The nurture of color in plants in flowers, vegetables, herbs, trees, and fruits are gifts from nature. These colors are frequencies of nurture for your wellness and well-being.
Over this past weekend, my family and I created a full-spectrum meal with herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Every color and scent was beautiful and the intensity of flavor was welcomed as a gift from sunlight, earth, water, and color working together to create wholeness-health. Like plants, we need sunlight, water, and the frequencies of the Earth. Your body creates life energy based on the quality of your relationship with these sources.
This is in stark contrast to junk food which has been removed many times from the natural connection to sunlight through processing or synthetic substitution. There’s a good reason your mother made you eat your vegetables and fruits before you left the table when you were developingmuscles, bones, teeth, and brain/nervous system.
In fact, when you look at fruits and vegetables you’ll find amazing messages from mother nature about purpose and health.
Mother Nature provides growth, balance, and harmony in so many ways. Here are just some of the benefits of making sure you eat more color.
1) Red: Red foods promote heart health. Of the top 20 anti-oxidant fruits and vegetables, seven are red. These include strawberries, cranberries, raspberries, cherries, red grapes, beets, and red peppers. By including these antioxidant foods in your diet you can reduce damage caused by free radicals in your environment and in what you ingest. These foods contain Vitamin E.
2) Orange-Yellow: Yellow foods help reduce hypertension. Eat carrots, sweet potatoes, corn, yellow potatoes, oranges, grapefruit, mangoes, cantaloupe, and pumpkin. squash, apricots, bananas, and Turmeric. Cook with onions and garlic. These foods contain Vitamins B and A.
3) Green: Green is a master healer protecting against cancer, and degeneration of vision, and protects the heart. Eat cabbage, avocado, spinach, kale, watercress, parsley, okra, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, Romaine lettuce, collard greens, celery, kiwis, and asparagus. Add green herbs like basil, chives, sage, etc. to your cooking.
The chlorophyll in green foods has been associated with inhibiting cancer and slowing the growth of bacteria. The lutein in spinach and kale helps ward off macular degeneration and cataracts.
The super antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid in asparagus, avocados, artichoke, and raw spinach defends against oxidation assaults, stroke, heart attack, and cataracts. It also helps to protect your brain and strengthen your memory.
Avocados and alfalfa sprouts help lower your cholesterol. Asparagus helps strengthen capillary walls. Artichokes help to treat liver toxicity. Broccoli fights cancer and blocks estrogen receptors in breast cancer cells. One serving of two medium kiwis has twice the Vitamin C of one orange. Drinking green tea has antioxidant benefits. Foods in the green range contain chlorophyll.
4) Blue-Purple/Violet: Blueberries are stars in protecting the brain. Known as the “starberry” to Native Americans, blueberries contain Vitamin C, A, and B. Purple plants hold the frequency of Vitamin D. These include eggplants, purple grapes, raisins, blackberries, and other berries in the blue-purple range.
How to Get Started: 1) Work with “ROYGBIV” (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet): Take inventory of the colors you eat most often. Make a list of colors in the color wheel that you are missing. 2) Spend time in the produce/organic section when shopping to find these colors. 3) Choose the most vibrantly colored fruits and vegetables. They have the most nutrition. 4) Find ways to include more color in meals and snacks by adding fruit and/or raisins to cereal, trail mixes, salads, and yogurt. Add different veggies to your salads and dips. Eat fruit as a snack. 5) Look up new recipes for ways to use fruit and/or vegetables you are missing in your diet. 6) Eat more salads and/or make more meals throughout the week that are vegetarian!
7) Check out the book, The Color Code: A Revolutionary Eating Plan for Optimum Health by James A. Joseph, Ph. D, Daniel A. Nadeau, M.D., and Anne Underwood
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Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning® practitioner, Master Wellness and Well-being Life Coach, and Person-Centered Expressive Therapist.
“Timing is Everything” is a saying that applies to a sense of place in the world, the process of meeting up with others on your path, your creativity, relationships, and business opportunities. We look at the world through the lens of time-related to punctuality, missed, lost or potential opportunities, the pace of work, being on time, being early, or too late. Time is superimposed over both your sense of space and the amount of “time” beginning with your birth and throughout your life. Resonating with now is an incredible benefit of the Resonance Repatterning® process to reclaim life energy for your positive intentions in the present.
As a bio-energetic being you also have an innate, and natural bio-energetic relationship with timing through the workings of your organ system. You have a need for both light and dark for your health. You need physical movement and sleep. You also need support for the transition from early childhood to childhood, puberty, menses to post-menses, and the need for personal time within the ocean of responsibilities of your daily life.
The dance of cultural time, timing, and meaning you give to any part of the process can be beneficial or challenging. Your resonance is key in how you meet these events and situations in your life based on cultural, physical, emotional, and spiritual beliefs, attitudes, and thoughts in the present. This makes all the difference in the quality of your living in the present while living in the world at large.
This article speaks to the possibilities for shifting your perception of time and time in the present by transforming your resonance with timing through the eyes of the Resonance Repatterning ® process. Sessions update your memory bank so that you experience more beneficial resonance with your life today affecting your self-care, mindfulness that impacts your wellness and well-being.
1. Birth Process Repatterning:
According to Dr. Watson and Ray Castellino, our birth process holds the key to the patterns you experience in your relationships for the rest of your life. The timing of your birth-related to any complications, being early or late from this view also influences your resonance with time.
“Human beings are affected by their environment as soon as they have an environment, and that means as soon as they are implanted in the womb… People are conceiving, carrying, and birthing children under increasingly stressful conditions. Stress that affected one generation will be played out in the next generation. When we see dysfunction in people, we’re actually seeing the imprint.”~Gabor Mate, PhD
If you were born “late,” for example, you might resonate in life with missed opportunities, feeling like you need to compensate by deliberating over making a decision for a long period of time, not feeling like it is possible without lengthy time to consider, or even resonating with “Life is not safe.” The information within your body-mind system that is accessed through Resonance Repatterning sessions details the specifics about the situation around your birth related to your parent’s stress or felt sense that something was missing or created dis-ease.
2. Sound Frequency Repatterning: Everything in the Universe is frequency expressed in light particles and sound waves. When you are born, you register a birth note for this repatterning based on the month and date you were born. With this information, and with the issue you bring to the process on which you’d like to transform, this session identifies how the frequency of your birth note relates to the challenging relationship or situation. This is done by looking at other primary birth notes such as your parent, parents, self, or relationship. We have all experienced how two notes can sound harmonious to us, and we all have experienced sounds or music that has felt disharmonious. Working with both the coherent and non-coherent aspect of the relationship between notes, greater insight, harmony, and balance is created.
3. Life Cycle Repatterning: Moving, experiencing a loss of any kind, or making change requires a shift in your orientation to life. It also requires a change in how you think. Your sense of well-being and health in the process relies on your resonance with previous change and the amount and quality of support you received. It also relies on your resonance with how you meet challenges, as a problem or an opportunity. Connecting to the natural rhythms of change within any time in your life from birth, to early childhood, to puberty, family-building, transitions of family members through marriage, moves, and death, long-term health issues, or transition into elder years are all good material for this specific repatterning process. Getting back into the rhythm of life allows you to connect to the nurture and support that comes from within and from life around you.
Virtually every cell in your body has a biological clock. ~Joseph S. Takahashi, Ph.D.
4. 24 Hour Time Cycle: Repatterning: Throughout the 24-hour cycle daily, your organ and meridian system works internally with communication between all of the organs of your body. There are particular times of the day that certain organ systems are more active while others are less active. The importance of each of the organ’s contribution to your wellness and well-being. When you begin to notice a change in your life related to emotions, lack of sleep or energy, or distress related to particular physical symptoms, this repatterning looks at the specific relationship to your organ and meridian system signaling the need for positive change.
5. Seasonal Repatterning: This repatterning works with the transition from one season to another. As the Earth changes with its journey around the sun, so do we. Being in harmony with the transition of the season has a natural and important role to play in your health and sense of well-being. Plants and animals change their behaviors with the seasons that impact their ability to survive. Many times, at seasonal change times, you feel a change in your own personal energy. You might have more or fewer health challenges like colds, flu, or Seasonal Affective Disorder. Your emotions and physical activity change throughout these cycles. This repatterning creates support for moving through the seasonal changes to create insight, greater energy reserves, and support while creating greater harmony within the process.
6. Five Element and Meridian Repatterning: All of the Chinese Five Elements and Meridians work together to support your health and well-being. Wood Element related to your Liver and Gallbladder organs and meridian flows within your body influence your sense of time, prioritizing and decision-making. Where there has been frustration and unresolved issues over past experiences, your body-mind system is affected by back-logging energy and your ability to be in rhythm with what is showing up in your life today due to a clouded filter from the past. This can show up with procrastination, being late to events or appointments, and having a difficult time planning. This repatterning begins the process of changing frustration into optimism for positive change in your life.
7. Mastering Time Repatterning: This repatterning addresses your beliefs about time, and creates the opportunity for shifting your perceptions in regards to how you experience time at the moment. The results of this process allow you to become more focused, calm, joy, and capable of taking care of details in the present.
This is your personal invitation to step more fully into the present to experience time and timing in a new way. By doing so, you will have access to a fuller sense of possibilities for how you create, respond, and move forward with greater clarity and life energy for your positive intentions.
Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning practitioner, Master Wellness and Well-being Life Coach, and Person-Centered Expressive Therapist. To explore positive change with timing and time in your life, make an appointment with Kimberly Rex, MS for a personal session by phone, online, or proxy. Contact page is here.
The following article includes 7 natural ways to treat trauma, shock, and overwhelm. These healing modalities collected from the fields of herbalism and aromatherapy, Hanna Somatics, Polarity Therapy, Chinese Five Element and Meridian System, as well as color, light, sound, movement, breath, and energetic contacts.
1) Explore Essential Oils, Herbs, and Teas
Beneficial essential oils for treating trauma, shock and overwhelm include clary sage, lavender, orange, rose, chamomile, Ylang Ylang, Vetiver, and Frankincense.* These essential oils are both energizing ad calming in nature. I have used these essential oils first-hand in school settings with students and administrators in the presence of anxiety-producing situations with issues related to accidents, attempted personal harm, grief, and need for calming. This was done with simple treatments of carrying tissues with oils in small plastic bags or placing the tissue in a fan or diffusers. Finding what works best for you is essential to your specific needs.
*These herbs or essential oils above in a warm bath or foot soak can also be supportive. If a bath is not possible, use coconut oil mixed with a calming or energizing essential oil to provide nourishing support massaged on the bottom of your feet.
Make teas from herbs like chamomile, lemon balm or passionflower at home will also offer comfort. Make teas with rose petals and/or hawthorn for support with grieving and heartbreak. A tea with citrus especially orange peel is energizing and uplifting. Peeling an orange, inhaling the scent from the peels, and then eating the orange can relieve anxiety.
Take a walk in nature or sit in a garden to create calm. If you cannot go outside, look through a window at nature outside. There are acupressure points that calm and tonify your body-mind system, as well as touchpoints on your body that can calm and bring you back to center in the midst of trauma.
a) Acupressure interacts with your Meridian System to harmonize and balance the energy flow of your Bddy-Mind-System. Pain is a blockage or interruption of energy flow that can affect you on the physical, emotional, mental and spirit levels. Here a resource with 6 Acupressure Points for Anxiety.
b)Somatic Exercises: These Somatic Movement Exercises from Embody Labe are especially beneficial for releasing challenging emotions and stress held in your body. Watch the video Somatic Exercises for Difficult Emotions for self-care.
To counteract adrenaline and blood sugar spikes, decrease or eliminate sugars from your diet. Alcohol and caffeine also contribute to increase in fear, anxiety and worry.
Stay well hydrated.
Eat slowly and chew your food completely.
Gut health directly affects how you feel, and add pre-biotics like onions, garlic, leeks, soybeans, chicory root, honey, banana, Jerusalem artichoke, and chia seeds to your food choices to feed beneficial gut flora.
Add probiotics to your diet including yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, sauerkraut, kombucha, pickled vegetables, kimchi, miso, and tempeh.
Create greater balance in your body-mind system with beta-carotene from carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, spinach, and kale; and vitamin C from citrus fruits, red peppers, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and strawberries. Add vitamin E from almonds, avocado, spinach, sunflower seeds, spinach, and again sweet potatoes. These vitamins nourish beneficial neurotransmitter brain function.
The trace mineral selenium in Brazil nuts, halibut, grass-fed beef, turkey, chicken, and eggs is also a wonderful antioxidant that supports stabilizing fear, anxiety, and panic attack. Including foods with zinc leads to fewer anxious feelings. Cashews are a great source of zinc.
Research studies show that omega-3 fatty acids from foods such as salmon and walnuts, zinc like oysters and liver, and magnesium from leafy greens and whole grains help to reduce anxiety.
Make sure that you don’t skip meals to avoid a drop in blood sugar, which can cause you to feel jittery and make your fear or anxiety feel more intense.
Have a snack from the list above on hand throughout the day to keep your system in balance. According to studies on mood regulation, it is beneficial to eat every 3-4 hours.
Make sure you get enough fiber in your diet to digest food and detoxify what is not needed in your system.
6) Speak with and Spend Time with Someone You Trust
Having someone be with you if even just in the same room or close by to provide a sense of safety and support is helpful. If you cannot be in the same space, connect by computer or phone. Being able to express your fear and anxiety safely and to be heard is important through the loving presence of listening. Talk about your fears, and what you need to feel safe to trust again. Talk to and be with people who make you feel safe.
6. Nature and Sound
Get into the sun, meditate, practice Yoga, Tai Chi, prayer, or listen to music. This connects you to the support of your life force to harmonize and balance your emotions. Listen to music with flowing water in the background, or go for a walk next to the water.
7) Give Yourself Peace and Quiet
Give yourself the time you need to rest, to cry when you need to, and make space for self-care. Sleep allows you to cleanse toxins and stress from your system. Keep the same routines that you have kept for your sleep schedule. Create comfort in your living space. Wear and sleep in soft fabrics and find ways to bring gentleness into your living and workspace. Even if it means carrying something in your pocket that connects you to a feeling of safety, create a loving space that goes with you. It can be a picture of someone you love, a gentle message to yourself or from another person recorded on your cell phone, or a reminder of something that allows you to feel peace.
Take a break daily to give yourself a loving space for peace and quiet. If you want, you can draw, write, sing, move, play an instrument or walk to express your inner process. Life is energy in motion. Moving through the process of fear, anxiety and trauma is a whole-body experience, and it takes time and loving support.
This is your invitation to move through the process with the natural and nourishing process of Resonance Repatterning® that relies on the innate wisdom of your own body-mind system to transform trauma, shock, and overwhelm naturally.
A number of Resonance Repatterning® sessions written by Chloe Wordsworth are devoted to empowering the life energy or the Energetics of Relationships. These sessions work with the essential components of relationships: communication, conflict resolution, defenses, and the geometric frequency of dis-ease physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
Life is energy in motion. Patterns in your life have broadcasting frequencies of light and sound. The quality of these communications affects how you experience both health and relationship. An interruption, disruption, or shut-down of energy within your body-mind system creates pain or dis-ease.
In a relationship, the energy that passes between you and another relies on the quality of your inner consciousness and directly affects how you experience a relationship.
Empowering Your Life Energy Starts at the Source
A way of explaining this can be found in the analogy of the workings of a lamp.
Are You Plugged In? A lamp can’t gain access to energy flow without being plugged into the electric source in the wall. In relationship terms, this refers to how you resonate with what is healthy and loving for you. Are you feeding yourself healthy foods, thoughts, and physical and spiritual nurturing? Is there an unresolved pattern of trauma, loss, shock, or abuse that continues to cut you off from experiencing nourishment from healthy companionship and love?
Connection: The cord that runs from the wall to the lamp carries an electric current to help the lamp function. In relationships, keeping it going through spending time with each other, excitement, common goals, mutuality, and the ability to resolve conflict in a way that keeps it operating and moving towards growth and life-enhancing experience is key. No motivation equals energy to keep the relationship going.
Empower Your Relationships by Keeping the Love Light Burning
The light bulb itself holds the charge or space for the light to glow. In relationships, this is the ability to build on memories and activities that nourish gratitude, fun, compassion, and love. This helps keep the attraction going even when there are difficulties or challenges. It’s an energy bank that helps you and your relationship thrive. Your thoughts, words, and actions create wave frequency patterns. This also gets played out in relationships with posture, facial expressions, movements, feelings, and handwriting. When your actions are coherent they have a positive and strengthening effect on yourself and others. When your actions are non-coherent they have a weakening and life-depleting effect on yourself and others. Each person is part of an interconnecting web of relationships.
Empowering the Life Energy of Relationships with Balance
If there’s too much resistance in a lamp in the connection between the filaments, the light bulb glows dimly or not at all. In relationships, this can express itself in feeling victimized, inability to set loving boundaries, depression, or shutting down. Being closed to positive suggestions or being unwilling to change patterns that could harm the relationship creates resistance. When there’s not enough resistance between the filaments, the energy surge creates a blow-up that pops the bulb. In relationships, this is expressed through arguments, blame, and life-depleting habits that harm self and others. This not only depletes your life energy reserves but also the capacity of reserves for your relationship.
When each person in a relationship is able to ground or release their energy in a way that is loving and energizing for self, greater opportunity for a mutually energizing relationship is possible. This shows up in self-care through making space to process and nourish self. Examples include movement activities such as Tai Chi, taking a walk, working with breath, getting enough rest, getting in touch with needs, loving touch, getting into nature, expressing yourself through writing, art, music, and singing, as well as honoring your life purpose.
Any part of the energy circuit can help show where you may need added support. When you release the resistance in your body-mind field that has disrupted your life energy, you then have greater capacity/space for love. You are only able to experience as much love as you allow yourself to acknowledge and resonate with internally. This happens through accessing the circuit itself within the body-mind field to optimize self-healing. In turn, this creates greater resonance with positive health, compassion, discernment, and loving relationship.
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Several years ago I purchased a bag of small metallic hearts for an Expressive Therapy workshop I was facilitating to use in collages and artwork. The leftovers were then placed in a box. From time to time I open the box or the box spills open with cascading hearts from the original bag. Over the years these hearts have shown up in lots of places: at work, outside, in my car, in the hallway, and sometimes even in my clothing!
What is important here is that each one feels like a message. The message is always a reminder that LOVE can show up anywhere on your path. The opportunity is for taking the message of self-love no matter where you consider yourself to be in the process: beginning, middle or end of a relationship, project or situation. I’ve always found that these little red hearts show up when I least expect them, yet when I need them most. Simply finding one of them reminds me to move into my heart to be present to love’s message. The messages that come from these little reminders come in many variations, however, the ones that seem to rise to the top are the followingFive Messages from Your Heart.
5 Messages from Your Heart
1) Wait, the Space Between
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “When in doubt do nothing.”No-thing can transform when you create space for a new possibility. While this might seem challenging at first, it can be accomplished with a few relaxed, rhythmic breaths and focus on your heart’s own rhythm. Think of a waltz, a dance with a strong beat followed by two lighter beats that create beautiful movement in place and then spirals through space with effortless ease. Right timing and partnering with your body-mind system’s wisdom for taking action by taking a pause or time for yourself each day to regroup, re-energize and replenish your energy through meditation or just 10 minutes for this centering creates wondrous opportunities for movement coupled withinsight.
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”~Eckhart Tolle
2) Encouragement for the Next Step
Courage comes from the root word: cor or “corazon” meaning heart. Taking action with your heart’s wisdom comes from activating the Barr System that allows the problem-solving brain with your heart to take part in orchestrating your next steps. This is especially helpful when you are under a great deal of stress or you feel anxiety about a meeting, communication or decision. By moving into a heart feeling of gratitude, joy, love, or appreciation, you start the process of synchronization throughout your body-mind system that creates relaxation, focus and potential for positive solutions. “It’s this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.” ~Hugh Prather
3) Let Go and Let Good
There are times where all of our energy is tied up in wanting a particular outcome. Waiting can be difficult. There are times where loss, grief, and depression keep us in place unable to move or expending all of our life in a habitual stress response focusing on a past hurt. In these times it is possible to allow the grief, loss, and pain to heal within your body-mind system by giving space and time to them. Using the Buddhist Meditation called “The Grief Point Meditation” you can open the space for more balanced and harmonizing life energy flow in your system. To do so, make contact with your thumb in the middle of your chest or sternum area. Get in touch with your breath, and get in touch with hurt and pain that still resides within. Allow it to be there. Breathe with a soft, full belly. This meditation allows the love in your heart to make space for pain, grief and frozen places in your life. By taking the time to give them space instead of armoring against them, you create the space for resolution and new space for new life energy to enter.
“Today I don’t want to live for, I want to live.” ~Hugh Prather
4) Appreciate Everything
In the Ayurvedic System of India, your hands are the sub-chakras of the heart. Take time to appreciate your life through your hands. What do you do with them? What have you created with them? What experiences have you held and released with them? All of your life experiences have been experienced through life with your heart and hands. Touching and receiving compassion , and appreciation are ways to deepen this connection. Take a moment to name a few things you appreciate about yourself with these simple questions: “What is good about you?” It is okay to make a long list.
“Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large.” ~Gandhi
5)What Can I Learn From This?
Your heart allows you to take unconditional love from the air and the Universe. You are energized by its pumping energy throughout your being. The love you share with another comes from this relationship first. Taking care of yourself on the journey no matter where you are is essential for there to be a quality of life with others. What kind of messages do you feed yourself? How can this inform you to make a positive change? The practice of journaling, movement or artwork could be incorporated into your daily time for self to observe and allow your heart to express in a way that informs every cell of your body with nurture for this purpose. When you listen to, take guidance, and then follow your heart, you indeed, glide through space and time in partnership with the Universe. Take the information you receive from your heart and do something good with your life!
Kimberly Rex
Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning® practitioner, Person-Centered Expressive Therapist, and Wellness and Well-being Life Coach. She works with people all over the world by Skype, phone, and proxy.
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Fear can originate from many sources. Some of these sources could be from the past, a traumatic event, or a reaction to what you have been taught to believe about yourself or others. Fear can be short or long-term based on the factors involved, and the quality of the resources you had for resolution at the time of that fear-invoking event in your life. If you had no opportunity to experience safety or connection with calm or healing at that time, you are likely still being driven by the emotions, beliefs, and thoughts from that fear state. The question is, “Is fear from the past still driving?”
Babies and children do not have the same capacity to reason through a threatening or fear-invoking incident as an adult. The developing brain of a child relies heavily on cues from the environment and caretakers from the perspective of the survival and emotional brain.
It can take the reasoning brain well into your mid-20’s to fully operate based on reasoning and ability to discern aspects of the situation, as well as to put distance between a past event and the present. No matter what or when an experience that provokes fear, creates a reaction in your Nervous System. This triggers the need for survival based on your thoughts, emotions, and lens of perception from past experiences.
Your internal sense of feeling or senses can be a source of conflict that feels uncomfortable. Based on your current ability to regulate being present with the discernment for what is happening and sorting through its meaning from a place of survival, emotion and reason are largely based on how your autonomic nervous system responds to an event or situation. This means that your body-mind system has an automatic, cellular, heart, muscle, nerve, muscle, tissue, emotional, and mental function in the process. Emotions, positive or negative affect your physical, emotional, and mental health.
What Causes Fear?
Fear can be personal, relational, or even cultural. Fear can be superimposed over one or all three of these areas of your life.
What you believe is true affects how you predict what will happen to you in the outside world. Shedding light on your limiting beliefs, thoughts, and attitudes about your life creates the possibility for positive change.
A major event in the world could affect how you travel, what you believe about other people and groups, and can affect how you look at the world politically.
In a recent telecast, I was listening to the ex-president of Mexico speak about the horrific event of 9/11. He attributed, in part, nationalism, and fear in the United States as a residual reaction to this event of terror. The Nervous System of a country can also be triggered into the stance of extreme protection, fight, flight or freeze in response to unresolved emotional and survival defense mechanisms.
The mechanism of fear can be activated by trauma in the world related to nature such as hurricanes, tornadoes, animals, insects, and large bodies of water. Fear can be triggered in situations like public speaking or going to the dentist. States of being and connection with spirituality can also evoke fear related to death, the concept of the Divine, the Silence, the unknown, or being alone.
Relationships can motivate fear response that leads to isolation, arguments, or intimacy based on earlier experiences, how you witnessed resolution of the conflict in your family or healing or lack of resolution of situations that provoked fear in your early life can still be at play in your life today. The idea of being in the world, or unable to set boundaries with the world, needing to feel like you have to be in control, or fear of losing control can be extremely frightening.
How Do You Know You are Still Reacting to Fear?
The common characteristics of fear include a change in heartbeat and breathing. You might hold your breath. Your muscles tighten and your thinking moves from reasoning to survival. This changes how your body responds to the world around you. Tension is held in your body so that even your vision and posture changes. Being in extended states of fear from the trauma that has not resolved creates a habitual alert response that over time takes its toll on how you interact and perceive the world.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius
From the Chinese Five Element View
Fear is the non-coherent quality of the Water Element related to your kidneys and bladder. When you are responding to the world through the lens of fear you are more likely to perceive yourself as a victim in your circumstances and life. Because your body-mind system responds to this stance even at the cellular level, the communication within the physical systems of your body moves into protection mode. This limits the capacity for systemic communication throughout the body.
Because it dedicates so much of its energy to the fear response. This leads to the feeling of overwhelming created by the sheer effort it takes to protect or defend yourself instead of being able to connect with other people and explore new ways of being in the world for health, relationship, and business opportunities.
When you move into the coherent aspects of Water Element in collaboration with the rest of the body-mind system possibilities, you expand your ability to connect with the vital essence of your body-mind system. This creates more optimal life energy for your own life.
In relationships, you have a better ability to connect with others in a way that listens to what others are communicating as you are in contact with your own needs for the ability to be able to respond with greater clarity in the present.
Imagine being able to shift into greater calm and resourcefulness. These are the resources that Water Element offers when you resolve fear so that you are better able to reflect and adapt to situations. This allows you to then pace yourself through different projects and situations while taking care of your own boundaries as well as greater perseverance so that your energy reserves are there when you need them. By resolving issues of fear you have a greater capacity to connect to your needs for love, nurture, safety, and trust.This allows you to move from fear to a greater feeling of self-love in the process.
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