Trauma and the Unbound Body by Judith Blackstone

Author:Judith Blackstone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

Increasing Our Sensory Experience

The senses reflect and reveal the way we inhabit our body as a whole. When we live more in the top of our body than the bottom, we look out of the top of our eyes. This does not mean that we look upward, but rather that we are positioned to see out of the top third of our eyes. This affects what we see. It affects the appearance of our world. When we live in the mid-third of our body, we look mostly out of the mid-third of our eyes. When we live mostly in the bottom of our body, in physical sensation, we look mostly out of the bottom third of our eyes.

You can test this out for yourself by taking a moment to inhabit your whole body. Bring your focus to the curtains in your room or the carpet. Let yourself see the texture of the curtains or carpet. As you do this, notice what happens within your body. You may notice that you naturally drop down to the bottom of your body in order to perceive texture.

When we live in our whole body at once, we see more aspects of the world around us, we receive more of the picture. The more contact we have with the internal space of our body, the more fully we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell the world around us. We also become open to a subtle range of sensory experience. We may be able to see light emanating from living forms for example, or to hear the very subtle buzz of the energy in the air.

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