Many of you know that part of my recovery proceses was resolving physical pain I had experienced since way before bulimia ever showed up in my life.
Yet just as important, I had started to change emotionally and spiritually as well. The interesting thing is, for me, it wasn’t until I reached a level of physical balance that everything clicked into place.
I know that everyone is different…healing is very personal and can vary with each individual.
But it seems that one thing is true for everyone. And it’s this idea of balance. I would define balance as feeling centered and grounded. It does not mean that everything is “perfect” all the time. Someone once said that it’s like being on a seesaw — sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down and sometimes you’re evenly balanced in the middle. The idea is NOT to stay stagnant, but to have a sense that there is a flow…and to trust that flow.
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I’m not sure when I started to “hate” the winter. But I can tell you that “hating” anything, including the winter, did more harm than good. Here’s why….AND how to shift your perspective.
If I were to look back, I think I can trace this hate of winter to college. I went to school in Burlington, VT, one of the most beautiful locations in the country, yet also one of the coldest. In the wintery weather, walking to my classes seemed like an experience in suffering. Back then, no one really wore hats or warm boots (well, probably the truly smart people did!).
I remember feeling two things about winter. One was that it got dark earlier, making me feel stifled because it was unsafe for women to walk alone on campus. The other was the feeling of wanting to stay inside permanently and not face the harsh winds that often went well below zero.
During this time, I began to experience an increase in chronic digestive pain and feelings of depression. The depression seemed to invade my body just as the darkness invaded the day. (more…)
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I recently attended the Tampa I Can Do It Conference and it was amazing! For anyone who’s been wondering whether or not to go, I highly recommend any of the Hay House conferences.
In Tampa, I saw Caroline Myss speak live for the first time and I enjoyed her presentation (she was a keynote speaker).
Tonight, she is going to be on Hay House Radio (internet radio) talking about anorexia, bulimia and self esteem. Here are some of my thoughts on eating disorders and the Chakras AND how to listen in on Caroline Myss tonight (or later at your own pace):
Caroline Myss
Saturday, November 24, 2007
6:00 pm – 7 pm Pacific Time or 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Eastern Time (USA)
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I have had many questions lately about dealing with physical pain in recovery.
If you currently have an eating disorder, you may have pain. In fact, you may be in a holding pattern with pain, where it has become the norm for you. So much so that you don’t really feel it.
Some of the pain I had before recovery from bulimia:
- Foggy thinking – I had a great memory and while I often felt full of energy, I felt like I had to expend extra energy working through a veil of fog during my day.
- Digestive pain – gas, bloating, constipation and often, crippling digestive pain.
- Body pain – The track of pain was in the “stomach meridian” in Chinese medicine (from my mouth, up to my head and down through my neck, to my shoulder and all the way down to my big toe). While the pain varied, it was interesting to see that it tracked this meridian. Even more interesting is that the spirit of this meridian is “purpose of life,” the orifice is the mouth and the chakras are the 2nd and 3rd (solar plexus, our power house).
I had the same idea I think we all have…in recovery, I’ll feel much better, right?
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When I was in my corporate job, I worked with Pam Ragland as my business coach. She helped me create my vision, make my overworked executive job into a more balanced schedule and finally, exit my job and start my new business and lifestyle.
Before I started working with Pam, I was interested in becoming a coach, which was a small part of the reason I hired my own coach!
The process of coaching produced so many amazing changes in my life that I was sold on the life-changing impact that coaches can have on people’s lives. And all we had to do was meet by phone once per week!
Within one year of writing my vision and focusing on it daily, I had achieved my vision of starting my own business and living in the Caribbean. Shortly after I left my corporate job, I took Pam’s Thought Shifting (TM) class. In this class, I learned how my thoughts could either help or hinder me in my life and work. Pam also created a process that energetically shifted us to a higher level of consciousness. I’m not sure how it works, but it uses Law of Attraction and quantum physics. Regardless, I found myself feeling happy for no reason shortly after taking the class.
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If you read my post yesterday, you know that affirmations don’t work UNLESS you believe in them!
In fact, Louise Hay says that everything is an affirmation.
That means that every statement we use, whether negative or positive is an affirmation…it attracts exactly that energy back to us. So if you say, “I’m stupid,” that’s an affirmation. Say it enough and it becomes a belief.
Likewise, if you say, “I’m smart,” the same thing is true.
The kind of thinking that accompanies eating disorders often carries these kinds of “affirmations:”
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