People often come to a session wanting to know why they can’t let “IT” go…
A painful story, a health condition, a disease, a traumatic event, injustice in the world, and so forth.
Not a simple phenomenon to put into words, but I’d suggest, loosely speaking, that the entrenched preconceptions and beliefs about “IT”, (that we often psycho-physiologically ‘grasp’ at ‘letting go’ of), are implicitly patterned into the very problems, conditions or woundings we yearn to resolve and heal.
‘The case for letting go… of letting go…’
Instead of communally finding support, the safe space to feel, process, unwind, repattern, metabolise and therefore heal…
We often protectively isolate and default to desensitising ourselves. Often fixating on the story, and its inherent (and often justified) victimisation.
To desensitise, we unconsciously constrict our (psycho)physiology.
Literally cutting off sensuous contact with our world.
“IT” is very oftentimes a defensively postured tension pattern(s) in the whole of our body, constricting literally all of our entwined biological systems, compressing and hindering communication between them, making healing either very slow, or impossible.
Resensitising (allowing your senses to reactivate) safely and curiously is key in BioEnergetic Release. Recontacting the world.
We demonstrate to our organismic subconscious, (which we could correlate in part with our inner child, or wounded self) that although ‘what happened’ may well be ‘true’, and indeed an unacceptable injustice, “IT” is not true for our ‘body-mind’ right now in this very moment. The organismic present, the ecological (sense of) self.
Assuming we’ve claimed or found real-world sanctuary from “IT”… There are many engaging and sensuous ways to experience, through our senses, (and therefore remap neurologically), the reality that “IT”… (for example)…
‘The threat’ has passed.
‘The abuser’ is not here in this room.
That not all ‘people are dangerous’.
That ‘the fight’ is over…
By (un)doing so, the subconscious is given ‘the (experiential) memo’, through our sensory immediacy and regulation of self, that ‘it’ is not “IT”, anymore…
