Are you listening to your bodies voice?
Life often makes us put our pain aside in order to push ourselves forward.
We are too busy to stop, and check in with our body, too conscious of missing our exercise class because we will get ‘fat’ or we will be seen as lazy, and weak.
There is too much pressure to keep going, to be strong and achieve results. Results we believe will only come from excruciating exercise regimens, regardless of the pain and injury it is further causing.
Sometimes we seek results that are unattainable, unattainable because our body is barely functioning at above normal.
Sometimes the results we chase don’t bear fruit, but we still keep going, pushing, shoving, guilting ourselves and ignoring our inner voice, the voice of our body.
That pain you feel, that is your body begging you to breathe, rest, reset, & connect to it.
We all know that pushing forward in a stressed body only adds to the pain, and thus the mental load.
Somatic movement is all about understanding the mind-body connection.
If we look at somatic from this perspective it starts to make sense that your pained body is affecting you mentally. We all know pain is exhausting, why? Because moving and functioning in a pained body pulls on your internal resources, causing you to get exhausted and the more you pull on your body and its reserves the more you stress it, mentally and physically.
People often wonder how somatic aids in weight loss, something as a society we are consistently obsessed with, unfortunately!
As you participate in somatic you ease your pain, as you ease your pain you ease your body and mental weight.As you heal that pain ,you start to see the excess weight falling off, this weight was your pain, it was your toxic mental overload, it sat with you like a comfortable blanket.
Once you start to introspect why you were in pain, why you continue to push your body, and further stress it, you start to see your mental health gets the love and affection it needs.
You start to see that the ease of somatic movement loosens the weight sitting on your body, and it starts to melt off.
Somatics is not claiming to be a weight loss machine, but we all know what stress does to our body.
When you approach somatic from the perspective of healing and connection, you start to experience the many benefits of it, decreased stress, decreased pain, better sleep, and the loosening of what we can only call sticky stress weight.
