Journey to wellness: Reflective analysis
It’s all connected
By Josiah Groth
Featured Columnist
One of the tenants of holistic health states that we are whole. We are one unit, all together, with all of our specialized functions and diverse aspects of mind/body/spirit connecting and overlapping.
However, the “whole” of us is complicated beyond the capacity for us to know completely. It is much like astronomers saying that there is a unique galaxy in the heavens for every grain of sand on a beach. How can we possibly comprehend such vastness or complexity within ourselves?
The good news is that just as we really do not need to know the nature of the 75th galaxy to the right of Mars, we can get by without all the overwhelming details of our own physiology and mind. While we do not need to know all the details, it is helpful to know enough about our inner complexities to stay healthy and to stay in harmony with our nature, but even that much requires methods of analysis that summarize our complexities and give us insights into our health. One such method of summarization is called reflective analysis.
What does this reflection idea really mean? It is pretty simple. You are one whole unit. What happens to any part of you happens to all of you. If an emotional stress happens to you, say you have angry words with someone, then that emotional event sends changes through all of you. While the anger may originate as an emotion, it quickly becomes a physiological response as you release hormones and your heart rate increases.
Those words sit in your mind, causing reactive thoughts and associations that change your future behaviors. The emotional stress of the fight is reflected throughout all of you: in your physical body, in your emotional space, and in your thoughts. You are one, complete whole, and, thus, the altercation happened to all parts of you.
Reflective analysis takes a cumulative snapshot of all the things happening to you and allows a way to see reflections of those events in one part of the body. For example, by mastering the details of how different stresses send reflections onto your tongue, you can use tongue analysis to gain insight into the state of your health. The physical appearance of your tongue can tell you about the state of your organs.
Next week we will explore some details of tongue and facial analysis to give more specific examples of how reflections are used.
Josiah Groth is the owner of Back to Bliss Wellness. More information on his practice is available at backtoblisswellness.com.
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