Healing your anxiety triggers: Sense of Taste

Motherhood begins with an emotion that we can’t quite name but recognize throughout the years when we lean into it and ask it to carry us through our lifetime.

The emotions of motherhood are deep, transformative and powerful.

As I have written about in the past, I believe children are our greatest gurus. They teach us and expand us in ways we never knew possible.

Motherhood can be very emotional but when we learn to master our emotions and energy, then we step into our real mama power and become the master of our emotions and no longer allow anxiety to rule us.

Last week, we healed our anxiety trigger of smell.

This week, we are healing our taste trigger.

Why this? Why now?

The energetic place within your body, the sacral chakra, stores all of your emotions and is the control center for the "waters of your body-" tears, saliva, sweat, urine.

This physical space is also where your mom carried you in her womb.

It's not just coincidence that they call it "your water breaking" when you have a baby.

This area is not only energetically responsible for the waters of your body, it is also healed and balanced by water.

When we are overrun with emotions, our body releases water through tears in an effort to release the overwhelming and abundant emotion and to establish balance.

Here's how this looks....

My oldest daughter is graduating high school this year and is going onto her dream college renowned for preparing her for her dream career. I could not be more proud and thrilled for her.

In fact, this is how over joyous and emotional I am for her.

On Friday, I walked into our local party supply store and picked up my first of two baskets that I would stuff full of banners, balloons and quite honestly anything that said "Class of 2022."

I began walking down the perfectly located first aisle dedicated to graduates. With every step I took deeper into the aisle, I could feel my emotions begin to well up until I reached the halfway mark and read the graduation banner directly in front of me,
"We are proud of you."

That was it.

I began crying at that very moment as the joy and pride I have for all she has accomplished culminated and, as if on cue, the absolutely delightful and completely-unaware-of-what-he-was-about-to-walk-into employee walked up and said,
"Are you finding everything OK? "

I tried my best to talk through my emotions and said, "So much! Thank you!," while joking that he was making me cry as I waved him off because I could hardly contain myself.

I felt embarrassed, sad, proud and awful because I could tell I made him feel so uncomfortable too.

God bless his humorous soul because he circled back a minute later to check on me and said,

"Ok so you must be a parent of a grad. So… what are we graduating from?
College, high school... kindergarten?"

In which we both started laughing and I regained my composure.

When our emotions are overwhelming, our body releases its overflowing water to bring balance to our body.

Tears are necessary.
Our bodies are always working to maintain equilibrium.

Our sense of taste is also managed by this energy center. If you have experienced an emotionally tragic event, especially between the ages of 7-14, you may find that it has led you to a taste anxiety trigger.

Or perhaps you heard bad news while drinking something or experienced food poisoning from a bite of a particular food, creating a negative association with your sense of taste

You do not have to be a victim to your trigger.

There are ways you can assist your body.

You can use physical water to help heal your second chakra. Drink solar water or mineral water. Take a bath or shower. It is not just coincidence that many people
“cry it out” in the shower or bath. This soothing water helps us to release our pent-up emotion and find balance.

Our taste trigger can sometimes be subtle and hard to discern. We often look to the environment - the crossing of the bridge or public speaking- for our reason why our anxiety is triggered. When something so nuanced can also be the culprit. Get quiet and notice if there is a connection here this week for you.

Coming to recognize your taste trigger sets you up for healing. You do not need to be limited by your anxiety. I invite you to investigate and learn what your body is trying to tell you and heal the part of you that is seeking to heal.

Join me for today's meditation, Healing your anxiety trigger: Taste, and wash away the tension and clear this space within our body and energy system.

Have a wonderful Mother's Day and enjoy basking in every single emotion it brings you!

Much love,
Erin