Our physical pain can be a message to look at our Spiritual path?
Usually our first thought when we feel pain of any kind is “What’s going on with my body?” We don’t connect it to our spiritual awakening. Pain, whether subtle or harsh, is a call for action. It’s time to look at what we are avoiding on our spiritual path.
I have facilitated retreats where people come in with backaches, constipation, chronic headaches, or just unexplained body pain. Midway through the retreat, they mention that their pain is easing up and one client, the constipated one, said she finally felt as though her body let go of a lot of the trauma and therefore was actually able to really let go!
Our body issues are connected to our emotional state. If we are holding onto our old wounding and limiting beliefs, they will settle in our bodies somewhere. Participating in an intensive retreat will give you the opportunity to release old trauma that may be affecting your life negatively.
If we are in need of being in control of our life because of past abuse, it could affect our stomach, shoulders or back. If we can work through our old wounding, we release the trauma in our bodies that has been holding on for a long time. In a retreat, we look at what wounds you have suffered during childhood, what old beliefs you have attached to those wounds and how to shift and create new beliefs and release the trauma of the wounds.
Our physical bodies are great indicators of what is going on with us emotionally. Our first impulse when we feel pain is to remove it by taking medication such as aspirin, antacids, etc. Before trying to rid yourself of the pain through medicine, try sinking into what is really going on. I suggest sitting somewhere and going inside to your feelings around the pain. Then, sink deeper into the sensation in your body. You may be surprised when childhood situations come up. Stay with the sensations and try not to let yourself go into the old wounding/story.
Sometimes while sitting with the feelings, you will notice that they leave your body as fast as they have come. If you would like to go deeper into your emotional and physical pain, let’s talk.
