Holiday season mostly brings the joy of celebrations, the closeness of families and the excitement of a new year to come. As wonderful as it may sound or be, the holiday season might also tag along some stress and anxieties, which often tend to be hidden or dismissed, fashionably due to the same reasons above.
We all understand how major the effect of stress on our daily life is and how beneficial it would be if we could eliminate it or at least lower its impact. Yet, we might be engaged in too many activities, maybe too busy to notice that we are actually overwhelmed.
So… if you stop for a moment to check how are you feeling – would you be able to say YES when asked if you are OK? Most chances that you are fine. But what if you feel that you always need to show that everything is great, even when it’s not? Does it still mean that you are OK??
What if your need to show that everything is OK takes an energy toll? What if this energy toll is so heavy that it significantly reduces the energy left available to spend on necessary needs? What if functioning with reduced energy causes your nervous system to be in a constant survival state? What if being in a constant survival state forces you to compromise your health? Would you still be able then to assure yourself that you are OK?
If this works for you, then all is OK indeed! But what if it doesn’t? What if compromising your health is not suiting you anymore? Would there be a way to make a change? Would it be possible to reset your nervous system and switch your perception allowing your health to be more important than people’s opinions?
Of course there is! A reset to your nervous system can be manifested by providing your body with a solid anchor. Once you established this anchor, your body knows that it doesn’t matter what happens throughout the day – there will be an anchor at the end of the day to bring your nervous system back to base.
This anchor can be created by a daily routine of application of castor oil packs on the abdomen. Castor oil, a very thick oil derived from the castor (Ricinus communis) seed, has been praised for many benefits: enhancing relaxation, decreasing inflammation/pain, increasing circulation, lubricating ligaments, easing uterine fibroid/ovarian cysts/endometriosis/migraines/intestinal disorders and more.
A castor pack can be done by simply applying the oil on the belly, covering it with a hand towel, topping it with a hot water bottle and laying down for half an hour to an hour. (You can find my instructions on my website: Castor Pack Instructions).
When applying the castor oil pack on the belly, the oil lubricates and stimulates all the tissues, organs and systems in this region. Along with that, the heat draws the blood vessels up closer to the skin as they vasodilate, and oil is being absorbed into the blood circulation as well, thus distributed through the whole body.
Lubricating and stimulating organs such as the small intestine, bladder, colon, liver, uterus, which are part of systems that are inhibited when body is under stress (when the autonomic nervous system functions at its sympathetic / fight-or-flight state), signals the nervous system to shift to its relaxed / parasympathetic state.
Once you entered the parasympathetic state of your autonomic nervous system everything changes!! Your body has been given an outlet to escape its survival mode and reach a state of peace. This reaction is created only when the castor pack is applied on your abdomen. Application on any other surface area of the body will provide local lubrication only, as no connection to the nervous system will be made.
This shift is so profound, allowing you to understand how your body should function daily, with occasional peaks of stress to overcome any issue you face. When you do this often, it will become second nature, and your body will crave this once you are out of balance.
Moreover, when this becomes a routine, your body learns to trust your intentions to seek a deep level of relaxation, and it will be less reactive to the events around you. Your reactions will always reflect the state of our nervous system – the more reactive you feel – the tighter (and stressed) your nervous system is. And once you have no need to react to the events around you, you will find that there is no need for you to always show that everything is great. You will be granted an opportunity to show how you really feel without the need to polish it, slowly progressing to answer an authentic YES or NO to every question you are asked. And then, your YES answer to the question if you are OK will always come from a genuine place reflecting your true state.
May 2025 carry the wind of change, allowing our nervous system to reset so we can express true authenticity of everything we feel!
Happy New Year!!!
Traditionally Empowered Healing LLC 