our honest reaction

Our bodies walk, sit and stand through our day with us.  They are actively participating in each conversation, surprise, hurt and smile.  Everything our brain, heart and gut feels our spine, core and chest holds.  It dances along all day to our overall emotional experience.  

When we have body awareness we can choose how that dance flows and how it feels throughout our minute, hour and day.  When we lack body awareness and stay constantly busy,  our body is much like a neglected friend.  This friend begins to complain and ‘check out’.  Our bodies atrophy in places and build tension and hurtful habits in order to be seen and heard.  It lives a sad dance along with our emotional roller coaster.  

Much like this tree, hunched over and frozen in it’s environment, our bodies harden to this neglect.  Body awareness, a flowing dance throughout your day can come when we simply begin to ask ourselves, ‘Why am sitting this way? How am I standing when I talk to this person?  How strong does my body feel when I walk into a room or when I stand to leave?’  

Begin a day stretching in bed and then let your body converse with you.  You can talk back by allowing for your own flowing adjustment, that is the conversation!!  Have a relationship, it is talking to you constantly, but lost in the buzz of electronics, traffic, family, TV and music.  We can show our bodies and the world a more confident, strong, positive person just by getting to know our own bodies again and changing our personal environment to warmth, acceptance and listening.