Fight or Flight – A PF Flyer Call to Action

Fight or Flight. I am writing late in the week because I spent some time doing both. Running and battle sapped my energy.

It came as a surprise to me this morning when during my morning meditation some information caught me smack dab between the eyes. Yes, my intuition and a knowing greater than I am, finally got through my old “fight or flight” reaction to everything way of being. We are taught to fight being sick. I hate being “sick”. I don’t want to slow down and listen to what my body is telling me. “Who me? Not Listen?” Can’t be true. I take care of my body. I was listening only to what I wanted to hear. Then I realized if I don’t like what is happening I forge on and try to “fix”  it.  And quiet that pesky voice.

We have been taught throughout life “being ” sick is a bad thing. Take pills and eradicate whatever is going on. In my case that was a cold.  I took vitamin after vitamin. Which in and of itself is not a bad thing. But the reason I took them was a bit skewed. I was taking them to do battle, not to support my body in the process of letting all that was stored up in me pass through. I was not supporting my immune system, nor my  emotional body. I just wanted to get through it.And keep on running.

I believe that our emotions when not acknowledged and felt will over time give our bodies a wake up call, an imbalance, an illness. I am not saying there are not germs, viruses etc that contribute to illness and disease. How the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical body interacts with the previously mentioned contributors to our physical imbalance is what I believe is often misunderstood.

I was running my body on empty wondering why I was a prime receptacle for imbalance.

Our physical bodies are not honored for the brilliance that they hold. Our mental bodies want everything neat and tidy and to auto respond from old ways of being, old ways we were taught to approach ill-ness. Do we even consider our spiritual body in any of this. The emotional body is usually left out in the cold in this equation. In my case it was the cold.

We are so accustomed to living with the belief that illness happens to our body, not as a reaction from our body bringing us a message of imbalance. But then we are also accustomed to our focus being outside of our body. “Take my product and all your ills will go away” is beamed at society relentlessly by the media and drug companies. Our predator instinct want to go in and eradicate the enemy.

If we even believe there is a correlation between our emotional self and ill-ness, do we go to battle or allow awareness to illuminate what our physical body is displaying to us so we can hear a message we may have been avoiding.My warrior self was engaged in battle until I chose to sit quietly to begin to allow for the possibility that my emotional body was squabbling with changes going on in me.  Not to be a predator saying “tell me, tell me.”  But a soft presence supporting the part of me that would eventually tell me what was going on, what I was avoiding.  I came to the realization that I could support my emotional self in what I was feeling and simply bring awareness and let it pass through me.

In my case images of my self, my abilities and my place in the world are expanding. Leaving behind what was limiting my possibilities and exploration in all of life. Including my mental, emotional, spiritual and physical bodies.

New adventures arriving daily can be embraced and not feared. New ways of thinking can be perused to see if they might hold validity for you. What that requires is looking and going within oneself and leaving judgment behind. New territory, yes…

For now, my “fight or flight” has taken its PF Flyers off.

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Only you can begin to explore a (w)holistic approach for you.

The definition of a Holistic Approach from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Holistic health is a concept in medical practice upholding that all aspects of people’s needs, psychological, physical and social should be taken into account and seen as a whole. As defined above, the holistic view on treatment is widely accepted in medicine.^[1] A different definition, claiming that disease is a result of physical, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental imbalance, is used in alternative medicine.^[2]