When Your Body Starts Screaming What Your Soul Has Been Whispering

Kathleen Flanagan (00:00)
Never dismiss physical symptoms without checking these three spiritual connections. The last one will transform how you approach healing forever. One for understanding, your body speaks the language of sensation that your soul has been trying to communicate. Two is for integration. Recurring illness often appears in the exact places where emotional wounds are stored.

And three is for liberation. When you heal the spiritual root, physical symptoms often disappear naturally. Your body constantly sends you messages that your soul knows it needs to hear. Studies reveal that astounding 80 % of doctor visits stem from chronic stress, and this isn't a coincidence. This is your physical form screaming what your spiritual self has been whispering all along.

When you ignore emotional pain, it doesn't just vanish. It settles into your tissues, organs, and other systems. Those who suppress their emotions become twice as likely to develop chronic disease. But here's the beautiful truth. People who finally address their emotional wounds report that their physical symptoms decrease by half. Your healing journey isn't just physical, it's also spiritual.

It's the sacred dance between body and soul that creates true wholeness. Listen closely when your body speaks. It's delivering messages your soul has been trying to tell you for so long. Hello everyone and welcome to the journey of an awakening spirit. I am your host, Kathleen Flanagan. And today I just wanted to talk a little bit more about the body-mind connection that our body does talk to us. And a lot of times we...

We know when something's wrong, but we don't necessarily know how to fix it.

We only know how to describe what we think it might be. And some of the opening, some of the stages that you know when something is starting to be amiss is that you feel heavy or tight, you're tired, or you feel very wired. And if you continue to ignore these symptoms, you're gonna crash. That's just a simple truth. And so I know when I...

There were a couple of times in my life that I really paid attention to what my body had to say. And the first one was when I was going through my divorce in around 2000, somewhere in that general vicinity, I had my thyroid went out and it had slowed down because my hair is falling out, I'm not sleeping. There's just like everything that the thyroid.

manages I was having those symptoms. So I ended up going to the doctor and he put me on some sort of medication to get my thyroid to come up because the first thing out of his mouth was we're going to cut it out. And I said, I don't think so. There's a reason that we have a thyroid. I wasn't going to cut it out. And the reason I didn't let him do that, because I think there was a goiter or something they felt over here on it too. And I just said, no.

And that's when I did more of my research on the thyroid and realized that this was very important just for metabolic health. And I wasn't going to do that, take it out and then feel like I'm gonna put on all this weight because so many people that when they have their thyroid removed then their body goes all out of whack. They put on weight, they can't get rid of the weight. They're on medication the rest of their life. And I wasn't about to start that journey. So I said, no.

So he put me on this medication and every time I went back to the doctor, I would say, you need to reduce my medication. And he's like, why are you saying this? Because my body told me so. Now in the process, I discovered that I can take kelp because it's a natural iodine. So I did kelp. So I took kelp and you can do Bladarac as well. And every time I went back to the doctor, it's like, you got to reduce the medication. And he's like, why? And I said, because my body told me so. And after so many...

monthly visits of this, finally said, he took my blood and he finally said, how do you know that I can do this? I said, because my body's speaking to me. When you're when you're listening, your body will tell you it's just like there was just some sort of a feeling inside that just said, I need this needs to just get addressed somehow. So it was it was dealt with. Now, when I got off of this,

It was, think about a year I was on this. And I went back to the doctor and I said, I'm done with the medication, everything's fine. He says, no, you're not because you're at a seven on my thyroid gauge. And he wanted it at five. And I said, but I sit at seven cause everything about me is normal. And he said, well, I'm not giving you a clean bill of health. And I said, don't care about that. And I didn't care about that. Now I continued to take kelp because I just realized that if I was having thyroid issues,

and all of that, then what the heck, just keep taking it. It's not going to do any damage to me. It's it's kelp. It's a natural product. And so I did that. And as I kept taking the kelp, whatever this medication was like on my stomach and abdomen, I've started getting all these fissures and the fissures were really bothering me and they itched like crazy. And I thought I was diseased and I thought it would never heal because.

I was like, what the heck was I taking that this was coming out and I was detoxing? Thank God I was detoxing. But it was just blowing my mind away. Now, I don't get sick normally. And I know it's because of how I think and how I do things up here. That's the main thing. I don't play victim. I don't want attention. I think being sick is a waste of time.

I know that there's a value of getting sick every now and then because it's a way the body purifies and cleans itself and gets rid of dead cells and everything else. And I get that.

And once in a blue moon, I will get sick. Now I will do everything in my power to prevent that, because I will get out the lemon tea and the honey, because that just seems to kick it out real fast of whatever I need to do. And it's like my go-to. If that doesn't work, I'm down for the count and I know it. And what I tell myself is you've got 24 hours. I tell my body, you can do whatever it wants to do in 24 hours. I will go to bed, I will sleep, I will do whatever I need to do, but you got 24 hours to work through this, because I'm not gonna do it.

99.99 % of the time it works. Because I stopped moving and I kind of assessed my life, I would do whatever I need to do, I would sleep, I'd be miserable and I would be miserable. I gave myself full permission to be miserable. And then the next day I would be weak, but I was able to function, maybe not 100%, but I was better.

and I was on the mend and that's all that mattered to me.

I don't like being sick. I never have. And I think a lot of it had to contribute to when I was like six years old in first grade, I got every childhood disease in the first grade. And I think I only maybe showed up for school, maybe two months total that whole year. Past, I don't know how, but I did. And I think it was that I was so bored being sick and I was always on the couch and my mother wouldn't let me watch TV and I wasn't allowed to do anything because I was sick. And I hated it. And I just learned to hate it. Cause I thought it was such a waste of time.

And so that's part of what this is. Now, I was also a migraine sufferer for many, many, many, many, many years. And I learned everything about migraines. I knew that, you I stopped the chocolate because chocolate is a trigger. I had hormonal issues with it. There was stress issues with it. There were so many things that were contributing to it. And as I started learning more about what triggers migraines,

I did what I could to not have migraines. And I remember one day I asked my body, was in bed, I was in a migraine, I was dying, I was suffering, I was in so much friggin' pain. And I just asked my body, said, can you please tell me why I'm doing this? Why I'm always having migraines? Because I had no other, I didn't know what else to do. I had done everything I knew to do and I asked my body and it said, because you asked me to.

Okay. And what did that mean? Excuse me. And it said, you asked me that every time you got too close to the light that I would do something to stop you so you would not die. And I was blown away with that answer because somehow it rang very true to me.

And I said, well, I just want to say thank you so very much for doing what I asked you to do. I really do appreciate it, but I don't need that anymore. I'm okay, I'm safe, and I'm willing to go into the light because I know I'm not going to die. And I never had another migraine since.

blew me out of the water. Now I can get like sensations that a migrate may come on and if it does, I know what to do before it lands. And that's the main thing is I just knew how to do it because when we get sick, it's in our outside field and it comes in. like anything that you're thinking goes out into the universe and then it comes into you and then it expands back out. Well, I knew

I could feel it coming. So something would come in and I would do whatever I could so I wouldn't let it anchor into my physical being and let it stay out in the auric field and then pushed it out. That's how disease happens. It comes in through all the layers of our auric field. And then we just have to let it go.

So when we do that, when we take control of our thinking, because a lot of it's in our thinking, cancer has been known that it comes from thinking. And every person that I know that has had cancer, they always say, number one, it was the best thing that ever happened to them, even though it sucked to be them. But they also realized what their thinking was, and that's what changed for them. And that's why a lot of times,

they survived cancer because they got to the root of whatever their thinking was. If it was being a people pleaser, if it was being a doormat, know, not standing up for themselves, whatever it was, that's what they did. I mean, there is, and even Dr. Ryan said the same thing, that all diseases can be prevented. It's just how are we taking in our environment? How is the brain operating? What are we thinking?

And there's a lot of truth with our body mind and I feel like I'm a walking testament of that because I very seldom ever catch anything and occasionally I do. I'm not immune to it, but I do it. I just keep a positive attitude as much as I can.

Sometimes we're sick for various reasons. Now, when I broke my hand, I was told I needed to stop moving and I thought, well, I might as well be dead as much as I'm not moving now with a broken hand. But the thing was for the broken hand, there was a message coming in and I wouldn't have started podcasting if it wasn't for a broken hand because I was moving too fast to even see the email if it came in. That was the first thing. Then I go down with sciatica two weeks ago and I'm thinking, okay, you're wanting me to stop again for some reason.

I don't know what this is. I'm not afraid to move into the future because it's sciatic. It's about moving forward, being afraid of the future. Now in the summer, I had some of that because of the death of my father and just feeling the hopelessness and the despair and the depression that I was going through. And then I stopped feeling that, but who knows? It could have been partly coming in from that too and partly not. But what I did discover that when I was laid up for that week, and I mean, I was literally laid up, I could

The only way I could do anything was to lay down. I could not sit at all. And so I did a lot of mundane work, like clean up work, like the computer and stuff and really mundane stuff that I didn't want to do. And I probably never would have done had I not been it, but I was so bored that this was the only time to do boring stuff because I didn't have to think. And so that's what I did. And so when we do things like that, the message showed up.

because then I got into a class and all of a sudden it was, my God, look at this. I have an opportunity.

to take this class to get something added to my value ladder. And it was about learning how to market better and doing things better. And then I can help other people with it. And what I saw was like the dots finally connected. I mean, I have been searching and searching and searching to see the dots connect and I haven't been able to see them connect and this caused that. And I was like, my God, this is amazing. So the things that I have done because of it,

My community is now live. It's at school forward slash. I am the, I am the light sanctuary. That is my community. It is actually launched. I still have work to do on it. I still have videos to put up, but I do have freebies in there. have ⁓ some classes in there. have various things in there. So I am ready to go. And I am so excited that I did it because the other thing that happened

When I launched that, was like all of a sudden there was this huge weight that was lifted off my shoulders because I was so terrified of starting a community. I can't even tell you how terrified I was of doing it, but I was going to do it anyways. And I did it. And it was like, this doesn't so bad. What was I making a big deal over? Our fears make us foolish, but it was okay because I needed to do this. And I got that. And I understand it.

And now it's like I can put all of my stuff in one place instead of a little here, a little there and all over the place and feel scattered. And now I feel like I understand and I can see a roadmap that I was never able to see before. And because I'm trying to reach you and you have to reach back and you're not reaching back. So I figured, okay, I'll start this community. You can come into the community. You can do whatever you want.

Play as big or as small as you want, but at least the opportunity's there, the answers are there, and you're in a safe place. Because I know how important it is to develop a trust for somebody, to believe that they're the real thing, especially when you've been injured and hurt and traumatized. I know what that is. And so that's why I did this, is that I did this for you, so you have a place where you can come in and feel safe.

that you can take the mask off, you can speak the way you need to speak, you can say what you need to say, you can get help and support there. And that there's gonna be other like beings there. So you find out that you're not alone and it's really okay to open up and let your light shine. And that's why I did what I did. And it felt so good to finally do that. Instead of I'm close, I'm close, I'm close. It's like, no, I'm done.

and I launched it even though it's not 100 % don't care. It's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. You're a work in progress, but there's enough stuff to get you started. And that's the main thing. Is there something there for you? So you can kind of go through it, see if you're interested. If you're not right now, it's a free community. So come and join me ⁓ for the free community. I'm going to I do have courses. I'm going to have

⁓ VIP so you can have coaching with me, things like that. I'm going to do it. don't have all that mapped out yet, but it will be getting mapped out.

So some of the other things that when you're feeling not so good is, you you can be in constant overwhelm. And sometimes I have felt that a lot in my life over and off and on. I want to say that I felt that off and on in the last several years, but not really. It's a little bit different. I think it was so much information coming towards me because I was stepping into it, but it almost felt like an overwhelm, but it wasn't. It was just so much information of

possibilities that I didn't know when I reached out and asked for help. There was possibilities coming my way. But before that, you know, I was always tense. I always walked around with my shoulders up here. I used to see pictures of me when I was a young kid like this. I'm like, my God, what was this all about? I was constantly protecting myself and I couldn't shake it. I didn't even know I was doing it. I just noticed it in pictures. So I thought, wow, this is really something that I've

I can finally let down my shoulders and I can carry the weight that I need to carry the way I need to carry it. So I just want to let you know that and then I would have emotional mood swings or I would shut down.

And shutting down is not good. mean, yes, I retreat and I go quiet because I need to do that. And I give that permission to do that, because sometimes that's what we need to do. But to go in from highs and lows, the way I was going into it or shutting down to such a place that I was like, just screw the world. And I just wanted to go and hide and die. That was what I wanted to do. And that's not healthy either. And the main thing that I felt the most was

how disconnected I felt with myself. I mean, I've talked to you guys about here's my outside self, this is my inside self and nowhere did they ever come to meet until now. I did not know what that roadmap was to get into alignment with myself. So now I have that body mind spirit connection. And it feels good to have that, to feel like I'm whole, that I don't have to wear the mask, that I can show up the way I need to show up.

I mean, I look at my videos sometimes on here and it's like, my God, I'm so quirky. And it's like, well, you know, that's who you are. It's who you are. It might bother you, but it may not bother them. So, you know, that's what I do. don't judge myself that way because I think the message is more important than how I show up or what I look like, if I have makeup on or not, you know, that kind of thing. And that's where I go with it.

I was also operating out of survival and not intuition. That was another big thing for me was I felt like all I could do was survive. And the only way I knew how to survive was to have my anger up and keep people away from me because that was the only way I knew how to protect myself. And as long as I was doing that, then I wasn't listening to my intuition. I wasn't trusting my guidance. I wasn't trusting anything.

Now it took me a while to really start trusting my intuition. Now I'm very intuitive. I've always known I'm intuitive, but that didn't mean I trusted it. Or if I did, it was very silent. I never told anybody. I just did what I needed to do and kept my mouth shut. Because to me that was safe. Because I was all about safety. Everything I did was all around safety. And when I said when my father died and it was like I was no longer looking over my shoulder,

and it was free to walk about the cabin, I'm not kidding. That's exactly what it felt like. And that's what it felt like. And that's what made this so hard to go through because my identity was in my safety. And I was having an identity crisis. And so that's why that emotional thing was going on. That's why when all those emotions were coming up and people are like, how you doing? It's like, well, it's complicated.

because I didn't know what was happening. I could feel all these emotions swirling around like a tsunami. And I kept sitting and just being with it. And part of me sitting and being with that emotion was, you know, I started to see I have an identity crisis. I started to see I was angry. I was bitter. I was frustrated. There was rage because

And I realized that there was so much denial at the same time that there was a hope inside of me that maybe one day, maybe one day I would have a dad. And that day never came and it was never, excuse me, and it was never going to come.

And I had to face that. First of all, I had to own it. That was not fun. And then I had to face it. And then I had to feel the pain of what it was like not to have a father and all the dreams of what it would have been like, what would have my life been like had it been that way. Well, it wasn't designed to be that way. But I had to like really honor that little girl inside about what this was.

And as I sat with it and as each emotion of the tsunami came up and came forward, that's when I started healing because I could start seeing it and I embraced it and it wasn't fun.

It wasn't fun, but my intuition kept saying, you're not crying for the loss of your father, you're crying for your own personal healing. And it was like, and that was a big shift for me, trusting that and believing it. And I did believe it. I truly did believe it.

So.

I had to like take off my own personal expectations for that. And I had to like honor me.

because this is where I learned boundaries too. I started learning boundaries in 2008. I started realizing I wasn't worthy to have things and be treated a certain way. And once I started doing that, I felt like I could start meeting my own needs and I didn't have to put them in the background or think I was unworthy or undeserving of them.

And when I quieted myself down and I started really working and doing a lot of the deep inner work and made sure that my body was okay and I was taking care of it, getting sleep and all of that, that's when I think my intuition really rose up because I was now understanding what was my body, what was in my mind and what my intuition was. I started to dull the difference of the voices.

And we don't know that until we stop long enough and listen.

So one way that you can reground to your body's wisdom is to just ground yourself and whatever that looks like. And for me, when I feel like I'm really flighty, I will just plant my feet on the earth and then I will ask mother earth to come in with her so-called hands and grab my ankles and just ground this energy and just push this energy through me. And that's what I do with that. And then I breathe.

And you want to take at least three breaths, know, four inhales, four holds, four exhales about three or four times, because what's going to get the dopamines going, it's going to get that mood out of you that you might be in, it's going to get rid of a lot of things, it's going to quiet the central nervous system. And then you just listen. Just be in that harmonic space because you're now like in the movement of the earth with your energies and you're vibrating with her.

and you listen and sometimes she'll talk at that point, your voice will talk, sometimes it won't, but you're just still. And take in the stillness because that's where everything is at.

And if you want to know how to start doing this, my alignment guide that I have that's in the show notes, that's a great way to start just to do one little baby step or a couple different steps with journaling and meditating and breathing and just giving yourself, even if it's just five minutes, that five minutes a day is going to change your life because that's five minutes of you time with you. And just be with that.

because that's how I started. mean, I was, you know, this energy was not here when I was younger. I mean, it was three steps forward, two steps back. And I had to learn all of this. And even though I may have intuitively known it, it didn't mean I understood it. And I didn't make sense to me. And then I was dealing with my own crazy issues in my mind. But I know now because I walked it, I did it every step of the way. And when I wrote my books, Dancing Souls,

I look at those books now and I gave out more information than I ever even imagined I did. When they said this is a manual and my answers are there, they are. Because whatever you're going through, those books will show you what the answer is. I don't know how spirit does it, but they did it. And I was able to channel it through how I was walking through it. So that's what I want you to know and to just one baby step.

One baby step, make one little change in your life and it will catapult you to a world that you only dreamed of ever having. I mean, I keep looking at my life going, I had no idea. I dreamt this my whole life, but I didn't know I really could have it. And I'm not done. That's the part, I'm not done yet.

And you know what, when I put my pillow, my head on the pillow for the very last time.

I can say I did the best I could.

And that's enough.

I learned, I grew, I did everything in my power to be the best version of me I could be. I healed as many relationships as I could have healed. I did everything. I'm not going to my grave with regrets. I'm not going to my grave with shame or what if, what if, what if. My relationship with my parents, I spent a lifetime resolving them. So when they died, I was okay up here.

because there were too many people in my life that I knew that were so messed up here because they did not resolve their stuff with their parents and then they died. I wasn't gonna be that person.

And you don't have to be either. It's not confrontational. There are techniques to do this, to work through this and communicating with people when they're that way. have, you know, meditation, this amazing meditation that helps you to get through that to where you can heal those kind of relationships. And I'm just saying that with the holidays coming, I know that a lot of you are going to be in conflict. I used to be that person. I'm not that person anymore.

I had Thanksgiving dinner, I was the host, I had great people, great food, great conversation, no drama, no anything. Loved it. I didn't even know if it was possible. I always hoped it would be possible and it is. Magic's coming back into my life because I'm allowing the magic to come in and you can have that too.

So I want to thank you for joining me today. I really do appreciate it. If there's any value and you know anybody who needs this, feel free to give them the link to this. Check out my community at school.com forward slash I am the light sanctuary. Feel free to join. It's a free community. There's nothing for you. know, it's all for you. Whatever you want to do, it just gives you that opportunity to have a safe place to come home to.

You know, be around other like-minded people that feel the same as you and you don't have to feel alone anymore. So I want to thank you for joining me today. I had to re-record this because the first version of this, I don't know what happened to the sound, but it was a mess. So I apologize for the first version, but this one is definitely better. And I will see all of you next Tuesday.

at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and from my heart to yours, I hope you have a fabulous week.