One of the challenges I have faced as a MELT Method and yoga instructor is helping folks acquire the mindset that our bodies are one magnificent whole, not a bunch of separate parts attached to each other. This mindset is behind the common statement, "If your feet hurt, you hurt all over." Gil Hedley, explorer of the human body, offers these words:
In our love for these particular structures (Gil is referencing the vagus nerve and fascia or connective tissue--what I teach about in MELT), we do well always to remember that in our whole bodies, and in our whole person, we have operating a unity of differentiated structures that all, and always, work in the concert of the whole. Nerves are embedded in fascia, including the vagus nerve, and fascia are innervated, vascular, and living aspects of the whole body.
"Things" are only separate from the whole in our mental constructs, not in reality. And so a quest to "bring them together" and identify "connections" comes from our predilection to imagine things as separate in the first place.
"Separate" happens to us at birth. We come from a unified whole consciousness into a human body that is separate from every other body and everything else. But we are one whole in essence, and we do well to remember that, both related to the individual body and our earthly family, human and otherwise.
Leta
Gil Hedley is currently on The Nerve Tour offering a five-hour journey into the human nervous system. He is taking this to 111 cities, offering an in-depth look at our magnificent WHOLE bodies.
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