Ignorance
anthony bruni
Last week I wrote about witnessing our bodies. This week I thought I would talk about ignoring our bodies, and how that affects or consciousness.
Humans are estimated to have somewhere between 30 - 50 trillion cells in their bodies. Each cell is an organism in its own right with its own agenda. There is a level of complexity in each body that far exceeds what the mind can understand. To reappropriate a famous axiom about space, our bodies are not just more complicated than we understand but they are more complicated than we can understand. Our physical awareness will always fall short of capturing reality. We will always be ignorant of so many physical processes that need to happen for us to maintain life.
Acknowledging we will always fall far short of truly fully comprehending our physical nature, we should always be on a path of self-discovery. Our bodies are the first lens we filter the external reality through. Whatever we think is happening in the external world is composed of what we are processing through our nervous system. Our nervous system is enmeshed and constantly under the influence of hormonal balance, blood pressure, breath rate, enteric ecosystem (gut bacteria) and so many more physical process. There is much truth in the idea we are all creating our own realities. Not that we are actually creating the raw substances of reality, but we are constantly selecting what stimulus to focus on and what to ignore. But we are always creating the data patterns that we understand reality through. The more control we have over what we focus on the greater the influence we have in shaping the perception of the world we live in. This is not to say either that we should not try to make tangible external changes to the world, but if we can’t change our focus no amount of external change will ever be enough. The world is infinite and there will always be problems to be dealt with. Whatever changes happen in the external world have to be accompanied by a shift in our consciousness or those changes will fail to deliver any real happiness.
The more awareness about how we physically distort an infinite reality into our conscious minds the greater our ability will become to shift our awareness to state that will best facilitate getting our goals met. We should be ever eager to deepen our awareness every chance we get. There is however a certain low vibration bliss found in our ignorance. We get to ignore problems. We get to fool ourselves that procrastination is anything less than stealing time from ourselves.
On a somatic level, expanding our consciousness often require us to re-experience painful emotions. Feelings of grief and anger are often experienced when long stuck muscle tissue becomes released. The more we engage with this process of releasing the easier or at least familiar this process can become. There may always be a certain level of apprehension when we bring movement to stuck tissue.
No matter how challenging it can be to bring movement to defensive areas in our bodies, doing so will allow us to traverse the world in new ways physically and mentally. In the physical sense, we will be able to literally move in more ways. But by physically working through some of our stuck muscle tissue will make our bodies less vulnerable. We have more breathing room to think and focus on what external data points we are mainlining to our consciousness. Old emotions that have been trapped in our musculature can be released allowing us fresh ways to perceive the infinite world we are passing threw. As we shed layers of our ignorance we acquire freedoms in thought and movement.
Anthony Bruni