Body’s Wisdom

From Vicky Woodward

The body has a wisdom of its own….To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative, dammed energy is out…

If the individual is ready, and if the experience has been one of trust, a powerfully numinous dream of the Great Mother as nourishing, loving protector is often given. Rarely does she show her face, but her love infiltrates the body with a soft, luminous Light, an experience so powerful that the woman returns to that moment again and again when the Gethsemane days of the analysis seem unendurable. Repeatedly, analysands say, “I don’t know what happened. I am not a religious person, but I know Somebody loves me.”

Such an experience can turn an addiction around….

. …Many intuitives who have trusted their intuition all their lives realize through body work that their bodies are just as intuitive as their psyches.

The body is the medium through which the soul enacts itself….

…What I have discovered in many of my analysands, however, is what I call a “possum psychology,” where the body either cannot or will not reinforce the feeling value… If there is unconscious hostility in the environment, the inner body, acting autonomously…