Long Time No Blog

How is it possible that I have not added a new blog since May? May!  That's seven months ago! Did you miss me?  Probably not. You're probably as surprised as I am that it's already December.

Okay, well, we did become grandparents for the first time on April 17 and  the brightness of life has turned up several degrees. So has our busyness as we have put thousands of miles on our car getting our "Dahlia fixes" as often as possible. As we trudge down and up I-5 sometimes two weeks in a row, I have to remind myself to be grateful that our daughter and son-in-law live in LA and not Boston. 

Of Dahlia's many gifts to us, one of the most precious to me has been the playfulness that she brings out in me.  As a recovering perfectionist,  spontaneity is not as natural for me as self-consciousness. But when I'm playing with Dahlia, I really just play -- no thinking, no analyzing, no hesitation. As a result, being with her is wonderfully relaxing.

Perhaps you've experienced the phenomenon of a room full of adults all being thoroughly entertained just watching a baby do the simplest things. Oh, wow, she rolled across the room! Look how she holds that spoon! Aw, she's blowing rasberries at herself in the mirror!

These days I'm just as likely to be blowing rasberries as she is.

The Body Knows!

Several woo-ish resources confirm my experience over the past few years:  When it comes to transformation, the body is the last to get on board -- even more stubborn about adapting to change than the subconscious.

Using hypnosis and Energy Psychology techniques, we can ease the subconscious into alignment with one's desires.  But the body?  The body holds on to the "old ways" with a tenacity that has taken my breath away at times; literally so when I've fallen and twisted myself into painful ankle, knee and shoulder injuries.

Two weeks after moving from Fremont to San Ramon, I fell in an airport restroom, spraining my left knee and ankle and breaking my right shoulder.  That was in 1994, two years into my path as a hypnotherapist and just at the start of my training as a Handwriting Coach.  I'd embraced my middle name, Grace, and was healing family-of-origin patterns through changes in my handwriting.  Vimala Rodgers still talks about how I was obliged to take class notes with my non-dominant hand after limping into class with a single crutch under my left arm and my right arm in a sling.  A deeply transformative time for me in just about every way.

Think about your body and history of notable injuries.  Chances are good that any significant injuries align with times of change in your life.  Even not-so-significant physical challenges such as colds are symptoms of the mind-body-spirit connection. Louise Hay's seminal Heal Your Life is a perennial bestseller on the subject, a dictionary of emotional components that may contribute to a wide spectrum of physical conditions.

My friend Paula Conley is a devotee of channeled messages from Eloheim (www.eloheim.com) and often shares them with me.  Eloheim suggests the phrase, "I don't need to process this through my body."  I've used this phrase several times recently and find that it works very well.

I'd love to hear from you about how your body reacts to impending change.  What have you noticed?  How have you dealt with it?