Day 10 of 12 Days of Christmas Presence: Chew on this – the messages of your mouth and tummy.
The Connection between Your Mouth and Your Stomach
Take a moment and really feel the connection between your mouth and your stomach. You eat with your mouth, you digest the food in your stomach …. You have an impulse in your stomach, and intuition, and you speak…. You may feel angry in your stomach, and you may say something that hurts someone. Your stomach senses something disgusting, and you purge.
Shutting Down Your Gut-Mouth Connection
Very often, we shut down the connection between the gut and the mouth.
We don’t allow ourselves to feel our anger.
We don’t allow ourselves to speak and share.
What are you “taking in” that you aren’t willing to “digest?”
Our Digestive Tract and the Holiday Festivities
Let’s take a moment and allow ourselves to be with our digestive tract for a moment.
The holidays can be tough on the track, eating foods that we don’t normally eat.
Check in with your mouth. Your jaw. Your teeth.
Are you holding tension there? Are there unspoken words you are holding in your mouth? Are there feelings you are holding there?
Check in with your throat. Your esophagus.
What are you swallowing? Do you like it? Do you like taking in what you are taking in? Physically, like food, or emotionally, like fear or others judgments? What does your voicebox say? Does it want to sing? Does it want to talk? Does it have something to say to someone that you don’t allow it to say? Do you have something to say to the world?
Check in with your stomach.
Is it digesting your life well? Are things landing in there? Is life too spicy or too bland? Is it hurting? Can you hear your “gut” telling you intuitively something important? Are you listening?
Maintaining Good Health
The connection between the two is important in relationships for expressing ourselves and knowing ourselves, and also in maintaining good health.
The foods we are eating are laden with chemicals, preservatives, and pesticides. We are overtaxing our systems.
Very often times, emotionally eating these poisonous foods.
At some point, as I’ve seen in my practice, the body will break down and not function properly any longer.
Being aware of the emotional component that is part of the digestive system is something to really keep your eye on.
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Heather Hundhausen, a mind/body/spirit healer and facilitator, works with heart centered individuals who are ready to release their physical and emotional pain and reconnect their minds with their bodies so they can start living a life of passion and purpose. She assists people in making decisions in their lives by following their heart, mind, intuition and soul, from a place of being whole and in integrity.
With over fifteen years as a licensed massage therapist, Heather understands the connection between how someone's emotions can show up as physical pain. Using a variety of massage techniques, including neuromuscular therapy and structural realignment, she now does her ground breaking work by helping her clients to reach back through the pain and remember who they are to create wholeness and fullness.
During her years practicing traditional massage therapy, and while an intern working on her Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, she realized that people responded strongly when addressing their feelings and not just their thoughts. Working with this knowledge, she began to create an experiential environment for her clients, having them focus less on what they were thinking and more on what they were feeling. She discovered that when people began to release their emotions, they also released their physical pain. Heather is now passionate about helping people do just this so they hear their inner voice and then act upon their intuition so they create a new physical, mental and emotional life for themselves.
Heather’s authenticity, integrity, honor, commitment to her clients, and ability to create trust ensures that client's have a safe space to experience the exploration and release of their pain. Her clients say she is skilled at spiritual and emotional healing and is a great partner to have on the journey to contentment. As one particular client stated, “She opened my heart so the grief could emerge and then joy was able to fill that space.”
Heather is a popular speaker and workshop leader and facilitator, with one of her most popular workshops, “Connect on Purpose: Interpreting Your Body's Signals for Greater Wisdom and Empowerment” helping guide people to live their purpose, which Heather describes as “being able to take your talents and gifts and put them into action.” She is currently authoring a book and developing additional workshops, including a meditation group.
A licensed massage therapist, specializing in Thai Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy and Myo-skeletal Alignment Technique, she has a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, is certified in Redirecting Children’s Behavior as a facilitator and coach.
