Irritable Bowel Syndrome as an emotional condition
Real Life Case: Subconscious Led Therapy showed Sophie that her symptoms originated from the womb and worsened with the build up of emotions from her childhood.
Some medical conditions have no real explanation and as such, it is something you live with. Those conditions have painful symptoms you medicate everyday. The example I will use today is Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
This diagnosis is frustrating especially to the rigidly logical of us. In science, without proof or ability to replicate the results means it remains hypothetical. Does this mean Irritable Bowel Syndrome does not exist? All we have is a bunch of symptoms with varying possible causes after all.
Perhaps some Qualitative anecdotes could help. I am here to learn just like you. It is not in my interest to tweak the stories to suit my beliefs.
Sophie’s journey
Sophie* (not her real name) came to me with IBS symptoms - a heaviness, nausea and pain in her belly. She was medically diagnosed 10 years ago when the nausea, pain and heaviness was unbearable. She was told stress was the cause of her troubles.
So she changed her lifestyle. Being a dietician, she cleaned up her diet. She also started to exercise a lot more to take care of herself physically even training as a private trainer. She also started going to a psychologist for talk therapy which was also helpful in her learning about her inner world.
Continued Pain
Despite all of the work, the pain in her gut continued; sometimes worsened with stress, alcohol or dairy. However the effects of these potential irritants was not consistent.
She started to wonder if the root cause was due to a sort of emotional build up. She believed that her toxic ex boyfriend 10 years ago was the cause of IBS. However, why did the symptoms remain when she was totally over the ex?
When she met me, we decided to explore the root cause of her symptoms. I had not dealt with IBS before so this was a very new and exciting exercise. As with most of my clients, I am guided by something bigger and wiser: my client’s subconscious and highest wisdom.
Spoiler alert: Here’s what she said 2 weeks after our sessions.
The first session
The first session took us by surprise as we dived deep and learned that the first formation of the pain in her gut started in the womb. I guided her into the Subliminal State; the pain in her gut appeared as a large black sphere. As we connected with the origins, she was brought into the womb, she was feeling the immense stress of her mother. Her mother was without support and married to a man without a job. She also already had a child.
We worked through her feelings that the world was unsafe and she was without support. She had also unknowingly tried to save her mother by taking on her stress (which is very normal for children to do.) We brought healing to her inner baby and she gurgled with happiness.
After resolution, we returned to the body and found the large black sphere had disappeared and now there was just smaller black balls. It was formed when she was older, 10 years ago, with heavy feelings of guilt. It is a very personal story and I will keep this in private for Sophie. We managed to resolve these feelings and then there was nothing left physically.
Releasing the energetic burden
What we learned is that her toxic ex had triggered the physical response of IBS but was not the cause of IBS per se. The initial wounding started a far longer time ago.
Immediately after the session, Sophie felt a relief of pain which reinforces what most healing professions already know - that deep relaxation is helpful for pain relief. If you have a loved one in pain, bringing them into calm and relaxation is always helpful. My grandmother loved soft, light strokes on her skin when she was in pain from cancer.
Physically, she began to purge her intestines in the toilet more often; and it smelled like old stuff. Gas began to expel more easily. Literally, things were moving forward and releasing from her gut and she stopped holding the burden of her mother’s anxiety within her.
Sophie: ‘I learned in one subconscious led session about myself what it would take 2 years in therapy.’
She also noticed that she was now more able to move forward in her plans for her business even with the accompanied anxiety. Releasing guilt and her belief of the world being unsafe provided a way forward in her work. She felt a level of courage she had not felt before.
I had thought the work was finished having been thorough in releasing the physical and emotional symptoms. The nervous system and the subconscious mind work together to pace the inner work however, in order to keep my client safe. This process and pace must be honoured.
I gave her 2 days to integrate the new beneficial programs before embarking on the next round of work. Healing is indeed a process of peeling layers of wounds and integrating the lessons before we can reach the core.
After everything however, the symptoms of tension returned; while slightly differently still caused problems in living her life comfortable.
By the time emotions become physical, it would have been a long period of layers upon layers of emotional stagnation and build up. It would only be natural for the resolution to take several sessions of subconscious led therapy.
The second session - lasting changes
Returning to me, she expressed ‘continued nausea, tightness in her intestines and a sensation of an energy that is there that is not meant to be there that runs all the way up to her throat and down to her anus.’
So we began to work with it, going into The Subliminal State. A tightness, a sensation of fear, began to appear in her throat asking for attention.
This time we were brought to the time when she was 6 years old and her parents were fighting. While there was no violence inflicted physically, things were thrown about and broken. She felt guilty for not standing up for her mother because she was afraid - which relates to the current tension in her throat. We resolved this through the releasing the words that needed to be said so long ago. This released the stored tension in her throat.
She expressed guilt for ruining her mother’s life - this unfair burden she carried all this time. It was burning in her intestines - manifesting as an inability to digest food…and reality. Once more, in the subliminal state, this was dealt with therapeutically.
Misconceptions like this are commonly felt by children even when it is long forgotten in the conscious mind. You can be sure that the suppressed emotions are stored in the body even when a person dissociates from the emotion and memory. This results in the physical ailments seen in Sophie.
She started crying, saying she is undeserving of this time with me because she worried she is not able to achieve the state we needed to get to. The little girl in her was feeling unworthy of support, being deprived of it all those years ago. We began to bring in a little understanding that she was indeed worthy, detouring into a world of community and nature to bring wonder into her world. We took a break in the process to learn that healing, like life, does not need to be rushed and can be enjoyed. This profound healing embedded deeply into her subconscious as she remained in The Subliminal State.
Lasting reduced tension, better relationships
Like after the first session, her belly was immediately relieved. This time however, the relaxing effects remained. I am always so glad to see lasting changes in my clients. While there remains little bit of tension that have yet to be explored, the symptoms are now at a level which allows her to enjoy life and food more easily.
5 days later, certain symptoms would only show up sporadically. The pain has not resurfaced. She is still keeping watch.
The impact on her life is even more profound. She is now able to receive love from her new lover after the healing of unworthiness to receive patience and support. She is also now able to express herself openly to him. She was really surprised at how smooth expressing herself went.
Sometimes, a lover is exactly what we need to show us the healing we have done. After all, they provide a mirror. (Read: What relationships are really for.)
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