We are rarely who we think we are. Or are we? Manomaya kosha is the mental illusion over our true self. Our Work IN today we’re discussing our mind, its monkey aspects, squirrelish behavior and how to untangle the truth of who we are. Welcome back to our series on the koshas. We've discussed Annamaya, our physical body layer, last week we talked about pranamaya kosha our energetic/breath layer and today we’re diving into Manomaya Kosha. Mano= mind Maya= illusion. Manomaya is all about our thoughts.  

Without breath, we cease to exist and yet we spend very little of our time or attention understanding its healing power. Unless we’re in a yoga class. That’s our Work IN today, exploring pranamaya kosha, our energetic self, through the breath as a communication pathway between the body and the mind for stress and trauma healing.

 I would guess that a majority of the people on this planet identify themselves first and foremost as their physical form and what it can do.  That’s our work IN today. We’re going to talk about our perception of our physical form, the annamaya kosha and how that perception can create calm or chaos in our stress response and overall health.

Stress and trauma is overwhelming because it permeates every layer of our being. Having a deeper understanding of what those layers are can help us start the healing process toward post traumatic growth. Today our work IN is an introduction to  a series of episodes on the koshas that can guide us along that path to resilience.

Dismissal, gaslighting and biological sex discrimination between male and female patients is a path to medical trauma. It prevents women from reporting symptoms and interferes with and delays treatment and can lead to more negative health outcomes across the board.  Not to mention triggering long term chronic pain, as well as mismanaged metabolic diseases as we age.

Medicine is now big business where patients are churned through the office without a second glance. Unless you’re a man. There is to this day a pattern of dismissal that is compounded by a lack of value placed on the female patient's lived experience and a distinct bias and inequality when it comes to research and precision guidelines for women.  This is not a hysterical statement. The heartbreaking statistics don’t lie. Our work IN today is a mix of healthcare history and a rebellious call to action for women everywhere to stand up, challenge the establishment and raise the standards of care for themselves and our daughters.