Medicine and Meditation
“Psychosomatics” refers to our understanding of the complementary activity of psyche and soma, the body.
If your psyche acts or evolves, it does not do so independently; it evolves in concert with the body’s evolution and activity.
We constantly modify our psychosomatic complex. One could say that we are our own inner physicians, constantly dispensing medicine to ourselves from the inner neurochemical pharmacy. Our state of mind and body govern what chemicals we release to ourselves.
It takes a great deal of effort to keep ourselves in a stuck state. If you have inertia or apathy, these are deeply demanding trained states. It is possible to change our experience, even at times when we feel agitated or deeply tired. When we have developed a clear self-connection we can more easily locate and liberate stuck energy.
The poems below can help you to drop into your inner state. Like meditation, which is one of the inner physician’s best medicines, these poems may gently massage and release you.
The Inner History of A Day – John O’Donohue
The Cricket and the Rose – Mary Oliver