Family connections:
gather your holiday "ahas"
I wrote quite a bit in the e-news that went out at Thanksgiving about family connections and inheritance (read it here).
One way or another, family influences your patterns of health and illness. And unless you make the effort to really consider your family, what you know about them and your relationship with them, your heritage, you lose that rich resource of knowing.
Family gatherings are the best of the best places to learn, to notice, to mull.
On this side of the season, before it all ebbs away, take notes about what you noticed, what makes you curious. Even if you didn’t have a family gathering, you likely shared phone calls, maybe Zoom calls. Or you watched holiday specials that made you think/remember something about your own family experience.
Not all of us are writers. I used to write compulsively, every day, and then that practice fell away. So when I want to capture something I use Otter.ai — a free, online, transcription service. It’s like writing a journal entry and when I want that information, that recorded thought or awareness, it’s there. It takes time to clean up/edit what the transcription heard and what I think I said, but I don’t have to do that right away.
One of the books I read over the past few weeks is, “When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection,” by Gabor Mate (2003). He wrote, “All those seeking to heal — or to remain healthy — need to reclaim the lost capacity for emotional truth-recognition.” And, “We can learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded.”
You’re not analyzing, you’re noticing and capturing what you notice. And if ahas come, that’s awesome. Savor those. Noticing by itself begins to change the dynamics present in your life. And then, if you like, bring those ahas to a BodyMind Spirit Healthcare session so they can be further developed, more directly linked to your health.
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