354: Emotional Resilience, Trauma and More: Q+A
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Hello, friends. Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Chris Motley. And today, we are going to talk about, in a Q&A format...

The Chinese medicine world and how it pertains to emotions. Now, first of all, I want all of you out there to know that there are different ways to deal with these emotions and there's different ways to approach them. And, you know, as well as I do, I'm open to them. And I want you to be able to send me any type of answers or inquiries that pertain to this, because I'm always here to learn as well.

But I hope to give you some insight that could be a little simplistic so that it's something that's very applicable to you that you can actually use and go forward and do something with the information. The next question is, how do I deal or increase emotional resilience? When I talk about increasing emotional resilience, it means that how can you build fortitude and strength? It's just as we talked about before. It is build the energy and the energy and the chi energy.

where the organs are doing their best to communicate with each other and with the brain. So take a note. You want your digestive system, your respiratory, you want your pulmonary, which is your lungs. You want your urinary tract, all your areas around your bladder and kidneys. You want every part, your alimentary canal, your whole digestive tract. You want your neurological system, your nervous system, your lymphatic system. You want every system in the body to be able to communicate with each other properly and

i.e. communicate with each other through the meridian system and into the spine and up to the brain. So when you create emotional resilience, how can you, in a sense, be tough? People think emotional resilience is to be able to take an emotion and not feel it. In my opinion, that's not probably the best way. Emotional resilience is your ability to

to be able to identify and recognize when an emotion that you think is not the best for you or an emotional trauma and not stuff it down or try to push it away and not feel it, but actually allow your body to recognize it, hold it, feel it, embrace it, let it pass through your body and through your psyche to understand what it is doing to your body.

And allowing your body to feel it in a way that you allow the proper mechanisms, the organs and the tissues and the parts of your brain to actually process it to do their job. So if you can take the emotion or the trauma and put it in a viewpoint of your life and take note of it and allow your body to properly process it and not fight against it, that will build your emotional resilience. How so?

The more you process your emotions, I know that neurologists will say it goes to the prefrontal area of your front of your brain and that's how you process your emotions. But your organs are all releasing biochemicals, hormones, neurotransmitters like in the brain. All these chemicals are releasing to communicate with each other and to the spine and to the brain to help you to do what?

to keep processing daily your fear, your anger, your hate, your rage, your resentment, your frustration, your stubbornness, your fears, your dread, your bad memories, your hysteria, your joy, your love, your happiness. Your body's creating them all day to help you process those. When your body...

Gets trained to process them daily. You're making your body do it like a daily exercise and your body goes, oh, I've got a lot of anger today. Okay, I'm not going to hold it back. I'm not going to push it away. I actually use less energy to allow it to pass through and let me process it out and shake it off like an animal that got attacked in the Serengeti. They say like when –

An antelope gets attacked by a cheetah. They shake it off. When you are able to shake those things off, your body processes it through that type of energy loss, but you save more energy than if you were trying to just keep the door closed and keep that emotion shut off somewhere else.

So you learn how to process it. You train your organs to process them properly, and they're at ease. They're like, oh, okay, liver, process anger, and then kidneys, process fear. And this is your department. Lungs go on with the grief and the sadness. Process those, and they start to work with each other. And then daily, you're going and encountering these things. Oh, I went to work, and I had a boss that was not the best person today.

And they must have had a hard day, but they were expressing anger. So instead of me taking that anger from that, from the boss and stuffing against super mad and resentment, frustrated and frustrated within my gallbladder and liver, I let my liver and gallbladder see and recognize it. And I told that part of my personality, this is what it's doing to me. It's making me angry and frustrated, but I need you to process it out and to release it through. And when you do that,

You start training the body to say, okay, this is how the normal route is to release this emotion. Push it through my feet. Let it go. Let it pass through the body. Let the organ process it. Let it go through the feet and into the earth and let the earth ground you out.

Say your prayers. Do your meditations like Hulk Hogan says. Say your prayers and take your vitamins. Say your prayers. Is that what it is? An old wrestler. Hulk Hogan said that, I think. But say your prayers and take – do your meditations and do that properly, and you'll have an emotional strength because your body is not going to be afraid of any of the emotions that come daily because you're training it to process it properly.

Now, that's one way to increase emotional resilience. So what I want you guys to do is to not push away your emotions or your traumas. But if you have to work with a specialized therapist or a counselor, do that. But really do not run from the emotional trauma. Look at it. Understand it. Give it some space. Give it honor. And then process it. Okay, let's go through a couple more questions. How can past childhood traumas show up in the body in your 40s?

Now, that's a very good question. We're talking about past childhood traumas. Remember, when you're young and you experience a trauma and your traumatic event hits your body, your body perceives it in a certain way. So your body records the trauma through your senses, through your sight, how you saw it or how you smelled, smelled it, what you heard when you're experiencing it, what you tasted possibly or what you felt on your skin.

So your body takes all those sensations and associates with that one memory, that one trauma at that particular time, whether it's at five years old, 10 years old, you know, 12 or 13, which age that you were, that you suffered from it. Now, when it shows up in your body, remember that there's a book called the body keeps the score in Chinese medicine. We always recognize that certain parts of the brain will record the trauma and certain senses help you record them. And there's a lot that has to say with,

why a person would pay attention to one of those senses the most. Why would you pay attention to a smell when you experienced a trauma the most? That can really delve deep into Chinese medicine, but you could say smell or even heard. Now, one of the sensations when we talk about smelling or breathing would be the lungs. So that's just one thing we can associate it with. If we talk about hearing, we can associate that with

The kidneys, the kidneys are associated with water. Water transmits sounds faster than the air does. Doesn't make sense. Water transmits sounds faster than air does. So you could be a person who is genetically strong in their kidneys and your kidneys are your most dominant element trait. So that means you may have better hearing mechanisms than most individuals. So when you recorded a trauma when you're younger, you probably could have recorded it through your hearing because that's your strongest element type at that age.

One of the things I think is most interesting about childhood trauma is that how you recorded it. And let's say I remembered what I heard. I heard my parents yelling at each other when I was really young. I remember some events happening in my childhood with my family and there was always screaming and yelling and it was a bad sound. This is associated with the organ of the element, which is the kidneys and the bladder. So what you heard creates a response in the kidney and the bladder and the element itself.

aspect of Chinese medicine. So the kidney and the bladder are going to respond to your emotions. And what you heard really affects you. That's why they always talk about knowing the five senses of the five elements. So if I heard something, my kidneys and bladder are initiated and they are going to go into a fear mode.

It means higher amounts of urinations, maybe nocturnal urination. Maybe you're peeing in the bed at night or you had some dribbling or you had bladder urgency where you had to pee. All of a sudden, you cannot stop peeing when the feeling comes on or you have a weak bladder or weak pelvic bowl. We have those tight hip flexors. Those are programs that started back when you had those initial traumatic events when you're a kid.

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The hearing, you heard the sensations and you probably associated those parts in the brain that had high association with the kidneys and the bladder. Now, this can get very technical, but I want you to know this. When you're hearing, it was the first thing that registered, you can trap emotions in the kidneys and the bladder. So the kidney and bladder are trapped emotions there and you associate with the yelling. Now, this is really, really interesting. They've done studies on this, but

If – and it's really interesting. I want to keep reading more and more. I could just read all day about these things. But they found out that individuals then who would hear anger or shouting reminded their brain where that emotional trauma stored. They call them Hammerfields, H-A-M-E-R. Look at Hammerfields in German New Medicine. They associated – they lit up the area of the brain where it was recorded, right? And it lit up the area according to scans. Right.

And that triggered the response in the bladder and the kidneys. Now, if that program was stored all those years and it built up, it eventually builds weakness in the organ that's associated with the hearing.

The fear traps in the kidneys and the bladder, and we described that earlier in the podcast, but it's trapped in there. And every time you hear something in that same decibel range or that same frequency range, if somebody like reminds you of the voice or the yelling in your family, that kidney and bladder starts to emerge. It wakes that area up. And so you'll start to see.

that the hidden emotions within the kidney and bladder start to surface because you may have encountered something that reminds you of something you heard when you're younger. Traumatic events get stored in the tissue, whether it's in the muscles or in the organs or the lymphatic system, and they're always associated with a form of sense, five senses. And those emotions, if they are reminded, if your body's reminded,

Through those five senses, through the senses we just talked about, like the hearing, if your body's reminded, it will initiate a response where that emotion's hidden. So you start to see that past childhood traumas are bringing up these physical symptoms in the body. Oh man, when I heard my boss yelling at my coworker the other day, man, I had the urge or sensation in my bladder. I had to go urinate. And man, I only had that when I was a kid. I thought that went away. The program stayed there.

So that would call up to remembrance that we need to work on finding out the sensation that it was recorded.

And helping our bodies recognize the emotional trauma and work through them. That's why I really recommend like any T neuro emotional technique. Look at N E T mind body. They have a great website. Dr. Scotty Walker does an amazing job about using the acupuncture system and the spinal system and the neurological system and, um, muscle testing and using homeopathies to help release this. I'm telling you, find a practitioner that's any team mind body in your area. It's amazing. I practice it, but there are many practitioners who are just amazing. Um,

I have some really cool docs that are in the field that just do such a great job. But look at NET MindBody, and it can tell you how these emotional traumas from the past come up and surface. So I don't want you to lose hope. I just want you to know that why is it that whenever I smell that delicious honey bun, it reminded me of my grandmother's house? Or when I smelled that horrible smell, it reminded me of that horrible traumatic event that happened when I was 10.

Your brain is so smart and we know that and you guys can work through this. And I'm not saying any tea is the only way to do it, but try to find techniques that help release emotions through acupuncture or even through kinesiology.

I love EFT tapping. That's something you can do at home. EFT tapping taps the acupuncture points, the beginning and ending acupuncture points, while you do certain types of processes like with counting and humming happy birthday to initiate certain parts of the brain. Check it out. Check EFT tapping out. Check the book out that's called Feelings Buried Alive Never Die. Feelings Buried Alive Never Die. Check out the book, The Body Keeps the Score.

Check out The Emotion Code. Such great books. Guys, go for it. I'm telling you, it'll teach you so much about yourself. And then you can learn some techniques to help release those. Now, how do I control my thoughts which run like a broken record daily in my brain over and over? That's a good question. Let me get a drink of water, guys. Hold on. One of the things that when the record's playing over and over again is the repetitive processes. There's many neurologists out there and there's like a really great book by Dr. Perlmutter called Brainwash.

And you talk about like the neurochemicals that actually create signals that continuously play in our brain. But remember when a program is continuously being lit up, it's because that pathway has strengthened so much because you created neuroplasticity. You created a plasticity, a softness in the brain, but you create a new neural networks. You create a new nerve pathways that were programmed specifically for that emotion because of how long you thought about it.

So nerves will grow like a train track and you'll build that train track according to how much you needed the train track to carry information or carry a certain type of train. And that train was anxiety or fear or worry or the old emotion of being of abuse or being bullied. And so if that train track was built when you're young, oh, I suffered being bullied when I was younger and it just kept being built every day you went to school and you

You did your best to cope with it, but you're always in the environment where it's kept being fortified We have to be aware that we could pick environments that help us Fortify or help it that keeps us in the same belief system when we're young and it saddens me So some people who get bullied or something or get picked on they'll sometimes not say they want to but they'll be drawn to areas where they may experience the same type of trauma not everybody but

It depends on how much they was reinforced every day. So that train track and that neural network is built every day. So then you recognize even more when somebody's bullying you or you'll be in environments where it's always happening to you. And when you recognize it more, you build more network in your brain. So we have to be very aware if we accidentally overreact.

Get pulled into an area where it's similar to when we're young. That's one aspect. But when you are had tons of bullying or something, you cannot help it when you're young and you build a huge framework for it. Sometimes our brain is continuously running that train or that track system over and over again.

And we have to be careful about what we put in our senses, in our eyes, our ears, our nose, our mouth, everything that could reinforce that belief system. Because now you get the feeling of being bullied and it creates a response to help cope with it. And it becomes a belief system like life is always going to be about me being bullied or picked on. Now, I'm not trying to get philosophical with neurological talk, but when something is running over and over.

And it keeps on hitting. Remember, your body has gotten used to responding to the situation when you're young. So your body released certain types of neurochemicals, neurochemicals to help respond to that emotion. So when that happens to you and I, we don't mean to. We get used to the way those chemicals feel. So when we get used to the way the chemicals feel.

We may not necessarily go pick a pathway in life that we're around people that pick on us or try to harm us or injure us, which is so sad to me why anybody would do that. But we may pick environments where we had the same chemicals, chemical patterns being released. You could have picked an environment where somebody was picking on you in a different way. Maybe you got into an environment where a boss or somebody or the coworker was probably pushing you or they say pushing you or, um,

Trying to, quote, motivate you when really what it was, you were used to that feeling of somebody pressing on you or invading your space. You see how you have to be mindful of these small little indicators. And that's why finding a therapist or good counselor, finding somebody who does good neurological therapy would find out if there's any of these triggers. And when that occurs is you'll start to or you don't mean to, but you'll have this program running over and over in the brain because it's unfortunately being fortified or damaged.

We don't realize that our brain are creating the chemicals and releasing them that we experienced a long time ago. Now, that's just one aspect of it. I think there's many different ways that many neurologists want to talk about it. But I've seen this happen in the office with patients of mine. And when we talk about when you control your thoughts, the first part truly is recognition.

recognizing the original thought or the process, finding out which sensations or sensorial areas were initiated, smell, sight, touch, taste, or feeling. And then you work your way from that point and say, okay, is the pattern repeating? But for repeating patterns, not only is it going to do something like NET or EFT tapping or do some kind of therapy like EMDR or neurofeedback, write those down. But it also has to do

With now trying to release the emotions and chemistry by taking the proper nutrients to heal the brain. You want to release and you want to digest this with certain types of nutrients such as acetylcholine or choline, C-H-O-L-I-N-E, choline. Also, essential fatty acids like omega-3, 6s and 9s for the brain. Fish oils, plant oils that are good for your brain. You want to have proper B-complex vitamins.

Preferably methylated. A vitamins A, D, and K combination. Ask your doctor if you can use vitamin K if you're on blood thinners. Proper probiotics in your diet. Iodine and CoQ10. So when you see those, those are some of the top priorities to help start to nourish their brain, especially with those good fats. Eating a diet that enriches good essential fatty acids will help the brain heal. So when you start to utilize these vitamins,

You will start to release the emotions but feed the brain and you stop putting the programs down that old train track and you start to have the energy and the power and the strength and the nutrients needed to help grow new neural pathways. And then you start to reinforce with new positive thinking and new ways or new pathways. Does that make sense? That's when you can do better affirmations.

better self mantras where you're actually programming your brain to say, no, I'm going to go forward. I'm going to look into this direction and this is where my life's going to go. That is one aspect of how to break this. If you're in PTSD and you're in trauma,

I want you to look at a device called a CES Ultra. Look at the work of Dr. Stephen Zodkoy who worked with PTSD. He's one of my good friends, and he worked with PTSD and soldiers and helped them through this horrible PTSD that they went through, and it's helped them with NET and different types of testing and therapy that helped them get them out of those reoccurring programs. Dr. Stephen Zodkoy, Z-O-D-K-O-Y. Check him out. He's on Instagram. He's great. Really funny guy.

These are some helpful tips I want you guys to take note of. And I also want you to know that I have an emotional body course in my membership as well. And you can look at the link in my link tree and you can find that link to go into the membership. And there are some good videos about how to release the emotions in the membership.

But that's totally up to you. I love the membership. I do lives every single week, almost every single week. And we talk with the members and it's just fun. And I do have a lot of good videos on there. But there is an emotional body program on there that teaches you how you can learn how to release some of these emotions and how you can help your body clean them out and cope with them in a proper healthy way. So guys, I know this is a lot to take in.

We're going to have some good show notes where you can get some extra information here. And I want you guys that to let me know if you like this style. It's a Q and a, and I like to answer these things. I love the Q and A's. So guys, if you have any questions or,

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We're thankful for you. So I'm Dr. Chris Motley here with the Ancient Health Podcast. Until the next time, have a great day. Be well.

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