In the last 10 days life has taught me a great lesson, it was a period of intense learning for me, which I would like to share because I believe that, in different ways, something similar happens to us all from time to time.
When I started my training as a yoga teacher, I learned that one of the basic guidelines of this practice is “ahimsa”. Ahimsa means “non-violence. ” Sometimes we not only think that we are aggressive towards others, but that we are not aware of the violence we can exercise against ourselves or our bodies.
- Paradoxically.
- I learned it from Hindu medicine.
- But on the contrary.
- I learned that there are things that are violent to my body.
For a week I underwent treatment for an alleged detox that all I managed to do was cause a big blockage in my body and systems, from which I’m only recovering from now on.
I recover, treating the body with a lot of love, affection, sweetness, respecting my sensitivity. I learned that sensitivity must first be respected by oneself.
It’s not just a subjective perception. There is something that, as a trainer, I learn a lot from my patients and that is that we need to know in depth how our nervous system and our brain, the biological mechanism, works.
Because we are also a body and your well-being depends on the quality of our life experience.
What has been shown is that our body’s natural healing and regenerative powers are only activated when the relaxation response is active in our body, rather than the stress response.
When something activates our stress response, all of our body’s renewal and healing mechanisms are blocked or diminished, as is our immune system and our ability to assimilate nutrients.
If what heals us is the relaxation response, what we must not do is attack our body in any way, nor overestimulate our systems.
On the contrary, everything that has to do with sweetness, with care, with listening to the body, with “less is more” is what helps us.
That’s why I increasingly believe in techniques such as biodanza or coaching (at least as I understand it) that seek to generate positive, nutritious and relaxing experiences at all times.
Help techniques and methodologies that avoid shock treatments and seek transformation through love, affection, care, the generation of a safe and loving listening space, free.
A space in which, NATURALly and organically, the mind-body mechanism can be reorganized in a healthier way and fight again for well-being and peace, for happiness, and it does so without any negative impact on the body or the psyche.
I often encounter people who have experienced the impact of therapies and treatments that are too abrupt and intense, often leaving the person more deconstructed than before they begin.
One of the lessons I learn from this retreat I participated in is that trust in others and their reputation should not make me suspect my own judgment, my intuition, and the messages my body sends me.
As I always say to my patients, “You are the only authority in your life. “
So now, so that you begin to deepen listening to yourself, I invite you to answer some questions I ask myself, the result of this experience.
They will surely be as useful and revealing as they were to me. Take a few minutes in a quiet place to be able to respond with all sincerity and depth.
1. In what areas of my life do I trust the voice of others more than mine?
2. At what point do I trust my well-being to others instead of hearing the voice of my own body?
3. In which areas inside am I violent with myself?
4. What habits am I attacking?
And now that you have certainly become aware of something, it is necessary to make this knowledge real in your life, acting, because being conscious without attitude does not change anything.
My proposal is that in the coming days you deliberately transform an attitude or behavior that means that you are not being kind to yourself or that you stop exposing yourself to the influence of something or someone who is not kind and careful with you.
It may be a decision to stop going to a place or friendship, or perhaps experience what’s going on if you leave treatment or therapy that you consider aggressive, or you may decide to stop breaking between the four walls of a gym with the music of the last volume to walk in the sun in a park, listen to the birds and feel alive and at peace here and now.
You may decide to give up something that is bad for you with the promise that in the future it will do you good.
Allow yourself to take care of yourself and heal you with kindness and love that will surprise you, because you are your most precious asset.