{"id":2798,"date":"2012-07-01T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2012-07-01T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T12:42:52","slug":"somatic-experiencing-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"Somatic Experiencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2011)<br \/>\nIt really helped to see Caryn.\u00a0 I told her about how tired I\u2019ve been feeling.\u00a0 She said \u201cHow does that feel in your body?\u201d Relaxed &amp; heavy.\u00a0 I told her I\u2019d been doing stretches &amp; the fold without the bolster.\u00a0 She was delighted, says that\u2019s major healing, especially how my right ankle is OK with lying flat.\u00a0 She says my body is much softer.\u00a0 I told her about the women in Enduring Lives, &amp; St Teresa saying at first you have to dig \u2014 and I mimed digging \u2014 but eventually it begins to flow \u2014 and I made a gesture like bringing down rain.\u00a0 I said I was angry and jealous that I hadn\u2019t got to that point.\u00a0 She said you\u2019ve done a lot of digging.\u00a0 I agreed.\u00a0 Then she said it was the first time I\u2019d make that gesture of bringing something down.\u00a0 She said it was always coming down and all I had to do was let it in drop by drop.\u00a0 I told her about the idea that when you were on your true path, synchronicities would help and support you on your way.\u00a0 I reminded her of my experience of god and shells and asked \u201cDo I need to let go of the slide show?\u201d She thought I should call Anthony and see if there\u2019s something I could do to help him get the tape converted to digital.\u00a0 Then I said I wanted to work on my neck.\u00a0 She asked how I spend most of my time.\u00a0 Sitting on this couch with a slightly slumped posture.\u00a0 She said it would be better if I could either find a way to sit up on the couch, or get up periodically to ease my body.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting straighter now, tho not how it would be if I were on a cushion.\u00a0 I\u2019ve put the journal on the cushion to raise it up higher.\u00a0 That helps some.\u00a0 Ideally I could sit on a cushion on the floor and write on a low table.\u00a0 The trouble is I like being near the fire, I like having the dog next to me, I like having the view of the patio.\u00a0 I\u2019ll work something out.\u00a0 Caryn showed me how to roll &amp; pour my head in a limited space with a folded blanket for my head.\u00a0 I could do it in the loft after doing my stretches.<br \/>\nO yes, when Caryn talked about how I had worked so hard, &amp; needed to rest from my labors, it occurred to me that maybe I needed to spend down time, integrating, before I\u2019ll be ready to do the slide show.\u00a0 In which case, the delay has been necessary.\u00a0 Having that interpretation helped a lot, allowed me to accept the delay, and paradoxically I started to have more energy.\u00a0 Though that was already happening on Sunday when I walked to Skogumchuk and danced Santiago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2011) It really helped to see Caryn.\u00a0 I told her about how tired I\u2019ve been feeling.\u00a0 She said \u201cHow does that feel in your body?\u201d Relaxed &amp; heavy.\u00a0 I told her I\u2019d been doing stretches &amp; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2798\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-somatic-experiencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","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=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}