Mental blockages - Droxine

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Droxine,

Coming from a Native (Aboriginal North American) perspective, I was taught that

we are made up of Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit, all equal, all to be respected

and honored for their contributions to our wholeness.

 

Coming from a Western scientific perspective, I was taught that the brain is

important, and that it is comprised of the survival-driven reptilian brain stem,

the emotional mammalian limbic system, and the problem-solving cerebral cortex.

Of the three, it appears that the reasoning part of the brain, being the

newcomer, might be the weakest of the lot, as first we must feed the dinosaur

and calm the raging bull before we can begin to think clearly.

 

You appear to have learned ways to tame the first two ogres on the bridge, and

have sharpened your reasoning skills to a fine point. Your ability to think

analytically comes through very clearly in your writing. You sound brilliant,

and if we were in a University setting, I would want to take your class.

 

If we were stuck in a snowstorm, though, or hunting elk together, or sitting

next to each other in ceremony, I'm not sure I would feel safe. I wouldn't know

that I could count on you to help me. Your words, while brilliant, don't sing to

me of your wholeness. They don't whisper that you would honor the Elk and see it

as a relative, that you would ask its permission and offer thanks for its

generosity, then help butcher it, shoulder the parcels home, and give it to the

hungry.

 

It takes a Body to do these things, and a Heart, and Spirit as well, to connect

with the elk and with the hungry. The Mind is powerful, and words, well, they

can change history. But it takes the rest to make us whole, and it is the rest

of you that I miss. I can't get to your spirit through your mind, Droxine, and I

can't find your heart in your words. I know you're in there somewhere, but I

can't find You, and I would like to. I would like to. Please, let me see You.

 

Peace,

Shaz

 

--- <Droxine1 wrote:

 

> This, too, is a gift from God and some of my most blissful, elevated moments

have been in trying to touch with some small, grasping understanding, the

mysteries presented to me here, where my mind and ego and all my other " lower

parts " reside.

>

> There is a reason for this interaction, too, and in our grasping to touch the

divine from " where we live " here, a sacred connection is fashioned, one I feel

in my bones is revered on high. It is an opportunity to tame and transform, to

use what is God-given in the way it was intended.

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> x,

> Droxine

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