What If We Treated Our Bodies Like The Ocean?

Well, aside from the obvious, that the body is made up of massive amounts of water, water has much wisdom to share.  When the body breaks down or has physical injury or setbacks like surgery, dis-ease, water can teach us a lot about how to work with our bodies and a the attitude required for healing, recovery and restoration. 

Anyone who has been in a large body of water, knows we need to have a certain respect for water, its conditions, how it presents on any given day.  Imagine this ocean, we simply allow the ocean to be what it is, we do not expect the ocean to be flat calm when it is rough, we do not expect the ocean to respect our lives, we know we need to tend to our own safety within the conditions of the ocean at any given moment.  We do not expect the ocean to be the same and stay the same…each day is new and different. The ocean is dynamic, we know this, we expect it, and most importantly…we accept it. 

If we could allow this wisdom to flow into our relationship with our own bodies, especially during healing and the healing process. When we accept the body as it is, in every given moment, magic happens. When the body is recovering from insult, injury, surgery, we accept these conditions, not as limitations, more as a guidance system and we learn to develop fluidity and flow with what is, working together. When the body has pain, we are cautious and tend to its conditions, appropriately. We make many mistakes while develop the blueprint for what is enough, too much, a time to rest or a time press forward. We accept each day as it is, knowing everyday will be new and different. Living with the body rather than despite the body. 

Many times when we have setbacks, injury, pain etc…we tend to house, either consciously or mostly unconsciously, this sort of distain for body or maybe we think of it as the distain for the pain? We are angry at this expression of pain. Angry or frustrated with perceived limitations, timelines, progress etc etc. It’s rare for most, maybe I should say ‘many of us’ instead (be an optimist) to meet our bodies where our bodies are, exactly in the state they are at this very moment. How many of us have had an injury and feel irritated at it’s lack of progression? How many of us call our shoulder ‘stupid’, or our pain ‘stupid’? I’ll tell ya…if I had a dime for every client that called a body part stupid…well you get the point.

Why is a body part ‘stupid’? What was does being ‘learn-ed’ have to do with a body part in pain? What..it won’t learn the ‘get with the program’? We got places to be…don’t be stupid! I have a race this weekend…you can’t hurt? Honestly…if our body was a separate human not attached to our ‘ego’…we would sound so cruel! Maybe. Maybe not all of us, I have rarely in my career come across someone that was very kind to their bodies and had the utmost respect. If they did…they earned and learned it!

There are some that managed to forge and foster a very different relationship with their body. They learned to turn to their body and say…thank you. You are my only body, till death do us part, I will cherish you, love you and respect you for as long as we travel this plane! Thank you for being my body. Thank you for holding all this pain. Thank you for holding invisible pain that I could not process cognitively, so you agreed to carry it for me, until I could discover how to release this pain through it’s proper channels.

My experience is those people above have had crisis. A body crisis that required a shift on consciousness. A shift in that relationship between body, ego, soul. True healing only comes when we see ourselves as sacred creatures, designed for progressing beyond perceived limitations….if…and only if…we can meet ourselves EXACTLY where we are.

We are designed to heal. Designed to rebound so to speak. Sometimes, some of us are called to very significant crises within the body that require a great shift in…thinking I’ll call it, because of our minds that play tricks on us. The covert messages that are being deposited when we aren’t paying attention.

Listen. Listen to the mind. The endless chatter. Listen for the insults, and catch them, block them, reverse them, ask yourself what would FEEL more helpful at this time.

Hear with your heart. Your body isn’t hear to be a nuisance. You’re body has so much love for you. It choose you as it’s life partner.

Tap into the soul for ultimate guidance.

If your coming out of numbness…there’s much work to be done and the rewards on the other side are there. Go through it …tread softly and embrace the relationship between self and body.