How To Find Spirit in Your Body

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Earlier this week I wrote about the risks of using spirituality to bypass the physical quadrant of health. I see all kinds of imbalances in my private practice, but this pattern is one that I really like working with because it’s such a simple, but profound transformation. I have had so many patients over the years that are so connected spiritually but they’re really suffering physically.

They know how to pierce the veil and see the unseen but they can’t seem to stick to a healthy diet, or stop smoking, or commit to an exercise routine. They have so much access to the spiritual realms that they’ve forgotten the role of the temple. They’ve neglected the body for so long and the symptoms that started as a whisper have turned up the volume so loud that they can no longer ignore their physical experience.

The relationship between the physical and spiritual quadrants of self is critical to any living system. Energy moves from spirit into matter and from matter into spirit. The divine cannot continue breathing life into the material plane if the material plane does not eventually return to the divine. It’s not simply a two-way street. It’s a cycle. The inhale is followed by the exhale, and the exhale is followed by the inhale.

Any regenerative system requires this flow and it’s imprinted in every organ system of the body.

The circulatory system requires that blood flows to and from the great source of the heart. The lungs expand and contract as they take in oxygen from the air and exhale carbon dioxide as waste. The digestive system receives food as nourishment and eliminates it in another form.

The relationship between matter and spirit, life and death, the earth and the cosmos isn’t simply a relationship between self and other. It’s a relationship that’s hidden in plain sight in every system of the body.

So when this relationship is out of balance, the body knows and the body will tell you in whatever way it needs to, to really get your attention. In my private practice here’s how I work with this dynamic.