Emotions like fear and grief are bodily signals. When you ignore them, your mind and body disconnect, and unprocessed feelings eventually show up as physical pain. The speaker developed back pain with no injury, a sign their body was speaking what their mind wouldn't acknowledge.
Understanding that things like fear and pain and sadness and grief, those are not things of the mind. Those are things that come from our body and that our body is trying to tell us it's experiencing. And when our mind tries to shut it down and say, oh, I'm not afraid, or I shouldn't be afraid, or I'm not sad, or I'm okay, or that didn't hurt, I'm not gonna let that bother me, we create a disconnect between our mind and our body. And over time, we'll develop physical pain. You know, people like back pain is famous for that, where there was no injury, there was no accident, they can't really explain it, but their back just— I've had that happen myself. And it's through that process of trying to understand that, that I've kind of learned these things that are experienced, these things I'm sharing now. And
