Our bodies hold our energetic imprints.
All the stories and beliefs we have been holding on to, whether we are aware of them or not, are in the storehouse of our unconscious.
Our imaginal realm is where your creativity lies.
Together, our body and mind can unlock potential and transcend limitations.
By connecting our awareness and our bodies, we are able to come to quick realisations.
All of our bodies and minds work in different ways, so the ways we receive wisdom may be very different. Some of us see images, or we might receive a feeling in our body or words that speak to us with perfect acuity. Whatever and however we receive is perfect for us.
How it works
In this recording from The Positive Futures for Health podcast with Althea Finch, I talk about my journey of how I came to be a body wisdom coach, how our inner world and transformation relates to the larger world, nature connection and being our own teachers and guides. I also share a grounding practice of how to connect to your own body wisdom.
The deeper story
We have layers of consciousness.
From the surface and every day to the depths of the primeval. We are extraordinarily complex and startling individual.
Yet beneath this diversity, there is a unifying pulse of life. How do we navigate through this contradiction? On the surface, a life of separation and beneath, utter unity.
The middle is a grey area of thousands of years of paths that have been trodden, cultures emerged and shaped, cities built.
We hold in our blood and bones our entire ancestry and evolutionary history.
We know how to bloom like flowers, fly as winged creatures, flow as fish, hunt as furred beasts, hide in shells. We know how to swim, how to make fire, how to make medicine and to sing.
We know how to be witches, magicians and kings.
Yet when we come into this world, we are told a different story. We are told we don't know. We are taught how to live from an industrialist perspective of creating a workforce for the economy. Our inner voice is firmly shut down. There is little time to indulge in fantasies.
We all have the ability to dream. Without any effort, we can conceive of new realities and forms.
We are innately creative. It's who we are.
What if we were to trust this creativity?
What if our nature is our freeing force?
What happens to you in your blood when you watch water as it glides and bubbles over rocks? What happens in your bones as you are held by the mossy forest floor? What do the stars say to you as you look up at their vast oceanic breadth? What do the birds sing to you?
Our world is full of secrets. It's not what people say that matters. The more things are drummed into us, the less true they are.
There is a freeing current in each of us.
It works its way through our dreams, our bodies, through our relationships. Our hearts are always drumming for us.
There is always a part of you that knows that is longing to be heard.
It's longing to be trusted and acted upon. It will tease through the blockages that say 'I can't' and thinks that to stay small is to stay safe.
Your inner voice sings with the river and the sun and says this world is made for you, you can.
Self-belief is knowing that you are the changing tides and that if it doesn't come from inside you then it will soon be washed away. It takes courage to turn away from that which you have known and turn towards the invisible currents of liberation within you. It takes practice to open up to listen and strength to act upon your intuition.
The world that forms from this place of integrity is like a beacon that guides humanity.
I hold space for the part of you that knows.
It's space for your divinity to reach you.
There are many modalities that can do this, but it depends more on the practitioner than on the methodology - craniosacral therapy, massage, somatic experiencing, shamanism, meditation, IFS, energy work, yoga, breathwork, ritual and ceremony all hold space for your true nature to emerge through the layers of the everyday.
From this space, you can expect to feel a sense of inner peace and tranquility, a knowing. You are in your power, a power that is far from dominating but is natural and joyous. You are connected and feel part of nature and the pulse of life.
