Disciplines – Naturopathy – Your Body: Your Emotions
Naturopathy and Emotions
If you’ve explored this site, you’ve likely noticed the significant impact that emotions have on our well-being and physical balance. Emotions arise from our thoughts and the memories of life events, which can leave us physically vulnerable. To enhance your well-being, it’s crucial to reprocess past experiences with gentleness and acceptance. Instead of lingering in pain, approach your past with awareness and present-moment maturity. Understand, embrace, and ultimately release these experiences to achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Naturopathy and Emotions: Pain
I know, everyone tells me that we shouldn’t embrace pain… and yet, it is essential to face it directly, because we need to acknowledge it. We must have the strength to learn from this great Teacher who helps us understand who we are at a deep level. Understand that pain is the tool our Heart uses to express its discomfort.
The mind, in an attempt to protect us from danger and pain, creates incredible narratives that, whether we like it or not, we end up believing. It avoids processing the wounds of our soul to shield us, but our body needs this processing! The body “envelops” the emotions it experiences… manifesting them, transforming, and suffering. Wounds from abandonment, rejection, and injustice… these do not go unnoticed by me. I myself have felt constantly bullied at work, unable to understand men and thus unsure how to manage relationships with them (with everyone; I didn’t even have a male friend, didn’t understand my father, and couldn’t make sense of my husband…).
I spent years trying to understand things with my mind while it was my body that was speaking, and I wasn’t listening… Surely I didn’t consider it…
Personally I always felt this tightness in my heart… I would get a nauseous feeling in my stomach as soon as I arrived at the office…
That was so painful!
The effect of emotions on the body
I spent years trying to understand with my mind, while it was my body that was speaking and I wasn’t listening… I didn’t comprehend it…
Personally, I always felt this tightness in my heart… As soon as I arrived at the office, I would feel my liver swelling… What pain! At every meeting, my stomach would expand, and my belly would look like that of a woman six months pregnant… Or I would experience sharp pains in my colon… Then I developed vitiligo! It was at that moment I decided to stop listening to my mind and start listening to my body. I needed to understand where all that suffering was coming from and why I was experiencing it.
I had even forgotten all the positive readings from my youth (Leo Buscaglia, Anthony de Mello, Khalil Gibran)… and forgotten who I was, what my talents were, and what I enjoyed doing.
Do you want to spend your whole life like this? You really want to continue suffering and remain in this condition, knowing that the light is just beyond your closed door? Do you really want to let bitterness, envy, and sadness take over?
What does the emotion of pain reveal to us in Naturopathy?
- Pain helps us understand that those three days without Mom were a prelude to the arrival of a little brother, so it wasn’t true abandonment.
- Pain helps us realize that Dad’s firm rejections were expressions of his concern for our safety, not the harshness of someone wishing for our unhappiness.
- Pain helps us understand that love between two people can end, but we were not left without love altogether.
- In fact, perhaps that was a situation where our souls could no longer remain or did not want to stay.
- Pain is merely a shadowed moment in which we learn to see and recognize our own light.
- Pain is what we experience when we confront our humanity.
In small steps, by recognizing what we’re capable of and all the goals we’ve achieved, we come to understand and finally see our own strength.
Do you believe me when I say that one of the most painful words is “nowadays”? Nowadays, I’m too old, I’ll never find anyone, Nowadays I’ll never take that trip, Nowadays I can’t fit into those jeans anymore…
Do you believe me when I say it’s easier to leap towards Joy?
Do you believe me when I say the most rewarding game you can play with yourself is discovering how good you are at:
- Parking
- Making pasta carbonara
- Tying a tie
These actions might seem small at first, but they require attention. You need to learn to love yourself again, to smile at yourself as if you were the parent of your younger self…
And if you’d like, you can contact me…