defining bodymind

[Guest guest]

Hi Ged,

 

Thank you for sharing your model.

 

Although relatively new to many " alternative " concepts, which directly

relate to Body-Mind connectivity, I am very interested in discussions

for which I can continue to learn, find new perspectives, challenge my

own notions, and just open my mind to new ideas.

 

Within the last year and a half, I stumbled upon hypnosis. I

personally gain so much from it, and was able to observe the benefits

others received from hypnosis that, when an opportunity came along to

become trained and certified as a hypnotherapist, I took it.

 

So, with that perspective, perhaps I may offer you some ideas for you

to evaluate to help with your theoretical model.

 

You describe your level 1 " Muscles have their own opinions " including

your experience that quite often what people tell you may be

completely different from what their body tells you. I pose to you

that what may be at play here is a conflict between the person's

conscious mind and the subconscious/unconscious/nonconscious mind.

That is, the person you describe may be convinced that his body needs

more punishment to build more muscles, to be more macho, to be what in

his conscious mind is his ideal of what it is to be a man (which may

be based on may nonconscious coping mechanisms, learning and

experiences). Yet, his nonconscious mind knows that the body needs

something else to be healthy. And fortunately you are sensitive and

observant enough to be aware of the signals and non-verbal messages

that this nonconscious mind is telling you, through the body, what is

needed.

 

So, in a manner, yes, muscles and your entire body has a mind of it's

own, which is different from what we call our conscious mind. This

nonconscious mind not only controls your non-verbal communications, it

also controls your heart beat, your breathing (when your conscious

mind allows it to), and all other functions of your body.

 

Although I cannot prove it, I do believe a lot of personal sickness,

both physical and psychological, comes about from the conflicts that

arise between one's conscious and nonconscious mind. To create

mindful harmony is to establish a healthy environment.

 

Not surprisingly, one's internal processes will be reflective on how

they interact with the world. That is, someone with internal

conflicts are more likely, I believe, to be involved with more

interpersonal and relationship conflicts. People who are at peace

with themselves are thus more peaceful with others.

 

You also bring up a very interesting concept in your Level 2 " Whatever

you tell the universe the universe will hear. " Also called " The Law

of Attraction, " it can be said that " what ever you focus on will

eventually come to you. " So if you think about what you want, want

you need and focus on positive thoughts and energy, eventually that is

what you will receive. Sadly, so many focus on what they don't want,

things that detract and deflect their focus away from what they need

and they focus too much on the negative. So it should be little

surprise to anyone that those who focus one what they don't want will

get what they don't want. Yet those who continue to focus on what

they don't want are often confused and disappointed that they always

get what they don't want, and they often blame the world, the universe

and others for their situation rather than accept the responsibility

for themselves.

 

There are potentially many explanations for this Law of Attraction. I

understand it by at least three possibilities that lead to the same

conclusions, one that relies upon analytical thinking, one on feeling,

and for others they can accept it as a mystery if that gives them comfort.

 

I also thank you for sharing your thoughts about game-players and

abuse-victim attraction. Your observations, especially how abusers

and victims often find one another, and the relationship with what one

puts out (through non-verbal body language, which is reflective on

nonconscious processes) and the cycles people often find themselves

in. To break the cycle, simply break the behavior. To change the

behavior, change the mind, the thought and feeling processes. You

have found one tool through therapeutic body massage to enable people.

I have found that hypnosis is another tool (massaging of the mind, if

you like) to empower people. It is all good.

 

I wish you the best for your work and your theoretical model. And I

hope that I may have offered you something that you and others might

find my words helpful.

 

Warmest thoughts and feelings,

 

Jess

Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist

[Guest guest]

wow, that's a lot of writing, I may have to respond to

it in instalments. I may also find myself not

reposnding directly to your point but using it to

comment on mine. And, of course, I have my own

agenda, which doesn't include hypnosis for the very

simple reason that I know precious little about it :-)

 

My current understanding of the conscious /

nonconscious mind is that it's pretty much a trick the

brain plays with itself. It's been a *lot* of years

since I studied psychology, but it was Jung wasn't it,

animus / anima? The brain allows certain desires /

identities and denies others. It suppresses the ones

it denies but, as an integral part of the self they

still demand expression in some form. This sets up

bttle in te self between 'should' and 'need'. In that

model the rest of the body is an innocent bystander.

 

But if this denial leads to dysfunction, then

dysfunction leads to emotion and emotions are physical

states. The body feels emotions, adjusts to them,

broadcasts them to the outside world and, over time

will store them in chronic musculature contractions.

 

We then find people who are entering therapy to break

old behaviour patterns but who still carry the old

patterns around with them in their posture.

 

 

I should mention at this point that a pernicious

machismo seems to underpin the world of most of my

professional clients, male or female. The women are

sadly as sucked in by this bs as the men. More in

fact as they tend to think they have more to prove.

 

Ok, end of instalment one :-) like I said Jess

there's a lot of information in your post, I shall

return to it in stages.

 

 

Ged x

 

 

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