Sensation is the Language of the Body

Sensation is the language of the body.  It is how our body communicates with us & is the source of our inner wisdom. The body expresses itself through temperature, vibration, pulsation, impulse, tightness, openness, pressure, movement & shape. Sensation is not only a process of receiving information from the outer environment but sensation also informs about what is alive in our inner environment. Every single sensation offers insight into our health, our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, perceptions, expectations & emotions.

Yet for so many, we have learned to quiet these inner whisperings due to coping strategies from past experiences where we learned that it was not safe to feel.  While at one point this strategy may have made sense, this strategy often repeats, becoming a pattern in many or all aspects of our lives. But we can learn how to feel ourselves again in a way that builds a capacity for us to experience the vastness of our human existence. 

Sensation is a key component of somatic awareness & this awareness is the entry point to somatic transformation. With awareness we are able to create space for the completion of thwarted stress responses in the body. We can come to know our embodied patterns & conditioned tendencies, how & where we are resisting the flow of life, how & where we are open to receive the flow of life, & what is being called forth from our deepest waters. With somatic awareness, we cultivate a greater capacity to replace default habits with thoughts, behaviors & actions of our choice. Essentially, awareness allows us to live a life of greater authenticity & in alignment with our values, dreams & desires. 

The practice is simply to notice sensation with a compassionate curiosity. To move at our own pace & develop a strong sense of resilience that offers space where we can slowly pendulate between sensations of comfort & pleasure, as well as discomfort & activation. In the beginning, sensation may not be obvious but as you continue to turn towards noticing, you can eventually build the capacity to do so. Energy will flow where your attention goes. And we can learn to live the life of our heart's deepest longing.