One of my many favorite quotes is, “To listen is to be embodied”. Thank you Stephen Porges.
Throughout the trauma-informed somatic healing [Compassionate Inquiry] and energy healing [Transpersonal Energy Healing & Intuitive Healing] trainings I have experienced, this is a way of saying something I experience every day — in relationship with myself, those around me in my life and especially with the people I share the healing approaches with in session.
I have been contemplating this. If to listen is to be embodied, then we listen to our body, with our body.
Embodiment is a form of presence. We experience the presence moment through our bodies. And, our bodies remember things for us.
This is a profound opportunity for healing.
This is a profound opportunity for creativity [curiosity + possibility].
Our body memory manifests as sensation of some sort. Along with this is some kind of visual memory — images from the past that arise when we listen to our bodies, with our bodies.
If you have not yet experienced somatic healing, please accept my warm welcome.
Somatic means “of the body”. Soma means “body”.
Somatic healing sessions like Compassionate Inquiry invite your body into the process of healing. The sessions invite you to go beyond story. The story, what happened [then and now] are important yet that is more the pathway into body and memory than the main show.
How our bodies remember is a profound gift. Our bodies remember and call us in with sensation (tension, stress, numbness). When and if we are willing to listen [being embodied], we discover what is asking to be seen. From there we have an opportunity to participate, now, with what is arising from the past. And this time it is based in a conscious self-connection that is compassionately and empathically witnessed (by both practitioner and client).
This process I share about in words here is an experience. It involves an embodied listening [to body] and it calls forth an energetic knowing.
What do you really know about the suffering that presents in your daily life? Quite a lot, if you are willing to listen to your body, with your body.
Your knowing about your suffering includes needs. From history to now, needs ready to be known, cherished and embraced.
As a healing approach, Compassionate Inquiry is creative. When you are the person receiving the inquiry, your entire biological, energetic, physical system is leading. Compassionate Inquiry honors your lead. As a healing approach it lacks agenda or any specific method. This is important. A healing process needs openness, space and allowing.
Engaging in a healing process is a courageous act. I deeply respect Compassionate Inquiry for the space and active listening it naturally offers those who come to receive inquiry, rooted in compassion, tethered to the intention they choose.
Your system is listening. Your system is receiving. Your system is integrating. Your system is choosing.
What will you choose to compassionately support yourself around your same old repeating patterns of suffering and pain?
Listen to your body, with your body, to discover the vast possibilities available to you.
If this calls to you, I invite you to book a session with me through my website.
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and freedom.
Aloha
Leigh