Energetic Patternings that are Common with the Chronic Conditiion ME

I am writing energetic patternings that are common with ME. This material is based on a mixture of my own experience of living with and recovering from ME and seeing clients with this condition.

The energetic patterning I would like to talk about is an overall energetic stuckness and heaviness, which often seems to be more intense around the middle of the body, around the stomach or Solar Plexus. When you are overwhelmingly fatigued, of course, it is obvious that there is a stuckness that accompanies that. I remember when I was very ill that I used to do everything very slowly - thinking, talking, moving. I felt that I was "weighed down" - and as I have worked through the layers of stuckness with energy healing, it does feel as though I am much, much lighter. And for me this is energetic - I was never physically overweight, actually the opposite, even when I felt energetically very heavy. With a lot of people, it does also manifest as physical overweight.

That layer of stuck energy can also be experienced as a general level of background irritation - with the world, and with the people you are around, as well as with yourself. And because it is in the stomach area, it can also affect digestion - it is very common for people with ME to suffer from some kind of digestive problems.

When we are very ill, this kind of stuckness can be very difficult to deal with. Nowadays, when I feel stuckness in my body or mind, I tend to move - shaking or dancing, or I tend to eat more lightly. Often, we prolong and even feed the stuckness by unhealthy food choices.

Of course, when we are really tired, and certainly for most people in the "thick" of ME dancing, shaking and exercising are not an option. And when I was very ill, every time I tried to change my diet, the "detox" symptoms were so severe that I couldn't put up with them on top of all the other symptoms.

Energy healing can help with this stuckness. Often, it is an entrenched pattern from childhood: when the toddler is repeatedly denied what he or she wants, their only retaliation is a "passive/aggressive" resistance which can show up as doing things really slowly, with anger and frustration just below the surface. Inner child healing, going back to that time, can really help with this, as can EFT sessions around the behaviour. Often, this can involve a release of pent-up frustration - either kicking, hitting or using the voice. This helps to reclaim the power and self-worth the child feels it had lost.

It can also be helpful to focus on diet - despite what I said earlier about it being hard. I did a 5 day herbal cleanse during my time at the School of Energy Healing, and this seemed to take away a layer of irritability and "fedupness" and left me more energetic and able to get on with things. For me, this was far easier than a detox where you eat lightly - as the herbs keep you full and mean you don't feel hungry during the time of the cleanse. So, I didn't experience the dreaded "detox" symptoms!

Finally, another thing that was hugely helpful for me was graduated exercise - beginning at a very low base line (or else I could never have managed it.) I started at 15 seconds aerobic exercise twice a day - stepping up and down the lowest two stairs in my house, often with a friend or my boyfriend timing me! Every day I was able to add 5 seconds to the times, I did so - but often I couldn't and I remember being "stuck" at 30 seconds and then at a minute for at least a week! Gradually, however, my ability to exercise improved - and this had a huge "knock-on" effect on the whole of my life, giving me physical and emotional resilience I hadn't had for a long while, and releasing some bodily and mental stuckness.

This summarises this energetic patterning; I will write about others in further articles.