Unravelling Stuck Pain (Part 3)

Part 3 excerpt from webinar "What Your Pain is Trying to Tell You" discussing the concepts of bio-tensegrity and multi-dimensionality of the mind-body. Contains a small exercise to move through the 'doorway' and start the unravelling of stuck pain.

Transcript

But let's just have a quick discussion about biotensegrity.

This is,

I hope I don't bore everyone,

But this is a really exciting topic for me.

I get a bit,

I got a bit lost last night when I was researching some more about it.

But we'll just do a very quick history of how this concept came to be.

So Kenneth Snelson is an artist and he,

If you Google him,

You'll see some of his structures that he's created,

Which are,

You could call them floating pillars suspended in air only by the tension that's held.

So his normal big sculptures use wire.

But in these models that you see,

They're using elastic bands.

And I have recently bought this tensegrity,

Tensegrity,

But it's not here yet,

So I can't take a picture.

So I have stolen it from the Anatomy Trains.

All these pictures are from the Anatomy Trains shop and website.

And I'm just giving them a plug because I took their photos,

But they're also there to be purchased if people want.

And what happens is that these are suspended in air because of the forces that are holding them up through the wires or through the elastic band.

And the force is distributed around.

It's a whole structure now.

It's not individual parts that actually now acting as a whole structure.

And when Kenneth Snelson created this,

He showed his lecturer,

His teacher,

Buckminster Fuller,

Who's a well-known inventor and visionary.

He's known for the geodesic dome that's in Disney World,

But he's invented much more amazing things than that.

But he,

Buckminster Fuller coined the term tensegrity,

Which is tension and integrity or structural integrity.

And then he adapted it further into something like this tensegrity,

Tensegrity teach.

I think there's a I think there's actually 12 pieces.

This one only has six.

And so he made it tensegrity more well-known.

And then Dr.

Stephen Levin thought,

Well,

Actually,

Biological systems are not like the Newtonian physics that we see with the fulcrum and the arm.

That it's actually like tensegrity structure in our biology.

And he associated it to cells and insects,

Humans,

Dinosaurs,

All that,

And how he was saying how like the what's the dinosaur with the long neck and the long tail?

I used to know my dinosaurs anyway.

But he said that the fact that with that long neck and long tail,

There's no way that a structure could hold itself up without having struts or something.

But because it's a tensegrity structure,

They can hold and manoeuvre their neck in that way.

Same with giraffes,

Right?

And so Dr.

Stephen Levin coined the term biotensegrity and associated with biological and the human body,

Biological structures and the human body.

And then Tom Flemurs created these.

You see on the right,

The pelvis at the top and then the spine underneath.

And if you know,

If you can look closely,

They're probably not the best pictures,

But none of those sticks are actually touching each other.

Everything is suspended.

And so he and then Tom Myers after that developed his modality anatomy trains where he looked at biotensegrity in movement and how to correct.

How to correct pain and discomfort and misalignment.

And then he often says that he uses a tensegrity model to show that if one part gets squeezed,

The other part on the other side of the body can show the pain.

And so people are questioning him,

Why is he working on the hip when I'm having shoulder pain?

And he said,

Well,

Shoulder pain is the effect,

But the hip is the cause.

And because it's a tensegrity structure,

They're not actually disconnected as we kind of think of bones being on top of bones.

He's proposing that actually and it's not 100 percent true,

But it is a great deal true that our bones are floating pillars suspended by our muscles,

Our ligaments and our tendons and fascia that's holding it all together.

And then I think Ellie Tom Thompson created this tensegrity teach just for educational tool.

So that's the kind of the basis on a physical level.

And then I want to bring in that actually it's a multidimensional.

There's much more than just physical tensegrity that's happening.

Physical can be affected by emotions.

Theric can be affected by mental and all sorts of different combinations.

And this is not a new concept,

Really,

Because I think Louise Hayes was one of the first to make it famous and well known.

But this mind body medicine,

Knowing that something physical is happening and there's an emotional correspondence or there's a mental correspondence to that.

But in terms of a model,

I haven't really seen anything about that.

And I guess the downside of the mind,

Body medicine model is that the way it's being used at the moment is that they'll have a physical pain or symptom that they don't like.

And they'll look for the emotional or mental correspondent,

But they don't look at it the opposite way.

They don't go,

Oh,

There's emotional,

Mental correspondence and there could be a physical correspondence to that,

That like effect from a cause.

So there's one thing and then another problem with the mind,

Body medicine or the way it's being used,

Because I actually love it,

Is that it becomes this mental exercise where you make the association.

And it depends on how self-connected you are,

That you can come to some resolution with it.

But often you need to show the body or you need to have the experience and show the vehicle,

The mind,

Body vehicle so that it can correct itself.

But if you don't show it,

It can't correct itself.

You're only working on like a mental,

Probably not even the mental realm.

You're probably working on a higher mental realm where you're outside the vehicle.

And it's like yelling at the vehicle to do something,

But it doesn't understand unless you show it.

And so another thing about this,

So I'm proposing that there's a multidimensional aspect,

But it's still a tensegriny structure.

And it's always seeking to balance itself unless something's in the way.

So it's like having an elephant in the room and then rearranging the whole room around this elephant,

But nobody's dealing with the elephant.

But unfortunately,

Everyone's blind to the elephant.

So it's like there's a core thing going on.

But because it's denied in some way.

The body is trying to find that balance again,

But it can never come back to true balance because that core thing is still there and hasn't been resolved.

And often that can be a childhood thing.

Right.

And then it for because it has this unresolved aspect,

It will try to compensate by forming layers and depending on how complex.

Some people have very simple imbalance in their tensegriny vehicle.

But then that's all right.

Thank you.

Thanks for joining us.

Catch the recording.

And then.

So there's that,

You know,

The the layers forming because of that compensating from the core denied core that's happened.

And some people really simple and it's really easy to resolve.

And then others form a lot of layers.

And so one example of that is that say someone feels really shamed or guilty about something,

But they don't like the feeling and it hurts them.

So then they do something like they compensate by being a really,

Really good person and doing lots of things.

But then what happens is that they start to stress themselves out.

So another layer forms and they actually doing so many things other people because they can't be self-centered in any way or they don't like to feel selfish.

And then they tie themselves out.

Another layer happens and they start to feel exhausted.

And then that could lead to chronic fatigue.

I just totally made that up.

That's not there is no set pattern.

That's another thing that I don't 100 percent like about the mind,

Body medicine.

I like that there's clues.

But to assume that everybody does things in a set way is not 100 percent.

Everybody has their unique expression and the unique way to balance things,

The things that they feel comfortable with and not.

So a great way to do that is actually to listen to the body and go,

Well,

What actually is going on for your vehicle particularly?

And then giving it what it needs to help it come to balance again.

And so that's basically the concept behind it.

So now we're going to do a short exercise where we're going to just open the doorway.

And as I kind of explained,

Each person's layering is different.

So we're not going to go through all the layers because it's kind of impossible in a webinar setting,

But we can't.

The opening the doorway,

Whether it's emotional or it's a mental,

Sorry,

Emotional or physical or mental or energetic.

But regardless of what the pain is,

The doorway,

The opening the doorway is the same process.

So we can at least do that and just see what might be underneath or what does your body emotions just want to tell you as the next layer.

And the key quality to instil on this is surrender and allowing.

So let's let's just do and so whatever pain that you might feel now,

You might feel physical or emotional pain.

Maybe you don't associate with pain.

So you could just use discomfort or uncomfortable.

And that's OK.

And just noticing which one that you might want to use at the moment.

Just choosing one thing if you feel multiple things.

And I will just give a few quick examples just so that you might.

Open your awareness to what might come from this.

So,

For example,

Like my left knee,

I,

I damaged it.

I heard it in some way in a dance camp late,

Late last year or early last year.

So and I have managed to unravel a lot of things,

But it has been the trouble for me.

It's just it only comes when I move it in certain ways.

And the other day,

I noticed a different way that I could access this technique,

Because normally it would happen quickly and go.

So I couldn't access it,

But I managed to access it in some way and I just was with it and I just allowed it to exist.

And then my left.

So as in the hip,

The opposite side,

So my right,

My right.

So I was on the opposite side activated.

And then as soon as they activated,

The body realigned itself and the knee corrected itself,

Not fully,

But it did correct itself through a layer.

And it was once I showed it.

What was going on?

It went,

Oh,

OK,

I know what to do in the nervous system.

Kicked in.

That's kind of work on the physical.

And then the other day I had a fight with my husband.

It's also common anymore.

But we did have a fight.

And I was having a lot of sadness about it.

And when I sat with the sadness and was with it,

I noticed that underneath that was actually anger.

I wasn't actually sad.

I was angry at the chain of events that happened.

And when I allowed that my awareness to open up to that,

Suddenly the hurt disappeared.

I was feeling the emotion still,

But that pain in that moved on.

And so they're kind of like examples of physical happening in the physical,

Kind of a tensegrity structure and then emotion as well.

But then another example where it crosses the different segments is so I've had itching and allergies for my whole life.

And I tried to use this physical pain unraveling technique for the itch,

But I could never really access it.

That's why I call it a physical pain unraveling.

But it's for any sensation.

And a few months ago,

I finally started to be able to access it because the itch triggers me a lot because it's something from childhood.

And when I finally could surrender and allow it to be there without this instinctive wanting to pull away,

And I finally could be with this itch,

This anxiety presented itself in my heart.

It's probably actually my thymus.

If you've seen a previous webinar,

The root causes webinar,

I do talk about my health and in the structure.

And I do have a question mark around the thymus because I knew there was something there,

But I couldn't access it.

Finally access it a few months ago.

And it was like this anxiety that I didn't realise existed because I denied it.

Because I associate myself as a calm,

Easygoing person.

So this anxiety was a discord in me and I denied it or suppressed it.

And when I finally allowed that to exist and be with this anxiety in my thymus,

The itch would dramatically reduce.

And I've had like a real change in that because of this finally noticing what the connection is that I was asleep to.

So they're kind of examples just to open up that you might have a thought or you might have an energy or you might have emotion or physical,

Whatever.

Just opening up to that.

So let's give it a go.

Yes,

So choosing one thing that you want to work on and just noticing what's the pain for you,

Acknowledging it.

Acknowledging where you're experiencing it.

And the more that you can pinpoint it,

The better.

You might even want to write it out of 10 for yourself.

10 being the worst.

Just anything that helps you define and pinpoint this pain that you're experiencing or discomfort.

And when you're ready,

Just becoming one with that pain.

Fully imagine merging.

Becoming this pain or discomfort.

Just being with it.

Not needing it to go away.

Not needing to fix it.

Not needing to make it worse than what it is.

It just is.

Fully accepting its existence.

Just being with it.

And then just notice,

You may have already noticed it,

But if not opening your awareness as much as you can and just noticing what else is showing up.

There's no need to judge it or push it away.

Discount it.

Just noticing.

Could be something physical.

Energetic.

One emotion,

One thought.

Just noticing and letting that exist.

Has no power over you.

It's just an experience.

And when you're ready,

Just going back into normal consciousness.

And then,

Yeah,

Just if you want,

You're welcome to share what might have come up or just keeping it to yourself if it's private.

But yeah,

That's the doorway.

That's the opening into the experience and being able then to listen to what the body is actually trying to show you through that pain.

And it's OK.

None of it has any power.

It's just an experience that that it's happening at this moment in time.