Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Seeing energy moving in the body as feelings.

Not wildly interactive but if you can imagine the following.
Your at the ocean and it is sunny, a perfect breeze and you are walking
along getting your feet wet. Or
you are coming out of a movie theater just seeing your favorite film. Or
you are with the love of your life. Or
you just hit the winning shot in your favorite sport.

All of these moments bring happiness and pleasure to you.
Feeling groovy as I use to say. Feeling good. What does feeling mean to you?
Please take a moment and scan your body. Do you feel anything moving to the surface of your body? If you feel the movement of energy in your body moving to the surface of your skin then your one of the few people who has escaped our culture of the walking dead.

I am the bearer of bad news. You have forgotten what it is to be alive. Oh I know we all
think and therefore I am. But that is only a small part of being alive. Oh OK big shot
What is the rest?
Ready?
Life is movement. Remember you are that from Yoga. Well guess what you are similar to
moving clouds. Not only does your heart pulse, but energy which you are actually moves within
your body. Like Walt Whitman who wrote about this breeze of energy, this sometimes
gentle movement within us is the movement of life. Your feelings are actually a type of movement in your body: like an amoeba under the microscope that pulses to the surface of its membrane, feelings also move to the surface. Literally when you fall in love it is a moving experience . At different peak moments you have also felt part
of this movement. Why don't we actually feel this movement all the time?


Each of us has our own story. The common denominator is the ceasing of the movement.
If you do not experience the movement (Dr. Reich called them streamings) you will seek addictive ways to compensate for their ceasing.

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