Tutorial 7 Mind and Body Connection

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Mind and Body Connection

Sunset Mildura, Victoria

In the classes I run, I continually stress awareness of what the participants are feeling in their bodies, in our busy painfull lives we often forget or actively ignore what our bodies feel like in an attempt to avoid pain. This does not work, instead the pain and avoidance goes down into the unconcious, comes up in your dreams and if it is not tackled at some point it manifests as disease, dis ease with your body and bodily sensations.

Many in my groups assure me they can't feel anything, then I say to them ahhh so your tummy is not rumbling, you haven't got an itchy nose from that cold. They then say ahhh but those are not sensations, if those are not sensations what are they? You may have noticed when you get angry you often feel a pain or a knot of anxiety in your stomach, you stomach holds much pain that is why so many of us have chronic indigestion problems. Pain is a very gross sensation but if you look really look, in every part of your body you have subtle sensations going on, little tickles, movements, itches, hot spots, sore spots, tight spots, light spots. Just take a feel of every major part of your body now and see if you can describe a sensation from each part.

Now at this point in time I hear you thinking, "what is the point of all this?" Well the body is an impartial store of all your experiences. Within you is a storehouse, a cellular storehouse, from which you can bring up in the body everything you have ever gone through. Gross sensations, that is very dense ones manifest as pain. They are not pain if you really observe, they are very close knit heavy sensations, very intense but actually there is no such thing as pain that is the minds way of describing the sensation. You have created the thing you call pain by labelling it as such, so then mind sets in motion all the things you usually do when in pain, you withdraw, you react to it and try to mask it by drinking, eating, television watching, even causing an argument. Then more discomfort sets in, more gross sensations, in the end your brain says hey I don't want to feel anything. You have made multiple illusions to hide the fact you were just experiencing a body sensation, which when it happened the first time was linked to an experience you did not like, so it caused your mind to label it as pain. The actual bodily sensations is neither good or bad, but once it gets labeled and then the label is reapplied every time you feel something similar, you have to go back to basics and observe that which has been labeled. You need to observe your sensations to find out what you actually need to heal, as you cut with the sensations you are cutting with the root of illusion, so it is so much more powerful than cutting with the thought. This way you cut with the error that was first made and with the label of pain or pleasure. If you labelled the event as pleasure it still needs to be cut with because then you are worried you will lose the pleasure or that you may not find it again, you try to recreate the same things that brought you pleasure then. The only trouble is life is change, the events in place did not create the pleasure, that is there for you all the time, if you allow it. The thing is to find real pleasure, real love, the only way to do that is to be in the moment. You always attribute this love to the person you are with, the place you are in. It is not that, that caused you happiness, for a second you were in the moment enjoying pure love, stop the fruitless chase, observe what is and learn to love the moment you are in, for that is truley all you have. Your body knows the truth, your body is the key to discovering that all these sensations are created by you. As you come back to being the observor you realise you are not the body, you are not the experiences, but you are the impartial observor, you are God, the creator of all you expeience. Love is actually the only thing that is real but we can create what we like, we must once more master this process and to do that we must go back to basics and find how we built these illusions in the first place.

You need to apply this knowledge in daily life and put it into practice. Observation moment by moment when you are involved in daily activities is the key. When you in a car and experiencing road rage or just annoyance at a thoughtless drivers actions, you cut with the sensations you feel, not only do you cut with that time but all the times it happened before. Say for instance you have to give a presentation in front of an audience of experts. The adrenalin starts pumping, the hands start clenching, you cant breath, your heart starts pumping very fast, you feel faintly sick. Next time you have a reaction look at it, don't avoid it and cut with it and you will be cutting with every time you avoided and stored this feeling and slowely you won't have that reaction to it. You can start the dy by soing this. When you get up in morning do you have that feling of lethargy and that you would rather go back to sleep, you feel heavy, your eyes want to sink, you don't want to get up. Well tomorrow stop yourself, see how you really feel and then cut with it, you will cut alot of that in one sitting then after that slowley your reaction to getting up will change. See what you feel in your legs, what you feel in your head, which part aches, which part is heavy and cut with those physical sensations. Just feel and cut. Yes it is that simple don't make it more complicated. When you want to break an old habit pattern don't concentrate on mind and thoughts, just concentrate on anything you feel and cut with it and it will change. Cutting for body sensations is about 30 times more powerful than cutting with fleeting thoughts. Your thoughts very quick, in and out, mind darting here, darting there, quite shallow in comparison with bodily sensations. The bodily sensations is the depth you need to go to, to really change ingrained habits.

Tutorial Seven

Mind and Body Connection

Sunset Mildura, Victoria