Stepping Into Uncertainty Can Be Painful

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host Dr. Paula Apro, holistic health mentor and your guide to unlocking the healing power within.

In my last episode, I shared Dr. Bruce Lipton’s story about how he healed himself from cancer by decoding a message that his body was sending him. Just days after releasing that episode I had a personal experience that was sort of similar. Now, I didn’t heal from cancer, mind you, but today I want to tell you about a clear message that my body was sending and how it manifested as pain.

One day, I was working with a new client who complained of chronic foot pain. The pain was on the tops of her feet and sometimes made it very difficult for her to walk. As we talked further about her life, she confided that she has a lot of financial worries that often dominate her thoughts. As a practitioner, my mind went immediately to her root chakra that has to do with “safety and security.” If we don’t feel safe and secure, we will often have feelings of lack and scarcity and this drags our energy way down.

The Root chakra is pilot light for the entire chakra system and you can think of it like the foundation of a house. We all know the importance of a good foundation. Each of the chakras also control various aspects of the physical body and the Root chakra just happens to control the lower limbs. So basically, your lower body is really your foundation.

All this was making sense to me, but the plot thickened a few hours later when I left my office and returned home. I took my dog for a long walk with no issues what-so-ever, but soon after that walk I developed some pain in my left foot.

As the day went on the pain really increased. I figured that I somehow “took on” the energy of my client, as it is quite common for me to feel some of my client’s pain. I actually texted my client to jokingly let her know that I’m sharing her foot pain.

But it was no joke.

The pain kept getting worse. I turned to one of my magical pain-relieving energy devices, called a miHealth, and worked on my foot for 20 or 30 minutes. Unfortunately, that seemed to flare it up even worse and by the time it was bedtime, I had a very hard time putting weight on my left foot to walk to the bedroom. I just couldn’t believe how much pain I was in from NO INJURY … as I hobbled to the bedroom.

The next morning, I woke up and could tell that the miHealth did, in fact, make some improvement, but I was still in pain. It felt like a bowling ball got dropped on my foot. And the minute that thought came into my head, I remembered those exact same words coming out of my mouth back in 2021. At that time, my left foot suddenly developed tons of pain and I literally said to my husband, “I feel like I dropped a bowling ball on my foot.”

Of course, this really made me pause. This is the second time in my life when I got terrible sudden foot pain for no reason, both times in my left foot. So I thought about Dr. Bruce Lipton and thought “why is this happening to my left foot?”

That’s when I remembered that I wrote a blog article about this very topic way back then. After reading the words I wrote 5 years ago, I found it amazing how relevant those words were today.

Here is what I said in 2021 about the emotional causes of foot pain.

It represents:

* The need to step away from the situations in our lives that aren’t working for us.

* The left foot speaks to our ability to walk away from toxic or unproductive people, places, or circumstances.

* The energy field around the left foot gets very charged up when we are stuck in toxic situations.

* When we want to pull away from something that is toxic or stressful, but we feel trapped, the energy gets frozen and sequestered around the left foot.

* There is a feeling of being imprisoned in an uncomfortable or unhealthy situation.

Five years ago was the start of Covid and all the travel restrictions. Back then, I was a frustrated non-vaxxed person being restricted from traveling to most places. I happened to own a piece of property in Mexico, which I refer to as my “happy place,” and the thought of being restricted from traveling to it infuriated me. My futures of “wintering in Mexico” were very uncertain and this obviously very much bothered me.

So fast forward to today. I just couldn’t believe how obvious this whole foot pain thing was. I was so convinced that I picked up the energy from my client, but that was just a coincidence that I saw this client at the very same time that my husband and I were having big, deep, serious conversations about whether or not to sell our dream home in Maine and move away.

I went back to review that list of left foot indications . .

* The need to step away from the situations in our lives that aren’t working for us. - Maybe my super busy life in Maine is not what Iwe really want anymore. Maybe I am overwhelmed by running a healing practice and a new business. Maybe I am overwhelmed with the duties of running an Airbnb.

* The left foot speaks to our ability to walk away from toxic or unproductive people, places, or circumstances. - Maybe I am starting to feel trapped by the exorbitant hikes in our property tax bill.

* When we want to pull away from something that is stressful, but we feel trapped, the energy gets frozen and sequestered around the left foot. - Maybe I was feeling that signing a 1-year lease on office space was not the smartest idea.

And of course, there really are no “maybes.” All of those things are completely true and it all just made so much sense at this point. Now, at the time we did NOT make any actual decisions about what we wanted to do, but just the THOUGHT of feeling trapped and the THOUGHT of our future being uncertain was enough to create the pain.

Once I figured this out, I immediately did an Emotion Code™ on myself. This is a process of identifying and releasing trapped emotional energy that the body is having a problem processing. I found 3 emotions directly related to the foot pain and they were: worry, anxiety, and overwhelm.

Within 2 hours of releasing those emotions the pain was nearly 100% gone.

I went for my afternoon walk that day with no problem.

And you ready for this? A week or so later, my husband started to complain that his foot arches were hurting. He said it was because he was on his feet all day the day before, but I just smiled and nodded. I knew better. I sat him down and we talked more about the decision we were mulling over. I made sure he felt confident that we didn’t have to make any decisions if we didn’t feel ready. The more we talked, the better his foot felt. Magically the next day, the pain was gone. No Emotion Code was even needed.

This was all just another amazing reminder that our body is constantly adjusting to external stimuli.

Every thought, every emotion, every interaction will affect our physical body. When you really think about this, it’s a miracle that we are not all falling to pieces.

We are so much stronger and more resilient than we give ourselves credit for. Let’s just end this episode with that thought. Carry it with you and remember that you have the power to heal right inside of you.

Your body always knows what it needs. You just need to learn how to listen to it.

If this story resonated with you, and you’ve been wondering whether unresolved emotions may be contributing to stress, tension, or patterns in your own life, I’d love to help you explore that possibility.

Through a virtual Emotion Code session, we work together to identify and release trapped emotional energies that may be creating hidden stress for your body and nervous system. Every session is personalized, gentle, and designed to help you better understand what your body may be trying to communicate.

Sometimes the first step toward feeling better is simply listening to what your body has been trying to say all along.

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