by Sue Kira, Naturopath, Gold Coast, Australia
Stress appears to be part of our normal lives, but does it have to be this way? What is stressful to one person can often have no affect on another. Stress occurs as a result of the way we think and react to life.
If we change the way we respond to stress then it doesn’t have to affect us harmfully. And that has to be good for us because science is now validating what we have intuitively known for years: stress can have a destructive effect on our bodies.
For example, you have probably been told not to go swimming directly after eating. This is not an old wives’ tale. It has more to do with a scientific reason that relates to our nervous and vascular systems.
The body’s parasympathetic nervous system governs the digestive systems. When we eat a meal our nervous system shunts a large volume of blood via the vascular system to the organs of digestion, assimilation and elimination. If we go for a swim or run while digesting food, there is less blood supply available for the heart, lungs, arm and leg muscles. As a result we can suffer from cramps. Not so good if we are in the water, as this can lead to drowning.
A similar thing happens in reverse if we eat when we are stressed. In a state of stress, the nervous system automatically shunts a large volume of blood via the vascular system to the heart, lungs and limbs as a protective measure. This is known as the ‘flight or fight’ response, to help us to escape danger. As a result, blood vessels in other parts of the body are constricted and blood flow reduced. Not only is the digestive system affected, other problems may occur such as high blood pressure and migraine headaches because the blood vessels to the brain are constricted.
Do you see the mind body connection?
As a holistic practitioner I often help clients realise that there is more to their state of health than the obvious virus, deficiency, parasite, fungus etc. Sometimes it is necessary to dig deeper to show them what message their body is trying to convey.
Because it appears we lack a clear form of communication between the mind and the body, the body has to give us signals to help us work out what to do. It’s a bit like playing charades or looking at the symbology of dreams.
Many of us are aware that stress lowers our immune defences and know that if we are run down and stressed, that is when we are more prone to getting sick. But many still have very little understanding of the ‘why’ behind it all.
There is the scientific view that explains how there is a change of chemicals and hormones in our body stimulated by stressful situations. However, this doesn’t account for how we can get different disorders in different people, even though their stress factors may appear to be the same.
The answer is related to energy and the quality of our energy is affected by how we feel. I’ll explain…
Everything on this earth whether dead or alive, metal, wood or flesh is made up of trillions of vibrating atoms. Prior to working in naturopathy I worked in science labs using electron microscopes that could magnify thousands of times and go deeper and deeper into an object. It became clear to me that eventually you get to only vibrating atoms and empty spaces between atoms.
The rate at which atoms vibrate determines what an object actually is. Similarly, every organ and body part vibrates at different frequencies. This is the basis for energy medicine, which aims to restore harmony to the vibrations of the atoms that make up our body.
The thoughts we have can change the pattern of the vibration of our atoms. Consequently the way we react to stress in our life, whether emotional or physical, can have an impact on our health.
Many technological devices around us have the potential to affect us. It is easy to blame technology for our ailments, but the way we let emotions affect us has much more impact on our health than all of these devices.
We also blame our genes (genetics) but science has also shown through ‘epigenetics’ that we can ‘switch off’ or ‘switch on’ gene expressions depending on our emotional environment and how we look after ourselves. Identical twin studies have shown that if one twin is stressed more than the other, then the stressed twin has more health problems than the less stressed twin.
So we can change our vibrations quite easily by the way we think, feel and deal with life. Taking time to stop and be still and learning to breathe gently through our nose is something that can help us, along with eating wholesome fresh unprocessed foods, drinking clean fresh water, breathing clean air, doing regular gentle exercise and truly nurturing ourselves.
However, it is very important to consider how our emotional life is affecting us.
Have you ever seen someone turn ‘white as a sheet’ or ‘as red as a beetroot’? This is a direct result of the responsiveness of our internal system to various emotions. These emotions affect our cardiovascular system and can affect blood flow to different organs and can disrupt the harmony of the mind-body connection.
If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health. Consider how long you can endure a stressful situation before it starts to affect your body. Buried past experiences and hurts can be trapped in the body and sometimes we need the help of an experienced practitioner to resolve these, to help bring them to our awareness and release them.
My preferred and recommended form of energy healing is the esoteric healing modalities taught by Serge Benhayon of Universal Medicine, of which I am a perpetual student.
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
A person definitely feels different when past hurts are released from the body; there is this sense of space and freedom. So, it makes sense that as these hurts are compounded over the years that we feel dense and thoughts are reflective of that.
“However, it is very important to consider how our emotional life is affecting us.” Our body is constantly trying to deal with the aftermath of our emotions, as it leaves much for the body to deal with, higher blood pressure, faster heart beat, over eating etc. Eventually our body gets overloaded and we end up with an illness or disease.
“Consequently the way we react to stress in our life, whether emotional or physical, can have an impact on our health.” Nowadays the way we live and the fast pace of life means we are dealing with a lot of stress on a day to day basis, and finding ways to cope with that stress is really important I have found the Esoteric Yoga a great way to bring a greater stillness and surrender.
Wow a fascinating insight into the body thank you – if the body moves blood around when we eat or if we are stressed then what else does it do to compensate when we are tired, or when we push ourselves too hard, or when we feel upset – could these things be more than just things we experience but things our body actually has to find different ways to compensate for?
This is great Sue, there is definitely much more to health than just the physical body, an holistic approach has certainly worked for me by combining esoteric medicine and Western Medicine. Understanding how I feel and how that impacts on my body, the stress response as you say, is very supportive. To me it’s good common sense to include the whole person in any healing, and my two doctors are so wonderfully supportive in this way helping me to become aware of issues within me and how I live that might be contributing to my conditions. I also was in awe of this line about the fact everything is energy ” It became clear to me that eventually you get to only vibrating atoms and empty spaces between atoms”, thank you Sue!
It may be something that is ‘out there’ at this moment in time with most people but it has to make sense to me that every ailment the body communicates with me is a message, whether I like it or not or want to deal with or not, to support me and when I embrace my body’s communication, I offer and give myself an opportunity to heal.
There are the inevitable stresses and strains in life which we cannot avoid however, what we do have a say in is how we respond or react to these stresses. I have just realised that intensity actually has the word ‘in’ within it, meaning that things only get intense if we take them in or on!
Interesting approach to understand emotions and how they energetically affect our body and its chemical configuration.
We do know how to live, and our body’s natural rhythms – so what gets in the way of letting go and living in that natural way? We’ve become accustomed to accepting a certain level of stress in our lives, that we consider to be ‘normal’ but is actually far from it. Time to look at what we’re prioritising over the health and natural rhythms of our bodies, and why this is: is what we think is needed really worth putting on our body on the line for?
It feels like many, including myself, have used being stressed as an excuse for why we are not functioning as well as we could be but have taken very little responsibility for how we ended up in that situation and how we have the power to change our situation before it leads to illness and disease. Thank you for offering a deeper understanding of what is happening and the support that is available when we choose to access it.
Really fascinating to read about the the body’s parasympathetic nervous system. I read a little sign on a wall the other day saying how being angry or stressed weakens our immune system while laughing strengthens it … yet again another sign telling us how we choose to live affects our body, health and wellbeing.
Free prescription – laugh often and live well.
I think it’s time we really recognised that what we feel actually dramatically affects our bodies, stress is an easy example because we can physiologically feel the pressure it puts inside us by speeding everything up. But could it be that everything we feel affects all our organs and internal processes?
This is fascinating. I just love all the details of what happens in our body on a physiological level. It’s just incredible how these workings are put together and get replicated in each and every body of ours. It is simply unfathomable.
‘If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health.’ Beautifully said, if we don’t let go of old hurts, they stay in the body and slowly our body deteriorates in one way or another until we either get a wake up call, or we realise that there are still things we need to clear.
“Because it appears we lack a clear form of communication between the mind and the body, the body has to give us signals to help us work out what to do.” Yet so many of us ignore what our body is telling us, overriding the symptoms and wanting a quick fix or a pill, rather than making different life-style choices.
All of this makes a whole lot of sense and having a connection to the body in day to day life can help register these changes occurring. Living in the mind, the to-do list and the ‘have to’s’ keeps us blind from all of whats going on in the body.
Great point that stress is a condition created from reaction to life. It is not from us by nature. And this is proven by the fact that our body does not naturally need to be driven to complete tasks just purposefull
A great blog Sue Kira, bringing a deeper understanding of the detrimental way of stress in our lives. Super-stressed-out has become accepted as a normal way of living – taking responsibility for healing trapped emotions and how we are living daily can reverse this, with harmony restored to our body.
“If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health”. When I read these words today they make so much sense but once upon a time I had very little idea that this was actually the case. Stress was just something I lived with because my life was super challenging but what I didn’t realise was, that by not knowing how to deal with the causes of the stress I was constantly adding layer upon layer of more undealt with emotions. It’s no wonder then that at times I felt as if I was ‘drowning’ under the emotional load that I was carrying and the subsequent raft of health issues.
We tend to think of emotions as natural and even cathartic but what if they are just a result of our not having the wisdom to stay centred in our feeling. What if we even have a sense or awareness of something before a feeling and could let our responses come from that place?
This is an important discussion to be having Sue, to consider our emotions play a role in our illness and disease is a great way to begin to heal the underlying causes and not just treating the symptoms. Too many prefer to blame the microwave, or their genetics or see themselves as the victim, but it is a powerful and responsible step when we begin to look at the way we are living and our choices that has created this dis-ease and dis-harmony to impact on the body.
It is amazing isn’t it and extraordinarily revealing, that our thoughts can make us literally denser, or indeed lighter and so much more spacious.
Your question about how long we can endure a stressful situation before it starts to affect your body has all to do with how we react on the situation or stay with ourselves but in essence we all get affected by stress the moment there is an opening and we let it into our body.
Brilliant article Sue. It’s so great to be able to understand what’s happening in the body physiologically and energetically. One supports the other.
We have allowed stress to become part of our normal way of living, when we know deep inside that it is not good for us, and often we choose not to do anything about it, until we are either ill, or something else stops us in our tracks and makes us realise that we can make different choices and live without the need for stress.
So true – so many of us think it is normal to be stressed, that life is stressful and we can easily come up with a list of things to justify our stress, and our life is set up for us to be a perfect consumer by accepting stress as part of life, seeking fixes, buying remedies/distractions/escapes – all in anticipation of stress coming back at the end of respite. Life so doesn’t have to be that way.
As I read your blog Sue I can really appreciate how much more we have yet to learn and understand about our human body and its wisdom.
Our thoughts and emotions and behaviours effect our bodies so much more than we are willing to accept, for example if I have a thought that I’m not enough and I start to feel really heavy – that’s an actual energy and I’m sure if we studied our particles at a vibrational level we would see that there has been a change in vibration, and that makes sense that it would effect our physical body all our organs.
What I get from this article is that we are masters of our own destination. It is up to us to realise that we are not victims of our environment and it is how we deal with stress that can have an overall effect on our health.
Wow a truly fascinating and educational article. It makes sense that trapped emotions from buried past experiences and hurts will invariably begin to show up in our health, so to release these is invaluable in restoring harmony in the body and providing the foundation for true well being
Thanks for your description of what happens when we eat when stressed. Perhaps this explains quite a few health problems. If you look at the way we are living and then how we are eating, it’s possible many of us are eating in stress. It’s not only what we eat that has an effect on our health but also how we eat.
A great blog to read thank you Sue; there is no doubt that stress has a major impact on our health and well-being. How we respond to stress and anxiety, by healing the underlying causes, is certainly the key.
Great blog Sue; yes it is very important for us to consider how our emotions and our reactions affects our physical health, for inevitably they do.
Thank you for explaining the effects of stress in such a relatable way and highlighting the responsibility that we all have to address this issue before it negatively affects our physical and mental health. I have certainly benefitted from support with changing my vibrations and am now much more easily able to recognise the compression I feel when I choose to allow stress to take over and thus can recognise that I have a choice about whether to continue to let it run my day or to take a moment to come back to myself and let it go.
Addressing technological devices and how they affect us is needed but if we want to get to the root problem of our ailments we have to look at, address and be willing to accept that our emotions and how they affect us have an impact on our wellbeing and our planet.
Life has become very stressful with deadlines, expectations and commitments we make, however the question for me is are we actually living in a way that supports our body, for example resting our body when we can, going to bed early, listening to our body and choosing foods that support it.
Great post Sue. I find the Energetic Facial Release, as practised by Universal Medicine practitioners, to be a wonderfully simple modality that is not intrusive and very releasing of tension and held emotions.
Thank you Sue for clearly showing how we have a responsibility for the vibration of the atoms in our body and how the way we live can affect the natural harmony of the rhythms of our organs.
It’s funny what we do know and yet we don’t take it deeper. How could we know something or a part of something but almost neglect taking that awareness any deeper? We all know that stress is not a great thing for our bodies and yet on the whole most will just say “I need to get rid of stress and I’ll be okay” but we never take a step any further, often saying it’s just great to talk about it. It is great to talk about but also put actions in place that support what we are talking about. Whether we start a daily diary and then reflect on it weekly to see what patterns are reoccurring or we choose to go and have treatment from someone, merely talking about things like stress don’t always lead us out of them. There is an ongoing relationship here that needs to keep deepening at every point if we are going to bring true change. You can’t just wake up one day and have no stress or go on holidays and have no stress etc, it will always be there knocking on the door and it’s just the way you answer that knock that will need the dedication.
Makes perfect sense, and is surprising this isn’t talked about more regularly in society. We all know it to be true, even if we do try to find reasons for why it can’t be true.
I agree that trauma is physical, emotional and mental in its scarring. The years don’t diminish the impact if we haven’t learned how to heal the long term legacy of whatever we have faced.
Living with stress has become normal for many, but its not natural and I can see how its affects lead to illness and disease. I like the way you talked about our atoms vibrating in a harmonious way or not depending on how we are choosing to live. This makes a lot of sense to me and its a different very tangible feeling inside when I am stressed compared to when I feel at ease and calm.
I have learnt much from your sharing Sue! This I can take into my life as I learn to let stress go.
Thank you Sue, I found this blog fascinating. I love the way you described the behaviour of atoms. It’s as if by delving deep into the tiniest expression you unlock the truth of the whole. This reminds me that there is no beginning or end to anything. I usually take things bigger in order to understand them ie – look to the way the universe operates or consider extremes (ie. if 500 cigarettes are harmful then one cigarette is harmful). Whether we drill ‘down’ to microscopic cells or ‘up’ to the biggest brightest star the reflection of truth is the same.
It doesn’t take rocket science to know the effect stress has on our bodies. The tension we can feel is palpable and it is no surprise that if the body is consistently in such tension it can lead to other health issues. Often we can blame the external factors of life but really it is our choice to how we respond (or react) to life. Knowing it is a choice places the power and responsibility back in our own hands and is actually quite liberating.
“Prior to working in naturopathy I worked in science labs using electron microscopes that could magnify thousands of times and go deeper and deeper into an object. It became clear to me that eventually you get to only vibrating atoms and empty spaces between atoms.”
The deeper we go – the more space there is. This gives us a clue as to why ‘surface dwelling’ causes us so much constriction and tension. There is deeper we can go in the quest to find who we truly are. This is an inward (soulful) search that takes the body with us, not an outward (spiritual) one that leaves our body behind.
In my experience, if I allow stress to run the show, I become unable to function effectively – I can’t think straight, I feel physically shaken and very anxious, my body can’t digest food so if I eat it passes straight through me, I want to retreat and hide from the world and I feel uncommitted and given up on myself and life. This then becomes a self-perpetuating cycle so the only way to stop this is to change how I am moving by bringing conscious awareness to my movements, which supports me to change my thoughts which is where the stress is being generated from.
Stress is a large problem for society, with greater demands being placed on us individually, at work and our home life too, it feels like we live in the fast lane on the motorway of life, not being able to get off, but having to cope with everything and everyone else, no one wants to wait for an answer and we are living in an instant world. Eventually something has to give and either we choose to support our body or we get a stop that gives us an opportunity to make changes, and more loving choices.
Hi Sue, I love the idea that every organ in our body vibrates at a different frequency. And it has been my personal experience that ‘the thoughts we have can change the pattern of the vibration of our atoms,’ thus creating disharmony in the body. Being a physics teacher, this makes a lot of sense to me.
I have definitely noticed as a health care practitioner that physical conditions and problems are linked to psychological states of being and that stress/anxiety, exhaustion and tension in the body affect physical health.
Makes sense that when we are stressed there is a lack of space and it feels like everything is crowding in on you and you don’t feel like you can breathe, getting to truly know our bodies and how they are affected opens our awareness and understanding of illness and disease.
We all know stress affects our health, but ‘how long you can endure a stressful situation before it starts to affect your body?’ Or is it immediately?
The past can inform the present so much so that we become stressed when in the present there is no need to do so. ” Buried past experiences and hurts can be trapped in the body and sometimes we need the help of an experienced practitioner to resolve these, to help bring them to our awareness and release them.” The Universal Medicine modalities and their practitioners are invaluable in this regard.
It really is obvious that stress has an enormous effect upon us… The thing is stress is endemic in our society and is truly taking an enormous toll with a consequent weighing down of our health systems… When we hear of something that truly deals with stress surely it is time to take note of what is being offered
Thankyou Sue, the truth is that our stress levels can be incredibly high when the situations around us may not warrant such a high stress response. Our bodies can live the reality of extreme stress from our thoughts and emotions even though our outer environment may not truly reflect the need for such a response.
“The rate at which atoms vibrate determines what an object actually is.” Thank you Sue, this sentence is a beautiful illustration of the statement ‘Everything is energy’.
If we are willing to be totally honest we all actually know that stress is not normal – so we should be asking ourselves – why do we fall for this big, fat debilitating lie?
The deeper we go, the more space we find. Surely this is a clue that true space exploration is found within our own bodies and not ‘out there’ in the cosmos. The philosophers of ancient Greece understood what Hermes taught: “As above, so to below,” but we as a humanity have allowed ourselves to drift from such wisdom and become seduced by the glamour of ‘life on other planets’ when we do not yet truly understand nor appreciate the life upon our own…
It seems clear to me that the future of medicine will pay much more heed to the individual choices we make, the thoughts we choose to think, how we react to life and hence how we affect the vibrations in our bodies at a fundamental level. We are literally creating disharmony – or maintaining harmony – within through our reactions or responses to life. Perhaps we are starting to understand the power we have in our thought processes and what the consequences of this are.
My experience has been exactly what you say here. Stress appears to be part of our normal lives, but does it have to be this way? Some days something can be stressful for me and other days the same thing will be like water of a ducks back. My response all depends on how I am with myself, when I am present with myself I am far more capable of seeing things through understanding eyes and not react to what otherwise could trigger a reaction I me.
Isn’t that an incredible wisdom to be aware of – if you put your body into some form of stress and do another activity the body and its systems are now under more stress to perform; and because the mind body connection is now not clear the mind can work aimlessly without the ‘body in mind’. It makes a ‘whole’ lot of sense to be connected to your body and honour it in full and all its magnificence.
The other day I reacted to something mean that was said to me. I was aware that this comment was meant to hurt and I still felt the hurt radiate through my body. As I felt this get bigger and bigger, I pondered why it had affected me and my thoughts so much. It was because I had become attached to the identification that something had brought me. I had wanted to be seen as good at something when I didn’t need to worry about that at all. As soon as I let go of this need, the feeling started to leave my body. I didn’t mind what had been said. I saw it for what it was. I was able to let go of the thoughts that surrounded this event and the stress left my body. It was an awesome example of how I can set myself up for stress and hurt when all I need to do is let some things go.
As Serge Benhayon has been presenting quite simply in Universal Medicine presentations lately, changing our state is so simple. The way our body chooses to rebalance and harmonise itself both in the energy flowing through it and its physiology, is through its movement. Practicing this has helped me to understand how the most subtle movements can re align my thoughts, actions and behaviours in an instant and verifies what Sue is mentioning here about how we do have choices all the time about the quality in the particles of our bodies.
Thank you Sue. I have recently been noticing the effects of stress on my body. lt feels imperative for me to incorporate energetic modalities like Esoteric Healing and Chakra Puncture to effectively address the core of these issues. My body feels so much clearer now having done this regularly. Like getting a tune up. Very necessary.
Great to re-read your article Sue. “If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health. Consider how long you can endure a stressful situation before it starts to affect your body.” I too find the support of Esoteric Healing practitioners instrumental in releasing my old buried hurts.
I will take so much away from this article and consider it as I go about my day to day and have no doubt I will be back to comment more as I digest it!
This was really interesting to read. I am currently doing work with a naturopath on my gut and did not know this ‘The body’s parasympathetic nervous system governs the digestive systems.’ This reveals a lot for me. Also how many of us have reached for food when we are stressed!!!!!! When in actual fact this is harming our body more!
Thank you, Sue. The following is such a great point that you make – “If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health. Consider how long you can endure a stressful situation before it starts to affect your body. Buried past experiences and hurts can be trapped in the body and sometimes we need the help of an experienced practitioner to resolve these, to help bring them to our awareness and release them.” Conventional medicine still has a tendency to underestimate the effects of emotions despite the evidence that shows how harming they are to our wellbeing.
It is almost as if stress was a set-up designed perfectly to keep us so in motion that we cannot find the stillness even if we want to… But why would that be? Stress certainly seems to be endemic… It is everywhere, taking its toll in trillions of dollars… But it seems unfathomable that the key to unraveling stress is simply within, and always has been.
Sue thank you for your wonderful blog – it helped me to get a deeper understanding what is really going on energetically in my body. I love that my organs are vibrating all differently. It made me more aware of HOW I do things as this keeps my organs vibrating in a harmonious way and so I can support my health. I am wondering why this is not something we learn at school. I am sure we would reduce the cost in our health care system.
Sue this is such a practical article in that it offers the reader not only food for thought but examples of ways we can support ourselves through the choices we make daily. I love how you broke down each of the elements of the ways we live and revealed the true effect that our emotions and stress can have not only on the choices we do make but also the quality of the life we lead.
Thank you Sue for a great article, it has made me more aware of when there is stress in my body and what state my emotions are in during my day and especially before I sit down to eat, as these, I am sure, are factors to look into for any digestive problems that arise.
Trapped emotions within our body need to be released, if not the impact over time can be extremely debilitating and greatly affect our vitality and energy. I enjoyed reading about this in your blog Sue, thank you for highlighting the consequences of holding on to emotions and for suggesting some strategies to release them.
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Yes it does feel like most people think that stress IS a part of life, and yet it is most definitely not… but to realize this, to make this not a theory but a real living way of life, is something that the presentations of Universal Medicine excel in.
Thank you Sue for this informative sharing, it has opened up some great things for me to ponder.
It’s so true Leigh, those things we don’t want to feel never just go away. We have to deal with them. It is so empowering to know that we can and by being honest and really feeling them, we are giving the body a chance to release them.
Ah yes Julie, and what a different world and approach to health and well-being we will have when this type of education becomes the basis of all health and medical education – and what a different way to approach illness and disease.
There are so many points that stood out to me while reading this once again. Stress to me is when I go into reaction towards what my body is communicating, this takes the form of focusing on the painful area, not wanting to feel underneath it, going into emotions, dramas and distractions are all ways of temporarily not feeling the communication (but is a big fat lie as the feeling actually never goes away and I am becoming more aware that it never goes away). When the body does call out, it’s calling for the vibration found in the inner-heart, which is accessed through how we live. This is what I have found works for me in lowering stress, anxiety and allowing me to heal quicker and stronger than I ever have in the past, hand on heart, palms together and feeling the warmth are just two ways I can do this, when things get stressful I am learning to go to my inner-heart and the warmth within that can be felt there rather then clenching my jaw to not feel. Thank you Sue.
In this blog Sue you gave a very clear, concise, simple and factual account of how our quality of energy effects our state of health; it was really interesting and I valued your insight and wisdom, thank you.
I didn’t ever study biology and never really had much of an interest in the details of how the body functioned (I mostly focussed on its physical function on an external basis and what I could ‘do’ with it but without stopping to consider how I ‘was’ with it or how I cared for it), but I found this fascinating, fascinating because it makes sense and clearly shows the body is not just physical but is also energetic…. I too am a student of Universal Medicine and through this have come to appreciate the absolute importance of approaching any healing both physically ‘and’ energetically which in my experience is the only true form of healing.
I absolutely agree Angela it makes no sense to only address one aspect of ourselves when we are so much more than just the physical. this obviously has to be addressed but I have also found true healing in addressing the energetic side to our lives as well as my lifestyle choices.
Yes Angela I’m realising the depth we need to take our level of commitment for our well being and livingness, this entails every minuscule detail as nothing is in isolation… Everything is a result of everything! How we have come this far down the track in life without linking it all is in utter denial of the whole body.
It is interesting indeed to explore the fact why I have ignored my body and its physiology for that long as it indicates that I have lived in denial of my body for a long time and just used it as a means to aim for the goals I had set in life. And only when I became a student of Universal Medicine I was introduced and became aware of the delicateness of the body and of the energetic part of it. This has changed my relation with my body completely as my body is now number one, as to me it is my connection to my soul and the guide to a way of being that I belong to and have left long time ago. A way of being, knowing that I am an energetic part of the whole.
So many things can cause us stress over which we may not have much control. However the trapping of emotions within the body is something we can all prevent once we are aware of its devastating consequences. Thank you Sue.
This is so logical Sue. It is surprising that this is not something everyone is aware of. The clear connection between what we think, how we react and run ourselves and how our bodies respond and then the effects of how we treat our bodies and how that affects our thoughts seems obvious. Anyone can experiment with this and feel how this works in their bodies.
Love the clarity with which you share the truth behind why stress occurs Sue, it makes it tangible and so accessible for us all. It is now up to us each to look a little deeper at why we might be choosing to hold these emotions in our bodies.
Thank you for the clear and concise statement that “stress occurs as a result of the way we think and react to life”. Putting it how it is makes it clear that we have a choice in the matter and are not just the victims here. As long as we are prepared and willing to examine our motives and behaviours, we can change what is happening.
Thank you for such a great explanation about what is happening in the body on an atomic level. It takes it back to basics really. When we are without connection and left feeling like we are out there on our own, dealing with all we are being bombarded with, then it is only natural that the body feels stressed. All those atomic particles are connected and operating in the one field, so it makes sense if we don’t feel connected the body panics, because it is being forced into an unnatural way of being … And no amount of alcohol and drugs can fix that!
What an interesting blog Sue – thank you! It’s great that the science field of ‘epigenetics’ is opening up a whole new conversation around what factors may be influencing our health so that people come to understand that genetics is not the total explanation for what is going on. With a more holistic understanding of stress and other health conditions people come to realise that they do have a big say in the state of their health.
I am again reminded that, although I take much care with my physical health as far as food choices, sleep etc. I feel I can take much more self-responsibility when it comes to not indulging in emotions, which, as you have simply shown can be equally (or even more) harmful to our Wellbeing.
A great blog Sue – this ultimatley places the responsibility of dis-ease and illness back on the individual. We all have our part to play in our health and well-being, and stopping to ask ‘why’ is a great place to start true healing.
Thank you Sue, for a very clear article of how our thoughts affect our health. I know when thoughts and reactions have their sway within me I can feel the hardness in my body, great to explain how deep this way of living affects our whole bodies.
Ariana so true, we are all taught it at school in physics, it is the basics of science. What Einsten has shared and what Serge Benhayon is sharing has been proven in science, we need to go deep into understanding energy, atoms and living to truly understand the magic of energy. We are living proofs of this energy.
It is very clear from reading how intimately linked emotions are to the body and confirms to me, how dealing with our reactions, and giving ourselves the space to ask ourselves questions ‘why did I react like that?’ is an important part of self care, and taking responsibility for our health and wellbeing.
yes Johanne, I totally agree, giving ourselves the space to ask “why did i react like this?” is absolute gold.
Yes Johanne when we notice a reaction in the body, that’s our signal to stop and ask the question of our body… It knows the answers and is there to guide us back to equilibrium in our body, healthy and well being. Bringing an understanding between emotions and wellbeing to humanity is the key, I’m wondering if Sue has published this as the correlation is clear.
Reading this, I realize how important it is to be present with our bodies. If I am present with my body, then I can influence its vibration. If my mind is elsewhere and I do things in auto-pilot-mode, I expose my body to everything and anything outside of me to influence its vibration.
Yes it is important to be very present in our bodies, I too know that if I get stuck in my head, I am not able to connect to what my body truly needs in that moment.
So true Felix and Felicity the more we live from our head, the more we become disconnected from our body and this opens up the floodgates for us to be affected by everything. I notice the more I bring presence into my day the less exhausted I feel and the less affected I am by things that happen through the day. With presence I am with myself and others more and it feels like a much more supportive way to live.
Thank you for this thorough illustration of the impacts of our thoughts Sue. How do we ensure then we live free from these levels of stress? When I live feeling my body I don’t really get thoughts so much. Reading your words confirms for me the greatest way to live stress free to is live in connection to me.
Great point Joseph, the more we live in connection to self, it feels to me like there isn’t the space for these kind of thoughts to come in. I also found it interesting to consider the fact that essentially everything is made up of vibrating atoms and that the quality with which we choose to live effects these vibrations either negatively or positively therefore contributing to our state of health. Definitely brings a much higher level of responsibility on the way we choose to live, think and respond to life.
This was truly fascinating to read and I love the concept of playing charades with our bodies. It is so interesting that thoughts can change the pattern of the vibration of our atoms and can therefore affect our health. It takes responsibility to a whole new level when true well-being is not only about what we put in our bodies but the thoughts and emotions we allow as well.
It’s fascinating that our thoughts can change the vibration of our bodies, I wonder if it’s possible therefore that our bodies can change our thoughts? If we learn to connect in a more loving caring way to our bodies, would our thoughts then become more loving and clear?
Thomas our body posture can certainly change our thoughts in my experience. If I slump into a defeated ‘it’s all too much’ posture my thoughts are very different than if I sit up with chest open. In the latter pose I feel spacious and alert and positive, wheras in the slumped pose everything feels compacted and dense. I try this exercise with students and they are surprised by the immediate difference it makes to their mood.
Thank you Sue for explaining how the effects of stress physically work and affect our bodies,
it makes so much sense. The relationship between stress and our digestive system was very interesting, often we spend a lot of care and love in preparing nutritional food, then eat in a rush, which defeats the purpose of all the love we put into preparing the meal.
Great point Thomas, this is something I know I can definitely relate to and need to bring more focus and awareness to with my eating patterns.
A very interesting article Sue, thank you. I enjoyed reading this and was a lovely reminder that all is energy and therefore all is because of energy and that we have a choice.
Your explanations and examples are very clear and informative Sue, thank you.
I enjoyed reading, thus gaining a greater insight, about holding on to emotions and how stress affects our bodies.
Thank you for this very informative explanation of how stress affects the body Sue. I never studied biology, and only in the last few years have I realised how important it is to look after my physical and emotional well-being. I was inspired to read about how the particles vibrate at different frequencies, and how we can reconfigure our bodies when we are aware of how our thoughts and behaviour affects all parts of the body.
Sue, I have learnt so much from reading your blog. I had come to believe that not eating before swimming was an old wives tale but from reading your article it makes so much sense why it is important not to. Your scientific background is fascinating and I would love to read more from you with your understanding of science and the human body.
Dear Sue this is a really clear down to earth and very explained medical blog including the whole picture and the core roots. This blog makes it possible to understand our bodies and how our system made out of energy is working and what is affecting it. For me the experience of the stored hurts and trapped emotions, to feel it and be able to release and heal, and all just through connecting and feeling them, was really impressive and helped me understand even more how important it is to fully come back and enhouse and embrace this body I am living in. Now I am on the journey of building every day and step by step a more loving relationship with my body, as it is truly the best guide through life. Thank You for making this knowing accessible to all. With love Nadine
I love how your article shows how the objectified view of stress as a “thing” or an “objective condition” is quite false and that it is our emotions, perceptions and lifestyle choices that facilitate us in experiencing stress.
In my work, I have found that beliefs are a high contributing factor also: when we believe that a certain situation is going to be stressful, especially when there is a whole group believing this together, we may end up approaching this situation in stress before anything has occurred at all. That’s a cycle I completely reject!
I love how you describe also, Sue, the way in which blood flow is diverted differentially to parts of the body, like in digestion, or in fight or flight situations: it makes me wonder what would the body’s preferred blood flow be like?
it is simple really… The way we think, in the energy within which we think, has a direct effect upon the way we feel, it has direct physiological effects upon everybody, which have direct links to our physical, mental, and energetic health. It behoves to understand that everything is connected, there are no little cul-de-sacs with things that don’t matter… Everything is important – everything we think do and say.
Thanks Sue. There is something about the approach of Esoteric Modalities that cares for a person as a whole. There really is something in this. I really enjoyed reading about your experience working as a scientist and that you saw the atoms vibrating and can relate this to esoteric healing.
Awesome article and thank you Sue for providing a deeper understanding of how our thoughts and emotions truly impact our bodies. If we take heed from what you’ve presented in your blog we can be truly empowered in knowing that we are not at the mercy of anything external and that in truth our health and wellbeing are determined by how we live and respond in life. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and love your explanation of the vibration of atoms.
This is fascinating Sue – to understand more fully how our atoms vibrate according to our disposition and health is a total game changer. It is easy then to connect to the understanding that a certain emotion will cause a patter of vibration in different organs, leading to particular dis-ease or dis-harmony. Really great read; thank you.
As a Physiotherapist of some 18 years experience, I have witnessed countless times patients coming into my clinic with a physical ailment such as back or neck pain and when I have interviewed them about the history of the complaint, so often they report a recent stressful event or ongoing stress in their lives. Coincidence? Maybe, but I am convinced the anecdotal evidence is there for a link between stress and physical dysfunction.
I know for a fact that stress impacts on my health and that the more I allow stress to be in my life it does eventually catch up with me with a big whack of ill health. Only through Universal Medicine have I found a form of healing stress and emotions that rather than approaches it head on, seeks to look behind the stress and pull the carpet out from under it so to speak. For example if I walk in a certain way that is tight and on alert I am much more prone to feeling or reacting in a stress-full way, however if I walk openly and freer there is space to not instantly jump into a reaction or stress. And this way of being open and freer I have found to be achieved by not holding onto ill energy within the body.
Thank you for this very informative article, Sue. I have often used the word ‘stress’ to blame it as THE reason for being grumpy or exhausted or some medical condition, and your article has inspired me to consider it as the consequence of my choices.
great to read about energy in a scientific way and get to explore how we can influence our quality of life on a very powerful level in a very simple way.
There is so much in your blog here Sue, thank you for sharing about epigenetics, impact of emotions on our health, the stress response and physiology of digestion. It certainly shows how we do have a choice here in regards to our health, the choice to either let the body be governed by emotions or not. Taking time to stop and reconnect to ourselves using our breath is a great self care tool to re establish that quality and sense of ourselves which halts emotional reactions affecting our body. This reconnection to ourselves using the breath is the foundation of self care, and in my opinion, this is true medicine.
I concur with your words in your comment Gilesch, I too have learned much about listening to the body since attending the presentations of Serge Benhayon at Universal Medicine. I am constantly learning to appreciate the amazingness of this vehicle and all that it has to reflect to me and to teach me in this life.
Great blog Sue. It makes a lot of sense that loading the body up with emotional baggage takes up space which then makes the body have to work harder to compensate. Reading this blog I came to a deeper appreciation of just how important it is to make sure I take moments throughout my day to slow my body down. I notice that when I do this and my body relaxes back to its normal state that I can feel more ‘space’ inside of me.
Such a great way, in which you have explained the connection between stress and its impact on our bodies. This was a wonderful learning for me this morning. I loved reading your article from the first to the last line, understanding now much deeper the relationship between choosing energy and the physical impact this has to my body. This gives me more insight and awareness with the fact as well as more understanding and acceptance. Thank you Sue.
Loved reading this Sue. This is true science – it amazes me that when we relate science and biology back to the body it suddenly feels alive and makes so much more sense! I am feeling a bit anxious the last couple of days and find my digestion is also going strange. The explanation you gave about the nervous system and that when you are stressed more energy goes to your heart and muscles etc. to ‘fight or flight’ really made me aware of that this is what is happening in my body at the moment. Thank you.
I am very much enjoying the beauty of how you describe the human body and its response to our choices. This is actually a truly empowering discovery if not a very exposing one as it does always come back to our choices and way of living.
Gosh Sue, I wish someone had explained this with such clarity. I would have even liked subjects I always felt a clear aversion towards. It makes so much sense when we factor in the whole picture.
Thank you Sue for reminding me of the mind-body connection and that energy is everywhere and in everything and that my state of mind can greatly influence my health.
It is quite common to blame technological devices for our problems without stopping to consider how we relate to them – often choosing to react in an emotional way, this then causing our dis-ease not the devices themselves.
Yes Elaine, if we blame the technological devices for our problems then we do not have to take responsibility for the way we are living.
Thanks Sue for a very insightful blog on our bodies and the multiple effects of stress from our choices and lifestyles. The energetic connection and science of atoms and particles is the missing link. The understanding that everything is energy and because of energy bridges it back to us through responsibility and choices.
Thank you Sue for this very informative article. I particularly enjoyed the explanation that it all comes down to atoms and the space around them and the vibrations that affect whether our atoms are in harmony or not. This explains to me why sometimes we know something just doesn’t feel right.
Yes, Mary, I find that description beautiful too and have a lovely visual feel for how the particles are constantly re arranging themselves in response to our thoughts and feelings: it feels exquisite, and even the notion of such bodily responsiveness, and the natural harmony is so inspiring of deep appreciation for the physical body. Beautiful – divine, actually.
Beautifully written blog sue, understanding that everything has an effect on our body is such an important fact – everything we think, everything we do or say and nothing is nothing because everything is everything. We rarely stop and consider this and what it means for our well-being.
Loved reading your blog Sue. You kept me very interested. It was insightful and a learning – I want to read more where science meets energy.
If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health. Spot on Sue, and this has been my own experience as I took on many emotions that were not mine, and over the years, they become toxic, which led to my ill health, but at the same time, I understood my body was also clearing so much as my ill health brought me to a stop and then I changed my ways.
When I was reading your article Sue I was reflecting back on how quickly I would scoff down my food as a habit… because I was living with so much anxiety and I would rush my food down as if someone was going to take it from me! It didn’t matter how healthy I ate, I would still feel bloated afterwards. It was only when I started to work on what was causing this anxiety and creating space and time in my day not to rush my meals that how I would feel in my body would change. And it’s now a great reference point for me if I do start to rush how I’m eating, because I feel how uncomfortable this is in my body very quickly…. and so I stop and consider why I may be anxious or rushing. It’s fun having this relationship with food and with my body 🙂
I know this feeling too Katerina, eating while in anxiousness. Sometimes I am in a self created stressful situation in which I quickly want to eat without having enough time to eat. And when I try, my body is physically not able to take the food, my oesophagus is rejecting the food and I end up with a painful oesophagus and throat. This simply does not work and I have to admit that my body is much wiser than my mind.
This is good to point out Katerina. I can relate to eating in this anxious way and I love how Sue takes it back to the energetic level and how we affect every cell through stress and anxiety. I found the Gentle Breath Meditation a great way to stay connected to how my body truly feels.
Wow that is such a simple straightforward understanding of why our thoughts and emotions affect our bodies, for better or worse. Thanks Sue.
This is a brilliant article Sue. I love how you have outlined what happens physically in the body when we allow our emotions to run us. It makes so much sense as I now have a deeper understanding on how emotions have a harmful effect and disrupt the harmony of our entire well-being. Thank you.
Thank you for making it very clear how stress and emotions affect our bodies and health. It makes perfect sense that if we have negative thoughts over a long period it has to have an impact on our physiology.
Sue you explain how our bodies work so clearly. I’ve always known if I am stressed then I’ll get a cold sore on my mouth; you have given a clue to how we can avoid stress in the first place.
When I was at school the idea of biology, chemistry and physics were all separate subjects whereas what you’ve shared here Sue is that they are all connected. This is definitely something worth teaching, not just at school but in all education and even work places and homes, because emotions are in every aspect of human life, and with this understanding that they do have an effect on our health is worth considering.
Great call Leigh, for having this taught as something to be commonly known in all aspects of our lives. We are living in a world where everything is energy and where everything is because of energy.
I know Leigh and I wrote them all off as boring…. now I am fascinated by us and the universe and how we all work within that, how it can be taught so it seems dull and cumbersome is beyond me!
Sue, I absolutely loved your blog. Felt like I had a science and anatomy lesson at the same time. Thoroughly enjoyable.
You talk about stress and the trapped emotions in the body which all affect our health negatively – doesn’t it make sense that they would clutter the space between the atoms and lead to a very contracted and tightly held body and therefore a joyless existence?
It makes a lot of sense Gabriele… most of us don’t like to see things cluttered around our home for too long because it can feel stifling. Just imagine how our physiology feels with all these emotions and stress welled up inside cramming up space. Not pretty, but then somehow we find it easy to blame everything apart from the energy we’ve chosen to take on.
Great point, when you are stressed its like you don’t have space, things become hectic, you can feel dizzy or have lots of chaotic thoughts, I have also noticed that the body becomes more tight, muscles contracted, hardened etc- just an overall lack of space in everything.
Whoa! I seriously feel you are onto something here, Gabriele, that toxic emotions clutter up the spaciousness between our atoms / cells and cause us to Iive contractedly and not who we spaciously are: you have joined the body, intuition and science in one sentence!
Sue, you have explained energy and the impact of illness and disease in our body very clearly. It is so easy to blame external things for our state of health but this is just a way for us to avoid self responsibility for our choices. I appreciate the wonderful esoteric practitioner I see regularly who helps me to understand my body better and to take responsibility for my health issues.
‘If ‘trapped’ emotions within our body are not released, the effect over time will invariably show up in our health. Consider how long you can endure a stressful situation before it starts to affect your body’ – so true, if more people were aware the consequences stress can play out in our bodies. I am so glad I have an esoteric practitioner assisting me in my wellbeing.
Because we are atoms, it feels like energetic configurations and pathways characterize our responses to stimuli. This is the basis of habits and the reason why we repeat the same choices over and over again, sometimes defying sense and logic.
It does explain a lot Matthew that currently science struggles to explain, and it is fascinating to think that all of medicine could be boiled down to how ‘healthily’ our particles are vibrating and in which order or configuration and how much space there is between those particles. Maybe one day someone will invent a machine to measure the ‘health’ of our particles but I reckon we can do it instantly right now by becoming consciously aware of our bodies and being completely honest about how our bodies feel.
So true that “Because it appears we lack a clear form of communication between the mind and the body, the body has to give us signals to help us work out what to do. It’s a bit like playing charades or looking at the symbology of dreams.” May there be more clarity for everyone, because it’s inevitable we’re given signs to learn from throughout life and ignoring them hurts, literally.
This is a wonderfully clear informative blog Sue, I wish all humanity could read how devastating stress can be on our bodies. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners like you, this wise knowledge is spreading.
I love the explanation you gave about how stress affects the blood flow to certain organs, which changes our physiology. We don’t understand the signals our body is communicating to us with, thus the need for mind body connection to understand them. Thank you Sue.
Thanks Sue, what has been shared here is easily understood and makes so much sense. It is empowering to understand how our body works physically, and also more importantly. how what we are feeling and the situations we find ourselves in can alter our physical state. We are responding energetically every moment of every day.
I really relate to the concept that my body is filled with countless vibrating atoms and that how vibrant I am will be determined by the lifestyle choices I make. It would therefore make sense that being stressed or emotional would lower my vibrational output and thus make me less well, in fact out of balance and sync. It is quite an awesome and tangible quality to feel that I can affect the level of vibration and thus vital wellness that I can achieve. I love what you have written here Sue and how accessible you have made this topic.
Beautifully expressed Rachel, to feel that level of connection to our bodies does give us the opportunity to feel the vastness of who we truly are.
‘Many technological devices around us have the potential to affect us. It is easy to blame technology for our ailments, but the way we let emotions affect us has much more impact on our health than all of these devices.” So true Sue, I can remember how I used to blame technology as having an affect on my wellbeing and refused to have a microwave for a long time. Knowing that my emotional state, especially stress has a huge impact on my health and is far more harming than any technological device has given me a greater understanding of how we can get sick.
It was amusing and a profound insight when I realised not only were my emotions and the way I reacted to life far more damaging to my health than the external sources I was blaming, but the blame game itself was significantly boosting the level of emotions and reactions in my body! Double whammy.
Sue I found your blog to be very interesting in its explanation of how stress affects our health from a scientific point of view. Thank you so much.
Once again we can see the connection between how we view the world, anxiety, fear and all our emotional reactions, and how this impacts on our bodies. Thank you for a truly interesting and informative blog Sue!
Sue I enjoyed rereading your clear aticle on stress in the body and how we can, through making responsible choices, choose another way.
Simple and yet profound explanation of the impact of emotions on our health. Staying in stillness and breathing our breath together with the Universal Medicine modalities are ways to restore us to health.
Great article Sue – Stress does appear to be a normal part of our lives. “However it is very important to consider how our emotional life is affecting us.” This is important and your article gives a deep understanding of how stress affects the body.
Thank you Sue, this is a very interesting article.
Stress is a killer, no matter how much the ‘a little bit of stress is good for motivation and getting things done’ attitude might still be touted; and stress does not only wreak havoc in the body, it also feels awful.
HI Sue, I really enjoyed reading this blog, I notice that as soon as I let my thoughts race on ahead then immediately my body gets agitated and stressed. Stopping and breathing gently as taught by Serge Benhayon is a very effective way of returning back to me – it provides me with that body mind connection, linking the two as opposed to the mind running the show.
Thank you Sue, your blog is a good reminder of the mind-body connection. Science is now discovering what many wise people have known for a long time.
Sue, I love the way you have clearly and wisely elaborated on the effects of stress on the body, very bridging for many I am sure. Definitely forwarding your blog on to others.
Thanks Sue. I agree the link to our emotions and our health is there. How we feel certainly does have an impact on our body. And how could it not? Our body feels everything we do because we are in it! This seems simple to me now but before studying with Universal Medicine I had not made the connection between emotions and health, even though I knew it as a possibility, I have now come to know this for sure, through my own personal experiences, through listening to Serge Benhayon speak about this topic and through observing others. There really is so much evidence that points to this being a point of absolute truth. So it is interesting that this is not explored more deeply to really uncover the truth for all to benefit more widely from. But knowing this also brings with it a level of responsibility that we as a society seem to not be quite ready for??
I am in continual awe of our body’s intelligence and the mind-body connection – you have presented this in an easy to digest way 🙂 Thank you
Great informative blog Sue, how stress affects our body/mind connection.
Sadly most people today see stress as the norm and something you just need to push through, until you get sick and are forced to stop. Even then some people choose to not see this as the body’s way to make you feel and ponder upon how you have been living, and then lovingly choose another way.
Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I now have a deeper understanding of stress and my part in it, and how to avoid becoming stressed.
Hello Sue, I found your blog very informative and interesting, your explanation of how food affects the body is quite useful.
Great blog Sue, thank you. I loved the way you explained what is happening on a physiological level. I for one, love knowing how my body works, it is truly empowering for me and I am constantly amazed at the miracle it is! Just how much more amazing are we, because we are much more than our bodies!!
Thanks Sue for bringing clarity on how we introduce stress in our lives by allowing a disconnection between the mind and the body. As you show so clearly, and science is catching up on this to back it up from the scientific point of view, stress is literally a response form the body to react on a possible harming situation. It brings our body in the fight and flight mode, which is a valuable response to true life threatening situations. But we are not aware that when we artificially trigger our bodies into this stress state, simply by having our thoughts being disconnected from our bodies, we limit our bodies only to be hard en protective, preparing itself to fight the thread that it feels is around because of this disconnection. To live constantly in this state must have its repercussion on the wellness for our bodies, since the true state of our bodies is one of harmony and joy that can be felt from deep within. And this is not felt or enjoyed when we introduce stress into our lives by not being conscious present with our body all the time.
It’s so good to be aware of what happens when eating when stressed. Considering the fact that most people are carrying at least low-level stress and anxiety all the time, the average person’s ability to digest must be a bit chaotic, to say the least. Just reconfiguring our attitude to eating will have an immense effect upon the well being of our society.
These days I am so much more in connection with how my body feels compared to years ago – I was a person who ran on nervous energy and would get stressed quite easily – the awareness I have now to check in with how I am feeling is amazing, and if I find I have let myself get stressed I can recognize it for what it is in my body and reflect on my reaction. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and his teachings.
Thank you Sue, this post is written in way which is so informatative and although I already knew that emotions were the cause for most of our illnesses, it has given me a greater understanding of how much our thoughts and emotions impact our bodies.
Sue that’s such a great description of what happens to us. Simply put and yet detailed enough to deepen my understanding. Our bodies really are a physical manifestation of our energetic make up. We can’t see a persons thoughts and yet they can be known through a person’s health. How inconclusive then is any health appointment when the client is not asked about the quality of their thoughts ? Wouldn’t it be revealing and also helpful if rather than ask each other ‘How ya going ?’ we actually asked ‘what are the quality of your thoughts like today ?’. Then we wouldn’t get the automated response of ‘good thanks’.
I’m someone who if not careful is easily stressed, I don’t like it and I should know better but still let it creep in from time to time, your blog Sue has helped me understand it better.
Wow Sue, I didn’t realise that that is what happens in your body when you are stressed. Incredible to read about and makes sense of why a lot of people have digestive issues…
Hi Sue, thank you for this in-depth, yet easy to understand description of how stress affects our bodies.
Very clear and easy to understand, it is all about choices. We choose the way we are in every moment and the result of that choice will be in our bodies. The Gentle Breath Meditation was the beginning of connecting with and becoming more aware of how everything is affecting my body. Your explanation Sue, of the scientific explanation has brought a another level of understanding – Thank you.
A very clear and simply explained article Sue thank you, I have been told the basis of what you are saying before, but reading your article I gathered much deeper understanding.
It makes a lot of sense that the way we live affects our health and well being, yet no one really gives the full and complete picture. It wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon and started studying with Universal Medicine that a lifetime of questions were answered, for this I am deeply grateful.
Great insightful and helpful post Sue on stress, and I agree with you Sarah re school teacher! What i got from this post was that any emotion restricts the supply of blood to organs that ultimately lead the body to disease or suffer illness like stress, headaches or burnout for example. And so that ‘living stress-free’, is about learning to live without emotion or drama which requires honesty, so that the organs can work as naturally as they are designed to. In other words our organs LOVE honesty, and the reverse – do not love or suffer with emotion. Hence an honest person, must then have honest body/organs?!
Great article Sue – I wished you were my teacher at high school – I don’t think I would have tuned out so much! Thanks for explaining more about how the body works in relation to stress. I know now – in more detail – why I have a headache when I eat something when I am a bit stressed. Really loved reading this and connecting to my body and my understanding of it much more. Reading what the body has to do when I overeat / eat when stressed makes it seem much more real. Thank you.
Sue this article really spoke to me, as I am currently dealing with some health issues that I am aware have been contributed to by stress in my life. I am now having to look a little deeper in how I care and nuture myself in all aspects of my life, and be honest about how sensitive my body is to any reactions that create a stress response in my body.
I loved reading your article Sue. You are so clear in the way you explain everything. It felt like I was being taken on a journey and as I read your words there was such a feeling of stillness. It’s very easy to underestimate how much we have held in our bodies from the hurts we have felt over the years, but what’s beautiful is that it’s so easy to shift, if we choose to do so.
I would love to see the vibrating atoms and space between them. It is wonderful to read so clearly from a scientific perspective how I know my body works. I can feel the quality or speed of the vibration in my body change depending on how I am thinking, speaking or what I have been doing. I can also feel the space in my body change drastically. When I am stressed or worrying about something I have to do, my body feels constricted like I have squeezed myself into a tight space. Whereas when I am not stressed and moving in a gentle way, feeling my body instead of racing away in my thoughts, I feel very open, like the space I occupy is larger than my body.
Sue I also found your article interesting and very informative. Stress is so often seen as a normal part of life and it’s harmful effects minimised, but you have successfully busted that myth.
A very interesting article to read indeed. I love “changing our vibrations”, it’s simply fantastic! Thank you very much Sue for writing this. I found it very informative.
Sue I love coming back to read your article, it’s been very helpful to me. I’ve experienced (and created) a lot of stress in my life and when it’s present for long periods it can become a normal. I know for me I’ve just accepted it, from high school exams to work deadlines it’s almost expected, it can even become something people get addicted to or look for. I love the insight I’ve gleaned from your article because it’s asking me to take more responsibility for what I’m allowing in life because of my deeper understanding of what stress really does to my body.
Thank you for your very clear and precise explanation of the mind-body connection Sue. I enjoyed the description of the moving atoms, and how we can create more harmonious function. I too have found the healing modalities and the gentle breath meditation as taught by Serge Benhayon to be enormously supportive to my daily awareness and well-being.
Thanks Sue for a clear explanation. It is good to hear about the body’s stress response, especially how you describe eating in response to stress. Without realising, a lot more stress is loaded onto the body by, for example, eating when stressed or comfort eating. Just goes to prove, how important it is to listen to our body’s messages and honor how we feel
I have enjoyed reading this account of how we can view our physical bodies as vibrating atoms and as energy, we can change how our body works quite easily. We can choose to have disharmony or harmony run us and therefore illness or disease. It is great to read something that confirms in scientific terms what can be felt and lived from an inner knowing.
Sue I read your article with great interest. A wonderful reminder that we have all the techniques necessary to reduce our stresses as taught by Serge Benhayon and the many Universal Medicine healing modalities. They are simple but profound and easily incorporated into our daily rhythm.
Very inspirational article, Sue. The thought came up, to offer some of the Universal Medicine techniques to my colleagues at work, who all suffer immensely of stress and various emotions.
‘we can change our vibrations quite easily by the way we think, feel and deal with life.’
What an amazing piece of kit our bodies are, thank you Sue for the reminder
Thanks Sue for your explanation about the body. The simple description of how at the basis we are vibrating atoms and space and how we can change these vibrations is very simple yet empowering and liberating. So in effect we can vibrate at a higher lighter frequency if we so choose it.
I totally agree Sue, that that the mind / body connection is of the utmost importance. If we do not have that connection, we have very little awareness of exactly what is happening in our body, and as a result it has to “talk” very loudly to let us know when there is a problem, stopping us in our tracks if we don’t listen. To teach people how to make that connection is what Serge Benhayon has been presenting so wisely over the last 16 years. Make that connection, and then be prepared to be amazed at the changes that will take place in your body and your life.
Love the simplicity and clarity of your comment Ingrid. I agree our body is a great messenger, if we take the time to reconnect and feel what is happening within the body, then it is possible to make changes that will support it.
This is such an amazing explanation of aspects of how the body works. One thing I have become aware of over the past few years is that eating when I am stressed means that the food seems to do nothing to nourish me and a short while later I feel hungry again.
From your clear explanations I do see the mind body connection Sue thank you – having lived in such an unloving way for so long my body was giving me very clear signals it was not well. My stress levels and anxiousness were at an all time high I knew I had to do something about it. Bringing into my life the gentle breath meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and to awaken to making more self loving choices daily.
Thanks Sue. There certainly is not enough focus on how emotional states and stress reactions affect our health and well being. Living a very wholesome life but fraught with emotional tension leads to dis-ease. As I’ve chosen to become less emotionally reactive to life I have felt stronger within myself which has had a direct effect on my well being, with my body being less impacted by life.
I really enjoyed reading this blog, particularly the explanations from a biochemical point of view. I know absolutely for myself that working with hugely reduced stress these days is integral to the steadiness I’m developing and no doubt the inner chemical balancing that is evident. To boot, I also rhythmically set periods of the day to meditate and enjoy some space for myself, which deepens a sense of daily harmony.
Interesting blog about how our emotions affect our physical body. It is interesting to reflect on periods in my life when I have been sick and feel what my emotional state was like then compared to periods where I have felt really well.
This is worth the read – some great points are made – one that stood out was the toxicity of our emotions and the impact they have on our health are a common sense part of health and healing that fits with science – our body chemistry is proof of this.
A brilliant article thank you Sue. The modalities of Universal Medicine have truly supported me to release the trapped emotional issues that I have been carrying around for most of my life. This has created more space in my body and I find it easier to be connected to myself and to deal with stressful situations.
Thanks Sue for this great article. It’s a great wake up call in terms of realising the effects of stress and not accepting it because it’s the norm of how everyone is these days. A lot of activities marketed as stress relief take you further away from yourself and what’s happening in your life. Universal Medicine’s work is quite different because it’s about coming back to yourself as the ultimate form of healing, as well as dealing with what’s happening within in a direct way. I’ve personally found the Universal Medicine modalities are the only thing that has brought true healing and lasting change for me. Finally being able to deal with past events stored as emotion in my body is a true God send.
Well said Melinda – I have had the same experience, finding the Universal Medicine modalities have been the only thing that has brought me true healing, lasting change and far more responsibility for my health and well-being in a truly holistic way – and I have quite the resume of things I had tried previously.
The sad thing about the way most people live today is that they have normalised dysfunction, living with the nervous system constantly activated it becomes normal…but with devastating long term affects on mind and body and a disconnection with soul.
Yes, and dysfunction is not only normalized, it is encouraged and praised and applauded, to the point that you are valued by what you do and how many things you do in one day, without any consideration to the person who is doing it and how the stress is affecting them, as long as they tick the boxes of success according to those standards. Then stillness and connection to one´s soul becomes alien. And we need illness to bring us back.
I always said I didn’t do stress Zoe, and all my friends still see me as very laid back and unflappable, but since I began listening more to my body I have become more aware of the subtle ways in which stress can present, and discovered that yes, I do do stress, but have had years of burying it!
Great blog Sue. Stress is something that we have chosen to take on. A situation someone might find stressful another may not. I have found stress can be passed on from one person to the next. I am becoming more aware of not letting stress run my life. Being aware of how and when I build it up, learning how to release it and not absorb it. It is since regularly attending Universal Medicine workshops and seeing Esoteric Partitioners I have learnt to build my awareness and live in a loving way.
Thank you Sue for your informative article – the stress from emotions (mine and others) is disregarding to the body I have found. My awareness of these ‘locked in’ emotions is forever deepening thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Dear Sue,
I love how you described the very practical way our bodies actually work in response to how we are living in them. So simple to feel and to note, yet we still override what we feel. This is something that I am now becoming so very aware of and something that I am consciously saying no to. If I felt it in my body, I know that that is truth. Surrendering to this understanding is something that I am lovingly deepening each day.
Great blog! I can confirm that stress is something that happens in my head not so much what happens outside of me. It is this moment when I think I don’t have enough time to complete the task ahead and start to rush – not that this really speeds up things, often it does the opposite. But my mind is starting to stress and the quality I do things in changes, which then affects my body, making it hard and tense.
Thanks Sue for your clarity that you bring in your writing, it’s all about the quality of energy we choose to live in and our body feeds us back through symptoms of ease or disease what its like to live in that energy.
Your clear and steady progression through the sharing of how energy, our system, and everything around us relates is so empowering. We can choose our response and also the level of support we feel we need at anytime. Esoteric Healing Modalities have created just the right environment through which I have been able to choose and deepen my relationship with my body and the healing that unfolds. Thanks Sue
I recently had quite a stressful situation arise and also noticed that my body reacted to this energy that I was allowing in. As soon as I realised what I had done to cause the reaction my body had I was able to clear this but it still took me a while as I found myself returning to the thoughts that were the cause of this. Thank you for the great explanation Sue it helps me understand my body more and the need to listen to it.
I love the simplicity of your descriptions Sue! Such a light and informing article so relevant to us all. Thank you!
It’s great how you describe the connection between body and emotions. I can feel after some time with the teachings of Universal Medicine, how my body reacts very quickly to my emotions and how I have been caring for myself. It becomes more obvious to me every day how everything affects my body.
My preferred form of energy healing is also the Esoteric Healing Modalities taught by Serge Benhayon, through Universal Medicine!! 💜
Sue, how beautiful and simple you make the interconnections between feelings, thoughts, health and the effects of stress on our bodies. I personally feel it’s time for me to change the stressful vibration of those “trapped emotions” as they are showing up in my body health. I’m ready to expose the “buried past experiences and hurts” and live in joy with this release. By putting into my daily routine the trust of inner listening and the changes that evolve.
The Universal Medicine Therapies have certainly supported my body to not be in a stressful state. This then supports me to feel when my body is showing signs of stress, which allows me to make other choices and bring awareness to what or when I allowed something outside of me to initiate the stressful reaction in the body.
Usually there is so much focus on the outside stressors and the effort to change them but we have so much more power over how we are with ourselves and how we then relate to life. Great reminder as I easily can find myself giving my power away to the outside factors.
Sue this is a great explanation about stress and how it affects the body. The gentle breath meditation is such a gift for us all when dealing with stress in order to reduce the longer term effects that stress can cause in our body. I must use it more often!
Thank you Sue for this informative blog – I am certainly learning to make changes in the way that I respond to stress the more I go into re-action the more the anxiousness gains momentum. Just by simply breathing gently as in the gentle breath meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I can feel the changes that take place in my body allowing myself to re-imprint some very old patterns of behaviour.
Yes, I agree with you Marion, response rather than re-action is so great to be out of anxiousness and stress. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine events have certainly shown me a very different way to live by feeling everything through my body rather than stuck in the old emotions generated by the mind.
It is of huge importance to be aware of how our ’emotional’ life is affecting us.
I agree, (from experience) if we bury it, it can lead to health problems sooner or later.
This is a clear, concise presentation on ‘stress’ and how to deal with and, heal it.
We have accepted stress as a normal part of everyday life and to know that it doesn’t have to be this way had been very liberating for me personally. To find a way of dealing with it has also been very healing… my life feels different now.
Extremely informative and interesting article. Also so obvious and simple, yet we so easily ignore or forget when we are in the ‘fight or flight’ reaction. I know from recent experience that breathing gently and through my nose when I am feeling overwhelmed and stressed has made such a difference and allows some space for me to come back into my body and look at the situation that caused the stress more calmly and rationally.
I have always known that the way I allowed my emotions to cause stress in my body was not good for my health but I did not have the key as to how to change this until I attended presentations by Serge Benhayon. Learning the gentle breath, reconnecting to my inner self, choosing to observe what was going on around me and in the world and not absorb the stress and emotions of others has been life changing. I am learning to be aware when any emotion is starting to cause stress and really enjoy coming back to me.
I loved reading this article and all the comments. Even now, although I mainly live in stillness and connected to my body, if I allow myself to get emotional, I can feel very agitated. Emotions are definitely a poison to the body.
I definitely am a big fan of this blog you cover so much and in an easy to understand way.
For many stress and anxiety is the only way of life that we have come to know. It is very empowering to consider that our personal lifestyle choices lead to the condition that our bodies live in.
If we get over stressed, ignore and neglect to give the love and care our bodies are crying out for, the imbalances will increase, the messages just get louder……….
Yes, I have been there, a clear and great reminder Sue, thank you.
I love the way you so simply describe that we can change our vibrations quite easily by the way we think, feel and deal with life. It’s in our capability to do this, taking the responsibility to look after ourselves and live our own medicine by our own choices.
I find the concept of our bodies being made up of tiny vibrating atoms to be quite beautiful and very tangible. It makes sense to look at our bodies beyond what the eye can see and take the time to stop and connect to how we actually feel. I for one know the impact that anxiousness and stress can have on my body and how exhausted it makes me feel. What is the quality of the vibration in this instance, it surely can’t be so good as it does not feel good and it makes sense to look to minimise the impact of stress for the betterment of our health. I have found the Universal Medicine healing modalities to be an extremely powerful way to address the root cause of such imbalances.
Beautifuly shared Sue thank you we all know the harmful effects of stress on us and our bodies so it is amazing to feel If we change the way we respond to stress then it doesn’t have to affect us harmfully. A revolutionary way to live forward from here in the world with stress rising more and more each day and one of the major causes of illness and disease.The harming of our emotions on us is part of what is shown to us by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon who shows us true healing and the Importance of Energy in everything and is life changing .
Thankyou for explaining with such clarity the mind body connection. Getting to the root cause of symptoms, to the underlying energy, is so important, something I never reached with any other form of healing modality, when the causes just got buried. In contrast Universal Medicine modalities truly reach the parts other medicines and therapies don’t reach.
Lovely simple account Sue thank you. I for one love energy medicine and whilst releasing emotions buried deep from my past hurts, it feels amazing each time I let something go as my general being becomes just a little bit lighter…. The more I do this the lighter I become – it’s amazing!
I loved your example of someone turning ‘white as a sheet’ or ‘as red as a beetroot’ as a response of our internal system to emotion. These emotional responses can’t be denied by the body, yet we often try to deny them by the mind or simply stay unaware of them. The energetic exchange that happens in that kind of situation has not gone anywhere, it still exists in the body even though the physical body shows no obvious sign of them a little after the event. This to me shows how crucial it is to bring in a type of healing that can address these energetic imbalances that have been experienced as well as and along side of the skills of the doctor or surgeon who can tend to the physical ailment. I too have found no other way (and I have looked long and hard) that successfully addresses this energetic aspect than the Esoteric Healing modalities presented and taught by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
This is a really interesting blog describing the mind body connection. If I see stress as emotion trapped in my body, I can become more aware of the fact that I can let it go – this is our way to true harmony and health within.
I enjoy the understanding of all the atoms of the organs in my body vibrating to their own rhythm and it is my responsibility to ensure that they all stay in harmony with each other. If I put stress or pressure on one area then all the others are put out of balance as they work to bring the vibrations of my atoms back to harmony.
I love what you have said Mary and have a picture in my mind of atoms all chatting to each other and then going ‘oh no, she’s at it again and knows stress doesn’t help us work in harmony’. Such a great blog Sue, one to come back to time and again.
Thank you for this clear explanation, Sue, it makes such sense.
I loved this blog Sue, I had an experience of late where a stressful situation was showing clearly in my body, with my face going red, anxiety and feeling unwell to the point of nausea but what I realised is that instead of those physical symptoms having control over me, that I had to choose to approach the situation differently, which resulted in my physical symptoms changing and eventually subsiding.
I love how you have clearly explained the science behind something that we all experience every day – we all know that eating something when we’re in a rush/stressed doesn’t feel as good/sit as well in our bodies – thank you for the very simple and informative explanation
This is such an informative blog Sue and one I shall read time and again. I wish I had known about the effects of stress on the body and how I could make different choices when I was a young person trying to cope with life. This blog should be in schools, doctor’s surgeries and hospitals – in fact anywhere where humanity can see there is a different way.
Thank you for writing so clearly about the effects of stress from the perspective of energy, and how are thoughts and emotions have an effect on our bodies. “The thoughts we have can change the pattern of the vibration of our atoms. Consequently the way we react to stress in our life, whether emotional or physical can have an effect on our health”.
I couldn’t agree more that my “preferred & recommended form of energy healing is the esoteric healing modalities taught by Serge Benhayon Universal Medicine of which I am a perpetual student”.
A great article explaining how stress affects us all. How we choose to live our lives can have a huge impact on this. Appreciating and accepting my self for who I
am, rather than self bashing, has made a big difference to me, alongside making other life style choices. Looking after myself more, a no- brainer.
This blog made so much simple sense. It was a relief to read something that was presented in a way that treated me the reader as capable of understanding what happens in my own body.
in “Because it appears we lack a clear form of communication between the mind and the body, the body has to give us signals to help us work out what to do.” you raise a great point and one that we tend to be unaware of or perhaps choose to be unaware of is more accurate. We tend to view the body as this dumb thing which its only use is to get our brains from A to B. We don’t value it, we feed it rubbish and even put poisons in it on a daily basis and all the time it is sending us messages that we are abusing it which we also choose to ignore. What if the human body has its own intelligence that is at least as intelligent as the brain?
This highlights how we can be as healthy as we like, with diet, exercise, but if we are stressed we are still going to get sick. Not looking after the mind can make us just as sick as not looking after the body.
Sue this clearly explains from a scientific approach what is actually going on when we let ‘Stress’ run our lives. For me it is great to get a real understanding so when I choose to let that run me I have a choice to continue to let it run or arrest it. I have also noticed the more I support myself through consistent exercise, meditation and deep Self-care in the morning it creates a strong foundation to set me up for the day.
I agree Natalie, and it’s that understanding which is key here. If we are not aware of something, there can be no choice to make. As you say, supporting ourselves with exercise and self care builds a foundation and what I have found is that the stronger my foundation gets the less I get stressed about.
“The rate at which atoms vibrate determines what an object actually is. Similarly, every organ and body part vibrates at different frequencies. This is the basis for energy medicine, which aims to restore harmony to the vibrations of the atoms that make up our body.” I find this fact really helps me understand how energy works in my body. If I become stressed in what I think, do or react to this will have a disharmonious affect on the vibrations within my body. I can feel that when I am stressed my whole body can feel out of balance and now I understand why this is.
I agree Mary, when my body starts to ‘feel out of balance’ I know that something is starting to stress me out. If I can do anything about it, I do, if not I put it to one side and sort it at a more appropriate time. Worry is (almost) a thing of the past.
This is such a clear practical no nonsense scientifically supported account of why everything we do has an energetic consequence.
Great article Sue thank you for sharing so simply and with such an understanding of stress, our bodies and how it all works and our choices with this.
I used to be very emotional and get stressed very easily but am learning not to react to life and people so much and just love everyone for who they are whatever happens and then my own balance, trust, steadiness and acceptance is so much more improved and so is listening to my body.
This is all thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine since I met him some 12 years ago and my life’s turnaround.
Sue, from reading your words, I can really feel the direct effect of the stresses that I have allowed in my life and my body. This is great, because now I feel like I can make changes to stop these stresses taking hold, starting with how I am with myself. Thank you for such a great article.
I felt this too Shami. It has opened my eyes to the stresses that I allow to affect me. A great stop moment for reflection and an opportunity to make a different choice.
It’s opened mine too Annemarie. I’m pretty laid back and used to feel I didn’t do stress, but now I understand more fully that I do – I just don’t show it! And now I’m laughing, because I see that I hold it deeper in my body. Crazy.
Reading again as I find it so interesting. Universal Medicine has helped me to understand my stress and the way in which I react to life and stress through my emotions. Through a growing awareness of this I have been able to make changes to my reactions, with the support of esoteric practitioners, leading to a vastly improved level of health.
This is great to read Sue. Before UM, I never really understood the true meaning of stress, why we get it, what it means and how to avoid it. This just makes so much sense to me as I read it now.
And our stress is mainly governed by things outside of ourselves, or situations we can’t control. So we’re taking this amazing thing called our bodies, which know the best way we should function, and we’re pushing them to the edge based on external factors. Wow.
Crazy world we live in!
Reading your observation that ‘It is easy to blame technology for our ailments, but the way we let emotions affect us has much more impact on our health than all of these devices.’, I started to ponder on the tv programmes, films, videos and music that I used to call entertainment, so much of it is based on emotion.
Sue, your article is so clear in explaining how our thoughts have such a strong influence on our health. Its something I knew at a deep level but to read it works on the vibrations of our atoms is amazing. What a wonderful piece of kit our bodies are!
Thank you Sue for setting this out so clearly. Where you say, “The thoughts we have can change the pattern of the vibration of our atoms. Consequently the way we react to stress in our life, whether emotional or physical, can have an impact on our health” really brings it home to me. I have to take responsibility for my thoughts as much as for my actions in order to care for my own mental and physical health.
Mary I love your practical way of bringing the many levels of Sue’s wisdom of the body back to your daily life. Thank you Sue for your wonderful clear explanation of how emotions affect the enrgetics of our bodies and the knock on affect on our organ systems and physicality. This is an article to re-read as a reference study on how we can live in more consistent balance and harmony in our bodies.
A very interesting and informative blog! I have felt recently that when I feel emotional or stressed at work my body feels more tense than when I am not stressed.
I have also found that ignoring these signs from my body only makes matters worse.
Choosing to stop and not ignore the tension when I am stressed has resulted in different results, namely – less feeling stressed and less tension in the body.
Agreed Leigh – when I’m stressed I notice that my shoulders and arms can tense up
Love your article Sue, and thank you for sharing, that we can change the way we respond to stress, and thereby avoid its harmfull effects.
Wow Sue what an amazingly educational blog, loved reading it right from the start as I did think not to go swimming directly after a meal was an old wives tale and in the past have done it many times without consequence. Probably won’t try that now though. The complexities of the body are far too easy to ignore sometimes and your blog is a good reminder that our every thought or action directly relates to our well being and the smooth running of this wonderful collection of vibrating atoms.
Sue. A great article on stress and it’s effects on the body.
I find it surprising that it is taking us so long as a race to accept the role of epi-genetics in our health and wellbeing. It would make sense that if we have much more illness and dis-ease than say 30 years ago that factors we control or change, affect our gene expression and consequently impact on our health. Perhaps it is just too convenient for us to blame our genes when we get ill as this allows us to negate responsibility for our health outcomes and whether we enjoy good or poor health.
Thanks Sue, I love this explanation of how stress affects our bodies.
I love how this article so simply shows how the body functions are so interconnected, it makes such sense to me. As a student, many years ago, I learnt straight forwards anatomy in different sections, by rote, passed exams but it wasn’t until years later, I realised how one part so affected another, and one system affects another. This is now so natural to me and I love this example, thank you Sue.
Thank you Sue. This article offered me a simple and clear understanding of how I can affect the health of my own body by the way I live. “The rate at which atoms vibrate determines what an object actually is. Similarly, every organ and body part vibrates at different frequencies. This is the basis for energy medicine, which aims to restore harmony to the vibrations of the atoms that make up our body.” This says it all.
This blog is a great reminder of how powerful my thoughts are on the body and the huge impact and toll they can take when they are not harmonious. Any negative thoughts go against our body’s natural ease and flow. They disrupt and cause a very unsettled feeling inside, I can see after time how this would lead to illness and disease.
I really enjoyed this blog because of the reminder it offers in that we are (and everything) is made of tiny atomic particles all working together, and that living is all about giving those tiny atomic particles lots of love and care to help them get along harmoniously…they soon tell you when they don’t. Lovely.
Thank you Sue for bringing a deeper understanding of the body and how it reacts in stressful situations. Using the gentle breath meditation has certainly helped me when I have found myself feeling stressed but I never stopped to think about all the responses going on inside my body and the effect it was having.
Thank you Sue, this is so simply and clearly written. It really helps me to understand the mind-body connection and the destructive effect that stress has on our bodies.
I love this blog, thank you sue. I am amazed that stress can affect your body physically as well as mentally.
Thank you Sue for this fascinating article. A simple breakdown to the molecular level of how emotions and stress affect our health and the ways we can support ourselves to change this. I really enjoyed reading this.
Thanks Sue, I enjoyed learning more about how the body communicates with us, and have been aware for a long time how we over ride it with our thoughts and anxieties. This view of looking after the body, and being aware of this ‘body language’ makes so much sense, as to make the alternative that we live every day seem ludicrous.
A great read. You place emotions as the key ingredient they are in the overall recipe for ill health and I loved the understanding you bring to stress with your scientific/molecular perspective. Fascinating.
Hi Sue, I’ve only started reading this amazing article and I love the practicality of the examples you gave about how the body systems operate under stress. It explains a lot.
Hi Sue, thank you for this great blog. It has highlighted for me that I have been eating at work whilst stressed – in that moment, it is though I will do anything not to feel that stress and the impact it is having on my body. Thank you for the healing and the realisation of the anxiousness I am still holding on to, where work is related.
Hi Sue I love how you scientifically break down stress and what happens to our bodies, it makes so much sense. By changing the vibration we are in by bringing ourselves into to a more gentle place with the gentle breath meditation, eating and sleeping in a loving way can all help to support our body to help with stress. I know how stressed I can become when I take on too much and start to push my body into a different vibration. Great practical tips.
Thank you Sue, it exposed an old habit of mine to eat food to relieve the symptoms of stress! I know, deep down, that the best thing for me and my body to do would be to be quiet and gently breathe, or take myself for a gentle walk, then feel when my body is ready to eat. You make it very clear about how our body vibrates and how energy medicine comes first before all else. It follows that when we connect with that we can make responsible choices about eating.
Thanks for this Sue, I love how you have highlighted the impact that our emotions have on our body. I certainly have found this to be true and through presentations by Serge Benhayon, of Universal Medicine, have been empowered and inspired to really address this area of my life and it’s been of great benefit to my health.
This amazing article has taught me when I take time to stop and be still, I can really feel the difference in my body, how it changes and vibrates in harmony within me. It’s so lovely.
You have explained in a simple way, how energy effects our bodies. I have often had the image in my head of one of those heart monitors and how the patterns and speed of the lines would vibrate and draw different emotions. I could relate what these line would look like with anger, stillness and sadness etc. Or I have had the image of a calm still pond and what the water would ripple or move like with each emotion and then applied this image to the water and fluids in our body and how we vibrate with each emotion. Intrinsically we all know the vibrations of each emotion because we have experienced them, but what I find surprising is that generally mainstream medicine hasn’t connected this with part of our wellbeing and health. I am finding more and more though, through general conversation that people are aware that stress, anger etc does effect our health. Perhaps the tide is turing on this area of awareness?
I agree Rachel, the tide is turning and slowly medicine is catching up.
I love this Sue, it is so clear and makes so much sense. If we let emotions run us it stands to reason we will have dis-ease in our bodies.
A great article Sue, thank you for sharing and writing this. The difference I have felt from the simple techniques presented by Universal Medicine, on my stress levels are life changing. I now know it’s my choice to be stressed or not and the significant effects of this either way!
I love this piece, I love how sciency it is and in turn deeply inspiring and humbling to the magic of our bodies.
I love the detail about vibrating atoms. It explains the science behind how our bodies work and makes such sense. Like James I have found the gentle breath meditation taught by Serge Benhayon is something that brings me back into my body so I am more aware of what I’m feeling. I now have a picture in my head of my atoms vibrating harmoniously ; ) Love it.
Super blog Sue. It’s great how you make the ‘science bits’ so entertaining and easy to read. Thank you
Thank you for sharing Sue, it is amazing how we have made being stressed into something that is normal, just like how we have made needing coffee and sugar into an everyday normal occurrence something that is now an accepted part of society. Rather than taking the time to stop, be still and listen to our bodies we settle for the quick fix, the distraction to what is truly going on. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been presenting this for years. One tool I have found extremely helpful is the Gentle Breath meditation, which has helped support, develop and deepen my connection with myself, with the increased awareness that has come with my deepening connection I have been able to look at and address some of the underlying reactions I have been carrying which led to the stress or need for a quick fix.
Beautiful Carmel for focussing on that important message and thank you Sue, for explaining the stresses on the body with the things we do. Loud and clear.
I love the simple science approach which brings it all down to practicalities and basic understanding – our thinking can create stress, stress makes us ill. Your words ‘Taking time to stop and be still’ is an important message – our atoms will still be vibrating, but in harmony.
Just re-reading this blog and certainly the quality I do things in affects my experience of whatever I am doing. This is something I am becoming more aware of and taking more of an interest in.
Thank you Sue – I have come to realise that there is so much more to illness and disease than what I learned at medical school or as a surgeon. We tend to focus so much on our own areas of work that we sometimes do not look to the bigger picture.
I had the arrogance to think that western medicine was the ‘only way’ and everything else was poppycock – and whilst there is a lot of poppycock out there, there are also true understandings that can assist us to live in a more harmonious way and that are more healthy for the body. My experience with Universal Medicine has clearly demonstrated to me that there is much more to us than meets the eye or is currently understood within medicine – and that true medicine is the marriage of western medicine and esoteric medicine, not either/or but both/and.
Western medicine is under pressure – bankruptcy looms ever closer and there are not the resources to cope with the current services never mind add more to them. By bringing in the understandings of esoteric medicine, people can be empowered to look after themselves more and hopefully avoid the ills that burden the western medicine system. That is a long way off – but I know from my own experience that it is possible for those who are open and willing.
Thank you Sue. Yes I know when I worry, or try to be perfect – or get things right, my body becomes very anxious and my thoughts hard and critical and self-focused. The healing modalities practised by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine Practitioners are my preferred healing modality too.
Thank you sue, I really love the way your blog mixed both science, and your lived experiences into a really interesting and informative blog
Dear Sue, thank you for sharing this with us. As Stephen G commented, when our mind races on and creates situations which are not real or necessary, we are bringing disharmony to everything within us and around us – a missed opportunity to feel the simple loveliness in the moment.
Sue, thank you for bringing to us so clearly what ‘science is now validating that we have intuitively known for years’ I am left pondering on what else I ‘know’ which I can live without needing science to validate for me
A beautifully clear and illuminating article.
Thank you Sue I have found your blog fascinating. The fact that unresolved issues, past experiences and hurts can be trapped in the body brings a whole new perspective to health care. As you have so accurately stated sometimes it is necessary to dig deeper to see what message the body is trying to convey.
Thank you Sue, it’s great to know the science behind stress and emotions and how they can affect our bodies, very simply written and easy to understand.
A really informative blog it opened something up for me in my understanding of stress within the body, the blood flow and the effect on the organs. Awesome.
Thank you Sue for a clear and readable sciencey explanation of the energetic side to life. And yes I have come to learn over time not to blame the microwave, the mobile phone, computer, X-rays or power lines etc but instead recognise and understand how emotions upset my body far more and with the potential to play out as hardness, aggression, anxiety or irritability and many other ways in my behaviour thus causing unnecessary stress to my body. Thank you for bringing the science and practicalities of life together.
For me it is about not letting my mind run away from my body and creating stress from something that is not in the present. I love the presentation of changing our vibration through simple actions. Great article, thank you Sue
Thank you Sue for setting this out so clearly. It all makes such simple sense. A true education that we should all be aware of.
Found this blog really interesting – I particularly liked the part about how the “thoughts we have can change the pattern of the vibration of our atoms” and consequently affect our health. So true not only for conditions which seriously impact lives such as fibromyalgia but also even visibly i.e. with an increase in blemishes/spots due to stress at work/in school
Awesome use of the word fibromyalgia Jess 🙂
Thank you 🙂
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Beautifully shared, stress was a big factor in my life and was my drive. Connecting to my breath and stillness has created a new way of living. I am able to easily catch my self when stress is creeping up, thus giving me a. moment to stop. Making it simple, focus on my breath and the balance in my body comes back.
I had quite an ‘aha moment’ while I was re-reading this blog. I teach, and because I have set times for breaks at work, I start eating my lunch in the classroom with my students, as soon as the bell’s gone – a bit like Pavlov’s dog. I often have to be out on playground duty in 10 minutes time and have just realised that I’ve been eating my food without any consideration of how I am feeling or where my breath is at the time. I’ve been eating out of habit to the clock and not eating for me.
I can now see it would be way more supportive to stop and connect to my breath just before I start to eat, as this would provide a way to help decrease the stress of my work day. It might look like I am saying grace, but by connecting to me via my breath, I would be giving myself the opportunity to be ‘eating with grace’.
Judith, ‘eating with grace’, what a lovely way to begin any meal. thank you
Sue this is so well explained I immediately want to send it to friends who have not yet recognized the connection between their emotional state and physical health. It all comes back to Harmony doesn’t it – and yet the world seems to have forgotten the word – certainly the media has – I think its time we brought ‘Harmony’ back into fashion.
Thank you so much for this clear and very informative blog Sue. It is amazing how simple the true/direct ‘medicine’ is, namely that of re-connecting to our stillness, eating and drinking pure simple food, nurturing ourselves, and observing when we react in emotional stress. It is very clear to feel and see what a poison emotions are to our body, and it is so helpful that you have described, in simple terminology, what is scientifically happening in the body. Knowing how the body works very much helps me to love my body and nurture it, and your beautiful blog has brought an even deeper love to me this morning. Thank you.
I agree. I enjoyed reading this article. So clear and simple in sharing the information that the true medicine is in the way we live.
Great blog Sue. Thank you for clearly communicating the science behind what we can feel in our bodies when we allow stress and emotions affect us. I have felt the power of simply returning to a simple, gentle breath. It is amazing to feel my body return to this if i have allowed stress in – I am aware of how my body reacted to the stress by becoming hard, tense and running at an unnatural pace which leaves me exhausted – and this is how I used to live the majority of my life! A really informative piece. Thank you for sharing your professional experience and understanding – it is much appreciated from here.
So true, when I miss my connection to self, and come back to the gentle breath there is a feeling of complete-ness, the fear of ‘not getting it done’ goes, and it gets done anyway!!
Absolutely Catherine so much gets done with so little effort when we are connected to our self.
Sue I LOVE this blog, it is so informative and makes so much sense. I have become aware of just how much stress effects my health. Stress also makes me very tired and irritable, which in turn generally creates more stress. Like you I have learnt the immense power there is in the simple technique of breathing gently through my nose while focusing my mind on my breathing activity. It is probably hard to fathom how such a simple activity can have such profound effects if someone is hearing this without the experience of doing the breathing exercise, my advice would be give it a go regularly and see for yourself.