"It ain't easy but it ain't hard" weight loss program: 'Emotions'

This is installment 3 of my series depicting my beginning of my wellness journey, and culminated in my loss of 30 pounds and gain of a new sense of fresh air.

Everyone has emotions, right?  Well apparently after having two back-to-back kids, I had a lot of them.  

After Xavi was born, I was having some pretty annoying pain in my pubic symphasis every time I sat down.  Imagine that: a new mom who wants to sit down; pretty rare huh?  Every time I tried to sit or tried to stand a dull ache would go through my pelvis and reverberate in my bones.  Add a (pretty heavy) nursing baby and an excited toddler and things were um, strained, to say the least.  I mentioned this to my chiropractor, of course, because it felt like a bone problem.  

She had fortunately just been to a new seminar for a method called "Neuro-Emotional Technique" (or NET).  It operates on the principle that improperly processed emotions create stress in the body and can manifest as malfunction or pain.  She adjusted my pelvis and then remembered about the new method she learned over the weekend.  She had me place my hand over my forehead and then tested my muscle.  It went weak.  

"Um, there's an emotion associated with that.  Do you want to deal with it?"  This being a new, exciting, scary realm of ideas, I said 

"yeah, I guess."

"have you had any trauma to this area?"

"well I had a baby."

"That concept?" She asked my limbic system.

weak muscle.

She placed her hand on all the major acupuncture points of the organs: lung, spleen, heart, adrenals, and finally liver.  My body wanted to deal with emotions associated with the liver.  

"anger."  

My muscle went weak

"your anger."

weak again.

"So how would you relate your anger with the trauma associated with having a baby?" she asked

"well, maybe I am angry about my body changing because I had a baby?"

Bingo.  Weak muscle.

"But I don't feel angry.  I thought I was over that."

"well, you may not have finished processing through that emotion, and now it is manifesting as pain instead of anger.  Anyway, we can do this one of two ways.  We can do the two-minute stress relief method or we can go through the original event from conception to present and process through it that way.  Which one do you prefer?"

The two-minute stress relief method sounded like an easy way out.  Besides, this was too intriguing to gloss over.  "ehh, let's try the second one."

Through another series of muscle tests, it came out that a part of me was angry at my daughter (who is my first baby) for changing my body.  Once I had a clear picture of this, I sat up and placed one hand over my forehead and the other on the spot where my liver point is.  I hunched over and let the emotions wash over me while she did some gentle adjustments and rubbed my back.  Pictures of my stretch marks flashed through my head, so did my ever-growing pant sizes and the monthly/weekly weigh-ins at the dr's office during pregnancy.  I let it all go.

That night I slept like a rock.  The next day, I had no more pain in my pelvis.  Then that turned into the next week.  That pain that used to ache through my bones every time I sat down and stood up was gone for good.  And I was hooked to this processing through emotions as a way of long-lasting healing.

This post is part of Food Renegade's Fight Back Fridays, February 1, 2013 edition.