{"id":1974,"date":"2018-10-12T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:27:56","slug":"symptom-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/healthcare\/symptom-problem","title":{"rendered":"Symptom = Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u2018symptom\u2019 is primordially just an issue that you give some of your attention to. It only becomes a \u2018symptom\u2019 when you experience it as such.<\/h3>\n

The reason why we see a psycho-somatic symptom as a problem<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

is because we see it as some kind of entity that doesn\u2019t really belong to who we are.<\/p>\n

The reason then again why we do this<\/em>, is because we see ourselves as entities. So: one entity (human) suffers from another entity (symptom, disease). Then we go to an entitologist to get rid of the latter.<\/p>\n

You can do so, but only within an illusion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not real.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s why our healthcare system is so immensely costly and yet so many people are ill, ill, ill\u2026 needlessly.<\/p>\n

Another take: any psycho-somatic symptom is an invitation to you.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any<\/em> such symptom can be seen this way. Something is wrong inside your body-mind.<\/p>\n

And it shows itself. It invites your attention.<\/p>\n

Turning it into a problem, is problematic<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet at present, this is so very much lying within Western (and Eastern?) culture that we don\u2019t even notice it anymore. It rather seems like the most normal, indeed the only<\/em> thing one can sensibly do.<\/p>\n

The following is an exercise towards relaxing the \u2018problem\u2019.<\/p>\n

This \u2018thing that you could<\/u> call a symptom\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take a step back and look at the same without calling it a \u2018problem\u2019, nor a pain, an itch, a tension\u2026<\/p>\n

Then not even a symptom.<\/p>\n

Ask yourself (almost) literally: \u201cThis thing that I could call a symptom \u2013 but now I don\u2019t \u2013 what could I call it instead? Or even more interesting: \u201cWhat if I just give no name at all to it, just let it be \u2018this\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

Just look at it, or feel it in your body.<\/p>\n

Is it even your body? Or is it your body-mind?<\/p>\n

Try to feel now how your body and your mind coincide. What you feel is not anymore in your body. It\u2019s in some mental-physical space that happens to be known as \u2018you\u2019.<\/p>\n

Is it still a problem?<\/p>\n

Is it even still a symptom or is it something indefinite, hanging around?<\/p>\n

You can try this. It\u2019s always interesting.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But there is no guarantee that something comes from this to you that you can distinctly recognize as interesting. Give some attention then to your experience itself. Even to the \u2018nothing happens\u2019 experience if that\u2019s the case. Nothing needs to be proven. It\u2019s not a contest. It\u2019s just a little exercise.<\/p>\n

Only please be genuinely curious. Something might occur to you quite unexpectedly.<\/p>\n

Good. Next exercise.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From this not-giving-a-name, you might slowly<\/em> go now to giving it the name that you would usually give it: \u2018ah this pain in the back again\u2019\u2026 or something.<\/p>\n

And see what it does to you.<\/p>\n

On the road to \u2018pain\u2019, you might also try something else. Perhaps it feels more like a dull feeling, something pushing or tearing inside.<\/p>\n

The pain might be secondary.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe it\u2019s now a \u2018slightly painful push\u2019? Or maybe it\u2019s a \u2018pain\u2019 but not at this moment a \u2018bothering pain\u2019. But if it\u2019s not bothering, should you still call it \u2018pain\u2019? Isn\u2019t a characteristic of pain precisely that it bothers you?<\/p>\n

Many things may happen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Always try to be present in your attention.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always OK.<\/p>\n

You are OK.<\/p>\n

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