Where are your parents in your body?

Energetically it is spoken that your left side of your body is your feminine/yin side and your right side is your masculine/yang side. Well now incorporate your mother on your left side and your father on your right side. Firstly, look at your mom and dad individually. What generally stands out about what you noticed they did or didn’t do when it comes to for example, money, working, or relationships? Once you’ve done that, look at how they relate(d) to each other. Then look at your self in relation to them. How were you treated? As an adult now, young or old, look at the areas where you struggle or have challenges. Using the information you noticed about your parents, what are you noticing about your own life? Where are you feeling most of the problems in your physical body, on your left or your right side? How are you running your energy? Are there times when you’ve said you would hate to be like your mom or dad? What if you were like ‘them’? You will begin to see some patterns unfolding.

In my life growing up and still even now, my father yells at my mom all the time to do something. It seems when he gets frustrated with things he yells at my mom (that generation didn’t deal too well with their emotions). I reacted to this at home. It sure bothered me and can still catch me off guard. I would start to yell back at him telling him there was no need to yell. I also took that bother into my adulthood; no one was ever going to yell at me in this life time! There are times though where I yell. Hummm! Now my mom was a traditional stay at home mom. She raised us children, being there every day to make sure we had meals prepared and clean clothes for us. I will always remember how she was the one to drive us to all our activities. She would sew our clothes and even did some sewing for others. Along the way she sewed more professionally. She would spend hours and hours sewing beads on wedding gowns and only charge $200. When I would ask her for money for my activities, she wouldn’t have any and would send me to the garage to ask my dad. That was a nightmare because it turned into a begging session. It bothered me to have to ask for money for anything.

Well here’s what I’m noticing in my life. I feel I struggle to get my business to really take off. I’m silencing my business side some how; I’m silencing my dad so I don’t have to hear his yelling anymore. I feel this physically on my right side. When I look at my mother side, I have pushed and shoved and pulled myself so hard, because I didn’t want to be yelled at for doing nothing. I also tend to find it hard to charge for my services at times. As I’m becoming conscious of these patterns I can understand what’s behind some of my issues!

That is only one aspect of my mother/father part of me. Its about learning how I’m running my energy. It has helped me to see where pains, patterns, habits, etc. originate. Have fun!