03/05/2023
From Greek SOMA means the BODY. Psyche means MIND. Therefore, Somatic Psychotherapy is the study of the body-mind interface to reference the ability to sense oneself through emotions, sensations and different body states.
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Emotions begin before our feelings. Emotions are primal, direct and physical.
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We live in a disembodied culture. We spend more and more time entertaining our boredom and short attention spans with media and information and less time feeling and sensing our responses to what we are consuming.
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The result is a sense of physical and emotional disconnection and apathy.
We lose the connection with embodied self-awareness and with our larger body: the Earth.
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Many people don’t have a daily, regular practice of coming back to their bodies. We sense and feel through our bodies every minute of the day. Only when tensions or pain in the body arise we pay attention to what is happening.
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Therefore, pain is a necessary alarm bell from our body alerting us to danger and survival.
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Embodiment is feeling oneself directly, without the constant narration or interpretation of our
thinking mind. This embodiment has no judgment, no commentary from an inner belief, and no filters, but rather presents the raw data of the body “as is.” We can call this present - moment body awareness—direct
communication from our deeper self or embodiment. This is a moment in which we are not bound by past or
future, and can live in the present moment. We often describe this simple yet elusive sense as coming home,
being close to oneself, or simply here.
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