20210312 - Allowing Experience

There is magic in our bones A north star in our souls That remembers our way home There is magic in our bones - Sleeping At Last - Atlas: Body This song reminds me about the importance of staying connected with my body through which I connect with my soul / heart / being / self. Most of us have learned to abandon ourselves, our felt sensations and emotions in childhood. When our caregivers send the message that “if you feel like this I don’t love you” we need to choose between ourselves and the parent and as a child you will choose the parent, because we need that for survival. So we learn to detach from ourselves by numbing, rationalising, turning agains ourselves in self criticism and judgement. To re-connect with ourselves we practise staying with our physical sensations in the body instead of escaping into the mind and slowly but surely we come back home again.