So many people suffer from these diseases that once were chalked up to be a figment of a hypochondriac’s imagination. Now we know differently. They both have a physical basis and Erik also explains the spiritual and energetic basis.

Me: One of the blog members would like to know a little about chronic fatigue syndrome and—a guess it could be a different component—fibromyalgia. What’s the whole spiritual aspect behind these? Let’s start with chronic fatigue.

Erik: Chronic fatigue sucks.

Jamie (sarcastically): Really? Ya think?

Erik: It’s like having a hole in your tire, but you’re still driving on it, and it’s a slow leak. It’s not like a huge tear. Imagine that base energy that we keep that’s on the bottom of our spine.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: That’s our Kundalini. That’s our storage. It’s where we keep our power.

Jamie: And when he means power, it’s the one that we run on.

Erik. Imagine that it has holes in it, and we leak it out, but we’re not fixing it. We’re not looking at why. We’re just recognizing the symptoms of feeling run down and the symptoms of being tired. You have to look at what’s creating the holes.

Me: That makes perfect sense.

Erik: Commonly, what’s creating the holes, especially in America right now, is hormone imbalance. We’re not looking at our hormones as being exact answers to the symptoms that we’re feeling, and they could even be off by just a –

Jamie: Ha ha! He said, “a smidge” and I just made fun of him for using that word!

I laugh.

Jamie: I said, ‘That’s an old lady word!”

Me: Yeah, Erik! That’s like saying a skosh! “Just a skosh.”

Jamie: He holds up two fingers like just a pinch. A smidge.

Erik: I’ll never say it again!

Jamie and I giggle.

Erik: So, even if it’s off by just that, ahem, small amount, it can really screw with the whole entire system. But people feel like if they have a headache, they feel like it’s obviously something from their brain; it couldn’t be their hormones. It’s just stupid that we’re not looking at overall systematic health. We’re really a culture that pays attention to the symptoms and not source.

Me: Exactly.

Erik: So I would first look at hormones as being a source, and if you’re one of those people who don’t fall in that category, then you need to look at autoimmunity, because there are a lot of us who have a weakness here, and it’s just leaching the energy out of our power storage system. It’s just pulling and tugging. And if their issues are not there, I would point my finger at emotional dysfunction. We give a lot of extra away completely for free, not even for trade. We just dump. Dump, dump, dump, dump, dump.

Me: All our emotional resources?

Erik: Yes.

Me: Okay.

Erik. You’re coming away with zero, and if you do this for a period of time, you really fuck yourself in the end, because you don’t learn to replenish yourself. Your own energy. So, when there’s chronic fatigue, the overall lesson or message that comes with it is, Dude, respect yourself. Pay attention to yourself. Honor yourself, cuz it’s coming from you. It’s definitely coming from you. Nobody’s making you do it. Nobody’s making you give away pieces of yourself.”

Me: Yes! But why do people choose to do that? Seriously.

Erik: It could be like flipping a switch to turn on a light for themselves so that they can see themselves. You know, if the other lessons weren’t working where the job was going wrong or the relationship was going wrong—hell they aren’t going to look at themselves as the issue. They’re going to create  the solution—the solution that’s outside of them, that’s not them. Then having chronic fatigue, you can’t point the finger at anybody else. You can’t go, “Whoa, I really fucked up! I really need to look at me.” That’s many reasons why people take it on and it shows up. By pointing a finger at everyone else, though, you give away all of your emotional resources to those people, and you’re left with nothing for yourself.

Me: Okay.

Erik: If you’re young and you have it—

Jamie (to Erik): I’m NOT going to say that!

Erik: Just to you, Mom. If you’re young and you have it, you really did something.

Jamie: I’m not going to say it the way he said it. F-ing this and blah, blah, blah, you really did something wrong.

Me: Okay. Is that the only way to get your attention—to get our own, um, or is it to or is it so you won’t point it to yourself? Is your body trying to—what is it? I don’t understand? Is it your body’s way of trying to say, “Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!”?

Erik: Yeah. Look at me. Me, me, me, me, me! Not the environment, not what somebody did? It’s really, “Shut up, simplify yourself and focus on you. Take time away from work. Take time away from relationships. Go find yourself.”

Me: Okay, Is fibromyalgia kind of the same thing?

Erik: Fibromyalgia is so painful! That tends to me more of a hormonal and emotional trigger and it comes up more with people who are making emotional sacrifices. Your body can’t digest that all the time, so it comes up to you as, “You need to take care of this,” and in the process you learn how to take care of yourself emotionally.

Me: Okay. So very similar to chronic to fatigue syndrome in a way.

Erik: Yeah.