The ‘deeper self<\/a>‘ communicates through the symptom.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This becomes apparent when looking at mind-body connections<\/a> and where these start in the brain\/mind as neurocognitively explained<\/a>. One way or another, embedded in the symptom is its deeper meaning.\u00a0This tempts some to fill this in with something far too specific, a \u2018meaning\u2019 that one might look up in a deep-language\/conceptual-language static dictionary as if one could make a table of it: A stands for X;\u00a0B for Y;\u00a0C for Z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This shows an underlying mistake between an analogy (where this static translation would be possible) and a symbol<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A symptom is not an analogy but a symbol.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to frame this well, a somewhat esoteric-sounding explanation about form and content is first necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conceptual thinking (that of conceptual language) deals with forms. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, it also has a strong attachment to material things; this is, to anything that can be grasped \u2015 anything tangible either directly with the senses or with instruments in between (such as a microscope or telescope). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Conceptual thinking also feels well at home in the world of mental concepts (circumscribed units of thought with both sufficient and necessary characteristics). As such, however, these forms have no content. For example, a house has no meaning outside of the meaning one gives it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deep-self thinking (that of deep language) is concerned with content.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, it has a strong adherence to symbolism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mental contents are deep meanings that motivate, providing the necessary energy to take action. \u201cHuman energy is deep motivation.\u201d These contents, however, insofar as they are profound, have no form. They are \u2018pure energy\u2019. (Sounds pretty esoteric?) The profound meaning one can give to a house is intangible, hardly conceptualizable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pure contents are formless. Pure forms are meaningless. See: \u201cThe Water and the Jug<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The connection between form and content is formed by a symbol (the symbolizing, the symbolized).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An analogy does not possess this possibility because it works horizontally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A symbol works vertically, like an obelisk. Incidentally, this itself is also a beautiful symbol for the connection between heaven and earth\u2015 in translation: the subconceptual and the conceptual. Thus, it is itself a symbol for the \u2018symbolic\u2019, the \u2018pillar of Hermes\u2019 \u2013 hermetic \u2013 conceptually almost incomprehensible, yet with the aim to be as comprehensible as it gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To put it another way, an analogy ends immediately: A stands for X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A symbol is a symbol of a symbol.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So, it never really ends. It starts with form and dissolves in pure content \u2015 or vice versa, depending on how you look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This can make it extremely powerful. A profound symbol is like a volcano: it brings the energy from below right into the material world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also a (psychosomatic) symptom-as-symbol.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One cannot give an analogical lookup-table explanation for a symptom.\u00a0This doesn’t mean that it doesn’t ‘speak’ and that there is nothing to say about it.\u00a0A symptom is indeed a communication from the deep. However, one should be cautious in giving this a concrete explanation. On the other hand, calling it all ‘stress’ is extremely vague and unhelpful. For this, one needs to delve deeper into its meaningful levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This cannot but naturally go in two directions. Thus, it is a superb opportunity to communicate with the deeper self via the symptom-as-symbol in the language of the deeper self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, the division of AurelisOnLine sessions is made according to symptoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the OPPOSITE of a superficial symptomatic \u2018treatment\u2019 of symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might take a look at these sessions here<\/a>. At the time of this writing, they are free to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please be my guest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n