I wrote this post a few years back. It contains some good ideas for being present with ourselves in our bodies. Trauma can make it hard to be present in our bodies with our feelings but if we always try to escape them we don’t get very far. For new followers with love ❤
I believe that almost all our sadnesses
are moments of tension
that we find paralysing
because we no longer hear
our surprised feelings living.
Rilke.
Perhaps it is a legacy of trauma. Perhaps one of the purposes of trauma is to make us more aware of the intimate connection between ourselves and our bodies. I was recently having a discussion with a cranio sacral therapist who helps clients live with trauma, and she mentioned that one of the consequences of trauma can be a split between our heads and our bodies. Due to the unbearable pain and damage we can take flight away from the body. And, as we do, we loose touch with our soul and become more vulnerable to compulsions. The healing of trauma involves healing this splitting or dissociation. Itinvolves finding a way to be with a body andbeing present to a soulthat might be suffering deeply…
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