Several years ago I suffered with bouts of dizziness. This out of balance disorders was like spending the day literally tilt a whirl at the carnival, but never stopped riding. The first time this happened to me I got out of bed and ran into the wall, the room and floor were both spinning. I spent the rest of the day there flat on his back afraid to go to my head for fear inside this turbulence would resume.
It took some tests and two doctors to determine that I had vertigo. In medical terms this is a situation that poses no real health threat and is unexplained. Unfortunately, the medication did nothing for me except make me drowsy and dizzy. Like many things in life I learned to improve the vertigo struck, I did not move my head fast, do not look up or down, and kept my eyes straight ahead. When a colleague suggested that perhaps my vertigo not only physically because I began to explore other possibilities.
her comments were well aimed, at the time I felt like Cinderella living with two evil stepsisters. My two teenage daughters were a constant challenge. They were like wrestling tag team, one would go in weakening my resolve and then just when I thought I had a game plan that they would turn off. I was definitely out of balance, both literally and figuratively.
Medical science's search for the causes of cancer, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome and many other conditions, it still ignores often one of the most red factors that lead to illness, hidden load embedded in our daily lives. As I read through countless books on mind body connection I went to see what I might need more than a new drug was insight and emotional self.
I started following aspects of my dizziness and bingo they fell to the conflict I had with my daughters. The first was a classic. My oldest daughter had just quit his summer job in order to go to the 1999 Woodstock concert. She would go back in time to pack up for college. She seemed to have little concern forgotten revenue of more summer job on. That bothered me more than it bothered the concert itself. Four days of what seemed to me a total debauchery. I handed her bucket and roll of toilet paper and said have fun. The entire time she was gone I tormented myself by viewing web cam at the concert, it seemed to be the best reunion of wild and I was miserable know my daughter was participating in this event.
It took me awhile to make connections but I realized that I was emotionally tangled up my daughter & # 39; s decisions with their own self worth my and I was left with a large node. I felt the weight of judgment that I believed was coming. I deflected family conversations about it without realizing that putting so much energy into denying and hiding things cost me my personal sense of balance, I was stumbling, I was twirling and could not even look up or down.
Fortunately, time, self-reflection and the decision to let love be my guide have helped my personal development. I also found a good ear, nose and throat doctor and dizziness between the two is a thing of the past.
recently analyzed this story to my younger daughter who is now a medical student. She wonders in mysterious connections mind body that have been revealed to her in the gross anatomy lab. She said that this evidence would be found in studies of the male penis erection. All it takes is a thought sent primitive brain blood rushing and engorge the penis. How all this happens is really a medical mystery that physical change begins with a thought.
Do we really need more evidence to know that our emotions and thoughts have a major impact on the health of our bodies?
There & # 39; s not just what we do, but what and how we think. I have encountered many women who have experienced dizziness. As I share my story, I ask them to reflect on this; who or what is keeping you off balance? I do not know why this situation seems to afflict more women. Maybe it & # 39; s the mothers identity is reflected through our children. It & # 39; s hard to find a balance so. Maybe what we need is a mirror that focuses on more than just a reflection of us.