How to read past, present, future and other aspects in the human body
Some Indian school states that the body is an
emanation of the soul…
Since many years I study the body constitution: when I was young
I observed it through the eye of the artist (I was a painter)
and then, especially in the last years, as therapist, in fact I
teach and practice massage.
I notice that a body brings indelible and unmistakable traces of
its background and of psychological tendencies. Anyway, we have
to keep in mind that, through the nervous system, the body is
connected to the brain and the brain is made of two hemispheres,
and each one of them has characteristic qualities.
The left hemisphere concerns the management of qualities that we
usually consider masculine qualities, as the physical-material
activity or the rationality, while the right one is more related
with the typical feminine qualities, as creativity, perception
and intuition.
The left hemisphere governs the right side of the body, while
the right hemisphere the left one. This allows us to establish,
by intuition, the relation of the subject with the feminine or
masculine aspect or to attribute some dysfunction to the good or
bad functioning of the body or brain area that corresponds to
it.
Out of curiosity, I tell you that: if, when you cross your
hands, the left thumb is the one you put over, it means that
you’re more comfortable in using the cerebral feminine qualities
(the thumb over indicates the prevailing) or, vice-versa, if the
right thumb is over.
Going back to what I said before, a contraction active in the
right part of the body could make evident a state of discomfort
caused by a suffering for the “male” aspect, or vice-versa for
the left area. Its precise location would allow us to clarify if
it has to be in relation with the physical, emotional or mental
aspect, or even with the deep past, the present or the becoming.
We have to keep in mind, moreover, that the left hemisphere, in
front of a scientific measuring, is the predominant one because
it spontaneously starts to work before the other hemisphere,
determining a more spontaneous and immediate use of the right
part of the body. For that reason, usually, it seems to be the
most developed part.
Normally, a relaxed lying down person has the right feet more
open and outward-facing, if compared to the left one, because
the right part of the body is the most nimble one. A more open
left foot, instead, would make us checking the pelvis and the
vertebral column of that person, which could present some
problem.
Going back to the areas in which we could find diseases,
generally I think that the low part of the body (from the basin
downwards) corresponds to the roots, that are the past, the
middle one (from waistline to shoulders) to the present and the
upper one (from the shoulders to the head top) to the relation
with the becoming. We can also say that the low part is the
physical-instinctual one, the middle part is the emotional one
and the upper part is the intellectual area.
For a good comprehension, do remember that we often see people
with a good evident development of the lower part of the body
while the other part is quite short (it seems to be compressed).
Generally, we can say that these people had a good adolescence
but then, facing life responsibilities and troubles, had serious
difficulties. We can compare this condition to a young tree that
is helped at the beginning of its growth with a stick, but, when
the stick is removed, thinking that the tree is strong enough,
it has difficulties and gets curves and contractions, etc.
What I said is to make you understand why our therapeutic
interventions are practiced in silence: in fact, we don’t need
to ask questions: body talks! To make it clearer to you, I can
tell you that today, it still happens that, because of life
quality, if a person tends to rest his hands on the abdomen it
is because he is unconsciously telling us that he has a disease
in that area: it’s like if body tends to protect the trouble of
a weak area and it chooses to do it in this way.
After an investigation, in fact, we could find diseases in those
organs. Past disappointments and sufferings are usually noticed
as contractions or narrowness and the area of its location could
clarify the level: if it is a physical level, an emotional or an
intellectual one.
Instead, anxiety, a spreading disease linked to
current life quality, is normally related to the concern for
future survival. We can notice it on different levels but today
it shows itself especially in the abdomen, altering the health
of the digestive and excretion organs. You surely already know
that stomach and intestinal diseases are rapidly increasing, and
the same is, for different reasons, for shoulders and cervical
troubles (especially after the spread of computers) that,
through a reading of chakra function, could mean an unease due
to the “communication”, that becomes more and more difficult
because of the isolation in which man is closing himself.
by Amadio Bianchi