Connecting to The Wisdom of Your Body

Embodiment practices can help you connect with your body, and the present moment, in a way that soothes your nervous system and makes you feel more centered, grounded, and calm.

Most of us spend the majority of our life lost in our thoughts, disconnected from our hearts, and pushing away our true feelings.

We’ve been trained to ignore our bodies, repress our natural emotional responses, and deny our gut feelings.

This is particularly true for those of us who have experienced trauma.

When we experience trauma (big or small), our body remembers everything, while our mind goes to work trying to protect us from our own overwhelming trauma responses. This creates a rift between the conscious stories of our mind and the lived experience of our body.

When we’re disconnected from our body, we’re cut off from the incredible wisdom of our bodies, emotions, and intuition. 

The more you connect, notice where you’re holding tension, put your hands on the tension, really be there with your body, and ask your body, “What do I need to know, what do I need right now, what am I holding on to, what do I need to let go of?” 

Your body is your barometer saying, “Pay attention to me,” “I’m talking to you.”

When you honour what your body is telling you, your intuition gets louder, the tension gets louder, and then all of a sudden you begin to understand the issue is way more than just what’s happening now.

In this way, you become free to choose different ways to respond to the anger, frustration, sadness, etc. that you may be feeling.

Can you allow that part of you to be seen?

Can you allow and accept that, yes, I’m not just light and love, I’m the darkness too?

Can you allow that proportionational opening of the darkness so you can open more light?

Allow that darkness to just be. To be seen, to be felt, to be heard. So when you move through that darkness that’s making you sick, or that fear, guilt, shame, or the sexual repression that’s holding you back from your authentic self, you can come back to those light parts of you and feel joy, light, love.

It’s through acknowledging these emotions that you’ll then begin to notice; I actually feel good now, I feel grounded, present, and calm. 

Your wounds begin to heal when you give them a voice.

EMOTIONS ALLOW OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE

The truth is, the more you connect with your body and allow your emotions to be felt, the more opportunities will come your way, because you’re opening up to the possibilities and the beauty of life.

Your body will give you every gift of the world, if you pay attention. 

There are so many diseases and illnesses that manifest in our body because our emotions are trying to express to us what’s wrong and we’re not listening.

Trauma wounds carry so much pain and so many of us push them to the pit of our stomach, or the back of our mind, and then wonder why we’ve got that stomach ulcer or why that headache won’t go away. 

The truth is, if we would only deal with the trauma, and the emotions that are linked to the trauma when it’s happening, our body would operate at a much higher frequency. 

And, when we operate at a higher frequency, the heavier emotions like; anger, frustration, sadness, etc., that vibrate at a much lower frequency, don’t align to the vibration that we’re putting out, so they aren’t able to attach themselves to us. 

Think about all the different illnesses that are hidden within us. They’re internal, we’re holding them inside us because we’re holding our emotion, and the tension of that emotion, in our body.

It’s because society has disempowered us from an early age. 

We’ve forgotten how to express what we want, what we need, what we desire, that will help us heal. 

We’re focused too much on the external.

When you start focusing on the internal, you’ll start to recognise that everything you need is inside you. 

You’ll start to live authentically. 

You’ll recognise what lights you up. 

And you’ll start to live from joy and love and honour yourself. 

Our bodies talk. 

Our illness, sadness, anger is the physical manifestation of the mental disruption and the emotional repression from years ago. 

So, start today, connect with your body and have an open conversation, to understand where you’re holding tension, and from there understand what your body is trying to tell you. 

Because your body is always talking to you. 

We just have to be prepared to ask the big questions, feel the big emotions, or share with those who mean the most to us what our desires and fears are.

IS YOUR EGO CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS?

If you’re living in ‘your ego’, it’s most likely because you’ve learnt from an early age what helps you to get exactly what you want.

And, if you don’t recognise and acknowledge that’s what you’re doing, you’ll continue to use those same mechanisms to get what you want because you know it works. 

For example: Let’s say this illness gets you the love and attention that you’ve always wanted from your family, then of course you’re going to hold onto that.

Our ego craves the attention, so, to soothe that addiction, we create a sickness or issue that requires the love and attention that we’re seeking from somebody else. 

Most likely it was Mum or Dad when you were younger, but it could now be your partner or your co-worker. 

Instead, what you should be doing is tapping into your authentic self and giving what you need to yourself.

This is the emotional component that is being missed in today's modern medicine. It’s the same fire energy that’s pushing us to look outwards and desire external validation.

What do you identify with?

We learn early on in our family home, at school, with our first girlfriend or boyfriend, how to manipulate the environment we’re in to suit ourselves and get what we want. But is that really what you want?

Until you come home to your body, you're just fragmented pieces of yourself.

So, who are you?

Because who you are is way more expansive than you ever thought. 

You’re all the darkness and all the light. And when you can embody that without fear, you can move mountains, make millions, and heal illness.

That is the gift right there. 

The authentic gift of who you really are.

YOU CREATE THE LIFE YOU DESIRE

Eventually, at some point in time, you have to decide ‘enough is enough’. This is no longer the life I want.

Only you have the power to decide if you want a different life for yourself.

Talk to yourself, just like you would if you were having a conversation with a loved one. 

Say the following to yourself,

I know it’s going to be hard and uncomfortable and scary. 

I know it’s going to be confronting. 

I know I’m going to have to change things about myself. 

I know I’m going to have to invest in myself. 

I know I’m going to have to seek help.

But this thing called ‘life’, as I know it right now, is ending now and I’m going to transform it into something else.

Every single one of us has the power and the ability to transform our life.

Once you’ve discovered what your insecurities are, and what parts of yourself you’ve been hiding from the world, start sharing them.

Start putting a voice to all the insecurities and emotions that you’re feeling. 

We need to share our insecurities and our fears, as well as what lights us up. 

So don’t be afraid to do the shadow work. It’s not as scary as you may think. 

We need to acknowledge and own that they are our insecurities and fears, and nothing to do with the other person that we may be feeling them about.

Ultimately, we need to work through our insecurities without laying blame on somebody else for how we’re feeling.

Relationships are perfect mirrors for helping us discover our deepest insecurities and fears. 

I know one of my biggest insecurities is my abandonment wound. 

And, in the relationship I’m in right now, I’ve shared that with my partner. I’ve let him know that this is my wound to heal, which allows him to know that he hasn’t done anything wrong and it helps him to understand if I withdraw. 

Open communication with yourself and your loved ones allows the healing process to unravel and move through your body so you can release it.

So, what insecurities and fears do you need to work on?

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