Caitlin ONeill Kinesiology

08/08/2023

17/07/2022

Do you realise how important your feet are in living a peaceful life?

Recently I became aware of how much my feet hurt. Ok, they have hurt most of my life. But as a person with hypermobility I just thought that was a fact of life. I suddenly realised it didn’t have to be.

The last few months have been about improving the way I support myself. And having a supportive foundation makes everything easier.

We know ALIGNMENT is key to living a life of flow, ease and PEACE. And feet are physically the foundation of our bodies alignment (or lack of it). When our feet are sore and weak, it affects our whole posture: the alignment of our knees, hips, the curve of our spine, shoulders and jaw...

Our feet used to be super tough before the invention of the modern shoe and our sedentary lifestyles.

Can you imagine being able to:

🦩 Stand ALL day
🐫 Hike barefoot
🐆 Run and twist and jump for hours ..with no pain?

TBH I couldn’t either. Now that’s exactly what I am working towards! After 26 years of using orthotics, it's going to take a bit of practice: of foot rolling, toe spreading, stretching, ankle position and balance training. All of these things are simple to do at home – they just take a little consistency.

I'm so excited to see what will manifest in my life as my foundation is strengthened!

31/05/2022

The body is electric – it runs via the movement of positive and negative charges through it. These movements are sometimes known as 'chemical reactions'. For the body to undergo any movement (internal or external) it requires a chemical reaction to occur.

When we feel an emotion, we feel tension in different parts of the body. That tension can only happen because something moved from where it was, to somewhere different. E.g.
😧 nervous --> gut tightening;
😭 grief --> chest tightening,
😀 joy --> mouth smiling.

That means feeling an emotion requires a chemical reaction and an electrical current to occur.

Humans are clever though. At some point in our evolution, we worked out it wasn’t always useful to DISPLAY our emotions. When you are being chased by a lion, crying with grief is not useful. You need to run.

So we learnt to suppress the emotions and their associated electrical charges. We usually feel this as BODY TENSION. Aches and trigger points in our muscles. But charges can also be stored in organs, bones, glands – any tissue really.

Proteins change shape when their electrical charge changes. A change in charge literally means the molecule has lost or gained electrons. It goes from a positive to negative charge, or vice versa. Like magnets on your fridge, we know that opposite charges attract. So, changing the charge on a molecule results in changing EVERYTHING its attracted to. Suddenly it behaves in a totally different way. It pushes away from things it was formerly attracted to, and attached to things it wasn’t. It's literally 'bent out of shape'.

A muscle 'knot' or trigger point is formed when enough molecules are attracted to things they shouldn’t be.

If you experience tension or pain in your body, you have molecules that are attracted to the wrong things. And its all cause by storing the electrical charge of unprocessed emotions.

Store enough emotions and we call that being 'stressed'. Store enough stress and we call that 'disease'.

This is why processing stored emotions is the way to avoid and solve stress and disease.

Allow yourself to FEEL.
Health will follow.

22/05/2022

Ok, who else gets really obsessed with a subject for a while and has an unquenchable thirst to know more about it? I mean, 'not-eat-all-day, can't sleep' type obsessed? An unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Actually the feeling is literally the same as being really really thirsty and thinking about a cool, tall glass of water.

These days I do try and make sure my rabbit hole adventures have a pre-planned end point. Mostly an appointment with someone that I HAVE to go to. That seems to snap me out of it. Or they pull me out of it 🤣

Does anyone else know what I mean?

'Obsession mode' seems to be quite fantastic for learning about things deeply. (I learnt a lot of Chinese words and the Korean alphabet 🤣). Except I never quite get to finish anything because the next topic of obsession arrives. However maybe we don’t need to understand everything in infinite amounts of detail to get where we are going to next. Maybe its enough to learn a topic for as long as it brings us joy. We will come back to it later if necessary.

It's a highly non-linear process.

We think that a scattered learning style – one with no structure – is bad. Bad in the way ADHD is 'bad'. But what if it is not. What if it is the most effective way to learn sometimes? Because each moment you spend learning with that method, you are completely absorbed by the material. You NEVER forget it.

I know I'm not the only one who operates like this.

For those of you who think/learn/live this way: consider that maybe our brains are the way of the future. That we house the MOST advanced learning algorithm on the planet. Lets start embracing it rather than trying to fit into the existing linear system.

05/05/2022

Sometimes little things trigger a feeling of resentment in me. Traffic. Keys that wont go into locks. The cat doing his business just outside the litter tray.

It's often the extreme, 'cartoon head exploding' type of resentment🤯. With little rational explanation. (You know the type I mean, right.)

The worst part is I don't know...
⏰ when
🌋 how
💣 who else will be there when the explosion arrives.

I often feel trapped, powerless and controlled by my resentment.

As a child I learnt to suppress and deny any feelings of resentment. They were not acceptable. Instead I stored it in my body, in the muscles, tissue and bones. And now the most random situations cause it to boil to the surface in its journey to be expressed.

I never learnt to say 'no'. Because I was raised to be a nice quiet girl who accommodates everyone else. I thought being a 'good girl' meant letting everyone treat me how THEY liked. And that being a 'good girl' was the only way I could be lovable.

I based my self concept on how others treated me. I constantly needed their validation to exist. And then resented them when they did something that hurt or invalidated me.

And now...

I understand that feeling resentment is the #1 sign that my boundaries are being violated. Meaning I need to say 'NO that's not ok'.

When I express my 'No', the feeling of resentment goes away IMMEDIATELY. And usually the other person is quite accommodating and happy that I have told them how I feel.

Our relationship grows stronger.

For that, I LOVE my resentment ❤ It's my friend and my teacher. Listening to it's message brings me closer to true peace 🌈

21/04/2022

How do we 'roll' and 'bounce' with the winds of change without feeling pushed around?

If you feel pushed around, you have a boundary issue – you are unconsciously accepting an experience that you are not actually 100% ok with. You can let the resentment build or do something about it.

It doesn't matter whether it's one specific person or 'the whole world' that is pushing you around.

We get what we are willing to accept.

Examine your current boundary, set a new one and get a new life experience.

So...how do we do that?

Let's imagine the unconscious part of you that accepts feeling pushed around has a name, e.g. 'Jill'. Maybe Jill believes that:
🦩 She deserves to feel pushed around
🦩 Feeling pushed around keeps her safe because no-one will see her as a threat
🦩 Being pushed around is the best way to keep her loved ones happy
🦩 It's selfish and demanding to put her needs first
🦩 'Going with the flow' is the same thing as being pushed around
There could be other beliefs. Sit with yourself and find them.

Jill hasn’t done anything wrong. She only believes this because she is disconnected from her authentic truth: that no one 'deserves 'to feel pushed around. And feeling pushed around does not keep you or others safe/connected/happy.

She doesn’t realise what she is thinking/doing/creating.

Reconnect Jill to her authentic truth by having an imaginary conversation with her. The focussed attention from your conscious mind is what makes the change. Explain to her that there is a different, safer and more fun way to live, and support her to see it. Explain it like you would for a child.

We are never powerless. Feeling pushed around is a message from your Being.

The sooner we start talking with our internal parts, the sooner we start FLOWING.

04/04/2022

It's uncomfortable when things turn out different to our expectations.

I don't know many ppl who don't get frustrated/scared/upset by uncomfortable situations. Even if they don't admit it.

Personally I get super frustrated.

My mind wants to know: Caitlin, is this situation here to confirm our fear that we aren't good enough? Or is there another explanation? How are we going to respond to this? Should we punish ourselves?

It's frustrating to be in an uncomfortable situation AND have a noisy head full of worry/analysis/doubt.

I'm sure u can relate.

We can't always change the situation immediately but we can take care of our noisy head.

For me the key has been to really understand this:

The truth is, everything is an OPPORTUNITY to become more aware of ourselves. The hidden parts.

Experience is how wisdom is created. Experience puts us in touch with our personal truths e.g. it feels crap to be unseen, I want to be seen. We are motivated to change the situation.

Getting uncomfortable allows us to know what we want to experience next.

Which means we can never 'get it wrong'. We can never really 'mess up'.

As long as we see the POINT of the experience. Meaning the wisdoms and personal truths being conveyed.

Which means nothing uncomfortable in life is pointless.
🦐🦑🦞🦀

And when we see the point, we release ourselves from needing to re-create the same situation.

We free ourselves from the noisy head.

🎟 Master the art of seeing the point in everything and you master happiness. It's hard to stay frustrated/scared/upset at a situation when we understand the point of it.

When we glean the wisdom and personal truths.

Just think about how cool it would it be if everyone saw the point in everything they experienced.

22/03/2022

Exciting news! In person sessions are now available @ Fremantle Osteopathic Clinic

That means more opportunities to:
🐆 Energize your body, mind and soul
🐲 Clarify your direction
🐳 Do the impossible

Why?

Because so many uncomfortable things are happening in the world internally + externally.

We could wait for the answers to come to us. Except I'm sick of waiting. Aren't you?

Our bodies already know the answers, we just have to listen. Kinesiology is the fast track to hearing those answers.

Who doesn't like to take the fast track?

Book online at: https://fremantleosteopathy.com.au/

* Online distance sessions still available at link in the bio or:
https://caitlinoneillkinesiology.com.au/

18/03/2022

Kinesiology is a way to find and release stress.

Kinesiology's area of genius is dealing with subconscious stress. The stuff we don't know we don't know.

(Lurking down there, waiting to bite).

When we aren't stressed, we are free to be our most authentic selves. We have the energy and vitality to do anything we want.

That's limitlessness.

If there is ANYTHING in our life that isn't 'ideal', kinesiology can show us why we aren't creating what we want, and how to turn that around.

Sound good?

08/03/2022

People say to me ALL the time 'just trust the process even if it sounds whack'. Nothing inflames the logical side of my brain more. It gets out its guns ready annihilate the speaker.

My logical brain mostly cares about efficient and effective outcomes.

But recently I had a new experience.

Trust alone actually worked to get me a massively effective outcome.

You only need one 'exception' for the a well reinforced belief to start to crumble.

After that, I had a little chat with my logical 🧠. It went like this: 'hey 🧠, would u like to put your feet up and rest for a while? We now have PROOF that using trust to get outcomes is possible for big issues.'

And my 🧠 replied: 'why Caitlin, im so glad u mention this. Its much more efficient and effective for me to take a rest anyway, so yes! Logically using TRUST to get outcomes makes the best sense.'

And so begins this exciting journey of trust. What could a body and a 🧠 that trust each other create?

 

05/03/2022

It is easy to be afraid of our own success. Will people still be able to see who I truly am and want to connect with me? What will my family think? Will my friends treat me differently? Or will I lose the support of those around me and be alone.

Being abandoned is a primal fear. It's the fear of death. As a child, being abandoned is equal to a death sentence.

So let's stop beating ourselves up for being afraid to pursue success. Or not achieving the success we think we should have by now. We are confronting our most primal fears by even going in the direction of success.

We are where we are, in this moment of NOW, and that's enough.

 

28/02/2022

08/02/2022

We came here to create our dreams, not just to 'satisfy our needs'. When we motivate ourselves from the place of only 'getting what I need' we limit ourselves to only meeting our minimum standards for survival - because thats all we are focussing on. Sure, it's important to satisfy needs, but that can also be done simultaneously when we focus on what we really want. The Dreams; the Big Picture.

04/02/2022