One thing we can always count on is change...
The one thing we can always count on is change. We are changing ourselves, our body, our mind and our experiences. Our friends and family change. Some are growing older, some dying and others are being born.
The society we live in is changing at a rapid pace, the latest news item, breakthrough in science, a national or global event that affects us or our world view. Not to mention technology and the leaps forward being made every day.
In all of this, there are changes we want to make personally, a habit we want to stop or one we want to start. We even have lots of information on how to make these changes. How to change our habits, our structure, even how to change our mindset. Yet sometimes, these changes are just impossible to pull off.
What if we have been missing a VERY important ingredient to change …
We don’t know how to change our emotional and physiological responses to how things are right now vs what we want going forward. We don’t even know that changing our emotional and physiological responses is a thing.
Ever hear of Somatics?
Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement which studies the soma; namely the body as perceived from the inside, the perspective of the person themselves. Somatic experiencing is centered on the basis that the body, from the lived perspective, is a center of experience.
Further, the Somatic theory is a theory of human social behavior proposes a mechanism by which emotional processes can guide (or bias) behavior.
So, how does working at the emotional level and with the body help us to maintain the changes we want to make?
Practitioners of Somatic Experiencing view the mind and body as intrinsically linked and address the feedback loop that continually runs between the mind and the body.
For change to “stick”, it is beneficial to help the past based experiences and emotions that are stuck in your body to move on out. This makes room for new links in your body to the changes your thinking, aka mind, wants to make. Somatic Experiencing can be a process for doing that.
