And last night at dance, I felt jealous when someone I wanted to dance with danced with someone else.
Jealousy is part of the human brain. Nothing has gone wrong if you feel jealous.
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Patriarchy Brain
If you become blind in an accident, the remaining 4 senses take up that brain space that was originally used by sight.
There’s limited real estate in the brain and the phrase: use it or lose it applies.
I wonder what would happen if I stopped memorizing the cheapest vegetable prices and used that brain space for dreaming up creative ways to market and sell the somatic work I’m meant to share with the world.
The Most Advanced Somatic Tool
If you’re calm, your client feels more calm too. And if you’re nervous, it could be because the client is nervous and they’re pulling your energy up.
Moonlight
There’s a magic that happens in the moonlight.
But our culture’s obsessed with daylight. Obsessed with:
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- Productivity
- Motivation
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I can get caught up. I wake up with a heaviness and my immediate response is annoyance that I’m grieving.
Embracing Darkness
Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore has been blowing my mind.
Western culture reveres happiness and tells us to look for the light at the end of the tunnel. But what if the goal is to be enveloped by darkness?
Happy
This moment, right here right now, is your whole life. Everything else is a thought about the future or a thought about the past.
I’ve spent my life chasing accomplishments. Once I find an amazing partner I’ll be happy. Once I have this amount of money I’ll relax. Once I resolve this fight with my friend, I’ll feel more peaceful.
But I’ve realized that I could spend my whole life never fully getting “there”… because whenever I achieve one goal, another goal pops up.
Sexy Somatics
If your goal is:
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- to fall in love, you probably want to feel love and lovable
- more money in your savings account, you might want to feel secure
- more clients, you probably want to feel smart, confident or helpful.
- to fall in love, you probably want to feel love and lovable
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And the good news is those feelings are available now.
Add Don’t Subtract
When a client is anxious, often the first thought is: “I shouldn’t be anxious” or “I hate being anxious all the time, why am I anxious again??”
But what if instead of trying to SUBTRACT the anxiety, you ask the client to ADD love.
Throat Block
If your client has trouble:
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Marketing their business with all of their weird creative amazingness,
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Saying no to dreaded family events
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Or even asking for what they want in bed…
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…they might have a throat block.
Somatic Techniques for Codependence
In codependent relationships on an energetic level your energy is enmeshed. And sometimes even though your energy is enmeshed your heart is closed to protect yourself.
In a healthy relationship you can step in and out of the other person’s energy field, so you can empathize with them but you can also step away (either physically or energetically) and feel your own feelings about the situation.