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Old 08-17-2009, 09:44 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I think the key to using the mind/body connection (and what Inspirations was saying -- and please pardon me if I'm misreading, Inspirations) is listening generously to the message that the Angel of Pain is trying to get through to you.

Until you get the message, it would be malpractice for the Angel Of Pain to leave you alone; until you listen and really get it, she'll hang around, producing more and more dire consequences to get your attention.

Do you know that old joke: "Doctor, doctor, every time I drink coffee I get a stabbing pain in my eye!" "Well, take the spoon out."

It seems, from your reply to Inspirations, that you're not quite hearing the message yet, although you are perking up, beginning to listen. I don't know what your lesson is, but you did give what sound like clues:

-- you thought your shoulder was completely healed, and yet it popped out again.

-- you get to "the point where It is fully healed and I get to a point where it feels 100 percent only to be popped out again by something random, for instance if i moved it the wrong way too fast."

What I hear in that is that your unconscious mind is trying to get more in rapport with your conscious mind, to get you more in communication and aware of what "fully, completely, 100% healed" means, so that you are a genius at operating your body, resting and taking proper actions, and taking care to move with fluidity and deliberateness -- even after you've really healed all the way. (I highly recommend the Alexander Technique for that, by the way.)

Of course you wouldn't be so stupid as to consciously do the actions that you know will re-injure you; but as you are looking at I/M, you're aware, aren't you, that there are some things that are going on beneath your normal level of consciousness -- beliefs, attitudes, thoughts and behaviors that keep your pain in place, contrary to your conscious desire to be free of it.

Inspirations was pointing out a rather classic archetypal symbolism that occurs in mind/body awareness, something that Louise Hay's "Heal Your Life" books spell out very well. We have these tribal symbols that live within us that are great places to start when you're looking for a solution to getting your unconscious and conscious mind in rapport. Kind of like how there are dream dictionaries, you know? The symbolism of your unconscious mind has personal representations, and it also has a kind of group gestalt, too -- it's just a place to enter into a deeper understanding of your mind/body connection.

And isn't that the point of your thread?
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