By Amandha D Vollmer

The body heals through expression. When we suppress symptoms, this prevents the body from properly healing. This knowledge can help you to understand when a disease process is working through you, how to manage it better, and to put the body back into homeostasis or balance.

Expression is natural. Expression is the dance of nature and how healing occurs. Symptoms are indicators of expression or release. Movement, breathwork, trauma release exercises, toning, etc., are specific methods of moving energy and healing. We must support expression, listen to the unwinding flow of symptoms, and aid them in their activity.

When we work with our natural rhythms and listen to what the body desires to do, we achieve health. When we force against it and try to stop its action, when we abuse its direction, we cause greater harm to the entire organism.

When you can reframe your bodily experience, you can gain a new sense of empowerment over your situation, remove yourself from fear and invite a holistic direction for resolution.

Your body is constantly having to remove wastes from both internal processes and external toxins (for example from foods or drugs) and rebuild tissues. There are both growth and repair processes as well as vital communication networks that rely on ample micro-nutrients and a clean terrain in order to function optimally. These communication systems include hormones but also ions (pH or electricity).

When any of these systems are compromised, important actions must be taken to repair them. If you are living a lifestyle where you are continually putting things inside or on your body that are counter-intuitive to nature, then your body must take action to ensure their proper removal. These mechanisms include the inflammatory response (like fever), or mucus formation (causing congestion) in order to remove the wastes.

When you have a cold or a flu, the symptoms you feel are the body’s wisdom working to remove the wastes as efficiently as possible. Rather than taking a drug to stop that process, the wise way would be to listen to the body, support the process with natural remedies like herbs, magnesium, vitamin C, zinc, vitamin D and A, fast, drink pure water and rest. In this way, you are working with your body to correct the problem, allowing for release and proper completion of waste removal.

May you be inspired evermore toward health empowerment!

Amandha D Vollmer
BSc, Herbalist, Reiki Master, Eclectic Holistic Health Practitioner, Degree of Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
Email: amandha@yumnaturals.net Web: yumnaturals.net