Embodiment Is Really Just This
I recently spent a long weekend at the beach with a group of 20 or so dear girlfriends from various phases of my life. And I was struck by how grounded, peaceful and content I felt throughout the weekend.
I felt deeply present, connected and in the flow, and it felt like we as a group were all riding the same wave of joyful, kind-hearted, grateful, playful, collectively effervescent energy together all weekend.
And on the one hand, this makes complete sense, since this was a curated group of women I’ve known, loved and trusted for years (and decades) and we were gathering around a celebratory intention.
So of course my nervous system would feel relaxed around these people…
But that wouldn’t always have been the case for me.
Years ago, before doing all of this integrative work — toward feeling my way into connection with my body, trusting myself from the inside out, crafting my external life from a place of aligned connection to what feels right to me internally — I almost certainly still would have felt often overwhelmed and ungrounded during a weekend like this.
How relaxed and peaceful I felt during this gathering resonated within me as the boiled-down essence of what all this “embodiment” stuff you’ve likely been hearing so much about lately really comes down to:
Being able to more easily and consistently feel at ease and at home inside our own bodies.
The more embodied we become, the more comfortable we feel inside our own skin, regardless of external circumstance.
Embodiment means having a reliable, secure sense of home base within ourselves that we can turn to anywhere, anytime.
Embodiment means trusting that we can turn inward, get quiet and find a still center-point deep inside ourselves within which we feel a sense of safe refuge from external chatter and circumstances.
Embodiment means our authentic spirit is able to more freely and unapologetically bubble out of us wherever we are.
And greater attunement to the nuances of what’s going on inside our body in a given moment increases our ability to regulate our nervous system, so we’re able to feel more even-keeled in any external circumstance.
This isn’t to say that we don’t get dysregulated in more extreme circumstances. Of course we still do, which is completely human, too.
It’s just that the more embodied we become — the more connected to the realm of sensations, textures, vibrations and feelings happening inside our bodies — the more we start to trust ourselves to be able to return to our own center again and again and again. And the more we start to trust that we’ve always got our own back.
And that is truly life-transforming.
If you’re feeling tugged toward exploring this realm of embodiment together, my intimate 1:1 coaching series puts whole-self integration and embodiment front and center. Be in touch to chat about possibilities.
Lots of Love,