Learn to listen
Blaise Pascal
"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better".
We spend most of our lives not listening. This may not be what you want to hear but it’s true. We don’t listen well to others,most of the time. So often in conversation we are thinking about how we are going to respond, instead of what the other person is saying to us. We want to be heard and understood by the other person at the expense of hearing and understanding them.
We carry on this same bad habit when we are communicating with our own bodies. We rush through life and don’t listen to what our bodies are telling us. We want to tell our bodies what they should be doing by taking medicine, and stuffing down signs and symptoms of deeper problems.
Many of you may wonder what somatic work is and how it could help you. Well little did we know that the ever wise Blaise Pascal explained it to us many years ago.
Somatic work is all about knowing yourself. We may have thought Blaise was talking about knowing your own mind and what you want in life. But I think it is deeper than that. In order to know your mind you must know your body and in order to know your body you must connect it with your mind.
Our nervous systems connects our body and brain together. Our brain does not just send our nervous system signals to get things done in the body; but our body send signals back to the brain, so we know how to react and respond, emotionally, with in certain situations.
This is where listening comes back into the conversations. In the book “Secret Language of the body” by Mann and Rabin, we are taught first and foremost that we must learn to listen to our bodies. Not just by noticing the symptoms our body may be experiencing physically, but to the sign that are sent as signals from our nervous system. These signs come before the physical symptoms happen. Becoming aware and listening to ourselves is the first step towards healing and rebuilding ourselves and our nerves systems!
If these thoughts are interesting to you at all? Please reach out via email or phone and together we can learn to converse with ourselves and work towards being a healed and whole person!
Anna Wallace is a certified somatic practitioner and if you are interested in learning more call or email
Info@revivalwellnessandmassage.com
706-623-2110