There is a way that life likes its various pieces and parts to relate to each other. Through the increased connection between the parts, they become more connected to the whole, and in this way the parts become more complete in themselves.
As human beings, we are one of the parts of life, and our bodies, lives and consciousness are embedded and inseparable from this flow towards greater wholeness; we can’t help it. The mechanism behind this is training and the principles apply to all levels of our existence. That is why I like to call this force that drives us towards our integrity, the Universal Rooting Principles.
From a certain perspective, the problems we face in our bodies and lives have a lot to do with unconscious and conditioned resistance to the flow of life, as if we are stubbornly standing in the strong current of a river, or in some cases trying to walk. upstream. It takes an enormous amount of energy and resources to keep us separate from the flow of life; energy and resources that we cannot use to recover from injuries, adapt to stress and our environment, heal, love and serve our fellow man.
In the same way that a river would press on your body if you were standing in it, urging you to go downstream, so the trials and tribulations of life and the symptoms that we are experiencing pressure us to turn around and follow the flow of life. . From this perspective, nothing is a mistake or a coincidence, not the experiences we have had in our lives, not the accidents and injuries, not the pain or illness, not the symptoms that we are experiencing now. They all have a purpose, to guide us toward our wholeness. In the words of Tony Robbins: “Life is not happening to you, it is happening to you.”
If we can see life through this lens, then the only thing that makes sense is to trust our experience, uncomfortable or not, and trust that life is trying to show us something through our experience. And since all of our experiences translate to us through our body, and especially through the sensations in our body, it is essential, if we want to move toward greater wholeness, that we turn to those sensations and learn to allow them to sit and sit. experienced.
When we direct our attention to our experience in this way, we anchor ourselves in the present moment. The resistance I spoke of in previous lives in our body-mind, in its addiction to past trauma or future fears. Resistance cannot survive in the present moment, so when we are anchored in the present moment, the conditioned and habitual resistance to the flow of life begins to lose its control over our bodies and lives. When resistance is softened, we can allow the river of life to carry us toward our fullness.
If you make a regular practice of drawing attention to your body, over time your experience will show you that the trials and tribulations of life and the symptoms you may be experiencing now are not a mistake, they are a door to your integrity and ultimately For instance, life is trying to show you that it holds you back.