Messages from Our Body Lead to Greater Agency
Do you have trouble sitting still?
Are you triggered by time alone or quiet?
Do you have a repeated argument with yourself in your head?
Are you experiencing digestive issues?
Do you feel stuck and heavy, and not able to move in a direction in your life?
All of these challenges are likely a message from the body
the nervous system, and our primitive part of the brain’s unconscious and long time habits are working on overdrive.
Sudden job changes, relationship challenges, or injury can kick up in our bodies old residue held in the form of unexpressed emotion. The body experiences an activated trigger that uncovers grief below the surface at a subtle level. In somatic activated healing, we drop the narrative and become interested in the feeling. When we let go of a story that populates our mind and loops like a broken record in our head, we can simultaneously invite presence in the body.
We can do this by shaking, jumping, dancing, or grounding yoga postures.
We can also practice embodied presence by breathing into the difficult emotions and sensations, while holding ourselves in a safe, compassionate presence. This re-routes the conditioned pathway to a more supportive pathway and releases new hormones that ultimately evoke more relaxed states.
The emotions that are associated with the harder, more intense stories and narratives in our lives, can stay long held in a protective stance. Unfortunately the experience doesn’t get deleted from our memory.
When we take the emotional charge out of the story, by greeting it and processing it we can consciously let go of unwanted, stickier, and darker emotions with a sense of purpose and aim to release them.
Separating our perception that is long held and tied in a fighting pattern, can become more relaxed, safer to explore and open to a greater and better outcome in our lives.
Stay tuned next week for what it means to know and respect the body’s great wisdom.
Jennifer Degen
January 31, 2023
P.S. Is your body telling you something? Click here to learn more about why it’s important to listen to our bodies.
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