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Ask Your Body!
There is much talk about bodywork, body empowerment, body balance, and much more. Usually, we examine our bodies from the outside. How do they perform? How do they look? How much do they weigh? How old are they? How flexible are they? How exceptionally beautiful is it?
Let’s turn inward.
No, not in a medical sense. You won’t hear much about that from me because I can’t stand the sight of blood. I’m out. What I’m getting at is body wisdom. My teacher said, “Your body knows everything about you!” and I was skeptical. Very. We were studying Focusing.
He didn’t like us to call it a “method”. He said it’s a natural process that people just need to experience. It’s not a series of steps to learn and repeat. That doesn’t make it easier for us — his students and now practitioners. What do we tell our clients?
Focusing is…
Let’s start with what it does, with what it can do. It’s a secret door. All you have to do is find the knob, turn it slightly, and there you go. Your body has been with you every moment of your life. It has witnessed every single thought you’ve ever had and falsely declared to be The Truth.
It knows every ache your organs, your mind, and your nervous system ever experienced, and it knows where all those mishaps, accidents, and setbacks are stored. It knows the flow of your chi…
