"My Cells - My Children"
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Note: The principle of "As Above, So Below," has to do with relationships of things up and down the spiritual, psychological, and biological hierarchy(s) of human beings. EG: When one heals one's heart, this not only effects the capacity for health in a positive way of other organs and systems in one's own body but also the capacity of others in his/her community to heal their hearts as well. In that light, one might also apply this poetry as a metaphor, up and down the hierarchy of communal structure as well. And, to take that a step further, I wonder: might it be as much truth as it is metaphor? |
My Cells - My Children My cells know what to do and they do what they know
resting into alignment and into the FLOW.
Nothing to make happen, nothing to make be
just allowing their being all they are as One with me.
appreciating their loyalty for serving against their way
in past times of survival, holding & protecting each day.
Reacting to experience, my voice at times unconscious,
at times so were others' -
passing on what I felt others knew best,
'though just fathers & mothers.
I'm learning as a parent, that nurturing part of me -
to be with my little selves, trusting me to be of Thee,
allowing my muscles to rest into their places
balancing into the PRESENCE, breathing into the spaces.
In Tune with the Blueprint and guidance of my BEING
that's eternally inviting my opening, feeling, and Seeing,
For these are all my CHILDREN, having always obeyed my voice,
now rejoining my family, all with awareness and choice.
[lines 8&9 edited 12/14/06 -cp]
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Like kids, cells do best if we keep them fed, clean, and feeling loved. And as we learn to give them healthy messages and especially to just listen to them, like kids, they will tell us what changes need attending to. And *body-awareness* is how we listen. Injuries occur primarily due to overly tensed muscle cells, to unable to flex with events and circumstances in our environment. Cells are not bad, or wrong in any way for being overly tense due to having their circulation crimped by compressed cell structures, thereby deprived of good connection to the sources of nurishment, and unable to sufficiently rid themselves of waste products from all their hard work. Certainly not for or becoming deseased or disfunctioning as a result, let alone for trying to maintain systemic equilibrium by whatever means are left to them. Like kids, they are habitually responding to our own unconscious inner messages. Those that we've been giving them since our formative years - about how to respond to the conditions. Under harsh conditions in early life, they adapt and find a way to cope -- if at all possible, if you tell them they have to -via thoughts, and feelings. If they don't get "the all clear" (especially if they've never "heard" it before), then they maintain the "armoring." Held long enough, thoughts and feelings become decisions and attitudes about life. Cells can actually maintain those -via adaptive roles- and for a whole lifetime, if they don't get a corrective message. I.E.: IF we, as infants, often needed to tense up -or "armor up"- various muscles for emotional or physical protection (ie: when adults around us acted insensitively or worse), THEN we most likely continued through adulthood to hold various muscles in an overly tense state - "ready" to respond to more of same, perhaps expecting life to be that way. The nervous system is designed to get our attention when we are doing something unhealthy. It's not the cells' fault if that system has been muffled by our own choice. But would you really like getting used to living underfed, unclean, and insensitive to the warning signals? Assuming your answer is no, the next question may be about how to remedy such a situation where we have basically adapted to less than optimal conditions? I suggest that first, we fix the supply system and take care of those basics. Secondly, we remedy the attitude that got them that way, or else the cells will never feel they can drop the coping mechanisms, let alone learn what a happy, communicative, and cooperatively sharing environment is about. Muscle cells need to know/experience what relaxation is, as well as what intense work is, in order to have an appropriately full range of tonicity/contractedness, and to find the right tone for a given condition. Cell systems adjust, based on our messages to them. Perhaps especially those messages that are aligned with long-term health, since our bodily systems seem designed for adaptation and endurance. NOTE: It is said that Our own voices and thoughts carry the most weight with our own cell systems. And that *verbalizing* a belief or decision, especially doing so *with feeling,* is much more powerful that just thinking it. Sometimes we will receive insight about a corrective action we must take; i.e.: by newly feeling the need to adjust our posture or some kind of bodily movement, or even due to reviving memories (that were previously suppressed). Details of these processes are explained in the essay, "Body-Mind Integration in the Personal Growth Process"- The basic how's and why's of psycho-emotional storage in the body-mind, a semi-technical treatise on the storage & release of tension (Published In Massage Magazine, July-August 1992). Some special applications of body-parenting are explained in "Tensing Yoga - Exercises for Self Healing, Preventative Maintenance, & Mind-Body Awareness". SUMMARY: With body awareness, learning to listen and respond to our cell systems, we enhance our senses naturally. We give the cells the corrective messages about tonicity, circulation, function, etc. And thereby we provide opportunity for our self-healing mechanisms to be maintained, and turned back on as necessary. A set of short summary personal quotes on body-mind awareness are in the Author/Editor Section. A link to the Body-Mind Integration home page is also there, where on many aspects of preventative maintenance are discussed and/or linked to. |
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"Talking To One's Cells" From an On-line Chat
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... My heart does that to me sometimes. Bad heart bad heart. <grin> silly Maybe. don't talk about your hearts and parts that way, they might believe you someday Hmmmm. Believe WHAT? eg: not healthy to tell your inner kids they're bad Heart isn't really bad. Just does dumb things sometimes. Way dumb. they're overworked, hurt, misperceiving, etc, but not bad -- just responding to a misbehaving parent that forgot who the kids were Ain't misbehaving no more........ |
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"Communications and Healing: TRUSTING THE CONNECTIONS
" Healing Work", Connecting the points, Connecting the families,
Connecting the children, Connecting the parents,
all inside oneself.
They all KNOW what to do, more "perfectly" than one can conceive
(after all, they are the Mind of God - in form).
And with PRESENCE, they do what they know.
All the atoms, cells, organs, and systems...
They're all good kids, doing what my own mind has told them -
whether it's according to what works in the long run or not.
Many thousands of messages from thousands of thoughts
makes for thousands of feelings over time...
bringing the families together...
So it's not always so simple.
But finding the patterns, WHEN considering that ...
people communicate even as they may try not to
(you can't not communicate) -
and especially when one is in need - even if one is not aware of the need,
even if one believes one is not supposed to need,
even if one tries to communicate another need,
if you really listen long enough, THEN you discover ...
people will communicate the need that is truly there.
And since the healing occurs when connections are made within oneself,
and since the connections are made,
as the children and parents communicate -
all inside oneself...
The "healer" needs only to listen and mediate,
facilitate an environment that allows and encourages
what would otherwise happen naturally:
the communication and understanding
that brings the families together.
And it does for the most part to "perfection"
-- per the Buddhist definition, considering our place in evolution.
And it would be so -- without doing time & space on the Earth plane
-- in, for, and between all the other parts of us ALL --
were it not for the messages -
old ones all, mimic'd or self created or from others in ONE's experience -
messages we have taken in and had stand on the bridges
like censoring sentries of separation
between our inner worlds
as if those worlds were some foreign to us,
and God didn't know where else to put them --
... and learning who to trust to tell us how to know better...
"Can't Trust", you say?
Experience - with and without limitation - how else to learn ?
and what if everybody - and all their cells and organs -
both (inner) children and parents - communicated efficiently,
and we all knew what we all t r u e l y n e e d e d ?
Well then, how -- else with honor -- could we act --
bringing the families together ?
And as one learns to trust one's own Self
(each of the parts as we come to know the whole being),
we may learn to trust others -
at least to be themselves.
And knowing oneself,
one knows more about what brings circumstances,
and what kinds of situations come with various people,
loving them for their experience that brought them to you,
in the way that creates the experience that you share with them.
One cannot not communicate, so why not listen -- to self as well ?
We tell stories, make conversation that helps us
to laugh at our inner conversations
and to understand our own contradictions.
Someday we may each learn to speak
who we ARE - feelings and all, and know that it is safe -
even if someone seems to insist on perceiving the world
only from his/her own experience, different from our own.
Perhaps, as we L-earn each other's trust/truth,
we open to real-eye-zing our potent-I-all.
We seem to learn the best and the most at the point of paradox --
at the place where we struggle
for more clarity and definition, or diffusion and connectedness --
and here, we might glean how the ends of the world meet,
Bringing the Families Together...
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"WEB DANCING CONNECTED"
The Way is Known
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"Bringing My Family Together" I have discovered in me the Divine (Inner) Child
who once loved enough to trust the untrustworthy
and sacrifice its freedom (to be all it is)
in order to set the scene for learning and teaching -
now the persona of my emotional body.
I discover (in me) the Divine Father and Mother
and I realize Compassion in loving the child
through my re-experience of his sacrifice ...
memories of separation, bonding broken, identity torn.
Uncovering and allowing, uncovering and allowing,
I find my broken child,
let him scream and pound, shake, or just pout.
I hear his needs and become the mother he cries for.
As the child now releases the quagmired feelings
and the muscle tension it held as its shield,
the judgments are retired
and the Light of mind re-creates with Love.
The three lower bodies (mental, emotional, and physical)
integrate, align with the higher bodies,
and ground my being into the clarity of my Purpose.
I discover more and more of myself as perfect
("ALL things considered").
Including the a-parent lacking, the a-parent wrongs
of the a-parent past --
the roles each has played in the becoming
of That I Am (always have been).
I need no longer react to the rules and judgments,
no longer transfixed by the fear I used to fear.
Unburdened by ego's need for protection of what I now feel,
Now Forgiveness and Clarity reveal the true nature
of this part of the path.
my path and choices clearly seen,
I act with power, compassion, and self-knowledge.
The discovery brings together the Divine Family in me
and integrates That in me for the rebirth of "my" Soul
into my material body.
A small part of the Plan for Earth is restored.
I Am That I Am (through me)
the Power of All Life manifested.
I am free! So Be It!
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[ This reads both horizontally and vertically
(which is part of the whole metaphor it speaks to) ]
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TENSION
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Values yet to be fully lived Potentials to be fully realized evolving us expanding limits of cognitive dissonance in abeyance |
in Right Brain Logic
--Prose by Christopher Pringer
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Related Essays  "Body-Mind Integration in the Personal Growth Process" The Basic How's And Why's Of Psycho- Emotional Storage In The Body-Mind (published in MASSAGE MAGAZINE, July-August 1992). "The Use of Questions in Effective Affirmation Therapy" Theory & Examples for Practical Application. Theory section explains how this (PRQ) system compares to other affirmation techniques and therapies - how and why they work, advantages of PRQ's, etc. Includes Lots of Sample PRQ's (Positive Response Questions) for learning and affirming any desired knowledge, Simple How-To's in developing Pragmatic use of "the right question" -- from a test situation and/or from regular affirmations. Works well for the intangibles (Personal Growth oriented) which many would say has to come before you can truly enjoy the rest anyway. © `94 |
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Personal Quotes on Body-Mind Awareness [ cp, 12'07 ] BODY-MIND AWARENESS, at the core of preventive health awareness, is one of the most simple, efficacious, & cost-effective forms of HEALTH INSURANCE there can be. Hence, massage is far from just "a luxury item," and bodywork therapies can be indispensable for the healing of certain conditions. MUSCLES RELATE TO ATTACHMENTS - to what we use to take our stance, to hold our place, to perceive and respond to our environment, and to extend who we are and/or want to be. Or used to be (in too many cases, perhaps). That speaks not only to the body's condition and function, but to how it communicates awareness of where one is along one's path (of becoming who one truly is). THE BODY IS . . . among other amazing things, a unique communications system -- intimately linked with one's TOTALITY. Establishing rapport with one's body can be a PATH to self realization. ONE OF MY DREAMS is a society where/in all children are taught how to feel/see/read their own body-mind communications such that preventive health maintenance eventually becomes second nature. And actually, for the most part, they would be encouraged to re-awaken and build upon what I believe to be a NATURAL INCLINATION - conscious self-healing and continuous expansion of awareness. And the above goes FOR ALL OTHER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, to the degree that one utilizes them to improve such awareness and causative/pro-active connection with one's body-mind, and to employ the most effective tools for maintaining/improving one's health under any given condition or circumstance. WHY DOES BODY AWARENESS = OPTIMUM HEALTH INSURANCE ? And How does "Body-Parenting" relate to that in Body-Mind Integration ? |
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