It was rather a surprise one day when Elizabeth, one of our clients who we helped clear anxiety, told us of how she asked her chiropractor, Dr Hooman Zahedi, about what she could do about the anxiety which had taken over her mind and body, and therefore her life.
Dr Hooman came straight out, because that’s what he does, he straightens people out, and said that anxiety can often be triggered by gluten.
Elizabeth thought about all the gluten products she loved – croissants, cafes, pasta, bread, and realised that every day she was consuming a considerable amount of gluten.
That’s despite her being allergic to it – not just gluten intolerance, full-blown allergy which showed itself most significantly in outbreaks of eczema.
Yes she’d also get a bloated stomach directly after eating it, but more than anything the eczema would get on her eyelids, her earlobes, her upper chest between her breasts and her shoulders, and also one area she didn’t exactly want to broadcast too noisily, it gave her a very itchy anus.
So caught up in the physical symptoms of gluten intolerance, was Elizabeth, that she had never given pause to the thought that gluten might also be subtly affecting her energetic realm, as her human energy field responds to foreign bodies that have voluntarily invaded her being.
Once she began focussing her mind on the subtler aspects of her body’s reaction once she’d eaten some gluten, she found that in among the hazy feelings as the gluten bloated her and also fuzzed her mind, there indeed was feelings of anxiety in her arms, shoulders, back and chest.
While not having full-blown coeliac disease, Elizabeth had discovered yet another instinctual irony about her compelling attraction to gluten.
And so, did Elizabeth do the best thing for her body, and quit gluten entirely?
Well, no.
Gluten is soooo pervasive in our western society, and let’s face it, it’s usually delicious. Gluten-free foods are improving all the time, but a cheesecake will always be that magnificent combination of gluten and dairy that soy and rice will just never quite match.
Instead she undertook a course in cathartic breath work with Jaan Jerabek to deal head-on with her anxiety. This caused her to reduce her “anxiety eating” massively, which meant she no longer consumed drastic levels of gluten in every meal, and between meals.
And so her gluten allergy dropped back a lot, which has meant much less eczema, much less bloating, less allergic reactions to other things such as dairy and red wine (full of histamines), and no more itchy ass.
Well done Elizabeth!
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