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*:Β·οΎβ§ my own personal notes from this week's somatic sessions with @JamesMayfield_ *:Β·οΎβ§ (( we've got more coming up next week, if you're intrigued to experience these shifts in your own body and life then see my pinned tweet to join π ))
@JamesMayfield_ a theme this time was the felt experience of believing in our worthiness of receiving love. for whatever reason this seems an enormous collective-western-cultural challenge today. one of those dark shameful secrets nearly everyone has - "maybe X part of me doesn't deserve love"
for me personally it feels easy enough to take 'worthiness' as an axiom. that's not my stuck point. my struggle thereafter: the implementation challenge of living the obvious truth of our worthiness!!! for me it certainly requires doing things differently, often w/o templates
"If we enter situations asking ourselves 'am I worthy'? we have already lost" if we try to prove or convince our worth, we have also already lost. that's not the game. if we *are* worthy already, what manifest form does that take in our lives?
the implementation challenge of living the obvious truth of our worthiness the work doesn't end looking in a mirror saying "I'm worthy," u then gotta make choices based on that. which include hearing out the parts that don't believe it, and relishing those that do
it's a common thing in relationship to get triggered or into a fight right after a big connective experience of being wide open. due to the increased sensitivity. it's not a sign that something is Wrong, more like a pragmatic challenge to anticipate & care for
side personal note, as someone single I honestly love hearing from people who are amidst romances and their challenges. so easy for me to idealize 'romance' when rlly it's made of the fabric of emotional reality just like all else wherever I'd go there I am
also I feel so glad to be *out* in the world (or, in this case on zoom) witnessing ppl as their real selves. none of this 'pretending to have it together' thing. witnessing real challenges & real help I feel I'm g r o w i n g rather than stagnant π as well as the ppl in session
session ends w @JamesMayfield_ emphatically sharing: "we have the technology to heal trauma. there's no need to stay stuck. this isn't like climate change, where we might simply not have the technology" π I'd like to believe this more thoroughly, rn I'm at 'sounds plausible'