There is a time and a place for everything
Today I had a couple of very humbling and incredibly valuable learning experiences.
As you know, I've been moving into this alternative therapies path and over the past couple of months I guess I've been getting a bit overconfident about the things that I can fix and what the allied practitioners can do.
Well, my last two sessions with clients didn't go as well as I had expected - one still has pain in their elbow although the shoulder had loosened up significantly and the other still had pain in her neck which even physios can't seem to alleviate. In addition to that, since Saturday I had a terrible pain in my neck with nerve pain shooting up the right side of my face/neck and no matter what I tried to do (e.g. get my reiki teacher to help me out, get my boyfriend to work on me using BCT and myofascial release) - it hasn't gone away.
Today I bit the bullet based on my boyfriend's advice and went to see a GP. Before seeing the GP I had the notion that a lot of GPs had no idea of what they were doing and I wasn't going to get anything valuable out of it. With that attitude, I also booked in to see a chiropractor as I had a feeling that I should go see my chiropractor again and my bf echoed that sentiment as well.
So - off I went. To my surprise, the GP I went to was really nice and he got the whole "alternative therapies" movement although he didn't understand some of the modalities. I rambled off my list of symptoms and he diagnosed me before he had even seen the issue - I had shingles. Once he saw it, he grew a lot more confident in his diagnosis so both of us were sitting at his computer looking at whether shingles was contagious (I told him I was a massage therapist so I wanted to know if I could still see people especially given this bloody virus lasts up to 2-3 weeks)! Turns out the answer is no, unless the person who comes into contact with the blister fluid never had chicken pox before or did not have a vaccination for it. The GP told me it was best for me to just ride it out because there wasn't anything I could do for now about it and he didn't want to suggest any oral sort of medicine for me given how I prefer natural remedies (wow a GP that actually listens - score)!
So I left that session feeling good that I knew what the hell was wrong with me and did some further research into it. My bf also did research on it and shingles apparently flares up in times of great stress. From a work perspective I wasn't stressed out that much but a week before the flare up my bf and I had a pretty big discussion on intimacy and stuff and yes that left me very stressed out. He thought that that was the precursor to my flare up of the shingles and I think he was right.
So anyway, after that I decided to email my reiki teacher to ask her if she had ever heard of someone having shingles flare up and whilst she emailed back promptly and said no, she gave me more of an idea about instances of when it would flare up, gave me lots of tips on how to reduce the pain and also reassured me that what was happening to me was normal.
That again made me feel better and off I went to see my chiropractor. She was a different one to the original one I usually see because he wasn't working today but she was fantastic. I told her that I had shingles and she immediately went to the original stress event using kinesiology and did a lot of other adjustments which made me feel a lot better. It was good to finally confront what I had been running away from (with a bit of prompting).
The biggest learning today was that there is a reason why there are different sorts of healers and the like in this world. It's not all a one size fits (or a one healer fixes) all sort of thing - there is a time and a place for everyone. Today made me learn to be humble, learn that I cannot always fix things, but also that help was available if I needed it - I just had to ask.
That is how the Universe works - help is always available if you ask, and accept it. There's also a lesson - be careful what you ask for because you WILL get it. During the last new moon, I did my first manifesting ceremony. One of the things I asked for was to have the blockages around my womb area released. Right now this is happening in a number of ways - the flare up of shingles is one of the answers (not necessarily the most comfortable answer mind you). It was something that needed to happen and now, putting aside all the pain, I am thankful for that.
The Universe had been sending me a lot of messages about big transformations, embracing change, keeping my thoughts positive, that my thoughts were manifesting, etc (trust me after reiki the amount of times I have been seeing repeating numbers has gone exponential). I didn't know what they meant at the time but I know.
Things won't always be easy, and your body will manifest the imbalance until you take heed of it and do something to fix it. Us healers are not infallible - as I was saying to my chiropractor... we tend to be GREAT at figuring out the issues of others but crap at figuring out the issues ourselves. Don't be afraid to ask for help - you will always receive it.
As you know, I've been moving into this alternative therapies path and over the past couple of months I guess I've been getting a bit overconfident about the things that I can fix and what the allied practitioners can do.
Well, my last two sessions with clients didn't go as well as I had expected - one still has pain in their elbow although the shoulder had loosened up significantly and the other still had pain in her neck which even physios can't seem to alleviate. In addition to that, since Saturday I had a terrible pain in my neck with nerve pain shooting up the right side of my face/neck and no matter what I tried to do (e.g. get my reiki teacher to help me out, get my boyfriend to work on me using BCT and myofascial release) - it hasn't gone away.
Today I bit the bullet based on my boyfriend's advice and went to see a GP. Before seeing the GP I had the notion that a lot of GPs had no idea of what they were doing and I wasn't going to get anything valuable out of it. With that attitude, I also booked in to see a chiropractor as I had a feeling that I should go see my chiropractor again and my bf echoed that sentiment as well.
So - off I went. To my surprise, the GP I went to was really nice and he got the whole "alternative therapies" movement although he didn't understand some of the modalities. I rambled off my list of symptoms and he diagnosed me before he had even seen the issue - I had shingles. Once he saw it, he grew a lot more confident in his diagnosis so both of us were sitting at his computer looking at whether shingles was contagious (I told him I was a massage therapist so I wanted to know if I could still see people especially given this bloody virus lasts up to 2-3 weeks)! Turns out the answer is no, unless the person who comes into contact with the blister fluid never had chicken pox before or did not have a vaccination for it. The GP told me it was best for me to just ride it out because there wasn't anything I could do for now about it and he didn't want to suggest any oral sort of medicine for me given how I prefer natural remedies (wow a GP that actually listens - score)!
So I left that session feeling good that I knew what the hell was wrong with me and did some further research into it. My bf also did research on it and shingles apparently flares up in times of great stress. From a work perspective I wasn't stressed out that much but a week before the flare up my bf and I had a pretty big discussion on intimacy and stuff and yes that left me very stressed out. He thought that that was the precursor to my flare up of the shingles and I think he was right.
So anyway, after that I decided to email my reiki teacher to ask her if she had ever heard of someone having shingles flare up and whilst she emailed back promptly and said no, she gave me more of an idea about instances of when it would flare up, gave me lots of tips on how to reduce the pain and also reassured me that what was happening to me was normal.
That again made me feel better and off I went to see my chiropractor. She was a different one to the original one I usually see because he wasn't working today but she was fantastic. I told her that I had shingles and she immediately went to the original stress event using kinesiology and did a lot of other adjustments which made me feel a lot better. It was good to finally confront what I had been running away from (with a bit of prompting).
The biggest learning today was that there is a reason why there are different sorts of healers and the like in this world. It's not all a one size fits (or a one healer fixes) all sort of thing - there is a time and a place for everyone. Today made me learn to be humble, learn that I cannot always fix things, but also that help was available if I needed it - I just had to ask.
That is how the Universe works - help is always available if you ask, and accept it. There's also a lesson - be careful what you ask for because you WILL get it. During the last new moon, I did my first manifesting ceremony. One of the things I asked for was to have the blockages around my womb area released. Right now this is happening in a number of ways - the flare up of shingles is one of the answers (not necessarily the most comfortable answer mind you). It was something that needed to happen and now, putting aside all the pain, I am thankful for that.
The Universe had been sending me a lot of messages about big transformations, embracing change, keeping my thoughts positive, that my thoughts were manifesting, etc (trust me after reiki the amount of times I have been seeing repeating numbers has gone exponential). I didn't know what they meant at the time but I know.
Things won't always be easy, and your body will manifest the imbalance until you take heed of it and do something to fix it. Us healers are not infallible - as I was saying to my chiropractor... we tend to be GREAT at figuring out the issues of others but crap at figuring out the issues ourselves. Don't be afraid to ask for help - you will always receive it.