The psychological sphere determines emotional wellness, but not the body’s well-being, because abstractness and solidness do not blend, except in fantasy.

From Duality Hack #7.2 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

In a world of duality, every experience consists of pairs of opposing elements that depend on each other. For example, breathing out depends on breathing in and vice versa. Consequently, you cannot blend the contrasting parts or exclude one of them.

That said, since non-duality is formless, thus endless, duality is an empty vision – airy as a dream. But since you assume to be someone substantial reading this on a tangible medium, you believe the airy vision of duality is material.

However, you can only undo that belief if you acknowledge it, thus not separating or combining the opposing elements making up the vision of duality but respecting their interdependency. Unfortunately, most divide or unite the contrasting parts in the duality pairs. For example, many believe they can combine physical and non-physical issues. This Duality Hack (#7) explores how to correct that mistake.

The psychological sphere and the material world do not blend

In the psychological sphere, you see yourself as someone in a world of duality. However, that is painful if you have a singular approach to duality. In contrast, if your approach is twofold, being someone in a world of duality is as comfortable as painful.

Nevertheless, most stick to a singular approach. The pain suits them because it makes them feel substantial. For example, you pinch yourself to determine whether you are dreaming. When you feel pain, you decide you are awake as a substantial being in a tangible world.

Therefore, you must suffer to feel alive since your sense of existence is bracketed with pain. And since being someone in a world of duality is founded on separating yourself from non-duality, you assume the solution to suffering is to separate yourself from the most unpleasant feelings. Hence, you eliminate uncomfortable feelings from the psychological sphere by projecting them onto the world. However, that makes you feel the world is against you.

So, you turn the body into a weapon of defence or attack, keeping the shoulders pushed forward into a defensive position or pushed back into a place of constant readiness to attack.

Blocking the brain’s dualistic understanding of the body’s signals

Your armoured body makes you feel in control – especially when you push one of the shoulders upwards to make the body firmer. Pushing the left shoulder upwards delays the brain’s processing of the body’s signals. Hence, you have time to step in and define the signals with a clear-cut meaning that confirms you are someone definitive, not twofold. If it is the right shoulder you use to harden the body, the brain processes incoming signals as twofold. But they are blocked from being expressed as dual. Hence, you can produce an image of yourself as uniquely intuitive, for example. This approach is often the woman’s way.

In other words, many women allow the brain to process the body’s signals but override its dualistic rendering from being expressed. Instead, they replace it with a singular interpretation, establishing them as unique women with specific insight.

However, their single-minded insight goes against the brain’s story of twofoldness, thus togetherness. Furthermore, it hides that they do not know what they are. Women often suppress the resulting loneliness by manipulating men into believing they need the women’s single-minded understanding to connect with their feelings.

Generally, men also want to feel needed by others as someone specific, not dual. Therefore, men mentally singularly define the body’s signals before the brain receives them as twofold. Thus, out of touch with their genuine feelings, men are not disturbed from doing the right thing per mental concepts and, therefore, appear like supermen. Unfortunately, men’s typical way of suppressing the body’s signals entails a feeling of discomfort in the left side of the body. Women’s way of manipulating outgoing emotions makes the right side of the body seem harsh.

Not singular but twofold in a world of duality

Both women and men assume their imagined image of themselves is established by the body and confirmed by the signals they think they get from the body. But it is a fantasy in the psychological zone, where they try to hide their feelings of inferiority by controlling the body’s signals, assuming they are its master, not its servant.

This mix-up makes the psychological sphere foggy. Unfortunately, you interpret it as disturbances in the body. Fortunately, the root of the problem, feeling inferior, is a misunderstanding brought about by the perception that you are definitive, not twofold. Luckily, it is easily corrected. Suppose you perceive your definite response to the present moment as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals your reaction is not singular but twofold, so feeling inferior interacts with being wonderful.

Feeling revitalised by the moment’s interplay of opposites, you perceive your reaction to your singular opinions about the body’s signals as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals your response is twofold and, therefore, in alignment with the body’s polarity. Hence, the body feels complete in the twofoldness of left and right, up and down, in and out, tight and light, pain and relief, and so on.

Since your completion results in being nobody, the formlessness of non-duality does not seem hidden by somebody eventually. Please be aware that the body has no answer to your psychological issues. Look for dualistic answers to your mental wonderings in the psychological sphere.

That said, ultimately, you are neither twofold nor singular because reality is non-dual, and it takes more than one to be something. Furthermore, you never left non-duality because it is formless, thus endless, so there is nowhere to go. Nonetheless, when believing in a world of duality, it is easier to undo that in alignment with the polarity of duality. 

Undoing the foundation of duality

Those who assume they suffer from a psychosomatic disorder have projected politically incorrect feelings like sexual lust, power strivings, greed, envy and anger onto vulnerable parts of the body or something in the world.

However, since these emotions are abstract, you cannot hide them in something tangible. Thus, projecting abstract feelings onto something substantial only conceals them from your awareness. Still, most believe their problems are gone when out of sight. Like an ostrich, according to myth, believes danger disappears when it buries its head in the sand.

However, this myth is not valid. When an ostrich buries its head in the sand, it dies from a lack of air. If you hide unfavourable emotions in your body or the world with a head-in-the-sand approach, you will wither from the lack of collaboration between good and bad. Thus, you cannot undo duality since the constant interaction of opposites is its foundation.

More about the psychological sphere in Duality Hack #7.1-5 and #8.1-9.