Patient: “I am trying to visualise I can trust my body to do this”
Me: That’s really interesting.
Thank you for letting me know.

This morning when you were going to have your shower, did you try to trust? 

P: No
M: Did you visualise your body trusting? 
P: No
M: Did you visualise your hand going into the water before you did it?
P: No
M: OK
I guess you just put your hand into the water to see if it was good or not for you, isn’t it?
P: Yes
M: That’s exactly what happens here
I would like you to see if you can come to the sensation you are having where my hand is on your back and explore it. 

The patient has an opening and reports feeling calm.

 

In Amanae we go under the mind's radar, under what we think and the thoughts we have about whatever is rising.
We don’t go with “the story” of what is happening or make “a better story” or try an “improved one”. This is normal as it is the way most of us live our lives: in our minds.

On the contrary, in Amanae, we recognize what we are thinking, the ideas appearing as part of the moment and stay within the body.

This acknowledgment and the space given to the moment including everything, allows the body / mind to have, to see itself from a different, deeper perspective which is “love” as spaciousness, acceptance, openness. 

Having a bit of distance from the painful identification of “ME & MY THOUGHTS, ME & MY PROBLEMS” the body is able to release the gluey stickiness of it.

A connection to freedom in the flesh.
The solace of the heart’s space that is always here for us.

 

28 - 02 - 2024