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How I Cured My Back Pain with Tantra: My Cosmic Slap in the Face
Just a few weeks ago I was coming down our stairs to fill up on my morning tea, feeling very powerful and optimistic about life. All of a sudden, my feet completely slipped out from under me and I bounced down the last 5 steps making direct contact with my spine, my elbow tailbone and right hip. Not only was I in excruciating pain, but my body was in shock. Luckily, two of my housemates were home and available to pick me up, take me upstairs and put me in my bed.
After 2 full days of being practically bed-ridden, unable to get dressed or take a shower without someone else's assistance, I sought Chiropractic treatment. This treatment gave me much relief and repaired 2 out of 3 of my bulging discs. If you have chronic back pain or an acute spinal injury, I highly recommend you seek out a Chiropractor who uses Applied Kinesiology or muscle testing.
Though I was feeling about 50% better after my adjustment, there was a significant emotional charge around the area of my injury. In fact, when I or anyone would touch the spot on my back where my spine hit the stairs, I would feel faint or cry. One time the pain was so severe I blacked out, fell backwards and hit my head on the bathroom floor.
I couldn't figure out why my injury had me feeling so low. I was still sad and weepy, feeling down about myself and my body. I was out of sorts, feeling like a burden to my loved ones and not feeling like myself at all.
I realized that I was holding on to emotional trauma from past injuries, from falling off my bike face first into concrete and cracking my front tooth when I was 8, to the college dance injury to my hip and SI joint that kept me from dancing for an entire semester when I was 20, and everything in between. I've had many injuries that left me feeling distraught. It was as if each time I was injured in the past, my body stored that information and hid it away in my cells. Then when I re-injured myself, all the emotions came up as if to relive those past experiences again.
It wasn't until two weeks after my spill, when I attended the Advanced Tantra course "Ecstasy" with Laurie Handlers, that I was able to set myself free from all of the old emotional garbage. First I want to share that Tantra is not about having sex. Tantra is about cultivating your own energy and becoming your own "beloved." Loving ourselves is the our only job, ever. Secondly, Tantra is about falling in love with the unknown. In the past, I have had an intense need to know how things were going to turn out. I was obsessed with planning and figuring out each detail. Since shifting my focus towards what I want to experience: be, do, have, I've been able to graciously "be with" whatever comes up in life.
We did an incredibly healing emotional release exercise on the second day of the workshop. It's difficult to explain to you what happened in my body, but basically through movement and the use of my voice, I was re-birthed! Someone touched the exact spot of injury on my back and I screamed, yelled, cried and coughed and afterward I felt amazing, no more back pain!
It's a tantric miracle!
If you have a history of injuries, recurring negative emotional patterns or a general feeling of stuck-ness and you would like to tranform that experience of life, I highly recommend you check out Butterfly Workshops: http://www.butterflyworkshops.com/index.php
Laurie handlers teaches all over the country and internationally. She is the author of Sex and Happiness:http://www.lauriehandlers.com/book.html and she has an internet radio show - Tantra Cafe: http://www.tantracafe.com/
Not only did I get free from my emotional stagnation, but I feel free in my body, physically. I also had a major breakthrough in being a leader in my current relationship with a man I love, respect and appreciate on a new, deeper level.
I now start every morning with a meditation and asking myself what I really want to experience in my life. I am committed to being a powerful leader, teacher, counselor and coach supporting others to see that they too can be free of their stories and create a life of their wildest dreams!
Who knew that my tumble down the stairs would be just the cosmic slap in the face I would need to catapult my body and mind into a place of complete freedom?
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Richele Henry
Certified Health Coach
2602 N Calvert St
Baltimore MD 21218
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