Our bodies are completely connected with our planet. Our bodies carry all kinds of information about ourselves and others, information you might refer to as "subliminal".

The situation between symobls and our minds or between symbols and our bodies is the same: it is one of reciprocity.

That's a fancy word for back-and-forth. Generally we believe rather naively that our minds (oh so powerful!)create the symbols, consciously and those symbols then affect other minds.

Try on a different view: try believing the unconscious REALLY REALLY does exist, and the unconscious responds to conscious imprints. The unconscious responds to conscious imprints by throwing up symbols. That is the essence of dreams; it is also however the essence of all art, religious symbols and rituals and all inspiration.

In other words when we stop believing our conscious minds are in total control, when we accept the unconscious as being present and intelligent and responding to our lives, the situation looks different.

Now, if the unconscious throws symbols up to the conscious mind, how does the unconscious relate to the body?

Same way. This is the essence of mind/body health or what used to be termed "psychosomatic" illness.

Interesting that we don't have a commonplace term for psychosomatic health.

When the unconscious mind creates symbols and the conscious mind is receptive to those symbols, the body is included in this.

Now, since we are a collective, our collective minds have created an environment in which we live.

For many people their daily environment is not directly related to their senses: they do not see, smell, hear natural sounds.

The lack of nature's impact on our senses creates a feeling of imprisonment, a deadening of our bodies.
The deadening of our bodies creates, among other things, anxiety.

Here is one factor in the onslaught of anxiety in our culture and one which can be relatively simply, with consistent effort, remedied.

Grow a plant and involve your senses with the plant.
Keep some soil and rocks in your high rise apartment.

Take your senses for a walk.

In other words, put your body in a place where the symbols natural and native to our bodies resound. Then you will experience the affect of symbols on our bodies.