I Had No Idea I Was in Pain.
In March I had my IUD (intrauterine device) taken out, it had descended into my cervix and was causing issues. As I walked out of that appointment I suddenly realized how much better I felt. “Holy shit, I feel great!” The thing is, I didn’t even realize I had been in a small amount of pain, for quite a while, until the pain was gone. The issues we thought the IUD was causing were more hormonal in nature. Removing it had nothing to do with pain. My body has been mildly complicated for many years. There’s always some form of pain or discomfort, most of it is just background noise, you learn to live with it to the point that when you’re asked “how are you?” you honestly say “fine, good, normal,” without even realizing that none of that is technically true.
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I was substitute teaching last week when suddenly the air conditioner fan turned off and the immediate silence was jolting. I didn’t even realize how loud it was, or that it was on, till it was turned off. I felt slightly disoriented for a second. I was mid sentence as it turned off and I literally breathed out “cheese and rice…” This is not what I normally say, but it was a classroom full of 5th graders. It felt like the air pressure was sucked out of the room. No wonder they were talking so loud, which made it harder for them to hear me, making me have to strain my voice.
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A while back, a client I’ll call Amy, said to me:
“I didn’t know I wasn’t feeling that great. I was just living life, I felt happy enough, I dont know. A few weeks in [after receiving the Life Activation] and the difference is night and day. I had no idea. I’m kind of shocked.”
We’re not always aware of how we’re truly feeling physically, spiritually, emotionally, until something comes in and begins to fix the problem. We get the IUD taken out, the jumbo jet of an AC unit is turned off, we receive a Life Activation or a cord cutting or an aura healing, and suddenly a new level of joy turns on, a new level of physical or emotional comfort comes in. We suddenly realize that we’ve been walking in the desert in need of water and didn’t even know it till we drank the water.
Amy always considered herself successful, even before the Life Activation. She smiles a lot, feels generally satisfied with life, has a partner she loves, kids doing well in school, she loves her job, overall she has no complaints. She gets a bit worried about politics, but generally she felt like she was happy and thriving. Until she received the Life Activation and started integrating it over the next few weeks, suddenly she felt like a bag of bricks was lifted off of her heart. Bricks she didn’t know were there. She could breathe in a way she hadn’t known possible. She suddenly knew what little course corrections she needed to make in her job, with her husband, as a mother that immediately made those relationships even better than she already thought they were. There was some “come to Jesus” moments she had to have with herself that were hard to face, she had to exercise compassionate accountability, but she did so and moved forward.
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Just because we think we’re “fine, good, normal,” doesn’t mean there isn’t room for better. I don’t know about you, but “fine, good, normal” is the bar on the floor.
Raise the bar.
You’re allowed to be thriving.
You’re allowed to feel and be great.
The world will actually improve if more people felt amazing rather than “fine, good, normal,” or worse
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Amy is a testament to the fact that the Life Activation works for everyone, regardless of where they’re at in the world. She walked in to her session with an open mind, an open heart, and walked out ready to grow, ,and she is growing ,and thriving, and so is her family.
