The Fascia, thoughts & feelings

My whole career has been an exploration of how the mind, body, emotions, and spirit intertwine. That is the basis of my work. And my endless fascination. 

Several months ago I became really interested in the fascia. There are theories and studies showing that it may be one of the ways energy travels throughout the body, and that emotions get stored there. I could go on and on but that is the basic idea of the fascia. Google it and have fun in that rabbit hole!

I was getting my hair cut several months ago and telling Kim about my fascia fascination and she says - “My next client teaches Myofascial Release (MFR) classes!” Say whaaa!?! 

Isn’t the Universe so cool how it just hands you these things?! And then said client, Ashley Dirks, walks into her appointment early! 

So of course I started going to Ashley’s Myofascial Release (MFR) classes. 

They are amazing and provide so much release and ease in my body, unlike anything I’ve ever tried. We relax on the mat and use various sizes of little hard balls to explore & release areas of tension in our body. 

Some balls are in mesh sacks. And they’re blue. And it’s impossible not to make 12 year old boy jokes in your head - and sometimes out loud ;-). 

Some spots we explore are really uncomfortable and painful. Sometimes people have tears. We got into our hips one time and I was like whooooaaaaa. Ashley explained that’s where we store sadness that we don’t want to process. 

You don’t say…

It was a lightbulb moment for me. 

I know theoretically, and through practicing pranic healing, that we store emotions in our body. And I have taught for years that our thoughts and beliefs lead to certain emotions and we may numb or avoid or store the emotions we don’t like. 

I got that down. 

But the MFR class experiences took it a step further and helped me see another way that the body factored into this formula: 

We have a circumstance. We have thoughts about it. Those might implant as beliefs. We pick up beliefs from others. We choose actions, or inaction, based on those beliefs and feelings. Emotions get generated from those thoughts and beliefs. Some of them are uncomfortable so we numb them, run from them, distract ourselves, stuff them…IN OUR BODY. 

The body keeps the score. 

Eventually we have physical symptoms of all of this energy build up. 

Pranic Healing is one way to move and release those stuck emotions. The coaching I do is another way. MFR is another tool. And I love this tool.

If you’d like help with the spirit-mind-body connection, here are 4 ways to dig into it: