Learning to communicate with your body is an essential part of
spiritual growth. You have to be aware of what your body is saying to
you and be able to touch into its main emotional tone. Although you
may be functioning well, staying clear, and keeping your energy moving,
your body could be in an entirely different state. This is not a
problem, but it is important to listen to the messages your body is
sending, and to offer comfort. What does your body want? What does it
need? Where is it at? It is through the emotions originating in the
second chakra that our bodies can communicate with us.
In order to move forward spiritually, it is often necessary to change
certain aspects of our reality. Sometimes these can be fairly major
changes, for example, ending a relationship or a career. Either we
stay in our present situation, choosing not to move, or we make changes
and allow for growth. The latter choice necessarily involves
destruction, and then "letting go" of the past.
It is essential to acknowledge the body as it is letting go. The
growth process requires the demolition of one reality in order to build
a new one. Bodies have to go through this. It is important to let
them grieve. We must look right at the situation, and feel it, but not
become it, or let it take us over. Instead, we must own it. By
grieving for old friends, old activities, old things that, at a certain
point, are no longer appropriate, we become more in touch with what we
are destroying and our body's reaction to it.
It is through this process of destruction and grief, and then
recognition and letting go, that we can begin to start healing
separations, primarily separations from Source. When one doesn't have
a direct relationship with Source, one fills reality up with
distractions of every kind. As we start letting go of some of the
distractions, there can be a more direct relationship with Source. It
is like destroying an old vessel full of programming and beliefs that
ultimately did not serve us, and creating a new, pristine, golden
vessel to hold Source energy. It is all part of the journey. Healing
can be an uncomfortable process for the body. As an old reality is
falling away, it will sometimes all come down with a crunch, and other
times it's brick by brick. It can be really comforting for the body to
be reminded of old realities (even though you are in the process of
letting those realities go). Listen to old favorite music, eat some
comfort food from childhood, or visit a friend from the past. These
activities can ease the body as it goes through its transformation.
It is also helpful to play more and more with being spiritually senior
and the ease that comes from that. Give this to yourself because you
will never be able to prove to your body in a physical sense that
letting go is desirable. It is something you know and have faith in.
Faith comes from spiritual seniority. It is acknowledging where you
are on your spiritual path, and comforting the body as it goes through
the healing process.
