This concept floored me - as a lifelong searcher of stability and harmony as a hypermobile person - newsflash I have just realised that I am already home, if I just trust my body - I am home and I am already safe and am stable, this gives me the sense of coming home..
I've spent my whole life looking for a solution to my daily pain. I felt that exercise and strengthening my body would be the solution - my first degree was in Sports Studies - I learned physiology, human movement the component parts that scientifically make us upin my 20's I was the fittest I had ever been especially in my late 20's, during this time I felt better but still not great, but the level of training it required to stay 'well' was unsustainable for me, I became disillusioned with exercise being the paneceer to my pain. So in my early 30's I left the Health & Fitness industry, I had had some success with alternative and complementary therapy and it fascinated me, even though I was still very Newtonian in my expectations of the human body, in as much i still believed that the solution was external to me, not internal, so i then pursued a career that would help me further understand my body and so I studied to be a chiropractor for 4 years, qualifying when I was 35.
College was amazing and my understanding of the human body and human condition became so much clearer to me, on
reflection though, it was just a toe in the ocean compared to what I know now. During my 4 years at college as a class we practiced honing
our chiropractic adjustments on each other regularly and ultimately this made me worse, I left with as much pain if not more pain by the
time I left - let me also say that whilst I was trying to fix the machinery of my body, I was not paying any attention or was even
aware that the programming and central computer part so my mind and brain had me trapped in cycles of chronic pain response and
protective reaction.Iit wasn't until I started to learn Pilates, Meditation, Mindfulness, Breath work and roll that together with
better Nutrition and understanding of Epigenetics that I started to downgrade the over reaction of my mind and brain , which are in
charge of my body. Once I had amalgamated these techniques then I started to get some harmony and rest bite - I was then able to
release a lot of the crutches/avoidance habits I had used to help release me from my pain - , when I drank alcohol my body
didn't hurt, and I had a sense of freedom that I couldn't find in my everyday life - when I started to find it in meditation, breath
work and became mindful of the negative thought patterns that kept me in cycles of unsupportive self-talk things changed
exponentially.
Still this was me using many external techniques to build harmony, and mend the disconnect between my body and mind, such a significant
place to where I had been and such great achievements - still when I heard this statement in a beautiful meditation that I was already home -
that home wasn't my family, t wasn't a physical place it was finding the peace to just be in my body and this long journey that had taken me
decades was just that journey that journey that had brought me back to myself to the one place I should feel safe and loved within myself.
I am so grateful for this revelation, for this wisdom and for the now beautiful sense of calmness that I am home already and always have
been, I cried with a sense of relief and belonging that i had never felt before - that I am all I need to truly want to live in my body
and that I trusted my body - I think that is the life of a hypermobile person - that they have the built-in mistrust that our bodies will
let us down - that we will twist our ankles for the 45th time or that our unstable hip or spine will go into spasm that our shoulders will
pop out again and that we are fighting this battle with ourselves that no one else can see. My journey is not the journey for everyone
who is hypermobile - as you know there is a vast spectrum of connective tissue dysfunction that umbrellas our community, with the
associated neurodiversity that travels with a hypermobile body but I can now find the peace with the fact that I am no longer fighting to
improve myself, to improve my body because this simple phrase has made me realise that if I take time everyday to acknowledge that what
I need, to feel better and what I need to improve is all internal not external and that with gratitude of what I have not what i don't
have I can feel a beautiful sense of myself and the journey I have been on, is the best gift you could ever have.
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This concept floored me - as a lifelong searcher of stability and harmony as a hypermobile person - newsflash I have realised that I am already home if I just trust my body - I am home and I am already safe and stable..
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Welcome, I am Seona Gunn-Kelly, an avid pupil of all things mind body. I work hard every day to improve my connection between my subconscious and conscious self. I have been on this journey for over 10 years now, as a chiropractor, health and wellness coach, and pilates instructor. I aim to help as many people as I can, connect mind and body to live a life filled with possibility, self-love, and self-care. A life where you can love and value your body, health, and happiness.
Perfectionism
Perfectionism is the pursuit of excellence, striving to be the best sometimes at the detriment of the your health and wellbeing, psychologically it can stem from a type of OCD and/or negative internal narrative.