Horrible Headaches... and what to do about them

How many of you know A.A. Milne’s wonderful collection of stories, ‘Winnie the Pooh’? I grew up being read those stories and have loved reading them to my children. One of our favourites is when Pooh and Piglet try to trap a Heffalump.

Poor little Piglet gets terribly frightened in the Hundred Acre Wood and in the dead of night runs away shouting, ‘Help! Horrible Hairy Heffalump!’ at the top of his tiny little lungs. Well today I want to write about what to do when you are wanting to shout, ‘Help! Horrible Hairy Headache!’.

Not one of you will ever have experienced a headache when you felt wonderfully relaxed and delighted in your life. You experience headaches when you are stressed, off balance, feeling like you are overwhelmed and juggling too much.

In other words, headaches are your whole-body system telling you something is off-kilter and out of balance.

Headaches are always due to a pressure imbalance in your energy system. Different people have different physiological and energetic responses to pressure though and this creates different kinds of headaches that can be divided into four distinct energetic types depending on whether there is an imbalance in your:

1. Hormonal system

2. Meridian system

3. Chakra system

4. Nervous system.

In this blog I want to talk more about Meridian system headaches, and what you can do to relieve them. If you want to know more about hormonal system headaches, click here. If you want to know more about Chakra system headaches, then click here.

Let's find out more about Meridian system headaches...

If you get headaches when you feel pressed for time, like you are chasing your tail on the never ending hamster wheel of your life, or if you know you need help detoxing, you haven't drunk enough water or you're eating food that isn't great for you, then you may be dealing with Meridian headaches.

There are two Meridian systems that when out of balance can really cause headaches: Liver / Gallbladder and Kidney / Bladder. Below you'll find practices for each of these systems that will become good friends in your energy medicine bag when you have a headache, and with regular use, will help prevent them too. These are also the practices to reach for when you know that you need help detoxing.

The most common reasons for having too many toxins in the physical body:

• Eating food not suited to the body’s nutritional needs

• Environmental toxins from pollution and plastics

• Side-effects of medication

• Hormonal imbalance

• Drinking more alcohol than the detoxification systems can manage

The most common reasons for having too many toxins in the whole-body system:

• 1st and 2nd Chakras being too congested to be processing effectively

• Being ungrounded

• Stress creating fight-flight-freeze emergency response

• Compromised connection between the head and the heart

In Chinese medicine, your Gallbladder and Bladder function as 'yang' support partners to your elimination organs Liver and Kidney (which are yin). Gallbladder and Bladder are often working hard to keep the balance when Liver and Kidneys are struggling. Think about those times when one partner in a relationship has just got too much to do… the other partner comes in to play a bigger role in the relationship with family/work/home. They have to pick up the slack. But meanwhile, the first partner is really struggling, totally overwhelmed with what they are trying to manage, and it just doesn’t stop – the workload keeps piling up and so at some point, both partners are feeling the stress and strain.

This is exactly what happens within the relationships of yin/yang partners in the Meridian system. When Liver or Kidney are overwhelmed with trying to process toxins, Gallbladder and Bladder step up and try to hold the balance. But this wonderfully wise energetic solution should only be a short term measure, and if Liver and Kidney continue to struggle (perhaps you continue to eat food that isn’t good for you, or to have that extra glass of wine), Gallbladder and Bladder begin to really feel the strain too.

With the Gallbladder and Bladder meridians encircling the head (and especially the scalp), when they feel a sustained strain one of the physical symptoms you can experience is headaches.

I should specify at this point, that for most of you it will be EITHER the Liver / Gallbladder relationship OR the Kidney / Bladder relationship that mostly shows up.

If you experience Meridian system headaches, then as you do the practices below you’ll notice that one of the videos simply feels better to you, you will resonate with it more than the other video. That one is the one that you will use most often.

Working with my own headaches, along with 20 years of private practice, has helped me develop a deep understanding of the different types of headache as well as what to do to resolve headaches and restore balance.

Now I want to share those understandings and techniques with you in my 90 minute online class Heal Your Headaches.

You will learn much more about the four different types of headache, along with some simple yet powerful tools you can use every day to shift a headache that’s already started AND prevent headaches from happening in the first place, so you can move closer and closer to being headache free.

This accessible online class will enable you to:

• Discover key understandings about headaches and why they occur

• Learn how to distinguish between four different types of headache and which one/s you are dealing with

• Find out about migraines and how they differ from other headaches

• Feel empowered with key energy understandings, tools and techniques that help relieve headaches and prevent more from occurring

• Embrace a powerful emotional release to reduce pressure build up in your system

Join me for Heal Your Headaches

Whatever type of headache you experience, I am so happy to tell you that there is SO MUCH you can do to heal your headaches and step into your fullest, most vibrant life.

With love, Prune