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The mind is the result of the integration of functions that happen in the brain. It gives us the ability to perceive and experience emotions as a result of processing information. Our body is a learning vehicle used by it’s soul to learn and develop abilities. The ego identifies with and attacks it as not being good enough. In this way, it distracts us from our truth, creativity and higher mind, which is the part of our identity that is spirit.
Where we have accepted our ego’s vision of our identity as a body, rather than accepting our true identity as a soul or spirit, problems arise. The ego has a strategy of using the body for pride, pleasure or attack. This puts the body at risk for the sake of some strategy that cannot succeed. This means that we are out of touch with our higher minds. Typically, we spend the first part of our life building our egos, and then, if we wish to continue growing and evolving, we spend the rest of it removing the separation that arises from the fear, guilt and pain the ego builds itself with. As we evolve we learn to give up what separates us such as competition, sacrifice or selfishness for a more natural self-awareness that promotes partnership, family, teamwork and health.
The ego is invested in destruction, distraction and delay – anything that can build the ego up despite the fact that its tactics are holding us back from going forward. The ego embodies the principle of separation rather than that of joining; it chooses grandiosity over greatness, fear over love, taking over giving, getting over receiving, competing over cooperating, self-attack over self-love, and winning and losing over mutuality and sharing.
The ego attempts to use the body for gain rather than communication and learning. This attitude puts the body at risk. While the model presented in this book recognizes all body issues as hidden conflicts of the mind, this category contains physical issues that directly relate to psychological issues. The mind is the healer of the body.
From 'Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor'
© Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst 2005
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