Why do we in society value pills so much but question the power the brain and nervous system have to heal? Is the price to heal the root really that great or strange?
Have you ever thought about how you trust a pill to know how to make a pain go away in a specific area, or a marker to level out, or a vital to normalize without knowing much about the pill to begin with? But yet, we trust it to work. That's pretty crazy.
Yet, utilizing your own God given ability to heal by acknowledging and shifting thoughts, wiring in new ones, learning exercises where you can feel better equipped in situations of anxiety, pain or depression (to list a few) and literally learn how to help your own nervous system are questioned?
You literally learn tools that once you've got them, you’ve got them for life, and they don’t keep costing you a penny to use. Yet, many people would rather just go take a pill or be on a pill for life to make the issue go away at surface level. Mind blowing. 🤯
Maybe the price of NSR seems hard to some. But also, think about the price of continually relying on pills and doctor visits over the course of a lifetime. That adds up. Never mind the other prices on top of the actual price.
The price of not having a single tool when the anxiety hits. Feeling helpless and dependent on outside sources to help.
The price of missing out on so much life while your illness dictates what you can or can’t do.
The price of not coming home to your own inner child's needs and healing those parts of you. Instead, continuing to believe everything you feel, listen to your trauma responses as if they are truth, and subconsciously letting them lead you through life.
The price of not breaking generational patterns of depression and mental illnesses.
The price of staying stuck spinning.
The price of not learning tools to then be able to pass on to your children to use when they suffer real hard things.
Now that I am on the other side of chronic illness, I cannot even put a price on what I would pay to get health. It was worth every single penny I spent on brain retraining and nervous system rewiring. We just finished up our Tuesday 3-month support group today. Among all the beautiful sharing, one stood out to me in a way from the others. An individual overcome with gratitude and hope with how she was now getting back her life. She was able to be physically active again. Oh, how beautiful. I, myself, have been moved to tears many times with gratitude to have climbed out of the dark hole of illness and being crippled to experiencing a life of joy and regulation. If you have experienced it too, you know it can hardly be put into words how incredibly great it feels.
If you haven’t yet experienced shifts and healing and feel stuck in the spin of chronic illness, anxiety, and symptoms, its waiting out there for you. It is just within reach, not so far away after all. Hang on.
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