You probably haven’t given your colon a great deal of thought, unless you’ve ever had to prep for a colonoscopy. Now, I’m going to ask you to look at your colon in a whole new way. It’s the key to experiencing true emotional digestion. So what’s emotional digestion?

If you’ve read my book, Life Shift, you already know that you have not just one but four bodies: emotional, spiritual, mental AND physical.

When your emotional body is out of balance – through stress, trauma, resentment, etc. — it has a direct affect on the physical body. In fact, your emotional body is the gatekeeper to the physical, mental and spiritual bodies. So an emotional body imbalance, has a direct impact not just on your physical health, it blocks your mental body from maintaining a positive, unlimited perspective.

I’ve been doing emotional release work for over 35 years, and in both my own personal process, as well as with thousands of my clients, I have found that colonics are an integral force in the healing process for many people. The colonics work in concert with the release of emotional and mental blocks.

As the colon detoxes physically, you can actually get in touch with negative belief systems, childhood imprints and traumas, that affect the body’s ability (or inability) to eliminate waste. Negative emotions create acid in your body, therefore it is imperative to work to physically clear that acid, as well as to emotionally and mentally detox your body too.

If you’re feeling a deep sense of rejection and loss, and you’re working to clear that in your emotional body, while you’re having a colonic, you can actually simultaneously clear those imprints, and old stored traumas. You can shift into a positive, empowering feeling about yourself, your environment, etc. This can be a powerful catalyst to start to vibrate to new heights of positive action and creativity.

Without a doubt, I’m a huge advocate for healthy eating, supplements and using all of today’s incredible resources to rejuvenate the body. But all the carrot juice or green drinks in the world won’t matter much if you’re holding on tight to resentment, anger, and trauma. Taking vitamins and veggie drinks will indeed raise your vibrational rate. But emotional detox/digestion plays a tremendous role as well. Think of your best intentions for diet as if they are crabs trying to crawl out of a bucket; negative and mental blocks are like those pesky other crabs, that keep pulling each other down.

In addition to our four bodies, we also have 7 energy centers or chakras. The colon energetically exists in 3 different chakras — 1, 2 and 3. The first chakra represents survival and feeling safe, the second represents self-expression, sexual energy, and manifesting money, and the third is your sense of power in the world. Just imagine how a fully functioning healthy colon creates the foundation for everything else to flow in your life!

In her incredible 40-plus-year career, Midlife Mother Aleta St. James has been the role model for regeneration, defying limitation, and living your dreams at any age.  Aleta made worldwide news in 2004 when she became the oldest woman in America at the time to give birth to twins, at age 57. She blew the lid off of society’s perception of aging. She is one of the women subjects featured in NURTURE: Stories of New Midlife Mothers.

Aleta has also gained fame as an internationally renowned energy healer, intuitive life coach and successful author of the top-selling book, Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dream. In recognition of living her “winding up and not down” philosophy, Aleta was recently named one of AARP Magazine’s “people who inspire.” She has also been featured in numerous magazine articles. She can be found at http://www.aletastjames.com.