Lesson 2: Do I Need to Know Anatomy

Knowing anatomy can be an important tool for creating specificity when you're trying to heal with Resonant Attention. In this lesson, we'll talk about what to do if you don't have a strong anatomy background.

To start, let's just acknowledge that having a detailed knowledge of anatomy can be very helpful with this practice. Knowing the ligaments, bones, and tendons of the knee, or the tissue layers of the adrenal glands provides a strong map for your intuition to draw upon.

These days, anatomical details are very easy to come by. Usually you can just look it up on your phone. So avail yourself of these tools or, better yet, learn anatomy! It's your body and becoming intimate with it and more fully occupying it is the name of the game. 

But you don't actually need it. The nature of consciousness is fractal and alive, so when you focus your attention on some place and ask, the exact nature of the trauma will present itself to your mind in a way that it can understand. Usually we discount this as 'passing thoughts' or denigrate it as 'just imagination.' So the biggest trick then is to trust the information you get. 

If you get drawn to the knee and you try to pay attention there and nothing seems to be happening, just ask, "What is this? What needs healing?" If suddenly a bicycle crosses your imagination, try to hold a bicycle in your mind as you're holding attention + allowance. Or the color blue or whatever. Any hunch. Any whisper. If it gets processing going and you get therapeutic benefit from it, then we'll count that a win. The point is healing; it doesn’t matter how you get there!

For more on this method, see the 'Querying the Field' lesson in the Intuition module.

In the next lesson, we'll speculate about how Specificity works. Join me.