movement never lies
“movement never lies. it is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.”
We are constantly using our bodies to communicate our feelings and intentions to the world. From unconscious gestures to the facial expressions that dance across our features as we speak and listen, we are sending important messages about our needs and values through our bodies every moment.
Maybe you have had an experience of your words not being in agreement with your feelings? Or feeling totally misunderstood in a conversation with someone? Building awareness around nonverbal communication can be an important part of expressing yourself, being understood, and connecting with others.
“Movement” and “embodiment” don’t have to be limited to dance. In therapy, we often use movement and embodied explorations to connect with our sensations and spatial awareness as a way to understand our emotional experience, and the emotional experiences of others. This is a way we learn to gauge how we’re being impact by the world, and how we impact and make an impression on the world around us.
These explorations might include bringing your attention to:
👉🏻 gestures
👉🏻 movements/micromovements
👉🏻 metaphor/images
👉🏻 sensory awareness
👉🏻 kinaesthetic awareness
👉🏻 what else would you add to this list?
Have you ever had the experience of knowing something in your BONES? This is bodily knowing. I trust your bodily knowing implicitly.
Our bodies and our emotions are inextricably linked: our bodies - thoughts, feelings, sensations, movements, gestures - impact our emotional experience, and vice versa. This bi-directional relationship is at the heart of how we move through the world, and navigate our relationships. Bringing awareness to how we move, gesture, and sense, can help us to connect with our emotions and intentions through our bodily experience, moving toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships.
