Jan 4, 2018
When I was in my
twenties I had a series of profound dreams. They were the
kind of dreams that left you feeling as though you had travelled
through millions of miles of fiber-optic cable engaging with every
particle in the universe. As amazing as I felt when I awoke,
there was a problem. I was never able to remember much about
the interactions or spaces in the dreams but I always came away
with one feeling or one phrase. This is the phrase: Build a
strong body. Each and every night I went to bed knowing I'd be
going on this journey. It was like someone or something was
shaking me, pounding this message into my brain. Every morning
I would awake with the message. Build a strong body. What did
it mean? Build a strong body. Of course, I had not been involved in
Focusing to this point, but strangely I completely understood the
message. It helped me understand that one thing that would
carry me throughout this life is my own body. It had never
dawned on me before. It would be with me the whole way, it will
serve me. So, it got me thinking about how to honour the
body. In my thirties and before focusing it was all about
exercise, food, and taking care of this vessel. The word vessel is
important because it helped me begin to think about my body as a
ship for my soul. My emotions could be in the hull and I was
on this timeless journey and adventure. It became very easy
to take care of my ship and along the way, by and large I have
tried to build a strong body and this message has stayed with me
for twenty years, sometimes stronger than others. Revisiting this
idea as a focuser has given me a new kind of outlook on this
phrase. The whole idea is to continue to honour the body. We
might have a mind, but it is the body that carries us through life.
It's the only vessel for a journey and it has an amazing
wisdom and high tech navigating system. Focusing is a way
into the room on the ship which holds this high tech navigation
system. I've come to learn that this exists in me and I believe it
exists in other people. For me, focusing has been the way into this
space and it has allowed me to navigate this ship (my body) in a
way that is more than just a ship in a storm. Now, I feel I
have built a body that is like a ship that can navigate the storm.
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