Your Body Speaks

A few weeks after we were married, my wife, Anne had to have her gall bladder out because she had gallstones. When I told my sister her immediate comment was;

I had gallstones just after I got married too. I’ve known a few women who have. I wonder why this seems to be so common?

Often when we hear of someone contracting a disease or illness, we recognise that they were the type of person to get this problem. How are we able to say this? The reality is that our thoughts and emotions are impacting constantly on our physical body. So if we’re stressed this can manifest itself as an ulcer. If we feel unable to support ourselves this can create problems with the knees or the hips. If we fear seeing what lies ahead this can manifest as cataracts and so the list goes on. In most instances it is the emotion that brings about the illness.
The problem isn’t the emotion but our refusal to acknowledge the emotion. We hold the emotion in our body allowing it to impact on the body and eventually causing disease. If we were able to recognise the emotion for what it is, a feeling, and then let it go, there would be no impact on the body and therefore no illness. For most of us this is an impossible task. We fight the emotion, pushing it down into our physical body as we try to control it. Eventually, over many years or lifetimes, the emotions start to impact in a major way on our physical bodies. This is why certain personality types are prone to similar diseases. The reality is we’re all prone to illness of one sort or another, because we haven’t managed to control the emotional body yet.
As well as giving an indication of the emotions we have suppressed over a long period through disease, the body can give immediate indications of issues coming up. One of my one-on-one clients, Val, was recently involved in a serious car crash (I avoided using the word car accident as nothing happens by accident). She broke her lower vertebrae in the accident. Fortunately for her, she didn’t damage the spinal cord. She still had excruciating back pain and had to have a metal plate inserted to protect her back.
We’d already been doing some work together and had identified that she was having difficulties in her relationship with her husband. The Universe was now giving a very clear message of her issue. The back is the pillar of our being, giving us support, strength, uprightness and dignity. The lower back has to do with survival, security and self-support.
To quote Debbie Shapiro from her book Your Body Speaks Your Mind:

A broken back indicates a very deep conflict with your purpose in life. Are you trying to go in two different directions at once? Do you feel unsupported, alone, even abandoned? Do you feel unable to stand up for yourself? What burden was so great that it finally broke your back? What does a broken back enable to do or not do?

As I went through this with Val, she had a few aha moments. These occur when you see the message loud and clear. Her problems with her husband had definitely left her feeling abandoned and unsupported. But she also recognised that, in an indirect way, she had contributed to the broken back. There is a saying, Be careful what you wish, because you always get your wish. Val was 55 at the time of her accident with her 56th birthday coming up a few weeks later. Val had always told people she wanted to retire at 55. The broken back meant she couldn’t continue with the work she had been doing, she would have to give up work completely. She got her wish but not in the manner she had expected.
From this story, you can see that the Universe may use a single incident to achieve several outcomes. In this instance, the broken back highlighted for Val her feelings of abandonment, but it also achieved the outcome she had wished for – retirement. Two birds with the one stone as the saying goes.
At a much simpler level, keep a watch out for small things happening to the body. You may go through a period where you keep burning yourself on the stove. If so, take the time to check out what’s happening in your life at present. Are there burning emotions coming up for you? Do you feel you have been burnt by somebody? Or you may keep kicking your toe. Why?
In my journal classes, participants are encouraged to make a note of all of these types of situations so we can examine why they are occurring. We also make great use of a discussion forum that allows members to post their issues for others to offer suggested interpretations. I would encourage everyone to start a journal of issues to help in the self-examination process. This can also be used to record dreams, which are an invaluable source of messages.
It’s important, however, that the journal is more than simply a record of what is happening. This could lead to a poor me attitude where we pour out all of our problems and then reflect on how badly done by we are. The journal must include some self-examination process, where we look at why these things are happening to us and most importantly, what our issue is!
The body is a great gauge of our emotional well-being. Keep tabs on what is happening to your body and use it for ongoing spiritual development.

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