you're not broken. you're blocked

From the day we are born, we learn from our parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, teachers, kindergarten and school mates, college and study buddies, co-workers and bosses. And let’s not forget about the TV, movies, social media, etc., all teaching us how to act and react.

We’ve been told by our parents so and so, then this got repeated, and voila a limiting belief is born. I’m not going to go into too much details, because this blog is not meant for this. I’m listing and explaining what those are and how they initiate.

Many times children are being told or ordered ‘don’t cry’, and their fears, anger, emotions needed to be suppressed. These unprocessed emotions later become ‘emotional baggage’ and lead to self-sabotage, anxiety, depression, or even physical illness. Emotional stress increases cortisol, causes inflammation, and affects immune system, therefore those trapped emotions disrupt the body’s natural balance.

I had nightmares for years. The same ones, over and over. I’d wake up frozen in fear, heart racing, and not wanting to go back to sleep. I didn’t know why I was having those nightmares. That is unprocessed trauma; a distressful experience your mind buried but your body still carries.   

The body and mind continue to react as if the threat is still present. This trauma is not just in the brain, it affects the body too. Many people cope with such trauma with burying it deep into the memory, forgetting about it. And this….this is one of the major disruptors in our lives. It hits us without us knowing what it is (why did I react in this way, why do I react to this person in such a way, why can’t I just relax, why am I having these repeating nightmares, etc …..). These are the blocks running our lives.

Each and every ‘dis-order’ gets a label; today there are 161 distinct categories, and this number is not final, because they keep labeling new dis-orders like mental, behavioral, mood, psychotic, personality, and neurodevelopmental disorders. 161 ways to tell you you’re broken. I hate this kind of putting labels on us. We are not boxes to be filled with pills. Not everybody should be labeled!!!

All these negatively affect your body, your health, your wellbeing. Because the emotional stress and trauma affect not only the mind but also the body in the following way: we become unmotivated, sleepy, there can be pain like headaches, stomach pains, shoulder and back pain. It has scientifically been proven that unprocessed trauma shows as physical symptoms.

Let me give an example: a person goes through a trauma, and end up believing that he/she doesn’t want to see that anymore. What are the chances this person will start having sight issues?

The belief became an energetic block.

There's a difference between managing and clearing. Traditional methods—therapy, meditation, affirmations—help you manage. They teach you to cope, to control, to minimize the anxiety. But shamanic clearing? It clears the blocks at the root. It's the difference between putting a band-aid on a wound and performing surgery.

Managing means using certain strategies to cope like being mindful, doing grounding exercises, self-care, and avoiding places, situations, people. Do you want to do this your whole life? Asking yourself if the places and people are ok for you to go there? Persuading yourself that everything is ok, all the time? Well, this works on the short run, but long-term who knows….

Clearing trauma, anxiety, fears, limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, patterns at the root is something completely different. Clearing at the root doesn’t mean you will remove your memories, it means you will remove the body’s and mind’s response to it. It’s like seeing your ex with no emotional response; in a relaxed state with ‘yeah, it happened, so what’….or seeing your nasty co-worker every weekday. Imagine you can smile like ‘nothing happened’.