Friday, February 4

The Liver's Role in Creating our Life Experience

Every so often, I have an opportunity to recall and then honor the huge role our livers have in creating our moment by moment reality. The liver is the largest solid organ (other than skin) in our bodies. It is responsible for many different jobs, one of the most important being transmutation.

When we experience excesses, cravings, or imbalances in life, blockages and stagnation occur in our energy body. On an emotional level, this looks like suppressed emotion; trying to stop the feelings, judging them, or keeping them "under control", creating a build up in stagnant energy somewhere in the body.

This almost always causes some form of anesthetization--seeking relief from feelings we don't want--by using food, alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, recreational drugs, or even some type of behavior to carry us out of this uncomfortable stagnant and blocked space.

On a physical level, as we are ingesting or participating in something to avoid the experience we are avoiding, the substances we take in carry a certain frequency. We will take them in an excessive quantity, using more than the balanced body would allow, and over riding the signals to stop that our body might be sending us.

Our liver must then work very hard to transmute these substances or metabolic chemicals and by-products of our excessive behavior. Instead of completing the job, a liver in overwhelm will simply store the toxicity in "safe" little storage units, getting it out of the blood so our bodies can continue to function, but not having enough energy and time to process and transmute these chemicals for elimination.

Now they are sitting there, just vibrating at the frequency level of whatever substance they came from: alcohol, drugs, overeating; and holding the emotional energy signature of that substance in our bodies. Eventually we will become so uncomfortable with this toxic baggage in our livers, that we will repeat our craving and excessive fulfilling cycle until the feeling goes away again--temporarily, while actually adding to the liver's overload. It is the cycle of addiction in the physical form.

These toxic liver accumulations create mood swings, depression, anger, frustration, resentment, and victimization within our emotional body that keeps this cycle in place. This is why dietary change, and herbal cleansing to initiate the clearing of this toxic build up is SO IMPORTANT in healing any addictive cycle. And it is not going to be "over" in a few months or even a few years--where we can now forget about it and go back to living the way we used to.

Instead, we have to choose the path of healing and becoming more conscious--over and over again--and make it a way of life. Healing is not a destination, it is a life path. Liver cleansing becomes a permanent part of our reality, along with a new way of eating, and a new way of thinking, losing self-judgement, embracing forgiveness, and reclaiming our power and responsibility in order to leave resentment and victimization behind. It becomes the walk of a Master, one that we may spend a lifetime 'mastering", and one with a profound growth potential on every level.

Many blessings for each of us on this path of healing and cleansing! Though we ALL underestimate the level of cleansing needed to experience the kind of life we want to live, we will always get little reminders that put us back on track...

Kachina