Rosie, Medical Medium & Lucy, the baby who survived a fire.
In past year I got to know a surprising side of my “intuitive” abilities. I seem to have the ability to “see” into a person’s physical body. The images I see have a great clarity and precision, showing, for example, symptoms and how they manifest in internal organs; interactions between organs; electrical signals and neurotransmitter activity from the brain onto specific organs.
In addition, I see the connection between these physical symptoms and seemingly unrelated traumatic event(s) that are often the root cause of these symptoms.
Biology and anatomy had never been an interest of mine, making this all the more surprising. In the course of this “discovery” I have been taking notes just so I can explain what I have learnt and what I have been told.
For some reason, I have come across people with chronic ailments that are often hard to pinpoint. Coincidentally, they have survived early, often forgotten, life-threatening accidents where similar symptoms first appeared. This pattern points to early events shaping and altering our brains in ways that we are only beginning to understand.
This is the story of Lucy* ( name used to protect her privacy).
Lucy: the baby who survived a fire.
How Lucy and I first connected
Lucy joined my Patreon group a few months ago.
We were talking one time on the phone and she was telling me she can't really walk outside because she suffers from Chronic Pulmonary Obstruction (COPD) and Asthma.
She only has 40% of her breathing capacity, and can’t go for walks outside due to her pulmonary issues.
She had survived a fire when she was a baby
One doctor once told her, her current health condition is likely connected to the events of her past, the fire she had survived as a baby. I became intrigued by the connection and began asking her for specific details.
When Lucy was a baby, the vaporizer near her crib caught on fire, and the fire spread. Although her body had not suffered any burns, but she had inhaled a lot of smoke.
Lucy's experience fit the pattern I had seen: early, life-threatening accidents leading to later, autonomous-nervous-system-related symptoms
The stories I heard have one thing in common: life-threatening events, often in early childhood, such as car accidents. These life-threatening events triggered the fight-or-flight response from the automatic nervous system.
The triggering of the fight-or-flight response during the original accident rewires the nervous system into reacting to any and all environmental conditions that are reminiscent of what the client experienced during the initial accident.
There was no apparent physical developmental issue with her lungs.
Lucy didn’t have physical/developmental issues on her lungs from her childhood. The COPD had been detected on the breathing capacity test, not an X-ray.
After she told me this story I offered to look into it with the intention to find out the answers to the following questions:
(1) What caused this accident and what were the circumstances surrounding it?
(2) How was her body reacting to the accident as it was happening?
(3) Once the accident was over, how did her body react to it? Did the body carry any sequels connected to the accident?
(4) Regarding Lucy’s current ailments, are they a result of a physical issue connected to the lungs directly or could it be the result of the automatic nervous system?
Part I: Figuring out how her body experienced the accident, as it was happening.
What happened to baby Lucy during the fire?
Babies cry from discomfort, hunger, belly aches. They cry so they can have their immediate needs met.
When the fire started, and baby Lucy started having trouble breathing, she cried and cried and cried.
No matter how loudly she cried, there was no one there to remove the discomfort. Lucy the baby could not separate getting their physical needs met from receiving love.
The magnitude of a life-threatening event
At the time of the fire the baby experienced not only the fight-or-flight mechanism being triggered, but she also experienced a harrowing sense of helplessness, of loneliness, of horror.
The baby experienced the life-threatening situation as a complete lack of love, a complete lack of security and enormous anxiety.
What was happening inside the baby's body as smoke engulfed her crib?
Tiny lungs in high alert. I saw that at the time of the fire, the baby's lungs were "red", not red because they were hot, but red because they were on a state of high alert. And as the baby experienced the smoke, the bronchi automatically constricted the breathing channels as a means to survive.
The Importance of Touch. Immediately after this harrowing experience, the baby was then moved to the cold medical environment where it was deprived of touch.
Other babies, had they been held and attended to as a means to strengthen the bond and ensure the sense of security and predictability, might have survived unscathed, but the family circumstances did not allow the baby to feel the security and predictability needed for full recovery.
How did Lucy's body react to the fire as she grew up?
So as Lucy grew up, it was as if her lungs were "on alert" much like the alert she experienced while her tiny lungs were inhaling smoke.
I mentioned to her that I got the image of short breathing a person gets if say, you're awoken in the middle of the night from a very scary nightmare.
It was as if her lungs never allowed her to breathe properly because they were "frozen" in time, living in the timetable set by the early life-threatening accident.
Part II: Her condition today
Could Lucy’s chronic ailments ne the consequence of disruption of her automatic nervous system?
Once I was done with sharing all the information I had about the fire events and how they had affected her, I moved on to where she is today.
At this stage I looked into her "energetic body" and focused on her lungs.
Inside her lungs, I saw. closed-flower-like structures that reminded me of flowers just before they bloom. These structures were like tiny muscle-like passages that open and close, but in her case, the structures remained in the closed position.
Lacking the correct name to describe the anatomy I was seeing I looked up "ashthma" because I knew asthma, just like what I had seen, involved air passages closing off. The illustrations matched the images I had seen. They were shaped like closed flower bulbs.
Part III: Letting go
Treatment
After I was done describing to Lucy what I had seen, I moved on to treatment. There were two parts to this treatment.
Healing the baby immediately after the accident
The first part of the treatment involved returning to the moment when the fire was extinguished and the baby survived.
I visualized my hands placed over the baby's chest area so as to "touch" the baby's lungs.
When I placed my hands on the baby's chest I "saw" the lungs, reddened, lit up like neon lights at night. The redness had to do with the state of high alert.
Next I saw the image of shallow breathing. Her lungs had been on high alert since; shallow breathing was one of the instances that allowed for the lung to function minimally so as to not let the smoke get in completely.
The energetic body remains "frozen" in the moment of trauma.
The energetic body remains "frozen" in the moment of trauma. That is why it is important to return to the moment of trauma to heal the energetic body.
Continuous touch re-establishes the sense of security and predictability that is so important to the child's development.
As I visualized my hands on the baby's chest, I could see the "red alert" color of her lungs turn to normal.
Once I felt the energy settled, I moved to Lucy's lungs, today.
And, projecting light onto her lungs, we vocalized the letting go of the past "programming" her automatic nervous system had adhered to; an opened her lungs to perfect light and perfect energy so that harmony could be restored.
Lucy’s feedback at the end of the call.
At the end of our call, Lucy said her wheezing had diminished significantly. She was surprised she could breathe without noticeable obstruction, given that we had been on the phone for about an hour at that point.
After the call I did some research given that I do NOT have a medical background, and learnt that indeed, the closing of air passages is a function of the automatic/sympathetic nervous system. It therefore in the realm of conceivable that many chronic respiratory diseases could caused by nervous system disturbances.
Appendix: Learning Lessons
The survival instinct and the development of chronic ailments.
The survival instinct vs. “emotions”. Culturally, we seem to believe that "emotions", as in sad or depressed can cause disease.
From what I have seen, it is not conscious “emotion”, but something deeper than conscious emotion. Survival instinct on high alert, not what we think of as emotional states, is at the root of the development of so many ailments.
The fight or flight mechanism and the automatic nervous system. The survival instinct is present in all living creatures. It is what we call the "fight or flight mechanism", activated by the automatic nervous system.
Many serious ailments are born when the automatic nervous system’s response to life-threatening events is imprinted onto the energetic body, rewiring it permanently.
Life-threatening events can create powerful "programs" that take over the normal, “off” state in the automatic nervous system. When this happens, the automatic nervous system stays in a live loop, leading one to experience the world through a permanent state of high alert. This permanent state of high alert lives in an unconscious layer, far beyond the reach of the conscious, “emotional" realm.
Revisiting the original traumatic event is key to finding the root and therefore a “cure” to today’s symptoms. Often, today’s symptoms closely mirror those that appeared during the traumatic event.
Removing the event-node Understanding and releasing the event that created what I call the "node" in the energetic body is what the goal of the treatment.
The node is the faulty program that was triggered under the fight or flight response and etched onto the automatic nervous system.
Once we address the original event, and understand the physical responses that happened during that event, we can release the faulty program so to speak, and allow the body to rewire itself to normal function.