What Are Your Symptoms Trying to Teach You?

Is this anyway to start a workshop? I'm here to learn about assessing my clients' musculo-skeletal conditions -- plus, I'm much more comfortable talking about their symptoms instead of mine...

It would soon become clear that this illuminating exercise - given by the brilliant Bob Duggan (Co-founder of the Tai Sophia Institute) was a powerful step in listening & acknowledging the wisdom of my own body that ultimately will benefit me AND my clients.  

That day, Bob simply asked us to write our symptoms on a sheet of paper and reminded us that these very symptoms in themselves were the best teachers we could ask for.

As he states in his book, Common Sense for the Healing Arts, "Our body has great wisdom, and its symptoms are its way of communicating with us. Thus, I trust that a painful knee may be the body's way of slowing an individual in order to prevent a heart attack. I trust that each symptom has meaning and it is not a random event. I do not suggest that every symptom is understandable. I am aware that life is a mystery. What I do trust is that we can learn to observe the symptoms, and even as the symptoms come and go - we can live well & fully."