THE BODY, THE BODY, THE BODY!
The body, the machine. Whoever helps us carry out the action in the world . He that we require both, often :
We demand that works perfectly. That is "beautiful" (by the standards of beauty that makes the society around us, of course). We demand to compete, you always get more. We demand that age. And when it does, when you get older, we reject it, or feel rejected, no longer worth. We demand to continue working when sick, when to, when trying to listen.
The body, unfortunately, is the great forgotten.
A paradox of the many I find in the world around us. Forgetting, absolute disconnection from the body and its functioning in the era of the "cult of the body." Although would rather worship the image I want to give the body. In Gestalt, and generally in many therapeutic techniques and personal growth now proposed, taking into account the body as the main focus of the work by yourself. And is that the body is the base, the front door, where the transformation occurs. The body is the truth is this, is as authentic to what we access provided.
is because the body is not at all separate from the mind and thoughts. Nor is separated from the energy that we are essentially. The oriental medicines have always known, and so-called "holistic" take it into account. We are a unit made up of body, mind and energy.
In the mind, succeed interpretations, arguments, explanations and analysis of what is happening. Often, all these "movies" that are passed in the mind have nothing to do with reality. But the body receives and real like what is actually happening.
This is a major cause of stress , for instance. The mind races, trying to escape (along with a whirlwind of thoughts), to another time, another situation that is not present. The body continuously receives this pressure, the senseless rush. Grief tends to increase without being perceived, till the body often needs to show more clearly what happens. Thus, throughout our lives, the body is registered (physically and energetically) experiences, repression, emotions, traumas and circumstances that are happening. In the words of Marina Borruso , teacher presence (* 1):
As time is passing, we accumulate emotions that are not really experienced, and therefore have been frozen in the body. Are deposited in our muscles, pressing our tendons, forming a rigid shield which leads us to assume a particular posture. Our body becomes a space of emotional thicket. That is why so often exploited emotionally, because the accumulation is so great that we release it, spitting at someone or at times, creating a disease.
Addressing the body, and to address pay attention here understand in the broadest sense, is the greatest gift we can make not only our body, unless our psyche and our Being . Be present, to live fully, let it be and be to the feelings, perceptions, discomfort or any physical manifestation that our body is going through, is one of the tools deeper transformation, and one of the gateways to the Presence.
As William Schutz says (* 2), and with it ended:
If I know what my body tells me, know my innermost feelings and I can choose what to do .
Until next month, thanks!
(* 1) From "essere nel present, il risveglio" Ed nuove Techniche
(* 2) "We are all one, the culture of games." Ed.Amorrortu
