
PREPARING YOUR
BODY FOR CONCEPTION
It was July 2005. After a few years of living in
the UK, we decided that it was time for a change.
We realised that all the attempts we made to
start a new life (literally!) were not successful: we would try to buy a house
and I would be made redundant; I would try to find a new job and would be
dismissed at the… 4th interview!; I would have a go at my Coaching business
and… somehow it seemed that people couldn’t see me!
Sometimes in life it happens that things are a
bit of a struggle and you can accept this when there is a purpose behind it.
You know you are moving forward but perhaps the obstacles are teaching you
necessary lessons.
But other times in life it happens that there is
only struggle and no movement forward. And it is at these crossroads that I
need to search deeply into my heart to find the answer. And the answer, that
October 2004, was to go. And we chose South Africa because my loved one is from
Cape Town.
They say life starts at 40 and I was 40 at the
time, so I made the point of totally starting my life from scratch. I would
take my favourite clothing items and necessary gadgets with me, I would take
all the many learning experiences I had gathered over the 17 years I spent in
the UK, but I would create a new mindset in which gathering or storing light
was be the prime objective.
And so we arrived and things were much harder
than we envisaged due to family and work issues. But we soldiered on. And
parallel to everything else, I focused my mind on one thought: I needed to
raise the vibration of my body if I wanted to conceive at the beginning of
January 2006. This is one of the goals that I had in mind when I originally was
called to move.
You must understand: this is not something I
think. This is something that Spirit instructs me as my next stage of
development. How do I know the difference, you may ask? The answer
comes as a call from the heart. It is powerful and has the energy to carry you
through any difficulties. It is not a mind-thing where you will reality to
happen but it is a spiritual and energetic thing where it wills you to
happen!
The secret is to listen and follow the guidance
you receive, no matter how crazy is sounds! (In fact, I will say that
the more others consider it to be crazy, the more on target you are!).
I had battled to lose weight in the UK. Not that
I was fat, but I felt sluggish. It is as if my energetic system wasn’t
up to scratch. And it is not to do with the amount of food or the quantity of
exercise I did, although, of course, that also counts. But what I mean
is that it doesn’t come from willing specific amounts of calories down my
throat or counting the minutes in the gym but it comes from aligning myself
with some kind of inner guidance in order to reach a level of balance and
harmony that allows me to experience inner peace.
It is a bit difficult to explain and I bet it is
even more difficult to believe!
My partner got a job in Johannesburg for the
first three months so I was at home by myself during that time. I took this
opportunity to read great amount of spiritual literature, meditate on the
information, dissect it, analyze it and transform it into understanding or
wisdom that could be used in practical terms (this is my idea of spiritual
growth!). Every week I could sense massive shifts in my perspective about life.
Every week I could feel more strength inside me. There was motivation and
energy to go and do yoga and long walks. There was motivation and energy to
shift my eating patterns into eating clean food and particularly smoothies
(fruits and yoghourt liquidified together). This doesn’t mean I wasn’t having
my dutiful coffee and biscuits or chocolate in the afternoon! But of course, we
are not talking about a whole box here…
Before I knew and without realising, not only I
lost the 2 kilos I wanted to lose in order to feel good about myself, but I
felt stronger and I lost a total of… 6 kilos in 3 months!
But this wasn’t a diet in the sense of
the word: this was my body dictating to me what to eat, when to eat it
and me not resisting its guidance. And because the focus wasn’t on the food but
on my spiritual growth, my body and mind were ready to make this
change since there was alignment of mind/body/spirit.
You see, as you shift your emotional blocks,
your body naturally gets ready to hold more light and it raises your level of
light – it is as if your energy becomes cleaner. Your body guides you to the
foodstuff that matches its new vibration and so it feels that rather than making
a sacrifice, you actually carry out the enjoyable practice of going
with the flow of this new state of being!
As I said, not so easy to explain and maybe
quite difficult to believe!
This is what I call the Liberation Diet
(which I will write about shortly!) – and which is nothing to do with a diet
and all to do with learning to love and accept oneself! Funny, eh?
The test came when I went to Europe for
Christmas.
I went to the UK for one week to see my old
friends, then I went to Spain for 4 weeks to see my family. I thought that I
would fall into my old eating patterns. After all, it is almost impossible not
to put weight on when you go to Spain, even if it is for one week! Normally I
would put on about 5 pounds to half stone. Food is so great there and my mum is
such a good cook!
To my surprise, I was able to eat the food that
was available but I wasn’t as ravenously hungry as I used to be in the past. I
realised that 5 months had been enough time for my body to adapt to its new status.
If I would have a massive meal at lunch time, then I wouldn’t be hungry during
the evening and I would just want a snack! And another thing, while in the past
I had huge sugar cravings and swinging moods (I feel I was becoming diabetic!)
I was now able to spend a few hours without eating and no food cravings would
hit me! All I had to do is carry with me a small bottle of water and some nuts
in my handbag when I could see that food time was a few hours away! Massive
discovery!
I came back to South Africa with the same body
weight that I left with… and I had managed to enjoy every big meal that had
gone on! I couldn’t
stop wondering what was going on.
Then it hit me: I believe that our physical body
is an energy system made up of a mind, body, spiritual and emotional bodies
(there are some other layers but I will focus on these main four ones).
Whatever affects one of these bodies affects the others. There must be an
alignment and balance of them in order to be in harmony so that the pendulum of
the emotions doesn’t swing wildly from side to side.
When you work with your emotional blocks, you
actually liberate your physical body and mind: the energy hidden in an
e-motion (energy in motion) can then be used to accept or allow more
light. The cells, which have a blue print of your original and perfect state
(and which they strive for) and which also have an inner intelligence of their
own, are able to function to this highest specification. This is because the
light that has been stored in your body and which activates your main glands
(e.g. thymus, pituitary, etc) reminds them continuously of this highest
potential. And so, it seems that, no matter what you eat or do, once you have
liberated your body-energy-system from the lead or dead weight of old emotions,
once you have liberated yourself from stifling patterns, one you have shifted
memories, expectations, guilt, un-forgiveness, un-love, un-truth,
self-defeating, selfdeprecation… your body is able to do its main job of maintaining
health rather than fighting insurmountable obstacles and wasting vast
amounts of energy trying to achieve its ideal blueprint.
When you are thinking of conceiving a baby, I
feel that the most important thing, beyond anything else, is a healthy body, a
peaceful heart, a balanced mind and a clean energy system. Very much like…
clean fuel allows your car a much higher performance!
What will happen is that, without being hard on
yourself, your body will find its natural balance and it will become a clean
board for you to write whatever your focus on: a trip to a far away
land, a new level of well-being, a change in your life…
So look inside your heart and ask yourself… what
is my highest vision of myself?
And I am not talking career here…
By Ana Garcia April ’2006 ©
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About the Author
Ana Garcia, Cape Town, South Africa
anagarcia@lifepathcoaching.net
Ana has a master’s degree in Education and Languages as well as having
completed her Music Studies in her native Bilbao (Spain). She is a Coach U CTP
graduated coach and has Management qualifications with the British Institute of
Management. Ana is a Reiki Master; she has studied the Metamorphic Technique
Universal Principles with its founder, Gaston St. Pierre and holds
qualifications in Character Analysis and Graphology with the British School of
Yoga and Nutrition with the School of Natural Health Sciences. Ana’s passion is
to inspire others to claim their own power, clarify their dreams and create
strategies to succeed. For more information visit:
www.lifepathcoaching.net