Compassionately considering all sides of the story
Trends in consciousness are continually moving through our cultural modus operandi. “Just think positively” is one of them. Sometimes there is some truth and support in these trends. Yet they can be problematic when they become dogmatic and applied too globally, rather than being appropriately contextualised.
“Just think positively” can be completely inappropriate when someone has lost a loved one and still carries that grief in the heart and body. “Just think positively” can bury the truth of what a body and heart is wanting to convey. It can be a supportive mask to get you through your day. Yet if it is fixated, it doesn’t allow you to listen to that pain in the heart that is asking for a moment of honesty in regard emotional pain needing acknowledgment and healing. Positive mindset may be denying the mental and physical sensations of anxiety that are directing you to make some changes in life. “Just think positively” sometimes prevents you from hearing that innate sense of “no that does not feel right for me”. It can drive you to fatigue through the use of the huge amount of energy required to justify or think yourself in or out of something and over-riding what feels true.
One way that I would love to see “Just think positively” applied in our current cultural climate, would be along the lines of trusting the body and our 3 innate intelligence systems. The gut brain, heart brain and caudate brain functions allow us to be attuned to the truth of our inner world and our ability to have resilience to what comes to us from our outer world - the environment. Rather than getting caught up in the fears that get fed to us from the outer world (one particular virus comes to mind) we can attune to a positivity in trusting our inner resources. We have many generations of body intelligence that survived countless viruses. In fact we can thank viruses for the evolution of our body function as I learnt recently from Doctor an researcher Zach Bush. My grandfather was in fact used as a ‘guinea pig’ for trialling Malaria treatments during the second world war. He was injured and unable to be on the front line of the battle fields and instead was on the front line of medicine development through being exposed to the Malaria virus. They used his body to trial the effectiveness of medicines such as quinine.
One could become fixated on the tragedies and tribulations that have happened throughout history, which has certainly contributed to intergenerational trauma. This is a very real thing which I work with in my clinic with most clients. Sometimes at the root of those sleep problems is a holocaust story, or an alcoholic father for example. Yet one could also put their focus on the positivity which is humanity’s incredible resilience to recover and continue to play the game of life, despite the suffering that comes and goes. A remembering of the ability for the body to heal and release it’s expressions of suffering is positivity in action. This is why I have such a deep love for my work as a kinesiology practitioner.
I am fascinated by the body’s intelligence for healing and the way the soul sits in the heart and transforms energetic states and powers the body for healing. Most days I will be reading the latest research in relation to the workings of the body or listening to podcasts or webinars on the topic. It keeps me focused in the positive for what is possible in the world of healing. There was a time in my life that I was drowning in the stories of suffering that I had witnessed through the patients I nursed and the clients I saw as a kinesiologist. I believe it was part of the reason I got cancer. I would have been the healthiest cancer patient anyone had met with the ultra pure diet, exercise and healing regimes I was doing for myself. Paradoxically, cancer was a welcomed ticket out of a world of suffering for me. It taught me to turn my focus to what made life worth living and learn to take time out for myself to receive, rather than feel the weight of responsibility to heal.
For me, positivity is cultivated by focusing my attention on appreciation, gratitude and the things that bring me joy. One of my joys is learning. I have studied the human body for over 30 years now and I continue to study it through the way I work with clients. I am counting my high school days in here because those biology classes are still so dear to me. Fast forward to nowadays, my kinesiology consultations allow me to track through the physiology of the body and the energetic blueprint to find out where the imbalances and obstacle to healing lie. The feedback from muscle monitoring shows me what is obstructing the health of the body and contributing to symptoms, whether they are mental, emotional or physical symptoms.
New research has shown the affect of spike proteins on the body and I am amazed at how much it correlates with what I have found through working with so many clients over the past few years. The research shows that spike proteins mimic a substance in the body called Galectin 3, which causes inflammation in the body. Galectin 3 also puts the body into a survival response which is an activation of the sympathetic nervous system, also known as fight/flight response. This system is not designed to be activated for long periods of time, which can occur when spike proteins are constantly being made and present in the body. It is designed to be activated when the body needs to fight off infection for example. The body needs to also be able to move into the parasympathetic nervous system (also known as rest, digest and recover) state of healing. It cannot do this effectively while there is so much sympathetic nervous system activation. Researcher Dr Isaac Eliaz has been at the forefront of such research and presents much of it in his book The Survival Paradox.
I have been finding that the spike proteins have contributed to countless inflammatory issues in a variety of systems in the body. It can be experienced differently for different people. Inflammation generally presents in the body as pain, redness and swelling. I have commonly seen joint pain, muscle aches, gut, brain and eye inflammation. The spike protein seems to collect in areas of weakness and flare up past injuries or infections. When inflammation occurs in the brain it can present in a number of different ways - irritability, poor mental health, poor resilience to stress, hormonal imbalances, headaches, migraines, difficulty concentrating, poor memory, fatigue and feeling wired and tired.
The research also shows that spike proteins can lodge in the body tissue and cause fibrosis. My grandmother was having terrible trouble with fibrosis of the lungs after her jab, which caused her a lot of discomfort in her final few months of life. I have found that spike proteins can lodge around neural tissue in the 3 intelligence centres and interfere with their functions. This hugely affects the ability to connect with intuitive guidance and be able to make the best choices for ourself and be true to the self. Stay tuned for next month’s blog to learn more about these amazing intelligence centres.
Spike proteins have been found to cause a kind of stickiness in the blood and has a downstream effect of poor blood flow and oxygenation. I have found in many clients that this poor blood flow and oxygenation from spike proteins is a root cause to many cases of fatigue and brain fog. It has also affected mental and emotional health. The body knows when something is wrong and when there is a pathogen (invader) in the system, it mobilises survival mechanisms to alert us to this. When the body is stuck in fight/flight mode because there is the background invader of a spike protein, it can feel like a constant state of anxiety or depression - which can be the body’s mechanism to make sure you take action and do something about it, or stop so that it can recover.
Looking on the positive side, new research has shown that the body produces a healing chemical called nitric oxide. Among many wonderful health benefits, this amazing substance supports recovery from viral infection and has healing effects on the vascular system. Enter our hero for recovering from the particular virus we all have in mind. It was found that people with a greater amount of nitric oxide had better outcomes in recovering from COVID. So how do we help ourselves out here? Stop taking in those things that obstruct its production and take in those things that support its production. That is the research of Dr Nathan Bryan so you can look him up for more about that. But I will say, I will never use a fluoride toothpaste again, and I am making sure to eat my greens every day.
Additionally we have wonderful researchers who have carefully studied the healing power of foods. Dr William Li is one of these people and wrote a book called Eat to Beat Disease. This fabulous book discusses the body’s natural defence mechanisms and the foods that support these systems. Sayer Ji is another one of these people and released a book called “Regenerate” which presents research into particular foods and elements of nature that keep our bodies healthy, strong and resilient. While most of the world was turning their attention to the fear of a virus and being driven to use man made mRNA technologies, Sayer Ji had his focus on mRNA that plants provide us, which give us the information our bodies need to stay healthy. I am a true believer that nature alway has the answers and I trust mother earth a lot more than I trust most humans in power.
I rest my case, controversy included, positive mindset has its place with focusing our attention on the body’s amazing ability to heal. We are more resilient than we imagine. And I might add, the clients who I have worked with, and who have treated by the functional medicine doctors I follow, have had positive outcomes for recovering from conditions I mentioned. The degree of health that people can find following the pandemic varies depending on pre-existing health conditions, constitutional and environmental influences. It is never too late to care for our bodies. We turn over a whole new set of cells in the body every 2 years, so there is always second chances for rebuilding health. You are welcome to get in touch and ask me how.