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You probably canāt feel your bones and organs, but you can feel a slight buzzing in the limbs, a numb spot in the lower torso, a touch of despair snagged in your rotator cuff, an indefinite *something* behind you to your left. You can sense an atmosphere of sadness, a residue
Getting in closer touch with the felt body *is* the door to opening PERCEPTION. We donāt have 5 senses. And no, we donāt have 6, or 13, or 117. We have a single, oceanic Senseāand everything else, all the specific sources, those are just streams flowing into that ocean
Itās helpful to step into the ocean and exist thereāit can help you notice streams flowing in that you hadnāt noticed before. & Itās helpful to find new streams and step into themāthey can help you notice the ways their currents are present in the ocean.
No only are there more streams than anyone ever things to point out to usāthere are differences from person to person. You may have senses and sensitivities that the people around you donāt. Your sister has no sense of the deliciousness of griefābut you do.
Stepping into your own personal ocean, with its specific fingerprint of currents and senses and emphases, Thereās an aliveness to it thatās shocked me every step of the way. Itās not like coming home, itās like suddenly noticing your home.
It can take a lot of un-numbing, a lot of patience, a lot of trial-and-error, chasing down urges that come to us but donāt turn into more than a passing fancy, But if we keep showing up, keep trying, keep returning, we strike on deeper drivesāwe find the fires that drive us
He got urges and impulses to return to childhood. He started taking breaks in his workday to walk down by the lakeshore and play with rocks. While playing with rocks, fantasies and images came up. He started writing these images down. He started giving more time to the images.
All of thisāthe braiding progression between BODY, PERCEPTION, and EROSāis the basic structure of the Somatic Resonance workshop If it sounds like something you're pulled towards, check the website, DM me. Let's get going š https://t.co/AxN7ro9J0B
For years, I felt numbed to my intuition, dissociated from anything meaningful, & exiled to hovering a few inches outside my own life Before returning to Soul with imaginal work (and really, before meditating or feeling good in relationships) I had to find Somatic Resonance https://t.co/eM900SoxqP
@the_wilderless "an indefinite *something* behind you to your left." Did you pick that side at random, or is this a 'thing'? Because it's definitely been a thing for me: always over/on the left shoulder -- I was going through my old writing earlier this year and I found 2-3 stories w this in it
@profoundish Itās enough of a thing for me in a specific enough way that when I watched Outer Range, this scene stopped my breathing (starting around 1 minute, maybe 1:30) https://t.co/tMQsINRzAn