The Untethered Soul

I am reading a wonderful book a second time. It is rare that I close a book and immediately start from page one again. But this is a jewel that has increased my awareness and opened new doors of seeing. I've been able to bring this work into the Somatic Therapy I've been learning for the last year. It serves as a great adjunct to many spiritual programs.

He gives descriptions of the many facets of our personal beings. There is one chapter that is quite hysterical as he describes our chattering mind as the "neurotic roommate who won't shut up." The beauty of his view is that a deeper and more profound look emerges. Who watches this pesky mind? Who does the observing when we go into judgement or opinions? The book keeps bringing us back to the "Who Am I?" as he helps us fall behind the domineering mind and reminds us that above all we are soul.

Being at the bedside of those who die and leave their body is the most profound reminder of that very simple fact. We are soul first - birthed into human'ness and developed into people dealing with life on life's terms. Or not! The soul asks to be heard and given its place in our lives. If I can do that - moment by moment, I experience a different sense of freedom, one that is not borne of my senses, emotions or thoughts. There is less tethering to these senses, less attachment. I'm not saying I"m having an easy time doing this, because I am not. This leads me into a discussion of how somatic therapy works and why it is a necessary work for some people to be free to move ahead in their personal development.

When there is wounding/trauma from pre-adult years, there are memories stored in the physical body, energetic fields, and emotions. Somatic therapy touches those places with the intent to help them heal in a "nowtime" paradigm. It helps take unexplained emotions and compulsions to a field of understanding. It reaches deeper than intellectual understanding to the physical and energetic places. The tissue gets relief and it expands in new ways that it wasn't able to before, because there was an old force keeping it down. So while I love this book, it makes me cringe when I hear the words, "You just look this way." Ahhhh if only life were that simple. I can understand completely what I am doing, what the consequences are and yet I cannot stop myself from that action. The word "just" has a hundred miles of process between what I want to do and why I don't do it today.

This is why bodywork, coaching, therapy is such stimulating work for me. I love learning about any process that helps individuals move forward. Its a journey that can be as creative as it can be painful. Using the paradigm of Untethered Soul,helps soften the process into a place of "It's all good." We're human with fantastic frailties that make us reach out into community and relationships. Its the humanness of us all that makes life so interesting to observe. We just have to remember to watch the show and enjoy ourselves!