Moving Through Mind Body Blockages

Moving through the Mind Body Experience does not require effort, it just requires courage. You must become a dancer, moving flexibly to the rhythm of your experience. Over time, you become familiar with the signals, the ebb and flow, of your mind body experiences. There will always be times when your brain latches on to fear and doubt at the emergence of a new symptom experience, but this simply provides another opportunity to move through the fear and transform. Your brain will continue to throw you curveballs that test the limits of what you think you understand about your Mind Body Experience. With courage and conviction, you must continue to remain grounded in your power even while the undertow of the wave pulls you in. Your brain may produce pain, fatigue, and sickness in all of its varieties and flavors, but you remain committed to your path. Remind yourself that your body is rising to meet the truth of who you are. You are expansive enough to contain this and to move through it. Do not let the fear lead. See the fear for what it is: outdated patterns of protection in need of an upgrade. If you allow yourself to settle into the wave rather than thrashing against it, it will become clear what is taking place in the context of your life that is producing such an event.

To settle does not mean to be swallowed up by pain and fear. It means to flow when the experience flows and ebb when it ebbs. The same tools apply to reading these words. I know my language is paradoxical because words can only be a guide, so do not attempt to hang onto my words as absolute truth. Let them simply wash over you and allow yourself to be guided into a deeper experience of safety in this moment without needing to figure it all out. You are dancing with the words, dancing with the truth, dancing with your experience. Your action will come from trusting yourself to listen and doing what feels necessary in the moment. It takes practice and some guidance, but you are learning to be your own true healer. At times, you may need firmness to boost your mood, change your environment, and convince your brain that you can move through fear. Other times, you may need gentleness to be with the vulnerable parts of you showing up - the fearful, sad, or angry parts of your old self that are coming up to be released. Sometimes your Mind Body Experience may require no action at all and you may choose to ignore it and carry on with your day or close your eyes for a nap, knowing your true power cannot be stopped regardless of what action you take because there is nothing wrong with you. You do not always need to fight nor do you always need to accept. There is no universal model. It is a practice, an experiment, a dance.

The fear patterns and physical sensations will continue to show up to knock you off balance and bring you down to the familiar stuckness you have lived with for so long. Your brain cannot yet see the transformation taking place, but with courage - all that you can muster - you will expose it to the truth of who you are. Change your mind, change your body. If your mind is the belief center, your brain is the control center. It sends signals to the body based on familiar, learned patterns of response. If you have lived your whole life in fear, disappointment, shame, guilt, and avoidance, this is what your brain knows. This is how it has learned to protect you. Your suffering is not your fault and it never was. You did not come into this world as a blank slate, you came in carrying the unresolved conflicts of those who came before you. You carry these emotional conflicts with you and they manifest in your Mind Body Experience. But now it is your responsibility - your opportunity - to heal, and you have the power to transform.