 them are both energy in different forms. It may help you to perceive things inside and around you in their totality.
Go to the My Beliefs and Physical Dysfunction page and use it to identify how your beliefs and behaviours could impact on your feelings and emotions and then in turn how those feelings and emotions could express themselves in physical ailments and dysfunctions you might be experiencing.
- Again, don't try to force your thinking – just consider an idea or response you made and let it be. Write down whatever thoughts and associations come to mind.
- When we are young we have the opportunity to change our lifestyle early, and by so doing we can avoid many of the stresses of living and therefore avoid the associated physical dysfunctions.
- As we get older, we may have a severe run-in with one or more physical dysfunctions – broken bones, heart attack, stroke, cancer - and it brings us up short. We have to take stock of our lives and take on a different way of living.
We can change our diet, drink less, stop smoking, sleep more, but if we are carrying negative mental and emotional issues, they also define our ‘lifestyle’ and we need to work on those too.
Continue with your journal and include your experience of what is happening in your body. Notice any recurring themes; what are they about. Include an interpretation of your dreams and mind chatter, but don't get caught up in the interpretation. If you have missed something important, your unconscious will find a way to bring it back into your attention. So – let it be!
Discussion Assignment - My Body and the World Within
Ask yourself these questions
- What are the conditions I am experiencing?
- What are the symptoms of those conditions?
- What do those symptoms feel like?
- Why are these conditions happening?
- What needs to be attended to?
And then answer the following question.
What of my beliefs are not working for me; how do those beliefs show up physically?Discussion Forum
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