A symptom does not always mean there is an illness present. How a symptom is met by the mind and body of the individual or the system that is experiencing the symptom, decides whether it leads to illness or simply complete its natural cycle of resolution.
Every symptom is an experience of the system that harbors an information.
There are many different types of systems. Physical body, emotional body, mental body, family system, humanity, living system, earth, planets, galaxies. All systems with different expressions of experiences.
Symptom does not directly mean lack of health, as we have commonly come to know and accept. In my experience, symptom is a communication from the system experiencing the symptom. It is a way, in which life communicates its plans and its direction. And the message of this communication usually is around the line of, “things are moving”
In the present reality when I am writing this, it is majorly a hard ingrained narrative that symptom equals problem with the body. This narrative not only distances us from the wisdom of body, but also invites fear in, mistrust of and disconnect with the essence of life that moves through each one of us and brings us alive. Hence pulling away from vitality and wellness. As we move further we will see what illness is.
A more open way of viewing a symptom this would be, “symptom means something is being moved within my human system. And then what I do with this information, how I receive this information in my mind-body unit, how I act on it; that determines if my experience of that symptom is going to be of illness or wellness”
A lot of us have accumulated illness because we naturally inherit the prevalent narrative of the society that we belong to. Since our life began, our environment met symptoms as illness and problems. Not as life’s intelligence and resolution process. Then we reach our adulthood carrying that story in our cells.
I invite you now to re-orientation around symptoms, wellness, illness and language of life.
Symptom does not equal illness by default. Symptom simply means something is moving, something is shifting, something is changing in this system. What conspires around that symptom when it comes in contact with our mind, our body and indirectly our environment, tells us if there is an illness present, or is this a healthy body experiencing resolution.
I keep mentioning resolution so I want to take a moment to orient you around what I mean by resolution and integrate it with everything I mentioned above. It is a term introduced to me by systemic therapy. Let me take you on a journey.
I invite you to not get stuck on the literal translations here.
This is not information meant to increase your knowledge.
These are words meant to make you feel and sense into essence of life.
So receive the words, let them facilitate your seeing, your feeling and then let the words leave your field, leaving you behind only with the essence.
I am not a researcher, I am an artist. I can use multiple analogies to transmit essence of life to you. None of them may be literally true. Just an art of simple words meant to make you feel the truth. Don’t get stuck on words. Let the words move something in you, let your human system show you that no words can teach you. The essence of life.
And if you need to, listen to this multiple times, until these words drop from your mind and make their landing into your heart, your body, where the words will dissolve and reveal their essence. Where the alphabets reshape and remold into wisdom as they come in contact with your heart-mind.
With this knowing let’s now come back to these simple words that may mean little when received intellectually, but when they land in your heart and when you meet what these words move in you, that is the real transmission here.
This is just a story and you are free to run wild here with your imagination on this journey. You have full freedom to flow in the sea of your imagination here and then return back to how things were. Like this was just a dream. Like nothing ever happened.
Find a comfortable space, melt into the surface you are on, let yourself be held by gravity a tiny bit more and come with me to take a look at the interconnected nature of life.
We see ourselves as individual humans absolutely separate from the rest. We come as this “me person” and we leave this earth as this “me person”. And that’s the beginning and the end.
Now if you can, see humans as an expression of life force.
Just like animals. Just like earth. Just like everything we see in our existence.
Different expressions of the same life force.
Just like a pile of clay that can be molded into a mug, a jar, a vase, a kettle, a plate, a stand and so on.
See this pile of life expressing itself as a human, another human, a dog, a cat, a porcupine, a tree, a planet, a rock so on.
Life in is different expressions.
This shifts us from being an “isolated me person” to something that is an expression of the one force.
This life that is in each one of us, is intelligent. It is an intelligent algorithm. It is in its inherent nature to keep its web in harmony. The web of all its expressions. Person A, person B, dog A , Cat B, all its expressions, all a part of its web.
Why does its algorithm want to keep this web in harmony? You decide. Go wild with your inner child. This is your part of the story to add.
When the web is not in harmony, life attempts to bring it back into harmony.
And that, is process of resolution.
Imagine a mess of fairy lights all entangled. You can’t really mold it in the way you want to use it.
Imagine every being as a bulb on that entangled pile of fairy lights. When you try to untangle it, sometimes the bulbs hit against each other, some bulbs hit the floor, and now you feel like you are on a rollercoaster.
The rollercoaster of life as it untangles. As it resolves entanglements. Experiencing symptoms of this untangling, resolution process.
Life is already untangling, life is already resolving, how you are going to assist the process, how you are going to intervene, is what decided the condition of the bulbs. Is it going to be of breaking and banging, hence illness. Or it going to be of smoothly moving past each other, maneuvering through the entanglements, bending and moving to assist the untangling process, hence wellness.
In this analogy, a symptom is that they bulb moved. Illness is bulbs banging against each other because we are meeting the process of entanglements with mistrust, annoyance, fear, confusion, trial and error. And wellness in this analogy is that you saw the bulb move, you acknowledge that something in life is untangling and restoring harmony, so you come in to assist what life is already doing. You trust life and you honor the pace of untangling. You witness the process, you allow it, and you even assist it at times when needed.
Through these transmissions I invite you into a reality where life is honored instead of feared. Where body is an ally instead of an obstacle. Where symptoms are invitations instead of inconveniences. Where life is centered around wellness, not illness. Where illness is bowed to and met with reverence. Where body is honored, where life is honored.
Stay with what moved in you here. Meet it. Get to know it. And if nothing moved, read it again, listen to it again, until something does.