“A body in movement allows to express emotions and experiences helping the person to relate positively to your body and to the environment. " The body, "our body", the one that does not we always dwell. He talks to us about us, he tells us about our weaknesses, he protests when we don't hear him, (something frequent). When we communicate through it there is no interference, there are no possibilities to manipulate words. The body does not deceive, it does not distort, it shows itself as is, even to our regret. To understand it is to understand ourselves. Knowing it more enables us expand our non-verbal language, discovering pleasant ways of relating, expressing our emotions and sensations just with a look, a touch, a caress.
In this PsychologyOnline article, we will talk about the internal and unconscious language of the body.
Index
- What does our body say?
- Develop Expressive Movement
- Body Distance
What does our body say?
Body work allows us to recover
We are the product of educational systems and training programs in which the intellect is seen as the only relevant tool for dealing with human problems. The more we have separated our identity from our own bodily expression, the more things seem to happen to us: we feel fragmented, out of control. When a person alienates what is organically his, he disrupts his vital functioning. If trying to make contact with someone is criticized or rejected, it becomes a risk to show the own need for love and the muscles of the arms and chest tighten to counteract this done. Nowadays, very intellectual communication is frequent, relationships that are often cold, lacking in human warmth.
Through various investigations it was revealed that people in order to eliminate anxiety and other sensations they held their breath and contracted their bellies. In those situations that are perceived as threatening or painful, the breath is held, the diaphragm contracts, and the abdominal muscles are compressed. Releasing the tension produces a sigh. If this becomes a chronic pattern, the chest remains swollen, in the inspiration position, the breath is shallow, and the belly is hard. Decreased respiration reduces oxygen intake and energy production through metabolism.
Every emotional disturbance brings with it a energy flow blockage, a reduction in mobility (due to the difficulty of expressing feelings of anger, love, etc.). Elimination of stiffness is achieved by movement and expression and it allows us to release vegetative energy to make it available. Emotion leaves us speechless, great joys as well as great sorrows are speechless. Feelings of sadness involve feelings of heated heaviness in the chest, tightness in the diaphragm, constriction in the throat, and watery eyes. They become the act of crying when we allow the sensations to develop naturally into contractions of the respiratory muscles, sobs, and facial expressions of pain.
Feelings of arousal include lifting sensations in the chest, tremors in the stomach, tingling sensations, and running in the arms and legs. Relaxing the chest, opening the breath, are means to open channels. Our quality of life improves as our possibility of enjoyment expands. The word emotion comes from Latin (out) and movere (to move) to move out.
Develop Expressive Movement.
The body expression through spontaneous, free movement, generated by the same person allows a direct approach to your emotions, sensations, to pleasure. Exploring your possibilities of non-verbal communication with yourself and with the environment is a way to enrich yourself.
In fact, it is only through movement that the feeling has full meaning. Only by moving can we connect with the need that the feeling manifests to the environment where the needs can be satisfied.
Body work, physical contact, breathing, muscle unlocking and certain exercises are starting points for changes, these movements being liberating of emotions or expressions. Those people who approach body work usually do so because they imagine that the body will be understood from another perspective, different from the medical, psychological or physical and gymnastic. A space where you can contain that disagreement between what you are and what you bodily desire.
The Distance From The Body.
In addition to bodily discomfort and symptoms, people are often not comfortable with their existence as physical beings. Men and women perceive a mismatch of their body image with the demands that the social environment demands.
There are those who approach body work from the conflict, from the pain, from the symptom, eg. the flat-abdomen of many women is unnatural, it requires a cost of muscle hardening that not only lodges there but also moves to the gesture, the neck, etc.
There would be a human group whose approach is based on the pleasure seeking where to channel the pleasant movement, the contact with the own body, the discharge of energy as relief of tensions, spontaneous massage of tense areas, being able to have fun through movement and play.
Body language returns the closeness we need so much to break our loneliness, the isolation produced by "modern" life, or by various factors: (illnesses, breakdowns, difficulty in communication) Situations of illness or pain sometimes make people "separate from their body", dissociate (body-mind) or deny it, that diminishes their affective life and the position of "I can bear anything" avoids feeling and acting to satisfy the needs of comfort and support
What are the goals of body work?
Among others, to recover forgotten creative aspects of the person. Recognize and sensitize your body from direct experience of it, spontaneity, music, play: non-verbal communication with others.
Reconcile with the changes produced by a disease that has imposed limits, not always easy to accept. To feel comfortable in our body again, to inhabit it in all its dimensions.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
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