In the December Dreambody forum we discussed how we try to avoid our symptoms. We also do that as a society when we avoid addressing health disparities, lack of access to resources and the impact of social stress.

A person worked on the feeling of weakness in their legs and lower back that they didn’t like, that scared them. They discussed the medical options. Then they followed the weakness experience. This led them to lay down on the floor and relax, enjoying the sense of dissolving and not having to do anything. After a bit they decided they had finished relaxing and got up. Then they watched the facilitator show what they had looked like lying down. They noticed there was something about looking at someone being so gone that scared them. They then tried this out for themselves and let themselves go into a very deep state. From that place they got in touch with a huge figure made of stone blocks that was standing up for something. It was holding up the sky, protecting the earth and standing for the proper order of nature. It said: ‘You know when something is wrong and that it is more important than pleasing other people’. What looked like a weakness was trying to connect to a different power from another space and time.

It reminds us all to take the courage to become aware of our tendency to go along with others. To make a choice to connect with something deeper. That can support us to find our powers and convictions.