How can we be healthy if we are morally and ethically unstable?
My gosh, I wrote a whole novel about this process.
The body and the mind are one. However, the brain literally keeps data and feeling in different parts of itself.
I don’t know where the shame of dishonesty and immorality is stored but I do know that the memories themselves, minus the feelings, are filed away — as flat yet as 3-D as a Youtube video — in a a gland lodged deep in the brain, the hippocampus.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford explained the phenomenon with eloquence at the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Brett “I like beer” Kavanaugh, may his name scald in this spotlight.
One way to heal: when you do something mind/body such as Tai chi or yoga, the parts of the mind and the body storing the separate parts of memory can reunite.
Flooding back, the feelings can be painful, even excruciating. There were times I cried out, “I want to die.” I found that when I had a trusted someone to bear witness, the trauma associated with the images and feelings led to peace in my body mind.
I wish the same for all who are suffering.
