How is your relationship with your body?
What do you think when you look at your body? Is it something you’re proud of? Impressed by even? Or is it something you ignore? Have negative feelings towards? Do you have an illness that you can’t understand how it came about? Do you blame your body? It “doesn’t work right” doesn’t it?
We all have very different relationships with our physical body, the body that gives life to us here. And why is that? What teaches us to feel a certain way about the body? Comparison plays a huge role in how we perceive what the “ideal” or “perfect” body should be but we forget that we’re not suppose to be the same. We choose to incarnate as humans to live an individual experience. Our physical bodies or “meat suits” are what sustain us to be blessed with all the experiences of life, without it we are not here and this existence doesn’t happen. Yet as a culture we berate our bodies, disguise them, judge them and hate on them. We’ve all done it so why?
Disconnection.
We aren’t taught to embrace all the parts of us as we are growing up. The body itself is looked upon as a prison in some cases, keeps us trapped in a fortified illusion that it is suppose to be “working” for us, and operating at its best at all times and when it doesn’t it fails us. But what about when we fail it? What happens when we, the owners, of the meat suit neglect and abuses it? We expect for it to continue. Just like anything else that took form in this physical existence it’s has needs, and not just the basic food and water ones (although that’s a good start) we are more than just the physical.
Our body consists of many bodies, emotional, mental, energetic and spiritual, and when we choose to ignore these (which many of us do) the physical body has to bear the weight of that neglect. So it cannot operate in the same optimal health that we would like it too. Emotional trauma holds the body in a state of freeze until we are able to fully experience and release. That emotional energy can become stagnant in us for a long time, as the energy becomes more stuck it can contribute to physical and mental problems, pain within the body and a sense of feeling ungrounded. When we are able to allow emotions to take their full course of action and are experienced fully they firstly often are over and finished rather quickly in comparison and the energy of that emotion doesn’t become trapped within us and potentially cause us future issues.
Did you grow up in a household where you were told “shh” or “ that’s enough tears now” when the process of the emotional experienced and interrupted it causes that energy to manifest itself a place to reside within us until it is released. Connecting deeply to your emotions and allowing or inviting them to come allows the process to happen without causing any issues. Ever felt great after a good cry? That’s because you fully experienced the emotion and can move on from it. I invite you the next time you are in an emotional experience to welcome it fully open your heart to feeling what needs to be felt without shame or pressure and just see how different it can feel after the event. I guarantee you’ll feel much lighter.
If you struggle experiencing emotions or feel you have unprocessed emotions that need releasing contact me to book a discovery call to see if connecting with YOUR sacred body can give you a more aligned life to who you are.
