Are You Really Paying Attention To Your Body?

I worked with a woman the other day who
came in with pain in her pelvic region
(her pubic bone to be exact). It had been
nagging her for 9 months and she's now
6 months pregnant.

She'd been treated by a number of people
who were all trying to reduce the pain with
various approaches but nothing had worked.
The pain wasn't going away.

I instructed her to locate the epicenter of the
pain with her fingertips and focus her attention
there. I asked her what it felt like. "It hurts!" she
groaned. I asked her to notice where the borders
of the pain were. She described a spherical region
around where she was touching.

Then I asked her to imagine the borders of the
pain expanding and spreading out so instead of
remaining concentrated at a specific point it
could become more diffuse. She did this and said
that she could feel energy beginning to move through
her pelvis.

I asked her "If you allowed this energy to fill your entire
body instead of keeping it bound in your pelvis, what
message would it carry to the rest of your cells?"
I added, "Since pain means pay attention, something
needs to change, what do you think you're supposed
to be paying attention to that you've ignored enough to
now need pain to get you to focus on it?"

She continued to hold the point and her eyes welled up
with tears, "I feel it" she said.

"This part is telling me to stop walking three miles a day
and just take a casual stroll around the block instead.
It wants me to get support rather than try to do it all myself.
It wants me to stop carrying my youngest son so much
because he's too heavy and it's hurting me." She
continued on with a number of other things as well.

As she received the message that the pain held within it,
the pain began to disappear. Her pubic bone suddenly
was no longer something to fix and the pain was no longer
a thing to take away or eradicate. Her body relaxed and the
color came back to her face along with a smile. "I'm going
to listen to this part of me from now on" she said.
"There's wisdom there."

Think about times when you have pain. What do you do? Do
you immediately try to make it go away? What if you put your
hands on the area of pain, focused there and sought to
discover what that part really wanted rather than cursed it for
being a nuisance instead? Then, what if you actually changed
your behavior to comply with what that part wanted?

Dr. John