Whether we feel healthy or ill, whether something is traumatic or not, ultimately lives in our perceptions of our Mind and therefore our body.

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At the root of everything in our experience, is our perception. Sometimes our perception seems more accessible and adaptable than others.  Our perception is born though our lens that is shaped by our experiences and how they relate to our concepts of self and others.  Sometimes, our lens of perception becomes significantly distorted, often though repeated trauma, and we begin to navigate the world as an increasingly hostile environment.  The more that we look for hostility, the more we will see and interpret as such and this repetitive distortion can spiral into a place where we find ourselves feeling isolated, anxious, unsafe, in a nearly constant state of discomfort with ourselves, others and our environment.  

Modern psychological approaches seek to support readjustment of our lens and how we can choose to view ourselves, others and our experiences.  These techniques take a tremendous amount of investment in time, energy and consistent conscious awareness and redirection and is imperative work to adjust our perception for both the past, present and our future facing trajectory.  Most of us engage in cycles of counseling and seek to address more specific and known traumatic impacts.

While we usually do make progress, sometimes it can feel like an overwhelming and never ending process that will never reach all of the nooks and crannies of traumatic life experiences that are achieved within us and distort our lens of perception.

When we perceive everything as hostile, we indiscriminately will react as such and at times, which can create a spiral of validation that feeds upon itself and is difficult to interrupt even with conscious awareness and professional guidance.

Similarly to our Minds perception, our cells posess a sense of perception that can also become distorted over time, given enough repeated insults.  Cells can become reactive instead of responsive, they can begin to view everything it interacts with, including its "self" as hostile.  This inappropriate cellular perception and reaction is at the root of all illness.  It is well recognized as the root of autoimmune conditions specifically, where the body literally turns on itself and can no longer effectively recognize "self" from "non-self" hostiles.

In order to support our bodies innate intelligence and our physiologic lens of perception, we must recognize and address that our very cells experience and hold trauma in the same way that our mind does and it expresses dis-ease in many of the same ways as our mind does; by engaging in disharmonious relationships with other cells and maladaptive reactions to its environment.  This dissociation, departure from recognition of what was once safe and "self" is at the root of how signs, symptoms and illnesses develop pathophysiologically.

My approach to restoring the body's innate intelligence to heal is to consider and support the lens of the mind as well as the lens of the cell.  While modern medicine focuses solely on microcosm s of distorted cellular perception and behavior and its collective impact within a tissue and or organ system, I recognize that they are inextricably entangled and are best supported in tandem.  

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