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Taken from http://www.wholewoman.com/newsletters/winter04.html by Christine Ann Kent. I don't agree with every word, such as I don't believe it took millions of years for our bodies to become what they are. But it is food for thought. Not meant to hurt anyone's feelings, either. :)
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"TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error." Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
Being responsible for our health and for our lives translates as positive energy flow in our body/mind. When we take responsibility we feel effective in the world and as a result, fully alive, confident, and dynamic. This vital energy can become blocked, however, when it is unsafe to express our feelings or to be present and fully alive in our body. Trauma, fear, or threat - either past or present - cause us to shut down, and instead of expressing our true nature, we become tense, anxious, defensive, and depressed. In the terminology of physics, this is known as entropy, or the movement of our system toward disorder.
Fortunately, we are designed by nature to overcome entropy, not to express it, and it is our body as much as our mind that can help us do just that. If we think of our body as consciousness - the crystallized expression of our mental and emotional patterns - it must be true that by 'embodying' such characteristics as courage, self-reliance, authenticity, dignity, idealism, and discipline, we can change our mental and emotional outlook to reflect these qualities as well. We need the power of our mind to constantly remind us to stay in our body in a conscious way. Beyond that, it is enough just to be in the body to begin to move past energy blocks and to express our aliveness, our response-ability.
An ancient conceptual disconnection between our body and our mind continues to influence our ability to respond to our own health needs. I talk to countless women who insist, 'I had to have a hysterectomy' for one thing or another. When I politely ask what they might have done to help their condition, I'm usually met with less-than-polite resistance.
What if it were suddenly 'proven' that our body and mind are one seamless organism, and what is going on in our body is a pure reflection of the workings of our mind. We might begin to understand symptoms like fibroids as condensations of emotions such as anger, or the stifling of creativity. We might be able to relate abnormal uterine bleeding with competitiveness, striving, grief, or low self-esteem. Yet, these connections are virtually impossible to entertain because we are so conditioned to looking 'out there' for reasons and answers.
There are certainly constitutional differences between women who develop one uterine symptom or another, just as some personalities develop hypertension while others constipation. The uterus is as stable an organ as the heart or lungs, a stability reached over millions of years of natural selection. A genetic or chance reason for the uterus growing gigantic fibroids or virtually hemorrhaging every month should be as rare as cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy...
If we were able to see the movement of our molecules, we would understand that the mind/body is much more like a stream than a solid object. What we put into our stream determines our health. The places to seek health are 'in here', in our diet, thoughts, emotions, activities, and intentions..."
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"TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error." Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
Being responsible for our health and for our lives translates as positive energy flow in our body/mind. When we take responsibility we feel effective in the world and as a result, fully alive, confident, and dynamic. This vital energy can become blocked, however, when it is unsafe to express our feelings or to be present and fully alive in our body. Trauma, fear, or threat - either past or present - cause us to shut down, and instead of expressing our true nature, we become tense, anxious, defensive, and depressed. In the terminology of physics, this is known as entropy, or the movement of our system toward disorder.
Fortunately, we are designed by nature to overcome entropy, not to express it, and it is our body as much as our mind that can help us do just that. If we think of our body as consciousness - the crystallized expression of our mental and emotional patterns - it must be true that by 'embodying' such characteristics as courage, self-reliance, authenticity, dignity, idealism, and discipline, we can change our mental and emotional outlook to reflect these qualities as well. We need the power of our mind to constantly remind us to stay in our body in a conscious way. Beyond that, it is enough just to be in the body to begin to move past energy blocks and to express our aliveness, our response-ability.
An ancient conceptual disconnection between our body and our mind continues to influence our ability to respond to our own health needs. I talk to countless women who insist, 'I had to have a hysterectomy' for one thing or another. When I politely ask what they might have done to help their condition, I'm usually met with less-than-polite resistance.
What if it were suddenly 'proven' that our body and mind are one seamless organism, and what is going on in our body is a pure reflection of the workings of our mind. We might begin to understand symptoms like fibroids as condensations of emotions such as anger, or the stifling of creativity. We might be able to relate abnormal uterine bleeding with competitiveness, striving, grief, or low self-esteem. Yet, these connections are virtually impossible to entertain because we are so conditioned to looking 'out there' for reasons and answers.
There are certainly constitutional differences between women who develop one uterine symptom or another, just as some personalities develop hypertension while others constipation. The uterus is as stable an organ as the heart or lungs, a stability reached over millions of years of natural selection. A genetic or chance reason for the uterus growing gigantic fibroids or virtually hemorrhaging every month should be as rare as cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy...
If we were able to see the movement of our molecules, we would understand that the mind/body is much more like a stream than a solid object. What we put into our stream determines our health. The places to seek health are 'in here', in our diet, thoughts, emotions, activities, and intentions..."