The soul is the inner healer. He takes on some of the world’s unsolved problems, befriends a body, and starts talking to it for healing to occur. Thus, the body becomes the soul’s best friend. Then the body tries to speak to the mind (through pain and other symptoms). But the mind does not always listen and therefore becomes the soul’s worst enemy. Usually the mind becomes too entangled in the ego and takes everything personally. He is over-identified with the body, with the “I”, and is under the illusion that it is all about “me”. Look what I’m going through! Poor me”!
It rarely occurs to the mind that the less we personalize our experiences, the less problems we have and the happier we feel. The mind rarely understands that pain is universal and, while inevitable, it is also curable, if only we would depersonalize life and stop creating suffering by playing victim. We are not victims, we are instruments of healing. We just have to look at the big picture and recognize the role we play in a much larger scheme. We need to understand that the pain I am trying to heal is your pain as well, and their pain as well. In other words, pain is pain and it is one of the things that connects us, and it is also one of the things that we are here to resolve for the greater good of the universe. So let’s not make it a personalized victim story. We are all in this together, and what I have is what you have and what we all have (it just happens in different ways on the surface).
Understanding that the pain in my body is the call of the soul to heal something bigger than myself, something that goes beyond the body with which I generally identify excessively, is the first step towards happiness and freedom. In fact, pain is inevitable. But suffering is a direct result of the story that the mind tells the world to claim personal importance. Therefore, suffering is unnecessary and can be completely avoided. We cannot always choose the music that life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it. And the key to doing that is cultivating a flexible and open mind that is able to objectively observe and remain neutral to the messages it receives (from the soul through the body) rather than creating interpretations and stories about what it is.
The soul (our inner healer) speaks directly to the body, and if the mind is attuned to the body, it can hear the soul’s call for healing. However, keep in mind that tuning into our body means that we are in the body, but we are not the body itself (we extend beyond the body and are connected to other bodies and everything else that exists). So when the mind is in tune with the body, it is in touch with both the individual and the universal, and is correctly informed about what is needed for healing. This “attunement” is similar to “quieting the mind” (ie, letting go of the story) and can be achieved through meditation, contemplation, introspection, and prayer.
Of course, another way to tune in to the body is to do BodyTalk, a therapy that aims to communicate directly with the body to correctly interpret the soul’s call to healing. So if your mind can’t stay calm enough to hear what your body is saying, BodyTalk can help not only decipher your body’s messages, but also quiet the mind itself (so that it is more and more capable of solve future problems by yourself).
Last but not least, to ease pain, shift your focus away from yourself to someone else. We can’t always be objective about our own things, but we can usually do so while observing someone else’s situation. So, listen to the advice he gives others and then accept it, as it will most likely serve them just as well. Remember, we are all in this together and the apparent differences are just a function of a noisy, scattered, and scared mind.