Why Embodiment and Self-love? What does that even mean…
These are words I have seen a lot lately. What does it mean to be embodied and express self-love? What is all the fuss about?
After years of exploring my emotional healing and consequential growth, I’ve realized embodiment is the natural progression in my journey toward a fully expressed and fulfilled life.
More specifically, this looks like interrupting survival patterns, or reactions that do not “feel” good to me, by acknowledging what’s happening beneath them from a somatic place (in the body).
So, literally feeling into the body for sensations and their corresponding emotional charges when triggered or activated.
I learned that these sensations are often lingering pockets of past conditioning or unprocessed emotions that have gotten stuck and created disruption to our natural flow. These disruptions become our go-to behaviors (or gut reactions) in day-to-day life…they have a way of shaping our personality.
When embodied, we identify and employ love and compassion, bringing us back into wholeness. We no longer operate from the survival instinct. We get to settle into what it feels like to thrive.
These concepts have supported me in going with the flow of life vs. resisting and white-knuckling through the days with grit teeth. Sound familiar?
Being embodied or in communication with the signals-energy-sensations in my body has given me more access to my intuition. More access to my intuition allows for more profound self-agency and awareness of what is going on for me emotionally without judging what comes up.
It gives me separation from all the “shoulds” and the space to discern what best serves my highest good resulting in ultimate joy and the giving/receiving of love.
Hence more SELF LOVE leads to more love for others. When we embody love, we let it flow freely! Moving through life with compassion and curiosity creates ease anchored in truth.
As I spoke about in last week’s blog, significant “work” has taken place for this to be possible. For many years I felt as if I would take one step forward and two steps back when it came to my happiness and goals related to said happiness.
I saw it play out in romantic relationships, my career, friendships, and finances, just about everywhere. NOT a SURPRISE: the way we do one thing is the way we do everything.
More to come on next week’s blog…
I’ll be at the SNOW MOON Festival on February 5th if you’d like to try a few practices that encourage embodiment. Sign up here, or for a little 1:1 attention, schedule a FREE flow session with me!
Let Love Flow,
Bobbi