Mind and Body Healing?

I saw an advertisement for a talk. The speaker was addressing how illness has underlying emotional patterns. He titled the talk “Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind”. Then he expounded on all the techniques for using your mind to heal, and even said “You will learn …the purpose of all healing and why complete healing must start with healing the mind” It seems he’s a bit confused! Do we start with the mind, or do we use the body to heal the mind. Chicken or egg?

He seems in the right neighborhood, but I am guessing he’s new to this idea that the body matters, and is capable. Why not actually use your body- instead of systems such as TFT, EFT, EMDR, etc? These methods create structures that take you out of your experience, fostering dependence on magic healing.

You don’t have to trick or dis-empower yourself to heal. Simply by paying attention to sensation, and refusing the impulse to create a hierarchy of experience, you can hone your awareness. Your habits will naturally come up for re-evaluation. Using the newer, better data, you can make new and better choices.

Choice doesn’t have to be conscious. Most choices are actually sub-conscious, and so are the majority of changes in habit. Just by changing a few details, we can affect our perception of our self. What we call normal will shift.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Plato.

Our healing depends on our habits. We can change, and we can heal. And the change that matters is not an arduous mind game, but a playful exploration of our bodily experience. Why not simply stay with our own experience, and cultivate our native physical intelligence?