Hi Violet, yes I did mention meditation. I must say i find it hard to do as my brain is very busy, but I still perservere with it. Not only is is a way to RELAX, it can also help with healing. I currently try for 2x 30 minutes each day and am sure I feel better for it.
Now, I have been studying bodywork in the past couple of years and have seen a lot of evidence for emotional crap being stored within the body. For instance, when someone has pain in their shoulder and you release it with massage and trigger points they can also experience say a surge of anger when the physical release happens. Or someome else may experience deep sadness or whatever. It sounds corny but I have witnessed it enough times to consider it valid.
When we were doing our classes and thus practicing on each other, several people had these emotional releases. I never had one and my teacher said this was an indication that my emotions were buried WAY down and thus very reluctant to come out. We worked on my left shoulder neck over several weeks and nada - too deep and me too stubborn to let it go.
If I am talking to someone about this and they are really doubtful about how much the mind affects the body i always use the example of what happens when you get nervous/anxious? You may sweat, get shakey, feel sick in your tummy. Now imagine if this feeling is a LONG TERM one that you experience constantly but do not express or process it? Clearly it heads to your body as seen in the physical signs of anxiety, but what happens to it? Well, theory is that is buries itself there and causes dis-ease within the body and thus that getting to that emotional stuff and releasing it can give releif from health issues.
For example, relevant to us. INFLAMMATION and ABSCESSES are associated with anger (boiling/festering). I have been feeling angry at life for a long time. This was really bad over the past few months after a relationship breakup. However, I never got to express this anger to the person concerned and actually didn't really consciously feel angry with him. But I was sure angry. Interestingly when I ended up in hospital and they started treating my inflammation/infection, I felt this huge weight lift over a couple of days and realised a lot of those angry feelings had gone - go figure!
Anyway, there are a lot of authors out there on such subjects of the bodymind connection which are really interesting. If anyone is interested in exploring any of this I would recommend it as it can be very healing. Though I suppose I am not the best advocate of that since I ended up getting so sick!!
However, I believe this episode with my first big flare was my body's way of telling me I needed to sort my s**t out - both literally and figuratively. I am one of the less common Crohns people who suffers constipation as opposed to the big D. My biggest emotional difficulty is letting go - go figure!
SO, this is getting rambly. I am happy to answer any questions on this using my still meagre knowledge. Otherwise I recommend looking up Deb Shapiro - really interesting reading.
So, does everyone think I'm nuts now????:eek2:
