“Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body’s wisdom.”
~Dan Millman
Our body is an amazing source of wisdom. It’s a tool that I believe is so under utilised in our culture. It has a wealth of knowledge that draws from a lifetime of experience. It stores all of our memories, whether conscious or not. It remembers the trauma, challenges and joys of our existence. It’s like an amazing archive system. It’s a great barometer for how we’re feeling, what we need, what we’re afraid of and what we desire. It’s also where our intuition resides.
Unfortunately, many of us have never learned to fully be in our body. We’re taught and encouraged to be in the mind. To analyse, figure out and fix things through a logical, rational mind. This isn’t an issue in and of itself, but if it’s the only way we look at things, we become out of balance.
The reason why the body is such a powerful tool for healing is that all of our experiences are first felt in the body before our minds can even make sense of them. So even though sometimes it’s important for us to look at the story, to see what happened, ultimate healing happens in the body because that’s where the initial wound took place. If we remain stuck in the mind we might know or understand a great deal about what our wound and the story of our pain or suffering is, but we won’t be able to truly heal it because it didn’t happen in the mind, it happened in the body.
Movement Therapy focuses on getting out of the mind and dropping into the body where we can form a relationship with the part that knows how we feel and what we want, rather than the mind’s limited capacity of “thinking” about what we feel. Giving a voice to a feeling, memory or trauma through movement releases it from the body, allowing us to reclaim our natural state and bring in new energy that is in alignment with who we truly are. When words and processing cannot fully unlock an issue, moving through the body has a tremendous effect.
You might be interested in Movement Therapy but due to geographical distances you might not be able to come see me for a session. If this is the case, I work a lot with people over zoom bringing them into their body through visualization, connecting to their feelings, sensations, memories, trauma, emotions, needs and more. Much of the same principles are used as in Movement Therapy but they’re done through visualisation rather than movement.
There’s a lot of research out there on the power of visualisation. Many athletes use it to better their game or sport. From my own personal experience, I have used visualisation to help heal injuries, trauma, limiting beliefs as well as manifest relationships, clients, money and more. It’s an incredibly powerful tool once we tap into it and understand how it works.
The benefits of visualisation is that you can do it yourself. Once you know the way, you can tap into it whenever and wherever you want. It’s a very empowering tool to have.
