The country borders in the world are just like fascia layers that separate the organs of our body. When pure and healthy, they support individual organ functions, providing them with a healthy inflow and outflow of all necessary nutrients (Jing), vital energy (Qi) and consciousness (Shen) without which they would stagnate and disintegrate. When the fascia becomes hard, toxic and polluted, the healthy, vital exchange of energy and matter is impeded. Just like in a world filled with fear, the separateness starts to grow. The healthy exchange of information is crippled by distortion, filtering and censorship, no longer allowing us to see the true nature of what is happening in the world around us. People are banned from visiting other countries, sharing their activities and interests with other groups of people, and restricted from healthy direct energy, matter and consciousness exchange, resulting in further increase of disconnection from each other and creation of a constrained, false reality brought by limited, personal and imposed views.

Just like in an unhealthy body, that would require larger and larger amounts of energy in order to breach blockages between the suffering organs, which permanently activates and gradually exhausts our adrenal glands, the separation barrier between countries and people is being dealt with growing fear resulting in an incredible accumulation of stress all over the world. Qi deficiency, blood stasis, cancers and tumors are the results of this disconnection due to energy and matter blockages in the body. Poor isolated countries, surveillance states, growing crime rate, toughened border security measures, continuous development at the expense of natural resources and the health of the planet, are the results of this disconnectedness in the society.

But can we really blame anyone for what is going on? Can we rebel against it and point our fingers at the system that we have created ourselves in order to keep us safe and secure? Can we hate those organs in our body that are sick and deteriorating because of our lack of awareness of their needs apart from our own personal needs? Should we start blaming each other, hating the people at power we have selected ourselves and those that serve us to protect our own safety? I doubt that anything else but further separateness and fear will come out from this kind of a mindset.
The unhealthy barrier, whether it happens on the level of an overly strict country border, a social group, a relationship between two people, a relationship between the intuitive and the rational mind, between organs or cells of the body, is created by disconnection due to a growing self-identity or ego which is a result of a growing fear or insecurity for the personal wellbeing. Paradoxically, the fear and insecurity for the personal wellbeing comes as a result of our disconnectedness from each other and the world around us.

Tread on the path softly but with deliberation.
Don't look back at your footprints hoping for return to safety of the known.
Don't look far ahead hoping to find a well established trail.
Be fully aware, fully present.

Feminine is dark and mysterious, teaches us softness, sensitivity, yielding, surrender, flexibility, acceptance, kindness, humbleness and stillness. Masculine is light and direct, it teaches us firmness, strength, deliberation, power, courage, action and determination. We need an equal measure of both in a form of a dynamic, harmonious relationship of energies.

Don't lose your humbleness and flexibility when you learn strength, and don't lose your strength and determination when you learn sensitivity and surrender, for without softness and flexibility the strength becomes blind and destructive, while without strength and courage, softness and surrender turn into weakness and stagnation. Firmness without flexibility turns into stubbornness and courage without kindness turns into arrogance.

But the subtle, harmonious balance cannot be created by the self-absorbed, rational-emotional mind, for it is the mind that creates the separation of those qualities in the first place. It's only from the state of inner stillness and total presence in the moment that we can live in this harmony of opposite forces. Let them lead and follow hand in hand for they are one, not separate.

Our bodies need awareness, total presence and love in order for the life giving energy to circulate freely, maintain and regenerate our organs and tissues. The lack of awareness in any part of the body leads to separation of that part from our main energy flow, and thus, its deterioration.

In a particular case of breast health problems, the scenario of losing awareness in breast tissues is multifaceted and is a result of the following factors: the root of the problem stems from the shame and unacceptance of breast exposure imposed by the society leading women to hiding their bodies behind a thick layer of clothes and underwear. The subject of breast exposure is suppressed to the point of avoiding it even in our speech. Wearing tight-fit, synthetic bras leads to a fixed position and the lack of interaction between breast tissues and the surroundings, the clothes, the air, attention from others, as a result, we lose any traces of body awareness associated with the area as the body learn to fully rely on the function of the bras and no attention is drawn to that area during most of the day. All the vitally important functions of the body to support and sustain the breast start diminishing. Any tightness in the bra is further suppressed by the mind and we learn to ignore the discomfort making it a normal part of our lives.

Sometime down the road, we don’t even feel that discomfort any longer as all the sensitivity has been ignored and suppressed to the point of a complete loss of awareness. If we have been diagnosed by a medical practitioner with a particular health problem and were given no choice but to rely on drugs or surgery, and we have accepted that lack of choice, along with the fear that settles in our body, we consciously gave away the power to restore our health by our own natural means, which is love and care for our body and total awareness of its beingness and its needs.

Depending on our personal views, social conditioning and life experiences, we can see the Japanese tradition of Nyotaimori sushi (女体盛り) of serving food on a naked female body, in multiple ways. Some of us may see it as an objectification of a woman's body, some as a curious experience, some see it as fine art and a visual delight, others as an insight into the human psyche. It's obvious that with millions of different personal views on it, none of them becomes more important than the other. Good or bad, to like or not to like? To pretend to be indifferent and not to express anything because others may not agree? How do we judge?

Would it be possible that one day we will be living without the mask of defensiveness and self-centeredness, with our hearts open and vulnerable, without the fear of suffering and insecurities? Can we imagine a day when we don't have to hide the bottomless emptiness inside of our hearts by distracting ourselves from it with endless external searching and activities which provide us with an escape from solitude and a fleeting sense of comfort and security? Will we ever be daring enough to look into that void of unknown inside of us without fear?

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