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The 6 Parts Of The Spine And The Spiritual Significance Of Each, Revealed
Six Parts Of The Spine & Six Themes Along The Path To Healing
The pain and problems that we experience in our bodies and lives, like the ubiquitous back pain for example, can be traced back to our spine.
In this article I want to show you how the healing process, sometimes called ascension, is related to the spine.
Also, we will take a look at how life is nudging us through that process of spiritual healing and evolution.
Throughout our lives, during the healing journey, certain themes show up.
And since our spines are the conduit of consciousness, those themes will show up in our bodies, and particularly in our spines.
I’ll discuss the spiritual significance of our spine, and the six themes that show up on the healing journey.
Before I dive into the different themes and the different parts of the spine, I want to share with you the bigger picture of how we are connected to the spiritual world via our spine.
The Bigger Picture
The bigger picture is that, if you’re alive, you’re in a process of embodying your soul’s essence whether you know it or not.
Our nervous system is the interface between our bodies and the spirit world—our bodies and our souls.
How Does The Nervous System Connect Us To The Spiritual Domain?
People are familiar with the physical nervous system, which consists of your spinal cord and the nerves that travel throughout the body into virtually every cell, system and organ.
However, there’s also a part of our nervous systems that are energetic.
It’s this energetic part of the nervous system that is the interface between your body and your soul.
When we were conceived, and before our physical bodies started forming, those energetic fields and our energetic nervous systems were present.
Conception And Downloading Our Soul’s Essence
From my experience, having worked with thousands of people in the way that I do (BioSoul Integration) over the course of the last twenty years, the following is my sense regarding the connection between our bodies and souls.
When we are conceived there’s a window in the space-time continuum that gets opened up, and it’s there that the different consciousness fields involved in making you converge.
These fields form a container (an energetic matrix), and this energetic matrix is responsible for telling the cells which part of the body to turn into.
The intelligence of this energetic matrix tells the cells whether to turn into your hand, or your head, or your nose, or your foot, or your heart, etc.
When you are conceived, the first thing that comes into the physical is your spinal cord, your brain stem and primitive gut and heart.
This lays down the roadway for all this energetic soul information to come into your body, and turn into you, to manifest your soul in the physical world.
Our spinal cord is the conduit of consciousness, and those different consciousness fields that are running in the background support our continued physical, mental/emotional and spiritual development.
My Personal Experience
When I turned 40 some years back, I could feel how I had crossed some threshold.
Life became more about giving my soul gifts on the planet— focusing more on spirit than it had been about the body previously.
There are developmental stages that unfold in a person’s life, and life is nudging us through those developmental stages.
Through the work I do, my job is to help smooth out that process.
Because along the way, resistance gets baked into our nevous system.
We learn to resist the process of growth.
The difference between our resistance and the force of life nudging us along creates a tension in our body and being.
That tension can be uncomfortable in a variety of ways: physically, psychologically or spiritually.
That discomfort is designed to catch our attention—to get us to stop and reassess as life is calling us to something.
This can show up in a variety of ways in our bodies and lives.
6 Spiritual Themes And Six Parts Of The Spine
Here’s a video I made about six secrets that the spine reveals:
Also you can listen to the podcast version below, or look for the BioSoul Integration Podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts:
When I’m doing my work, it becomes apparent as people are embodying certain parts of this energetic field.
There are different themes that show up in people’s lives.
The details of what is happening, also known as the content, are not so important, who they’re dealing with or the situation they’re dealing with, for example.
It’s the context that’s important.
And by context, I mean:
- What’s the theme behind what’s going on?
- Is it about trust, is it about being challenged to express your truth, is it about safety, is it about control, is it about being challenged to draw healthy boundaries, etc.?
There are many different themes that come up along the healing journey.
The content just keeps us wrapped up in our ego, and creates resistance.
But if we can bring our attention to the context (the theme), that’s very useful.
So, I want to take you through some of these themes, how they’re related, and what parts of the spine that they’re related to.
The following information was taught to me by Donald Epstein.
Donald Epstein developed Network Spinal Analysis, the technique that is the foundation for my work.
So, first, let’s start with the coccyx.
Addendum
Fyi, I created an in-depth blog post entitled The Spiritual Meaning Of The Spine: Five Vibrational, Spinal Lenses That Shape Our Bodies And Lives that might be a great addendum to the information below.
1. Intrinsic Self Worth and the Coccyx
From the top of the spinal cord to the area of your pelvis, then from the two sides, your pelvis down a little to the end is this little bone which is known as the coccyx, also known as your tail-bone at the end of your sacrum.
And your tail-bone is important, it kind of anchors your spine on one end and there’s a lot of information, a lot of connections happening with your coccyx.
Your coccyx is tied into your intrinsic self-worth.
It’s about you being connected to the planet as well as you being able to receive energy from the planet, and if you’re able to let that circulate through your body especially through your heart you’ll have a sense of intrinsic self-worth.
Also, you will have a sense of being valuable here because you certainly are valuable here.
The earth needs all seven billion of us to do our thing.
I need you to do your thing, and you need me to do my thing, so, the earth wants you to do your thing.
That is why you came here, and it needs that for the overall evolution of the planet itself, the consciousness of the planet, and the consciousness of everyone on it.
So, you are very valuable, and your unique gifts and skills are very needed.
The function of your coccyx is to receive information from the planet, and if we’re connected with that, we have a sense that we are valuable.
But if along the way there’s a lack of oxygen, a lack of love, a lack of food, maybe you’re in the womb and your mother scared or she’s not sure she wants to have a baby, we embody that and we along the way afterward sense a lack of something, that we are not wanted here again.
If we get any sense that there’s a lack of anything, we embody the sense that maybe we’re not wanted here.
What happens when we do that is, we grip at the life force energy at the tail-bone there.
So, what we’re doing is we’re just holding on the life force energy because we’re like well, ” I don’t know if there’s going to be any more life force energy behind that, So I’m going to hold on to this little packet of life force energy and keep it because I don’t know if there’s going to be any more,” and of course, that’s not the way things work, there’s an abundant supply of resources.
But we might embody some lack and a sense of doubting our intrinsic self-worth, and as you’re unwinding that. that theme might come into play somehow in your life.
By the way, here’s an in-depth blog post, complete with video, about life force energy.
2. The Sacrum Connects Us To Who We Are And Why We’re Here
The next theme has to do with the sacrum.
The sacrum is a triangular-shaped bone leading to the coccyx.
The sacrum connects us with the part of us which knows who we are, and why we’re here.
Along the way, we might learn and if we’re connected with that part of our body and if the energy from the sacrum can flow through our body and especially our heart, we get the feel of sense like who I am, and why I’m here.
Furthermore, we might learn subtly through our parents or the culture at large that; who I am and why I’m here is not okay.
And so, since we rely on them for our survival, we will push that part of ourselves away; we will sequester it or we’ll sidestep it that might involve tension or involve ways that we hold tension in our sacrum.
To sidestep feeling that or pinch it off from our heart, it is when we decide we have to adopt someone else’s version of who we are. and why we’re supposed to be here.
I think a lot of people can relate to that.
There’s a certain age which is somewhere around the age of 28 to 35, where we start to differentiate from that.
We can differentiate from our parents, and differentiate from all those old identities like who am I really and why am I here.
And when we start to unravel that, then that’s the theme that we might come into in the relationship with her.
We might start to notice in our lives who we are, and why we are here and all that. So it has a lot to do with identities, a lot to do with shoulds that we’ve adopted like this is who I should be.
3. Lumbar: Safety, and Vulnerability
The next part of the spine we will take a look at is the lumbar.
The lumbar is the lower part of your spine.
It is all about safety, it’s all about vulnerability, and it’s often tied in with the top of the head where I’ll be talking about later.
But when we come into this world, and we feel everyone is pushing away their human vulnerability, we grip at the life-force energy in the gut, and try to lock down that life-force energy, so that we don’t have to feel it.
And as this unravels, we’re dealing with this field of consciousness that goes along with the lumbar, we might come into contact with, and we might notice that healing theme in our lives; that vulnerability and that safety.
4. The Heart: Connection
Then there’s the solar plexus, then there’s the heart.
The heart acts as the middle ground, the junction or interface between our physical body and our spiritual body; they meet at the heart.
With all these ways that we’re pushing different parts of ourselves away, whether it’s the coccyx, or the sacrum, or the low back, and the belly we’re trying to keep it from being felt in the heart.
And so we create armor around the heart, and as we’re unraveling that armor from around the heart, we start to feel more of our power from our base and you might start to feel fear as this unravels.
Also, we start to feel more and that theme might show up in your life.
5. Bottom Of The Neck Is Related To Our Ability To Express What Feels True And Right
We then come to the bottom of the neck, and the bottom of the neck is about the theme that goes with a part of us that knows what feels true and right for us.
If we’re connected with that part, we’re able to express what feels true, and right in any given moment.
Also, we’re able to honor the part of us, the vulnerable parts of us that have needs. So, that we can say yes when we mean yes, and we can say no and we mean no.
This helps us to draw healthy boundaries that enable us to honor the parts of us that have needs in any given moment without feeling ashamed of doing so, or without being apologetic for honoring what we need.
There might be things that happened when you were young that did not make you just feel right, and as no one around you tried to acknowledge it, and we just assumed that there must be something wrong with this part of me that knows or feels like this doesn’t feel right.
And so we pinching that off involves holding tension in that part of our spine.
Also by the way, when we do all of these, we change the shape of our spine and in all the other different places along with it.
So it is about honoring the parts of us that have needs, about connecting with what feels true and right, we’re able to express that.
6. The Base Of The Skull Is About Control
There is, however, an important place where the spine meets the skull and at the base of the skull has a lot to do with control.
It’s a fundamental thing. Again when we come into this world we feel how everyone’s trying to push away they’re vulnerable humaneness, and we grip at the life-force energy in the brain stem, and at the top of the neck where we’re trying to control our experience.
It’s a lot about the difference between thoughts and ideas that are in our head, and a real direct embodied experience of life.
It is a part of separating those things we might deal with ideas and concepts more, and not so much the actual felt sense of life.
And when we go about trying to control our experience we might again adopt the ideas from our parents, and the cultures before us.
This includes those ideas about who you know, what life is supposed to look like, and the role that we’re supposed to play, and how all that looks.
This also includes how we go about how we are trying to steer our world, and make it look like we think it’s supposed to look based on those concepts and those ideas we grew up with.
But the truth is that life has got something much cooler for us, a plan for us, and when we start to control our experience we might separate ourselves from people in circumstances and situations.
Again, we have this idea of what we think things are supposed to look like.
We might try to put a limit on the range and depth of motion that will permit us to feel.
We put a limit that keeps us bound to certain belief systems and ideas, and in so doing makes all the different ways that we’re trying to control our experience take a lot of energy.
There’s a lot of resources in our body tied up, a lot of vigilance in our system that’s tied up in controlling life, making it look like we think it’s supposed to look.
Now, vigilance shows up in various ways in people’s systems.
This is because we have to be ready for when life comes when the unfortunate happens in life, we’ve got to be ready.
So that we can put it in the place, or put it in the pigeon-hole that we’re supposed to put it in, or do the thing that we’re supposed to do with it, so that we can maintain an illusion of safety or control.
The Embodied Path Online Course
Since it relates directly to the subject of this blog post, I want to tell you about the online course I’ve created: The Embodied Path Online Course: 8 Steps To Expressing Your Soul’s Essence, Purpose And Calling.
If you’re experiencing stuckness in your body and life and want to transform that stuckness and express your soul’s purpose, this course is for you.
In the course I show you how to connect with each of the levels of the spine that we discussed in the article above, in order to catalyze the wisdom of the energy bound there.
Through a series of video lessons and worksheets, you will gain knowledge and understanding of how life uses pain, problems, stuckness and challenges to reveal our unique gifts and encourage us to share them.
Then you’ll learn a simple, but powerful, set of practices you can use to have a direct, felt experience of the process of soul embodiment… direct experience being the best teacher.
And if that weren’t enough, the course includes bonus opportunities that make it possible for you to get live, personal help from me, so I can help you have that direct experience.
Click the link to learn more about The Embodied Path Online Course.
Gain Valuable Insight Into How These Themes Have Manifested In Your Body And Life
Those are some of the different parts of the body and the different themes that are associated with those parts.
They could manifest physically as tension or body parts that aren’t working like they’re supposed to.
For example, physiologically, if we’re holding tension in the lumbar we might notice we’re having trouble digesting food, for instance, or we might notice we’re dealing the the theme of safety and vulnerability.
Also, if you were holding tension in the sacrum, or the coccyx we might notice things going on with sexual organs or things like that.
When we have tension in our neck, we might notice that we have a cold, or maybe we might be losing our voice, and this can be linked to expressing your voice.
These themes might show up in several different ways in your body, and this is kind of a big part of the healing journey.
If you’ve noticed these themes in your own body and life and want to know more, click the link to get this personalized BioSoul Integration Guide.
You’ll answer one question so I can customize the guide to you and your situation, specifically, and then you’ll get a 6 page guide describing the theme that’s affecting your body and life right now and what you can do to capitalize on that information for your growth, evolution and healing.
Blessings,
Dr. Jay Uecker
About the Author Dr. Jay Uecker
Dr. Jay is the founder and owner of BioSoul Integration Center in Louisville, Colorado. He’s a chiropractor, a hands-on healer, an in-person and online soul integration coach and the author of If It Didn't Hurt: How To Resolve Your Pain And Discover Your Life Purpose. For two decades Dr. Jay has been helping people navigate their healing journeys. Over the course of that time he’s worked intimately with thousands of people. Those who are most drawn to Dr. Jay's work are those who are seeking to integrate and embody their soul's essence and their soul's gifts so they can share them with others. Life will keep nudging us in that direction, anyway. BioSoul Integration helps to speed up the process and smooth out the rough spots created by the innocent and unconscious resistance that lives in our primal brain and nervous system. Click the link to get your Personalized BioSoul Integration Guide.
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