“The body has it’s own way of knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth, little to do with control and much to do with acceptance, little to do with division and analysis and much to do with union. ”
Health and well-being results from inner harmony. The disharmony we experience with others and with the Earth is a reflection of the disharmony that resides within our own bodies.
This disharmony results from forgetting the simple fact that there is no separation between mind and body and nor can our bodies be separated from the environment we live in.
Unless we begin to look at our health and well-being problems through a different lens, one which seeks to integrate all parts of ourselves and to evolve the mind-body relationship, we will continue to create more of a divide, more inner conflict and essentially thwart our innate drive to change and grow fruitfully.
“The physiology of one individual can’t be separated from the psychological and social environment.”
The ideal Mind-Body relationship is one that maintains effective interdependence, where both aspects of our consciousness are working together harmoniously to maintain our health, well-being and evolution.
In working with clients from all walks of life over the last decade I have noticed that while every person’s issues appear on the surface to be complex and unique, at the root of every problem, issue or challenge lies the same thing – an inner conflict. The primary reason we cannot move forward, let something go, or achieve a goal, simply comes down to a lack of cooperation within ourselves. While one part of us wants one thing, another part of us wants something else. The problem is, we don’t necessarily see that there is a conflict, all we can see is what we want and what we don’t want, and we simply cannot understand what is stopping us from getting what we want. In my case, I got to a point where I couldn’t manage the simple task of getting out of bed and I was at a complete loss as to why I couldn’t do it. On the surface, it is extremely irrational – why would part of me not want to get out of bed? But with access to the body, to the subconscious and its memories, I was able to identify that indeed, part of me did not want to get out of bed and therefore the issue at the core of my immobility was an inner conflict.
Since most typical mainstream therapies ignore the input of the subconscious and the body, it becomes almost impossible to identify that the cause of a problem is an inner conflict. Our dominant paradigm lends itself to attributing the cause of our problems to something external.
Our relationship problems are due to ‘toxic people’ or ‘narcissists,’ our symptoms are due to injuries, toxins and allergens and our lack of career progression is due to inequitable systems and office politics. While all these things do contribute to our problems, it is not in the way that you would expect. These things do nothing more than trigger an inner conflict that resides within us. It therefore makes sense that our own ‘inner conflict’ should be our primary focus for resolving our problems – particularly since it would appear there is little hope for controlling or eliminating the ‘narcissists’ or ‘environmental toxins’ from our lives!
When we operate responsibly with an effective Mind-Body dynamic of ‘inner cooperation’ rather than ‘inner conflict’ we are resilient, self-regulating and most of all, empowered, to deal with whatever it is ‘out there’ that disrupts our system.