It’s hard to impossible to be physically healthy when you hate your body. Media, trauma, disease, pregnancies, abuse, ageing, bullying – how a person perceives her appearance and feels in his body directly impacts his or her physical health. What is the truth about your body? “The human body shares in the dignity of “the […]
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The Church Fathers teach that the body is not the “container” for the soul, but the soul is the “container” of the body, and is everywhere throughout the body. This view is reflected in Jesus’ statements, “The eye [the soul, according to the Fathers] is the light of the body. So, if your eye is
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Perhaps we think back to the Garden of Eden and imagine how glorious it would be to live like Adam and Eve in Paradise before the fall, with our souls clear and free and full of light, and in full and immediate control of the appetites of the body. Or we try to imagine our
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Perhaps a negative view of the human body has been construed from St. Paul’s remarks about “crucifying the flesh.” But Paul is simply pointing out that the flesh fell with the soul in the Garden, must be restored, and will be elevated even higher to the image of Christ. Jesus reveals the Gospel of the
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Physical symptoms are information; they are the body’s way of communicating a need for healing, what needs to be healed, and even how to heal. Much of the automatic physical reaction we experience in stressful situations is ultimately ignored because we mark it down to “stress” (unavoidable!) without actually listening to what it’s trying to
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Now that we know physical symptoms are information — that they are the body’s way of communicating a need for healing and what needs to be healed — we can proceed to the how of the actual healing of physical memories. To heal the body’s physical memories (compacted stress/traumas responses), we listen to and follow
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You will need the Step-By-Step Guide to Working through Pop Quizzes (updated STOP Tool)* to work through the content of this episode. Animals do not hold and store trauma. They do not have the capacity, because they do not have a soul (emotion, intellect, will). Because the human person is a soul-body, humans often hold
Just in time for the All Hallow’s Eve and All Saints feasts: the resurrection of the dead “in their own proper bodies which they now bear” is an infallible dogma, necessary to the Christian faith and handed down to us and confirmed repeatedly in the Scriptures, the Councils, the Creeds, and the Fathers. At the
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