Our Response to a Stress Trigger
Part four from the series: Meta Health, EFT and Matrix Reimprinting
The Meta-Health Two Phases Model
When we experience something that is a conflict for us - something that was Unexpected, Dramatic, Isolating, and we had no strategy for, our body responds with a ‘biological special programme’. This scientifically rigorous and reproducible ‘programme’, is a natural science based on five biological laws and our mind, brain and a specific body tissue respond in a precise manner.
We enter Stress Phase (2). We may now feel and experience body tension, stress, obsessive thinking, sleeplessness, cooler body, hands and feet, nervousness, and our pulse rate and blood pressure are likely to be elevated. In Stress phase our Sympathetic Nervous System is active - our fight, flight or freeze response. However, if we are busy in our lives, we may not notice our stress phase.
When we take an appropriate action, make a strategy, have a solution present itself, or reconnect with a deeper meaning for our symptoms, we experience the Restoration Trigger (3) and enter the Restoration Phase (4). We can now feel and experience many symptoms characteristic that our Parasympathetic Nervous System is active - the need to eat, sleep and regenerate. When we have fatigue, tiredness, a desire for food, warmer hands and feet, a slower pulse and lower blood pressure, and the need to rest and sleep, we are in Restoration Phase. We usually also experience a sense of relief and difficulty in thinking clearly. Any redness, heat, flu, most joint pains, skin rashes, eczema, headaches, dizziness and anything diagnosis that ends in ‘itis’, tells us our body is in Restoration Phase.
On full resolution we regain our Health (5). The length of time we are in each phase depends on the intensity and duration of the conflict we experience. If we are retriggered during any part of this biological process, the path is interrupted. This can lead to chronic or recurring conditions. If we do not find a strategy to regenerate, we remain in the Stress phase. As you may have realised, this process is occurring simultaneously on many levels and with different body tissues.
Some examples
Eczema
Organ: Skin Epidermis (outer layer of our skin)
Stress Trigger Theme: Separation - Touch we wanted and didn’t have, or unwanted touch
Eczema symptoms come in Restoration Phase: Hot, inflamed, red, itchy skin
Common Cold
Stress Trigger Theme: This stinks or I am fed up with this
In Restoration Phase we experience a runny nose, sneezing, irritated nasal passages
Lower back pain
Organ: Bone / Joints
Stress Trigger Theme: Self worth - not strong or good enough, worthless
Ask where are you feeling unsupported by others or unable to support yourself
Stress Phase: Maybe unnoticed
Restoration Phase: Back pain, inflammation, tiredness, fatigue
Knee pain
Stress Trigger Theme: Self worth - not strong / good enough
Wanting to kick something or someone away or move forward in an area of our life
Restoration Phase: Pain, maybe swelling, decreased function
Neck pain
Stress Trigger Theme: Feelings of injustice.
Maybe thoughts and feelings could be traced back to a person or situation where we were treated unfairly
Pain is in Restoration
Tonsillitis
Stress Trigger Theme: Unable to swallow or accept something
Tonsillitis comes in Restoration Phase: Red, swollen tonsils, pain on swallowing, fever, feeling very tired
Overactive Thyroid
Stress Trigger Theme: Survival issue of being too slow, not quick enough - need to go faster, get things done
Stress Phase symptoms: Overexcited, nervous, irritable, trouble sleeping, higher blood pressure
Diabetes
Stress Trigger Theme: Something resisted, or felt fearful, disgusted and humiliated about
Conjunctivitis
Stress Trigger Theme: Visual separation. Lost sight of someone (or pet), loved one moved away, left, died, or we were not allowed to see someone or we did not want to see someone
Restoration Phase: Conjunctivitis (pink eye). Red, burning, itchy, watery eyes. Inflammation also often involves inside of eyelids
Tinnitus
Stress Trigger Theme: Not wanting to hear something (social) or needing to hear something (survival).
Tinnitus comes in Stress phase - Ringing, buzzing, humming, whistling, clicking, tinkling, hissing, roaring in the ear.
Tinnitus can also continue into early Restoration phase
From the above list you will have likely realised that many symptoms come in Restoration Phase. It is our 2nd biological phase of healing. If we acknowledge our thoughts, feelings and symptoms, and take the action our body is asking us to take - to rest and support healing, we will move through the process faster and with more ease.
In Part 5 we will explore EFT and in Part 6 Matrix Reimprinting