August 2008 - Sweet sausage, with a side of Joe.

Sweet sausage, with a side of Joe.
An energetic reflection of caffeine, artificial sweeteners, anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications.

This article has been long in the making. I’m finding such a strong indication in many of my clients, family, and friends that I really needed to put this article into print.

Most of us are aware that our world is changing. There are the obvious signs of greater understanding of how things work; hence less tolerance for mindless destructive ways of living with each other and with the environment. We as a whole are moving forward in outward examples of living with awareness of what we choose, where we go and with whom we choose to share these experiences. We are beginning to live as co-creators in our lives and with humanity as a whole. We still have a ways to go before we have all items on the list of changes complete, but I believe that we no longer are able to live blindly to these changes.

Often times when I speak or write I use vocabulary that may be considered “new age” or “out there,” but I feel that most who are reading these articles have a general understanding of the terms used. Today, I’d like to address the word “vibration.” When I speak of vibration I literally mean the vibration of the item, person, song, food, room, building, etc. I can perceive the subtle signal, much like a radio signal, that is being emanated off of these things in a frequency that I’m sure somewhere in the scientific world it could be measured. Sometimes I feel nothing; sometimes I feel the vibration very strongly. Sometimes it is subtle, but consistent enough for me to pick it up. Do I understand what the radio signal represents each time? No, not always. But what I do understand is that the body of a client or friend or food or building is sending a message that my body is receiving in a way that is getting my attention. It usually leads me to ask questions. There may be a reason why I’m picking up that particular signal.

A few signals that I have been picking up for quite a while, several years at least, is the vibrational frequency of clients as they are sitting in my chair while we go over the intake form before a session. While I do not have this question listed on the initial form, I am guided with some persons to ask if they intake caffeine, artificial sweeteners, or are currently taking or have been on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medication. The body literally sends out a radio signal indicating these changes in the body.

Caffeine and artificial sweeteners, as no surprise to anyone, have high vibrations. Caffeine produces a “buzz” effect coming off of the body. With both caffeine and artificial sweeteners there is also a corresponding message that the adrenals are stressed, on “go”, not enough rest and usually can mess with the coping system in general of how to handle relationships, life, making decisions and will affect the body’s communication with the Self. This means that if the body is hungry, for example, the person may not register it because they are BUSY. If one is too busy to listen their own body, they may often be too busy to deal with the reason behind why they feel the need to escape with the fast, flashy rebel-without-a-cause called “but I like it” and “it tastes good.” Excuses. I like hot cocoa, but I don’t need it function, nor do I need it to make my life bearable or any sweeter. Artificial sweeteners have been known to be 10-600 times sweeter than sugar and few realize that while they may think they are bypassing the effects of sugar, the neurotoxic effects of too much caffeine and artificial sweeteners will dull down your connection of the natural sweetness your taste buds are capable of detecting and natural highs of life - healthy adrenal flow, not caffeine induced.

Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications. Wow, I wish you could feel this one from my perspective. Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications, whether currently used or in the recent past feel like sausage. Really. Sausage. They give the impression to me like a grey-white sheath covering the body so that anyone that comes near them will believe that they are all smoothed out, just fine, and they have all their “stuff” together. Isn’t that what the outside casing does with sausage? Hold it together? As soon as I detect the sheath, I can feel that inside the person, there is still a bunch of chunky meat. Are you sausage? Let me go further. With this same feeling of the sausage, the body will tolerate this act of confinement for a while. It will go along with whatever it is you need to do for a small bit of time. This is, where in extreme cases of grief, like death of a loved one, or total confusion after a traumatic event, people have said that the anti-D or anti-A saved their life and got them through whatever the event was. But let me reiterate, the body tolerates it for a short time, then it will begin to speak up. The body and emotional spirit of the person will not tolerate total confinement for long periods of time.

After a short duration, and I do mean short, like perhaps a few months, the body will send messages that it wants out of this sausage-like prison. The sheath, as I see it, begins to pressurize, stretch, break at the seam. How the person sees this is they are unable to handle things anymore, stresses are less tolerated, physical issues appear, sleep issues appear and the person feels the need for a higher dose of the medication. This is not so. What they need at that point, and actually BEFORE they began the medication, is to listen to their heart. Something needs to change. The body is literally trying to get the persons attention. “Ok, we may be a bit unorganized in here, but staying locked in a closet won’t help us and eventually we’ll need some air and if it means breaking down the door to get it, that is what we’ll do.”

If the person doesn’t know how to do it all themselves, it is vitally important that they seek help in some manner. Someone to hear their story, a councilor, a life coach, a positive approach (not just a place to rehash what a mess things are) can be incredibly healing. Homeopathy is great for helping those with anxiety, depression, resistance and confusion. It’s worth investigating (see a professional homeopath to ask questions) and I recommend it to many clients. Acupuncture, nutritional counseling and flower essences can also provide support. And, of course, Reiki is wonderful, healing, balancing and sends love in beautiful ways to those places in a person that I have witnessed time and again.

I am not a doctor, I do not diagnose illness, nor do not consider myself a medical intuitive, but it is very important that you understand that your body is trying to talk to you. It is a signal. The body literally will begin to knock at the door from the inside out. If the person is unable to be still long enough to listen themselves because they are busy buzzing around and all wrapped up, the messages will get louder until they are heard. Literally. The body speaks. Often times with this particular vibration that comes off of these substances, “escapism” is the word that is shown to me. Where are you trying to escape from being who you really are?

So while you are beginning to notice that things aren’t the way they used to be with the way you were raised, or how you did it “back then,” or that relationships are shifting, and you are seeing that food is changing because of demand and packaging is appealing with words that seems healthy, I would suggest you check in with your body to see if it is really beneficial for you. Not what your tongue likes, not what you mind rationalizes. What does your body say? If you can’t “hear” anything, take a look at what might be getting in the way. Caffeine, artificial sweeteners, anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications will dull your receptivity to your own Spirit speaking to you.

By the time clients walk through my door, the body is at a place where it wants to be heard, wants to be empowered, thus the Spirit is ready to emerge. My job is to translate and to confirm what you already know which is you ARE worthy of all great things in life. Quit running, quit hiding, stop faking the body and spirit into thinking that it is as sweet as can be, when you KNOW what is REAL is beyond any artificially induced high. Life is as high as it gets – it’s why you are here.

Relax. Relax. Listen, and see what song your personal radio signal is set to.
Are you ready to change? If something inside of you says yes, then start small or big, but begin. No chemical can produce the buzz and sweetness life gives. Become aware. Enjoy.

~Bright Star