Acceptance can be difficult. That’s an understatement if ever there was one. When we reject or resist feeling our feelings, we can’t experience them and the experience remains undigested or inexperienced. Psychiatrist Ivor Browne calls inexperienced experience trauma. This is one of the ways trauma imprints in our bodies. What we don’t feel and experience our body will take on. The unresolved experience will remain in our system until we process it, that is how important it is to resolve trauma. We cannot return to whole health until we find resolution for our traumas and wounds.
Chronic indigestion, or undischarged trauma, can show up in our life in all sorts of ways; IBS, acid reflux, bloating, chronic inflammation, anxiety, stress, depression, chronic fatigue and so on. Finding a way to digest the indigestible and resolve it, is important for our health. Ask your self what has been the hardest for you to digest or accept in your life?
I believe it’s nigh on impossible to let go of something that we haven’t digested or even acknowledged is there. And that’s where the frustration and overwhelm come in, we try and struggle in vain to let go of something that hasn’t been acknowledged, accepted or felt. The overwhelm goes beyond frustration, it very often, if not always, leads to feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness. The helplessness is also felt because of not consciously knowing due to repressed or unconscious pain, a pain so painful that it is deeply buried. But our body let’s us know in the form of symptoms, as it is the container for all our pain.
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