If you sat five hundred big, small, smart, not so keen, funny and quite serious people side by side with their hands and feet straight out, that still wouldn’t be enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I’ve heard, “You made it to the hospital’s emergency room on time because of a tremendously large and trusting connection of communication you have with your body.”
Stop! Do you really think the inner core of the bodies shell physically talks with the constantly shedding layers of skin created to move in any direction? Can the human mind truly create a path that leads his or her journey through a forest of bewilderment that in the end unveils the decoding of a secret language only your body is capable of speaking?
Someone grab the fishing hooks…I’m about to open a major league can of worms. Please get Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan on the line because our link to think openly is going to bring brash optimistic pessimism to the playing field of everyday performance.
In the past five weeks I’ve been challenged to dig into the realms of the might have beens versus the should’ve beens, taking on the not going to happen agains. From “B” thumpers to spiritualists, martial artists to common voices with a common background observing from safe distant horizons, the vision quest has been, “What exactly happened and why?”
Master Todd Harris from Martial Arts University introduces his students to meditation and its incredible power at an extremely early part of our studies. You can’t pull power or Chi energy from the chapters within to shatter the mountains that keep us from being stronger without a firm conversation with the body that brought us there. Through his measures of sharing you learn to pull toward you Chi to benefit not only yourself but others involved in the circles you keep. If something wasn’t right…another martial arts student should have been able to feel my Chi energy had become broken. Did it occur? Yes…instructors Tucker and Sigal were adamant in pushing me away from class that evening without ever asking if something wrong.
Dr. Martin Rush puts a medical spin on the body’s communication skills.
We all have aches and pains, coughs and sniffles, happiness and sadness. It’s safe to say most of us feel negative vibrations more than anything. One reason why is because it’s the link you share with that inner energy source which has locked onto a method of repressing emotions. When you elect to stuff all you feel into a noggin balancing act on your shoulders, the communication sent evolves into a physical act and or signal—interestingly enough, too many of us hold in it, learning newer ways each day to ignore it.
How does one learn to decode their body’s constant gibby gab?
Put focus on the stresses that took your day into the pits—from the pressure and presense created when the illness was born. Being upset completely takes out your body’s decision to work properly. How long would your car last if you took a hammer and bashed the radiator with a giant hammer every morning before you started it?
According to Dr. Rush, documenting your personal behaviors and how you act and react around the house to your job helps you identify areas that bring you to your knees. Sure, you could spend hundreds of dollars on psychotherapists aiming to cool off your past or you could become a little nicer to the self you are and take a pen and write about it first. Give that dark side a voice. This way when you do visit the therapist, you’ve got a path already started.
Cold hands and feet with numbness in between signal your nervous system has come under attack. Your arteries are contracting which reduces blood from hitting the areas requiring its services. Dr. Rush rushes in with a reason and or purpose—people who are reluctant to reach out for their personal desires are completely destroying their body’s willingness to seek out what it needs. Your body is convinced that you are giving everything away…so it decides to do the same.
People with sore throats…total tension warfare. The doctor constantly tells his patience how to rid the ailment of soreness by giving your body what its craving: reassurance, comfort and love. Sadly, there are mega amounts of us who associate these needs to food. Oh oh, when we’re a pint low on love, it becomes our natural path to slam yummy’s through that open door. Try locating some personal love by reading a book or drawing pictures...locate something your inner self loves.
When you’re feeling hurt, tell your body, “Yo dude…um I’m not feeling the love today.” By talking to yourself first, it helps to build your confidence in the way of looking at a boss or coworker and asking them to stop trying to rebuild the pyramids with only your energy source.
Lower back pain….mental stress is nothing more than the weight of the world. When your heart, mind and day are overburdened with too much blah blah blah, you’re going to get hit in the lower back. You can try to exercise it out as much as you want…stretch, stretch stretch…it’s not going to help heal what’s taking the air out of your lungs. Meditation is a brilliant way to open the breathing patterns required to keep your lungs open for all hits. Fifteen minutes of you time will quickly change the way you shrug your shoulders.
How you look, feel, talk, share and build upon…it affects the trail to which you keep minute by minute, week by week and eventually long and deep into the unwritten books we keep. How we’re physically capable of keeping friends for more than two years is beyond my mental effort. No wonder the divorce rate ranks in there at 51%. It’s become our nearby destination to unload on those we love the most and eventually they too run dry through their levels of sickness which you might be creating.
Dr. Rush has no problem saying you don’t need to break bread with a therapist and or minister but be gentle with friends and family. Wearing out the welcome mat could land you face first in a puddle of mud with no frogs or lizards to communicate with. It starts with you talking to you. If you ain’t got you…then you aint go nobody. Those who are codependent are so because they’re not happy with the self they are.
Communicate with your body. You’re going to discover someone in there that knows everything about you and is far from being a control freak. Trust me, outside of your mother…you’ll never meet another person than you who knows every secret to every dream which could be the missing needle in a haystack you’ve heard about but never located because that person inside left your side the moment you discovered how addicting another human can be…until you need them.
Oh…the “B” thumpers believed my being in the right place at the right time that very interesting night in July 2009 means God has a bigger plan for me. Guess where that journey begins…inside me. I’d invite you over for a cup of coffee but the furniture my inner self has is totally Brady Bunch 1970’s.
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