The body knows.
The body knows your emotional afflictions. No secrets can exist between the soul and the host.
It will not let you mask those concealed experiences forever. Eventually, the body has enough. Enter chronic pain, disease, depression, anxiety, rigidity, locked, burned out.
You carry with you the road map of your life stored in the fibres of your body. Lessons learned and volumes unspoken imprinted literally as muscle memory.
Emotions are an “embodied” experience. Held not just in the mind but transferred throughout the body through the nervous system. Locked deeply within us is our core story, aware or unaware to the narrator.
It is not about living a life free of suffering. That is not an option for humans. It’s about allowing yourself to embrace and accept all that has made you, you. The awful and the obscure as celebrated as the pleasant.
When peace does not live within us, our body wages the battle as the war between our physical and emotional selves takes flight.
What’s in the shadows is often less terrible than the shadow itself.
Get a flashlight. Look around.
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