Many INFJ personality types and INFP personality types struggle with health anxiety. Health anxiety can come from c-ptsd, from messages received from society, or from a generalized anxiety disorder. Health anxiety happens when we don’t trust our bodies, and we don’t trust the healing process, or the flow of life.
Many of us are taught that the body is a machine, and it doesn’t know what it’s doing. We are also taught that genetics have the power to ruin a person’s fate. Whenever something goes wrong with the body, we assume that it is something that needs to be immediately corrected or fixed. This is why we view so many of the normal stages of the healing process as scary and dangerous.
The truth is that the body is a wise being, and the body does know what it is doing. The body is deeply connected to the healing process, and all stages of the healing process are normal and natural. Health issues have a purpose in our lives, and much of the time that purpose is to help us slow down so that our body has time to cleanse our system, and we have time to process and integrate transitions and changes in our lives.
When we connect to intuition, we receive messages that the body is doing what it needs to do and all is well, even if things feel bumpy and uncomfortable in the moment. If we can move more deeply into a trusting relationship with our body, we won’t experience so much anxiety as this process is happening within us.
I talk more about this in the video below:
I’m teaching a new class starting August 7 called Intuition and the Body, and we’ll be exploring how to move more deeply into a loving relationship with our bodies, as well as how to work with the body to open higher levels of intuition.
We’ll be covering topics like:
How to trust the healing process
The different levels of body, personality, and soul
Accessing your power of creativity through the body
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I hope I see you in this class!
Lauren Sapala is the author of Writing on the Intuitive Side of the Brain, The INFJ Writer, The INFJ Revolution, and the creator of Energy and Intuition for INFJs, an online course for INFJs on intuition, relationships, creativity, and more. She is also currently offering a free copy of her book Firefly Magic: Heart Powered Marketing for Highly Sensitive Writers to anyone who signs up for her newsletter. SIGN UP HERE to get your free copy.
