Rob had suffered from stomach pain for years. It came and went, but recently it had worsened. He sought medical help, but his doctor could find no physical cause — and referred him to me.
This is a story that will be familiar to many people. Unexplained physical pain is more common than most of us realize. And its origins are not always where we think to look.
What the Pain Was Hiding
I helped Rob acquire an Inner Guide. Working with it through self-hypnosis — which is identical to certain forms of meditation — something unexpected began to emerge. One day, he experienced a vivid physical sensation — his head tipping backward, his arms feeling pinned to his sides. Rather than pushing the sensation away, he stayed with it.
And then he remembered a story he had been told about himself as a toddler. He had choked on food and turned blue, unable to breathe. His uncle, a physician who happened to be present, had performed an emergency tracheotomy.
Rob realized he was reliving a portion of that experience.
The Connection His Doctor Couldn't Make
As the memory surfaced, something else fell into place. Rob had recently agreed to join friends on a scuba diving trip — but had felt a strange reluctance to go that he couldn't explain, even to himself. The thought of being deep underwater, dependent on equipment to breathe, had filled him with unease.
Now he understood. The stomach pain was not a physical problem. It was fear — a partial flashback to that early traumatic experience of being unable to breathe. (A partial flashback occurs when the body relives not the entire memory of a trauma, but a fragment of it — in Rob's case, the terror of that moment.) The prospect of being possibly unable to breathe echoed the original event and reactivated that terror.
Once Rob understood this, something shifted. He realized he didn't have to subject himself to the scuba trip. And as he came to that realization, the pain gradually subsided.
What His Inner Guide Knew
His Inner Guide understood the connection between the early trauma and the present pain — a connection no doctor could have found, because it existed not in Rob's body but in a buried memory his conscious mind could not reach.
Unexplained pain, anywhere in the body, is sometimes an expression of a partial flashback. Your Inner Guide understands this, can access the trauma that is being re-expressed, and communicate this to you. This will enable you to feel relief.
To learn more about what the Inner Guide can do for you, visit: https://www.communityforwellbeing.com/the-stress-free-formula
