For those of you not familiar with Wisdom of the Body (aka wizbod) I have been reviewing a bit and realized how revealing this methodology of self discovery/diagnoisis was for my own life and the lives of others. If you are interested please read on. I wrote this for a particular friend who is dealing with a very scary illness and the insights offered by this illness come after the explanation. At the very least I hope she and the thre other friends involved in the current struggle read on!

The basic structure of Wizbod is that mind/body/spirit are never serparated except in language, there for because they are one and have always been one in your life, your body reveals excatly what you have been believing/attituding/emotioning/wording/feeling/living in your life. Your body is not just a body it is a Spiritually Mindful Body in which your mind and spirit and body exist and interact simultaneously as a oneness for that is what they are.

To end your repetitive non-advancing struggle to understand yourself and life and well being, through duality, judgments, and "causes", it is necessary to borrow a page from physics which properly shows us that "for every action, there is a simultaneous equal and opposite reaction". While the "causes" of actions have always been assumed but never revealed, this universal truth of simultaneous action/reaction is always revealed and has NEVER been disproved. Under these conditions, which are you willing to accept and live: the assumption of and endless struggle with unrevealed "causes" ...or the truth and oneness of simultaneous actions/reactions?

Since you have chosen to accept that "for every action, there is a simultaneous equal and opposite reaction", we now ask, " which is the action and which is the reaction?" Most people reply that the one that occurred first is the action... while the other, the consequence, the one affected, is the reaction. But, since the action/reaction is truly simultaneous, as a whole event, there is no cause and separate effect, ...they are one. What science has always done is observe a "presumed effect" ...then searched backward for an "assumed cause".

Now, this truth of simultaneous action/reaction is important, because, for centuries physicans have been searching for the "causes" of disease, so they can provide cures, ...but now it is revealed that the "cause" and illness are one,... or, more apporopriately, the individual/illness is one. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE INDIVIDUAL "CAUSES" HIS OR HER OWN DISEASE, nor does it mean that a person's way of life, attitudes, emotions, or thoughts "cause" the disease, ... BUT THAT THE SYMPTOMS REVEAL, as in the oneness of action/reaction, THE SELF AND LIFE THE INDIVIDUAL IS LIVING!

For example, as you step in front of a mirror and bring your image with you, the mirror reveals that, ... and when you take your image away, the mirror stops revealing you. In this situation you did not "cause" the image, simply because the mirror imaged before you arrived ...and continued imaging after you left. Disease is much like the mirror: it provides an image of the self and life you are living.

In other words, in the Wizbod Descriptionary, your symptoms are the outpicturings and the inner-lifeself you are living and the inpicturings. And, like action/reaction, the outpicturing/inpicturing are simultaneously one: you are "not causing" your symptoms or disease, ... you are symptoming and diseasing,... you ARE your symptoms and disease. Now, don't be distrubed by that, we are not accusing you of "causing" your symptoms or disease, but without you, your pains and symptoms no longer exist, and neither do your illnesses.

It is important to realize that by being your symptoms and diseases you are fully empowered to change your self and life and in that change or heal the outpicturings, for illness and disease are never healed or cured by medication, manipulations, treatments, or surgery. These medical tools merely offer a temporary relief of symptoms, so you can devote the fineness and wholeness of your mind/body/soul to change the self and life you are living and inpicturing.

When you outpicture symptoms or a disease, you are diseasing, you are forming, sensing, and living a life of complaints, burdens, afflictions, improperness, and suffering: and you are creating a struggle between how you beleive and want things to be and how you sense matters to be, and between the beliefs, thoughts, attitudes, words, and actions you feel you are living and offering adn those you are actually embodying and putting forth. You are senseing and understanding through judgments and dysaccord and living these inner-conflicts which simultaneously embody as disease, pain, and injury. Your inner-conflicts and outer-symptoms indicate that you are doing what you want to do, but believe you should or ought to do something else, or are you doing what you don't want and believe you have no other choice or can't do other; in any case you are living the painful conflict, struggle and way of dysaccord.

To change or "heal", you must, first, know exactly what you are outpicturing and living, so you can truly choose anew; or, of course, you can decide to continue living your self and life "as usual", and you certainly know what that is like, don't you? It is the embodied outpicturings of illness and symptoms you are living and struggling against. Obviously, to change or permanently "heal", you must live a different self and life; but unfortunately, most people create a different lifestyle, get different jobs, involve themselves in different activities and relationships, move to different cities, follow different beliefs, etc. and believe that through all of this, that they are living a different self and life and wonder why, with all of these changes, little or nothing in their body and life has changed.

The answer to this dilemma lies in understanding the difference between "different" and "differnetly". To live a different lifeself means to live other than what you were living before, while living differently mean to live the same lifeself but in a different way. Unfortunately, most people do different things and believe they are different, when actually they are living the same self adn life "differently", so little or nothing changes and the outpicturing symptoms remain much as before, because all the medical efforts must struggle against your self and life "as usual".

Or medical treatments do, temporarily, relieve your symptoms and illnesses, as you continue living your old self and life differently, your old symptoms and illnesses will return, or new, similar outpicturings will appear. For example. if your physician "cures" your outpicturings symptions of viral pneumonia and you continue living your self and life "as usual" it is likely that you will begin struggling with bronchitis or asthma or emphysema, as outpicturings of slightly different, but essentially the same, attitudinal conflicts.

Helping you know and understand the particulars of such outpicturings/inpicturings is the purpose of WIZBOD, so as your physican is relieving the symptoms, discomforts, and dangers of your illness, you can assist and uphold this "healing" by genuninely living a differnt self and life, the life self you truly desire.

That said...

I have a friend who has just been diagonesed with the pre-cancerous condition of Cervical Cancer. That said I looked up in my Wizbod descriptionary what this revealed about the self and life she was living and what images she was holding in opposition and struggling to maintain.

The descriptionary had this to say about CERVICAL CANCER:

Cervical Cancering: Long-standing, unwholesome and injurious beliefs out of control concerning the opening or doorway between her sacred inner place of creation and development and her great feeling leading to your outer lifeself of femininity.

Anyone who knows her, knows that that definition hit the nail on the head. Since she may be reading this post, ( I do hope she is) here is a list of questions to help get to the root of these beliefs and reveal the self you are living. Consider the past conversations as well and why most of your relationships (intercourse) with individuals you care for might also be in struggle.

Is your outer and inner sense of femininity, creation, and development in conflict? Do you maintain a separation between the two?
Are you fearful of your sexuality?
Is your life, are your thoughts, too carnal and fleshy?
Have you been unchaste?...immoral?
Do you feel unwholesomely erotic and passionate?
Are you accepting of and open to your feminine role in the creation and development of yourself and new forms of your self and life?
Do you shut others out?
Remember, when you close others out, you close yourself in, is that what you want?
Are you too accepting?...to closed off?
In what ways do you feel violated?
Are others infringing upon you?...trespassing?...without regard to your rights and desires? Are they trampling on your feelings? ...encroaching too near?
Do you feel abused?...dishonored?
Have you been ravished? ...defiled? Has someone dishonored you?
Do you feel outraged?...resentful?
Are you only willing to admit those who fully honor and respect you?...those who will protect, defend, and uphold you?
Do you find it difficult to protect yourself from those who would violate your inner creation and development?
Do you feel closed off from much of what you desire?
Have you shut yourself off from others?
Are you afraid of intimacey?
Do you close off your feelings?
Do you disassociate your inner feminine life self from the outer world?
Have you blocked your openings between your inner and outer worlds of feminine creativity and development?
Which are you protecting?...discarding? Are you unwilling to bring these together?
Is your feminine creativity and development stopped up?
Are you too vigiliant?...too lax?
Are you keeping yourself cloistered?
Have you been overly protective and withdrawn?
How has this small confinement kept you detached, secretive, and isolated?
Your intimate contracts with others should be based on principles...not on personalities. Have you gone through life missing much of the joy and beauty and goodness constantly offered to you?
End every sense of fear and self-defensiveness and let goodness and inspiration be your guide.

For those of you who are aware of the situation since last November, these questions pretty much hit the problem dead to rights. I hope this helps and that we can move on to a friendship in which aiding one another to live the life we truly desire is possible. Principles not personality are the key, and these are just a few of the ones I stick to. Hope this article helped.

Thanks again to Connie, Roger, and Misty. You remind me why it is so important to help.