Somatic living is life itself speaking to us. — Dissociation is the norm among humans. Not just those with psychiatric labels. Projection (something pretty much everyone does) is a form of dissociation. Disembodiment is the norm. People avoid embodiment because the process can be acutely painful… sometimes so acute it’s permanently avoided.
This is a serious issue. Food and other addictions and aversions both are used to avoid it and people don’t even know they’re doing it. Some of it is very insidious and hidden in purity spirituality (lots of elimination of all sorts of things)… it deserves compassion.· Both for ourselves and for others.
Acute pain is no joke – those who mock it are generally in denial of their own pain (this especially includes those who think they’re spiritual and dismiss those in pain) … our nervous system learn habits that become incredibly difficult to untangle. The body holds conditioning.
Yoga, while often acting as a haven for those who are hiding from pain, also gets it right for those brave enough to go the whole way and not get stuck in some yogic side-trip rabbit whole.
“Your issues are in your tissues.”
More on the Somatic Imperative
here is an audio interview on the subject: The Somatic Imperative with Monica Cassani
And:
- Somatic mysticism: reframing “hypersensitivity”
- More on somatic experience
- What does it mean to heal
- We have internal guidance. Learn to listen.
- The body knows
- Life as a meditation: my contemplative adventure
- Transformative healing: more working with parts — the god/higher-self/life-force part
- Animals hunker down when they’re healing…they do not fight the process. Let us be like the animals.
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