Last night Jo Cobbit, 5-Rhythms free expression dance teacher, came to Alta Dena to the IAM Jam and I was once again reminded of the joy of movement, of dance that is without constraint (read steps) and all that is required is to be present with the music. There's no judgement, at least from outside you so that means any judgement is from within -- which it always is anyway and this is a great place to see that. For any piece of music, if there are 30 dancers on the floor there will be 30 different ways in which bodies express to the music. There's no right or wrong way to move. It's just you and the music and your body.
Jo encouraged us to dance our feelings about what's going on in the world -- whether it's saddness, fear, pain, compassion, love -- whever the feeling, just allowiing our bodies to have the freedom of that expression in the moment without suppression or stifling or hiding the feelings there. There's no certain way this is supposed to look or feel -- it just is -- in each moment. Right now I'm struggling with words to express the freedom this allows. Today my body feels lighter, younger, and more at ease.
So often in myself and my clients I find that we edit, filter, hold back, hide, stifle, suppress or just plain deny these deeper body/biology feelings and triggers or responses to the trauma we see around us. David Bercelli, who works with trauma and PTSD victims all over the world says that the body stores the memory of past events as much as the mind does. In my work with trauma and abuse victims I have found this to be true. The body, the biology is much more concerned with deep instinctual responses such as survival, safety, sustenance, continuation of the species to name a few of our instinctual responses. It is these drives that often re-create beliefs and emotions that we work so hard to change.
As I watched the videos of the tsunami that engulfed the Japanese villages, tossing about cars and fishing boats like plastic toys in a bathtub, moving a whole village including burning buildings, I was stuck by the power of the water and the powerlessness of a single individual or even a group of individuals to obstruct it. Watching this triggers our own experiences (whether from this life or inherited) of disaster, loss, powerlessness, threats of our survival and feelings of being unsafe. It's pretty well impossible to avoid the chaos of what's happening around us -- whether in our own country or abroad.
If you are feeling anxious, unsafe, threatened, powerless or just plain scared by what is going on right now, Reference Point Therapy is a way to release these feelings and move to a more neutral and balanced place. Can it change what's happening? No. The road in the world right now is very rocky and rough. What RPT can do is change our suspension system -- like a vehicle with exceptional shock absorbers -- the ride is much easier when the deep emotional reactions are allowed to release.
As I was dancing last night, at some point I began to feel gratitude for my own existence and a realization that as long as I was here, I had a purpose and that purpose was to be as balanced as possible and to be the example, the contributor, of that energy in the world. Each of us contributes to the energy around us in every moment. What are we contributing -- joy? or fear? peacefulness? or feelings of flight or attack? We may not have a choice about where the next natural disaster will hit. We do have a choice of how balanced we can be throughout that process whether it's next door or around the world. If you have past memories of threat or trauma or associations with anxiety and survival, worry and survival, with fear and survival, then it will be much more difficult for you to maintain balance. How does one make these associations? Call me if you want to know more and we can discuss this -- 818-590-0062.
When people ask me why I love RPT, this is the reason. I have found that the work I've done on myself -- the 20 plus Key Developmental Points that I cleared during and after the Level 2 workshop (offered to you in the Declare Your Freedom Package) and the work durng 2 Level 3 workshops (offered to you in the Be Your Own Miracle Maker Package) has given me a peaceful, quiet mind even in the midst of chaos. Earthquakes and tsumani's are happening all around - those that are pictured on the news and our own personal ones like the loss of a loved one, health or financial difficulties.
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