Our body speaks to us, learn to listen to it.
Understand the mechanisms of your pain.
You probably know how to recognize a headache; this tension that we feel in the back of the neck, as a normal symptom of the stress that you experience more or less daily. Our body, in this moment speaks to us, asks us to relax; it forces us to take a break to deal with this discomfort. Unfortunately, most of the time our first instinct is to take a pill to silence the pain and move on. To fully understand how and why our bodies communicate with us in this way, it is important to start from the beginning. We will explore the concepts of karma, of life path as well as of the densification of energies in this article. Next week, we will discuss their manifestations in our body and their meanings.
Our body in this moment speaks to us asks us to relax, it forces us to take a break to manage this discomfort.
Understanding pain:
In many traditions around the world, the belief in past life and karma is an integral part of culture. In fact, the Western world has traditionally been the exception to this rule. Without going into too much metaphysical details, it is generally accepted by these traditions that we incarnate ourselves according to a precise scheme. This gives us the opportunity to learn, grow and master new lessons in each life. Every new incarnation gives us the opportunity to live new experiences and to advance; this is basically what we call karma. Many mistakenly tend to believe that karma has a punitive dimension. How many times have I heard the expression: I guess I just have bad karma? This is unfortunately a very reductive view of what karma is. Obviously, the actions we take in our lives will have either a positive or a negative influence on it; but karma does not have a negative dimension at its core. It is not a punishment but an opportunity for learning and growth.
The life path :
Our life path is the script for the film of our life. It is the path we must follow in order to fully live our karma and by extension learn the lessons we must master in this incarnation. Our life path is therefore a natural extension of karma. The allegory of the carriage clearly illustrates this concept.
Imagine a carriage, it represents our physical body, it advances on a path which represents the path of our life. This dirt road on which we are advancing is not always smooth and perfect; there are pebbles, potholes, which represent the obstacles that we come across. The ruts, these furrows that the wheels trace in the earth, represent the social structures that were previously traced (social conventions), the ditches on each side of the road symbolize the rules not to be transgressed under penalty of serious accident.
Karma here is not a punishment, but an opportunity for learning and development.
Our carriage is pulled by two horses: a white one on the left (yang) and a black one on the right (yin). They represent our emotions, the ones that guide us and move us forward in life. Driving the carriage, there is a coachman, who represents our mental body, our conscience. Our carriage has four wheels, two smaller ones at the front which give us direction, or which rather obey the direction that the coachman has given to the horses (the arms) and two larger ones at the rear, which carry the load (the legs). Invisible to the driver, seated in the carriage, there is of course the passenger, the one who gives the driver the destination of his trip. The passenger represents our unconscious, the master, the inner guide.
Our carriage is in appearance moving thanks to the coachman and the horses, but it is indeed the passenger, the unconscious mind, who has given him the destination he wants to reach.
Let us continue this allegory. If the driver aggressively drives and mistreats the horses (our emotions), they risk racing, leading us right into an accident and in the process damaging the carriage itself. If instead the driver demonstrates a calm behaviour and drives smoothly, he will maintain a good relationship with his horses and they in return will be able to avoid potholes and ditches
Our unconscious (the passenger) will consequently be subject to the quality of the journey offered by the horses, the coachman and the cart. He can express his discomfort by asking the driver to slow down; and even ask him to take a different route, for example.
How does our energy transform into pain and illness.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) describes in an elaborate way the process of densification of energies and its lateralization (yin: right, bottom, deep; and yang: left, top, superficial). This lateralization explains why, for example, we have pain in the right knee rather than the left. Taoist philosophers have indeed observed the world through the idea of “all within the all” where the microcosm of man is placed in the macrocosm of the universe. Based on these observations, they gained a better understanding of how energy shifts from potential to densification. They recognized that large-scale observable phenomena, such as those observed in nature, also take place in our body. Today, moreover, we are discovering more and more of these parallels between the cosmos (macro) and the quantum world (micro).
To better picture the process responsible for the densification of potential and energy, just think of the phenomenon that causes rain. The process of densification of energies works exactly in the same. At first there is the presence of some humidity in the air. This humidity (the non-conscious) is hardly perceptible. After a certain time, and under certain conditions, this humidity will densify into water vapor and then eventually form a cloud (our emotions, our ideas, our desires). The cloud although observable, still remains (from our point of view on earth) subtle and the intangible. Some clouds will dissipate on their own, while others will thicken and create rain, or even a thunderstorm. This downpour will then fall on earth (our body) which will then be soaked in this rain (causing tension, suffering, etc.). The earth being drenched in this rain will then have two choices: either free it (following the evaporation process) or store it (in the form of blockage, water table, dams, etc. ...) to the point where it creates a sliding of the ground and cracks everything. It is at this time of the densification of energies that we feel pain or experience disease.
Your body speaks to you:
As we use words to communicate with the outside world, our subconscious self uses our body to communicate with us. Many already know about the symbolism of dreams and its psychology developed by Freud. Dreaming, and/or physical/mental discomfort is therefore at the first level of this communication. It is as if the passenger knocked on the windowpane of the carriage to let the driver know that he was not going in the right direction, or perhaps to express his dissatisfaction with his driving. Then, if the driver (our mind) continues to ignore the passenger (our inner guide) he will knock harder, in the hope of being heard. Silencing him (by gorging on drugs and medications for example) will only make him knock harder and scream louder next time to get our attention.
Our body can be understood as being the door of communication with our subconscious. There are three stages of communication between our unconscious mind and our body. First the dream, the physical and/or psychological discomfort and the Freudian slip, then the physical or psychological trauma and finally at the last stage the organic or psychological illness.
Freudian slips, those failed acts, are one of the first signs that something is wrong. Our unconscious mind is communicating with us, and if we can listen to it and decode its message, it will in fact be a successful act. If, on the other hand, after the slips, dreams and discomfort, the message has still not gotten through, our guide will raise the tone a notch, to manifest himself more clearly, until we manage to understand it. This is why it is important to know how to recognize its language. Because knowing how to listen and decode the messages that our subconscious sends us, will allow us to readjust and get back on the right track.
The interpretation of ailments, sufferings and illnesses will be unique to each of us. But this body/mind communication is still governed by mechanisms that we have been able to decode. I strongly recommend that you read Michel Odoul's book:Tell Me Where You Hurt, I'll Tell You Why. It has strongly influenced the writing of this article. It is also a great help for me both in my personal development and in my practice of REIKI. Better understanding how our tensions work, allows me to adjust my treatment and better understand energy blockages in order to release them.
In the next part of this article, we will explore together the concept of lateralities, take a look at various body parts and the ailments associated with them and discover their respective meanings.
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