This is an online book outlining one tried and tested way to work with (and begin to inhabit)) the body as an intelligent, self-optimising living organism.
Your body is a sentient biological entity that actively wants to communicate with the cognitive self - but can only do this on its (i.e. the body's) terms.
The biological, organic, living BODY (and not the mind) is the ground for everything.
A good quality relationship with the body is also a prerequisite for a good quality relationship with the environment - the body outside ourselves, the extension of our body (just as our bodies are extensions and living parts of the biosphere). [2]
Furthermore, the approach (theory and practical applications) I describe provides a gentle, humane, simple, respectful and highly effective means to directly address low to medium level trauma, along with dissociation. It can also help to neutralise central sensitisation. In doing this it can also potentially help all of the various and many somatisations (issues with physical health) [1] that arise as a result of overwhelm and dissociation.
The Earth has been organizing living systems for billions of years. We can learn a lot by simply living into her natural patterns again.
Joe Brewer [3]
This book is for everyone, because - as will be described - overwhelm and consequent (often low level, invisible) dissociation are universal and endemic in Western cultures. When dealing with embodiment - at some point the forceful mindset that underpins our very colonial culture ceases to work. Here I have presented one tried-and-tested way of directly co-working with the body's internal innate intelligence - by applying its own rules. The outcome is gentle, organic, very effective, constitutes a valuable life-skill - and is complementary to and supportive of many other ways of embodying.
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