Another day in the life of Annette...

So you have to be open minded to read my next post, otherwise you will probably think I am looney!!!

I had another “Dr. Kris” visit this week, and after my last post about him everyone wanted to know what it is that he does. So I’ll try to explain it, best I can, and share what I learned this week. (might be kinda personal and long) He is a Naturepath and he uses a process called “Neuro Emotional Technique” which helps to identify and help you let go of “stuck” emotional patterns. When something in our life happens and doesn’t get completely resolved naturally, later in life when we experience a similar situation the old emotional response kicks in. Most of the time, we don’t even realize this is happening. He uses muscle testing which determines if your body is in harmony with a particular concept or idea which is linked to an unresolved emotional event.

So here is what it looks like… As you all know I have been working really hard to lose weight, hopefully that wont alert any psychos to see my blog… Over the last 2 weeks I have been “stuck”. I have totally been at a standstill. Which has been soooo frustrating! So I went in and told him that I feel stuck and I that I have been unable to lose weight. So I lay down on the table and the way he does the muscle testing is by pushing your arm down while you think about different things. (This works sometimes if you hold a bag of sugar to your body and when someone pushes your arm, it will go down, because our body is weak to sugar, whereas if you held broccoli and did the same thing, you would be strong and your arm would stay up.) Just a quick snapshot of how it works. If you are strong to it, then your arm will stay up, and if isn’t in harmony with your body your arm goes down. So I lay down, with my arm up, and he says some different things, I can’t really remember what, and then all of a sudden my arm goes down. He says, “so you are relating this weight to something in your past that you are still holding on to. So think about what happened last time you were at this weight.” Immediately my arm goes down. I knew exactly what he was talking about. I was at this weight, almost to the pound, after having Kyson. Jacob and I were struggling. I was working and feeling guilty and we had a lot of disagreements about how we should be raising him, what we should be feeding him, how he should go to bed, when he should cry, whatever…. The core issue being I felt invalidated and like Jacob didn’t think I could do it right. I know all of this because we went to see a therapist and worked through it all, and I realized that it wasn’t even Jacob that was the problem, I was feeling a certain way because of things I felt when I was much younger, and him doing what he was doing was triggering all of those stored emotions. So, I got over it, we had to more kids, never had the same problems cuz I was more aware and we both loosened up… 

Now, its 6 years later… and I’m at Dr. Kris’, as I am telling him all of this I can’t even hold my arm up, at all… Down it goes, over and over and over. It was kinda funny really. Then he goes into what happened after that, because I couldn’t control what was happening with Kyson I decided that I could control my weight and to punish Jacob I started gaining weight. He said all of this while my body reacted to what he was saying, what he didn’t know was that I gained 70 pounds that year that we were going through all of this. So it just all felt so right… So me hitting this weight again, had retriggered all of those unresolved feelings I had. Even though I thought they had all been resolved back in counseling 6 years ago. One other time about 3 years ago, I got right around this weight, never got past it, and ended up gaining again.

He was releasing it for me and it took him three times, I was pretty resistant to letting it go, I was attatched to it, apparently. But I finally let it go and it felt so good. I am so curious to see if I start losing the weight again. I am such a believer in this. I just think it is so cool. I wish everyone was open minded enough to give something like this a shot. I felt so much different leaving his office then when I walked in. So cross your fingers! Hopefully I will start losing again. I still have a long way to go.

So what do you think of that??? I’ll let you know what happens next….