The Path of Transformation by Shakti Gawain

Author:Shakti Gawain
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781577313281
Publisher: New World Library

Since the spiritual, mental, and emotional aspects of our being are all housed in our physical body, every bit of healing work that we do on the other three levels is reflected in our physical health and well-being. Our body is where we integrate and express all four levels of our existence. All the consciousness we gain on the other levels shows up in how alive we feel in our daily life. As the other levels are healed, our consciousness is freed to be more present in the moment. We naturally feel more in touch with our body and we are able to live in it more fully.

Of course, the physical body has its own specific healing process as well. As with the other levels, there are certain basic principles, common to everyone, yet each person’s needs are unique as well.

In modern civilization, we are not generally encouraged to respect or be sensitive to our physical bodies. In fact, many of us are quite disconnected from our true physical needs. We can see clear evidence of this in the sedentary, nonphysical lives of many modern urban dwellers. We see it in the concrete jungles we humans seem prone to create everywhere we go. Millions of people are living and working every day in buildings that completely cut them off from anything natural. Many of these buildings don’t even have natural light or air. And worst of all, we are polluting our air and water and dumping toxic chemicals that saturate the soil in which we grow our food.

Just as our own physical bodies are physical manifestations and vehicles for our individual consciousness, so the earth is the physical manifestation and home for our collective consciousness. Thus, our awareness of, and relationship to the physical plane is reflected to us both in how we treat our own bodies and how we treat our Earth body.

One reason we are experiencing disconnectedness from our physical being has to do with the increasing emphasis on the intellect over the past few hundred years, and most particularly over the past century. Our eagerness to explore the mental level, and the resulting development of the technological age, has tended to cut us off from awareness of our natural physical selves.

Another contribution to the problem of disconnecting from the physical has been the attitude toward the body fostered by the traditional, transcendent spiritual approach, embraced by most world religions. The body is seen as the enemy of spirit, the seat of human needs, emotions, attachments, and passions. And it is the goal of these religions to subdue and rise above these human aspects. Therefore, the body is seen as lowly — inferior to mind and spirit, or even downright evil. Thus, our bodies are ignored or denigrated.

We are all born with a natural awareness of our bodies’ needs and feelings, but we have learned to literally tune out the body. We may ignore it completely except when it’s in extreme distress, so the body quickly learns that it has to get sick or have an accident in order to get attention.

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