84. Can I High Vibe My Way Out Of A Migraine?

This episode was inspired by a woman on a free consult who told me she tries to stop a migraine by putting on upbeat music and raising her mood and energy.

I’m so glad she asked, because this is a common misunderstanding of what I mean when I talk about the third principle: resilience and vitality.

In this episode, I explain the difference between “positive mindset” and the actual organizing energy of the body (what some traditions call chi or the vital force).

If your vitality is low, your “internal compass needle” gets pushed into your migraine zone by stressors, sometimes big ones like illness, and sometimes subtle ones like sunlight or barometric pressure.

The goal isn’t to psych yourself up.

The goal is to restore the strength of your vitality and identify what’s draining it (including habits, symptoms like insomnia/anxiety, and deeper mental-emotional patterns that keep you out of alignment).

If you’ve been doing supplements and “detoxes” but still getting knocked into migraines, this episode will help you understand the missing piece.

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Episode Transcript

welcome to the Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
I'm your host Doctor Leslie Caesar
and I am a licensed naturopathic doctor
former chronic migraine suffer
and I help women all over the United States
get rid of their chronic migraines
wean off of unwanted medication
and do it all without taking a fistful of supplements
so welcome to the podcast
today we're going to answer the question
can I high vibe my way out of a migraine
so this episode was inspired
because I was talking
with a woman on a free consult call
and she's been listening to the podcast
for several years really since the beginning
and so she's heard me talk about the three principles
what I call the three principles
the three things that our body needs
to restore itself back to health
and then maintain its health
and the third principle is
restoring our resilience and vitality
so she's heard me talking about this over the years
and so when she heard the word vitality
she associated that with sort of like
like kind of a high vibe mindset right
so she said you know what
if I start to feel a migraine coming on
what I've been trying is like
putting on like some upbeat music
trying to get my mood up my vibe up
trying to get my energy up through music
you know I keep trying
different ways of trying to get my energy up
my vibe up and I really never notice anything right
so I was like you know what
I'm really glad you asked me this
let me talk more about this on the podcast okay
so when I talk about this third principle
this concept of resiliency and vitality okay
it's not about sort of like manifesting feeling better
talking ourselves into feeling better
psyching ourselves up into feeling better right
if that's all it took nobody would ever feel bad right
we would just kind of vibe our way
we would would manifest our way
we would talk our way into feeling better
and then obviously I mean
you know certainly right
there's some truth to this right
you know many times we might feel that we're you know
our mood is going down we're catastrophizing something
we're overthinking something
we're kind of spiraling down oh well
you know this was bad
and then this will be bad and that'll be bad right
and many times if we become aware that we're doing this
and we kind of pull our mind back a little bit right
we exert a little bit of will
over what our mind is doing
and say you know what
I'm really making too much of this
we can kind of pull our mind out of that and
and we can definitely feel better right
and so certainly if we're having a migraine
that's starting on
sort of the mental and emotional side of us
due to stress and we realize we're kind of adding
to our stress by our mental state
and many people have experienced
oh yeah I don't think that migraine ever happened
I think I actually did avoid a migraine
by exerting some some will over my mind right
so there is some truth to this right
but what what I mean by resilience
and vitality is a little bit different than this okay
so let me go into this a little bit more
we're gonna dedicate this podcast episode to this
when I talk about resiliency and vitality
it relates to the organizing energy of the body
you might call it the life force of the body
in Chinese medicine
they call it the Chi in naturopathic medicine
we call it the vital force
so it's sort of the organizing life force of the body
that keeps everything running smoothly
keeps the organism in homeostasis okay
so every living thing on the planet
has this sort of life force
this organizing energy that coordinates
the activity of all of the different parts of the body
so you know
we are a very
very complex organism we have 30 to 40 trillion cells
so our physical body is very
very complicated
and then we have our mental and emotional component
which adds even more complication to the system okay
so within many forms of medicine
many schools of medicine
including naturopathic medicine
other schools of medicine
like traditional Chinese medicine
ayurvedic medicine
the traditional medicine of India homeopathy
different schools of medicine
have this concept of this organizing energy
to the body that keeps all of these different parts
running smoothly and so the
what we call the vital force in naturopathic medicine
or the Chi the life force
this life force
has to be strong enough to keep things in balance right
so there's also sort of a
strength component to the life force
so we can have sort of a low life force
we can have a high life force
if our life force is sort of low
it's gonna have a harder time keeping everything
regulated so before someone dies
the life force is very low right
so there's a strength component to the vital force
to the life force
to the Chi to the organizing energy of the body
so you want your vitality to be stronger
than the stressors that are affecting you
so I like to think of this as
we have like a needle pointing north okay
so we sort of have like this internal compass needle
and when our needle is pointing north
we are in the green zone we're in a state of health
we feel good our body is not generating symptoms okay
but this needle is continuously getting pushed down
by stressors physical stressors
mental and emotional stressors so physical stressors
a lot of times we don't think of physical stressors
unless they're really really big physical stressors
so
like a big physical stressor would be like an accident
you get in a car accident
that would be a big physical stressor
that's gonna push that compass needle down
or like uh
getting the flu right
I'm recording this in January 2026
and we're in the midst of a pretty severe flu season
right
so influenza is a pretty significant viral infection
and I say pretty significant
in the fact that it generates a lot of stress
on the needle if it goes into bronchitis
bronchitis is another illness
that is particularly physically stressful on the body
and it'll push that needle down
a lot of people will say you know
I've never felt well since I had that bronchitis
or that walking pneumonia
that one year right
because that particular illness
is particularly stressful
and it pushes the needle down
with quite a bit of force
so when we think of physical stressors
this is what most people think of
or they might think of like exercise right
I've been to the gym and I did a big
you know
resistance training and now I can't walk for two days
right so I physically stress my body right
but there are more subtle
physical stressors
that we don't really register as stress
so a barometric pressure change
that's a physical stressor on the body
sunlight beating down on you
that's a physical stressor on the body
I'm listing two common migraine triggers right
so what's happening is this needle
our bodies
are being continuously by physical stressors
all the time every
sensory input on the body
generates a physical stressor on the body
so we can have these big physical stressors
like an accident an injury
an illness we can have these little
tiny sensory impressions that we hardly register
but they're still stressors and you have you know
more medium level stressers
like I have workout or or something like that
so
those physical stressers are pushing the needle down
then we have mental and emotional stressers
things that we call stress right
so you've got a work deadline
you've got a conflict with a family member you know
you're nervous about giving a public speech
or something like that right
so mental and emotional stress
also pushes that needle down
now what counters the needle
is our resiliency and vitality
so we wanna have our vitality as strong
or stronger
than the stressors that are pushing the needle down
and when our vitality is stronger than the stressors
our needle stays pointing north
and we will continue
to feel good in the face of those stressors
if our vitality is weaker than the stressors
then our needle is gonna go down hi there
it's Doctor Leslie if you're a woman
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within 90 days and that's without any agonizing
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so let me tell you about one of my clients Judy
she was nearly bedridden
because she was having to take such strong medications
for her migraines and she could barely function
in fact
she had to close the doors of her small retail business
and she was feeling like a failure
she wondered every day
why was she doomed to suffer from migraines
but just like you
she found this Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
and a spark ignited she knew that
if she could just figure out why these migraines
started in the first place
she could restore and recover her health again
so she booked a free consult call
and the rest is history now
she reports months in between migraines
and runs her small business full time again
she followed the 12 week plan
and got incredible results
and she's completely
weaned off of all of those preventative medications
that were leaving her feeling doped up
and committing her to being bedridden
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and on that compass dial
we all have zones of symptoms that we're prone to okay
so if you're listening to this podcast
I'm going to assume that you and I have a zone
on our needle on our compass dial
you and I have a zone on our compass dial in common
and that zone is migraine
so when my needle gets pushed into my migraine zone
I'm going to get a migraine
now
I have other symptoms that I'm prone to on this dial
just like you
have other symptoms that you're prone to on this dial
as well but you and I have that zone in common
if our needle gets pushed into that zone
we're gonna have a migraine
now how do I get these symptom zones on my needle right
well this is largely genetic right
it's been well documented for thousands of years
right p you even before we knew what the genome was
humans were observant
and they realized that things were hereditary right
so a large amount of what you are prone to
sort of what symptoms are on your compass dial
a lot of that is hereditary or genetic
but that doesn't mean that we have a death sentence
okay that it's inevitable right
I have migraines
and headaches on both sides of my family right
so it's not like oh
there's nothing I can do about it
you know it's genetics
bad luck you know
miss the lottery here my needle has to go into the zone
in order for me to get a migraine
so while I may have that hereditary zone
or that genetic zone
if my vitality is stronger than the stressors
then I won't go into the zone
and I won't get a migraine okay
so when I'm talking about our resilience and vitality
as it relates to this third principle
we want to restore our resilience and vitality
we want to increase the strength of the life force
the vital force the Chi right
we don't have a name for this culturally
because this is not a concept
that is really part of our culture
but if you look at how other
cultures have looked at health and disease
and if you observe life on earth
you realize huh this is a concept that's important
it's
an important concept that we are currently missing
and unfortunately
you can you can judge the tree by the fruit right
because we are living in a society
where most people are not feeling well
and they're not in a state of health
they may not be experiencing migraines
but they're suffering with symptoms okay
so you can tell
just by the fact that
we have a chronic disease crisis in America
that we do not have
the proper conception of health and disease
but I won't go down that rabbit hole okay
I'll save that soapbox for another podcast
this is
sort of the concept that I want you to think about okay
so um
to restore our health and stop getting migraines
we have to increase that vitality
so I like to think of
it's sort of like we have a vitality bucket right
so we wanna fill that bucket up
if you're struggling with chronic migraines if you're
you know if you're getting
if you're spending half the month with some
some head pain and other migraine symptoms
your bucket is low okay
your needle is sort of always
hovering around that migraine zone
and any little thing is pushing it in there right
any little barometric pressure change
any little increase in the sunlight
you're exposed to
a food that you're not breaking down very well
not digesting properly
all these little stressors are enough to poop
put you right in that migraine zone
and you're tipping in there multiple times a week
so we have to restore we gotta fill up that bucket okay
so how do we fill up the bucket
so first of all
let me talk about how does the bucket get drained okay
I like to think of this like
we get a hole in the bucket right
so we're trying to fill the bucket up
we're trying to increase our vitality
but if we've got a hole in the bottom of that bucket
we're never gonna be able to fill up that bucket
how do we get a hole in the bottom of the bucket
when we live outside of the
parameters that promote human flourishing
we are going to drain our vitality okay
so let me give you a couple examples here because again
this is not a concept that we have culturally
the dominant medical model in our country
in our culture is allopathic medicine
and in allopathic medicine
you get sick basically because you're unlucky okay
that's really the underlying theory of disease
in allopathic medicine you're just unlucky
stuff happens now you're suffering right
now everything is blamed on genetics
but genetics is just a fancy way or you know
scientific way of saying you're unlucky OK
so all life on the planet
has an environment that it's going to flourish in
and it has other environments
if it's not in that environment
it's not going to flourish right
so you know if you plant hostas in the full sun
they're not gonna look as nice
if you plant them in the shade right
there are plants
that are going to be in a better state of health
if they're in the full sun
if they're in the shade
if they're in the you know if they get the morning sun
right there are plants that will thrive or die
depending on the climate right
so I live in the Chicago area
I lived in Phoenix for nine years
totally different climate
there's the the
the plants that are living in Phoenix are
not the plants that are living in Chicago right
it's a unrecognizable landscape basically
because the climate is so different
and the plants that flourish in those two climates are
very very different right
so you know
we had some bougainvillea bushes in Phoenix
I love those right you see them all over the place
if I plant them in my yard here in the Chicago suburbs
they're not gonna make it through the winter okay
they're not gonna thrive and you know
it doesn't matter what my intentions are
I could have the best of intentions
I could be the biggest fan of bougainvilleas
I could perform incantations over the bogan via right
I could you know do all kinds of things
to try to get that bogan via to flourish
in the Chicago suburbs and it's not going to survive
right so we can see right
with plants
there are certain environments that they are going to
thrive in and there are other environments
that they're not going to thrive in
with animals right
so my neighborhood here is it's infested with skunks
okay so it's an older neighborhood
the homes were built about 50 years ago
so most of us right
we've got these old stoops and stuff like that
and the animals over the past 50 years
have burrowed under these stoops
so if you go walking in my neighborhood at dusk
which I love to walk at dusk
you're gonna run into skunks
because they are diurnal animals
they come out at dawn probably
a lot more people like to walk at dusk than at dawn
but in my neighborhood if you're out at dusk
you are going to run into skunks
because that's the natural law
the natural rhythms that govern skunks
they come out at night at dusk to eat their grubs or
you know whatever they eat
and the skunk cannot exert control over that right
the skunk can't say you know what
I think I'm gonna go against the grain here
I'm really tired of this lifestyle right
I think it's really unfair
that we can only enjoy the planet at dusk and dawn
and so I'm you know what
I'm gonna get up at two PM
and I'm gonna come out of my little den
and I'm gonna look for my grubs at two PM right
a skunk cannot do that
if you see a skunk walking around at two PM
that that is a sick skunk
that skunk has rabies or distemper
that skunk has a big problem right
so the skunk walking around at two PM
that skunk has a symptom that two PM wake up
that's a symptom right
that's a symptom of something
that that skunk is not in a state of health okay
so animals right we can see this with animals
some animals are nocturnal
some animals are awake during the day
some animals are here in the summer
and they go someplace else in the winter right
so you can see that there are natural laws
there are environments that animals will flourish in
or they will suffer in alright
so now let's look at humans so we humans
we are highly adaptable we are very very unique
so we can live in a
spectacularly diverse set of environments right
we can live from the Arctic to the equator
we can live at sea level we can live in the mountains
we can eat seal blubber
we can eat a mostly vegetarian diet right
we can adapt and thrive
in so many different environments
but there are limits okay
now we like to think that we are in charge right
this is the oldest story ever told
we humans we like to think that we are gods
and we get to set the rules right
so we can right so humans are not nocturnal animals
the natural rhythms
or the natural laws that govern human flourishing
we do our best
when we wake up around the time that the sun rises
and that light hitting the retina in the morning
sets off multiple hormonal cascades
that contribute to our proper functioning
and our flourishing okay
I'm not gonna go into great detail in it into it
but that early morning light hitting the retina
at that time around dawn
that's a very important factor for our flourishing
for our health I
can choose to stay up until 2:00 in the morning
playing video games and sleep in until noon right
and so by that time
I'm not getting that dawn sunlight hitting my retina
I'm getting that full full blown midday sun right
and so I'm I'm choosing to go against
what is the best environment for human flourishing okay
so while there are certain parameters and environments
there are certain boundaries as adaptable as we are
there are certain boundaries that are going
to promote our flourishing
or promote suffering okay
so if you see a human awake at 2 in the morning
you don't know if it's a symptom or not
because some people have the symptom of insomnia
and they can't fall asleep
they may want to fall asleep at ten PM
so that they can get up around 6 in the morning and be
you know
up and Adam get to work and feel good start the day
right but they can't fall asleep
they're laying in bed until 2 in the morning right
so with humans it's not like a skunk right
if you see a skunk two PM
they're awake walking around the neighborhood
uh oh we got a problem right
but with a human
they may be in the habit of staying up late
it may be a conscious choice or it might be a symptom
and so this is where you have to have discernment
to understand what's going on
particularly if you're a practitioner like myself
that's helping somebody
get back into a state of health
so like just to continue on with this example
a lot of practitioners
if they see somebody that's up at 2 in the morning
they say well you're you're staying up too late
we gotta get you to bed at around 10 right
you know
we gotta reset sleep hygiene start going to bed earlier
right you know
reset your clock right
so if you're up at 2 in the morning sort of by choice
you can implement those things
you can change your habits and reset your clock
and bring yourself back into alignment with
the natural law
or the natural rhythms that govern human flourishing
but if it's a symptom
you're not gonna be able to do that right
there's an underlying reason why your body
is keeping you up until 2 in the morning
and just changing your habits
your sleep hygiene the sleep routine
you know all of these other things
it's not going to be enough
to bring you back into balance
so with us humans when we are not in alignment
when we are going against the natural rhythms
the natural law the environment
that's conducive for human health
and human flourishing that generates a hole
in the bottom of our vitality bucket
and it drains our vitality
so we can be draining our vitality
because we've gotten in a bad habit
of staying up until 2 in the morning
or we can have symptoms that also drain our vitality
and insomnia is unfortunately one of those symptoms
right so
it's a symptom that's being generated
because there are
missing pieces or blockers within all three principles
right I'm just focusing on the third principle
in this podcast but there are two other principles
or things that our body needs to function properly
to be in a state of health
so that we don't have symptoms right
so when somebody has insomnia
there are missing pieces
or blockers within all three of these principles
but unfortunately insomnia happens to be a symptom
because it pulls us out of the environment
that's conducive for human flourishing
it also drains our vitality
and there are other symptoms like this
that they're not only a symptom
but they generate a hole in our vitality bucket
anxiety is another symptom
that also drains our vitality
and I'm gonna be talking about that on another
upcoming podcast we've got that slotted
so again let me recap
so while we
humans can flourish in a wide variety of environments
which is wonderful there are boundaries
there are parameters
there are hard stops where if we cross them
we are now out of alignment with the natural law
or the natural rhythms or the natural environment
that's conducive for our health
and that drains our vitality okay
so unfortunately
this can create sort of like a snowball effect okay
so part of the healing process
we wanna
plug up the holes in the bottom of the vitality bucket
so this is where we can take a look at our habits
so do I have any habits
that are bringing me out of alignment
and generating a hole in this bucket
and then you know
with any habit you have to exert some will
you have to have motivation
and you have to exert a little bit of will
and many times you kind of have to have a strategy
because you know
maybe it was really fun
staying up until 2 in the morning
playing video games
and maybe you were online with friends and so on
and it was like your social outlet
and so you know OK yeah
I know you know
now I'm not feeling well
because I stayed up until 2 in the morning for
you know six months playing video games
and I know I really need to change
cause I'm not feeling well
but you know this is like this is my social life right
so you know
it's very easy to say we're gonna change a habit
but even to change a habit
many times we have to look at OK
what was this habit that was kind of out of alignment
what was the benefit to me of this
or how can I meet that need
in a more health promoting way
or in a way that's more in alignment
with human flourishing
in a way that's not going to drain me right
so you know
it's easy to say change your habits
but many times right
there's a lot that goes into that
so we can look at the habits that we have
I'm using sleep sort of as an example
but we have a lot of other habits
that can contribute to this
and there are natural therapeutics
that will add vitality to the bucket
so we can use those two
as we're kind of plugging up the holes
we can use some natural
therapies or remedies to add vitality to the bucket
that can be nice for people
but I want to talk about
the mental and emotional component
to this okay
because we can also generate
holes in the bottom of our vitality bucket
that are coming from the mental and emotional
side of us
and this also is the case for just about all of us
so if we're just going to look at the habits
which is important
if we're just going to use some natural therapies
that add vitality that's great
but we usually have
other holes in the bottom of the vitality bucket
that are starting on the mental and emotional side
so I wanna give you an example of this
so cause I was thinking about how to explain this
and something from sort of my past life
before I became a naturopathic doctor came to mind
so I'm gonna share this with you
so I had a previous career
before I was a naturopathic doctor
I worked in training and development
and I was an instructional designer
and a classroom trainer and project manager
and I worked in a corporate setting
and so
I had a coworker who was extraordinarily talented
one of the best instructional designers
I've ever worked with she was unbelievably creative
but she also really understood
how to structure things so that adults could learn
so if you're not familiar with training and
training and development basically
it's the people at work who make the training programs
to train the employees how to do their job
at work okay
so she was very very talented at this and she
she loved what she did and she was very
very good
really one of the top people I've ever worked with
and so we became friends at work in the
in the way that you do become friends with co workers
and so as we were getting
you know closer
and she felt more and more comfortable
kind of talking with me and sharing with me again
as you do you know
with co workers she would say something to me like um
you know I was
I worked on that presentation and um
nobody really said anything
after I did the presentation
you know I never really got any feedback on it
it seems like nobody really
nobody really liked what I did
nobody really liked my approach
I just feel like nobody really appreciated
what I did with with that proposal
and so I I would be
you know shocked
right because I would have been in the meeting with her
I thought it was great you know
I was like great proposal
let's move forward right
I thought we were moving forward
I thought we had consensus
and that we were moving forward
but now she's telling me after the fact no
you know people really didn't appreciate it
not on board lackluster response
and so I was like oh okay
you know at first I was just like yeah
oh boy that's
that's crazy I thought it was great right
so then you know
week later oh
I put together you know
such and such I ran it by the stakeholders
I you know
stayed up really late working on it
I put a lot into it and um
you know I don't think they really liked it
I don't think
they really appreciated what I did on this
and again I was like
I'm shocked like to
to me it seemed like the exact thing we needed to do
you know I mean
I was very shocked I was very sympathetic to her
as she continued to confide in me
she opened up more and more how hurt she was how
how angry she was she opened up more and more
about how much time she was putting into things
how much effort she was putting into things
and she was never getting the recognition
she she would talk about how other people were
getting recognized getting rewarded
getting the pat on the back
the mention in the team meeting
these types of things
and she was upset and as her friend
I was I was getting upset too right
because to me it seemed very unfair
I couldn't understand why
nobody was recognizing her
obvious talent and instincts
so again as you know
time continued here then I started to realize
that she actually was getting recognized
so I'm sure many of you
work in these types of environments right
it's end of year
you've got sort of like the holiday luncheon at a
at a nice restaurant and they gives
you know
kind of the end of the year recognition and so on well
here she's being called up to the front and
and getting recognized for all of her great work
and everybody's clapping and
you know and so on
this was not the impression that
that I had of the year right
and so I started paying closer attention
and I started to realize
that she actually was being recognized
her ideas were being implemented
she was being given the lead on projects
she was really being listened to
and there was no reason for her not to be
listened to or recognized
because she did fantastic work
I like I said
she was one of the best instructional designers
I ever worked with but what I realized was
she could not see the reality of what was going on
and I realized that she continued to use language
along the lines of I'm not appreciated
I'm not appreciated
that type of language would be repeated frequently
maybe a little bit different word here or there
but that sort of overall tone
was her recurring interpretation
of how she was being treated
and what I realized was that
this was really out of alignment with the reality
of how she was being appreciated
and recognized so this caused her tremendous stress
and you know many
many of us right
we are familiar with this concept
right that we view the world through the glasses
that we have on right
and so I realized that my friend
who I really liked and really cared about I
I I started to think
you know I
I think she's viewing the world through these lenses
that she's not appreciated
even got to the point where she would share with me
like a thank you card like
she would get a thank you card from like a stakeholder
you know thank you so much for your work on this
it was such a successful roll out
and we're seeing the result
you know like
someone took the time to write a thank you card
in a corporate setting yeah
you know I mean
she just wrote a few lines here
do you see this it's just a few lines here
it's it's
it's all the work I did and all I'm getting is a card
you know it is she
she just was not able
to see the reality of the recognition
and the appreciation the rewards
I mean she was getting bonuses
you know put on better and better projects
more and more responsibility
more and more interesting stuff right
I'm not her therapist I
I don't know the inner workings for her
but I think we can see that
she was interpreting things through the lens of
I'm not appreciated so how would someone behave
if they believe that they're not being appreciated
at work and they desperately want to be appreciated
recognized and acknowledged
what would be logical right
so someone might start putting in a lot of overtime
right well
if they didn't like the presentation last week
I better do it even better this week
so that would be a pretty logical change in behavior
or logical response that someone would have
if they were craving you know
more than anything
wanted to feel appreciated and recognized
but were but felt like they weren't being recognized
so they might start putting in a lot of overtime
they might start waking up in the middle of the night
and start thinking about okay
you know what okay
I got that done did I cross every t
did I dot every I did I think of every contingency
I gotta do this right they might start over analyzing
their interactions with other people right
because if I'm seeing everything
through the lens that I'm not being appreciated
then well you know
she said that to me but was there a look in her eye
was there you know
body language right
she said that but you know
what did I say back did I say the right thing back
oh I wish I had said this right
starting to kind of second guess responses
or over analyzing things so this is what we call stress
right and in this situation right
a lot of people right
they're changing their behavior
they're having you know
thoughts and emotions related to this
that are not congruent
with the reality of the situation
and so this is going to be a vitality drain
going to put a hole
in the bottom of their vitality bucket
and they're going to start draining their vitality
and even their behavior is going to
we can see it obviously right
if you're working 60 hours a week
over and over and over again
if you're over analyzing perfectionism right
when we're doing those things
we can even feel that we're draining our vitality
but we just can't stop right
that desire to be appreciated is gonna win out
every time and the sleep is gonna be sacrificed
so this is how mental and emotional factors
can generate that whole drive
our behavior that further drains our vitality
and now we're in a situation where our
vitality is diminished it's lowered
it's not as strong now
what needed to happen here with my friend and I'm not
I'm not her therapist
and I don't have any insight into
what was underlying this
but what we want to get to the root of is
where did she pick up these glasses
that's really what we wanna understand okay
because you can't just clean the glasses okay
you can't just say well you know
I'm gonna try to just you know
I'm I'm viewing things through these lenses
that are kind of distorting things
and making everything kind of blurry
but I'm just gonna do my best
I'm gonna just try to overcome that
if we're we've got a pair of glasses on
that's distorting reality
we want a new pair of glasses right
we don't want to just cope
we want to understand
how did I get these glasses in the first place
and in the vast majority of cases
we pick the glasses up in childhood
as a result of childhood family dynamics
that's the case most of the time
we can pick up a pair of glasses sort of a a
a a pair of glasses that's distorted in adulthood too
but the most likely area
the most likely time that we're gonna pick this up
is in childhood so
in order to patch up some of these holes
in our vitality bucket
we have to look at some of these deeper
underlying dynamics that are sort of putting this
these lenses on things
that are distorting reality for us
because again when we're out of alignment with reality
we are going to drain our vitality
and that
when we are out of alignment with the physical reality
of sort of these these rhythms or cycles
environments
that are conducive to human flourishing and health
we're going to drain our vitality
and when we're out of alignment
mentally and emotionally
we're going to drain our vitality as well
so this is why many of you haven't gotten results
when you've gone to natural practitioners
because most natural practitioners
are just working on what I call
the first and second principle
some practitioners
are gonna be more skilled than others
as to how to work with you on the first principle
and the second principle
most practitioners don't understand migraines
and how sensitive we are
when we have chronic migraines
so a lot of practitioners will run into problems
because of that lack of understanding
but the vast vast majority of natural medicine
practitioners are doing what I call
first principle and second principle work
to varying degrees of skill
but virtually
no one is looking at this third principle
and helping you identify
where you have holes in that bucket
whether they be holes due to habits
whether there are holes due to symptoms
and whether there are holes
due to these types of mental and emotional factors
and if you don't address those things
you're not gonna feel better
because the first and second principle are basically
giving your physical body what it needs
so that the biochemistry works
that's kind of a high level
nutshell of the first and second principle
nothing is going to run right in your body
if your cells don't have the nutrients
that they need to do their work
and the second principle is
clearing the resulting metabolic waste
material that your cells generate
when they do their work and other toxin molecules
or substances from the cells and from your body
your cells aren't gonna function properly
if they don't have the nutrients
that they need to do their work
and
if there's a bunch of trash laying all over the place
is things aren't gonna go smoothly either
so the first and second principle are basically
giving your body what it needs
so that the biochemistry
can actually do what it's supposed to do
but you have an organizing component
this organizing energy to the body
that has to be in place also
and has to be strong enough to resist
all of the stressors that are
continuously trying to knock it out of balance or
or literally knocking it out of balance
so if you're not working on that piece
you can get the biochemistry up and running
but you're still going to be continuously
knocked out of health by stressors physical
mental emotional stressors
so
you have to have that resiliency and vitality restored
strengthened rebuilt
so that it's strong enough to withstand
the stressors
that you're inevitably going to be exposed to
and there's multiple components
that will put holes in that vitality bucket
and drain your vitality
diminish the strength of your vitality
so I hope I explain this well
it's challenging for me to explain it
because this is not a concept that we have culturally
we hardly have a language to talk about this
so I have been honing my language around this for many
many years now
and I'm trying to get this message out to people
because this is the
one of the major reasons why people have not gotten
results from natural medicine practitioners
because they're just frankly taking supplements
trying to get all these nutrients into their body
or trying to do a cleanse or a detox right
those are the top two things
that a natural practitioner is gonna do
with you and they're still not feeling better
this is why there's a third component
and there's a tremendous
mental and emotional component to this
as well so for most of us
we have to do some work on this level
and we have to do some mental and emotional work
as well
otherwise we're just gonna keep draining our vitality
right unfortunately
like my friend clearly was doing and you know
it's a real heartbreak
because it's much easier for us to see this going on
in somebody else right
so you know at first with my friend
I just took her at face value I had no reason
you know I mean
she's telling me these things okay yeah
must be true right
but over time my own experience in the workplace
she and I worked together on the same team
we were in the same meetings
we had the same management right
so because I was in reality
and I could see things that were actually happening
I started to realize okay
how she's looking at this is actually
not in alignment with reality right
but it's much easier for me to see that I mean
it can be hard right
if if I were just like her friend
that didn't work with her and
you know I was just like
kind of
getting together with her once a month for dinner
or something or coffee and
you know she was just kind of venting about her work
I would never have known all right
I would be your friend I would take her at face value
oh my goodness these people don't appreciate you
you need to look for another job right
I mean but because I was there with her
I was able to see what was actually going on so
you know it's easier to see this in other people
I'm sure as I'm telling you the story
you can think of some some friends that you have
right where you're like yeah
she always thinks it's this right
so we can see these types of things in other people
as hard as it is
much easier than we can see these things in ourselves
right because
you know when we're wearing the glasses
that's how we see things right
so it's you know
it's like the water that the fish is in right
the fish doesn't know it's in the water
we're we don't feel the air that we're in right
so when we're wearing those lenses
that's our reality the other thing too
that is not helping people is
we are really in a cultural moment right now where
you know if somebody believes something to be true
you're actually offensive
if you don't sort of agree with their truth right
that might feel like you're helping the person
it might feel like you're sympathetic
it might feel like you're being kind
and caring with the person
but you know
sometimes people don't see the reality of the situation
and it's very difficult right
usually if you try to even kindly
even with love point out to people
you know you're kind of misinterpreting this
you know you're really not seeing the reality
you're kind of looking at this through a lens
that's distorting things
usually people get very upset and defensive right
certainly have
when people have done this to me in the past right
so this is again
part of the human condition right
we get upset we might feel threatened
we can become very
offended if someone tries to help us to say hey
you know what
I think you're not looking at this correctly
so it's very challenging for people
so as hard as it is
just as human nature being what it is
as hard as it is to sort of lovingly assist people
to say hey
you know your glasses are a little distorted right now
culturally it's really become sort of unacceptable
to have that conversation with someone
because it's
it's now considered that you're actually hurting them
or harming them
if you try to have this type of conversation with them
so this unfortunately you know
we can have aspects of our culture
that can promote our health
or undermine our health and unfortunately
this sort of cultural moment that we're in right now
regarding this particular dynamic
it's not ultimately going to help people
it helps people feel a little bit better in the moment
people say well
I feel heard I feel seen etcetera
but you're out of alignment with reality
and that has actual consequences on you right
just like if you take a bougainvillea from Phoenix
and you bring it up to Chicago
that bougainvillea is not gonna thrive
because there are certain parameters
that every living thing on the planet
has to live into to flourish
and we are no exception to that
so
I hope this helps give you a little bit more insight
into this third principle frankly
this is something that makes the work that I do
particularly unique certainly
the way that I approach the first principle
and the second principle is also very unique
compared to other natural medicine practitioners
because I understand migraines
and I understand how sensitive we are
when we're in that chronic migraine state
so you have to approach
the first and second principle very differently
with a chronic migraine suffer
because we're so easily tipped into a migraine
so even the first and second principle
what I do is pretty unique
compared to other natural practitioners
but this third principle right
is it it makes the
the work that I do for my clients to guide them
to identify where those holes are
makes what I do even more unique in the industry
so I hope that helps
give you a little bit more insight into what's at play
within your own body and how this impacts your health
your symptoms and then certainly your migraines
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