Day 310 of 365 - Know Thyself
When it comes to individual health and vitality, I am a strong believer in learning how to pay attention to the signals from the body before they become an acute illness or chronic disease. This does not mean that we can always side-step a disease process, but it is very likely that we can influence the outcome with the choices we make.
This perspective was very much supported in a presentation with Tiffany Barsotti, who is trained in a variety of modalities including medical intuition, biofield therapies and energy psychology. Her website is healandthrive.com where you can learn more about this if you wish.
This concept of 'know thyself' is an ancient one which gives credence to the role of knowing and trusting our experiences at every level. When it comes to health and wellness, merging spirituality and science allows a greater range of questions to be asked about what is going on. There is 'knowing' at a science and biology level. There is also gnosis, the wisdom of the body. It teaches us that symptoms we experience can be indicators and opportunities to listen better to our senses, emotions and thoughts as contributors to our condition from our life experience.
In the presentation, there was discussion of the common tendency to ignore early 'gut feelings' related to health issues or treatment approaches. When we ignore these messages from within and rely entirely on direction from outside ourselves, we are leaving out an important piece of our healing journey.
By taking the time to listen to our body, we can interrupt old patterns of stress responses which are related to values or beliefs from the past which are no longer valid. Barsotti explained how, at a neurological level, a stress, such as a medical diagnosis, will trigger in the brain a behavior associated with a past stress in an almost hypnotic way. There is a layering of systems from the hind-brain, mid-brain and fore-brain which keeps us in our old patterns unless we consciously interrupt them.
What Barsotti has found from her study, research and practice in her varied areas of skill is, that by taking an embodied approach of inquiry, we can become more aware of what a situation is asking us to learn. When we take this kind of awareness into account, along with the advice of others, in say, a medical treatment approach, we can make more conscious choices about how to proceed that is likely to result in greater healing benefit. This kind of inquiry could, for example, empower us to question or suggest a different sequence or timeline in treatment approaches. It is also more likely to result in supportive lifestyle changes in line with our current or desired values.
This philosophy implies that there is an element of choice in most illness. We have the ability to tap into our life experience, to look at old patterns and to make choices to set up new patterns which are more healing for us. Then, instead of reacting mainly from our hind-brain history or our mid-brain old emotional patterns, we can use our fore-brain to make empowered decisions about how we want to move forward. Then there is healing through discovery and understanding along with the biological healing. As we learn more from science about how these two interact, for example via the hormonal impact on our organs and systems, the concept of 'know thyself, heal thyself' seems much less far-fetched.
This perspective was very much supported in a presentation with Tiffany Barsotti, who is trained in a variety of modalities including medical intuition, biofield therapies and energy psychology. Her website is healandthrive.com where you can learn more about this if you wish.
This concept of 'know thyself' is an ancient one which gives credence to the role of knowing and trusting our experiences at every level. When it comes to health and wellness, merging spirituality and science allows a greater range of questions to be asked about what is going on. There is 'knowing' at a science and biology level. There is also gnosis, the wisdom of the body. It teaches us that symptoms we experience can be indicators and opportunities to listen better to our senses, emotions and thoughts as contributors to our condition from our life experience.
In the presentation, there was discussion of the common tendency to ignore early 'gut feelings' related to health issues or treatment approaches. When we ignore these messages from within and rely entirely on direction from outside ourselves, we are leaving out an important piece of our healing journey.
By taking the time to listen to our body, we can interrupt old patterns of stress responses which are related to values or beliefs from the past which are no longer valid. Barsotti explained how, at a neurological level, a stress, such as a medical diagnosis, will trigger in the brain a behavior associated with a past stress in an almost hypnotic way. There is a layering of systems from the hind-brain, mid-brain and fore-brain which keeps us in our old patterns unless we consciously interrupt them.
What Barsotti has found from her study, research and practice in her varied areas of skill is, that by taking an embodied approach of inquiry, we can become more aware of what a situation is asking us to learn. When we take this kind of awareness into account, along with the advice of others, in say, a medical treatment approach, we can make more conscious choices about how to proceed that is likely to result in greater healing benefit. This kind of inquiry could, for example, empower us to question or suggest a different sequence or timeline in treatment approaches. It is also more likely to result in supportive lifestyle changes in line with our current or desired values.
This philosophy implies that there is an element of choice in most illness. We have the ability to tap into our life experience, to look at old patterns and to make choices to set up new patterns which are more healing for us. Then, instead of reacting mainly from our hind-brain history or our mid-brain old emotional patterns, we can use our fore-brain to make empowered decisions about how we want to move forward. Then there is healing through discovery and understanding along with the biological healing. As we learn more from science about how these two interact, for example via the hormonal impact on our organs and systems, the concept of 'know thyself, heal thyself' seems much less far-fetched.
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