If you contract neurosis by ignoring and moving away from the fundamental laws of the living body; So the body rebels and appears as a monster in the face of consciousness that tries to institute, remove or move, according to its whim, important parts of the basal functioning of the nature of the human organism?Carl G. Jung
It is known that one of the obstacles to humanity’s harmonious life is the lack of communication between people. The pace at which we usually live in big cities is beginning to take over even small towns, making it difficult for traditional communication to be fluid and direct. Technological innovation has set new standards and new ways of relating. Virtual communication takes precedence over face-to-face conversation.
- To communicate effectively.
- We must learn to listen.
- The dictionary gives us the following meaning of the verb listen.
1. Be careful what you hear. 2. Listen, respond to a warning, advice or suggestion. 3. Apply your ear to hear something. 4. In medical science, auscultation is the method of listening to body noise during a physical examination.
However, in the early 21st century, people lost touch with themselves (probably because a technological way of talking to each other has not yet been invented). The concerns of everyday life, performance at work, demands on the role of parents, professionals and children divert our attention to what happens outside of us. There are many books and magazines about body care, but we still don’t listen to the body until a disease occurs.
Professionals and people with many responsibilities generally ignore the signals their body sends when they incubate a disease, they don’t pay attention to symptoms. At other times, the person goes to different doctors in search of an immediate cure with no results, goes from one specialist to another without knowing a physical cause of discomfort, until a doctor tells a psychologist.
Many people are surprised by this indication. The moment the medicine ignored the psychological component of the manifestation of symptoms is falling behind.
The mind communicates through images and words. We generally remember our successes as short films that bring out repressed emotions. The person who rejects what they feel uses rationalization to decrease the intensity of their feelings.
The body expresses themselves through pain or symptoms without the presence of physical causes, some people build a barrier that prevents them from expressing feelings and thoughts and thus summarizing what they silence, for example, gastric disorders are linked to rabies, just like acne. Eruptions often appear in those who don’t have the skills to communicate with others. Therefore, what is wrong in the body is transported to the mind and what is wrong in the mind is often transported to the body, directly or indirectly.
Disease and body pain are ways in which the body draws attention to unmet needs, suggests at least taking a break and evaluating them, on the other hand, who refrain from expressing their emotions do not come into contact with their bodies and fall becoming numb. . Symptoms are part of the shadow.
Shadow is that part that remains hidden in our consciousness, the symptoms lead us to recognize that part that we do not want to see, the imbalance in which we find ourselves will manifest itself again and again, until we stop to hear it. seeks to lessen or silence the symptom, but avoiding its meaning will reveal another anomaly. Illness or pain forces us to recognize what we lack. Integrating and assimilating the sense of symptom allows us to harmonize our lives. Admitting what we lack is part of the individualization process. It is important to recognize the moment when we live when the body speaks.
To hear the message of the symptom, two questions must be asked: what is its origin ?, what is its purpose?Because nothing happens by chance; Everything has a reason, analyzing the life we had when the symptom first appeared allows us to cut our lifeline, where we are now in our process of individualization leads us to identify the direction in which this leads us.
Frida Khalo, the famous Mexican artist, created the most important works of her career when the symptom of her illness manifested more intensely, her motherhood frustrated, disability and relationship with Diego Rivero were some of her milestones. In the midst of chaos, his creatividad. brilló. La shadow saw the light.
The end of the disease is when we heal what we lack and prevent our free development, take the opportunity to communicate with your shadow in these moments of pain or when another symptom appears, it is an opportunity to know and learn. Listen to him, don’t lock yourself in a shell like a turtle.