We have so many preconceived ideas of how things in our lives are suppose to look in order to be “right” that it is hard to see all the ways we are affected by this. I was very aware of the image my friend had in a recent conversation with her. I was dealing with a physical issue and since we are both Yuen Practitioners, we often work on each other. She said, “As practitioners, we don’t need to have stuff come up in our bodies.”
I felt she was saying that I was somehow not as good as I could or should be if I was experiencing physical symptoms rather than clearing the problem on an energy level before it could manifest in physical form. I felt an immediate rejection of what she said.
I am NOT less than because I experience health challenges on a physical level. In fact, if I don’t, how can I possibly understand what another person is dealing with? If I have found my way through health problems, I am far better equipped to help my clients find their way though their problems!
“We don’t need to have stuff come up in our bodies.” But it is already there! The energy patterns of our emotions are stored in our bodies, unless we know how to fully experience our emotions, receive the information they contain, and let the energy leave. Since all of us have been raised by adults who had their own issues and usually did not know how to work with their emotions in healthy ways and therefore did not have the ability to help us learn, many of the emotions we lived in the middle of and absorbed as we were growing up are stored in our bodies.
I started reading in The Mount Shasta Mission by Machaelle Small Wright today, and from it I am learning more about how our bodies work. Our bodies respond and react to EVERYTHING – and are designed to! What causes problems is that our cultural training teaches us to disconnect from the abilities our bodies have to receive & process information.
My friend asked me, “Are you willing to get information in other ways than through your body?”
Yes, but how? My body reacts to & works with ALL information so I don’t know how to NOT use my body. It would be great if my body could sort and process information in a balanced way, but my body will still be used. This is how I would reword what my friend said:
As practitioners, one of the areas it is helpful to focus on first is clearing and releasing the limiting energy patterns that have been imposed on our bodies from the way we were raised, so our bodies will be able to receive and process new information the way they were designed to and are capable of.
I have made great progress in doing this for myself, and I am excited about helping others through the process. Let me know if you are interested in checking out how I could help you.