Let Go
The process of change always involves letting go. Of who you have been. Of the way you have seen yourself, and others have seen you. Of what has felt like “normal” to you until now. Of how your body has held things for you, and how you have protected yourself in the world.
Sometimes letting go is easy. Other times, not so much. In Biodynamic work, your body releases old energies as holding patterns are cleared layer by layer. As you become more whole and connected, whatever does not reflect your Health rises to the surface. In between sessions you can develop your own resourced ways of releasing what is ready to go as it catches your attention.
Sometimes letting go is easy. Other times, not so much. In Biodynamic work, your body releases old energies as holding patterns are cleared layer by layer. As you become more whole and connected, whatever does not reflect your Health rises to the surface. In between sessions you can develop your own resourced ways of releasing what is ready to go as it catches your attention.
Simple Practices
- Make a releasing ritual for yourself. Write down whatever you want to let go of on a piece of paper, after sitting for a few minutes and noticing what needs to go. (For one hypothetical, everything you have no control over…) Fill up a page of paper. Fill up the other side. Do with it what is most satisfying to you: Tear it up. Bury it in a hole. Burn it in the fireplace. Add it to the compost heap. Run it through the shredder… Making it physical helps complete the process.
- As you become more aware of where you grasp, or tighten up, in your body, take a breath and let it go on the exhale. It can help to put a hand on that place (shoulder, neck, stomach, diaphragm, back, etc…) to give it a reference point, or something to soften and release into.
- Using guided imagery, find yourself a container into which you can place whatever you want to let go of. Get comfortable in your position of choice. Take some deep relaxing breaths. Settle in. Let an image come to you of the perfect container of the moment for this purpose. It can be a jar, a box, a barrel.. receive whatever pops into your mind. Get a good look at it/feel for it. Notice a way to fill the container with whatever you are releasing–you might know what that is, and you might not know–then to seal it up completely. Take a minute to notice what each step feels like as you move through, and let it settle in your system. Now find a way to dispose of it– throwing it in a volcano is one way, sending it out to space on a rocket ship is another, there are many others… How does that shift things?