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How can I work somatically with trauma when I am physically limited?

My physical injury keeps me from being able to freely move and be in nature and keeps things more physically stuck as trauma is harder to work through without free movement.

Every trauma involves the felt sense of being trapped, losing the freedom of movement. It is a traumatic felt sense. Not an ultimate reality. Some kind of movement is always happening, everywhere in the visible field. There is no such thing as non-movement.

Each time we tell ourselves that we can’t, that we’re not free, that we are separately condemned and unhealable, we do a kind of violence to our living experience. This builds up and increases physical stress. So especially when working with the thin line between trauma and physical discomfort, be kind to yourself, be soft, let the care that moves with your consciousness be free of agenda and conditions. Above all, allow yourself the possibility of happiness, somewhere deep down, in being part of this journey.

It is a general rule of healing that life puts us where we need to be in order to grow through all dimensions. Your physical injury is conditioning your free physical movement, but it doesn’t prevent other kinds of movement, such as the movement of energy, or the free movement of consciousness.

Sometimes we need such an experience in order to release our notion that our wellbeing depends on the grosser material world.

We become physically blind, so that we might find our inner sight. We become physically compromised in movement, so that we might find our inner freedom to move.

The secret is in the causality. As long as we see the gross material vibration of form as an authority and creator of the subtle dimensions of ourselves, we become imbibed in limitations beyond what is necessary. Our physicality does not cause our existence, or the subtler dimensions of experience. It is quite the opposite. The causal layers – i.e. our freedom to reside in the infinitely regenerating qualities of true nature – have a direct formational impact on our physicality. We learn this through direct experience of checking it out in our own living field. But do check!

Try to prioritize and value your subtle energy and the inner world. It might be purer, and formless, but this doesn’t make it weak. Does your physical condition limit your imagination? Does it have the authority to restrain the freedom of your spirit? When you dream at night, do you dream of yourself with a physical limitations or are you free?

When we begin to allow the freedom of movement within ourselves, irrespective of physical conditions, then a whole adventure can open, perhaps based on wonder and curiosity in what it is possible to experience in the present and future, rather than on limitations that always belong to the past.

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