I worked with three very different clients yesterday, with three very different body dilemmas they wanted resolved.
Together, we worked through three different treatment plans, though they all had a common root: bringing awareness somewhere awareness had not been.
(Or, a little more trickily but I think more accurately stated: connecting the presence of “I am aware that I am here, now” with the awareness that already inhabits those tissues ... like an eddy released into the stream, nothing ultimately changes and yet, radically, one’s whole self-construct can change in a very real, physical way, including pain going away, strength returning, etc.)
In one session, the language of the awareness-consciousness thing (see above) was via the dense myofascia. “You’ve been in a trance this way,” I offered with my hands. “Let’s see what’s over here, a whole other aspect of who you are.”
The myofascia, really the whole body, said “yes, ah ... I’d just forgotten.” And it was done. (For now.)
In another session, the entry point / language was the hum of internal fluids — lymph, blood, the whole gamut of interstitial communication — and thin fascial barriers of the dura of the brain and spine, the peritoneum of the guts.
We shone a spotlight, again through bodywork, though this a much lighter, more “subtle” touch. (Subtle in quotes because it’s only subtle using certain, more common roadmaps of experience.)
Another session was a bit of what’s above, and also some connection to the frontal cortex experience of “I am aware that I am aware” ... which can sound like a college dorm room after a big bong rip statement, but is also pointedly true, and deep.
Awareness through “yes, I am here and I am aware of my experience (of this sensation).”
Awareness transforms ... and yes, I think it’s accurate to say, at least to propose, that it’s only awareness that transforms, so long as we don’t forget bringing awareness to something can take a huge array of languages. Of course this is not limited to the work I do, or bodywork in general or anything like that.
Cheers to all the ways we help each other get by 🙏🏽