Your Body Is On Your Side

When you have a chronic and debilitating illness or face other physical, mental or emotional conditions that challenge your day-to-day, you may catch yourself projecting towards your body anger, blame, disgust, hatred even, or the desire to live in a new container. You may talk as if your body owes you something and say that it has "failed me". You may not understand why pushing more forcefully with your mind “you have to do this body because I will it to be so” does not seem to get you anywhere.

I invite you to imagine for a moment how your body might respond to your disappointment and criticism of its imperfections when it is simply dealing with the genes, conditioning and accrued life experiences it has been handed from no fault of its own and is doing the best it can to cope, survive, and make it through the current pushing against it.....

Now imagine how your body might respond if it were to sense that you honor, appreciate and regard it as your teammate in life, that you accept it just the way it is and offer it kindness, compassion, loving care, encouragement and permission to find its way.....

In CranioSacral Therapy (CST) we hold space for and work with your whole system exactly the way it presents in the moment of your session. In CST we trust that your body is on your side; that your body’s biological intelligence and its innate capacity to heal wants to help you reach the next level of your greatest good through whatever steps your body can manage. With our skills, we gently facilitate and support your system’s process towards that end. With your assistance, through your conscious opening to the wondrous possibilities of listening to and working with your body as your teammate in wellness, the dance can begin.

This is my body,

my only body.

I give it love, 

respect

and gratitude. 

~Anonymous