You Cannot Heal What You Cannot Feel
"you cannot heal what you cannot feel".
a master in the chiropractic profession, dr. lou corleto, dropped this hell of a one liner in his book healing vs. curing.
so now what?
i don’t have time for my back to hurt.
i really want to get that workout in, i’ll just push through the chest cold.
i don’t have time to deal with that old trauma that decided to resurface today. i’ll just push through an ass kicking of a workout, despite my body's yearning for compassion.
how often do we opt to suppress the things that we are feeling, or even thinking? whether it is an old nagging ache and pain that’s “been there for years”, anxiety from an emotional trauma, or an awareness that we are not being served by our current model of living.
do we believe that redwoods, some of the tallest trees in the world, have acquired their awe-inspiring height by suppressing their needs for sunlight, oxygen, water, and minerals?
what if, what if , we chose to pay attention, and to honor the feelings that arise from the inside. how much energy could be freed in the future if we address these feelings as they show up, as opposed to spending extensive amounts of energy and time to shove them back down to where the very feelings arose?
packaged and crunched and balled up into tiny little fragments of what we hope will never surface, locked away deep in places that we've adapted to no longer seek or be sought.
the thing is, there can be magic in the looking.
