We have mastered the art of articulating our traumas, but are completely detached from the physical base on which these traumas exist. Engaging with the pain will simply trap you in the cycles that created this pain. True restoration does not come through dissecting our pain, nor from rationalization of our challenges. No, true restoration takes place in the absence of mental reasoning, and in the presence of an unanalyzed sensory experience-the one brought about by somatic meditation, which allows our body to feel its way towards healing.
Changing the Brain’s Plasticity
By frequently meeting stressful feelings in oneself with mindfulness and acceptance, one changes how neural pathways function. The repeated practice will lead to a smaller amygdala, the organ responsible for generating fear and anxiety responses, and a more active prefrontal cortex.
Releasing the Stored Cellular Trauma
Not only are trauma and stress mental phenomena, but they can leave physical marks on the body. By sitting still and experiencing bodily discomfort, one finishes the stress cycle and releases cellular trauma stored in the muscular tissues, fascia, and other organs.
Completion of Emotion
As waves of energy meant to crest and move through, emotions need completion when held at bay. Meditation offers the concentrated and neutral environment needed to allow the completion process to take place.
Increasing Window of Tolerance
By meditating on the most difficult emotions, your ability to withstand stress in general grows over time. You learn how to sit with those hard states without being thrown for a loop, since you know now how to manage them.
Turning Density into Fluidity
Emotions not felt feel weighty, stagnant, and unchanging. When you bring your meditation consciousness onto a “weighty” emotion, you start to realize that there is more to the experience than being solid and stagnant; it turns out to be a dynamic collection of vibrational movements in flux.
Reducing Inflammation Due to Chronic Somatic Pain Perception
If your mind perceives the threat of emotional pain constantly, it activates an inflammatory response throughout your body. Through meditation, where the pain gets felt and released, you essentially tell your immune system to stand down from its defensive position.
Recovering Stuck Nervous System Energy
The suppression of emotional pain requires an enormous amount of subconscious energy daily. The process of letting go of those emotions through meditation unlocks all that energy for you to regain as life force, creative energy, and presence.
Utilizing Body’s Built-In Self-Harmonization and Repair Capabilities
Your body automatically balances itself, but it needs the cooperation of your mind. Through meditation, you are able to fully surrender yourself so that the innate capabilities of your physiology can do their job without being disturbed by your mind.
