Spring: Recreating Myself
As the Easter break is almost over, I thought it would be a great way to blog about my week.
I decided to make more of conscious effort to really change my lifestyle to improve my health & wellbeing. The signs of self love have been everywhere. Where we can fully love our own self, we can then extend our love to others. Self love can be summarised into self acceptance, self awareness, devoting time to yourself, yoga, exercise, hobbies that make you happy, health, clean eating, massages, holidays etc.
This week I decided to book myself an colonic hydrotherapy with bicarbonate soda. The process itself got really painful and crampy. A little uncomfortable at first and to be honest, I was glad it was over. I suffer from major constipation/IBS symptoms. Recently, I have been diagnosed with Endometriosis and decided to change my diet slightly but sometimes urges will kick in and I’ll devour 4 croissants in one go. I also do feel like I suffer from Candida, which foods I should totally avoid foods like sugar and yeast. After just a day, my stomach was in a little pain, but the reason being was as my intestines have been become extremely sluggish and lazy, it wasn’t use to working. They are one big muscles and obviously like any muscles, if we fail to use it, we lose it.
I noticed a huge difference in myself. I felt extremely good within and my skin improved. I then decided to eat more vegetables, completely stop meat for the present (I would like to refrain from eating meat if it’s possible) and cut out refined sugar. I understand that for the next 2 weeks I should also stop fruits from my diet as it contains fructose which helps the candida thrive.
A few days later, I finally pluck up the courage to book an appointment with a chiropractor. I have been following Paul McCambridge on Facebook for a while and I always enjoy his post and his theory in regards to pain. It very much corresponded to how I also feel and pain should be tackle on a overall and not a local thing. I have done many research as my pain had become extremely tough to deal with. I honestly felt like giving up as I started to believe that no one could help me. He was extremely informative and reiterated how important manipulation in the body was just as important as introducing movement into healing. Without movement, the relief of the pain would only be a temporary fix. I completely understood how important it was for our subconscious to learn a new movement for it to become our conscious mind. He also explained how the important our breath is, to enable us to calm our body and our minds. This was another thing that I linked to my anxiety. My body and mind was suffering and usually if we would breath more deeply into our stomachs, to find a moment of stillness and silence, this surely would heal us more than any form of drugs that have been manufactured in a lab.
I left the appointment with a massive gut feeling. The feeling that I use to never listen to as I felt like it did not exist. That I know that this positivity feeling meant I will be on the mend, I am already healing and I have receive so much information, to actually devote time to practice movement, breath work, being mindful and changing diet. I couldn’t be happier. All the signs I have received to release past pain which do not serve me and to allow room for positivity.
Do you see a pattern this week? :)