Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy

What Is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness has been made popular in mainstream culture by healers, yogis, and spiritual leaders, but it’s not all about meditation practice and finding your Zen in each moment.

Mindfulness is a practice of cultivating a deeper relationship with yourself, your world, and the people that you interact with. It is a relationship of self-compassion, non-judgment, understanding, and acceptance of the experiences that have made you uniquely you.

When you become aware of how your system is operating beneath the surface, you can begin to have more conscious control over how you show up in the world and experience better results.  

What is Somatic Therapy?

Do you ever feel like you are just an actor in a play that you wrote? It’s like you are following a script on repeat. You know how the story goes and so does everyone else in your life. Talking about it over and over again just doesn’t help things to move. 

Somatic means relating to the body. Somatic Therapy involves bringing attention to what is happening in your body as you begin to unpack the experiences that you are here to address. 

When you use mindfulness to slow down and notice the subtle whispers of your physical sensations, you can begin to release painful patterns trapped in the body and free up the possibilities for a new way of being. 

So, how does mindfulness and somatic therapy help?

When you become aware of how your subconscious is creating your internal reality, you become empowered to release the patterns that seem to be controlling you.

When you are curious about your thoughts and feelings without being hard on yourself for having them, you can experience the things that you previously worked hard to bury beneath the surface in a new way. 

In relationship, you may become angry with your partner over something that seems like “not a big deal” – perhaps you become enraged whenever they leave all the lights on in the house, causing fights that leave you feeling bad about yourself and your relationship.

Maybe you struggle with addiction, automatically going for a drink every time you feel overwhelmed or down, then later feeling guilty about the consequences of this decision.

When you can witness your reactions with kindness and respect, you will be able to slow them down and create new solutions. Instead of yelling, you might politely explain why this is important to you and ask them kindly to turn off the lights. Instead of taking a drink, you become aware of your emotions and choose to channel them in a different way.

You discover how to respond instead of reacting to life. With new information, you create new possibilities.

Ready to develop a deeper relationship with yourself?

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