My physical body, my guide to my creative self!
In May, number 5, nature wakes up, and buds bloom. It’s a manifestation of colors and variety. Everything changes and transforms. Nature does not know what will survive and yet puts all its commitment into nourishing each part of the creation. A chance is given to all.
This is a strong message for us as sometimes we block an initiative because our mind tells us “This won’t work”. Nature always gives a chance, no matter how little hope there is.
Number 5, the physical body, also wakes up after the long winter. There might have been signs in April, but it was still uncertain. Now, in May, we cannot hide and compromise. The changes that happened in winter are manifesting; how we lived during the winter months, how we have nourished ourselves, and what we tried to ignore or postpone are now illuminated by intense light and evident to us. A cliché is to think about our bikini bodies again! 😉
5 is flexibility and manifestation, and it teaches us that all we do and think will one day come to the surface. If it doesn’t, it remains stuck. In our bodies, this is often a block, a pain, and something that creates uneasiness in our movement. We are used to solving everything through our minds, and create patterns of control based on our beliefs instead of listening to our bodies.
More than ever, it is now the time to connect to our physical bodies including all its parts and ask questions, awaiting its answers.
We can do that simply by standing with closed eyes and preparing our minds to listen to our bodies without finding solutions or jumping to conclusions. Very often, our attention goes where the preconceptions of our minds bring us, which is usually where we feel the discomfort, the pain or the block, trying to find a solution to that and to fix it.
Instead, we can simply ask our bodies where it needs our attention, and we might be surprised by the feedback. Our bodies are systemic, contrary to the tendency of our minds to be linear and polarized. The body might invite us to listen to parts that are related to the grosser sensations of pain that we feel somewhere else.
Staying there, contemplating where our bodies invites us, we can then just trust our bodies’ wisdom to self-reorganize itself and to accompany its process respectfully and compassionately. We do not connect to the body to correct its shortcomings; we connect to it to ask where to bring our attention (this is what we mean by “asking questions”) and how it wants to move to trigger a spontaneous healing process and self-development! These may come as spontaneous movements that the body makes in reaction to our attention, as an answer to our questions.
By training ourselves to connect openly to our bodies, we open new paths, we recall our curiosity and our sensitivity to sensations, emotions, and impressions from nature and other people. We cultivate spontaneity and we recover the artist within us, becoming creators of our lives and seeing the magic and beauty around us.
This self-exploration prepares us for a new learning process. The physical body becomes our teacher, and we realize that we can learn from anything we create a relationship with. Allowing this resonance, each relationship becomes an opportunity to learn something about ourselves. Being open to the impact within us of a landscape, a tree, a painting, a person, a butterfly, a fly, … in term of sensations, feelings, emotions, thoughts, … we realise new parts of our consciousness. We increase our field of possibilities and fulfillment since we can only recognize outside what we have already recognize within!
“Learn. Don’t keep on finding a great macho teacher, learn from a little flower, how subtle its life is, how beautiful and soft its petals are, how great its fragrance is, how beautiful its color is.” – Yogi Bhajan
Through our childhood, we have been conditioned by our education & social environment to define what would make us happy based on beliefs and opinions. We created an imaginary self of who/what we should be to reach that goal of happiness! This self-projected imaginary self is “protected” by our memories, identifications, and habits. It constantly attracts the same thoughts, generating the same reactions to circumstances, the same feelings, the same emotions, and the same actions. We are like hamsters in a wheel!
Our bodies “stores” this subconscious conditioned self and is craving for our attention to let it go and find its optimum potential: health, peace, and freedom of movement.
This month, it is time to ask yourself or to ask your physical body ☺
What do I do to be a good person that makes me feel bad?
What do I not do (fearing to be a bad person) that would make me feel good?
“What’s the difference between spontaneity and impulsiveness?
An impulse is based on memory, on conditioning. It’s often an emotional reaction. Observe in yourself the difference with a spontaneous gesture, driven by necessity that does not offend you or those around you because it is not intentional. Getting to know yourself is the essential and this requires being free of all imagination, comparison, and evaluation. What we call spiritual enlightenment is the simple observation that the image created is an illusion.” – Jean Klein, The Unfathomable Silence.
KRIYAS & MEDITATIONS
2 meditations to experience a deeper sense of self, based on our inner realities.
