Sample Pages of Messages from the Body
ABASIA (Inability to walk due to lack of coordination)
“Destabilized.” They are suffering from scattered thinking, distractible trains of thought, and not being centered cognitively. They feel thrown off-base, with no sense of safety in a kind of fearful drivenness. They are “desperately seeking Susan” in an attempt to gain some sense of stability.
They are therefore always on the lookout for the “greener grass,” and they are continuously in fear of missing out or of missing the “key element to things.” As a result, they are often instantly pulled off balance by any passing stimulus that “might be the critical factor.” It is the resultant of a “magical mystery tour” unstable dysfunctional family in which things never really worked, and in which there was no way to really tell what was actually going on.
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(See MENIERE'S DISEASE; PARALYSIS )
ABDOMINAL CRAMPS
“Dodge ball.” They are having trouble with a fearful refusal to flow with experiences, and as a result, they are in effect stopping the process of life in its tracks. They have great fear of assimilating negativity, of having to “eat shit.”
It is the resultant of an underlying distrust of the Universe generated by a severely dysfunctional family. They have learned that nothing can be counted on, and that all good things are in effect “poison apples.”
ABDOMINAL PAIN
“Up for grabs.” They are experiencing intense survival-anxiety and concerns over whether they can really handle life. There is a strongly felt powerlessness arising from “skid row” programming and learned helplessness in the face of a severely dysfunctional family.
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“Virgo-ism.” They are trying to cover all the details, to organize and coordinate everything, to analyze the situation and meet all needs in the “right” way. The result is nit-picking perfectionism, detail-domination, and an inability to see the forest for the trees. It is a pattern that got started in a severely patriarchal and perfectionistic family.
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“Meddling.” They are manifesting a certain over-criticality, along with a compulsion to help others that is carried out unwisely. They have a strong desire to be needed in order to inflate a damaged ego or to manipulate someone.
They end up pushing ideas or things on people in an unwanted “rescue-tripping” pattern that is the product of their feeling responsible for “straightening things out” in their dysfunctional family.
EARLY MENOPAUSE
“I've got WORK to do!” They are in effect ending their period of physical generativity to make room for other forms of generativity (contributing to tomorrow). They feel completed with the physical form of generativity and/or they are not to do child rearing because their destiny calls for other contributions now.
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“Right to MY life!” They want no more kids or no possibility of any kids in their life. They are becoming totally focused on manifesting THEIR identity and destiny from now on. They may or may not have been involved in the “eternal maternal” pattern, but they definitely do not intend for it to be the pattern of their life now. If they were caught up in the eternal maternal trip, it was imposed extremely early in their life as a “God says so!” requirement from their family.
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“Enough, already!” They are going into early retirement. They are exhausted and/or fed up, and they want to kick back, and not to have to handle any more “command generation” demands. They have had it with sexuality, generativity and/or contributory responsibilities. It is an “up to the eyebrows” response to responsibility; it reflects an over-loaded pattern started by a severely demanding family.
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“Eternal girl.” They don't want to be grown up. It arose from a possessive/enmeshing relationship with their mother.
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“Femininity-rejection.” They feel that the sexual/childbearing aspects of themselves are not acceptable manifestations. They were subjected to intensely patriarchal treatment as a child and later in their life, and they react now with rageful refusal to “play the game” any more and/or with revulsion towards the feminine.
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“Buzz off, buster!” They are thoroughly enraged with the paranoid patriarchy, with the “tripods” of the world and/or with sexuality and its patterns. They are therefore shutting down sexually (which of course is not at all involved in menopause normally). They have “had it up to the eyebrows,” and it is an up which they will no longer put. This can come from either a lifetime of victimization and sex-ploitation and/or from an underlying massive rage reaction to sexuality from early sex-ploitation, abuse and/or negative attitudinal training.
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“Checking out.” They are winding down and getting ready to leave. They are tired, disgusted or self-rejecting. If they are tired of it all, it may arise from having had to shoulder the world all their life and they are like a worn out horse. If it is a generalized revulsion reaction, it may reflect a severely cynical and/or abusive upbringing. If it is a self-elimination process, it is the resultant of intensely denigrating and/or accusatory parenting.
EARACHE
“Hearing-fearing.” What they are hearing is causing them great inner pain. They feel that they are surrounded by internal and/or external discord and conflict, and they are “fed up to the ears” with it all.
They feel accountable for the conflict and responsible for its resolution, but they feel unable to do anything about it, and so they now are hyper-sensitive to conflict and turmoil. It reminds them too much of their parents arguing and the absence of peace, harmony, and love in their family. Or they are experiencing that currently as a child.
