Strengthen your skill of self-awareness.

 The beautiful thing about somatics is that it reminds us that we can help ourselves. Helping ourselves requires self-awareness, which we all have the capacity for. Our ability to be self-aware lives in a certain region of our brain and it is designed to help our nervous system regulate how we feel.

Our brains can stop using this capacity for self-awareness when life’s challenges require us to disregard how we feel in order to get by. We might simply react based on what we’ve done in the past, or react based on what the world around us is telling us we should do. We no longer have agency over how we feel then. The self-sensing part of us that helps us regulate how we feel in the present is being ignored. 

The good news is that we can re-learn how to regulate how we feel through self-awareness. Anything can be somatic. Somatic means to be aware of your body’s experience in the present moment - how it reacts to what someone says or the details of how you create movement, etc. 

A somatic practice can support us in accessing our self-awareness and once we establish that foundation and what our current habits are, we can use it to help us move towards feeling better and creating new habits that support freedom of movement, a sense of safety and ease.