Do your feet feel like this?
Recently, I received this question. See how it fits in your world! π
Yes, Louise Hay is a great place to start! Let’s take it a little further.
First let’s start with some definitions from Dictionary.com:
callous |ΛkalΙs|
adjective
showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others
noun
a thickened and hardened part of the skin or soft tissue, esp. in an area that has been subjected to friction.
β’ Medicine: the bony healing tissue that forms around the ends of broken bone.
β’ Botany: a hard formation of tissue, esp. new tissue formed over a wound.
I’d like to point out a few specifics from this definition, which are these:
“insensitive and cruel disregard for others”
“subjected to friction”
“tissue formed over a wound”
Now, let’s draw it all together and at the end we will throw in the left foot and see where we are at, ok? Great!
Callouses are a necessary and useful act of the body to protect a part of the body that would otherwise be aggravated by use. It is a very important function of the body on a bio-mechanical level.
What you have described appears to go past the useful stage and into a chronic stage of some kind.
Therefore, when dealing with callouses, we would look to having you finish a discovery statement such as this:
“A past [emotional] wound that I am attempting to protect, that when is subjected to friction makes me insensitive to others is ______________.”
Let’s do it again, bringing in the Left Foot.
Problems in the Left Foot could be summed up as difficulty or unwillingness to receive support, especially emotional support. In fact, we would look to beliefs around a flat out refusal to be supported, around the emotional wound that is causing the callous, for fear of having to be vulnerable in that part of your life.
As it is on the sole of the foot, we look to grounding a thought into reality. Therefore, it looks like you are subconsciously trying to protect yourself from grounding, or bringing into reality, the resolution of what may actually bring you healing because it is too painful to be vulnerable in that part of your life.
Grab a glass of red wine and try this:
“The emotional wound that I find too painful to get support with is _________________.”
Don’t be surprised if this is one serious hum-dinger of an emotional blast, or if it is no blast at all.
I think it is prudent to say that we also get callouses from use. Well used parts of our bodies, that are exposed to friction, such as when walking around in bare feet all summer, will become calloused. But that is different and are a healthy protection mechanism.
A great example of that is in the book Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan, where the main character goes on a walkabout in the Australian outback with the aboriginal people for spiritual purposes. She ends up callousing her feet, but that’s all I will tell you about it. Good read in my opinion, just look for the meaning behind the story. π
The callouses we are talking about here are not those; the ones I am referring to are unusual in their presentation.
If you are a poor city folk, with your tender tootsies in shoes all the time and never venture around the house without your slippers, and you still have callouses, maybe a deeper look into it would be warranted.
To your peace!
What would mean the ‘right foot’ bit (as opposed to left) in this (very relevant) analysis?
Absolutely!
The right side is our masculine energy side and relates to men, authority figures, masculine aspects such as getting, doing, making an impact, career, finances and a whole whack of other descriptors… but all with that ‘masculine’ feel.
When there is an issue in the right foot, depending on where, we would connect to having difficulty implementing ideas into the world.
After a while of struggle, you may just find yourself feeling calloused about it. π
Thanks for you reply Tym, which digs a bit deeper than L.Hay :-). Implementing ideas, money, and ”a while of struggle”… it does echo, big time !
May I ask, how then one can deal with theses ”issues”? Hay type affirmations?
I don’t work with affirmations actually, I find they mostly have caused polarity in my clients. For instance, if you use the affirmation “I’m worthy”, but feel like a piece of shit inside, it causes a ‘charge’ inside that is problematic. A mismatch, if you will, between what you want and what you believe you can attain. This is your BS meter going off.
How I work is to take you through the negative stuff first, resolve it, blend with the energy that is BEHIND it by being willing to forgive it, then make it okay for you to experience the constructive form of it you desire.
When we do it this way, we create no triggers of your BS meter and your subconscious can relax into it.
With the addition of the information that your body can provide that your mind filters, we can organically get to places you can’t get to through routes of talk therapy, for example.
Talk therapy has its place and can be helpful, yet when it comes to resolving unseen barriers my clients have had better success with this route.
π agreed, most affirmations trigger BS meter π I’ll address this in therapy! Thanks again !