Description
Book SynopsisReveals the precise correspondences between specific emotional and mental tensions and the illnesses and traumas of the body
• Explains how physical complaints--energetic disturbances that lead to ailments or chronic conditions--are your soul speaking to you
• Shows how the body part affected as well as which side it is on pinpoints what your soul is trying to tell you and what you need to work through emotionally
• Physical complaints - energetic disturbances that lead to ailments or chronic conditions - are how your soul speaks to you about what’s hindering your development.
As Michel Odoul shows, the “proof” of this lies in the clear correspondences between emotional and mental tensions and specific ailments. Providing a reference grid of body-mind connections, he explains, for example, how skin conditions reflect difficulties with aggression from the outside world and knee problems indicate inflexibility or tension in relationships. He shows not only how each side of the body has specific meanings and connections to emotions, relationships, and family but also how the upper and lower halves of the body have specific connections--together forming four quadrants with unique Yin-Yang balances, where Yin represents emotional issues and Yang represents action/inaction.
Offering keys to deciphering how the soul speaks through the body, the author shows that we can learn to see physical ailments not as something caused by chance or fate but as a message from our soul. By releasing the energies and patterns they point to, we can return to a state of health and forward movement on our soul’s evolutionary path.
Trade Review“A much-needed book for the 21st century; Odoul takes an energetic approach to holistic philosophy and goes to the root of energetic disturbances that lead to ailments or chronic conditions. Odoul connects us to the profound unconscious components of our minds and bodies to reconstruct physical ailments and thus develop transparency throughout our physical and our spiritual lives.” * Sebhia Marie Dibra, coauthor of Overcoming Acute and Chronic Pain *
“In
What Your Aches and Pains Are Telling You, Odoul demonstrates how pain tells your mind what is happening in your body, not only where, but why. He shows the reader how understanding your pain can provide pathways to healing.” * Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., coauthor of Overcoming Acute and Chronic Pain *
Table of ContentsForeword by Thierry Médynski, M.D.
Introduction
PART 1
A Philosophy of Human life
Energetic Connections Inside and Outside the Body 1 The Spiritual Dimensions of Human Life
Underpinnings of Our Being The Process of Incarnation
The Life Path
Earlier Heaven and Later Heaven
The Concept of Laterality
The Conscious and the Nonconscious
The Process of Awakening
Physiological Expressions of Disharmony
The Freudian Slip
The Mirror Effect
2 Between Heaven and Earth
The Human Being as a Microcosm of the Universe Yin and Yang
The Five Principles
How Energies Function to Achieve Structure and Balance in the Body How Energies Move in the Body: The Meridians
The Distribution of Yin and Yang in the Body
3 Connections within the Body
The Five Principles and the Twelve Organ Meridians Metal: Lung and Large Intestine Meridians
Earth: Stomach and Spleen/Pancreas Meridians
Fire: Heart, Small Intestine, Heart Protector, and Triple Heater Meridians Water: Urinary Bladder and Kidney Meridians
Wood: Gall Bladder and Liver Meridians
PART 2
A Symbolic Message System
How the Nonconscious Speaks through the Body
4 The Main Parts of the Body
And How They Speak to Us The Structure of the Human Body and the Role of Each Part
The Skeleton and the Spinal Column
The Lower Limbs
The Upper Limbs
The Neck
The Trunk
5 The Major Systems of the Body
The Symbolism of Our Organ Systems The Digestive System
The Respiratory System
The Urinary System
The Circulatory System
The Nervous System
The Reproductive System
6 The Sense Organs and Other Conditions of the Body
Feedback from the Inner Master
The Head and Face: Symbol of Identity and Seat of the Sense Organs Specific Conditions
Infirmities and Handicaps
Conclusion
Index
