Understanding Anxiety, PTSD, Depression

Warrior Maiden

“Brick by brick, I’ll pave the path for you”, he said.

“And Ill give you the vision to where it should lead!”, she said

“Do know, the journey will be long and arduous”, he said

“But through my eyes, love and the kindness, along the path, you will see”, she said

 

~ An interlude between the Warrior and the Maiden

 

Within each one of us, the Maiden, and the Warrior converse. Through them, our behaviors are directed, and our paths are laid out. So what are those governing forces and how do they shape us to become?

The Warrior:

With a full set of armor and a sword with a deafening blade, the Warrior governs our “action-oriented” side. It is our Masculine-half residing in each of us. It creates plans, assesses potentialities and risks, and with a full force, moves forward towards achieving its goals. It is the side of us that propels us to act, to advance, to eliminate threats, and to achieve our visions. It’s the side that builds, the side that measures, and the side that learns. The Warrior is our own inner show of strength and power.

However, relying solely on your Warrior side creates an inner need for control. The Warrior governs the logical aspect of our thinking. When the balance tilts more towards our Masculine aspect, we tilt towards using logic and reasoning in our day-to-day activities, dismissing intuition, creativity, and passion. We become concentrated on the physical world and feel as if life is a bundle of responsibilities that needs to be taken care of without attributing much attention to the beauty that lies around us nor the splendor of what the path might have instore for us. We suddenly become infused with doubt, and fear of the future. “I only believe what I can see” becomes our governing motto. Life becomes exhausting and troublesome. Eventually, chronic stress and exhaustion becomes our everyday companion.

Characteristics of people with a high and prolonged dependence on the Inner Warrior:

  • Excessive logical thinking; no room for creativity.
  • Feeling of a “heavy weight on their shoulders”
  • Obstinacy and difficulty in altering paths
  • Inability to cope with change
  • Focused solely on accumulating money and “paying the bills”
  • Prone towards negative thinking: Predicts failure before the finalization of the event.

The Maiden:

With grace that charms the winds and beauty that blinds the eyes, our inner Maiden brightens our soul. She leads our creativity and intuition. She lights hope when we can see none and graces us with beauty when everything seems mundane. She is the Feminine-half of each of us. Through her, we discover the depths of who we are and dream of worlds that we wish to create. She is our dream weaver, our passion infuser, and our heart opener. With a strong inner Maiden influence within us, we relinquish many of our fears, experience the full spectrum of emotions, nourish our spirit with faith, and are able to feel sympathy and open our hearts. We become a beacon for others, more forgiving, and less judgmental.

Nevertheless, an excess of the Inner Maiden energy for a prolonged period of time does carry its own disadvantages. When we only rely on our Feminine side, we become dreamers without a plan. Our emotions pour out uncontrollably, failing to be guided by our intentions. We become what’s known as “living in our heads” without feeling a ground that  can supports us.

Characteristics of people with a high and prolonged dependence on the Inner Maiden:

  • Excessive daydreaming
  • Difficulty in grasping reality
  • Tendency to avoid difficult situations
  • Recurrent emotional outbursts
  • Lives in the “future” and “what ifs”
  • Careless when it comes to day-to-day responsibilities.

The current predominant energies in our societies are masculine. We are living in societies that value physical wealth over spiritual. We measure abundance with how much money do we have and how many houses do we own. We work tirelessly in a 9-5 Job (that never ends at 5) and then go on a “vacation” for two weeks without truly turning our minds off of work. We compare our successes with others and feel continuously judged and criticized. We are simply running ourselves dry waiting whether we’ll see the fruits of our continued labor. To show sympathy or understanding is characterized as weakness and to show anger and stubbornness is a sign of strength. This forced most of us to act through our Warrior and tiresomely make use of it without providing it a minute of rest nor the aid from its companion, the Inner Maiden. We keep striving and struggling, trying to achieve the “common” future and to finally become “happy”, without realizing that to truly be happy we need to first discover our own true nature and rebalance our own energies. We are simply trying to pave the path with having no true vision in sight nor see the beauty along the side of the road.

Even though our general aim should always be towards balancing the two energies inside of us. Having a heightened Warrior or Maiden isn’t always disadvantageous. In a life-threatening situation, having a a dominant Warrior can save our lives. In addition, when performing a piece of art, an accentuated Maiden can translate the creativity that lies in our minds unto the paper in front of us. The goal isn’t to suppress a certain side from showing its wonders and beauty, the goal is to give each side room to grow and prosper, and to work together on achieving the wonderful life that we want to create for ourselves.

Stages in our lives and the Maiden/Warrior dominance:

As a cause of pressure from society and a need to conform, we have developed a tendency that many people possess to embody a certain energy throughout a certain phase of our lives. Let’s look at this example:

As a female, Sandra has always been taught how to behave in a certain manner. She needs to wear skirts, play with dolls, and like the color pink to convey her femininity. Henceforth, throughout her childhood and maybe part of her teenage years, her Maiden was in charge. Her Warrior was forced to relinquish his power as it is unaccepted for her to recognize his power. Later on, she started working in the corporate world. In order for her to succeed, she believed that she needed to be forceful, unemotional, and only noticing tangibles. She needed to resurrect her Warrior side however with forcing her Maiden side back into the closet. She believed the power that her Warrior can equip her with will push her towards ultimate satisfaction. She contributed the Maiden to being emotional, which she also contributed to weakness.

Years later, she realizes that somewhere in the middle, she had lost her identity. She became anxious, angry, and insecure. Physical ailments might have also transpired. She feels imbalanced… she feels lost.

I have heard this story, and others similar to it, from different clients all over the world. We tend to force ourselves into believing that we either have Masculine or a Feminine energy. Both can’t work together. We somehow started believing that each negates the other, while that couldn’t be farthest from the truth. They complete eachother! Their combined forces form a coherent body and mind and show us the true beauty and pleasure of life.

Characteristics of each side:

When working together, the Maiden and the Warrior produce a coherent free-functioning energy system that affects our internal and external environments. However, even though, together, they form a complete picture, each by itself plays its part in sculpting our lives. Let’s dig deeper into each:

The Maiden:

She rules the left side of our body which is managed by the right side of our brain. She is ruled by the moon energy. She governs our creative, intuitive, and emotional side:

  • She allows us to see a situation from a collective point of view.
  • She integrates rather than differentiates.
  • She opens our hearts, focuses on being, and stimulates our intuition.
  • Through her, we feel part of the All.
  • Through her, we dive inwards.
  • We learn how to collaborate.
  • She rules the subconsciousness.
  • She focuses on the connection between two objects.
  • Through her we learn patience.
  • Through her we learn to be comfortable within the unknown.
  • She is process oriented.
  • Yin Energy

The Warrior:

He rules the right side of our body which is managed by the left side of our brain. He is ruled by the Sun energy. He governs our thinking, planning, and systematic side:

  • He allows us to see the uniqueness in individuality.
  • He sees the logical patterns presented in different situations.
  • He rules our analytical side.
  • He opens our mind and focuses on action and doing.
  • Through him we feel our induvial power.
  • He rules the conscious mind.
  • He focuses on the cause and effect between two objects.
  • Through him, we learn urgency and action.
  • Through him we learn how to structure our way of thinking.
  • He is result oriented.
  • Yang Energy

Both are magical individually however their combined energy sets an unstoppable force. Call on them to endow your soul with both of their strengths. Cherish your Maiden and be proud of your Warrior. Allow them to combine their forces and pave the path for you to have a beautiful wonderful life!

 

Through a Child’s Eye

Recently I was in a grocery store line up, and there was a mother with 3 young children. Her baby boy Simon was in a carrier, straddling the grocery cart. I felt an instant connection with this beautiful baby, and saw a light so bright coming from his navy blue eyes. It was as though he was speaking directly to me. His smile was so all consuming and I found I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. I felt he was reminding me that love in its purest form is there for all of us, whenever we want it!

Simon reminded me of the innocence and the purity of childhood that all of us want to feel within ourselves.
At birth, most of us hold the belief that Love is indeed infinite, encompassing, and limitless. We feel deserving of it. We feel nothing but love for our parents, and hold the higher self ‘ideal’ of our lives to come, tightly in our hearts.

Then we begin our journey into the family time line and quickly adopt the belief system that has been present for generations.
During my six week Emotional Blueprint course we begin to map, or explore our family’s tendencies and take a close look at these belief systems. We begin to see the patterns within ourselves that have crippled us in so many aspects of our lives. In discovering your blueprint, you are given valuable tools to begin to create a new emotional landscape for your life!

Anxiety and Depression

Depression and anxiety are increasingly on the rise within our society. In 2015  8% of Canadians  experience depression, and 12% anxiety symptoms.

The pharmaceutical companies are hard at work manufacturing mountains of anti depressants and anti anxiety medications to serve supply and demand for these life altering disorders.

You might find yourself asking…is there another way?

Hi my name is Deborra Cameron and I have a nursing background and have been a clinical reflexologist for 20 years.

My area of  clinical expertise is directly related to the study of how imbalanced emotions directly effect our body, and I have developed a program called ‘Emotional Blueprint’, that I apply to my sessions.

People flock to my table with themes of depression and anxiety disorders, looking for another way to deal with their problem.

The ancients Chinese discovered over 5000 years ago how the vital organs of the body store specific emotions.

The Lungs hold sadness, despair and depression, where the kidneys hold fear and anxiety. A person with depression will often have a rounded shoulder posture, and complain of neck, shoulder pain, and even pain the extends down the arms into the elbows and fingertips. Notice how the lungs are compressed with this posture. A person with depression traditionally has a very shallow breath pattern, and can often suffer from lungs conditions such as bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma etc.

As you can see as illustrated in this chart, the cycle of creation, the lungs actually support the kidneys, so if the breath is shallow, this will stress the kidneys and accentuate anxiety symptoms.

Learning how to breathe properly is one of the most effective ways of assisting anxiety and depression.

Understanding your Emotional Blueprint and finding the deep seeded root of your anxiety and depression, pave the way for cellular memory release of these restrictive, sometimes paralyzing patterns.

Book your emotional blueprint session, and let us begin clearing the way to expanded lungs, revitalized kidneys and  relief of your depression and anxiety symptoms!

Through the Eyes of a Mother

“Feed your Children”

When I think of the month of May, I always reflect on my mother, who was pregnant with sibling # 4, and she gleefully said one day” I know what the name of this baby will be”. “I will name this child ’Robin’, because the month of May is the month of the nesting of the Robin’s”. Our baby brother ‘Robin’ was born on May 15th, and lives up to his name with such grace. He is an amazing musician and family man, and immensely loved for his ‘cheerie’, humorous disposition.

Just after Mother’s day this year, I was visiting my son in North Bay Ontario. We embarked on a large project of landscaping over the 2 day visit. In the early morning of day one before my son awoke, I took my coffee down the steps of his deck, only to discover a tiny Robin, at the base of the stairs. I immediately smiled, as I thought of mom, who had long passed, and thought about how I might be able to help this tiny little bird. I looked around and the mother was nowhere in site. I dawned my gardening gloves, and gently moved the little one to a sheltered area by a fence in the garden. I kept an eye out for the baby bird’s mom, and began the arduous task of digging out the first garden bed. Triggered by a conversation I had had with my son the night before, I was reflecting on my motherhood. The baby Robin, made me feel as if my dear mother was reflecting back on my own role as a mother. The baby Robin, made me feel my dear mother’s presence, as often happens with me. I found myself as I was digging questioning my motherhood. Was I the mother that my kids would like me to be? Had I disappointed them...am I giving them enough? Do they really understand just how very much I love them? I found myself weeping as I was digging. The tears were mostly about missing my own mom, who I  feel such a deep love for every single day.

Suddenly as I was digging I heard that all too familiar song of a Robin. I was shocked that she came sweeping down and was  excitedly feasting like a kid in a candy shop! At this point I had turned the rich soil enough, to expose juicy worms, and grubs and I could see her excitement in the score!

I kept an eye on her to make sure she found her wee one, and from a distance I could see her feeding  her delighted baby. Naturally I was thrilled, and again thought of mom. A few moments later, momma bird came back to the garden. Very quickly though I began to sense something. This bird was clearly wanting to be close to me. She came right by my side and stayed with me for 10 minutes at a time. I got a rush of shivers and somehow knew that this mother bird was in fact wanting to deliver a message to me. It was too out of the ordinary to ignore...she was at times inches away from me, as she happily hopped all around me. If there is one thing I have learned in this life, is that there are no accidents. The signs, and answers for the questions we ask within ourselves are always there is we open up our awareness to the signs.

One thing I noticed with this Robin, as she would hop over to me repeatedly with a mouth full of natures best and simply stare at me. I thought to myself...ok mom...what is the message. The robin from time to time after boasting her find with clearly an overflowing beak, would go over to her baby with another feed, she then however would come back to me for another visit as she filled her beak again!

Suddenly a rush of insight came to me. It was as though my mother’s voice was speaking directly to me. “Continue to feed your children darling one”..... Suddenly I had to sit right in the garden and I found myself weeping heavily. The robin came back and stayed close by the whole time I wept. It was so amazing. When My son woke up he stood on the deck and witnessed this happening between the momma bird and me, and he was delighted with the regular visit’s from this bird all day.  The following day, the robin once again was with us all day long!

The message for me was crystal clear. I recognized that I do feed my children on a regular basis. I feed them messages from the heart, share with them my hard earned wisdom, as passed down from my mother and her mother before. I am blessed to be the mother of the three most amazing children that could ever be. Thank you to Cameron, Ian and Emily-Jane for the gift of you and all that you are to me. Your Gammie is with us everyday...all we have to do is watch for the signs!

The Breath of Life

Sit back and take a deep breath. Feel the air flowing from your nostrils to your brain and all the way to your feet. Push it deep into every cell in you body and then relax and let the breath go; exhale. Feel all the used air leaving your body climbing up your throat and out through you mouth. Repeat the process multiple times and you will suddenly feel calmer, more balanced and poised. However, what happens when we take a breath? Why a simple thing as “taking a breath” can affect our lives and cause massive changes? And how?

To say that the breath is important is an understatement, as virtually every health condition and human activity is improved with optimal breathing! Breathing is our body’s mechanism for supplying over 99% of our entire oxygen need for fueling our cells and activating our body. However, with our current rushed style of life, poor breathing became the prevalent habit adopted by most. To put it simply, the levels of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are in imbalance in our bodies.  This phenomena can cause/ or worsen the below (this list only covers few of the diseases):

  • asthma
  • allergies
  • anxiety/depression (nervous system out of balance)
  • heart conditions/high blood pressure (heart goes into spasm when deprived of oxygen)
  • Insomnia
  • obesity (oxygen burns calories fat and calories)
  • Increases symptoms of PTSD

The average person reaches peak respiratory function and lung capacity in their mid 20’s. Then slowly over time, respiratory capacity (meaning expansion of the lungs), begins to decline between 10% and 27% for every decade of life. Anxiety and lack of awareness and practice causes this decline. However, looking at the Brightside, regardless of your age, you can always improve the function of your respiratory system.

The number of people that are suffering from “Panic Attacks” has been increasing year after year, especially with the young population. The physical demands that the society is imposing on the individual and the individual’s need to abide has lessened his/her own stand and literally affected his/her breathing pattern. We suddenly are now experiencing “shallow breath” syndrome as if we don’t have time to even breathe anymore. This precipitates and then perpetuates heightened anxiety and lessens the overall optimization of bodily functions.  

Proper breathing is the pathway to more energy, and a better outlook on life. Proper diet, improved external environment, and internal cleansing, do need to be addressed as well. However breathing is for many the primary method for becoming vibrant and maintaining our health!

So Breathe away! And Breath Deep! Let’s all start every day with a deep rich breath and expel all the unneeded elements out of our bodies. Let’s start improving our own systems, let’s regain control of who we truly are.

 

Breathing Practice:

In the ancient practice of Qi Gong, we learn the importance of the breath and it’s relationship to healthy organs and balanced emotions. Below is a simple exercise that you can perform daily:


Start by sitting on a chair. Have your body posture straight and feet flat on the floor. Have your hands on your naval. Close your eyes and imagine a blue star above your head (about 6 inches). Now bring yourself to the oceanside and imagine standing on the beach barefoot. Imagine an earth star beneath your feet. See it very deep down, in the centre of the earth.

Before you take your next breath in, push your tummy out
( like a contraction outward) and breathe in through the naval and nose. Move the breath up to the Blue Star above your crown. (Many people report difficulty doing this, as the air seems to get trapped in the throat area or throat chakra...practice helps!) Attempt to breathe past your throat by raising your chin slightly upwards.

Now hold your breath for 2 counts and then breathe out slowly with  your mouth open and feel the breath moving down your body, through the soles of your feet and see it move down to the earth star in the centre of the Earth (this is very grounding)

Repeat And practice this several times a day. Over time you will automatically breathe in this way! ‘Practice makes energy’ 

Follow The Signs

Throughout our lives, we have narrowed our definition of “communication” to become either an explicit word or conversation, or a written memo that’s sent to us specifically. If you are pushing someone dear to you to succeed, you would have a motivational conversation with them. But how would the universe communicate? At the end, the universe wants us to succeed… the universe wants us to achieve our purpose. Then, how would the universe “talk” to us?

Ann is a client of mine who experienced life as a journey devoid of colors. In her own words, she stated, “I have been living in a world of “Beige””. She is mesmerized with the idea of having emotions, as she witnesses others in her life experiencing them. However, she couldn’t find a path.

As the universe is our ally, it will always try to provide us with opportunities for our betterment. With Ann, that opportunity was my Emotional Blueprint Sessions. An inner intuition led her to subscribe to a 6-week workshop followed by a 2-day Emotional Blueprint intensive course. Throughout, she dug deep inside of herself, and used the methods with admirable determination towards changing her inner programming and her future perspective of life.

One day, after one of the sessions, she looked outside and saw a magnificent rainbow. She questioned herself on whether it was meant to be a sign from the universe. Nevertheless, she couldn’t confirm it to herself not until it re-occurred after a different session. For few hours, she was delighted and change was starting to imprint in her genes as she was digesting the message from the universe.. a message of affirmation. Nevertheless, as the days went by, her self-doubt and her need for control and safety resurfaced, and what was starting to be infused with colors, returned back to its original form of Beige.

Days later, on a cloudless Sunday afternoon, as Ann was driving back home from a session, a huge, beautiful rainbow appeared capturing her full attention. She was simply blown away. There were no clouds to be seen! That was the moment that it was starting to truly hit her: “Is it possible that my tepid version of life is actually becoming vibrant? Am I truly starting to feel? Is the universe truly agreeing with what I am doing?”

That same night, with a heart filled with energy, she decided to start her vision board. She daydreamed and starting cutting scraps of images of what she wants her life to be. She lived through each image and poured her emotions out. After couple of hours, and a huge mess of scraps on the table, she started cleaning up with the beautiful thoughts of her desired future still simmering in her mind. She built a beautiful vision board, and now she is determined to manifest it.

Doubt creeps in as it does everytime we are on the verge of attaining a higher understanding. However, even though doubt can be your enemy, the universe will always be your ally.

Hours later, after the room being sorted and the vision board hung, she noticed a small scrap of paper that has survived the cleanup. As she was approaching it thinking it was just a scrap that she had missed, she noticed that it was a perfect cut-out of a phrase… and the phrase was “Follow the Signs”. A wave of shock and joy filled her heart and she knew then, the universe is her true friend, and it has been trying to tell her “You are on the right path, Follow the Signs”.

Months later, her transformation is nothing short than magical. Her emotions are vibrant and her joy is encompassing that it was noticed by everyone around her. Her life has changed and its all due to her abiding to one message “Follow the Signs”.

“Cycle of Creation” Series – Stomach & Guilt

 Question:

So Why am I so riddled with guilt all the time, I feel ashamed by my past and present actions, and I feel a sense of injustice within myself; I mean, why me??

This is an interesting question, and many who experience these emotions may indeed have issues with their digestion. You may hear yourself saying, “Life is hard to digest”.

When we begin to look at our family dynamics, you may very well begin to see that most people in your family, extended family and close people around you, may share the same patterns. By looking within, you can begin to contemplate justice and fairness for yourself, and chose to move the lower frequency emotions to a higher expression!

“Cycle of Creation” Series – Heart & Impatience

Question:

Since my last break up, I have been in a state of heartbreak. I have issues around trust, and I seem to repeat the same pattern in relationships over and over again. I long for love and yet am afraid of it.

The Heart..

Matters of the Heart are one of most complex lessons in our human experience. From the time we are born, we are constantly posed with the questions around love and the quest of it. Imagine a 6 week old fetus, about the size of a chocolate chip with a heart beat of 140! The brain is not yet developed, and yet the heart beats on. I believe that the heart is the ‘soul’ of the recipient. It has it’s own consciousness, and it’s own intelligence! We seek love, and we long for love, but really it is already very present within us, we just need to discover it!

The Origin Of Heart Ache

As discussed in the earlier blogs, each organ holds lower frequency emotions, but aspires to higher frequency emotions.

Where the heart can hold heartbreak, impatience, hastiness, and even hatred; we also have a fantastic opportunity to have another expression altogether!

In Qi Gong we work with the 6 healing sounds, and focus on sound, color and posture, to transform the lower expressions of the heart to a higher vibration. We embrace, unconditional love, laughter, we envision an open heart, a light heart!

Tuning into the heart exercise:

Place both hands or one hand over your heart, as discussed in both the lung and kidney blog, close your eyes, and move into the breathing technique and ask that your mind step aside. (do this for at least 5 minutes)

Your awareness will automatically go to the heart with the touch of your hand. Now imagine your heart breathing along with you.( do this for an additional 5 minutes)

Now simply ask that your heart open to love, that you embrace trust, and ask that your heart become lighter. Clients report a feeling of peace and joy with this exercise!

“Cycle of Creation” Series – Liver & Anger

Sometimes situation drive us towards “the edge”. We start fuming and, most of the time without even understanding why have we been triggered, spinning out of control. We even fail to understand the origin nor the depth of our own anger. We exclaim to others that it seems as if it “came out of no where”. What is happening in our bodies when this feeling persists and what can we do about it?

The Liver: Anger, Rage, Hostility

Anger is a big emotion held within a very large organ, the liver.

So you may be asking…why do specific emotions target certain organs? There is actually a specific ’energy’ to each organ. The Taoist masters taught that energy is frequency, therefore the energy of anger and rage for example actually attracts itself to the liver. It does make sense though doesn’t it? A person for example may feel huge anger within his or herself and turn to alcohol for relief. The huge incidence of alcoholism in our society and it’s relationship to anger is becoming more widely known and understood.

However what if there was a deeper meaning to the feelings of anger you may have? The Cycle of Creation suggests that the origin of Anger, leads to the starting point of the cycle which are the lungs and the emotions of sadness, despair, even depression.

The Origin Of Anger

I have found that many people who experience anger can be very good at ‘holding it in’, and then the pressure slowly builds  to reaching a point where the anger explodes. In the aftermath, the feeling of guilt and shame can often set in. I have found time and time again with clients that what actually lies at the base of anger is, surprisingly enough, deep sadness. Could it be by examining the source of the anger, and looking into the sadness that may be present, that the anger could in fact be released? It is worth considering I would think! My experience is this is exactly what happens.

The Goal

The beauty of the Cycle of Creation is that we have the opportunity to shift the lower frequency emotions to a higher frequency. Where the liver holds anger and rage, what a wonderful consideration it is to know that we can embrace acceptance, forgiveness and kindness, for ourselves. By bringing awareness to the anger, we can allow it, judge ourselves less, and begin to see the anger begin to evolve to acceptance of others and ourselves.

“Cycle of Creation” Series – Kidneys & Fear

In this Blog I will address the kidneys and fear and how this can relate to anxiety disorder, panic attacks and even post-traumatic stress (PTSD).

Kidneys and Fear

The kidneys are the size of your fists in the lower aspect of your abdomen. According to the ancient Chinese, the  kidneys hold fear, fight or flight, nervous tension and the fear of the unknown. Think about it, do you not sometimes feel tension in your lower back region when you are stressed?

The adrenal glands are like little brains or caps that sit atop each kidney. These endocrine glands secrete cortisol and adrenalin and when in excess can cause an adrenal overload or often adrenal fatigue. This adrenal overload also greatly stresses the kidneys.

The kidneys are the ‘water’ element as reflected in the Cycle of Creation. For most people water will bring on a feeling of peace, joy and tranquility. This what all people crave, especially when stressed to the max!

As can be seen from the Cycle of Creation the metal element or rocks of the lungs support the water of the kidneys, as the rocks support the water in nature.

Kidneys and Fear and Using the Breath

So, as the lungs support the kidneys, it only stands to reason that the breath is very important to the well being of the kidneys. In fact I often suggest to my clients that the breath is actually your best friend where anxiety is concerned. When we have a full fledged ‘panic attack’ our diaphragm freezes and has very limited movement. The lungs therefore have very little capacity to take in a full breath.

People that report panic attacks share the experience of shortness of breath, a struggle getting a breath in at all, heart palpitations, and often sweating. It is a very frightening experience, and is frequently set off by a present moment event that actually triggers memory within the body from a past experience.

There is often a feeling of leaving the body and not being in touch at all with the lower aspect of the body (waist down). These people therefore do not have a sense of grounded-ness. In short they simply are not ‘grounded’.

Learning how to breathe properly and learning how to ground with the breath will help you not only recover from a panic attack, but will actually prevent future panic attack episodes.

So with further to my Lungs and Grief blog, if the lungs which support the kidneys, are not fully expanded, this  can stress out the kidneys and adrenals. Where an extreme shallow breath, can sometimes indicate sadness or depression, the next emotion to kick in will most definitely be ANXIETY.

Please review the breath technique as outlined on my previous Lungs and Grief blog. Practice this daily and before too long it will come naturally!

Deborra Cameron offers a series of Qi Gong classes. Through this ancient practice discover which emotions relate to each organ, and learn how to release these emotions bringing healing to each of the organs. Contact her to find out more; Deborra Cameron soletosoulholistics@rogers.com