We have lost our connection with our somatic time scale.  This is the time scale of learning, the time scale of growing, the biological-emotional time scale that growth and life happens.  We notice that when we spend the time in the presence of children, even caring for children.  What is the time scale that things can unfold while creating a supporting and learning environment around them?  What is this this supported level space of effective eating, nourishing, sleeping, integrating, and release of past baggage that allows us to learn and to step into our lives.

I notice this in the contrast, and in the gift of doing corporate work while also working somatically with myself, with colleagues and clients, and with also having the front hand view of raising a child and keeping the diligence and pace / almost a protective pace / of keeping that life environment effective and nurturing for her and for those who I hope to keep learning and being supportive for, including myself and clients.

This is not a sentiment of berating, or saying ‘this is better’, ‘others are bad’.  Rather, it is a sentiment of knowing this time scale.  Can we find it in our bodies and in our processes, as we look back on our lives?  What timescale, what way of being, what support in the environment, what way of caring for ourselves and having others be available made it most possible to learn and grow as a human being, in those (deeply changing) times in our lives?   To find and live into this awareness is to be more fully alive.

This is because we are human beings.  We grow deeply at a certain pace, and to know that somatic pace is to open to living in an alive (and therefore sacred, i.e. when we are really here giving ourselves/others the best chance to be here we are sacred, because  being here and whole is illumination of living).

So I am not an either-or person.  I advocate for touching into our learning and integrating sensibilities.  This is valuable in: all lives, organizations, people and settings.. and it takes so many unique forms I cannot limit it with dogma of saying one way is bad.  But see, seek, know a somatic sensibility.  What is that pace of growing in your life?  This is worth protecting, nurturing, knowing and growing awareness and practice.

Love,

– Rebecca