information that transformation through the connection to your family system’s patterns can be healed. By doing so, you gain awareness, a greater sense of ease, peace, and authorship for your life.

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Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing

This article offers you resources to create a healthy vision with natural eye care. It includes a wonderful book resource guide with that purpose from two well-respected practitioners who work with natural modalities for healing issues with your vision. You’ll find the description from its authors for natural eye care to create healthier vision and healing of your vision issues naturally. *Special discount code available at the base of the article.

From the authors: In Chinese medicine, we look at every part of the body as being integrally connected to every other part. We are approaching spring which is associated with the Wood Element. It is the time for new possibilities and the wisdom of the past, and thereby seeing the clear and appropriate course to take. It is represented by the Wood Element which is comprised of the liver and the gall bladder meridians. The Liver Meridian “opens to the eyes”, and affects your sense of vision, the emotion of anger, and the sound of shouting. When your vision is stifled, you feel anger: You can decide to plan, to act, take aim, and suddenly your plans are thwarted.

 Guide to Healthy  Vision & Healing

The Natural Eye Care website at www.naturaleyecare.com was created over 18 years ago by Marc Grossman, O.D., L.Ac. and Michael Edson, MS, L.Ac. as a way to provide clinically and peer review research in ways studied to help people maintain the gift of healthy vision. Their latest book published in December 2018 discusses in detail over 38 years of clinical experience in the holistic eye care field working with patients to benefit and improve their vision.

Our approach is looking at vision as connected to the health of the whole body, and when any part of the body breaks down (auto-immune disease, poor digestion and/or circulation, as well as emotional imbalances for example), this can contribute to and even cause eye disease. We believe that 25% of the nutrients an individual takes into his/her body is used by the visual system to maintain optimal eye health. The visual system is the second most active part of the body next to the brain. When the nutrients reaching the visual system are compromised, this often results in eye disease including macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, dry eyes, eye floaters, or even simply poorer vision without a specific pathology, particularly in the aging process.

Eye strain is now becoming a big part of eye problems due to the excessive use of electronic devices. Your visual system was designed to look outwardly primarily for farming and hunting, and not designed for long hours of near work which stresses your visual system.

Your body is always trying to maintain health and heal. Our goal is to offer advice on the many ways that one can support your own body in this process no matter where you are in the process to maintain and heal your vision.

Maintain and Improve Your Vision Naturally

Our new book, “Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing,” is 799 pages, covering over 40 eye conditions with over 2,000 peer review research study citations on nutrition and vision. Categories covered include Vision Diets, antioxidant and related research, Chinese medicine and vision, juicing recipes for specific eye conditions, essential oils, yoga postures by meridian, eye exercises, vision-related to personality, and much more.

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Bios of Authors

Marc Grossman, a leading holistic eye doctor in the United States, has been in practice since 1980, and is the author of a number of books on natural eye care including Greater Vision: A Comprehensive Program for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Clarity, McGraw Hill, 2000. He is co-author of Natural Eye Care: A Comprehensive Manual for Practitioners of Oriental Medicine, Beyond 3D: Improve Your Vision with Magic Eye, and Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing, Natural Eye Care, Inc., 2018.

Michael Edson is the co-founder and President of Natural Eye Care, Inc. He is a New York State Licensed acupuncturist and co-author of Natural Eye Care: A Comprehensive Manual for Practitioners of Oriental Medicine and Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing, 2018. His newest book, Natural Parkinson’s Support: Your Guide to Preventing and Managing Parkinson’s is available here.

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How the Observer Effect Impacts Your Life

In New Physics the Observer Effect is as much about the quantum world as it is about your consciousness that impacts what your perception of life creates in the world.

 “Our observation has a direct effect on our world.”~ Dr. Joe Dispenza

The ability to observe your feelings, thoughts, and sensations is vital for wellness and well-being. The ability to observe ourselves acknowledging our emotions and feelings as part of a bigger picture allows us to realize that we are more than any of these parts.

The information that comes from your body-mind system can come in many ways or forms. Information emerges from your mind, your heart, your gut, your breath, tension, and relaxation states, and even from your bones. Being in touch with your thoughts, sensations and feelings allow you to be more in tune with what your filter is reporting in the present.

This awareness invites you to a deeper quality of attention. When this is so, there is neither an observer nor a quality of judgment of being observed. By changing the lens of your perception “camera”  you get the opportunity to witness from 20,000 feet while at the same time going more in-depth. By doing so you move out of the unconscious imprints of the past more consciously into what is happening in the present. This allows you greater freedom and choice instead of boomerang reactions from limiting beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions. 

Being able to observe your perception of what you are feeling or thinking builds the bridge between the inner world and the outer experience of your life. For example, if by observing that you feel the tension in a particular experience, your body is letting you know a number of things. From your brain’s perspective, it could be that you are resonating with a signal of fear from the past that activates a belief about what is happening now. Looking at life through the lens of fear creates the condition of attachment to conflicting desires and reactions related to your fear. Even when your mind is confused, it is choosing a particular perception based on conflict. The attachment is to what your thoughts tell you. In response, your body might register a change in breathing pattern, an increase in blood pressure, or a sense of urgency for a defense response.

However, it is also possible to observe this perception by using your body-mind system’s inner technology to bring calm. By observing the tension, allowing it to be what it is, giving it a place in your awareness, you give an expanded view of the message from tension, and all of its pathways of communication in the present. Being in touch with your breath specifically, you can begin to experience listening with intention. You can slow down. In this way, you begin to make space for attention to the underlying needs that your thoughts and body sensations are giving you. Listening to your body and your mind is key to participate in creating integrity in your wellness and well-being.  It is your relationship with this perception, thought, feeling and sensation that creates consciousness.

Taking action based on the input your own body-mind system gives you allows you to experience greater “author-ship” and sovereignty with informed choices based on expanding. The question is: “How do I make this a practice in my life?” Make space for registering your breath patterns, take time to rest, take a brief walk, journal, get a good night of sleep, eat nourishing foods to feed your organs, stretch, look out over an expanse like the ocean, across a hill or mountain area, or read a book can all be activities to begin the process of shifting your perception from near to far, inner to outer, from tension to calm.

There are many ways to improve your ability to tune into your inner perceptions, and as unique as you are, there are always signals that will always give you feedback if you listen.

Sometimes your body-mind system signals the need for change in small ways and specifically when you are hungry or tired. Other times your body-mind system lets you know that you need to process emotions and stored feelings through tears, a need for solitude or friendship, or the need to sleep. Your food choices can also report in on what you need for energy in life. Do you need more sweetness? Are you dehydrated? Do you feel ungrounded?

Your muscles and bones can give you a sense of structural feedback. Do you feel heavy? Do you feel numb in some areas of your body? Are you able to tense and then relax? Do you have what you need to move you through life?  Being more in-tune with your inner sensations allows you to take action to create positive change.

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Is Fear from the Past Still Driving?

Where Does Fear Originate?

Fear can originate from many sources. Some of these sources could be from the past, a traumatic event, or a reaction to what you have been taught to believe about yourself or others. Fear can be short or long-term based on the factors involved, and the quality of the resources you had for resolution at the time of that fear-invoking event in your life.  If you had no opportunity to experience safety or connection with calm or healing at that time, you are likely still being driven by the emotions, beliefs, and thoughts from that fear state. The question is, “Is fear from the past still driving?”

Babies and children do not have the same capacity to reason through a threatening or fear-invoking incident as an adult. The developing brain of a child relies heavily on cues from the environment and caretakers from the perspective of the survival and emotional brain.

It can take the reasoning brain well into your mid-20’s to fully operate based on reasoning and ability to discern aspects of the situation, as well as to put distance between a past event and the present. No matter what or when an experience that provokes fear, creates a reaction in your Nervous System. This triggers the need for survival based on your thoughts, emotions, and lens of perception from past experiences.

Your internal sense of feeling or senses can be a source of conflict that feels uncomfortable. Based on your current ability to regulate being present with the discernment for what is happening and sorting through its meaning from a place of survival, emotion and reason are largely based on how your autonomic nervous system responds to an event or situation. This means that your body-mind system has an automatic, cellular, heart, muscle, nerve, muscle, tissue, emotional, and mental function in the process. Emotions, positive or negative affect your physical, emotional, and mental health.

What Causes Fear?

Fear can be personal, relational, or even cultural. Fear can be superimposed over one or all three of these areas of your life.

What you believe is true affects how you predict what will happen to you in the outside world. Shedding light on your limiting beliefs, thoughts, and attitudes about your life creates the possibility for positive change.

A major event in the world could affect how you travel, what you believe about other people and groups, and can affect how you look at the world politically.

In a recent telecast, I was listening to the ex-president of Mexico speak about the horrific event of 9/11. He attributed, in part, nationalism, and fear in the United States as a residual reaction to this event of terror. The Nervous System of a country can also be triggered into the stance of extreme protection, fight, flight or freeze in response to unresolved emotional and survival defense mechanisms.

The mechanism of fear can be activated by trauma in the world related to nature such as hurricanes, tornadoes, animals, insects, and large bodies of water. Fear can be triggered in situations like public speaking or going to the dentist. States of being and connection with spirituality can also evoke fear related to death, the concept of the Divine, the Silence, the unknown, or being alone.

Relationships can motivate fear response that leads to isolation, arguments, or intimacy based on earlier experiences, how you witnessed resolution of the conflict in your family or healing or lack of resolution of situations that provoked fear in your early life can still be at play in your life today. The idea of being in the world, or unable to set boundaries with the world, needing to feel like you have to be in control, or fear of losing control can be extremely frightening.

How Do You Know You are Still Reacting to Fear?

The common characteristics of fear include a change in heartbeat and breathing. You might hold your breath. Your muscles tighten and your thinking moves from reasoning to survival. This changes how your body responds to the world around you. Tension is held in your body so that even your vision and posture changes. Being in extended states of fear from the trauma that has not resolved creates a habitual alert response that over time takes its toll on how you interact and perceive the world.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius

From the Chinese Five Element View

Fear is the non-coherent quality of the Water Element related to your kidneys and bladder. When you are responding to the world through the lens of fear you are more likely to perceive yourself as a victim in your circumstances and life. Because your body-mind system responds to this stance even at the cellular level, the communication within the physical systems of your body moves into protection mode. This limits the capacity for systemic communication throughout the body.

Because it dedicates so much of its energy to the fear response. This leads to the feeling of overwhelming created by the sheer effort it takes to protect or defend yourself instead of being able to connect with other people and explore new ways of being in the world for health, relationship, and business opportunities.

When you move into the coherent aspects of Water Element in collaboration with the rest of the body-mind system possibilities, you expand your ability to connect with the vital essence of your body-mind system. This creates more optimal life energy for your own life.

In relationships, you have a better ability to connect with others in a way that listens to what others are communicating as you are in contact with your own needs for the ability to be able to respond with greater clarity in the present.

Imagine being able to shift into greater calm and resourcefulness. These are the resources that Water Element offers when you resolve fear so that you are better able to reflect and adapt to situations. This allows you to then pace yourself through different projects and situations while taking care of your own boundaries as well as greater perseverance so that your energy reserves are there when you need them. By resolving issues of fear you have a greater capacity to connect to your needs for love, nurture, safety, and trust. This allows you to move from fear to a greater feeling of self-love in the process.

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 Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning® practitioner, a Master Wellness and Well-being Life Coach, and a Person-Centered Expressive Therapist.

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Imagining New Possibilities: Exploring the Point of Choice

 Your body-mind system is your navigation vehicle for imagining new possibilities. You have the inner technology for creating positive change at the cellular level, through your thought patterns, emotions, neurotransmitter reception, motion, light, sound, and coherent energy transmission. The 21st century is filled with enormous change. It requires inner resilience and heart. It calls for inner listening to truly see choices and to navigate the world. You are designed for success. You are designed for self-healing.

  Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.~Viktor Frankl

Point of Choice

To experience a point of choice, you must first know you have an option. Do you resonate with the chaos or the opportunity within the situation?   If you resonate with the feeling hopeless, depressed, overwhelmed, and powerless, you have very little life energy to dedicate to making positive change.  However, if you resonate with optimism, joy, and love, and feel centered, grounded, and enlivened by your thoughts, feelings, and actions, your body-mind system will move into action to create momentum for sustaining positive change.  This results in more integrity, or a match between your intentions and your experience of your positive intentions for your life. 

Working with the body-mind system is essential to create integrity. First, change needs to happen in the Limbic System, the emotional brain, by getting the support it needs to change to update its long-term memory of patterns built up over time by creating a sense of joy and anticipation. Second, the Reptilian Brain, the fight or flight brain, or “Watchdog” that is on alert for any “smell” or image that reminds it of something from the past with behaviors that are automatic gets to calm down so that the emotional and decision-making parts of the brain can work. Third, the pre-frontal cortex, the place of executive function, and action need to be nourished. As this area perceives fulfillment from positive action, the potential for positive change widens the gateway of conscious choice with new information feedback as you make positive change.  In the process, new neural pathways feed your entire system with more coherent information and energy feedback matching your positive intentions for your life.

This, then, programs and builds new neurotransmitter responses in your feelings, thoughts, and physical body. Once this becomes hard-wired through new awareness and mindfulness practice, it allows the Limbic and Reptilian Brain material (unconscious) to use your new awareness and choice patterns to sustain your new way of experiencing wellness and well-being!

 

Create New Possibilities with Resonance Repatterning® 

  Resonance Repatterning® accesses the Triune Brain and body-mind system to access places in your life where updates are needed to create more coherent life energy. In every moment there are unlimited possibilities for re-patterning your life for positive change. Resonance Repatterning is a catalyst for shifting stumbling blocks into stepping-stones to create more life energy, motivation, awareness, and movement towards a sense of accomplishment.

   Your internal messages from your cultural beliefs, your Family System, thoughts, feelings, and physical responses impact how you see, hear, feel, and experience your life.  Brains are automatic machines following decision pathways. For thousands of years, humans reacted to situations as a need for survival with quick decisions. However, with this cutting edge process,   you now have the opportunity to re-pattern your life to experience integrity in your thoughts, feelings, and responses by using this information to step into the point of choice in your present situation with access to all of your resources for positive change.

Listen to the workshop on new possibilities (Choice #3) on the Sample Resonance Repatterning page to find out more.

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Kimberly Rex, MS is an experienced and certified Resonance Repatterning®, Master Life Coach, and Person-Centered Expressive Therapist with advanced training in holistic and healing therapies. She works with clients all over the world by phone, Skype, proxy, and in-person with cutting-edge energy medicine and the process of transformation to re-pattern your life so you reclaim more life energy for your positive intentions.

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