Sacred Bodywork

The physical body holds memory; memory of physical traumas experienced, and memory of emotional traumas experienced. This memory is held in the tissues of the body, the muscles, the organs, the fascia and can affect the flow of chi energy around the body. When they are held for many years without release, they can eventually build in such a way that we experience them as distress becoming dis-ease.

When we experience a physical difficulty in our body there is always an emotional component to it also. There is a spiritual component to it too that relates to our path of learning in this incarnation. What we are experiencing in our physical body is bringing to our attention something in us that needs to be healed, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually as well. So, as we are dealing with the physical healing, the process will cause us to reflect in a specific way, such that we have cause to look more deeply upon some aspect of ourself that needs to be healed.

There is a beautiful saying in Traditional Chinese Medicine that says that ‘the organs weep the tears the eyes refuse to shed’.

This is also true when we experience a sudden physical injury to the body, releasing the emotional state we were in at that moment of impact is hugely relevant to our healing process. Whatever we were thinking and feeling in those moments that led up to the injury are related to the lesson we are learning through that experience and give us indicators to the way we can undo the physical trauma.

When the body experiences a physical impact that is injurious to the body, the shock of it can remain in the body and creates a vibration that can remain in the body long after the initial impact has healed. The body attempts to limit the stress of the impact and will try to reduce the size of the impact shock area, making a ball of knotted energy in that area. This is held in place until such time as we have the emotional space within us to deal with the emotional trauma of what caused the problem. It has been noted that when the body is put back into the position of the trauma, the physical shock of the event is released, and so is very often the emotional trauma related to it also.

Sometimes the problem will not simply go away and we literally have to grow inside such that we become bigger than the problem and it seems less significant to us in some way. But if it is of a nature that can be healed, the healing will be lasting as we have dealt with the root cause of it.