Women's Empowerment Stories ...

Secrets of Healing
~ Ingrid Bacci, PhD

We all know that emotions affect our health. For example, chronic anxiety can wear you down, causing anything from ulcers to migraines to back pain. Similarly, an angry inner life can make for heart attacks. But do we really recognize the profound impact of emotions on our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health? Read on, and you may get new insight on the path of healing in your life.

Emotions are energy, and all energy either flows or gets stuck. When we control or repress our emotions, we create stuck energy in the body. Since our organs are the physical outcome of electromagnetic interactions -- everything physical ultimately reduces itself to energy -- stuck energy creates stuck organs. That means that repressed or controlled emotions foster diseased organs: organs that are stagnant, congested or rigid.

How, then, do we heal from physical problems? The first step is to recognize that a chronic physical illness also represents an emotional and spiritual crisis. If you come down with a chronic problem (back pain, irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, diabetes, cancer) you should not only seek medical and nutritional help. You should also recognize that unresolved emotions or conflicts are pressing for your attention.

The second step is to seek assistance in identifying and releasing these unresolved emotions. Repressed emotions are emotions we suppress because some part of us rejects them as unworthy. They also usually involve inner truths that we need to recognize in order to grow into the next stage of our lives. For example, I once had a client with chronic gastrointestinal problems. When she realized that she had always dealt with fear of rejection by clenching in her gut, she began to deal with the fear rather than avoiding it by getting sick. Another client had chronic migraines. She had learned as a child that she had to do what her mother asked her to do. As an adult, she found herself repeating the pattern, stuck in a job that she did not like. Since she had learned to suck it up at an early age, she continued to do this as an adult. The result was chronic pain. To get out of the pain, she had to face her fear of doing what she wanted to do rather than what she was supposed to do.

Most of us dismiss the extraordinary power that unconscious emotions have in our lives. This is partly a result of the fact that our superficial, rationalistic culture does not recognize the power of the non-conscious dimensions of life. It is also a result of the fact that what is unconscious is just that: unconscious. If you are going to heal, you are going to have to get in touch with your unconscious, including that part of you that knows your true path.

~ Ingrid Bacci

Reprinted with permission. To learn more about effortless living, visit Ingrid’s website at http://www.ingridbacci.com