Body Shock
Dear Friends,
There is a lot of shock in the collective right now. It’s very palpable when I rest my hands on clients. It feels like a layer of protection that is thicker, less moveable and dense.
When I think of our symptoms, not the ones that will kill us but the ones that rob us of joy, I am convinced that they are a creative approach to identity where our consciousness cannot yet expand.
At the top of a session when I ask, “What would you like me to be thinking about?” I am listening with my whole body to the answer—what vibrates, what stays fixed, what brightens, what dims? The way our system grooves into our unique patterns tells a story of where the tectonic plates of our being are peacefully dynamic or painfully stuck.
Some of these fault lines are inherited. Some are shaped in early development. Some arise through present day circumstances and contain conditions the nervous system cannot metabolize. We then bind or mobilize parts of our structure to preserve our function. When the detour stops sufficiently energizing the body, the system lays down new pathways. This can look like tissues that move too much and tissues that barely move at all. Hypermobile areas compensate for rigid ones.
Over time, the adaptation becomes the strain. The body is always attempting distribution, but when pathways become congested, dehydrated, compressed, dissociated, inflamed, or emptied the force can no longer travel cleanly through the system. We become expert at expressing and performing while becoming exhausted, overwhelmed and eventually frozen.
As time passes, the tectonic plates become overloaded with pressure ready to tip into shock. It takes something small like a rapid head turn to catalyze a sudden reorganization. We scramble to resolve the symptoms without relieving the tectonic pressures. Rapid intervention may feel better initially but can overwhelm a system and outpace its current capacity.
It can take time to remedy. The body completes a movement that was interrupted long ago.
Slowly, we move toward coherence, not by erasing the earthquake, but by allowing the unfinished motion to finally complete itself.