When I was little girl, I was a full-on mushroom hater with a capital H.
The texture.
The taste.
And the smell. I swear I could smell mushrooms even when my mom tried to hide them.
I’d pick them out of any dish, especially salads. Except my mom always caught me and made me take two, saying “you’ll grow out of it and you’ll like them when you’re older.”
Well, that was a big, fat lie, because decades later, I blanche and grab for a glass of wine at the slightest whiff of sauteed mushrooms in butter.
But at least now I have a few coping mechanisms – wine, an open window or door, more wine, and the free will to politely decline, unless it’s family and these special people get my inner teenager “yeccchhh – no!” with an eye roll.
It’s like I have this built-in hyper-awareness from my repulsion of them.
It reminds me of EMF triggers and sensitivities and the burning question “do they ever completely go away?”
I get this question all the time from clients.
The ones who are sensitive want to know if it can actually happen. And the ones who aren’t sensitive want to know in case they ever develop sensitivities down the road. So, basically, everyone.
For EMF sensitivities and pain that can come with them such as headaches, yes, those can fade away and disappear over time, and the amount of time you’re in pain can also go away in many cases if you continue to take action (check out the previous article which talks about how to get started if you haven’t already read it).
Now for the part you don’t hear about.
Once you’re sensitive to EMFs, meaning you can feel or sense them, or you get triggered and have a response, such as headaches, it’s like your body’s awareness of EMF fields gets programmed at a higher level and lets you know when they’re around.
It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to end up with a headache like you might have in the past, you’ll just feel or sense them.
And it’s usually fairly subtle like a subdued “hey” and not a bullhorn “HEY!!!!!!!!!” kind of thing.
Even though I wasn’t getting affected by them anymore, I still felt them which was the last thing I wanted.
What a bum deal!
I mean, it’s not like I could just get rid of it like a piece of office furniture.
So here’s what I did to make this “skill” useful:
– Mapped the different alerts or feelings in my body to the different types of EMF fields.
– If I happened to get triggered, I knew which field I was more sensitive to at that time (because this can change over time) and that I needed to start taking actions to reduce my triggers.
– Used the different alerts to tell me what I needed to do and how far down the path I was to a full fledged trigger. For example, I’ve learned over time that when my inner ear starts to feel itchy inside, it’s really just a warning I should reduce my EMF exposure over the next few days, like turn my phone on airplane mode during the day or not use it as much – something fairly trivial. However, if I ignore it or the itchy inner ear just doesn’t catch my attention, the warning sign turns into a sharp, dull ache – low-level pain that’s more of an annoyance, but a little more of an attention-getter and up a notch from the previous warning and a step closer to an EMF trigger, and so on and so on.
This has helped me tremendously in getting ahead of EMF triggers so they very rarely happen. In fact, I actually can’t remember the last time I had one.
If you’re sensitive to EMFs and have been able to reduce your triggers, here are some tips to help you be even more successful:
1. Before you get a full-fledged trigger, your body sends out smaller alerts or warning signals. The next time you are triggered, write down all of your symptoms leading up to it, big and small. I never would have thought that feeling like my inner ear is itchy is a warning sign, but it is, and now that I know to listen to it, I can nip that trigger right in the bud.
2. If you can feel or sense EMFs, start mapping them to the different EMF fields so you know which ones you’re the most sensitive to (date anything you track!). Usually the fields you feel the most are the ones you’re sensitive to at that point in time, and those will change over time.
3. Expanding on the previous tip, notice the different levels of alerts your body sends out. For example, my first level alert is the itchy feeling inner ear, and if I reduce my EMF exposure or do something else to alleviate that, but then I get a dull ache in my inner ear, I know it’s getting a bit worse instead of better – not a full fledged, painful trigger, but it’s an indicator that I need to be more aggressive in dealing with it to prevent that full-fledged trigger.
4. This takes time and isn’t going to happen overnight. So be nice to yourself!
Are you sensitive to EMF fields or a mushroom hater? Hit Reply and tell me, I love hearing from you!
Much love,
Risa
P.S. If you missed the previous email, it was about EMF sensitivities and what I did to start reducing my triggers.
P.P.S. Did you know that I wrote a DIY EMF book called “What The EMF? It’s the book I wish I had when I first started learning about EMFs. It’s super easy to understand with step-by-step instructions, and nutrition and holistic solutions (Hint: you can use them for this!) and you can binge read it in a day. I’m real proud of it and you can click here to order it.
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