I’ll talk about limits and connections in our body. I started practicing Judo when I was 6. A few years later I found myself on the way to advance to the black level, but by the age they said I had to wait several years. That’s what the rules said. Around the same time this happened, I wanted to start practicing volleyball, but I couldn’t because the rules said that I couldn’t start school sports up to a year later.
I was a very active child and I loved sports and competition. These two stories were frustrating for me. I couldn’t understand why I should wait to continue growing for sports with the intensity I wanted. Over 25 years later I can perfectly remember those feelings of frustration and anger, to feel limited and oppressed to express in one of the ways I liked more, sports.
What happened to me at that time (it was between 10-11 years old) was that I had many caries in my molars and I needed to repare almost all. And why I tell this story? Because it’s the connection I have found between the two situations. Not being able to break the limits imposed by the rules in these sports, I found another solution, I broke my own teeth while the vitality and motivation I felt to play sports and compete became part of stress, aggression and frustration. I’m sure some of you can identify these feelings with bruxism (teeth clenching unconsciously).
Also I have to say that experiences like those led me to have a topic of rejection towards respect for rules and norms. People who know me exactly know and suffer it 🙂
Tomorrow I have an appointment with my dentist to repair again some of these caries that I had at that time. Of course, feelings and connections with those situations already come back to me. In fact, despite my caries were detected for over a year and I had not felt pain in this time and, right now, writing this post, is beginning to hurt me exactly in these teeth.
The basis for treating now my teeth is very different from a child aged 10 and possibly I will find another solution that breaking my teeth or other structure again when the feelings of those moments return during next days. But I can assure you that until quite recently the way to confront myself with crossing my limits has been very similar to that used when I was 10, through breaking my structure and feeling pain. It works but is not a very satisfactory solution.
Once again give a special thanks to my mentor, Thomas Hertlein, who gave me support to understand my systems and to be able to treat my topics with more quality and consciousness.
If you still haven’t made, I hope you feel encouraged to open your vision and interpretations in terms of health problems and injuries. Take into account the context, previous experiences, feelings and thoughts that are in line with these «problems» and in an unconscious way we treat through diseases or injuries that allow us to provide a solution to some of the challenges and experiences of life that we have not faced otherwise.
Have you had any experience in that you can connect your limits with «problems» in the teeth or other body part?
* (Post based on personal experiences connected with the teachings and philosophy of the mentor Thomas Hertlein).
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Fran Tarantino 