I wish. Those first three chakras - home to so many earthly things, like digestion and fear and creativity and groundedness and stomach cramps. We are all connected. What happens to you affects me. It is more pronounced in families, and everyone is going through their personal challenges at this time, yes. So then how do we get through without becoming sick ourselves? How can we tend and nourish and nurture our sweet bodies when we are children and unaware of what that even means? What if we’re adults, and the thought of talking to our bodies seems not only silly, but stupid?
I’m a huge proponent for body-talking. I’ve been doing it for years. Not only do our bodies have their own personalities, each body part has its own voice. Usually we ‘hear’ the voice only when we’re not taking care of it. Headaches, stomach aches, back pains, stomach problems. Usually we don’t have time to listen. At the first scream, we shut it up with aspirin or Tums. Don’t have time. But what happens when we want to move beyond that, get into real relationship with our bodies? How do we go about that?
I recommend taking the time to just sit and get to know your body. Pay attention to it. Let it know you’re here for it, and willing to be open to anything it has to say at the time. As I’m typing, I’m feeling a sharp stab of pain in my lower left side. Taking some deep breaths, I talk to that pain. What’s going on? I hear, “You’re running too fast. It’s too much right now. You need to detach from the situation. NOW. As you detach, you also help those around you. It’s time to do something new. It’s beyond time to do something new. This is what you need to do. It hasn’t been working the other way. The way of control and interference. Each person is in charge of their life and their decisions and their path. Inevitably you can do nothing for others other than to be the beautiful, effervescent YOU that you are. You help your son by moving forward, not by holding back. That doesn’t serve. Are you willing to move forward? To step off the old path?” I’m surprised. That’s a lot of information from a pain in the side! But I listen, because the words ring true. Yes, I answer, now I move forward, and invite my youngest son to move forward freely with me, as our young ones rely on us to help them navigate these physical waters until they are older and more equipped to do the difficult work of being here.
What else? Oh, stomach issues myself. It’s been an ongoing thing. Stomach? Got anything to say? I can’t stomach it anymore, it screams. I won’t do it. Until you release the old, it’s all swirled and gunked. Will you release? Haven’t we already been through this, I wonder? But I answer my stomach as well. Yes, I release the old. Now do it, my stomach says. So I sign off, wondering what I’m going to be doing in these next minutes, and wondering if it’s going to hurt. We’ll just have to find out, won’t we? Because we don’t know until we actually DO something, and at this time, anything is better than just apparently having my body stay stuck. I’ll let you know how everything turns out.