How am I blocking myself?

I recently listened to an amazing Podcast interview with Dr Sue Morter which discussed how we create blocks in our body and that our energy system must learn to navigate its way around those blocks.  These blocks are often emotions that we have supressed, that get lodged in the body.  Often the pain may come from a secondary area, something we often uncover in a kinesiology session.  For example, a feeling of unworthiness, primarily affecting our heart, may present itself in a tennis elbow, relating to our inability to receive or feel worthy of receiving love.

When practicing Yoga, I have started to tune into the areas of my body where I feel tightness or resistance, and question what is the emotion that I have stored in that part of my body or what is that I am resisting in my life that is causing this block?  What emotions are stored in my knees that are causing me pain?  The tightness in my lower back, what is it that I am I resisting and what can I shift to allow me to move more freely both physically and emotionally? By focusing on the feelings, we are having in our bodies, and being able to sit with them and to breathe into them, rather than suppressing them or trying to push them away, we bring them to light and through acknowledging them, they can begin to heal.

This process of becoming really present to our bodies can sometimes be uncomfortable, as I discovered in a recent a Sip and Soma session with Stephanie Moyle of Club Soma.  Steph guided us through her session of Somatic Therapy so wisely, gently, and compassionately, having us focus on the areas in our body where there was tightness and pain and the emotions, we felt behind them.   After the session I felt a real sense of lightness, peace and empowerment.

Tuning into our bodies, be it through Kinesiology, Yoga or Somatic therapy, and learning to surrender to the feelings that arise, allows healing to take place on so many levels. These practices have allowed me to discover and remove blocks that I had been struggling with in my life and I am really excited to see what starts to open for me in the coming weeks.