Getting Over Sickness

Today I am sharing an interesting realization about how amazing our human bodies work. Firstly, I need to let you know that when I was a child, I was deaf until the age of two because of severe ear infections. My parents did not know as much about nutrition as we do now, so they continued to give me my favorite drink, milk, in the attempt to help me feel better during tough and painful times. Today I know that dairy is the worst thing to give a child with ear infections because it causes mucus in the sinuses and inner ear. Dairy can make the problem much worse, but not everyone knows this.

Well, I have learned tons about nutrition throughout my life and I have learned even more about energy and how the human body works, though I do not consider myself an expert, yet.

I was out riding my bike last week, one of my favorite ways to relax and get some exercise, when I spontaneously noticed something important about our human bodies. I was peaceful, calm and enjoying the immensely beautiful fall in the mountains when I noticed tension in my muscles. Checking in with my body, I noticed for the first time that I was holding my tongue tightly to the left. Naturally, I relaxed it right away and felt a wave of release flow through my jaw, my neck, my head and my ears. The wave even went down my back and into my legs. Wow! I had no idea that I had developed the pattern of holding my tongue to one side. Instantly I knew that it was a main cause of my chronic tension and neck pain. When I get stressed or overwhelmed, I tighten my tongue. With this realization, a deep knowing rose up from my cells that the pattern of holding my tongue tightly to the left came from my birth. I suddenly remembered the tube that is used to clean out a newborn's nose and throat forcing its way painfully into my mouth. For a newborn, there is no defense against this kind of intrusion, therefor the baby is forced to endure the pain of a doctor or nurse's picking and prodding. Our culture tells us this is necessary, but a healthy baby needs its mother right away, not a "safety" inspection. So the tube caused pain in my mouth which caused my nervous system to respond by tightening my tongue, which became a chronic pattern for the rest of my life. Oddly enough, as soon as I began meditating and focusing on relaxing my tongue more often, within 24 hours I got very sick. My ears and nose plugged up to the point of barely being able to breath.

Luckily I have enough experience in this to know that what happened is that the "cold" surfaced because it has been laying dormant in my cells since I was a kid. I was given so many drugs as a child that the illness never got processed out of my body, it just got suppressed. This is one problem with drugs, it suppresses the illness, it does not "heal" the illness. The body is what heals the illness. Today, I am not taking any drugs for my cold and congestion because I want it to run its course and detox all the way out. It has been a struggle staying sick, but I have been drinking lots of water, taking salt baths, taking herbs and vitamins and mentally giving my body permission to "let go".

I have also been having spontaneous body memories of my ear infections and the pain it caused. I have been craving milk. Of course, I have not had any dairy because, like I said, I am allowing the illness room to move all the way out and I don't want to stuff myself up with more mucus.

I have wondered if the tube was one thing that caused my ear infections in the first place. It makes me wonder about what else might have happened when I was born that could have caused more problems than it helped.

In short, every thought, word and deed in our lives generates consequences. These consequences are not meant to be labeled as good or bad, right or wrong. They just are what they are. As we evolve as a human species, I hope we begin to discover more and more about healthy births, healthy "healing" habits (lets cut down on the drug consumption), nutrition and living with awareness. I would love to hear what you have to say. Feel free to respond or leave a comment. Remember, I am not a professional doctor or nurse. Everything written here comes from my perceptions about life.

-Stacey