I have done many courses, workshops in the past 26 years, as a holistic therapist. I have gone through the scientific pathway, with my Degree in Nutritional Therapy, and find myself with craniosacral therapy doing both scientific and spiritual healing. The last two mindfulness meditation and the Resilient Heart from the Heart Math method got me into understanding that no matter how you look at it, the HEART is the centre of the human being wellbeing.
From the scientific point the heart will settle the brain, when it is too busy looking at too many things that do not matter anymore or is overwhelmed with worries that have been created by a longstanding life, and the society that you grow up with, as well as Global worries and fears. The internet has been a great way to connect very quickly to each other, and also the withdraw from each other and our own face to face communication. It has been a blessing during the pandemic for many people, and a damage for others.
No matter how I look at the human health though, from the nutritional point of view, from allergies, to the physical and emotional trauma, no matter how big or small it is, from Grieving to pain and hurt, all stem from healing the heart, reconnect to the heart and even think with the heart.
When I work with babies and mothers birth trauma, I work with the mothers as well, as the trauma is as big as the mothers and carer feels it is. The baby usually is very quick at letting it go with a couple of sessions, unless there is a need to work a bit more on the physical adjustments. The carer though needs a bit more time to heal her heart, as usually, guilt, worry and a feeling of vulnerability or unable to help a little baby human that cries with pain, is too much to bear for the mother’s heart.
Physically you can train your heart to control your thoughts, emotions and worries, by breathing through it and slowing down your heartbeat, so that the brain does not think you are in danger and trigger the FIGHT and FLIGHT response, or after a long time, the FREEZE response. The fear response or any danger response, is triggered automatically, with every thought that you have that it gives the signal of danger, every strong emotion such as anger, hurt, pain and fear that you have. Any smell that you feel is a reminder of a trauma from childhood or any other time, anything that you see or read that is a trauma, and everything that you sense that is danger. It can be your boss who screams at you every time you do something or even sees you, or taking the underground when you feel that you cannot breathe.
All the above are trigger that will automatically and involuntary to your command will trigger the Amygdala (the stress response), and hence the Hypothalamus to set up the cascade of neurotransmitters and hormones for you to cope with whatever danger there is. Now on the opposite way, when that stress response, has been there, day and night for a long time, the body will trigger the Freeze response, and hence leads to depression, unemotional response, or even not caring much for the life itself or the world around you. The person or even babies and children feel in constant danger and hence anxiety and panic attack will be triggered from seemingly nowhere. In realty it has been brewing for a long time, to the point of getting overwhelmed.
The pandemic did just that for many people, and hence some, are still in the FREEZE mode, they have not been able to move on from the fear of either catching a virus, that right now, has changed its form and is much lighter than it was two years ago.
I have been working from the heart since I started working more than 26 years ago, and I kept healing my own heart with various courses, from craniosacral therapy to healing and more. Scientifically and spiritually, many traumas, big or small, depending on how the child or adult see their trauma, you might have an imprint of your own trauma in your physical body, that shows up as pain or injury of the body, or you might even have an imprint from your ancestor’s trauma, where a collective trauma happened 100 years or even 1000 years ago, and was passed on from generation to generation, through the trauma of the wars, that keep repeating itself in various countries around the World.
There are some researches that mention that the heart is a magnetic field, and the healed heart, has a bigger magnetic field that can reach everyone around them, and healing them as well. The further magnetic field of the heart that they had tested was about 3 feet (0.90 cm) around the person body. I believe that with people like the monks, Buddha, and other healers, might reach even further out to heal the people around them.
If we can imagine or even believe that we are all one, and by healing ourselves, we can heal our own children, or even people around and hence the World, then it is worth starting to heal.
From babies, children to adults, healing the small or big trauma from a distance in some way, when your body and mind is ready to deal with them, is one of the keys to change your life and the life of others in a more positive and fulfilling way.
I will run and introduction to heart meditation with mindfulness meditation (being present), and heartmath meditation to see how quickly you can re-connect to your heart, and with your practice and or treatments with craniosacral therapy, can change your life for the better!
Click here to read more about the online meditation, and click here to read more about craniosacral therapy.
© Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapist – NAET for allergies – R-Craniosacral Therapist – NLP – Angel Guide Certified – Mindfulness Meditation teacher- The Resilient Heart
Craniosacral Healing /Nutrition NAET/Mindfulness living/ NlP health coach /mind body and soul 