In my articles, I’am often talking about mobilising the body to enter more in contact and be more aware of your body. How to do this? For example with this easy exercise that combines breathing and movements.
It can be practiced almost everywhere, sitting or standing, and, because it makes us move the torso – in coordination with breathing – it is very affective in helping us stopping automatic patterns (*). [Weiterlesen]
In the last article, we talked about four negative scenarios that can occupy our attention and bring us to avoid a situation; so doing we reduce our ability to feel our body.
Someone asked me what to do, to overcome this kind of patterns. More practically, how to train in order to be able to face what is frighting, uncomfortable, unknown instead of automatically avoid such situation.
Actually, there are no general recipes: we are all different and different is our personal story. That said, I think that the first step is to recognise what kind of situation you „normally“, automatically avoid. [Weiterlesen]
I would like to start the new year with an article about our negative scenarios. I mean these scenarios that our mind brings up and instead to help us preparing for a possible situation, they provoke the opposite result, blocking us from experiencing and learning something new.
I identified until now 4 kind of negative scenarios that, when they have power over us, reduce our ability to feel our bodies. They occupy our attention telling us a story about ourselves that is more connected with the past than with our present. They make harder for us to be aware of ourselves because they create tensions in the body and breath restriction. And they are an attempt to avoid uncertainties and fears. [Weiterlesen]
My brain and heart divorced a decade ago
over who was to blame about how big of a mess I have become
eventually, they couldn’t be in the same room with each other
now my head and heart share custody of me
I stay with my brain during the week
and my heart gets me on weekends
they never speak to one another
– instead, they give me the same note to pass to each other every week
and their notes they send to one another always say the same thing:
„This is all your fault“
on Sundays my heart complains about how my head has let me down in the past
and on Wednesday my head lists all of the times my heart has screwed things up for me in the future
they blame each other for the state of my life
there’s been a lot of yelling – and crying
So, lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time with my gut
who serves as my unofficial therapist
most nights, I sneak out of the window in my ribcage
and slide down my spine and collapse on my gut’s plush leather chair that’s always open for me
~ and I just sit sit sit sit until the sun comes up
last evening, my gut asked me if I was having a hard time being caught between my heart and my head
I nodded
I said I didn’t know if I could live with either of them anymore
„my heart is always sad about something that happened yesterday while my head is always worried about something that may happen tomorrow,“ I lamented
my gut squeezed my hand
„I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past or my anxiety about the future,“ I sighed
my gut smiled and said:
„in that case, you should go stay with your lungs for a while,“
I was confused – the look on my face gave it away
„if you are exhausted about your heart’s obsession with the fixed past and your mind’s focus on the uncertain future
your lungs are the perfect place for you
there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either
there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath
and in that breath you can rest while your heart and head work their relationship out.“
this morning, while my brain was busy reading tea leaves
and while my heart was staring at old photographs
I packed a little bag and walked to the door of my lungs
before I could even knock she opened the door with a smile and as a gust of air embraced me
she said
„what took you so long?“
~ john roedel
PS1: The original structure of the text’s presentation is changed.
PS2: Find more about John Roedel work here.
Here we go! The end of the year is approaching… Again 🙂
Maybe you also feel that the time for wrapping up 2022 is coming. 2022, the year after pandemia and after everything connected with it. [Weiterlesen]
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