 I've been having stomach aches ever since I was a child and there were so many ideas I had about why am I having them. Eventually I came to a conclusion that it's a diet thing that I'm intolerant to certain types of foods but recently enough I've did a test and it turns out none of that was true. Funny thing is that I was upset about that. I was actually telling my girlfriend before I was taking the test I was like I hope they will discover something because I was managing my diet in consideration to my stomach aches like really intensely like I was avoiding gluten I was avoiding lactose I was really limiting my diet thinking that it's all because of that and my stomach ache was still kind of there but I just had a feeling you know it's going to be worse if I eat those foods and again I was telling my girlfriend that if I will discover that I don't have any fluid allergies I'll be like I'll be mad and she's like what do you mean like why would she be I was like because what will I do then I will have no clue you know why am I having them. Luckily at that time I was already having coaching psychology sessions with a professional Linda Heffernan and she already kind of at that same time she she got a glimpse she caught the fact that I do have stomach aches and she started to gently point out that they may be more a thing of my psychology they may be more a thing related to stress and I saw the potential for it to be true but I was you know I wasn't still entirely sure I was thinking like maybe but I was so convinced about my diets and then I did the test then as I said I got nada you know there was nothing I was already nothing and I was mad I was as a celebration the end my girlfriend sat down to eat some pizza together because now I can eat gluten without any sense of guilt and I was kind of upset and she's like you should celebrate that I was like no but now I you know don't know entirely what's the reason for my stomach ache but then I remember my conversations with with Linda and the next session we had I I said you know probably you're right I did the test and it showed nothing so please do you tell me more and the more we started to explore that the more it I started to see that it's true that my stomach aches are actually coming from a stress related place the crazy thing and the the thing which caught me of guard and why it was difficult to point that out because generally I am I consider myself to be quite good at managing stress in general like but I realize there's a difference because the way I I frame it now I see that it's I call it external stress versus internal stress so I'm I I think I'm very good at managing stress which is created by outside circumstances let's say you know there there's some deadline that has to happen or you know there's there's some difficulty it's some challenge I have to overcome like like finances are low or anything I I'm pretty good at managing that and even my girlfriend she was surprised when she learned about that probably the main reason why I have stomach aches is stress because she said because you're also all the time you're so calm and you're so cool and and you manage stressful situations so well so she couldn't she had a hard time believing that too but I realized there's something else there's something deeper which again Linda helped me figure out there there was something which now for myself I dub as internal stress and I with her with her help I realized that there's stress that I create in myself to drive myself and I think that comes highly from me being again what I learned from Linda and a type personality you know a an ultra achiever you know I set up goals and I really want to make sure I fulfill them fulfill them and I put a lot of pressure to myself internally by having ideas that I have to you know create better videos I have to do something which will make a difference I have to make sure I leave a legacy there's so many circumstances I'm putting on myself deep inside that they do create a sense of stress and it was a challenging aspect for me too because I was freaking out because I felt like that's one of my driving forces I stress myself internally and that's why I perform and I was struggling with the idea so if I don't stress what will motivate me then you know will I really get out of bed will I really be as productive and so I was Linda was helping me kind of go over over through that to kind of overcome that and I was also she encouraged me to do a lot of self analysis like self inspiration journaling which I love doing it's it's a thing I definitely do and quite a bit I'm used to do doing it and so I sat down and for a number of days I kept exploring that subject and there's so many things that came up and one of them was kind of the title of this video that I realized my stomach ache is kind of a superpower and I'll explain to you why because first of all I was really surprised that so let's say I'm having a stomach ache stomach pain and I sit down to do journaling and I ask myself you know why why am I feeling the stomach pain why am I stressed what's the reason for it and and I would find the answer quick enough let's say it's like I'm not feeling like I'm not doing enough and then I would continue my mapping and asking myself so so you know what's what's not enough like why why do I think that's not enough or what is enough you know is this is the stress really is this stomach pain really helping me achieve better results and with more and more exploration I started to realize it doesn't because it takes away a lot of my energy it feels uncomfortable I feel it lowers my quality of sleep that lowers my quality of my levels of energy and then I don't have enough energy to be productive and even in the past I already considered the question that that that stress is actually not such a great motivating force it is but there are way better things like like such as just deep passion and inspiration again a subject we covered with Linda count the numbers of times I say Linda in this video but it's you know she she helped me out here a lot so I want to make sure I mentioned them so so yeah I realized passion and internal drive is way better than stress and the crazy thing is as soon as I would debunk the reason for my stress the reason for my pain right away the pain would just disappear I was I was shocked I I I thought you know it's still gonna linger around at least a little bit if I solve the reason for my stress then you know the pain is still going to be around and slowly decrease but but it was really crazy it would it would get released right away and I was like this can't be real but but each time that happened and and Linda said to me it's normal that's the way it goes and also I was in a coaching workshop that I reviewed recently Awaken Your Inner Coach led by Ian McDermott and he was talking about somatics and how our psychology how our conscious can can be expressed through physical sensations and and one of them is you know that stress excuse me that stress can be expressed as pain in the stomach if we're especially for neglecting that subject or or he was mentioning another story of his client not having how do you call that appetite he wasn't hungry when he was stressed and when Ian helped him kind of solve that issue solve that challenge and kind of overcome and debunk it then the client suddenly became extremely hungry the pain went away and he went to eat so that was a sign a pointer to me that yeah this is this is how it rolls as soon as you solve the reason why you're stressing and the reason your your stomach per se is hurting which apparently I now know it's a common enough thing apparently two different people's experience that that sensation differently like for other people that stress can be experienced through the body in different ways but I think from what I gather stress in the stomach is a common thing and yeah as soon as you solve it it just disappears that was really shocking but now again the reason why I consider it now to be my superpower because I solved a bunch of my let's call them stressors the reasons for my stresses and stomach aches I solved a bunch of them and my life improved and the pain the stomach pain went away but once in a while I get my stomach pain I notice it again and I'm like oh wait there's probably something it's like a sign that there's an indicator that there's something in my psyche in my subconscious which is not settled you know there's something that I'm not not kind of balanced about and that shows me that it's now it's time for me to sit down take out my journal and I ask myself again the question you know why am I feeling pain in the stomach what am I concerned about what am I worried about and I explore it and that helps me discover something which is in my subconscious it's already bugging me but I'm just not giving it attention and that stomach pain it's like a bat signal you know it's like that man come down we need you to solve this crime it's or it's like a spider sense you know if you follow graphic novels you know that spider spider man is famous for having his spidey sense that when something is off he feels it and and that's so I'm kind of coming to a conclusion that that's my spider sense that's my bat bat signal which when there's a pain in my stomach it means there's something in my subconscious which is creating a concern in me and I'm not and I'm neglecting it I'm not looking at it but but that helps me bring my focus to it sit down with it have a conversation and internal dialogue and solve it and become better so man oh man that's quite a superpower and connecting it with the beginning making it a full circle it's it's really funny because at the beginning I thought my stomach pains like an enemy I was like oh stomach you know you're hurting or oh my diet gluten you're my enemy you know I perceived it as a villain and turns out it's it's more of a superhero thing than the villainous thing it's an ally it's not an enemy that's a such a brilliant you know lesson and I still it's still important for me to get to know it even better it's not like oh I'm always noticing that bat signal and right away jumping on it sometimes I'm still like even now to be honest there's like I feel the stomach ache and I'm like and part of me is like I'm gonna look at it later I'm gonna look at it later but there is now a consciousness that it's it's there's something there and seeking my attention and it's not a good thing that I'm putting it away but now I know you know that it's calling me and I know why and so it's against such a powerful tool and so again one of the most important reasons I wanted to share this on record in this episode is because I do want to you know hopefully bring your attention to the same apparently a lot of people have stomach aches a lot of people like myself for decades do you not understand the reasoning behind it thing is I had it again as I've mentioned in the beginning since I was a child every time before there was like a test in school I would have such bad stomach aches that I would miss school and that's why I became dumb you know I got really bad grades in school because I missed so many so many school days a lot of it because of my stomach pain turns out it wasn't because I was eating too much bread which I thought was the case when I was a child but turns out it was a stressor and oh man I wish you know somebody told me that earlier but still it's a great lesson it's better to learn about it now than 10 years later so but I hope that by watching this video that brings your attention to it as well and you'll start to perceive your internal signals as allies and your superpower instead of an enemy so do you have stressors do you feel somatic sensations do you feel like those sensations in your body which bring your attention to your subconscious and do you have stomach aches let me know in the comments let's connect up about that let's explore together and as always keep questioning and I'll see you in the next video soon