In our January Dreambody Medicine forum we explored the ideas of physics and the Higgs boson particle Large Hadron Collider and the idea of symmetry and how a disturbance is needed to create life. Body symptoms disturb our inner balance or symmetry and bring awareness. Curing symptoms, taking medicine and having surgery is important, but then we can use the experience in our symptoms to learn more about ourselves.

We also talked about the story of the dog in Seattle and how he doesn’t wait for his owner to get on the bus to go to the dog park. Don’t wait to play!

The poem below also inspired us to follow the flow of the river and life.

Ask Me by William Stafford

Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.

I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.

The symptom explored was of a right knee that was unstable and weak and the way it was being managed was to be careful and gentle. Exploring the symptom involved amplifying the bending of the knee and the clicking sound it made, and then imagining it as a chicken leg and  chewing on the joint getting to the marrow, finding it nutritious and delicious! becoming superman and world president, creating more excitement rather than war and more sustainability than peace. And bringing a relationship practice of 50-50 air time for each. Deep democracy and how to connect deliciously. Being the joint between. A right knee relationship way, making relationship conflicts more delicious to explore.

In the small groups we explored the questions of

1. how do we relate from the core in relationships and in relationship to the world?
2.how can you bring your delicious nature into relationship.

In the forum we explored social norms that expect conversation and then went silent inside, meditated and brought out what happened for us. Each had a different experience. Experiences of play, relaxation, joy, no thoughts, fully present, melting, enjoyment, focus.