Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body. Alexander Lowen

 Therapy is sometimes  known as the talking cure. But we can talk a great deal and still not get to the point. A huge amount of information is communicated by body language. And yet we can be stuck up in our heads and very out of contact with what our body is saying. Till it starts shouting and we experience pain!

Noticing what is happening in our bodies and paying attention to our breathing is essential to a feeling of total aliveness. 

When approached with compassion and curiosity physical symptoms, acute or chronic, and however scary, can bring us much insight into ourselves.

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.  ~Elizabeth A. Behnke