These rocks are blue

I’m enjoying rocks.  Rocks in context.

I’m going to share an experience I had the other day because it may give you a sense of one of the ways Body Harmony helps people.  It certainly helps me.  

I have times of being stressed, tense and worried about things in life. I imagine many people do. I have felt this way a bit recently with unhappy thoughts.  I sometimes notice ‘beautiful’ things but the magic isn’t there. I don’t feel any experience of beauty.

I went to the beach, sat on a bench and explored some Body Harmony movement and connection practices.  I particularly paid attention to rocking my pelvis gently on my sits bones and exploring movement up and down my spine.  I used these movements to:

• discover how I was feeling in different parts;
• explore how much ease of movement there was in those areas; and to
• allow and receive my body without trying to fix it, or make it the way I think it ‘should’ be.

A potency emerges in the space of receiving and allowing.

I place a hand on my knee.  I vary my touch until I experience it as tender.  Inspired by Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine, I pay attention to the sensations in and around my knee. I say to myself:

“This is my knee”    

“I welcome you back”

My breath expands with little tremors of release. I sense a new connection down my legs into my feet.  So I stand and walk down to the sand.  

I feel it around my feet. I appreciate it. A sensation I am surprised to recognise as pleasure.

Then I notice my face. I am actually smiling. 

I wander to the end of the beach and meet these rocks.  Rocks that in previous weeks had only seemed grey.

Yet someone had changed them.  

I think a simple thought.  ‘These rocks are blue!’.

And am very happy.