Grief-gasm
I felt called to share here an experience I had recently that was one of the more powerful experiences of my life.
As I work to FULLY allow and embrace and EMBODY all of my emotions, taking the time (when I remember and pause to do so) to check in with myself and not only feel the emotion I’m currently experiencing but also express it… remarkable things are happening!
Recently, I was moving through my own regular embodiment practice, thinking I would go about it in my usual way. However, when I took the time to really slow down and ask my body what it was feeling, rather than just going through a mental checklist of what I thought I should be feeling, I noticed that what was most present was grief and sadness.
So that was what I felt into and started to express... I told my body and myself that I cared about this grief and I was willing to listen and witness it. I started to allow my body to move as it wanted to, (truly, it was moving me).
And then, slowly at first and then coming on strongly, this emotion of grief unfolded like a gentle yet powerful volcano erupting within me. A feeling unlike anything I had experienced before in this way.
I was worked into an ECSTATIC state by some forces seemingly beyond me, yet also wholly within and OF me. And with that experience, I was overcome by the sheer beauty of grief. It was stunningly and ecstatically gorgeous; I felt that with every fiber of my being.
What a gift it is to be human. No longer do I fear grief in the contracting way I used to. I understand it now to be just as radically beautiful and potent as any other human emotion.
This was not something I planned for or expected, it was simply what occurred with the natural flow of my body's rhythms being allowed to move.
This happened because I tuned in with exquisite care and curiosity to my emotions;
it happened because I allowed whatever emotion wanted to show up the time to be seen;
it happened because I trusted my body's somatic wisdom and followed it's intuitive guidance.
This is what I now know is possible not just for me, but for everyone.
#grief-gasmsforeveryone!