How do you find your way home in your body? It’s personal.
Your Sensing Posture is your feeling body.
It’s a bottom-up process and you are working with evolutionary intelligence.
You are connecting to the body’s response to phenomenal forces.
Returning home to your center is your thinking body.
It’s a top-down process and you are working with personal developmental biases.
You are connecting to the body’s response to human forces: other people, social constraints, cultural pressures.
The forces of gravity, light, and sound reach our core.
Our filters of perception shape our personal capacity to experience those forces with clarity at our core.
The Fundamentals program trains you to find your core affect. You learn how to organize your body to the forces that shape it.
Rebuild Your Personal Body trains you to finesse the protective emotional layer that distorts core affect. You learn how use your body to connect to core motivation.
When your core motivation is emotional survival, it limits the dimensionality, the granularity, and the nuance of your perception and expression.
Your perception of subtle internal signals is dependent on your interpretation. It is dependent on current context, past reference points, and expectation of the future.
Stability in an office job and living in the suburbs can feel like safety to someone who escaped a war zone and built a new life. The same situation can feel like boredom to someone who has never traveled and grew up in the suburbs but longs to experience different cultures.
Relying on others can feel supportive for someone who is on a team with a clearly defined project and trusted colleagues. It’s anxiety-laden when there is no clear leadership and resentment between team members.