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CIRCLE OF SELF
Empowering All Through One
Volume II * Issue 3 * April 2010
I found this past month to be one of great revelation. Just after I completed the last newsletter, I began noticing situations where people (me included) who were not fully owning up to their actions began having those same situations take front and center in their lives. Not to the point where some of them noticed it, after all they were used to being in denial or avoidance, but as an observer and someone who naturally looks for the little (haha) synchronicities of life, it was very apparent to me. What I was noticing were these mis-represented areas were surfacing in order to give the owner an opportunity to approach or associate or deal with them differently. At the time, I thought that would be the focus on this month's newsletter, and to a certain degree, I could say that is still true. However, to my surprise and delight, as the month unfolded, I witnessed some amazing shifts in others who, up until that point, I only imagined in my wildest dreams would shift.
My nature is to delve into the underlying meaning of nearly everything. It sometimes gets me into situations that I would rather not have been in, but the truth is, that only happens when I am pushing for answers instead of letting them come to me. Thankfully, I was way too busy this month to stick my nose where it didn't belong, and that helped keep me on track with this exploration, and graciously, while I was witnessing what I would otherwise consider miracles, I came to understand something about myself.
For over two years now, I had been dealing with adrenal fatigue. Initially, I had no idea what was happening to me but the symptoms were very freakish and scary. As with everything I do, I go from one extreme to the other, so all the little warning signs that had been there were diligently ignored by me and when Spirit was attempting to talk with me about it directly, I just wasn't getting the message. Actually, that is not true, I was getting it, but because I need 5,000 different forms of confirmation signed, sealed and delivered by a genuine phenomena whenever the information is about myself (I know my friend is rolling her eyes agreeing with me if she is reading this), I just wasn't acting on what I was getting. Had I done that, I would have saved myself the last 26 months of processing and got on with my Soul's intention. But, timing is Divine, and I am sure there is a blessing just as it is.
I know it doesn't seem like this is all tying in, but it does. What I have learned about adrenal issues is that these little organs do one heck of a lot of work and they are completely under appreciated and highly abused. When someone doesn't feel good, the last thing they want to do is take TIME, especially extended time, to get well; hence the success of the pharmaceutical industry, but that is another soap box. I have always considered myself fortunate to land the best doctors in whatever field I need and who are within a 60 mile radius of my home. I had seen that proven time and time again throughout my life and it just so happened that whenever I needed them, I had the best insurance I could possibly have. However, this time, I didn't have insurance and I wasn't about to pay for it just to have them not pay all the bill. Of course, I initially did the freaky dance about what to do and Spirit was helping reinforce that buying insurance was not in my best interest by helping me not make enough money to pay for it. Every time I made the decision to try to increase my work to make more money, I wound up feeling worse and worse. I had no choice but to get well if I wanted to make enough money to pay for insurance. If I focused on buying insurance, I wound up not having enough money to pay for anything else. What a stroke of luck in disguise.
My doctor is in Northern Virginia, an area that is not known for it's low cost of living, but I went to him to see if he could help. He knows I am not one to take or tolerate pharmaceuticals, especially when I have tried nothing else, so he called in his partner who was just getting into a more holistic approach in his practice. These guys only charged me 1/3 of what they normally charge because of the fact that I was self-pay AND they were available to me by phone to answer questions so I wouldn't have to travel to see them. After ruling out an inner ear infection they suggested checking my hormones. For the next stepping stone, I found a company called Bodylogic in the back of a book by Suzanne Sommers and there was one practicing doctor in my state. She was also in Northern Virginia. I put the money together to get the testing done and it was determined that I had adrenal fatigue. She recommended some products and a few books to read.
I am not one to put a bunch of synthetics into my body any more, I did enough of that when I was younger, so instead of taking the products she suggested, I made a detailed note of what she wanted me to take and why and then reproduced that through herbal supplements. Immediately I began to notice a change. One of the books she recommended was James L Wilson's Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome. Between that book and conversations with another health practitioner, I learned that it takes a long time to recover from adrenal fatigue. I foolishly thought a few months was a long time. Whenever I felt good, I would push myself. This always resulted in a relapse that seemed to last longer and longer. Finally, I talked with Steven Horne. He told me that I could expect it to take approximately two years or so and that I really needed to cut down on my caffeine intake (his actual word was "none"). UUUGGHH! I was already drinking only one cup of coffee a day, which was really all I wanted, I didn't drink any soda's, and I only ate organic chocolate. But once I heard it from someone directly, I decided it was better to just do it than to continue suffering.
Throughout the rest of the recovery process I learned much more about myself and how I managed my energy than I would have ever known I didn't know otherwise. What is that saying, "you don't know what you don't know until you know". That was me. As I recuperated, I began noticing that whenever I got into a disagreement with someone, my symptoms increased in proportion to the degree of the argument, my attachment to it and my position on how right I had to be. This really sucked because now I had to start really reorganizing how I handled things. My new priority wasn't just don't over stimulate my adrenals with sugar, caffeine and violent or horror movies, now I had to watch what I was doing when I interacted with people. Holy cow, this could take a lot longer than two years because I am pretty stubborn and I really like things to be my way. Thankfully, I didn't like feeling bad MORE than I was wanting to get my way. Gradually, I started eliminating the things (ideas, old beliefs, grudges, attachments, longings) that were draining my energy. One of my biggest challenges was to pursue what I loved doing regardless of what other's thought about it because that was where Spirit was leading me. And most of the time it wasn't bringing me an income. Talk about stressful.
As hard as it was, and sometimes still seems, I just kept my focus on me and what made me feel better all around. The more I did this, the more I noticed the benefits of my actions for my children and my relationship with them. Then it trickled into other relationships and areas of my life. I have now gotten to the point where I feel better most of the time and have more energy than I did when I was a teenager. It is fantastic. I still have moments where I am reminded not to abuse my adrenals, but for the most part, things are much better.
Now, how does this all fit in with how I started. Well, I am working with more and more people who are suffering from fatigue of some kind. As we enter into the changes that are happening on the planet, and for those of us in the United States with all the upheaval over the changes being made by President Obama, it is causing a lot of stress. Even if you are liking the changes, it is still an exhilarating time and the body cannot distinguish between good stimulation and bad stimulation. The adrenals produce the same for both. Combine this with foods that we are eating, usually in a hurry, that cause inflammation in the body and add synthetic hormones to our system that need to be processed and dealt with, and we have an ideal set up for increased stress in the body and in our lives.
Apparently I had to call on this syndrome in order to take enough time out for myself to care enough about myself to heal and make changes. Whenever we are really healing and making changes, we are really going deep within ourselves and our experiences and seeing things in Truth. As this past month unfolded, I watched an abbreviated version of my adrenal fatigue experience play out via the situations of people around me. When they stepped up and owned their behaviors with honesty and integrity (a natural side effect of standing in our Truth and taking full responsibility for ourselves) and let go of trying to control the situation, Spirit was able to deliver to them whatever they were really attempting to attain by being dishonest with themselves.
I wanted certain things for my life that I could feel were in line with what my Soul's highest purpose is; however, I was still holding on to underlying fears and ideas about what I could and couldn't live without or had to have to live. When I owned up to the fact that my Soul knew more about what I needed than my current life experience did, and then coupled that with surrendering to that process and fully committed my will to pursuing it, I was rewarded with more energy than I have ever known. And now, I have the knowledge that taking care of myself (not in a bratty, false way) automatically takes care of everyone and everything around me. Without being forced by the adrenal fatigue to slow down, I would have continued to push my way through "learning" only to create the same patterns over and over again.
Of course, I realize that the only thing that really changed in my life over the past month was me. The other shifts that happened were the direct result my own shift and what I was calling into my energy field. At the same time all of my "observing" was going on, I was practicing and apparently mastering accepting myself fully and completely without judgment. This process started coming to my attention in January and February (refer to February COS), and I can only guess it will continue to unfold throughout the following months. The key to this month was COMMUNICATION. I fully committed to communicating with my Soul and letting my body indicate how quickly I could do things. Communication, real, open and honest communication, is so key to allowing things to flow in your life.
With Mercury going into retrograde on April 17th, we are again reminded to slow down. It is great time to revisit whatever is coming up for us with a new perspective. Call in your Spirit Body (angels, Guides and Soul) for direction and guidance. When Mercury is in retrograde it is a wonderful opportunity to communicate with Spirit because our Soul's do not require logic to operate. Allow yourself to take an honest look at what you are attached to and what situations you are financing with your energy. There is a reason so many people are stressed and feeling tired. They are energetically financing more of other situations than they are of themselves. Dedicate time to yourself. You are worth the time it takes to get, stay and be healthy.
A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Finding a Blessing through Adrenal Fatigue
A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Finding a Blessing through Adrenal Fatigue
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Dear Reader, as you know dandelions are everywhere in the spring. Here’s the question - should you do as the Round-Up ad on television advises, smother your weeds particularly the pesky dandelion? And if not that, vigorously dig them up from your yard?
First of all let us consider the dandelion (Tarasacum offincinale) as the magnificent plant it is. How could this be you ask, what could this lowly weed possibly offer?! Well here are some considerations: 1.Leaves are wonderful in salads adding a beneficial bitter to the mix; 2.Root brews up to be classy cup of tea that will stimulate and clean up your gall bladder as well as coax excess fluids from your body; 3.Flowers soaked in vodka and sugar make a dandy spring aperitif; 4: The dandelion flower essence is the quintessential “cure” for compulsive doers.
We doers have a natural intensity and zest for life yet can over plan our lives way beyond the capacity of our body resulting in muscular tension and constriction. It can be difficult for us to enjoy contained moments that are conducive to reflection and the development of our inner life.
Dandelion surely and strongly coaches us to develop our capacity to hear our emotional and bodily needs. Tension is released and our soul feels a greater sense of ease and balance, spiritual energy circulates more freely through our bodies so that we might move and execute our plans in a more relaxed and flowing way. What could be better for the beleaguered hard working in the Washington DC area?!
From my point of view I am delighted to see dandelion sprinkled liberally throughout our nation’s capital. I imagine that very subtly she is inviting all of us to balance our relatively cerebral, hard striving competitive area with time for reflection, rest and relaxation. She invites us to loosen up, smell the roses J, notice how we feel and pay attention to what we need in a multi-dimensional kind of way. This is good! for we are multi-dimensional beings and have so much more to offer in a state of balance and flow. Equally significant in a state of balance and flow we are happier, better nurtured and experience an expanded quality of life.
So with this in mind and heart I invite you to celebrate Dandelion put away the Round-up, experience your yard, the park down the street, your neighbor’s yard in a new daringly decorated with dandelions way! I also invite you to send me an email letting me know your thoughts about dandelions; tell me too if you’d like to try the flower essence. I do inexpensive consultations by phone and mail flower essences everywhere!
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