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EMOTIONAL HISTORY, GRAVITY, REALITY AND CHANGE

There is an intimate connection between our psychological and emotional histories, and our bodies ability to relate to gravity.

It isn't difficult for our psyches to learn from past experiences - especially ones that are emotionally charged - and for us to carry those imprints into present moment experiences. This is all well and good; memory is quite useful for some things - yet quite detrimental for other things.

Gravity is always happening in the present moment, by which I mean it is always (always!) exerting its steady presence on our physical form. The way this force is experienced is dependent on our body's capacity to be vertical and balanced in the moment. The body mediates moment to moment transitions and conducts this information via the nervous system and the connective tissue body, our "organ of form".

When our emotional and psychological patterning exerts a powerful force on our minds, our bodies respond in the present to experiences that happened in the past. This can often yield positive outcomes, but there is a way that this can create anxiety. We know we are not truly interacting with the reality of the moment. We are stuck in a certain pattern, hoping the pieces fall into accord with our pre-designed plan. Instead of being able to bend our knees, relax our breathing, or clearly see the world around us - perhaps to shout in alarm, perhaps to yelp with joy - we are lost in trying to keep what happened many years ago from happening again, or to continually re-create that thing that brought us pleasure.

Focusing on our body's way of relating to gravity is a gateway to breaking out of this pattern. To add some flexibility and space to these patterns that keep us tied into the past could potentially allow us to shift from feeling the weight of the world to experiencing the elegant balance of forces that can exist between the earth and our bodies - all without getting stuck in the deviously habitual mind; the mind that exists in a struggle with gravity.

What happens when gravity flows evenly through the body and the mind, not only from above our heads towards the earth but also from the center of the earth, through us to the stars up above? Balancing our form around these lines of force is possible. Therein begins our work together.