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beyondterrain: Welcome everybody to another episode of the Beyond Train podcast. I'm your host, Lee of Dalton. Today, we're going to have a very interesting episode. I think I'm i'm really looking forward to this discussion. Uh, as you could probably tell, if you're faithful follower of the show, you know, the direction that we're heading here, right? We're moving beyond the physical. Of course, we've always, we've always known that, but now we're really, we're heading that that direction in a nice path. And so we have a great guest on Connie Strasheem, Strasheem, I'm sorry. Uh, we're going to discuss some really cool connections within the spirit and the mind. And of course the body. Um, it's going to be an amazing discussion. I'm really looking forward to it. So Connie, thank you so much for coming on the show today.
Connie Strasheim: Thank you, Liev. It's an honor to be here with you.
beyondterrain: Yeah, certainly. So the question I ask all my guests at the start of the show is I get them to define health and this gives us a great basis to work off of and. Um, usually take as broad as you want or a specific abstract concrete, whatever you want to do, uh, whatever means, whatever it means to you. Right. So it's, it's sort of a personal thing. We always get a different answer. And I love this question. I think it's a great question. So what does help mean to you?
Connie Strasheim: Health to me means being whole in spirit, soul and body. So it's about the physical body and wellness in the body, but it's also about having peace, having joy, having balance in your mind and emotions. And then to me, health is also about having a connection with God or our creator. So to me, it's about, um you know, it's not just about the physical body. It's about the way we live. It's about how we think, what we believe, what we do on a day to day basis, on a moment to moment basis anyway.
beyondterrain: Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. That, all that sense of holism, right? It's like a true holistic perspective. And that's kind of a buzzword nowadays, but I mean, I think it's a great word, honestly.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah. yeah
beyondterrain: And if we were going to talk about health, we need to take that holistic perspective.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, we do. And the thing that's interesting is a lot of people when they get sick or they have a health problem, they'll quite often just focus on healing that problem with medicine. But honestly, a lot of times the things that make us sick just aren't for instance, environmental toxins or pathogens. But it's trauma, it's toxic thinking, it's, you know, being disconnected from God.
beyondterrain: Okay.
Connie Strasheim: And I think, um or even just living in a way That's not healthy, right? Rushing, having type A behaviors, things like that. And so I think in a lot of cases, especially for um people who have battled complex chronic illnesses like I have, you have to approach healing from what I call the top down, which is at the level of the spirit and then also the level of the soul and the physical body, but secondarily those last two things. And so because, you know, i I just want to say a lot of times when we refer to holistic healing, we talk about it um as healing and body, soul and spirit, and the soul and the spirit or the spirit is always mentioned last, right in the health of the bodies mentioned first.
beyondterrain: And.
Connie Strasheim: And I think it's really meant to be the other way because we are not bodies with a spirit, we are spirits with a body. And there's a difference, right? And so if you are a spirit with a body, this means that your spirit in cooperation with the spirit of God, we're designed to be the master controllers of your body's chemistry. And so um I approach healing and coaching from that perspective, because I think it yields more comprehensive results than just medicine. than taking medicine. And I'm a medical writer. you know iy I've authored and co -authored over 20 books and on different topics in medicine. So I'm very much aware that medicine is very important for a lot of people. But it's just one piece of the puzzle, right? it's um Because there's a lot more to health and wellness than just taking the right supplements or medicines or vitamins.
Connie Strasheim: And so we want to go deeper with that. and i And I think that that is the way to just total, not just being healthy, but whole.
beyondterrain: Yeah. Yeah, I love it. I think it's a great, a great definition of health, honestly, that just some wholeness and some balance, right. And, um, It's a good way to explain it.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: So this, I think the great point that you make is that we always mentioned the spirit last and obviously I'm guilty of it.
Connie Strasheim: Thank you.
beyondterrain: You know, the mind, body, spirit is what we always say.
Connie Strasheim: Mm
beyondterrain: I think that is amazing. Take the spirit first because it's so true, you know, and you know, the conclusions that, that we're sort of drawn here, especially in the podcast and just generally in our learnings, like, you know,
Connie Strasheim: hmm.
beyondterrain: We tend to think that the mind is the really is the controlling factor of the body, right?
Connie Strasheim: Mm
beyondterrain: Like we always say like, oh, the mind controls your biochemistry, your genetic expression, neuroplasticity, et cetera, et cetera.
Connie Strasheim: hmm.
Connie Strasheim: here
beyondterrain: You could take it one step further back to and get to that spirit. So I think that's so important.
Connie Strasheim: you
beyondterrain: Maybe you could speak a little bit more to to that connection and maybe how you got to that point.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, sure. So um about 20 years ago, when I got sick with chronic Lyme disease, I felt like, you know, I believe that we have a God who speaks to us. And, you know, and I'm just going to share my spiritual perspective, realizing that everybody's at a different place in their journey, right. And so um not to step on any toes, but just to say, I believe that, you know, our creator yeah um has
beyondterrain: you.
Connie Strasheim: a mind a will and emotions and you know that god isn't just energy god is to me a triune being father son and holy spirit and so you know um i and i don't like label sometimes because people automatically you know sometimes you say you tell somebody okay i believe in You know, I'm a Christian and there's all kinds of labels that go around that, right? and And people have had different experiences with the church and stuff. So I prefer to say that I have a relationship with God and Jesus Christ. And and what I was taught, what I felt God taught me 20 years ago is that um that we when we um love Him, He gives us His Spirit. And His Spirit in us is the same Spirit that created the world that
Connie Strasheim: that raised Jesus from the dead and he can do all things in us and so I've seen a lot of healing miracles because I believe that and I embrace that and I've seen like miraculous healing okay and and the thing is is when you know that you have a God who wants you to be well and who is advocating for you and is willing to do anything to help you get there then you have this power that you didn't have
beyondterrain: Okay.
Connie Strasheim: before And so, what what um God showed me was that His Spirit in me could heal me more fully and completely than any medical protocol. And that's for a couple reasons. Number one, because um when you are in a loving relationship with the Creator of the universe, it heals you on a deep level. When you know that you're loved, right? And then the secondarily, there's just a power that the same power that was given to Jesus Christ to heal people when he walked the earth.
beyondterrain: Yes.
Connie Strasheim: um That same power is given to those of us who love him, right? And so so um and and God heals regardless of what you believe, like God's will is for everyone to be well. and um And so, and, then you know, I could go into reasons for why that is. But essentially, when we understand that we're spirit beings, that we came from a creator, right? And we are in relationship with that creator, we have a divine supernatural power within us to overcome things that we couldn't overcome just in our natural strength. So um does that make sense?
beyondterrain: Absolutely. Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: yeah
beyondterrain: Yeah, definitely. You know, and ah one of the things, this might be a little bit of an aside, but I'm sure you'll appreciate it.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: You know, one of the things that you always hear against the argument of God is that, you know, if there's a God, you know, why is there so much disease in the world? And why is there so much suffering in the world? And, you know, I really think that as a, as a society, especially in the West, you know, and I shouldn't comment too much on the Eastern traditions, because I feel like there is more of a connection to God in the Eastern traditions, but Certainly in the West, there's this disconnection from God and from, you know, spirit.
Connie Strasheim: yeah
beyondterrain: And to me, that's one of the great explanations of the amount of disease and suffering that we see in our societies nowadays, especially in the West, you know, and um this so this sort of this atheistic, materialistic approach that academia pushes on to us.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah. Mm -hmm.
beyondterrain: I wouldn't even say science because
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: If you study any great scientists throughout history, they all believed in God. And they, you know, even Albert Einstein said that the more I study, the more I learn, the closer I get to God. You know what I mean? It's like, so it's not science's fault, but it's, it's academia for sure. You know, that materialistic, you know, maybe the profession of science is what really pushes this onto the people. And so I think this is a great source of disease. Absolutely.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, yeah. And you know, that's the thing is that actually, I want to just say, I just published a book recently. And if you don't mind, I'll just I will just show it to your listeners called guard the mind, mend the body.
beyondterrain: Please.
Connie Strasheim: And it's ties in science with um the supernatural. Okay, so it talks ah in this book, I talk about how actually, um the Bible proves what science has shown, which is, for instance, that life and death are in the power of the tongue, right? That's a scripture. But science has also has found this to be true, like where, you know, um for instance, we know that we have genetic tendencies to certain diseases, but it's the expression of our genes that matters more than the genes themselves. And so
Connie Strasheim: You know, you can influence the expression of your genes through your thoughts, your words, your beliefs and your behaviors. But even more, I think when you tap into the supernatural power of God, right? And so um and I was trying to remember why I brought that up. But I think it's really just to say that there is the spiritual realm is more real than the created realm, I think. And, you know, for instance, um the book of Hebrews says that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that what is seen, what we see was not created by what is visible.
beyondterrain: you
Connie Strasheim: And so that means that the natural realm the in which we live, it was created by the invisible realm, but like in our nations, we are very intellectual, we're very like you said, materialistic. And so we tend to think that what we can see um is more real, right, than than the supernatural realm. But it is that invisible realm that created what we see around us. And, you know, that's that's just my personal belief. But I've also seen, I've seen the supernatural in action, right? Like when God will use me to pray over somebody and then
Connie Strasheim: they get a healing from, like I've had people healed from cancer, chronic Lyme disease, things that are really, really major. And I know it's not me doing it, but I know that it is, you know, our loving creator that, that does that for us. And so I think when we understand how much we are loved, we can tap into that power for ourselves as well as other people
beyondterrain: Yeah, definitely. I couldn't agree more, honestly, I think that that connection is a big missing factor.
Connie Strasheim: Mm -hmm.
beyondterrain: And I appreciate that, you know, that you merge that sort of scientific understanding and the spiritual realm as well, because I think that's a missing piece and in modern science.
Connie Strasheim: Mm -hmm.
Connie Strasheim: Mm -hmm.
beyondterrain: ah Something Rupert Sheldrake talked about all the time was, you know, we need to incorporate that spiritual realm, we need to incorporate that it's not separate from science, you know, it's not separate from the material, you know, the material
Connie Strasheim: yeah
beyondterrain: plays its role in some interesting way, you know but it's not separate from that mind or spirit. you know it's It's all intertwined. It's all wrapped together. and so
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: um
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: you know the creative and And if you think about it, right it's the creative force behind the material. right So if you really want to address the absolute root and and harness the most powerful approach, right you want to get to that creative force
Connie Strasheim: h Yeah, yeah. And here, you know, another thing is that we're not just surrounded by God, but we're surrounded by spiritual entities as well. And every word that we speak, everything that we do, um you know, activates power in the spiritual realm.
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: And so, you know, like, I believe in angels and demons, and every day we put angels or demons on assignment. by the things we think, the things we do, and the thing, you know, um just whatever. And it's sort of like that, you know, some people will say, um how can I say it's like, you know, it's like the law of attraction, you attract what you think about you attract weight, how what you say. And so taking that one step further into the spiritual realm, part of the reason why I think we either attract good or bad, you know, based on our thoughts and behaviors is because there are these spiritual entities that respond to, um you know, what we say what we do. And so that's, you know, going a little further, but then on a cellular level,
Connie Strasheim: you know, if we're thinking life giving thoughts, we are changing those, ah this the chemistry of ourselves to respond to those positive or life giving thoughts. And I believe that when we tap into the power of God, and we begin to think and speak his thoughts, the results we can have in our physical body are even more profound, because it's not just positive words, it's supernatural words, if that makes sense.
beyondterrain: Absolutely.
beyondterrain: absolutely It's beyond words of affirmation or you know like it's beyond speaking it into existence.
Connie Strasheim: Okay, right.
beyondterrain: You know, it's, it's, it's so much greater than that. I think that's fantastic.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: like Um, that's such a great perspective. I think that that's important to understand, you know, because I read my fair share of, you know, manifestation books and, you know, it's like you sit there, you could sit there and tell yourself all day, like, you know, this is going to happen or, you know, this is good.
Connie Strasheim: Okay.
beyondterrain: I'm a good person, whatever it is, you know, whatever words you want to choose. And you're like, well, this is just kind of one sounds a little bit foolish, you know, um, to but not a little bit.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: That's just sort of the perspective I always talk. I was like, well, this isn't going to work, you know, because it's, it's, it was like empty in a way, you know, like, The words can be powerful, but there needs to be something more powerful back in the words, you know, so not to diminish like any sort of manifestation either, but you know, there needs to be that, that holistic approach to that as well. You know, it's not just, you can't just say things and then boom, it's going to happen. Like there needs to be the interplay there too.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, yeah. And you know, one thing I talked about in my book, Guard the Mind, Men the Body, is that, um you know, they're like brain retraining programs that help you to reprogram your chemistry, a court, you know, based on different practices. and that And so some of those things, practices might involve visualization, speaking positive words, um doing different things to basically change your limbic system and with that the other systems of your body.
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: But when you do brain retraining according to the leading of God's Spirit, you have it's it becomes a supernatural practice. And so some people might say, well, how do I know I'm doing it according to God's leading?
beyondterrain: yeah
Connie Strasheim: And it's simply seeking Him right and saying, okay, so what what do you want me to think? What do you want me to say? What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts toward me that I can speak over myself? So you might hear you know God say, um you're powerful, you're strong, you're you're beautiful, you're loved. and And then when you say those things over yourself, you repeat, you're repeating that and it it ends up affecting your chemistry when you do that kind of thing consistently because, and I think, you know, a lot of us, we we we don't speak nicely to ourselves.
Connie Strasheim: we Sometimes we look in the mirror and think, I'm so fat, I'm so ugly, right?
beyondterrain: Yeah. Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: And God wants us to change that script and that narrative to how he sees us, which is precious and beautiful in his sight.
beyondterrain: Yeah, I love that. That's awesome.
Connie Strasheim: Thanks.
beyondterrain: So you've been alluding to this healing from the spirit first, this top down approach. Maybe you could just speak a little bit more to that. You know, you you mentioned it a few times that maybe we get the comprehensive understanding to that approach and sort of how it works.
Connie Strasheim: Sure. Yeah, yeah. So the way I approach healing, and this is in my coaching programs, as well as just my one on one time with people is that because we are spirits with a body and not a body with a spirit, and I mentioned this earlier, you want to start by healing your spirit, man, and the way our spirit um is healed and grows is through the relationship with God. And then when you your spirit, and so like, you know, your spirit is fed through the relationship with God, but whereas your soul, which is your mind, will and emotions, um can be also fed by God, but also the things of the world. And most of us, what we do is we give our soul a banquet of worldly solutions to our problems. And that's okay sometimes, but
Connie Strasheim: I believe God wants us to work first and foremost at the level of spirit, which just means simply being in relationship with God, saying, Hey, who are you? I want to get to know you, you know, talk to me. And then, um you know, in my belief system, it's receiving Jesus into your heart. And so you know, Jesus Christ was a man who walked the earth and did miracles, but I believe he was also the Son of God who came to take away our sins and our sicknesses. And so um there is a book in the Bible, it's ah called Isaiah, and in chapter 53, which was written 700 years before Jesus came to earth, or almost 700 years, it's a prophecy about
beyondterrain: Yes.
Connie Strasheim: um why he came to the world to die for us. And it talks about how he came to be a living sacrifice for our sins. In other words, meaning he came to take upon himself all the evil or all the mistakes that we would ever make upon himself so that we wouldn't have to be good enough before God the Father so that God would see us as perfect, right? Because we're all very imperfect beings. But he also came to take our sicknesses And because it says in Isaiah 53 that by the stripes that wounded him on the cross, we've been healed, saved, delivered, and redeemed. and so um And so what that means is that because he died, so basically, you know, Jesus died on a cross. And when he did that, he said, um
Connie Strasheim: basically that He would bring to us His, the Holy Spirit, which is the third person of the God, had to live on the inside of us when we accept Him. And when we have the Holy Spirit, what that does is, um ah but He's basically like our Comforter, our Counselor, our Healer, God in in us. And then, and so when we cultivate that relationship with God, we are endowed with a supernatural power um to overcome illness.
beyondterrain: Thank you.
Connie Strasheim: And that's for several reasons. First is just the power of Him working in us, but also um just through the love relationship, because when you know you're loved by the creator of the universe, you can heal all things in your body. Um, and so there is so the healing comes through the relationship but also because god So like because god will tell you things like where you've believed lies for instance So a lot of people get sick because they believe lies. Um, you know through trauma and things like that And so when you're in relationship with god his perspective of you is totally different Than yours like even those of us that have a good self -image and things like that god can speak
beyondterrain: Okay. and
Connie Strasheim: um a really really deep divine truths that will heal not just your soul but your physical body and also um the word of god which is the bible has supernatural power as well so like there are scriptures that if when you speak them over yourselves they can heal you Right? And so, so there are a number of different ways in which God brings healing to us. And I talk about those a little bit in my book, but that's kind of where I think it should start. And and also another thing that God will do is give you wisdom for
Connie Strasheim: like your medical treatments your life you know he might say this relationship is toxic and it's killing you so you need to get out of it or you know he might say you need to start eating this thing instead of that thing and um and give you the wisdom that maybe not even doctors have for us because god knows us fully and completely and so when we tap into his power you know um he will speak to us and he'll say like this is what you need to do specifically to get well and because he's the creator of all things his wisdom is much higher than ours and so anyway I've kind of talked in a lot of directions with that but I hope that kind of explains it some mm
beyondterrain: Yeah, yeah. It seems like fundamentally, you're trying to address the root.
Connie Strasheim: -hmm
beyondterrain: You know, you're trying to go to the root of it, and working from there and really harnessing some sort of purity and that, you know, the the creative force.
Connie Strasheim: Mm
beyondterrain: So I think that's fantastic.
Connie Strasheim: -hmm.
beyondterrain: It's I like how you put it very directly as well. You know, it's Yeah, you explained it really well.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: um I'm curious about the role of emotions in all of this. you know What's your your perspective on emotions?
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, sure. So emotions are usually the result of our beliefs and our and um you know, how we see the world. And so typically, we have we adopt a set of beliefs about ourselves about the world, based on our upbringing and things like that. And, and so a lot of us come into adulthood with a set of lie based beliefs about ah ourselves, the world, you know, whether that's something like, Oh, I'm i'm worthless. Nobody will ever love me.
Connie Strasheim: um you know I'm always going to be sick, things like that.
beyondterrain: Okay.
Connie Strasheim: And what God does is rewrite that. But the our emotions, I think a lot of times, well, they come from several things. So they can come from are are thinking what we believe about ourselves in the world, but they also come from the environment because the you know the toxins that we're exposed to, the pathogenic organisms can affect our emotions. And then what happens in turn is that your emotions affect your physical body. So, for instance, if you're anxious, if you're angry, if you're sad, that keeps your limbic system in a state of fight or flight or or if basically fear.
beyondterrain: Hmm.
Connie Strasheim: And then when your limbic system is in that fight or flight mode, what it does is it causes dysregulation in the other systems of your body, in your endocrine system or your hormones, your digestive system, your immune system. And so when you learn to live out of a state of peace and calm, what that does is it calms your limbic system. And then um basically your emotions change when you learn practices that help to just kind of you know heal anxiety or depression or sadness or whatever it is but there's also an aspect of needing to get healing from the trauma itself which you can do you know through counselors you can do it through the relationship with God.
Connie Strasheim: But yeah, emotions are huge because and and a lot of us, you know, and there's no condemnation in this because I've I go that here sometimes too.
beyondterrain: Mm hmm.
Connie Strasheim: It's like when we live rushed when we lived anxious and afraid or, or we live out of, um you know, or we're depressed or we're grieving something that just puts your whole nervous system it just throws it out of whack. which then affects your hormones, your detox pathways, and all that stuff. And so, yeah, you want to get your emotions healed. And I think that that is, and I just want to be careful to say um that, you know, our emotions are affected by so many things. And in the case of illness, they're affected, you know, your
Connie Strasheim: toxins and infections can affect your emotions, but trauma can um the way we live our current life situation. And so getting those balance is really, really critical for healing, I think.
beyondterrain: yeah um yeah
Connie Strasheim: Thanks.
beyondterrain: Maybe it might be helpful if we can delve into an example. I'd love to hear more about your perspective on Lyme disease. I know you have some personal experience with it.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, sure.
beyondterrain: Um, so maybe if you want to, you know, share a little bit about, um, just your perspectives on on that.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah. Yeah. So in my own journey, I ah i became sick at age 30. So that was 20 years ago from chronic Lyme. And I realized that while I had infections, and I write about my story, by the way, a little bit in my book, Guard the Mind, Men the Body, but um I realized that I wasn't just sick from infections. I was sick from a lifetime of living in fear. you know I had a pretty traumatic upbringing. and so um When you live in fear, when you live like a cat with its claws stuck in the ceiling for many years, what that does is it breaks down your immune system
Connie Strasheim: And that opens the door for the um pathogens to kind of take over and throw a party because, you know, we've all got we all carry pathogenic organisms, but they become active, they become a problem when um our immune systems weakened by different things. And so in my case, it was this living in fear for many years that I believe broke down my immune system so that I'd get sick from Lyme that I get sick from mold toxicity and so God showed me pretty early on that I had to deal with the trauma and kind of recalibrate my limbic system in order to get well and so um
Connie Strasheim: you know, I began to just pray and I began to get healing through God through counselors books, lots of things from the trauma, but I also um did spirit led brain retraining in order to calm the nervous system response. And then I took supplements as well to heal my brain to heal my emotions and
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: I can talk about those as well if you want. But yeah, you so that's kind of what happened. And over time, it was a very slow, slow, slow process. But over time, you know, i I just I received a lot of healing from the trauma from the emotions because I used to have panic like panic attacks. And
beyondterrain: yeah
Connie Strasheim: You know, and that was partly from the disease. It was partly from the line, but it was also from the trauma. So good I had to go to the root and heal that trauma, heal my nervous system in order to get healing from the line.
beyondterrain: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you can speak a little bit more about that there. That would be amazing. Like, helan like you mentioned that the spirit led brain retraining, that sounds so interesting.
Connie Strasheim: ah
Connie Strasheim: enjoy Yeah. Yeah. So there there are a lot of brain retraining programs out there. And so like DNR -S is one dynamic neural retraining system, Gupta. um You know, there there are a number of them out there. and the And the reason that I think brain retraining is so effective is because it works at a higher part of who we are. So like I mentioned, if your spirit is the highest part of who you are, the second highest level is the soul, which is your mind, your will, and your emotions. And you when you work at the higher levels, I think you achieve a more complete healing than if you just work at the level of the physical body.
Connie Strasheim: And so brain retraining, um when you do it according to God's leading, it becomes a supernatural practice that functions to heal you, not only just at the level of the spirit, but the level of your mind, will, and emotions.
beyondterrain: the highest particle you
Connie Strasheim: And so what brain retraining involves is just like creating new neural pathways in your brain
beyondterrain: are.
Connie Strasheim: through um your thoughts through certain behaviors and by practicing those regularly and replacing um the lie -based beliefs that you have or you know just the it's kind of like we get programmed into
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: toxic thinking, we get programmed into thoughts of disease or whatever it is that we battle and, and brain retraining helps you to reprogram, you know, to change the program so that your body responds differently because your brain in cooperation with the Spirit of God, your mind, um they were designed, as a I mentioned earlier, to be the master controllers of your body's chemistry. And so my belief is that you can more powerfully affect the healing of your body
Connie Strasheim: through those things, then you can like even through medicine and medicine is important sometimes. um I took medicine as well. I took things, took her I took herbs, I did rife machine therapy, I even took antibiotics to get rid of the Lyme disease, but I don't believe that I healed from it just because I took the right stuff. I healed from it because I taught my brain and my body had to go after these things and um you know just taught my limbic system how to be calm so that the other systems that are tied to the limbic system, like our nervous system, right our our immune system, ah just basically everything, the autonomic nervous system, all those systems are influenced
Connie Strasheim: by the limbic system, which in turn is affected by the things we think are behaviors moment to moment. And um yeah, so does that kind of make sense?
beyondterrain: Yeah,
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: yeah.
Connie Strasheim: And, and I would just to explain a little bit more, sorry, in in the brain retraining, I just want to say that, you know, what that involves is um usually most programs, they involve visualization and speaking truth or positive words in place of the lies, like every time you have a disease, a thought about disease, or you have a negative thought, um when you change that, and you speak words of life over yourself, or positive words that over time, when you do that consistently,
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: It changes your chemistry no matter what you're dealing with.
beyondterrain: Mm hmm. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah, that's sort of that that's still that underlying speaking it through the spirit that's always thrown in there. I think that's that's an and really important thing to note um to to especially get good results. But yeah, you know, with the often with interventions, we see symptom reduction.
Connie Strasheim: Mm hmm.
beyondterrain: You know, and symptom reduction is not necessarily ah the removal of disease or healing disease, right, is not becoming that whole.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: And um one thing that, you know, I've been studying a little bit with the Bigglesons is homotoxicology.
Connie Strasheim: Mm hmm.
beyondterrain: And it's this interesting chart, um you know, that you could see the development of disease over time and through symptom suppression largely, you could see that the underlying state of disease will just get pushed around in different areas of the body and it can bounce around because
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: A diseased state must manifest, you know, and you can cut off the healing, you can cut off the healing pathways and cut the symptoms off, but eventually it will manifest. And so, um, certainly I agree that there's a time and a place for any sort of interventions or even symptom suppression to increase comfort temporarily is not necessarily the worst thing in the world you can do, right?
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: yeah Mm
beyondterrain: To sort of yeah like enhance your experience.
Connie Strasheim: hmm.
beyondterrain: Uh, but again, it's, it's about getting to that root cause.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, yeah, it is and and in in our world today, you know, um we really there are four root causes of illness and, and they are basically trauma.
beyondterrain: you
Connie Strasheim: So whether that's physical or emotional trauma. um We'll just say dark spirits, okay, because I've broken curses off people and I've seen them get better that way. The other is pathogens in the environment and the other is just toxins. So things like mold and heavy metals, right? And so we do have to address those things as well. But I think for a lot of people, that only brings about partial healing because we're always going to be exposed to toxins. And every day as you probably know, there are more and more toxins in the environment. And so
Connie Strasheim: Um, we have to have tools in the higher realms to deal with that stuff. And you know, I can talk to you about solutions for mold, for lime, for toxins, um, just anything in the natural realm. And so like, yeah, it's important to address those things. It's important to balance your body with nutrients and herbs and things like that. But ultimately, um, and and also I want to say the way we live is really important too. Like, you know, if you get up and you're always in a rush, you're always anxious, you've got too much on your plate, you're a type A, you know, type person, um all that stuff can weaken you as well, or if you're in a toxic relationship.
beyondterrain: I'm sorry.
Connie Strasheim: And I think we underestimate um our life situations, like we underestimate how our life situations um and the way we live can affect our health too. So it's I think it's important also to look at those things.
beyondterrain: I'm really curious about your take on sort of the mental health field, you know, because we see it a rise in even just the most basic mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, but I'd love to hear maybe about that first and then maybe we could talk a little bit about the more severe ah mental health conditions if you'd if you'd like.
Connie Strasheim: Sure. so you so um Yeah, I mean, there is there's an increase in ever all these illnesses mental illnesses. And I think it's for a lot of reasons. I think it's because, again, because of the toxins, the plethora of toxins in our environment um that affect our our chemistry and our brain.
beyondterrain: Thank
Connie Strasheim: But it's also, there's a lot of ah brokenness in relationships today. you know, um people are spend a lot of time on social media and a lot of people don't have like real face to face relationships with others. And I think we were designed for that. And so, you know, they've done studies and they have found that people that spend a lot of time on social media actually have more depression. And I think it's, you know, ironically, because maybe they're not connected as much in face -to -face relationships.
beyondterrain: you.
Connie Strasheim: And since COVID, we've all been sort of more isolated even still. And I think that those are things that perpetuate it. And then I also just think like being separated from God, from the source of all love, that too can can cause it. And so I really think it's a multifaceted multifaceted thing that we have to address. Um, at multiple levels. So, you know, maybe we take some five HTP or phenololene for, to balance out our mood. Maybe we take some phosphatidylcholine to help our brains. Um, or, you know, a pharmaceutical antidepressant for a while, cause some people do need that.
Connie Strasheim: But i always I'm always an advocate of trying to heal mental and emotional conditions through nutrition, first and foremost, through diet, through natural supplements. And then beyond that, I think it's a matter of discerning what is the root? Is it trauma? Is it because um you have a history of abuse in your life that hasn't been resolved? Or is it because you're you don't have people, relationships in your life in the present? And so I think the increase is due to a lot of different things. And I also know that, you know, the so -called vaccines that they're giving people, I think that can really negatively impact our chemistry as well.
beyondterrain: Definitely. Yeah, and so um I'm curious about maybe like, if you have any thoughts around like schizophrenia, you know, because um there have been interesting schools of thought throughout history ah about the connection of sort of den not dema um
Connie Strasheim: and Yeah.
beyondterrain: demonic spirits and a connection there, right? So, um, I'm curious if you have any thoughts surrounding that, you know, cause there's certainly, um, it's multifaceted again, that's certainly the case, you know, they and it's, and it depends on the individual, right? Everyone's situation is going to be different. And that's why it's important to look at your health individually.
Connie Strasheim: Yep.
beyondterrain: And so sweeping statements can, you know, they're great for discussion, but may not always be helpful for the individual.
Connie Strasheim: you
beyondterrain: But anyways, generally speaking, you know, I'm curious around your thoughts there.
Connie Strasheim: yeah how is they So schizophrenia quite often is caused by fragmentation of the soul which occurs in situations of um extreme abuse and so what happens is the body like the soul in an attempt to protect itself
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: What it does is that it's kind of splits and fragments and and so it and that's to protect the core of the person not in every situation but sometimes like and it you know, it can be genetic and the role of evil spirits in mental illness is basically that um Most often what they do evil entities is that they attach to trauma and And so to try to kind of make things worse. OK, so there are instances where people have will have depression or anxiety and it's caused directly by a demonic entity. And all you do is you do you know, you can receive deliverance and then that thing will go away. But more often what I have seen, because I've done deliverance on some people is um actually a fair number of people, is that when you have trauma, a lot of times then these evil spirits come in to reinforce
Connie Strasheim: that trauma to reinforce and the lie -based thinking to create behaviors that are not not healthy and so and I see that in anybody who has any emotional issue not just the schizophrenia but I do think sometimes um those evil entities can be more prevalent in
beyondterrain: Interesting.
Connie Strasheim: certain conditions so like you know for like psychosis or people that you know commit crimes and things like that do you definitely have evil spirits like involved there and so healing from that is a two -fold process it involves getting healed from the trauma and then and then removing that evil spirit which you can do by the power of God in you
beyondterrain: Thanks.
Connie Strasheim: by just telling it to go, right? and um but But I always recommend to people that if they're not familiar with deliverance, it's best to work with a minister who kind of specializes in that.
beyondterrain: Yeah, you know, and that could likely, you know, be a challenging thing to undertake yourself too, right? Because you, when you're, when you are in this sort of fragmented state, you know, you have these blockers up, these walls up that sort of, they don't allow you to, to see your function, maybe correctly in quotations, because, um, I think, you know, an important thing that we consider here with mental health is that, you know, mental health, especially the severe ones, you know,
Connie Strasheim: yeah
Connie Strasheim: Mm hmm. Right.
Connie Strasheim: Mm hmm.
beyondterrain: It's, it is functional. Like you mentioned that it, you know, the function is to protect the soul is to protect the spirit, protect the individual.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
beyondterrain: Um, although that, although it's sort of, it seems as though the individual is fragmented and it seems, you know, incorrect, you know, we sort of have this negative connotation towards psychosis or even any mental health or disease in general, but it is functional. So I think that's a really important note too.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah. Yeah. and um And sometimes there are also what are called generational curses. And so if you see patterns in the bloodline like you know of alcoholism or a certain disease, like a conventional doctor will tell you, well, it's in your genes.
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: And so, of course, you're going to get this disease or condition. But a lot of times there is you know a curse that was placed by on a person by someone in the ancestry. And when you break that curse, it removes um the right of kind of, I'll just say, evil spirits to continue afflicting the generations with that. and um And we all have these things. We actually do because, you know, somewhere in all of our history, there are people that that did witchcraft rituals or whatever it was.
Connie Strasheim: to place a curse upon us. But the good news is, is that God, if we seek Him, He's faithful to show us where those things happen. So like if you have repeated patterns of a certain illness, or like, let's say your family's accident prone, or they seem to be living in poverty generation after generation, those are usually generational curses.
beyondterrain: Mm hmm.
beyondterrain: It's so interesting. Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, it is fascinating. And I will tell you, like, you know, no matter what your faith is, even within the Christian faith, people don't address deliverance that much, because it's kind of like, you know, there's people are scared of the idea of demons and evil spirits.
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: But the truth is, we don't have to fear them.
beyondterrain: yeah
Connie Strasheim: Like, if we know how to deal with them, we don't have to fear them at all. And in other societies, people more readily believe in In that because they see it they see it happen right and um and I've I've prayed for people's healings and seen not seen it physically but there have been um spirits that will leave people right and and we can even do self deliverance like you can learn how to do that yourself like I took a course where I became certified as an you know, calling it an exorcist.
Connie Strasheim: But, um and you know, when you say exorcist, people think of the movie, right, but um really, I'm just a deliverance minister, but we all can be and, and it's really good, I think, to have that knowledge, because, again, like, you know, spiritual entities can be a cause of illness, and
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: or poor health, and they can block you in certain areas of your life. And so being able to identify them and remove them I think is is really important. And I also talk about how to do that in Guard the Mind, Men the Body. And i ah I have a healing course as well um on my website where I go into, it's like a 22 lesson course where I talk about um how to heal from chronic disease. And there are a couple lessons in there on deliverance for anyone who wants to kind of learn more about that.
beyondterrain: Yeah, definitely. Oh, that's, that's amazing. We talk a lot about responsibility here too, you know, and, you know, you can, you can end it with it.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: All it takes is one person in that bloodline, you know, because, you know, that some call it the transgenerational trauma, you know, it's certainly the case that, you know, this stuff can get passed down, yeah although it may seem
Connie Strasheim: Mm hmm.
beyondterrain: you know, to be passed down genetically, it's not necessarily so, you know, we talk about how environments can get passed down. And even, you know, the environment that the parents create for a child to get, that's maybe a mechanism of how it gets passed down.
Connie Strasheim: yeah
beyondterrain: Or if it is spiritual elements, you know, that certainly may have a more direct um transmission in a way. But, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's easy to sing poor me. And I talk about this a little bit here and there, but you know, I,
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: Certainly went through that myself, you know, where it was, you know, everything's happening to me and why is this happening to me?
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: And, um, you know, through COVID, I did that a lot, you know, because even though I was ah well aware of what was going on and I was full, like, you know, I, I had a quite a good understanding of, you know, the fallacies and science, et cetera. Um, I sang poor me way too long, you know, and it was that everything was against me and it wasn't until like, you overcome that and you're like, Oh, okay, well now it's time that we do something about it. And we start moving forward and we walk, walk the good path.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah. Yeah.
beyondterrain: And, um, you know, you take that responsibility for yourself. I think that's really important. I think, uh, as a sort of a first step in all of this and sort of the healing journey, you realize, you know, that you need to take responsibility, but also that the power that you have within you also, thanks to,
Connie Strasheim: Mm -hmm.
beyondterrain: you know, the greater forces as well, but it's within you, it's within everybody, you know, that's, it's all connected.
Connie Strasheim: right and you and that's true and I think all all of us have gone through that at some point I know I have as well and you know I lost my late husband four years ago and and he actually passed around the time that that Covid started and you know God subsequently showed him to me in heaven and I wrote another book on that
beyondterrain: Yeah. Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: which is about heaven, right?
beyondterrain: yeah
Connie Strasheim: And, and what that looks like and stuff. So there is a a world after this one, which is perfect and amazing and, and stuff like that. And so I wrote this, this book based on our relationship called Encounters with My Beloved in Heaven, where, you know, God showed him to me in the afterlife. But I brought that up because, you know, I was going through a lot of self pity after I lost him too. And I went into that place of hopelessness and that, like you said, the poor me sort of, you know, that I, I did that as well.
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: And, um and God pulled me out of it. But in the end, what it comes down to is, um like What is your why? like Why do you want to live? What is your purpose in life? Because I think when we have purpose, when we know we were created for something, then we fight two we fight for our health. We fight to have that life, that perfect life that God intended for us. and And so like people that feel like they've lost their way and don't have purpose because of illness or other things that have happened, I feel like another component to the healing process is is having um that having goals, having um a mission in life, and and then having the confidence that you can fulfill that which you were designed to do, right?
beyondterrain: Absolutely. Yeah. And being clear on those goals is quite an interesting thing too, you know, because it does require a certain amount of alignment.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: You know, I was, I've always been a very goal oriented person, but I think we were talking before a little bit.
Connie Strasheim: Mmhmm.
beyondterrain: ah We started recording, you know, my goals prior to, you know, my own experiences with the, you know, the divine were far different than what they are now, you know, and you can have very meaningless goals and still have goals.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: ah But, you know, now on this path that I'm on now, I truly believe that I'm, um you know, at least achieving alignment, not that I'm necessarily there, because I think it's a forever journey in a way, but um I'm certainly on that path and ah you know i've been my life has been given a lot of of meaning and purpose and um so that's ah that's an important distinction I think too.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, awesome. That's, that's fantastic. And I think it's great that you're doing this podcast and sharing, you know, your expertise and other people's to bring them to a greater state of wholeness because whether you have an illness or not, like we're all on the healing journey. And you know like you said, we're it's a day by day thing and it it goes on until we we end we leave this world. It's not like anybody ever fully arrives.
beyondterrain: Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: And so um I think it's we all are a work in progress. And if we allow God to shape us, to form us, and we do the best we can to be um our best selves for ourselves and other people, then then that's healing. and And I think as part of that, just like loving other people, and caring about the needs of others in a way that's healthy is also something like we were designed to do that we were designed to love God we were designed to love people and ourselves and when we do that in the way we feel led then I think that too can be profoundly healing.
beyondterrain: yeah
beyondterrain: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And even though I think you made a brought up a good point there, you know, even though that we may not have, you know, any overwhelming disease, you know, I consider myself generally healthy. Um, that being said, like doing this work affects everyone around you, you know, like God can work through you to affect other people.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: and You know, everybody knows somebody that's sick or going through hard times, you know, so, um,
Connie Strasheim: Yes.
beyondterrain: You know, just the pattern that i've and I've noticed is that, you know, the more I work on myself and the better that I become, better that everyone around me becomes, you know, and it's just, it's, it's never contradicted itself.
Connie Strasheim: that's
beyondterrain: You know, it is always, always, always, always the case, you know, and if there are, there, there may be some that do fall off, but you know, they're not on.
Connie Strasheim: yeah
beyondterrain: They're not, that was that was was meant to be, right? Because then in the grand scheme of things, it always works out for the best for everyone around you and yourself, you know? So it's quite an interesting thing, you know?
Connie Strasheim: Absolutely. Yeah, I agree 100%. We can affect our environments. And, you know, you can change the spiritual atmosphere of wherever you are by what you carry. And so, you know, if you're walking around carrying a bunch of demons, then you're going to darken the environment if you're coming. and you're carrying the spirit of God with you, you're carrying you're walking in love, then you're going to positively impact the darkness around you. And and so and the light is always more powerful than the darkness, right?
Connie Strasheim: So how do you when you are in a dark room, how do you turn on the light?
beyondterrain: Always.
Connie Strasheim: You flip a switch. And and so you know sometimes I think that light is just, it's like you know what dispels darkness? is Darkness is just the presence of light.
beyondterrain: Beautiful. Yeah.
Connie Strasheim: to
beyondterrain: It's maybe be a good time to ask for some final thoughts. Anything that you want to add to this conversation or anything that you feel that you might have missed.
Connie Strasheim: Oh, yeah.
beyondterrain: And then I'll ask you to maybe share how the listener can support you too after.
Connie Strasheim: Thank you. Yeah, and I just want to say to anyone who's listening and you've been struggling for a long time with maybe a disease or you have a family problem or whatever it is. I just want to say that there's hope that there are are always tools when it seems like maybe you've exhausted everything in the natural realm.
beyondterrain: Okay.
Connie Strasheim: you know I encourage you to turn to God and say, who are you? I want to know you. And you know reveal yourself to me. And and God would be will be faithful to do that. and And if you don't want to do that, obviously, you know it's your prerogative. But I just want to say that my personal experience has been that God is the greatest source of all healing. He's the source of all love. and um And he's not mad at you. So for people that believe in God as a person, you know he's not he's not mad at you and a lot because a lot of us tend to think so if you know we think of an angry God.
Connie Strasheim: and And so I want to just encourage you to say, God, I want to know you and show me what I need to do to be healed, whether that's something on the spiritual level, the level of the soul or the level of the physical body.
beyondterrain: That's okay.
Connie Strasheim: And again, in my book, Guard the Mind, Mend the Body, I'll just hold it up again if anyone wants to see it. But um I talk about these things and different ways in which you can heal from the top down, as well as in my healing program, which is um on my website at conniestrassheim dot .org. And the book you can just get on Amazon and You know, whether you you choose to read that or not or do the program, um you know, that's fine. And I want to just say too that I host healing prayer meetings twice a month through Zoom. And so if anyone's interested in that, um I can give you my email or you can just go to my website and reach out to me that way. And because I've seen God do
Connie Strasheim: healing through prayer. And it's in their meetings in which and you can come no matter your what your faith is or your belief system. um But we pray for everybody who comes one on one, we pray for inner healing, physical healing, finances, relationships, whatever you have going on. um And that is just my super, so I've got the natural ministry or the ministry in which I write books for doctors, but then I also have the divine healing ministry, which is the prayer meetings.
beyondterrain: you
Connie Strasheim: So um if anyone's interested and wants to be a part of that, you can email me at Connie9824 And I'll just say gmail dot .com. I use that one a lot. And and, you know, it's like old school. I need to change probably my email to Connie Stross. I'm actually people can't spell my last name. So so, you know, I need to come up with an email like healing chronic illness or something. But um anyway, but that's that's how you can reach out to me or through my website.
beyondterrain: Yeah, and your website name is...
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, it's Connie Strossheim, S T R A S H E I M dot org.
beyondterrain: Perfect. Yeah, and we'll put the links down below for everything too.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, that's fine.
beyondterrain: Yeah, I'm i'm gonna have to get my hands on a couple of your books there. I haven't haven't read any of them, so that would probably be a great great addition to my collection.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah.
beyondterrain: So yeah, I'll probably have to do that. and Can you buy those on your website too?
Connie Strasheim: yeah
beyondterrain: Is that the best place to to support you there?
Connie Strasheim: and I will send people back.
beyondterrain: Amazon, you know how to how do you what's the best way to do it?
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, thanks. I always just send people to Amazon because it's the easiest way you don't have to pay for shipping if you have a Prime membership and stuff. But um the healing program is on my website for anyone who's interested in that. But yeah, I um look forward to your thoughts and um want to thank you so much for having me today. This has been fun.
beyondterrain: Oh my goodness. No, the pleasure is mine. Thank you so much for coming on.
Connie Strasheim: Yeah, you're you're welcome. And I pray this blesses you you're all your listeners. And you guys, and I want to just say too, if anyone has a question, they can reach out and email me. And I i usually try to answer every email that I get. So yeah.
beyondterrain: Amazing. Amazing. Well, thank you.
Connie Strasheim: You're welcome.
beyondterrain: And of course, I want to thank you all for listening. ah You should know that this is not medical advice. This is for your informational purposes only. but also remember that we're all responsible, sovereign beings, capable of thinking, criticizing, and understanding absolutely anything. We, the people in the Greater Forest, are together self -healers, self -governable, self -teachers, and so much more. Please reach out if you have any questions, criticism, comments, concerns. I love to chat with you guys. You guys know where to find me on Instagram. That's the best place to reach me. Go subscribe to the YouTube channel. I've been putting a lot of work in there too, so I would appreciate that.
beyondterrain: ah but Definitely the best way to support is to share. Let everyone know. Let your family friends and family know. um Yeah, give us a like, share, whatever. Whatever you got to do in the platform, your honor, would be greatly appreciated. that's ah That's all we ask for here. All right. And we always remember one thing, one big thing.
Connie Strasheim: Thank
beyondterrain: There are two types of people in the world. Those believe they can, those believe they can't, and they are both correct. All right, guys. Thanks for listening. Take care.
Connie Strasheim: you.
