A key step to well-being and healing
I have a question for you.
What is something you do when you’re going through a difficult life experience?
I’m willing to bet one of the things you do is find someone to talk to. You share with them the story of what happened to help you process the feelings and gain perspective. Research shows that talking about our struggles with someone we trust is deeply healing.
This is why we feel better after doing this.
Did you know our body needs the same thing? It needs someone to listen to the story it has to tell. You might ask yourself “What do you mean? The body has a story to tell?”
When we struggle with something in our life we instinctively want to share our story around that struggle with anyone who is willing to listen. That instinct is very healthy and is what allows for healing from any emotional hurt to begin.
We can stay at the level of our cognitive narrative but often that story symbolizes the proverbial “tip of the iceberg” and the deeper roots of that story lies within our bodies.
That’s why I’ve started a new online experience called Telling Your Body’s Story.
Every experience we encounter gets stored in the body. In Telling Your Body’s Story we engage the body as a resource to receive greater insight into the hidden parts of our psyche and uncover our deepest truths by simply and literally asking the body to tell the story around any topic or question that we feel might be keeping us from having the life that we want.
The beauty of telling your body story is that we not only ask the body for information but that we also use our body to process and heal our wounds. We ask the body “what is your story around X”?
We then wait for the answer. We listen deeply and honor the answers the body is giving us. We follow the body’s impulses without questioning them. We notice if there are any sensations, body-feelings or emotions that arise and we make space for them. We allow them to be expressed and released.
New thoughts might follow. That’s how we allow for the processing of our wounds to occur through the body itself. Body processing creates long-lasting, physical change on a cellular level which allows for greater integration, transformation, and healing to occur.
When we process our wounds on a body level we allow for new pathways in our nervous system to form, which allows for new patterns of behavior. These new patterns often come in the form of new insights into situations that we thought we had a very narrow perspective on.
We might notice that our thinking and behavior is more flexible than it used to be around a specific topic.
We might notice that we have more clarity around something that we couldn’t think about clearly in the past.
We might notice a new attitude of lightness where heavy feelings existed before. In essence, doing this work can help us clear the clutter that we carry in our body and our psyche as a result of unprocessed hurts that we accumulate throughout our lives so that we can engage with the world more fully and fulfill more parts of our vast potential.
If this speaks to you, I’d like to invite you to apply for Telling your Body’s Story so that you can access these feelings a the new level of well-being that they unlock.
Telling Your Body’s Story is a small-group program with limited space. Also, this work is not for everyone. For that reason, enrollment is by application only.
If you’d like to explore whether Telling your Body’s Story is for you click HERE to get more info and to apply.
Deadline for application: July 2nd.