Recently, I had a conversation with a client who came to me through a colleague's recommendation.
She was looking for integrative health methods as she imagined they should be.
She told me directly, with honesty:
"Ana, your working method doesn't seem spiritual to me."
I felt the need to understand what she meant, what she was comparing it to:
"What does 'spiritual' mean to you?"
"How, don't you know?"
"To be honest, I'm not sure I can grasp the complex meaning of this concept."
I believe that each of us sees things through the lens of our own experiences, perceptions, education, culture, civilization, the environment we live in, the stage of life we're in, etc.
But tell me, what were you expecting to find in working with me?
"Sensitivity, focusing on emotions, making them easier to bear, and helping me heal them."
"Is that what 'spiritual' means to you?"
"Yes, exactly."
"You see, my role is not to apply spiritual methods or to focus on emotions in a sensitive way.
My mission is to bring clarity, to help you center yourself amidst the dualities of life, to be there for you in the process of discovering yourself or understanding your body.
We work together to explore the genetic depth and its manifestations, which are less evident to an untrained eye.
I am a small part of the thinking human fractal, and this is how I understand supporting its rationality.
And I want to explain why.
Sensitivity is a state that speaks to the ability to perceive and react to stimuli.
It can be emotional (a person sensitive to praise/criticism) or physical (e.g., skin sensitivity to touch, extreme temperatures, chemicals).
Emotions are complex reactions of the body that affect us both mentally and physically.
Emotions are your reactions to the reality around you and have deep roots in the body's chemistry.
They change your heart rate, breathing, even the way hormones and neurotransmitters are secreted.
We cannot 'heal' emotions because they are part of our living and survival, triggered by the autonomic nervous system.
But what we can do is understand them and modulate them, transforming them from something that overwhelms us into something that can be anticipated and experienced at healthy intensities.
In this situation, sensitivity becomes receptivity.
Receptivity refers to an organism's or system's ability to perceive and respond in a balanced and neutral way to stimuli.
In the fields of biology and psychology, receptiveness describes the openness and fine acuity to external or internal stimuli.
This represents a kind of interpretative neutrality.
A person with high psychological Receptivity is capable of adapting their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors based on the feedback received, thus being open to change and learning.
Receptiveness builds antifragility, flexibility, robustness in thinking/feeling, as well as increased adaptability in the face of complex social and personal situations, thus facilitating harmonious communication and interpersonal relationships.
On this journey, we are not seeking to 'heal' emotions, but to understand them, to recognize the biochemical support that sustains them because from an intense emotion—whether positive (joy, euphoria, satisfaction, pride) or negative (frustration, anger, sadness, fear, shame, guilt)—to the imbalance of the body as illness, there is only a step. A lot of energy and molecular resources are spent in this chemical up-and-down game.
So, the goal is not to make them easier to bear, but to give them meaning, to modulate their intensity, to prevent energy losses, mitochondrial exhaustion, and illness.
"In conclusion, my working method is one that leads to 'taking control' of our states through a conscious training of Receptiveness.
Receptiveness that then contributes to integrative health.
If you feel that this approach resonates with you, write to me; I am here to support you in this endeavor!"
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