Can practicing Contact Improvisation Dance help us get connected to our Inner Spiritual Guidance?
We learn to navigate our physical movement in the world with the assistance of tangible environmental feedback. Cultural conditioning overrides and replaces our inherent inner guidance mechanism. We can reconnect with our inherent inner guidance as we consciously experience movement patterns and energies through practicing Contact Dance. In my own experience, and the experience of my clients, the self-connection we learn to clearly sense in CI can be referenced to find the felt-sense of inner soul knowing.
How do we develop an inner compass? With physical movement we learn as infants how to function in a physical world, where the impartial laws of physics guide our organisms through environmental feedback during movement explorations. As we learn to move our bodies, it's mostly a conversation between our bodies and our physical world of objects. Pretty straightforward. But how do we develop an inner compass to soul/spirit? As we live and grow up, we are constantly receiving input from other people; our teachers, our parents, friends, our bosses, our culture, There's plenty of direction and advice. What source do we use to know what's best for our lives in each moment? We have our emotions to guide us. But not in the way we usually think about emotions. How we interpret our emotions is crucially important. We can allow our emotions to inform us of what we are thinking. And our thoughts reveal whether we are on track or not. When we feel good, we are in alignment with our true inner guidance. When we feel bad, we are thinking thoughts contrary to our own truth and interfering with our well-being. Our emotions are reliable informers of whether we are thinking for ourselves, or against ourselves. And we can learn to pay close attention to this information and use it to our benefit.
We learn to navigate our physical movement in the world with the assistance of tangible environmental feedback. Cultural conditioning overrides and replaces our inherent inner guidance mechanism. We can reconnect with our inherent inner guidance as we consciously experience movement patterns and energies through practicing Contact Dance. In my own experience, and the experience of my clients, the self-connection we learn to clearly sense in CI can be referenced to find the felt-sense of inner soul knowing.
How do we develop an inner compass? With physical movement we learn as infants how to function in a physical world, where the impartial laws of physics guide our organisms through environmental feedback during movement explorations. As we learn to move our bodies, it's mostly a conversation between our bodies and our physical world of objects. Pretty straightforward. But how do we develop an inner compass to soul/spirit? As we live and grow up, we are constantly receiving input from other people; our teachers, our parents, friends, our bosses, our culture, There's plenty of direction and advice. What source do we use to know what's best for our lives in each moment? We have our emotions to guide us. But not in the way we usually think about emotions. How we interpret our emotions is crucially important. We can allow our emotions to inform us of what we are thinking. And our thoughts reveal whether we are on track or not. When we feel good, we are in alignment with our true inner guidance. When we feel bad, we are thinking thoughts contrary to our own truth and interfering with our well-being. Our emotions are reliable informers of whether we are thinking for ourselves, or against ourselves. And we can learn to pay close attention to this information and use it to our benefit.
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