{"id":1453,"date":"2011-05-02T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2011-05-02T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T22:11:25","slug":"somatic-experiencing-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"Somatic Experiencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2008)<br \/>\nYesterday I had some times of being completely relaxed, feeling my whole body sinking down.\u00a0 It felt wonderful.\u00a0 At the moment, I feel that fullness in the chest and it keeps me from that complete relaxing.\u00a0 I can feel that my legs &amp; arms are relaxed.<br \/>\nInvestigate the feeling in my chest.\u00a0 It fills my whole chest, there\u2019s a kind of expansive pressure and the energy squeezes out or pushes up into the sides of my neck and jaw, and a little down the insides of my arms.\u00a0 Its color is yellow.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little like a hydraulic fluid \u2014 dense and under pressure.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s eased in my chest but gotten stronger in my neck and head.\u00a0 I keep consciously relaxing.<br \/>\nHere comes another wave.\u00a0 It starts in the center of my chest and aches \u2014 like a lump in the throat.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s eased and become an ache at the back of my skull.<\/p>\n<p>Session with Caryn.\u00a0 Explored the feeling of activation in my chest.\u00a0 Connected it to difficulty breathing \u2014 possibly birth or the Nia fall \u2014 anyway I found there was pressure when I breathed out.\u00a0 Caryn suggested it might have to do with birth and talked about \u201ccoming in gently this time,\u201d and I started to cry.\u00a0 Then I lay on my side &amp; just explored my breathing, trying to be as gentle as possible, allowing the breath to come &amp; go easily, taking small breaths.\u00a0 There were a lot of small shifts in the breathing.\u00a0 Then my right hand wanted to move, and I found myself doing a motion learned with Kevin \u2014 pushing my foot against the baseboard, my back against the other wall, and my hand opening &amp; stretching.\u00a0 That led to work allowing my hand to receive sensation from the floor.\u00a0 I had had a pre-movement sense of pushing with my legs against the wall and pushing myself out straight and a image of my body going through an opening with a gush of water.\u00a0 Finally I did it, pushed myself right off the cushion and on to the floor.\u00a0 It felt wonderful!\u00a0 Caryn said I looked completely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2008) Yesterday I had some times of being completely relaxed, feeling my whole body sinking down.\u00a0 It felt wonderful.\u00a0 At the moment, I feel that fullness in the chest and it keeps me from that complete relaxing.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1453\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakdown","category-healing","category-somatic-experiencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}