Being One with Your Body

When you are well, you feel like you are one with the world and nature. Chinese medicine tells us that the human being is a microcosm within the macrocosm of the earth. It is the same energy and the same life force in different forms.

Now you can understand why depressed people feel worse on cloudy, dark days. If your internal energy is already heavy and low, the outer environmental energy will compound it.

It is so important to keep your internal energy clear and flowing, so the outer will have very minimal impact on it. You can still function normally and stay in the state you want to be in.

Qigong teaches:

"I am in the universe, the universe is in me. I am one with the universe".

You and I share the same breath. The air we breathe in and out connects us all. Are we breathing, or is the air breathing us?

Through sensing the body, you can feel at one with it and stay connected with it. That way you are congruent and comfortable and create a coherent field of energy.

Your body is your vehicle through this life. It works best when you respect and honour it; even better when you praise it. Your mind is your powerful tool to help you navigate, learn, appreciate and grow through your experiences.

Your body is the densest part of your energy field; it is the substantial aspect of you. It takes energy in, releases energy out, constantly moves, actively creates new cells and destroys old cells.

Caroline Myss reminds us very elegantly in her book Anatomy of the Spirit that our "biology" is, in fact, our "biography." The body is a clear, accurate feedback mechanism that keeps you on the health track. It will call your attention whenever you depart from it without conscious awareness of the damage you inflict to your body.

Your whole life experience is stored energetically in your body. The body stores unprocessed experiences that may be felt as residual tension until the energy expenditure becomes too costly to keep them. Then it becomes urgent to clear and transform the old energies into more useful ones. That is when people find a lump, start noticing pain, have a nervous breakdown, and so on.

The body is an external manifestation of your subconscious mind. When it brings something to your attention, it is because you are ready to clear it. And when unresolved issues are processed, they turn into wisdom.

The health crisis point is the last desperate call from your body to save you from dying prematurely. If you do not change now, the prognosis is unfavourable.

The body's intelligence is as highly dynamic, creative, and interactive as your mental and emotional intelligence. You may have noticed that you think more clearly when you move your body regularly. In fact, most inventors get their brilliant ideas while walking!

When you eat beneficial food, it becomes one with you, transforms into nourishment and gets absorbed into your cells, helping the body to function and maintain its structure. When it is an inappropriate food for you, the body will eliminate it fast to save you from being poisoned. When you get a new idea, perception or belief that is in resonance with you and supportive of your growth and well-being, it is integrated into your core self and becomes one with you. When a new idea is imposed upon you from culture, media or tradition, but somehow does not resonate with your spirit or does not feel right to follow, be careful. If you continue to live your life according to it, you will soon notice uncomfortable feelings of frustration, anxiety and unhappiness until you become aware and update to what works for you.

When you connect with your true passion for life, or when you are in that magical state of the open curiosity of a child, you are one with life. Time stops.

And you know when you meet your personal spiritual path or teacher because it feels like you are at home and are at one with your fellow travellers.

The body is a magnificently designed psycho-bio-dynamic organism, equipped to cope with almost anything. It has an inbuilt healing system. So if it is not healing despite proper treatment, what is blocking the healing?

The body collects toxins into a lump to prevent them from spreading to other parts of your body. It keeps in check any abnormal cells, bacteria and viruses that could put you at risk of disease. It warns you constantly of what is happening through symptoms, if you have not noticed. Your part is to pay attention, notice, make connections and rectify the situation back to balance.

Perhaps you get a headache every time you eat a certain food, every time you talk to a particular person or after a certain meeting. Take the time to understand what your body message is. Some people check their e-mails every few minutes. It may be good practice to tune into the body to check if there any unread messages. Your body's "e-nergetic-mails" are more important to check!

A symptom is not something bad that needs to be eliminated at once because it is disruptive. A symptom is the body's alarm system. It works the same way as the red light on the dashboard of your car. What is your first response to it? Do you stop the car, or at least slow down and assess what is happening as soon as possible?

Most people cover the red light with a bandage and keep going, even faster than before, completely missing the warning and heading closer to the cliff of the crisis point.

This behaviour is as dangerous for the car as it is for the body. It is the pattern behind almost every chronic illness I have seen in clinic. You can go back in time and retrace many messages the person received but chose to ignore. The excuse is often, "I did not have time," or, "I did not think it was important." Let me ask, do you have time to get sick?

You and your body form an amazing team to be and stay well as long as you work as one. Your body is not a nuisance when it causes discomfort or pain. It whispers first and then shouts. Finally, it has no other option than to scream at you, because it will do anything to warn you when you get off balance. It will never give up on you and will go to extreme measures to get your attention, like giving you a heart attack, nervous breakdown or intense panic attack.

Imagine the following scenario. You are in your house, busy with plugs in your ears, and reading a book on a stationary gym bike. Your best friend is outside the main door, knocking to deliver an important message that you must get now. But you cannot hear him. He knocks harder and shouts your name. If there...