Before looking at the thinking behind our pain, it is critical to tune into the littlest, most clueless parts of ourselves that are held in our body’s stuck, painful and uncomfortable reactions.
The Beyond Mindfulness Map is first a visualization in our mind, that we chart on paper. It allows us to give ourselves some “first aid” that becomes the prerequisite to our shift. We start by being with the parts of our body and mind that are stuck in the hopeless patterns of reactivity that create all dysfunction, failed relationships, addiction and eventually chronic pain and illness.