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As we proceed through life, we assume that our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and body sensations are our own. I’m willing to believe that some of my thoughts and beliefs, while masquerading as mine, are heavily influenced by the collective consciousness of my family, culture, country, ethnicity, and social class. But surely (ok, I’ll stop calling you Shirley) my emotions, physical pain, and diagnosed diseases are all my own, right?

In his book, Body Whispering, Dr. Dain Heer drops these astonishing statistics:

Somewhere between 50 and 100% of what goes on in your physical body (aches, pains, illness) may not even be yours,

And:

98% of what goes on in your mind (your thoughts, feelings, emotions and judgments) don’t belong to you.

Mind you, Heer, a prominent chiropractor affiliated with Access Consciousness, offers precisely no support for his statistics, but he does offer two related questions with which to experiment on any feeling, pain, or condition:

Dr. Dain, as he prefers to be known, maintains that we don’t need to be able to answer who, where, or why we picked this up from someone; the only important answer is whether it is really ours. When we ask the questions, the answer comes immediately, and if the pain is not ours, it begins to move on.

When some of us ask these questions, we immediately know what’s true for us. Others may need to learn that a light, open, spacious feeling or energy in response to a question is a yes. A tight constricted feeling is a no. Even though these questions are not expressed as yes or no questions, Dr. Dain insists that any spacious light feeling in response means a) it’s not ours and b) it’s moving on.

But what type of pain should we question? Any pain, condition, or feeling that persists and bothers us could be interrogated with these questions. If you need a place to look, there’s certainly a lot of fodder for pain in the political environment right now.

A lot of people I know have been upset over Donald Trump’s actions since taking office. Many people may even have a “favorite” worry or angry thought to which they return. There are so many from which to choose:

• He’s eliminating diversity and inclusion language and programs everywhere he can
• He’s declared that there are only two genders and that trans women can’t play women’s sports
• He’s cozied up to Vladamir Putin and Russia and is refusing to continue to provide military or other aid to Ukraine
• He’s given Elon Musk free reign as an unelected official to fire public employees and destroy public programs, including:
  • USAID to desperate people overseas
  • Aid and services to veterans
  • The postal service
  • Environmental protection
  • Subsidies to clean energy technologies
  • Public health programs
• He’s attempting to deport millions of immigrants
  • possibly regardless of immigration status
• He’s already trying to deport at least one legal resident of this country explicitly because that person exercised his legal right to protest US policy towards Palestine
• He’s trying to reduce taxes for the very rich by cutting
  • health care for the poorest
  • and other social services
• Or maybe it’s just “he’s moving too fast”

The list goes on and on. The point is that all around us, the air is swirling with judgment, fear, doubt, and worry about how these policies are going to affect us, our families, or people we care about.

Some of that worry, doubt, and fear may be experienced not as emotion but as body pain, stiffness, or other conditions.

All feelings are arrows to be followed in the direction of healing. One direction for healing may be discovered by asking the simple questions above.

Give it a try and throw me a comment on here or the blog about what you experience. Does something shift when you do it? Do you feel some freedom? When I remember to use these questions, it unclogs my system so I can use my full energy for what I’m genuinely here to do.