The Body’s Voice

What if you let your body speak? What if the words riding your breath from chest, throat and finally spilling out of your mouth gave voice to your body’s experience of things? Instead of your mind’s interpretation, analysis, and fact telling. These are fine, sometimes excellent. Yet limited.

Consider these expressions of the same experience:

‘This organization has many old and outdated systems’
‘Being in this organization feels like someone keeps sticking a foot out and tripping me’

What more relief for the person presencing the sensory impact on themselves (even if nothing can be done in the moment to change the situation). How much more life energy flowing for the person expressing their felt relationship to the experience. How much more likely for creative solutions to emerge from a body description.

The body is a lover of language that matches it’s experience.

Poets know this. Children, too. And in psychotherapy, it is essential. Life moves forward in the body.

Gentle Tears

“There are also quiet, gentle tears. The deepest tears are not always uncontrollable sobbing. Very gentle tears can be deeper, still. They can come when people are deeply touched, or when they touch a deep part of themselves. Tears can come when something new stirs and comes alive for a moment.” Eugene Gendlin

The Right Space

“Every bad feeling (or relating) has within it the potential energy for the more life affirming state if given the right space.” Eugene Gendlin

Welcome

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.  The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” Teilhard de Chardin
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I love this quote! I often feel that words are inadequate, that they fail to capture the living, breathing, moving place in my heart for the work I do. What it feels like for me to sit with someone in the quiet space of the unknown, the ‘hard to feel’, at the edge of their next creative, healing wave.  An ‘exquisite privilege’ – these words feel close to describing it. Knowing that whoever is showing up in my healing space is engaged in his/her personal evolution of consciousness. Knowing that this one person’s efforts on her own behalf move us all forward.  I am grateful for, in awe of, the struggles, triumphs and profound beauty of the human experience.