Our bodies will heal more quickly and effectively of their illnesses and ailments once it’s understood that it’s actually our soul -our mind, or psyche-  that’s in need of healing.

For too long,  the medical profession has been diagnosing our physical problems  by examining our symptoms and then trying to treat those symptoms. Not enough attention has been given to the causes of our disorders, or the connection between  our physical health, our emotions and our mind,  although there is a growing recognition that some illnesses are  emotional or psychological in origin. * 

In the future,  in the “brave new world” we can bring about if we wish to,   a more enlightened understanding towards our bodies and our physical health will prevail.  Our body’s symptoms and dysfunctions will be perceived as our soul’s, or psyche’s, desperate attempts to communicate its’ pain and dis-ease to our conscious awareness. (It’s important to understand that in the case of the body we are talking about our unconscious mind:  the sleeping, trapped, feminine aspect of our soul, or psyche.) 

Our Soul Issues and Disorders.

Our physical health issues and disorders,  are,  in fact,  our soul issues and disorders. When we understand this,  and look to the pain and conflict that exists inside us, on a soul level, and work to correct and heal those ailments,  our bodies will reflect the new level of soul ease and comfort.  First, however, we need to know how our mind/soul uses our bodies  to express its’ pain and discomfort.

How Our Soul Speaks To Us.

Remember, it’s our unconscious mind that holds the most influence and control over our body, not our conscious mind, so it’s our unconscious that speaks and expresses itself through the body.  This  becomes apparent when we  observe people’s body language. 

For  example, if we’re not telling the truth,  our body, or part of our body,  will turn away from our questioner or accuser, and we won’t even be aware we’re doing this. In other words, we’ll be quite unconscious that our bodies are betraying us in this way. That’s why these body gestures and movements  are called “tells:” they literally, “tell” the truth. There’s a web page which talks about this in more detail on www.blifaloo.com  if you’re interested.

Our souls speak to us through our bodies in a much more intricate, and valuable way than just telling the truth, however, according to Janie Ticehurst at www.healingkeys.com  aches are emotional complaints made through our body, while any problem with our heels  reflects our stubbornness in moving forward in life. We are literally “digging our heels in” and refusing to move. 

If we’re suffering from  any physical aches, apparently,  it’s because, deep down, at the level of our soul,  we’re unhappy in some area of our life and need to make changes. Likewise, in order to heal our heels, we need to examine our life to see how we’re being stubborn. Once we change our  attitude,  our heels,  or heel, will heal. 

(Do pardon the silliness of the wordplay, but there’s no reason why our journey to enlightenment has to be a deadly serious affair. In fact, it should be as much fun as you and I can possibly make it. Especially when it’s damp, cold, miserable, andblowing a gale outside and you haven’t been anywhere nice for a  . . .  Oops! Sorry! See, that’s the thing about our unconscious, it spills out, telling the truth, telling our real story, disrupting the orderliness of the proceedings, just when we’re nicely in command and control of things, like a really knowledgeable, authoritative, enlightened person is . . . )

Ahem.

So, it’s important to understand that it’s the unconscious  aspect of our mind that’s attempting to  communicate through our body, attempting to bring to light, the light of our conscious awareness,  our soul’s pain or dis-ease. The language our unconscious uses to express itself, is metaphor.

Ms. Ticehurst claims  there’s  a metaphor for a specific illness, a part of the body,  and a symptom, and once we understand that our mind is telling a specific story through a  specific metaphor,  we ‘re able to interpret the story and so identify the underlying problem.

So, a physical problem with our throat, for example, means we have a deeper  issue concerning communication, because the throat symbolizes communication.  Also, because our throat area represents speaking and  swallowing,   a sore throat  means there’s something in our life we can’t,  or don’t wish, to swallow. Or, perhaps there’s something we want to say but are afraid to, or feel we can’t say.

       Ticehurst states,

                                “Fundamentally, all illness can be healed, resolved and transformed because it is built on emotional pain and conflicts that come from misunderstandings that can be corrected.”

                                                                                      What We Won’t or Can’t Face

While I’m not certain that Ticehurst’s particular system of metaphors is 100%accurate,  simply because it’s impossible for one person to test them all out,  I do know that our unconscious does express its’ dis-ease through bodily conditions and states, and that these conditions and states are deeply meaningful and hold great  significance for us on an inner level.  I’ll give you an example of how I discovered this for myself, many years ago.

In my article, “Finding Heaven . . .  Once Upon a Time,” I said that I believed our bodies could be healed through healing our soul.  One example of this being true for me,  occurred when I used to suffer regularly from  slipped discs.

It would happen suddenly and for no apparent reason.  In other words, I couldn’t seem to trace an event that would cause the offending disc to move, or “slip.”  All at once, I would find myself in great pain and be unable to straighten up my spine. 

One day, the light dawned, and I made an important connection:  something always occurred just before  the disc would “slip.”  It happened every time a certain family event occurred, an event which served to remind me of something I really, really, didn’t want to acknowledge or face up to. It was simply too painful and uncomfortable to look at because it threatened how I wanted to perceive myself, my world and many, if not all, of my important relationships.  It was something I preferred to forget about, something I preferred to ignore.

The problem was,  I was desperate to be free of  my agonising and recurring health problem. For over a week at a time I would be literally bent almost double from the pain in my back, as if I carried a great burden there.   Later, when I did find the courage to examine and acknowledge how I was really feeling about certain situations, people and relationships,  I realized that  my conscious mind hadn’t wanted  to confront and deal with these suppressed, painful issues and truths, because they threatened the continuity and integrity of  my personal world.   

Yet, this cosy world-view of my conscious mind wasn’t true, it was  a fiction, an illusion. I was deluding myself about some fundamental aspects of my life.   

I didn’t  stop having slipped discs from the moment I made the connection between the family event and my recurring back problem.  It was  merely the start of a journey, a process during which I began to  face some very uncomfortable truths,  and  finally, in the end, to own and accept them as being “true, “ at least, for me.

My painful soul  issues needed,  for my own well-being, to be resolved.  I subsequently discovered  that I was carrying more than one painful  burden which would manifest as a slipped disc.  For me,  it  seemed that a slipped disc was the condition which best suited my soul’s anguish, the anguish I was unconsciously feeling over the burdens I had carried for a long, long time, and which my soul required me to lay down.

So, my  soul pain was a  great load that, metaphorically,  I had  carried on my back and which had become  so heavy that I was bent almost double in my attempt to carry it.  

Until I realized that my soul/unconscious,  was using my body to express it’s pain, that it was trying to enlighten me,  trying to bring it to my conscious  attention and awareness,  so that I could do something about it, I suffered in all sorts of ways. It wasn’t just the physical pain, it was the fact that the problem began to recur more and more frequently and was badly interfering with my ability to get on with my life. It had, in fact,  started to dominate my life.                                                                                     

                                                                                The Body Is Our Soul, Frozen.

To me,  our body is our soul, frozen.  Our body carries our soul’s story,  the story of our pain, our conflicts, our attitudes and our emotions, and if we’re  wise we’ll start paying it more attention and giving it more respect. Because our body will guide and enlighten us if we allow it to.  We ignore it at our peril, because it always knows best, and it never, ever,  lies.

*Modern research has demonstrated  a link exists between our emotions and our health. It’s generally accepted, for example,  that fear can cause heart palpitations and anger can elevate blood pressure. While, blocked anger and fear can lead to a stroke.