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Your Body is a Map of Your Consciousness
Martin Brofman
Your Body Is A Map of Your Consciousness – by Martin Brofman, PhD.
Everything begins with your consciousness. Everything that happens in
your life, and everything that happens in your body, begins with
something happening in your consciousness.
Your consciousness is who you are, your experience of Being.
You decide what ideas to accept and which to reject. You decide what to
think, and you decide what to feel. When these decisions leave you with
residual stress, you experience the stress as if in your physical body.
We know that stress creates symptoms. The interesting question is, “Which
stress creates which symptoms?” When we are able to quantify this
process, we are then able to see the body as a map of the person’s
consciousness, relating particular symptoms to particular stresses and
particular ways of being, in the same way that Type “A” Behavior has been
able to be associated with heart disease.
Everything Starts In Your Consciousness
To understand this map, we must first orient ourselves to the idea that
the causes of symptoms are within. While it’s true that germs cause
disease and accidents cause injuries, it is also true that this happens
in accord with what is happening in the consciousness of the person
involved.
Germs are everywhere. Why are some people affected and not others?
Something different is happening in their consciousness.
Why do some patients in hospitals respond better to treatment than
others? They have different attitudes. Something different is happening
in their consciousness When someone is injured in an “accident,” why is
it that a very specific part of the body is affected, and that it is the
same part that has had habitual problems? Is that an “accident,” or is
there a pattern and an order to the way things happen in our bodies?
You Are A Being of Energy
Your consciousness, your experience of Being, who you really are, is
energy. We can call it “Life Energy” for now. This energy does not just
live in your brain; it fills your entire body. Your consciousness is
connected to every cell in your body. Through your consciousness, you can
communicate with every organ and every tissue, and a number of therapies
are based on this communication with the organs which have been affected
by some kind of symptom or disorder.
This energy which is your consciousness, and which reflects your state of
consciousness, can be measured through the process known as Kirlian
photography. When you take a Kirlian photograph of your hand, it shows a
certain pattern of energy. If you take a second photograph while
imagining that you are sending love and energy to someone you know, there
will be a different pattern of energy shown on the Kirlian photograph.
Thus, we can see that a change in your consciousness creates a change in
the energy field that is being photographed, which we call the aura.
This energy field shown in the Kirlian photographs has been quantified,
so that when there are “holes” in particular parts of the energy field,
these are said to correspond to particular weaknesses in specific parts
of the physical body. The interesting thing about this is that the
weakness shows up in the energy field before there is ever any evidence
of it on the physical level.
Thus, we have an interesting direction of manifestation shown through
what we have described.
1. A change of consciousness creates a change in the energy field.
2. A change in the energy field happens before a change in the physical
body.
The direction of manifestation is from the consciousness, through the
energy field, to the physical body.
Consciousness——1——?Energy Field——2——?Physical Body
When we look at things in this way, we see that it is not the physical
body creating the energy field, the aura, but rather the aura or energy
field that is creating the physical body. What we see as the physical
body is the end result of a process that begins with the consciousness.
We Each Create Our Reality
When someone makes a decision that leaves them with stress, creating a
blockage in the energy field with a sufficient degree of intensity, this
creates a symptom on the physical level. The symptom speaks a certain
language, which reflects the idea that we each create our own reality.
When the symptom is described from that point of view, the metaphoric
significance of the symptom becomes clear. Thus, instead of saying, “I
can’t see,” the person would have to say, “I have been keeping myself
from seeing something.” If they cannot walk, they would have to say, “I
have been keeping myself from walking away from something.” And so on. We
must understand that there are no accidents and no coincidences. Things
do happen according to a pattern and order.
The Human Directional System
We can say that we have an inner guidance system, a connection to our
Higher Self, or our Inner Being, or whatever name we choose to give this
Higher Intelligence. This inner guidance system functions through what we
call our intuition, or our instinct. It speaks a very simple language.
Either it feels good, or it doesn’t. All the rest is just politics.
We are told we should move with what feels good, and do not do what
doesn’t feel good to us. We are told to trust this inner voice. When we
don’t follow this inner voice we feel tension. We feel not-good.
Then, the voice must get louder. The next level of communication is
through the emotions. As we move more and more in the direction that
feels not-good, we experience more and more emotions that feel not-good,
and at some point we can say, “I should have listened to myself when I
thought to move in the other direction.” That meant that we heard the
inner voice. Otherwise, we could not have said, “I should have listened.”
If we make the decision we know is the right one for us, and therefore
change direction, there is a release of tension, we feel better, and we
know we are again on the right track.
If we continue to move in the direction that feels not-good, the
communication reaches the physical level. We create a symptom, and the
symptom speaks a language which reflects the idea that we each create our
own reality. When we describe the symptom from that point of view, we can
understand the message.
If we change our way of being, we have received the message, and the
symptom has no further reason for being. It is able to be released,
according to whatever we allow ourselves to believe is possible.
If we created the symptom with a decision, we are also able to release it
with a decision.
As an hypothesis, we can imagine that someone makes a decision that it is
not a good idea to express what they want. From that moment, whenever
there is something they want, they keep themselves from expressing it,
and therefore from having what they want. That feels not-good. The
tension grows. They feel more and more not-good as they keep themselves
from expressing what they want and not having it.
Eventually, something happens to create a symptom on the physical level,
and their right arm is affected. It could have happened through falling
from a ladder, or in an automobile accident, or by pinching a nerve in
the neck, or by “sleeping in a draft.”
Something had to happen on the physical level to create the symptom, in
order to give the person the message on the physical level about what
they had been doing to themselves. We do to ourselves literally what we
have been doing to ourselves figuratively.
The effect is that the person cannot move their arm. They are keeping
themselves from reaching for something, and since it is the right arm, on
the “will” side of the body, they are keeping themselves from reaching
for or going for what they want. They have been giving themselves reasons
to not believe that they could have what they want. When they begin to do
something different in their consciousness, they notice that something
different begins to happen with their arm, and the symptom is able to be
released.
Chakras And The Map
To understand the map of the consciousness that the body represents, we
can turn to some ancient Hindu traditions which have been studying
consciousness for thousands of years, and which use the language of the
chakras.
Chakra is a Sanskrit word, and it means “wheel,” or “vortex,” because
that’s what it looks like when we look at it. Each chakra is like a solid
ball of energy interpenetrating the physical body, in the same way that a
magnetic field can interpenetrate the physical body.
The chakras are not physical. They are aspects of consciousness in the
same way that the auras are aspects of consciousness The chakras are more
dense than the auras, but not as dense as the physical body, but they
interact with the physical body through two major vehicles, the endocrine
system and the nervous system. Each of the seven chakras is associated
with one of the seven endocrine glands, and also with a particular group
of nerves called a plexus. Thus, each chakra can be associated with
particular parts of the body and particular functions within the body
controlled by that plexus or that endocrine gland associated with that
chakra.
Your consciousness, your experience of being, represents everything it is
possible for you to experience. All of your senses, all of your
perceptions, all of your possible states of awareness, can be divided
into seven categories, and each of these categories can be associated
with a particular chakra. Thus, the chakras represent not only particular
parts of your physical body, but also particular parts of your
consciousness. When you feel tension in your consciousness, you feel it
in the chakra associated with the part of your consciousness experiencing
the stress, and in the parts of the physical body associated with that
chakra. Where you feel the stress depends therefore on why you feel the
stress. When someone is hurt in a relationship, they feel it in their
heart. When someone is nervous, their legs tremble and their bladder
becomes weak.
When there is tension in a particular part of your consciousness, and
therefore in the chakra associated with that part of your consciousness,
the tension is detected by the nerves of the plexus associated with that
chakra, and communicated to the parts of the body controlled by that
plexus. When the tension continues over a period of time, or reaches a
particular degree of intensity, the person creates a symptom on the
physical level. Again, the symptom served to communicate to the person
through their body what they had been doing to themselves in their
consciousness. When the person changes something about their way of
being, they are able to release the stress that had been creating the
symptom, and they are then able to return to their natural state of
balance and health.
Reading The Map
When we are reading the body as a map of the consciousness within, we
work with the idea that the tensions in the body represent tensions in
the person’s consciousness concerning what was happening in the person’s
life at the time that the symptom developed. The person was feeling
stress about something that was happening in their life at that time.
We are going to examine the map of consciousness that the chakras
provide, in order to understand the language of the symptoms that are
associated with each chakra. In order to complete this map, however, we
also need to look at ourselves as each a polarity of yin and yang,
feminine and masculine characteristics.
For most people, their right side is their yang side, their will side,
their acting or active side, and the left side is their yin side, their
female side, their feeling or adaptive side. For people who were born
left-handed, this polarity is reversed. Thus, for a right-handed person,
their right leg can be described as their will leg, or their male leg, or
the foundation of their will, but for a left-handed person, their left
leg would be their male leg or will leg, and so on. Thus, we can talk
about the will arm, or the will eye, or the will nostril, etc., and which
side it is on will depend upon whether the person is right-handed or
left-handed at birth.
Each of the chakras is energy vibrating at a certain frequency, in a
logical and orderly sequence of seven vibrations. As we move up the
scale, the elements become more and more subtle, moving through the five
physical elements of earth, water, fire, air, and ether, to the spiritual
elements of inner sound and inner light. The heaviest element is on the
bottom, the lightest on the top. It is a logical and orderly sequence.
The colors of the spectrum also represent a series of seven vibrations in
a logical and orderly sequence, as do the notes of the musical scale.
Thus, we can put the heaviest vibrations or the longest wavelength on the
bottom and the lightest on the top, and a particular color can be used to
represent a chakra in its clear state, as can a particular musical note.
Music played in a certain key vibrates a particular chakra, and we feel a
particular way when we hear that music. Our relationship with a certain
color says something about our relationship with the part of our
consciousness that the color represents.
The Root Chakra is associated with the parts of our consciousness
concerned with security, survival, or trust. For most people, this
concerns the parts of their consciousness concerned with money,
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, and
job. When this chakra is in its clear state, the person is able to feel
secure, be present in the here and now, and be grounded. When there is
tension in this chakra, it is experienced as insecurity or fear. When
there is more tension, it is experienced as a threat to survival.
Parts of the body controlled by the sacral plexus and this chakra include
the skeleton system, the legs, and the elimination system. Symptoms in
these parts of the body represent, therefore, tensions at the level of
the Root Chakra, and we therefore know that the person is seeing the
world through a perceptual filter of insecurity or fear. The adrenal
glands are also associated with this chakra.
If one leg is affected, we can see whether it is the male leg or the
female leg, and thus whether it has something to do with trust in a male
or trust in a female. We can also see it as having something to do with
trust in the will, or the aspects of trust in the foundations the
emotional being, related to what was happening in the person’s life at
the time the symptom developed.
The physical sense of smell, and therefore the organ of the sense of
smell, the nose, is associated with the Root Chakra. Symptoms at the
level of the nose or affecting the sense of smell reflect tensions at the
level of the Root Chakra.
Each chakra is associated with an element. The Root Chakra is associated
with the element of earth, and reflects something about the person’s
association with the earth, or how they feel about being on the earth,
which we call Mother Earth. This chakra is also associated with our
relationship with our mother. When someone experiences a sense of
separation from their mother, or not feeling loved by their mother, they
cut off their roots and experience symptoms of tensions at the level of
the Root Chakra until they can again open to accept their mother’s love.
When a child comes into the world in the traditional family structure,
the mother provides the nourishment and the father provides the
direction. Thus, in the child’s relationship with its mother, it makes
certain decisions about the way things are. The relationship with the
mother thus becomes a model for the person’s relationship with everything
that represents security – money,
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, and job.
The Root Chakra is associated with the color red.
The Abdominal Chakra is associated with the parts of our consciousness
concerned with food and sex – the communication from the body to the
person within it, about what the body wants or needs, and what it finds
pleasurable. It also is related to what is happening in their
consciousness about having children. When this chakra is in its clear
state, the person is in touch with this communication, and listening to
and responding appropriately to what the body wants and needs.
Parts of the body controlled by the lumbar plexus include the
reproductive system and the abdomen, and the lumbar region of the back.
The sense of taste is associated with this chakra, as is the element of
water. When someone does not have a clear relationship with water
(swimming, for example, or being on a boat), this reflects their
attitudes about the parts of their consciousness that this chakra
represents.
Tensions on the will side or the emotional side of this chakra indicate
tensions in the person’s consciousness as conflicts between either the
will or the emotions with what the person’s body is asking for.
This chakra is associated with the sense of taste, and with appetite. It
is also involved with the person’s willingness to feel their emotions.
The second chakra is associated with the color orange.
The Solar Plexus Chakra is associated with the parts of our consciousness
having to do with perceptions of power, control, or freedom. In its clear
state, it represents ease of being, and comfort with what is real for
one’s self – being comfortable with who you are.
Parts of the body associated with this chakra include the organs closest
to the solar plexus – stomach, gall bladder, spleen, liver, etc. – as
well as the skin as a system, the muscular system as a system, and the
face in general.
The physical sense associated with this chakra is the sense of sight.
Anyone with impaired eyesight experiences tension at the level of their
solar plexus chakra about the issues of power, control, or freedom.
Nearsighted people also experience tensions at the level of the Root
Chakra, and experience the world through a perceptual filter of fear or
insecurity. Those who are farsighted experience tension also at the level
of the throat chakra, and see the world through a perceptual filter of
anger or guilt. Astigmatics see through the emotional perceptual filter
of confusion.
The endocrine gland associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra is the
pancreas. We can say that diabetics are keeping sweetness from
themselves. When someone gets too close with sweetness, they feel
threatened in their power to be who they are, and an emotion comes up to
create a safe distance again. The emotion is anger. Diabetes is
associated with suppressed anger.
The element associated with this chakra is fire, and the person’s
relationship with the sun says something about their relationship with
the parts of their consciousness associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra.
The color of the Solar Plexus Chakra is yellow.
The Heart Chakra is associated with the parts of the consciousness
concerned with relationships and our perceptions of love. The
relationships we speak of here are with those people closest to our heart
- partners, parents, siblings, children.
The parts of the body associated with this chakra include the heart and
lungs, and the blood circulatory system as a system. This chakra is also
associated with the thymus gland, which controls the immune system. When
this is affected, as with AIDS, the person’s lifestyle separates them
from someone they love.
The physical sense associated with this chakra is the sense of touch, in
its aspect of relating to the person inside the body. For example, a
massage given to someone with no sensitivity to what the person is
feeling inside would be an example of the sensation we associate with the
Abdominal Chakra, but when the masseur seems to have a sense of what the
person inside the body is experiencing, then it includes the aspect of
relating we associate with the Heart Chakra. When someone experiences
extreme sensitivity about being touched, we would ask what was happening
at the level of the Heart Chakra.
This chakra is associated with the element of air. When someone has
difficulty with air, with breathing (asthma, emphysema, tuberculosis,
etc.), we say that their relationship with air reflects their
relationship with love – difficulty letting it in, or letting it out, for
example
The color associated with the Heart Chakra is emerald green.
The Throat Chakra is associated with the parts of the consciousness
concerned with expressing and receiving. Expressing can be in the form of
communicating what one wants and what one feels, or it can be artistic
expression, as an artist painting, a dancer dancing, a musician playing
music, using a form for expressing and bringing to the outside what was
within. Expression is related to receiving, as, “Ask, and ye shall
receive.”
The throat chakra is associated with abundance, and with the state of
consciousness called, “grace,” where it seems that what you want for you
is also what God wants for you. Accepting what the abundant universe
offers you requires a sense of unconditionally receiving.
This chakra is also associated with listening to one’s intuition, and
flowing in a particular way where it seems that the Universe supports you
in all that you do. It is the first level of consciousness from which one
perceives another level of intelligence functioning, and one’s
interaction with this other level of intelligence.
Parts of the body associated with this chakra include the throat,
shoulders, and arms and hands. and the thyroid gland.
The sense of hearing is associated with this chakra, and the element of
ether, the most subtle physical element, corresponding to what we find in
deep space. The ether is the crossover between the physical and the
spiritual dimensions. Someone looking at the world through this chakra
watches the manifestation of their goals. The Will Arm represents
manifesting what you want, and the Feeling Arm represents manifesting
what makes you happy. Hopefully, the two point to the same thing.
Sky Blue is the color associated with this chakra.
The Brow Chakra is associated with the parts of the consciousness
concerned with the spiritual view, and the
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of the Spirit, the Being
within. This level of consciousness is associated with what western
traditions call the unconscious or subconscious, the part of our
consciousness that directs our actions and our life. From this level we
are aware of the motivations behind our actions. We can watch our outer
theater from an inner point of view.
This chakra is associated with the carotid plexus, and the nerves on each
side of the face, and the pituitary gland. Headaches in the temples or
center of the forehead are associated with tensions at this level. This
chakra controls the entire endocrine system as a system, and the process
of growth.
The Brow chakra, also known as the Third Eye, is associated with extra
sensory perception (ESP), the set of all inner senses that correspond to
the outer senses, which together comprise spirit-to-spirit communication.
The element associated with this chakra is a vibration known as the Inner
Sound, the sound that one hears in their ears that does not depend upon
something in the physical world. Some consider it a pathological
condition. In some of the eastern traditions the ability to hear this is
considered a necessary prerequisite to further spiritual growth.
The color associated with this chakra is Indigo, midnight blue, the color
of lapis lazuli, or the color of the night sky during a full moon.
The Crown Chakra is associated with the parts of the consciousness
concerned with unity or separation, and just as the Root Chakra showed
our connection with Mother Earth, this chakra shows our connection with
Our Father, Which Art in Heaven. At first, it is associated with our
connection with our biological father. This becomes the model for our
relationship with authority, and this becomes the model for our
relationship with God. When there is a sense of separation from our
biological father, the person closes this chakra, and the effect on the
consciousness is a sense of isolation and aloneness, being in a shell,
and difficult to make contact with those outside the shell.
The person feels as if they are hiding from God, or hiding from
themselves, not seeing what is true for them in the deepest part of their
consciousness, the part we call the soul.
This chakra is also associated with a sense of direction.
The parts of the body controlled by this chakra are the pineal gland, the
brain, and the entire nervous system as a system.
The color associated with the Crown Chakra is Violet, the color of
amethyst.
Using The Map
When there is tension in a particular part of the body, this represents a
tension in a particular part of the consciousness, about a particular
part of the person’s life. Being aware of these associations helps one to
see the importance of resolving the tense issues in their life.
If it were only a question of doing what is necessary for the person to
be happy, that would be reason enough to motivate the person to want to
change something that doesn’t work for them, but here, we see that it is
also a matter of health. The issues that are unresolved in a person’s
life are, in fact, hazardous to their health.
When we see the correspondences between the consciousness and the body,
we see the degree to which we each create our reality. In fact, those
words begin to take on a new meaning. We see how everything begins in our
consciousness and we are able to look around us at other aspects of our
lives in the same way.
When we see how the body carries out the messages and deepest wishes of
the Being within the body, we can realize that the process can go in more
than one direction. If our consciousness is directing how we develop
symptoms, it can also direct how we release these same symptoms. If our
consciousness can make our body ill, our consciousness can make our body
well.
The logical conclusion of this process is that anything can be healed.
Copyright 1987 Martin Brofman
www.healer.ch
About the Author
Martin Brofman, PhD, created the Body Mirror System of Healing, and A
Vision Workshop, as the result of his research into the body-mind
connection, and from what he learned healing himself of terminal cancer
in 1975. He has been working with and teaching these methods around the
world since that time. He is the author of Anything Can Be Healed, and
Improve Your Vision, both published by Findhorn Press. His self-help
books have been translated into ten languages.
He is the founder and director of the Brofman Foundation for the
Advancement of Healing, dedicated to promoting healing in the world, and
coordinating the activities of the various instructors teaching his
methods. He believes and works with the idea that we are all healers, and
that anything can be healed. healer@healer.ch
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