“You were sitting in a different position” he said.
“Yeah?” I asked, waiting to see what he had observed.
“You were almost leaning back and I couldn’t figure out if you were leaning away from me” he explained.
I laughed a little inside, knowing exactly what he had observed.
“It was weird” he said.
“I know what you are talking about.” I responded. “I find myself sitting more upright with my shoulders back” I said.
“Yes, were you leaning away?” he asked.
“No, I have felt this also. It is a result of the somatic work that I have been doing.” I explained. “My shoulders are back and my head is up. I am sitting upright and not leaning over. It is a postural change that I am noticing too” I said.
He stared at me waiting for me to continue to explain.
“I used to sit like this” I said as I leaned over and rounded my shoulders a little.
“Yes!” he exclaimed as I demonstrated the old posture that I would sit in.
“As I have been doing the somatic work around standing in my power and owning who I am, it has been neat to see the shift in the way that I am holding my body.” You see, somatic work is subtle, even if it doesn’t feel it in the moment. Somatic work is energy work in the body and when you release an old story that your body is holding and ground your body into a new story you will see a real shift in your reality. You will see a shift in the way that you hold your body, in the way that you walk across a room, in the way that you stand in the shower, in the way that you hold you cup of tea, in the way that you fold your laundry, in the clothing that you pick, in the food that you pick, in the way that you respond to people and experiences. It is the measure of if the work is actually working for you. It was neat for me to have someone who knows me so well, knows the way that my body moves and responds to life to be able to observe the difference in me without being asked to observe it. For him to just notice the physical shift that was a result of the energetic shift that was happening inside of me. It was the universe mirroring that back for me to see so clearly, almost like the universe was saying “Darling, can you see the change in yourself? Can you see it?”