CASE OF TAI®️ WITH SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION ON GINGIVITIS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE
PROBLEM:
After a very important master’s program and a year of intense study and work, I began having problems with my teeth and gums, especially after the extraction of the lower right molar, which had complications. The gums on the right side, both upper and lower, became more sensitive. Specifically, after a wrong tooth‑cleaning maneuver, the gum of the upper right molar became particularly inflamed and swollen. It had been three days with these symptoms that were not decreasing despite applying remedies, and I decided to apply TAI.
I observe:
- What the specific symptoms are.
- Which tooth is most affected.
The symptoms are pain, swelling, redness, throbbing, and the tooth is the upper right first molar.
I also observe the emotions, sensations and thoughts. The emotions are anger and annoyance, and the thought: “Why do I keep having dental and gum problems at this time?” The bodily sensation is a restless feeling, something stirring inside the chest; the impact rating from 0 to 10 is 7‑8, even 8‑9.
TAI®️ ROUND
I therefore apply the TAI that addresses the symptom and the affected body part. After completing the TAI round I see what emerged and what changed.
CHANGE AND WHAT EMERGES
What emerged is that I can’t keep studying; I need rest, I need to enjoy life, and I saw a very feminine woman who really needs to go out, to live, to enjoy life. Then I look at what changed in the responses. In the emotions, instead of anger there is more awareness, and that anger has decreased; a bit of nausea also emerged, so there is a feminine side that can no longer cope and needs rest. I then observe the SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION and wonder how I should represent this tired feminine figure, who can’t go on, who needs rest, where there is nausea—how would she look?
The symbolic representation is an image of a woman at a desk in a tiny room, overwhelmed by many papers. There are countless sheets around her, the room is chaotic, while outside there is nature, beauty, singing birds. Yet this woman is forced to stay seated; I even see her tied to the chair with a rope. She has endless paperwork, a melancholy and sad gaze, longing to go out, to be in contact with nature, but she is stuck and can’t go on. I notice what strikes me most about this symbolic representation.
What do I see, hear or perceive? I see, there are noises, but mainly I see the sad face of this very feminine woman confined in a small space. The emotions I feel when looking at the image are helplessness, anger, annoyance; I feel a weight on my heart and think it’s a shame, something precious is being lost. On a scale from 0 to 10 the image’s impact is 8.
EXTERNAL TAI®️ ROUND
I do an external TAI round on this visual symbolic representation because it focuses on an image. I see what emerges after the external TAI:
- The first thing that emerges is that there are things I must do and therefore must finish, but now I know I can ask for help, I can organize myself, and I am aware that I don’t have to add more papers or tasks. So I will have to learn to organize, to manage these papers and tasks, and I will also have to ask for help, with the awareness that once I sort these papers I can look outward, go out and enjoy life and rest.
- The second thing that emerges is that I have associated my worth with doing rather than resting, and after two intense years of study I need to regain that rest.
Then I observe which of these emergent points is strongest and feels most impactful in the belief that I must constantly do, take courses, keep training in order to feel worthy of listening, competent, and professionally valuable—this is a belief.
TAI®️ ON THE BELIEF
Now I examine how I see this belief: whether it appears as an image, as a written phrase, as a voice, in second person (“you…”) or first person (“I…”), or as a perception occupying space inside or outside me. I see the belief more as a whisper/voice that reaches my right ear; they are feminine voices, actually coming from the maternal line, saying: “You must do to deserve, you must do to be seen and recognized.” It is a repeated phrase, like a mantra, a whispered, repetitive, continuous voice, many voices one after another.
I explore emotions, thoughts, sensations and impact. There are no particular emotions because it has always been like this, and I continue the same way; thus it is emotional resignation. The thought is that since it has always been this way I keep going; physically the body feels tired; the impact rating from 0 to 10 is 7‑8.
EXTERNAL TAI®️ ON THE BELIEF
I do a TAI on this belief and see what emerges. I get a gesture of moving the voice away, and it emerges that I deserve simply because I am a person, regardless of what I do. I feel I want to act differently from this belief and from my ancestors. Now I sense that the voice has moved away, but there is still a link with those women, perhaps a family loyalty. I do a TAI on family loyalty, imagining my ancestors before me, and observe how I represent this loyalty. I see thin threads connecting me to them. I do a TAI round and see what emerges.
It emerges that now I see those threads—once tying me to my ancestors—cut, and I see myself turning my back to them, to live my own life, to savor my rest, feeling pleasure in this rest and recognizing my value as a woman and professional even while resting. That thin voice is gone and I feel free.
I observe what has changed in the symbolic representation of the woman with all the papers on the desk in the tiny room. In the new representation the woman has more energy and says: “Okay, I’ll finish this, and I no longer feel a clash between the desire to go out and the irritation of having to do things.” It feels more like a union between doing and wanting to rest, between pleasure/desire to enjoy life/rest/beauty (feminine energy) and doing (masculine energy). She says: “We’ll do it, but after a little we’ll rest and finish these things as soon as possible.” It’s as if there is a pact between the two parts; she can take moments for herself, rest, do what she likes, feels more energy, and all those sheets that previously created confusion are now orderly, and a man appears to help the woman with organization, finishing quickly so they can rest together.
At this point I ask what insights have emerged and what changes occurred emotionally, in thoughts, sensations and impact.
CHANGES – Now I feel relief, happiness; my body feels lighter and I know I can work well while resting, and my value also lies in rest. The impact of the symbolic representation is now zero.
INSIGHTS – Observing the change in the symbolic representation, the insights that have arisen are:
- There is a need for order and organization and to enlist my masculine energy for this.
- Rediscover the pleasure of doing what I’m doing, injecting feminine joy and fun into the activity.
- Now I know what to do and how to do it. Regarding the gums, the pain and swelling have decreased in the following hours—from 8‑9 down to 3—but there is greater awareness. I realize that these gums are my feminine energy that was exhausted and at its limit; now I feel more collaboration with the masculine side. Previously there was a fight between the two; now I can allow moments of pleasure beyond just doing, introducing pleasure into the doing and thus uniting the feminine with the masculine.
HARMONIZATION
I performed harmonization to close this first part. Certainly there is more work to continue reducing the impact of gingivitis, but this process was very useful to become aware of the imbalance between masculine and feminine energies at this stage of my life. It also helped me decide how to proceed in the coming months so as not to increase the imbalance, but to bring harmony between the inner masculine and feminine energies.
ROOTING THE INSIGHTS
I now see concretely what I can do to root these insights with targeted actions in my reality and bring the energetic change into the material level.
Katia Caterino
Love Coach
www.katiacaterino.it
Katiacaterinolovecoach@gmail.com