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Plain and simple:

You learn

• how to relax your entire body
• how to recognize when a muscle is tense and when it is relaxed
• how to relax your body when YOU chose to
• when in difficult or demanding situations, to relax all of your body that does not need to be activated at that time (how many times is your face held tight when working...it doesn't need to be tight...You save energy.
• how to 'read' your body's intuition:
  • ​This situation is dangerous
  • I'm getting angry (you know before you even feel the emotion!)
  • He is filled with love.
• to maintain physical (and emotional) calmness when threatened - activating only those parts of your body (muscles, tendons, blood flow, digestion...) that are needed to honestly respond to the threat. Not all 'threats' are real, an insult is not necessarily a physical threat, so why respond physically?
• to maintain physical (and emotional calmness) in challenging situations, so you can diffuse the situation, yet be ready to physically act if need be.

It is magic. You are in control of your body. Your body informs you and keeps you situationally aware, inside and out. You have power and you have control over that power. No one can 'make' you react, only you have that ability.

That pressure on your cheek when you wake up? It depends on how you choose lie when you sleep.

That pressure in your life when you become aware? It depends on how you choose to live when you are awake.

There are days, weeks, months, and even years that go by...when we suddenly realize we've been gliding and sliding, not noticing our own life. We don't notice because we are 'making it'.

We are responding to questions, seeming to 'walk-the-walk', but when we try to answer a question about what matters most to us or what joy is present, we falter. We realize we do not feel the highlights of life as we once did. Perhaps we also no longer feel the pain. A loved one is ill or we are ill ourselves and all we notice is a dullness, numb of body and mind.

To begin the wakening process, tune in to the physical sensations of smell, touch, taste, sight. Stand outside and breathe in whatever smells are there, smell food cooking with all its' nuances. Touch your child's skin as if you've never felt it before. Touch several fabrics, allowing your fingertips to run over their surfaces, bringing the message of their textures to your brain. Feel the earth beneath your feet and the earth's breath upon your skin. Let your eyes alight on colors, noticing what 'pops-out' to you, and which colors intermingle into a glorious painting. Feel your body's movement through space, perhaps concentrating on the movement of your hips as you walk, sit, sway, dance.

Pick one...one at a time and place yourself there. As you begin to notice through your senses, the noticing will enhance, until your own life comes more clearly into view in crisp, multi-dimensions...

...and you smile

...you experience

....you laugh.

Sharing Emotions

How can I tell you how I feel?

How can you hear me with only your ears?

Shall I put it in writing?

Would offering my love to eyes and ears double the intensity of the love I transmit?

It would not be enough.

How can I communicate my innermost thoughts?

Can you hear me when I use all the senses at my disposal?

Shall I show you with my action and deeds?

Would combining vision, sound, and touch; helping, giving and sharing tell you my story?

They could not begin to express the depth of my feelings.

Shall I write a novel, paint a picture, build a bridge?

Stand on my head, say a prayer, dance a jig?

They’re all too small, too lean, too diminutive.

I don’t think there is anything I could do or say to fully convey

How I feel about you.

Please see it in my eyes, hear it in my voice

when I look at you and when I speak

and when I do not look at you and there is only silence...