Your Relationship with Your Body Is Your Relationship with the World
Psychologist Carl Jung once said, "Your body is the visible soul, and the soul is the invisible body."
The dialogue we hold with our bodies is, in fact, a rehearsal of our relationship with the world.
The Body Is the Bridge Between You and the World
Have you ever considered that your relationship with your body directly determines your relationship with the world? Our skin, organs, and emotions are all mediums that connect us to the external environment.
The skin is the organ that senses love. Every newborn, upon entering the world, is guided by doctors to experience skin-to-skin contact—gentle touches, held in a warm embrace—to provide a sense of security and warmth.
Children who receive affectionate touch from an early age are more likely to develop secure attachments. They engage with the world with more trust and openness. In contrast, children who lack physical touch—or worse, experience trauma—often grow up cautious, resistant to intimacy, or even hostile toward the world.
French psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto found that children with aggressive or antisocial tendencies often share a common background: neglect or abuse during their early years. These children may have lacked warm, loving touch since infancy. Their very first physical contact may have been harsh, indifferent, or hurried—leaving a violent imprint on their bodies.
Your body doesn’t speak—but it remembers. Unprocessed emotions and unhealed wounds settle into your muscles, nerves, and even organs, shaping how you interact with the world.
The Womb Carries a Woman’s Identity
The body exists not only on a physical level—it also carries our psychological identity and emotional projections.
Take the womb, for example—a uniquely female organ. It relates not just to reproduction, but also to a woman's identity and self-acceptance.
Some women grow up in environments where boys are favored over girls. From the beginning, their existence was burdened with unspoken expectations. And they themselves may have never felt truly accepted.
This can lead to an unconscious rejection of their feminine identity, even manifesting physically as hormonal imbalances or amenorrhea, with no medical explanation. Subconsciously, they reject womanhood—and their bodies faithfully respond.
Feminine power includes creativity, tenderness, resilience, and receptivity. If a woman consistently suppresses these traits, her body may react with illness, pain, or dysfunction as a form of protest.
Migraines Are a Cry from Your Body and Soul
Your body not only stores trauma—it sends signals through symptoms.
Many people who feel they have no control over their lives experience migraines. Their minds are constantly in a tug-of-war: societal expectations versus authentic inner desires. This inner conflict creates tension so intense that the head feels like a battlefield.
Those who’ve lived under someone else’s control often lose the right to make their own choices. This long-term tension finds its expression through persistent headaches and migraines.
You can often tell a person’s inner state by their presence. Those with light steps and radiant faces are usually in harmony with their bodies. Those who are tense, rigid, or pale may be experiencing profound inner conflict.
Only When Body and Mind Are in Harmony Can You Truly Make Peace with the World
"Your body doesn't lie—it records everything."
Psychologist Donald Winnicott once said, how a person treats their body mirrors how they treat their life and the world. If you constantly ignore your needs, suppress your emotions, and refuse to listen to your body, you'll eventually lose connection with yourself and face greater conflict in life.
Learning to make peace with your body is learning to make peace with yourself—and the world.
When you begin to listen to your body, to care for it, and accept it, the world will respond to you with greater kindness.
So, let me ask you—have you taken good care of your body today?