Your Somatic Compass
A way to feel your way forward rather than thinking it.
- from the body
- not the head
- knowing without knowing
We can define our values.
We can define our goals.
But when the fit hits the shan what will you be guided by in the end?
Your gut.
In life there are some decisions that can’t reduce themselves to a set of simple choices.
These are the great decisions in life.
The decisions that open you up to new worlds and new possibilities.
For Type A people learning this way of deciding is a big step.
Making sense of what the gut is trying to say is usually a late in life learning experience.
Which includes learning that:
- emotions start in the body.
- feelings are stories we tell ourselves about those emotions
- these stories come from past experiences
Being able to differentiate the stories that serve us from the stories that don’t is the work.
Particularly when you’ve had a lot of stories for a long time.
It takes a story reset.
Which is key to the midlife transition.
From meh to meaningful.
From bored to blissful.
- out of the head
- into the body.
- sense and respond
It takes trust.
It takes experimentation.
It takes bravery.
Your body is your somatic compass.
It just needs calibrating.