The Body's Compass

The first 7-10 years of infant development is crucial. As a child crawls they activate specific visceral, glandular/hormonal and, mental-emotional faculties as well as preparing the body to effectively stabilise itself in a field of gravity and move in the most efficient way. This stimulates the right brain and aids its ability to soak up information from the environment and play.

Any breech in any stage of the natural infant development process is likely to result in a correlative deficiency in adult body alignment, movement, perception, muscle recruitment, digestive capacities, coordination and mental-emotional imbalances. In toddlers, lots of tantrums!

For more information on learning about infant development: https://chekinstitute.com/#cp1

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The month following childbirth is a crucial period that can significantly influence a woman’s health, contingent on her postpartum care. In today’s world, much of the emphasis is directed towards the newborn with the expectation for the mother to ‘bounce back’ into the daily grind. After pregnancy and birth of a child, a woman’s body will lose a significant amount of blood, energy, and balance, leaving her susceptible to fatigue, low mood and decreased immunity. Now is “sitting the month” - the first 40 days postnatal period in which a new mother is advised to fully rest to restore her strength and spend time bonding with her newborn, despite societal demands.

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Birth is the most human thing human beings have been doing since we started being. Without it we don't exist.

Today's humans tend to fear our biological imprint of physiological birth. They lean away from the ancestral animals that we are. Instead, we can lean towards a curated  support model that is based on risk and the assessment of that risk to the physical often bypassing other aspects of humanness ie. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual. 

In today's podcast we dive deep into another way. A way to trust the whole life/death journey from an alternative model. Coined as the ancestral model.

ADDED BONUS - if you want to hear how birth can play out within an ancestral model of care. Listen to the end as Nuala recaps her most recent birth.

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There is typically a weak appreciation of the interaction between the growing foetus and the pregnant mother. Western Medicine sees the pregnant mother and the foetus as two seperate entities. With Eastern Medicine, they are managed as one.

This weeks delves into the messages that the body-mind communicate during this time and how we can listen and act...especially for men!

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The gift of life is a miracle! Preconception care has many models. From medicines to pills and dancing's to diets. With the stresses of modern living and recent world events, getting pregnant isn't easy for some. A body that is too ‘cold’ will struggle to provide adequate energy and affects the body constitution and overall well-being. A healthy womb is one that is considered ‘warm’ enough. Most models focus only on the woman, what about the man?

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Most people think of love in a romantic context however, there are certain "qualities" of love that flow in, around and through us everyday. A lot of people don't recognise when they're being loved or how to show people close to them which, ultimately leads to frustration and often resentment. This episode explores different ideas around love and wait til the end because The Priestess surprises The Wizard with an...interesting concept!

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Mental health...what is that? Chemical imbalance? Certain traits that qualify us as "ill"? Maybe acknowledging the fact that we're all a little f@#ked up can be all the difference. We go deep into the psyche and see where parts of us can become fractioned off from the whole, highlighting what's missing within us and they ways we're told to find it.

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A lot of people today are at war within themselves. There's a great internal conflict between achievement and the call to stillness. As a result, the toll of being out of balance emotionally, spiritually and physically often results in a cellular attack that we know as an autoimmune disorder.

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This week in our dissection, we continue with the anatomy, physiology and metaphysical correlations with cancer, diabetes and heart disease. A single cancer cell is protective but the diagnosis is the bodies attempt to manage chaos, often unfavourably. The frequent ups downs of life can show up in our blood sugar and when we take things personally, we often take it to "heart". When we can no longer discharge our chaos, problems arise then it can take weeks to decades to form a diagnosis.

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Continuing into the psychosomatics of dis-ease. Discussing the pill, endometriosis, unconscious becoming conscious and, emotional triggers.

These are often physical manifestations of rhythmic disorders between the body-mind-spirit complex in an attempt to show how, where and why the body is on disorder!

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