Experiences, words about experiences, more experiences . . .
Creating a new vocabulary for what’s possible ✨🌀🥣
Good morning, sunshine! I am looking forward to a long and bright day with many of you, before I leave for Nashville to visit my bestie tomorrow morning! 👯♀️🌀⚓️
Tell me if this has ever sounded like you:
Friend/family member: “How was your adjustment with Dr. Katie?”
You: “Good.”
We all do it! We use the most basic of words as a placeholder for that which we do not know how to describe.
Sometimes we do it because we just don’t feel like getting into it, and the other person isn’t going to understand us anyway 🤓
In this vein, for example, I have often remarked that if you ever hear someone ask me what I do for a living and I simply say, “I’m a chiropractor,” without further explanation, then you’ll know for sure that at that moment I just don’t feel like talking about it 😂
Sometimes, though, we might want to have the words, but they just don’t exist for us because our experience was so. . . beyond.
There is a certain sunshine who’s been seeing me at New Day for many years who I’m thinking of affectionately right now, because she often has what many might view to be pretty wild and transformative experiences on the adjusting table 💥🌀⚡️💥
After 15-20 minutes of breathing, sighing, moving around, lifting her body in new and innovative ways, she will sit up afterward and nod her head saying, “Better” (which often has us both crack up laughing!)
In these moments there should never be a rush to get back to the “world of words.” 💖
And yet, when we do, words can make all the difference in these neural pathways that we are creating around experiencing the world that exists beyond “good” or “bad” (or “better,” or “worse”)
This isn’t important so much for what we tell other people. It’s more so for what we tell ourselves and how that helps us bring the benefits of what we are doing into the rest of our week, and how we build on that over time 📈
We need to invite our thinking mind to be our friend and help usher the extraordinary experience into reality.
And we need to create a new vocabulary for ourselves that instead of limiting us moves us forward ✨🌀🌍💗👯♀️🙌
The journaling I had you do for 5 minutes after your adjustments through the month of January was meant to help you begin that process, and then have it become more natural for you to do in the future (even without the journaling!)
The style that I encouraged was a free-form, stream of consciousness style of writing with the most basic of suggested structures:
“When I got here, I felt/noticed/didn’t feel/didn’t notice _____. During the adjustment I noticed _______. Now I notice and am focused on __________.”
Some of us in this community are wonderful writers and thinkers, and it has been necessary for some of you to release the engrained desire to “perform” by writing well, and to instead allow the words to simply “pour out,” uncensored, as though the body were writing them ✨
In the last week of the activity, last week, I added a journaling prompt meant to help open your awareness to a layer that could be a breakthrough for many of you:
In other words you were being asked to become aware of what you have been aware of, potentially allowing yourself to be present to any “stuck” habitual ways of perceiving, experiencing, and BEing ✨
Awareness of the awareness– this is the springboard, my sunshines, into amazing things 🌈
Stage 3 in the 12 Stages of healing has us do this on a physical, emotional, and energetic level.
Similarly, Albert Einstein said that you cannot “solve the problem from the consciousness that created the problem.” Words can reinforce the reality we have been experiencing. And words can help liberate us! 💥🌀💥
This is one of the key reasons I am so EXCITED to have begun work this week with my 12 Stages in 12 Weeks group.
By going through each of the 12 Stages week by week using a journaling prompt directly after your time on the adjusting table, we are going to gain so many distinctions by bringing experiences into words and then using words to help create even more Energy Rich experiences ✨
Because a world of nervous system overwhelm and disassociation, “good and bad,” pain, and (self) judgement, none of us have we had much experience with creating the combinations of words to describe the extraordinary. A new world of words and access to even more consistent Energy Rich experiencing awaits! ✨🌍💗✨
Thank you for being on this journey along with me, all of you reading this message! I look forward to seeing you and hearing from you soon.
And in the meantime, enjoy a sample (below) from the Stage 6 section of the 12 Stages in 12 Weeks workbook I created ✨✨✨
