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This is an online book outlining one tried and tested way to work with the body as an intelligent, self-optimising living organism.
Your body is a biological entity that actively wants to communicate with the cognitive self - but can only do this on its (i.e. the body's) terms.
The biological, organic, living BODY (and not the mind) is the ground for everything.
Jung repeatedly warned people born in the West to ground their Yoga practice in the body if they wished to dare the heights of spiritual insight...
In the East, the heavenly world in which the you-above was born is firmly rooted in the soil of the matriarchal mother. Western culture is not; its mother (mater) is materialism - money and possessions that can quickly vanish. This terror of groundlessness is one of the Dark Shadows of patriarchy. The Paradox of the Ascension to Spirit demands The Descent to Ground.
Marion Woodman in the forward to
Jung and Yoga: The Psyche-Body Connection
This approach provides a gentle, humane, simple, respectful and highly effective means to directly address low to medium level trauma, along with dissociation. It can also help to neutralise central sensitisation. In doing this it can also potentially help all of the various and many somatisations (issues with physical health) [1] that arise as a result of overwhelm and dissociation.
This book is for everyone, because (as will be described) overwhelm and consequent (often low level, invisible) dissociation are universal and endemic in Western cultures.
A good quality relationship with the body is also a prerequisite for a good quality relationship with the environment - the body outside ourselves, the extension of our body (just as our bodies are extensions and living parts of the biosphere). [2]
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