A Potent Visual

On physical symptoms with emotional undercurrents

I believe that every uncomfortable physical symptom has an emotional and energetic undercurrent. I also think that once you are able to acknowledge this deeper level, it becomes a lot easier to make practical changes that can improve your situation and bring relief. Addressing something at its core often means that you stop subconsciously sabotaging your attempts to do something about it.

Example: I experienced fairly consistent 'bloatedness' for the last few years and the way I was eating often contributed to worsening it. I made half-hearted attempts to change my diet, but they never really lasted because what the bloating also did for me, was to numb and dull certain feelings (stored in my solar plexus) which I found too painful to address or digest. That shifted this year, when I attended a retreat where I danced pretty intimately with the themes I was so afraid of looking at. When asked what had shifted for me during the week, I tried to capture the visual I saw:

an image of my body projected in front of me
density around my hips, womb, stomach
dense, thick, pain-filled experiences
blocking my life-force as it tries to flow

now there has been a piercing of these dark masses,
an injection of sweet venom to diffuse their heaviness

I felt their pain rise up in me again but I dove right in
in my mind's eye I chose to dive right in
as I soaked myself in it, bathed in it,
welcomed it!

I nestled more and more of myself
in between all these dislodged densities
and as I swam around in them
they started dissolving one by one

now there is a brilliant, vital current
radiating from the crown of my head
through to the soles of my bare feet

lighting me up as it flows right through