Emotion In Motion

Just finished the last day of my first round with the 21 Day Cleansing Raw Diet from The Garden Diet.

http://21daysraw.com/

I am sitting here pondering the differences in how my body feels after being mostly raw for well over a month now. For the most part, I have noticed a deepening sense of self awareness and calm.

For the most part...

This past week, the 3rd week of the cleanse, was also a time of recokoning and reconciliation. It was a time of mismanaged emotions surfacing and demanding to be dealt with.

I am trained in Breema, and in Breema I was reminded often to not just look at the body as this physical mass of tissue, fluids and bones - but to also recognize that our 'body' is much more than this. It is important to take moments and remember that there are also psychological, emotional and spiritual 'bodies' integrated with our experiential being to take care of.

Over these past weeks, as I feel extra weight coming off of my frame, I am also feeling the need to let go of extra 'weight' from the other aspects of my 'body.' Unfortunately, this 'extra' doesn't always surface in the most pleasant way, but like any healing crisis, sometimes you have to bring to the surface the irritants before they can be expelled.

And that is what these past few months have been for me. The various 'bodies' that make up my being have had enough of the unhealthy irritants and it has became mandatory that they either be transformed or expelled.

But interestingly, the paradox is:

The transformation and expulsion must come from within my own being. Only there. In many ways I am realizing...

I have also been my own irritant. My own thoughts, emotions, thinking patterns, beliefs...

These are what need to be transformed, not all the things and people that I felt were the causes.

It is interesting how life's events often mirrors prior life's events. In this case, with my own husband, I was reminded of what I watched my mother go through with my biological father. The circumstances are different, but the pattern is evident. The triggers for the memories, to cause the emotions to surface, still very present. It appears we repeat ourselves. Slow learners we be, it seems. Self created repetition to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves through our interaction with others?

Cleansing the 'body' is definitely a constant work in progress. It will take much more than 21 days, maybe even more than a lifetime.

Now on to the 'transition.'

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