Body Mind Spirit Coaching

I heard it numerous times when giving someone some suggestions on issues that involve change: “ I know but I can’t seem to do anything about it, I want to but feel I’m hitting a brick wall all the time!”

What I also get to hear is: “ I want to do something but don’t know where to start!”

In the first example the people know but can’t move the second they don’t know but are able to move. So we’re talking about two opposites with the common denominator of being stuck of standing still and they might even feel to be going backwards.

These are situations straight out of my osteopathy practice, you may ask yourself what are they doing in an osteopathic practice in the first place. Isn’t osteopathy something to do with cracking bones?

Osteopathy isn’t just about cracking bones, it is about bringing a person back to himself, to bringing balance to body, mind and spirit. Or in other words to restore the healing mechanism so that the person becomes whole again. Osteopathy is a holistic approach and that means that we try to look at the whole of the person and therefore not only the bones.

The people who are in a situation mentioned above they do come with ailments like headaches, back problems, low energy feeling, general malaises etc, and as an osteopath I help to facilitate these symptoms but these can be symptoms of some underlying mechanism that is out of balance. An imbalance of the BMS mechanism where one or more parts are blocked.

The BMS or Body Mind Spirit mechanism is in a few words explained as follows. The Body part is the structural, physical part of the human being: Bones, muscles, organs… Spirit and not spiritual, is our Life Force which contains the mechanism of healing, but it is also the animated part in us, what makes us move. Body and Spirit are part of the basis of the BMS triangle, they are part of the earthly structural – functional component. Mind on the other hand is the pinnacle of the triangle and part of the celestial, non-existant realm of knowledge and wisdom. In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medcin) Body and Spirit are Yin and Mind Yang. In Taoism Mind is Wu Ji (non-existance) and Body and Spirit are You-Ji (existence) from where man is created.

The BMS mechanism is a holistic system where all parts have an influence on each other. So in my first example where lies the imbalance? They know but can’t act? Knowing is Mind so it must be part of the Spirit or Body level. In the second example they don’t know… so a sort of disconnection has occurred between the Mind and the Body and Spirit.

As an osteopath I work on the three parts but my approach is via the functional structural levels, Body and Spirit. But what if the underlying problem is of Mind level? Then off-course I’ll be only able to help these people part of the way and advise to go and see someone who has a Mind approach like a coach or a psychotherapist if the problem is a medical condition.

An example of the need for a mind approach is people who are looking for change. They feel they need to do something different with their life or are in front of change with many options but they don’t know what to choose. This I don’t know where to go, what to do, who am I, what am I doing here mental activity is very stressful for the body and can lead to many aches and pains like a blocked back (lumbago) or neck (torticolli)… being stuck physically. I’m not saying that all back or neck pain is related to this but a lot of people are struggling with these issues when you probe a little deeper.

So you are with an osteopath and he becomes aware that you could do with a Mind approach but what also can happen is that you’re with a Coach and the client says I know what I need to do but it’s like I’m paralyzed… Then something in the Structural, functional level might indeed be in need of freeing through an osteopathic session.

From whatever aspect you look at it man can only function to his or her full potential when there is a free flow between all three levels. So therefore in wanting to give a full service and knowing that combining forces is sometimes essential to get the best result: Osteopathy & Coaching or “BMS Design Coaching” which will be available at the BioMotions Osteopathy & massage Practice soon.

Create your future

“The experience of the manifestation of your potential”: this is why you are here! I also gave you in my last Blog a few guidelines how to find your potential but I’m still convinced that you better get a specialized coach (like Stien who does Human Design Coaching more info www.ziraffa.be) to help you in this process. The next part is to create the future according to your potential. This means that you project your ideas and dreams, which hold the items of your potential into a field in the future. Like I want to be a therapist in 10 years time which is the year 20??. Projecting is in many ways like the old fashioned slideshow. You hold the image in front of a light beam and it is projected onto a screen, which is placed at a distance. So you hold the picture in your mind and visualize it onto your future screen. You create the future field and the (unfilled) path from the present till then. Once you created the field you come back and let the forces do their work.
This might seem a bit all to far fetched for you but through personal experience I know it works. In fact I recently read in the book Interface by Paul Lee (Osteopath DO) that on an embryologic level this is actually exactly what happens. In the book there is a reference to the work of Blechschmidt who is a famous embryologist. It describes by example of the growth of the arm that there is first the creation of a field within the amniotic fluid that has the form of the arm. This is that before the proliferation of the cells an energetic arm is projected, beamed and only then when this has been created the cell proliferation starts to fill the created field. In other words there is first the idea of the arm then the projection of the arm and only then the arm is created by multiplication of the cells (protoplasm).

Idea ¬¬~ blue print of the potential (Mind) precedes the fluid preparation ~ Life Forces (Spirit) after which the structure is formed (Matter) according to the energetic profile.

Therefore the creation of the arm is in complete tune with the Body Mind Spirit concept. But also with the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching which says that Wuji or the non-existence precedes the Youji the existence. One doesn’t have to go so far to find other examples… to build a house, the idea precedes the plan or outline before it can be constructed.

So no more I’ll see what the future brings but create that future