Welcome back to The Synergetic Health Newsletter! 

⛰️ January 9th, 2025: Hello again from Chiang Rai! In today’s edition, we’ll explore two important fundamental aspects of self-development work, followed by a biological explanation of why this work is effective, and finish with a motivation to consider proceeding with it.

☯ Healing Work and Waking Up Work

There are two categories of self-development work that a person will have to investigate on an earnest journey.

Work done in these two categories allow for vertical, not linear, growth. What this means is that you “jump up a level” rather than the never ending slow climb uphill. A new experience of reality— one that feels much more “real” and much more like home— awaits the other end of successful work.

Healing: Uncovering What's Hidden

Healing work involves excavating and integrating everything that lies beneath the surface of our conscious awareness. This includes buried emotions, past traumas, cultural conditioning, and belief structures that shape our experience without our knowledge. Think of it as archeological work - carefully unearthing layers of psychological and emotional material that have been covered over time.

The territory of healing encompasses various tools and approaches:

• Shadow work reveals and integrates the rejected parts of ourselves

• Somatic practices like TRE allow the body to release stored trauma

• Energy healing modalities including Biofield Tuning and Emotion Code work directly with subtle energies

• Therapeutic approaches such as Internal Family Systems help us understand and integrate different aspects of our psyche

• EMDR and Emotional Freedom Technique provide direct access to trapped emotional material

• Plant medicine work can accelerate healing when approached with clear intention

• Somatic experiencing brings awareness to how trauma lives in the body

These practices help dissolve the invisible barriers that prevent clear seeing. They create space by releasing old patterns, beliefs, and emotional blocks that otherwise continue running in the background of our lives. They work.

Awakening: Discovering What's Here

The awakening path points directly to your true nature - the fundamental reality of what you are beneath all concepts and conditioning. This territory has been mapped by countless spiritual traditions, each offering unique approaches to the same timeless truth.

Some elements of the awakening path include:

• Meditation that develops capacity to rest in pure awareness

• Self-inquiry practices that investigate the nature of experience

• Contemplative approaches that question fundamental assumptions about reality

• Zen koans that short-circuit conceptual thinking

• Direct transmission through time with realized teachers

• Extended periods of silence and nature immersion

• Investigation into consciousness itself

This work reveals what has always been present but overlooked. Rather than adding anything new, it strips away layers of misidentification to reveal your essential nature. This works.

The Interplay of Healing and Awakening

These paths naturally support and enhance each other. Healing work creates space that allows for deeper recognition of your true nature. Glimpses of true nature provide the perspective that make healing work more effective.

Moving between these two streams creates a natural rhythm. Sometimes deep inner work takes precedence. Other times, the pull toward direct knowing becomes primary.

We return to both at progressively deeper levels as our capacity expands. Each cycle reveals new layers.

This dual approach creates a foundation for genuine self-development. Rather than getting stuck in endless self-improvement or bypassing unresolved material, it allows for actual integration. It works.

🤕 Buried Trauma

Jack Schroder is an online coach who writes extensively on sunlight, circadian rhythms, natural living, and health optimization. I loved a recent post he made on buried traumas— as he is able to walk through the biochemical implications of them.

Hopefully this gives you a more “science-backed” explanation for why doing the healing work mentioned above is a wise choice.

Here is his post in full:

“IMO, this is one of the best analogies for buried trauma.

Buried trauma represents a filled closet that's behind a door. That door wants to open up badly, but the body on a subconscious level, will invest whatever energy is required to keep that door closed—this door represents memory on both a biochemical (hippocampus, mammillary bodies, amygdala) & biophysical (water networks, CSF, semiconductors) level.

Energy is conserved & finite, we only can harness a certain amount from light, grounding, & food, so when we direct more energy in one area—in this case, preventing the trauma from being released—we are robbing Pete to pay Paul & become energy-deficient in other tissues.

This is fundamentally what occurs in people who have buried trauma, they express symptoms in various regions of the body that are completely unrelated to their actual health issues & imbalances.

This is incredibly expensive from a bioenergetic standpoint. Think if you were that man trying to keep that door shut, 24/7.

Buried trauma is extremely costly to our resources and requires a ton of energy input — so that trauma never "wakes up". Disease will start to occur in other regions of body.

Inevitably this leads to chronic sympathetic activation which lowers melanin, melatonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, GABA, magnesium, taurine, electrolytes, oxytocin, endorphins, endocannabinoids, sex hormones, & quantum coherence in water networks—whilst also increasing excess cortisol, aldosterone, adrenaline, dynorphin, orexin, histamine, prolactin, estrogen, & lactate, but eventually these also can become dysregulated, which is how chronic burnout occurs which is a very deep hole that's hard to get yourself out of.

Adding medication into the mix (SSRIs, anti-psychotics, etc.) will make matters worse, you become desensitized to the world & completely emotionless. I have worked with clients weening off SSRIs & it is a very difficult process that shouldn't be dealt with alone.

Our body also enters something called a 'Cell Danger Response' which is governed by our mitochondria via extracellular ATP being released. This leads to our whole biology shifting to a dysregulated state in order to try & protect us—but it ends up making matters worse long-term.

This is why it is SO important to address the fundamentals, & build up the biochemistry within you to be able to properly release & process that trauma; otherwise it leads to chronic inflammation, health issues, disease, & a suboptimal lifespan.

Addressing trauma looks very different for each person, but some things to incorporate are: working with someone who specializes in trauma/emotional release, inner-child work, mindfulness, meditation, gratitude/prayer, breathwork, talking to someone you trust, therapy (CBT), emotional freedom technique (EFT), EMDR, & guided cacao ceremonies.”

🎭 Dealing With Buried Emotions

In this video, spiritual teacher Scott Kiloby talks about the inescapable truths on the spiritual path. The first truth he mentions is the fact that we ALL have buried emotions:

“Let’s be real. If you are a human living on this planet raised by parents who, like all us, carry their own unconscious patterns and conditioning then YOU, my friend, have buried emotions.

They’re alive, vibrant, and actively shaping your experiences often in ways you don’t even realize. We learn to navigate the world through the lens of our early caregivers.

We inherit their fears, their joys, their unhealed wounds— and these imprints become the blueprint for how we interact with the world, how we perceive ourselves, and how we relate to others.

These buried emotions, these echoes of the past, are driving forces in our present day reality.”

Inner work, the “great work” as described by Michael Tsarion, is a journey that includes discovering these buried emotions and how they are playing out in our lives.

Through my study into these topics, I have sampled several methods for identifying and release these buried emotions. I have been fortunate to have had my own successes, as well as being able to facilitate this process for others using the Emotion Code.

As someone with an naturally open emotional system (according to Human Design at least), I seem to be able to serve as a channel for this work - able to use the system to release some of these buried emotions.

Enough people have told me now that this is a gift— and I’m happy to share it with anyone whose interested. And for anyone whose received in the past you know you can just email me and ask I’m always happy to do it!

𝕏 Thread of the Week

😎 The Magic of Non-Doing: I’ve long been a fan of Paul Millerd and have written about him a few times in the past. His recent article explores the concept of "non-doing" (wu-wei in Chinese). Unlike laziness, non-doing is a state of natural, playful engagement with life without the pressure to be productive. Paul argues that rejecting default societal goals and deliberately practicing non-doing allows meaningful experiences to emerge naturally, aligning with common end-of-life wisdom about what truly matters.

💆🏻‍♀️ DMSO Revolutionizes Skin Care and Dermatology: DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide) is presented in this article as a versatile therapeutic compound with significant potential in skin care. The article highlights DMSO's ability to protect skin from various types of damage and heal injuries like burns and wounds. It's described as effective for treating circulatory conditions (hemorrhoids, varicose veins) and common skin conditions (psoriasis, acne, eczema). I’ve just started a book about DMSO and will share more when I finish.

💦 Sparkling Water for the Win: This study examined the effects of ingesting cold carbonated water versus noncarbonated water in 17 young adults under heat stress (37°C). Carbonated water consumption led to higher increases in cerebral blood flow and blood pressure compared to noncarbonated water. It also reduced sleepiness and increased motivation and exhilaration more effectively. So if it’s a hot day or you are exercising hard, sparkling water seems the best option.

🔗 One Hitters

☀️ Dermatology’s disastrous war against the sun (Article)

🦷 A natural, effective teeth whitening trick (Video)

🩸 Top blood markers to check, from a longevity researcher (Post)

🦠 Breakdown of the terrain model and germ theory debate (Video)

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