Chapter Six — Summary and Conclusions — Shells of Darkness

Our body lives in darkness.

The eyes do not make it live in light. They allow our brain to see the world around us, to understand the environment in which we are, to know how to respond and how to conduct ourselves in the world.

But the body itself goes on living in darkness.

Inside this darkness, all the mechanisms of our life exist. The heart beats, the blood flows, the organs work, and the cells go on carrying out the processes of life.

Our body aspires to maintain inner balance.

It does so at every moment, even when we sleep and even when we are not aware of the actions taking place inside it.

In my theory, I imagine the body as an inner sea that lives in darkness.

A sea that has constant movement within it, but aspires to remain balanced.

When something disturbs the balance, I imagine how waves begin to form in it.

Sometimes these are small waves, and sometimes great storms.

The external influences that may disturb this balance I call "Shells of Darkness."

The shells of darkness can represent emotional hurts, harsh words, fears, experiences from the past, or the influences of other people on our behavior.

They can also represent exposure to harmful substances that reach the body through food, drink, breath or the environment.

These are not the same influences from a biological standpoint, but in my theory I look at them through the same image: something that comes from outside and may disturb the balance inside us.

The more selective we are about the mental and emotional influences of other people on us, the better we can learn to know our responses.

We will be able to identify when a word said to us arouses an old hurt.

When we respond out of anger we have grown used to.

And when we allow another person's behavior to change our behavior.

I believe we need to learn to remain true to ourselves.

Not to gradually become the person the environment shaped for us, if this is not the person we want to be.

We cannot always control what others say or do, but we can learn to better control the way we choose to respond.

Sometimes this change begins with a small stop.

With a breath.

With a decision not to return insult for insult.

With a choice to be patient instead of angry.

And with an attempt to repeat these choices day after day.

That is the reason I proposed a practice of forty days, in which we choose one behavior and try to change it consciously.

Not in order to erase the past, but so that we will not go on living every day out of those same hurts.

The same principle of awareness and choice accompanies me also in looking at the physical body.

The more selective we are about the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the substances we bring into our body, the more we can reduce exposure to substances that may harm us.

In my theory, I imagine the body identifying shells of darkness and trying to cope with them.

Sometimes it succeeds in processing and clearing substances through its clearing systems.

And sometimes certain substances may remain and accumulate in the body's tissues.

I imagine this isolation as an attempt by the body to protect itself, even though this is an idea-based part of my theory and not a mechanism that has been proven regarding all harmful substances.

From here stems, in my eyes, the importance of reducing exposure to what may disturb the inner balance.

We cannot control everything that enters our lives.

But we can be more aware.

To choose what we eat.

To choose which contents we are exposed to.

To choose which emotional influences we allow to go on accompanying us.

And to choose how we want to behave.

I want you to close your eyes once more.

Imagine your inner sea.

The darkness in which the body lives.

The quiet movement of the waters and everything that exists within them.

Now imagine the shells of darkness we spoke about.

Some of them represent experiences you have already gone through.

Others represent influences you are still exposed to.

Try to think which of them you can reduce, and from which influences you can choose to distance yourselves.

We will not always succeed in keeping a quiet sea.

Storms are part of life, and the body and soul are not always in the same state either.

But the better we know ourselves and the things that influence us, the better we can learn to guard our balance.

My theory does not seek to present the darkness as a negative thing.

On the contrary.

The darkness is the natural environment in which most of the life processes inside our body take place.

The shells of darkness are the image through which I try to understand the external influences that may disturb this balance.

This is a personal way of thinking, not a medical theory proven in research.

And perhaps it is precisely this observation that will cause us to stop from time to time and think about our body differently.

Not only about what we see from the outside, but also about the entire world that exists inside us.

The body lives in darkness. The darkness is not its enemy. The question is what we allow to enter into it.

And this is the essence of my theory — an attempt to understand, even a little, how through awareness, choice and balance we can better guard the body and the soul.

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