This is something that happened to me around 2018, but it’s something I still benefit from today. It’s a powerful experience and I’m not exaggerating or embellishing in any way. You can even ask Rose (my wife) who was with me during the years of struggling with eggs and was present when this happened.
I just want to add before I get into this that I don’t claim to have perfect health or the secret to healing anything. That’s not really the point of this article. I want to report this more as an experience. I have also never replicated this (never really needed to though!), and also never had the chance to coach someone else to try it out. I’d be curious to see how this works with others so please reach out to me if you want to.
That said, I actually have what I think is a pretty solid theory behind this, which I will explain. But enough of this, let’s jump into the story!
Context!
When I was about 19 or 20, I developed a pretty strong egg intolerance. I can’t say for sure what brought it about, although I have my theories, but there was a point where eating anything that had more than 25% (ish) egg would give me nausea.
If I ate eggs straight, I would be curled up on the sofa for a few hours. I never actually threw up, and the reaction was never serious in the anaphylactic way - which is why I believe it to be an intolerance rather than an allergy. But when I ate eggs, I felt like my stomach would knot up. I would feel cramping, almost on the verge of throwing up but not quite. Enough to incapacitate me though and make doing anything besides lying down feel overwhelming.
Over the course of the next five or six years, I was trying many ways to deal with this intolerance. I tried different kinds of eggs like duck eggs. I tried cooking them in varying degrees. I tried probiotics and some other mainstream gut healing options. Nothing worked.
How did it get cured?
At some point I developed a curiosity around the mind-body connection. I’d like to show you how this was merely a series of logical steps. The first thought was simply this:
If an intolerance is a misguided “attacking” of a protein, and my body is simply misguided, can I teach my body that the egg protein is harmless?
The next thought that occurred to me was relating to how to inform my gut that eggs are harmless. It was kind of obvious my gut didn’t speak English, so I couldn’t say eggs are harmless over and over… but what language did it speak? It best answer I could think of was that my gut might have been able to speak emotion. I figured because emotion was a language of hormones and chemicals, perhaps the message could have been conveyed through this medium.
But what emotion would convey the message that egg proteins are harmless?
I made the parallel to real life. What made sense to me was that an intolerance is the immune system seeing something as an enemy and getting defensive. Why do we get defensive around some people? We don’t trust them. It’s fear and trust. So the emotional remedy to fear was trust. You fear someone who is going to hurt you, but you trust a friend. So I thought I could use the idea of trust and friendship to create the emotion associated with harmlessness to teach my body that the egg proteins were harmless.
Setting up the experiment…
I cooked 4 eggs, over easy, ate them on an empty stomach, and meditated and with the intention of trying to feel as much trust as I possibly could. By this point in my life, I was reasonably experienced at meditating that I didn’t drift off very much. I wasn’t at any kind of mastery level by any means, but I wasn’t a beginner either.
I ate these eggs and immediately sat down in a lotus position on the couch and meditated. I started to think of my best friend Hartley. Hartley is someone who I could always have my guard down around. He was someone I could trust completely. There are people in my life who I can depend on in many different ways, but my best friend had a different quality. I had no social contract with him. No need to act a certain way. I could be completely myself and he would accept me as I am. As I thought of him in appreciation more and more, I began to tear up. This felt like a big emotional release.
I sustained appreciating him. During this entire process, I had zero - I mean literally zero - nausea. Nothing. 30 minutes passed. 1 hour passed. 2 hours passed. I was still deep in this meditation of pure trust.
After about 3 hours, I opened my eyes and got up. I had no reaction.
Since that day, I can eat as many eggs as I please without any nausea.
