Eliminating

Eliminating: Best Advice I’ve Followed and Given as of Late

When you hear a functional nutritionist talk about elimination, normally, they refer to restrictive diet plans, eliminating toxins, or bowel movements. Not me - at least, not lately!

Around August of this year, I kept intuitively feeling that I needed to eliminate the information entering my field. What do I mean by this? I am referring to the energy I purposely pull into my senses - or my energy field. For example, scrolling through social media, watching Youtube videos, listening to podcasts and books, reading, etc. fell into this category. I felt as though my energy field was going to be congested enough in the coming months and could not handle additional energy to filter. 

I didn’t listen to that guidance. Not at first, anyway!

As the month progressed, I began to physically get congested. I noticed many others around me getting congested as well. I also noticed that when I read, even for pleasure, my eyes became blurry. Interesting, I would think. I would put the book down and go about doing something different, and my eyesight would return to normal. 

The congestion progressed and started to disrupt my sleep, and I continued to think about eliminating “noise” while successfully procrastinating on the follow through. Typically, I listen to music or watch a mindless show on a smart device that sits on my kitchen counter as I cook dinner, fold clothes, or clean. However, the device began glitching. Shortly after that, the amplifier went out in my vehicle - meaning, no sound was generated in the cab of the vehicle - no blinkers, no radio, no back up beeps to warn me of a close object. Silence.

It was like the universe said, “Alright, this b*tch ain’t gettin’ it. We have to intervene!”

With that message heard and felt loud and clear, I cut out the noise. I stopped listening to music while I performed daily chores and tasks, stopped reading, stopped scrolling, stopped watching/consuming for long periods of time. Soon, the congestion that plagued my days and nights began to drain and clear. I continued with the mission of keeping my senses clear from energetic debris within my control. It didn't take long to have epiphanies that were worth their weight in gold!

First, I noticed a clearer energy field. I felt lighter and less of a staticy feeling, for lack of a better term, around my body and head in particular.

Second, I noticed that congestion returned around certain people or while discussing specific topics. God love my husband, but he was going through an over-thinking phase during this time. He was worrying, contemplating his place in the world, and working through other very human, dense emotions. When he came home, I would feel the density in his field and begin blowing my nose and mouth breathing all over again. Therefore, I was discovering other sources of energy I was taking on and bogging down my field.

Next, I noticed that I had been ignoring or distracting myself from a deregulated nervous system! Right here - this - this was a powerful realization! Typically, I would throw some headphones in to listen to music, a book, podcast - whatever, while I did farm chores in the morning. I would crank up the music while I folded clothes, vacuumed, or worked. As I already confessed, I would often throw a YouTube video or a movie I’ve seen 100 times on the smart device in my kitchen to entertain me while I bumbled around in the kitchen. The first morning I went out to do my morning farm chores without my selected entertainment, I observed my thoughts and nervous energy. I was thinking about what I “should” be doing. My mind was racing to the list of tasks I wanted and/or needed to complete that day even though the farm chores were an important item on that list. I was getting nervous as I bounced ahead to the other items on my list of to-do’s. Recognizing this, I told myself, “I allow myself to be right here, right now.” I repeated this affirmation, which seemed to bring me back to the present moment and calm my nervous system. I realized that this was not new as I often feel this way as I go about my day. However, the distractions I allowed myself, such as listening to music I love, masked an issue going on behind the scenes.

I noticed that even though I created this life that I have wanted for many, many years - a life of freedom on a small farm as a healer, a mother, and a homemaker - I had yet to give myself permission to fully lean into it. More on this in a future post. 

As I pursued the next task, I continued to experience a rattled nervous system and lack of presence. Once again, I would pull myself into the present moment and utter the affirmation, “I give myself permission to be right here, right now.” I would feel the calm wash over me and my parasympathetic nervous system activate. 

At one point, I practiced with great diligence to stay present while I folded several loads of laundry - a task I prefer to avoid or delegate, and curiously, I felt as though I entered a jet stream of nothingness and came to after all the clothes were folded. “WTH?” I thought as I stared down at the mountain of clothes I folded in what felt like a blink of an eye. 

Essentially, I hit a flow state - a state of deep presence while doing a task I normally despise and count the seconds until it is over. I’ve entered a flow state before, but I have never experienced it while doing a task I hate! 

Now free from energetic debris, I continued to practice presence and observing my nervous system along the way, and I began receiving intuitive “hits” and clear guidance. I often encounter this phenomenon when in meditation or running, for example. Yet, somehow, I entered a state of receptivity during my everyday doing/being. I would argue that my divine masculine and divine feminine energies were in balance and harmonized. 

I wasn’t chasing after the alerts from devices, picking up my phone, and checking emails to avoid a task - I faced it, stayed present, and received while doing. I became more productive in a balanced state of being.

The profound experience led me to advise this “black out phase,” as I called it,  to several clients - especially for those with symptoms of congestion, eye or ear pressure, etc. After circling back around with these clients, they all noted an improvement in their health and awareness. I expected all of them to note a deregulated nervous system coming to the forefront like I experienced. However, that wasn’t always the case. One client, in particular, noted that the “noise” was causing her nervous system to flip into fight or flight mode. She was simply overstimulated but didn’t realize it until she deprived her senses for a period of time while still going about her day-to-day. 

I liken this to the health coaching client that doesn’t know they feel like crap until they know what feeling good feels like. When someone eats processed food all day, everyday, and then, they eliminate all processed foods and eat whole, nutritious foods; they begin to feel great. When they add back the processed food(s), their body responds, and that person is finally in a position to hear, identify, and interpret the distress signal. 

I encourage you to give it a go. Deprive your senses of all the noise, data, energy within your control - even if it is for pleasure, and observe, breathe, and get present. Get ready to expand!