Is your illness really yours or was it passed down to you?
In opposition to prior belief systems, it was known to us that the human mind can store a plethora of information about our day-to-day experiences, all the way from our time spent in the mother’s womb. Ancient sciences like Yoga, Ayurveda, Reiki, etc have talked about how not only the mind but even the human body stores a lot of this information- yes that’s right. Our body is the most complex yet accurate storehouse of memory. Much of this information is a collection of our human experiences, trauma, and repressed childhood memories as well as information that we store and carry of generations that came before us. Ever heard of the term “generational baggage” ?
Every cell in the human body has an innate capability of capturing this information which influences our basic cellular makeup all the way down to our DNA . From the time of conception, we pick up on the information of our surroundings and we even learn to breathe while we are still in the mothers womb. So if the mother is tense or agitated, the child will pick up on this information and in their later years begin to mirror these same patterns of the mother’s experiences during her entire pregnancy.
Our body is extremely intelligent and stores suppressed information beyond our human understanding of it in form of symptoms, learning abilities, behavioural traits, etc. The use of modern medicine is what suppresses the body’s ability to communicate with us and by suppressing our symptoms we also suppress the information that our body holds in regard to our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
So how does our body actually communicate with us to let us know that something needs to be addressed?
Pain, stiffness, injuries, and chronic illnesses are all ways in which our body lets us know that something needs to be addressed or released. Every single thing that manifests in the physical body, first manifests as an undealt emotion that goes unacknowledged. For example- Our kidneys and liver store the emotion of guilt within the physical body, as time passes by and we operate through constant emotions of guilt attached to all of our experiences, this emotion of guilt builds up and starts affecting the organ by manifesting as diabetes. Somebody who is diabetic, has a constant sense of guilt attached to every meal that they eat. So a simple act of eating which is meant to be nourishing for the body, then becomes an act of guilt.
This is how many chronic illnesses pass down from one generation to the other and if we look closely the emotions passed down with them remain the same as well. A mother holds a lot of her emotions in the hip and pelvic region and during labour, she passes down all of her emotions to her child, especially a girl child.
Many recent studies talk about the importance of movement and mindful breathing as a way to deal with illnesses and emotional and mental disorders. The simple act of moving our body on a regular basis and breathing mindfully, helps us release any accumulated trauma, whether it is our trauma or the trauma of our ancestors before us, Yoga Asana’s and Pranayama work as a gentle release. By simply learning to breathe correctly, we break the patterns that we formed during the time spent in our mother’s womb and release ourselves from anything that isn’t ours to carry.
