20210820 - Being In The Body

I had a conversation with a friend some days ago about being a whole human Being and I thought I’d share my experience. I used to experience myself as being something living inside of my skull. If I’d been asked to point to where I was I would have pointed to at the head. I knew I had my body ofc, but it felt like it was “just my body”. Me, my spirit, the sense of “I” was not there. I wasn’t present in my body. It has taken me some time and it’s still a work in progress but the more I learn to Be with my emotions and the discomfort from being triggered the more I fill up my body. It’s a sense of being safe inside myself. So, what is this “Being in the body”-experience about? As children we are super open and sensitive, without any defences, and our nervous system is not developed yet to “hold” all of what is going on there. The nervous system will get chocked many many times and without a care-giver that can help regulating the system we will store those traumas in the body and when we feel into those places it will create a lot of discomfort in different ways. This is what it means to not feel safe inside the body. And when we don’t feel safe in our body there is just one place to go, our mind. We disconnect from our body, emotions and intuition and go into over-analysing and excessive thinking, trying to “solve” our emotions instead of feeling them. Today we will work with just Being with and in the body. You are all warmly welcome