queen of connection | Shelby L. Phillips

It’s Talking — Are You Listening to Your Body?

I started my transformational journey at a very young age. It started when I was given the gift of The EST Training at fifteen years old. Over the next four years I went on to do LifeSpring; the Landmark Forum; The Communication Course; The 6-Day; weekly seminars on such topics as integrity, money, and relationships; even a six-month long leadership program where I was being trained to lead Introductions to the Forum. I remember so many of the adults telling me how fortunate I was to be receiving transformative distinctions at such a young age and if they had known “this stuff” as a teenager, boy how their lives would be different. What would have been possible for them if they were armed with this knowledge of the mind early in life?

In 2000, I was immersed in the work of the heart and in the study of male-female dynamics.  I could see what was possible if people knew the benefits of heart-centered practices — the end of domestic violence, the return of family values, love over fear — wouldn’t it be great if everyone was gifted with this access to the heart too?

In 2012, now a mother of two young girls, I embarked on yet another journey, this one of spiritual nature. One that helped me accept my empathic essence, harness my own intuitive abilities, consider that I am a powerful healer and even commune with Archangel Michael. This work was powerful. What difference would it make on the planet if everyone was uplifted with this connection to spirit?

Today, I am completely drawn to the mind-body connection. I acknowledge that this is an area in which I have much to learn, as my Mind and my Body have had very little relationship over the last 4 decades. Funny aside: I thought my Body liked staying up late, watching movies, enjoying cocktails and eating potato chips. It certainly seemed more fun than sleeping, drinking water and working out! Ah, the mind can be a tricky foe.

My wish is to pass the important knowledge of the mind, heart, and spirit onto my girls while they’re young, providing them the opportunity to lead what I call “integrated lives,” but perhaps with a stronger emphasis on the body. What would be possible for them if they were armed with this knowledge early? How would learning to release other people’s energy from their bodies help them in the long run? Would learning to ground everyday save them from stress and burn out? Would listening to their bodies save them from disease?

Recently I met a remarkable young man who seemed to answer all my questions in one fell swoop. In the short time I spent with him, he spoke about every subject I have spent my life studying and he stood before me the living proof of what is possible when young people are armed with the great knowledge of the dimensions of well-being.

Trained in multiple disciplines of kinesiology and believing that within each of us a great healer awaits, Dr. Reid Etter has spent his life integrating the mind, body, heart and spritit into tangible, bite-size pieces of information that everyone can understand. In addition to being a doctor of chiropractic, Dr. Reid uses the following modalities in his work:

• TBM – Total Body Modification

Every aspect of ourselves is taken into account when using TBM — our anatomy, biochemistry, spirituality and energy — since all are intrinsically dependent upon one another for total balance and resonant harmony. Using the wisdom of the body via the muscular system, TBM operates on the understanding that the body can provide vital information on our state of health and has the incredible ability to heal itself.

• NET – Neuro Emotional Technique

In our modern age we find ourselves inundated with incredible amounts of stress, and this stress when unaccounted for, can settle within the body and create imbalance. NET seeks to locate emotional disturbances and imbalances, and removes them withefficiency and delicacy in order to restore ultimate performance and function.

• NRT – Nutritional Response Testing

Our ancestors could cure their afflictions with food, but today poor farming methods and the use of harsh chemical fertilizers have created a vastly nutritionally depleted food epidemic that has resulted in widespread nutritional imbalance. NRT seeks to determine specific nutritional imbalances within our bodies and addresses them with small doses of highly concentrated nutritional supplementation to reverse and ultimately restore light into the body.

• QRA – Quantum Reflex Analysis

Disease phonetically breaks down into ‘dis’ and ‘ease’ which means a ‘lack of ease’ or stress to the body. Recognizing that emotional and chemical toxicity are the precursors for nearly all disease, QRA operates at the quantum energy level to unravel the layers of imbalance arriving at the Core Truth of a patient’s disease. Determining appropriate measures to eliminate such toxicity from the body can transform it from a state of disease to one of ease.

I had the privilege of sitting down and connecting with Dr. Reid recently. For me, he is the missing link. Listen in while we talk about healing from the body’s perspective.

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QoC: I am so honored to get to explore some of these vital topics with you today, thank you in advance! So let’s dive right in, shall we? You feel we can ALL heal ourselves. How is that possible?

DRE: Healing can be a difficult arena to address because each individual possesses his/her own innate blend of characteristics in addition to their place in their own life journey. To discuss anything healing, it is first important to delineate what we are actually healing here, and of course the healing begins with our bodies.

As we sit here at this present moment, each one of us is a living, breathing entity, with trillions of cells each individually performing their own myriad of activities in seamless flow. Cardiac muscle cells are creating electrical current waves through particular balances of sodium and potassium ratios every few seconds. The pituitary gland is constantly updating its output of stimulating hormones depending upon specific changes in hormonal activity in the body. The glutathione pathway of the liver is neutralizing free radical activity and other damaging issues in the body as we speak. This list goes on and on, but my point here is your body is clearly a miraculous vessel with seemingly endless functions, tasks and possibilities. All of these functions are taking place beneath the conscious level, meaning they are subconscious. The body is thus equivalent to what we deem the subconscious mind. All possible information regarding an individual’s body is thus stored in the body, which are all accessible if we somehow had a way to speak with this subconscious wonder. This is where muscle testing enters into the equation, because it utilizes neurological reflexes (which are inherently subconscious) to access deeper truths of a person’s health.

Thus, to begin to truly HEAL ourselves, we must speak the language of the subconscious. At one point in human evolution, beings were able to access this through something known as intuition, although this skill has been largely lost in modern days due to many unnatural changes to our ways of living. The only reason an individual is out of balance, or ‘unhealthy’, stems from 3 major arenas. The body is structural, meaning it has bones, ligaments, muscles, etc. When out of alignment the body loses important and vital function. Since healing can only take place when we bring things toward balance, any structural imbalance thus creates some sort of strain on the body and weakens a person’s overall health. Next, we have the biochemistry of the body. This realm includes enzymes, neurotransmitters, cofactors, vitamins, minerals, etc. Without understanding the biochemistry of the body and proper nutritional balance, a person can never be in a state of equilibrium. Finally, we have the realm of emotion. This often is the most overlooked — chronic emotional stressors. Since emotions are inherently subconscious, they have an immediate detrimental effect on the body (since it is the subconscious mind).

Our bodies were designed to handle short amounts of stress, such as running from a bear, finding safety, and coming back into a state of relaxation. We now live in a world where chronic stressors are present every which way we turn: primarily financial concerns, daily job requirements, ingestion of chemically laden food which exacerbates emotional stressors, etc. Basically, we can all HEAL ourselves if we rediscover how to listen to our bodies. The best way to begin this process is to spend time with your body. During free time throughout the day, find ways to hone in on different parts of your body, begin to notice areas of discomfort, the types of sensations you are feeling. Begin to take note of what you ingest and the way it makes you feel. Take note of individuals you surround yourself with and the way their presence makes you feel, etc. Begin to listen. In this way, you are rebuilding your sense of intuition which has been lost. When humans regain their ability to be intuitive, they regain their ability to heal their bodies; in this way, they rediscover their power once again.

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QoC: I want to underscore one of the points you just made — the body is actually our subconscious. That’s a game changer for so many of us! Can you please say more about that?

DRE: Of course. Right now our bodies are all functioning without our conscious input. Our heart beats (and has been since the day we were born), our bowels move, our brain is constantly synthesizing neurotransmitters, our thyroid is making thyroid hormone, our livers are actively neutralizing toxicity and stabilizing sugar levels, etc. All of this is happening beneath the conscious mind. Therefore, our bodies operate at the subconscious level. Along this line of thought, our bodies are thus equivalent to the subconscious mind. You can spend your life analyzing your dreams, your behavioral patterns, basically the psychology of a person. But as long as you are missing the link between the mind and body, or rather, that the body is the mind, you will be chasing secrets your entire life that lead you nowhere.

For example, if a person is harboring a parasite in their bowels, it can manifest in their psychologic aspects as dark sexual desires, intense toxic cravings, dangerous emotional outbursts. These people begin to feel guilty of themselves because they believe these behaviors to be them, when in fact it is the parasite living within them altering their biochemistry and thus their psychology, since biochemical pathways are directly responsible for the synthesis of neurotransmitters, hormones, brain chemicals, etc.

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QoC: Every answer brings to mind a slue of new questions, but first, let’s follow this patient harboring a parasite in their bowels…what do you do to treat them?

DRE: As far as treating parasitic infections go, there can be a number of reasons for their existence in the body. A parasite can only live inside the body when the body’s first line of defense is down: stomach acid. Your stomach naturally produces a highly acidic substance known as hydrochloric acid, or HCl. This potent acid aids the body not only in proper digestion, it also sterilizes any intruders (harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites in food) instantly. The only way a person can harbor a virus, harmful bacteria, or parasites is because again this barrier is weakened. The question becomes: how does stomach acid reduce in the body? Toxins, toxins, toxins. Synthetic chemicals in processed foods, negative emotional patterns, heavy metals in water and other sources, overconsumption of meat products, toxins in the air, etc. Anything of a low vibration (the list I just mentioned) begins to slowly degrade the immune system, which most people are unaware actually begins with proper stomach acid levels. Hydrochloric not only stays localized in the stomach, but it actually is in the entire lymphatic system in order to battle bad guys anywhere in the body, since the lymphatic vessels follow the venous vessels all throughout your body.

In short, parasites are not necessarily the entire issue. The issue is the fact your body is even allowing an environment in which they can hang out. People with similar interests tend to hang out together. Similarly, parasites tend to hang out in nasty environments, because they themselves are pretty nasty. The answer is to begin to purify your bowels, remove toxicity, negative emotional patterns, and reintroduce healing foods into the diet. The whole goal is to rebuild stomach acid so that way you prevent yourself from getting parasites in the future and also build your true immune system. The children you hear in the news who died of E. Coli infections from Chipotle had virtually no stomach acid at the time they ate the food, or the acid would have neutralized the infectious bacteria immediately. In short, you don’t just start with the parasite. You need to find out why the body is so weakened to begin with to allow such a thing. A liver fluke might be living in someone’s liver because their liver is littered with the heavy metal lead, inhibiting its function. An intestinal worm may be present in a person because they experienced a traumatic rape experience from which they have never recovered, destroying their immune system and allowing in an intestinal parasite after a night out at a sushi restaurant 12 years later. Every single person is different; that’s why you need to ask the body!

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QoC: You spoke about intuition earlier and that when we regain our intuitive ability we will regain our ability to heal. Let’s go back to that.

DRE: The way I learned nearly everything I have learned is exploring my own body. I started by utilizing self muscle testing to ask my body what needed help and eventually reaching my own conclusions through listening to my body. I think very often people have a good idea what is good for them to eat, how to exercise, etc., but there is so much misinformation out there that it’s hard to know at times. The key point here is: every person is different. If you ever read a health article stating that ‘this food is always good for this and every person should be eating this way’, it is garbage. Every person is different, and, each person is in their own place. What I mean by this is we need context. Some people may be so toxic that eating broccoli or spinach is not good for them. Broccoli and spinach have a high mineral profile and minerals simply release toxins like crazy from the body. While normally this would be a good thing, if this same person’s kidneys and liver are too weak to handle the toxic release all at once they will actually be setting themselves back further from healing. Coconut oil can be too powerful for people with weak immune systems because it is just that, very powerful. Similarly to when you look in the sun and it blinds your eyes, just because it hurts to look into the sun doesn’t make the sun bad; you have to ask why does it hurt my eyes? Did you know you should be able to look into the sun and feel no pain? The eyes relate to the liver and the liver relates to toxins. Hmmm…

It can be helpful to come in to see someone well versed in the way the body works, as I have spent my entire life exploring every nook and cranny of healing and have lived through nearly every possible health setback one can imagine. This has honed me into a very passionate person, my entire goal is to heal as many as I can to the greatest of my ability. To heal hell, one must live through it. The challenges we experience are simply portals into new dimensions once we rise through them. We live in a time which is extremely toxic, from the food in the supermarkets to the propaganda on television sets. More than ever, we need to return to understanding how our bodies work, and how our physical healing creates space for a spiritual ascension into higher consciousness and experience.

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There is SO much valuable and life-changing knowledge on this topic to share that I couldn’t possibly fit it all into one post. Please join me again for the next installment of “Awakening with Dr. Reid.” In the meantime, enjoy this video.

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