Body Stories From Within- New Chapter Added 5-28-11 Poem by Lonnie Hicks

Body Stories From Within- New Chapter Added 5-28-11

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Every body has a story, stories involving hurt and harm to the body and therefore the mind and the actual physical structures in the body.

Body stories are the way in which the body reacts to trauma both physical and mental.

This is a companion piece to The Whole Body Orgasm on this site.

But here we want to focus on actual body harms and the tensions which result in the muscles and tissues of the body.

What kinds of body harms and tensions are we talking about?

Well first we want to be able to do an assessment of the walking around person because that is the first visual evidence of the bodies history in these regards.

I walk and sit with a left bias. That is, I sit on my left buttock, from an accident but like most men also from years of sitting on my wallet which is not good for the vertebrae. I now have scoliosis..

I have a habit of squinting my eyes and that has a cause and a history.

Few things in the body are incidental. If you pay attention you can spot the tell tale signs.

Visual clues include hunching, bad posture, the ability of some people to fade away in a crowd. These are all familiar to us as part of body language. But here we want to have a close look at some more serious body involved issues.

Let's give a few examples of what impacts the body greatly.

1-Operations-The body has been cut into. This is traumatic and the body doesn't forget just because we leave the hospital. After care for the body is virtually unheard of in this country. We go home and the body is on its own to deal with knives, scalpels and the violation that surgery is.

2-Childbirth is a trauma. Let's face it. What is the bodies long term reaction to childbirth? Some bodies remember it and don't want to go through it again. Upper middle class women have a choice and don't have more than two kids. There are other reasons, of course, but body trauma is one of them, a trauma which the body remembers.

3-Physical injuries of various kinds: what happens is that we get injuries and once we can walk again or whatever, we simply ignore the body after that point. This not good. The body part injured can easily become isolated in our mind, or we might see it as defective, or as something to be hidden and not talked about. And, an injury affects other parts of the body as the injured part compensates. For example a leg injury causes the person to walk with a slanted gait and this affects the back, the vertebrae, even breathing. And those compensations have to deal with as well. And then we introduce drugs into the equation seeking relief from aches and pains and now we have yet another complication.

4-Being over-weight is another body image issue but those parts of the body can become tense or a source of embarrassment. We tend to hold those parts rigid or try to hide them.

5-The eyes record what we see, have seen, or what we don't want to ever see again. Tension can settle there in the eyes and last a life time and become embedded as a matter of habit.

6. Ears believe or not. If what we have heard is our lives is a source of trauma, guess what, we can shut down our hearing under stress or learn not to hear things which bring up that previous hearing trauma.

For example, the expression, 'We hear what is want to hear' has truth to it. With a person we have stress we can learn to shut them out and not hear or isolate what they are saying to protect our selves from further hearing stress. We tune them out.

That goes for many hearing experiences. For example if a certain politician comes on television, my ears tune him out and I can't remember what he said or is saying. If we ask people about their experiences some individuals can only remember what their eyes recorded but cannot remember what was said.

7-Chronic aliments change the body map and the musculature responds and adapts to that chronic ailment and carries the tension of it.

8- Physical assault such as rape is an obvious body trauma yet most often body work around that physical event is related to as if it were purely a mental event; we talk to the victim and offer, 'counseling' as if it were the mind that was assaulted.

Hello.

What do we do for the physical assault involved? Very little.

9. Miscarriages too are physical events. Therefore...

10- The physical traumas of war are treated with drugs, not as bodily injuries on their own.

11-Speaking carries with it lot of stress and that stress can come directly from tension in the throat where the person is literally unable to speak of a given traumatic incident. Stuttering comes to mind as does the movie 'The Kings Speech.'

But there are many unspeakeries that we encounter in our lives and cannot and will not speak of them- this fact creating such tension affects the voice, the throat, and indeed the mind.

Many many veterans cannot and do not speak what what they have seen in war. This has bodily repercussions not just mental ones.

So see there are millions of body stories out there, but most are not recognized as such.

If you are living with, married to, or otherwise relating to another human being, best to be attuned to what their bodies are telling you not just their minds.

More body stories and their remedies tomorrow.

5-28-11 What is A Body?


But first lets step back a bit and ask the question what is the body?

Religion teaches us that the body is a temporary vessel on our voyage to heaven or some other destination. For some it is the seat of all sin and the body is tempted by the devil.

The body has has had bad press.

But let us take a different look at this marvelous vessel we all have.

First a simple point. The body is alive. I mean really alive. It is a community, not an individual possession. Ideas about my body make no sense biologically. Our bodies are communities of genes, working together, communities of bacteria, upon which we depend for life. It is a massive defense system against environmental threats. It houses the brain, perhaps our greatest achievement and it produces all that we know to be life on this planet.

So we are not individual bodies, although each body is unique. A trauma to this body is responded to by millions of our bodily fellow travelers and mark this bacteria and viruses communicate with one another chemically is doing so. They talk, identify an invading germ or injured site and marshall a plan, move to the site and begin to repel an invader, communicating all the time, chemically. Birds and fish flying in flocks, bees swarming also show this kind of group thinking and deciding.

So this body is truly alive and interacting internally as well as externally.

However, this marvelous alive thing was designed to live only about 30 to 35 years, the average age of the cave people. We have extended our life spans with medical technology but in doing so have exposed the body to ills, traumas and diseases we would not have encountered a mere 200 years ago because most of us would not have lived long enough to get or encounter those traumas, diseases and ills.

So our bodies, evolutionarily speaking in encountering new challenges it had not had to face before.

It is touch and go the body is on the defensive because in addition to all of the above we, in the past never left our small group or traveled more that 300 miles from the site of our birth.

Today we travel a lot and therefore our bodies encounter germ communities they would have never encountered in the past and therefore, have few immunities against those foreign germ communities.

The entire Indian nation in North America was likely more impacted by germs bought by the Europeans than by conquest. Millions died from lack of immunity.

So we need in this modern era with these kinds of body challenges new weapons in the fight, and to become aware of ways to combat these challenges which do not involve drugs, drugs and more drugs.

So tomorrow lets have a look at the question of what is a body to do under these circumstances.

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