What Your Aches and Pains Are Telling You: Cries of the Body, Messages from the Soul

Reveals the precise correspondences between specific emotional and mental tensions and the illnesses and traumas of the body • Explains how physical complaints--energetic disturbances that lead to ailments or chronic conditions--are your soul speaking to you • Shows how the body part affected as well as which side it is on pinpoints what your soul is trying to tell you and what you need to work through emotionally • Explains the Yin-Yang energetic correspondences of the body: the Yang axis of the shoulders, the Yin axis of the hips, and the Yin-Yang maternal/paternal connections Our body speaks. Physical complaints--allergies, fever, sore throat, inflammation, cysts, backache, migraines, sinus problems, sciatica, dizzy spells, and even cancer--are all signs of deep tensions inside of us are seeking expression. This is why, given the same genetic foundation, one individual develops a specific illness while another remains in good health. Drawing on 20 years of experience and several thousand individual consultations with patients, Michel Odoul shows the “proof” of this lies in the clear correspondences between emotional and mental tensions and specific ailments. The author reveals how every illness or trauma is a signal of incredible precision: The part of the body affected pinpoints what your inner being is trying to tell you and what you need to work through emotionally. Providing a reference grid of body-mind connections, he explains, for example, how skin conditions reflect difficulties with aggression from the outside world and knee problems indicate inflexibility or tension in relationships. He shows not only how each side of the body has specific meanings and connections to emotions, relationships, and family but also how the upper and lower halves of the body have specific connections--together forming four quadrants with unique Yin-Yang balances, where Yin represents emotional issues and Yang represents action/inaction. He also explores the role of the meridians of Chinese medicine in distributing emotional and mental energy throughout the body. Offering keys to decipher what the body is trying to tell us, the author shows that we can learn to see physical ailments not as something caused by chance or fate but as a message from our heart and soul. By releasing the energies and patterns they point to, we can return to a state of health and forward movement on our path through life.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Thierry Médynski, M.D. Introduction PART 1 A Philosophy of Human life Energetic Connections Inside and Outside the Body 1 The Spiritual Dimensions of Human Life Underpinnings of Our Being The Process of Incarnation The Life Path Earlier Heaven and Later Heaven The Concept of Laterality The Conscious and the Nonconscious The Process of Awakening Physiological Expressions of Disharmony The Freudian Slip The Mirror Effect 2 Between Heaven and Earth The Human Being as a Microcosm of the Universe Yin and Yang The Five Principles How Energies Function to Achieve Structure and Balance in the Body How Energies Move in the Body: The Meridians The Distribution of Yin and Yang in the Body 3 Connections within the Body The Five Principles and the Twelve Organ Meridians Metal: Lung and Large Intestine Meridians Earth: Stomach and Spleen/Pancreas Meridians Fire: Heart, Small Intestine, Heart Protector, and Triple Heater Meridians Water: Urinary Bladder and Kidney Meridians Wood: Gall Bladder and Liver Meridians PART 2 A Symbolic Message System How the Nonconscious Speaks through the Body 4 The Main Parts of the Body And How They Speak to Us The Structure of the Human Body and the Role of Each Part The Skeleton and the Spinal Column The Lower Limbs The Upper Limbs The Neck The Trunk 5 The Major Systems of the Body The Symbolism of Our Organ Systems The Digestive System The Respiratory System The Urinary System The Circulatory System The Nervous System The Reproductive System 6 The Sense Organs and Other Conditions of the Body Feedback from the Inner Master The Head and Face: Symbol of Identity and Seat of the Sense Organs Specific Conditions Infirmities and Handicaps Conclusion Index

About the Author :
Michel Odoul is a shiatsu and psychoenergetic medicine practitioner as well as the founder of the French Institute of Shiatsu and Applied Physical Psychology. He has appeared at numerous health conferences through the world, including the 2013 international meeting of Acupuncturists without Borders. He lives in Paris.

Review :
“A much-needed book for the 21st century; Odoul takes an energetic approach to holistic philosophy and goes to the root of energetic disturbances that lead to ailments or chronic conditions. Odoul connects us to the profound unconscious components of our minds and bodies to reconstruct physical ailments and thus develop transparency throughout our physical and our spiritual lives.” “In What Your Aches and Pains Are Telling You, Odoul demonstrates how pain tells your mind what is happening in your body, not only where, but why. He shows the reader how understanding your pain can provide pathways to healing.”