Mihail Pautov explains why reconnecting with your body after disconnection brings unfamiliar sensations like pins-and-needles. Your mind often mistakes these signals for illness, but your body is just communicating and asking for support, like landing in a country where you don't speak the language.
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We come back to the body. It's like landing in a foreign land because, hey, I haven't been here for a long time. I disconnected a long time ago. And all of a sudden, this is all new. It's unfamiliar, and we don't understand that. What, the body's actually yelling and screaming at us. It's not really yelling and screaming. It's just saying, hey, welcome back. I've been waiting for you for so long. I want to show you something. We need your support. Can you help out over here? And here? We're just confusing these signals. We're confusing these signals as signs and symptoms that something is wrong with us. Right. First it's going to be like, whoa, what's that? And how does mind react to something that is unknown or unfamiliar with fear? It's like, what is this? So many times people start connecting to the body, and I witness this, and I watch, and they're like, I had to go to the doctor because I felt pins and needles on my hands and arms. And I've never felt these sensations. I'm like, yeah, you're feeling yourself. But at first, the mind is frightened because it doesn't understand that this is the language that the body speaks. Imagine traveling to a country. Let's say you travel to China. Imagine someone just lands and they don't speak a word of English or a word of Romanian, and they just start telling you things in Mandarin, like commands and start saying stuff to you. How might you react to someone, essentially, you might perceive as yelling at you in a foreign language? Yeah, I would be anxious. You'd be anxious, exactly. And here's a foreign land. Here's someone yelling a foreign language at me. You wouldn't know what to do. This is the body of the language, of our body, correct?