Author: Bianca Moeschinger and Gillian Maddigan - August 2024

During any reflective and intense work on oneself it is important to make a commitment to your body.

This commitment will eventually become a habit, this leads to a more balanced and healthier way of being.

I am stating the obvious, but sometimes it needs to be said and repeated, we are born into this body, it is the one body we will have until the day we die.  This body is constantly changing, evolving and growing even if you are unaware.

We are the guardian for not only our bodies but our entire human existence.

What is a commitment?

• it is the act of pledging or binding ourself to a certain course of action
• a dedication to something or someone that is important to us. 

In this case, the commitment represents the bond between 'your conscious self' and 'your body'.  Your body is made up of conscious, subconscious and unconscious layers. 

Our job is to learn and listen to those layers.

OUR commitment needs to move beyond our body, into our emotions,

our mind & our spiritual existence 

Our body carries our emotions, our thought forms, our flow of energy and 

the light within - the life force behind our living experience.

Why do we make commitments?

Our first commitment comes with the sperm and the egg, this attraction is when we are conceived. 

The way we feel challenges as a baby in the womb are very different from the way we feel them as an adult. In the womb we have not built our pre frontal cortex nor our logical rational brain. We also have no conscious memory of the experience as it is created by feeling.

It is within this experience we develop a bond to our human form, it is something that is not conscious, it just is.  

It is our understanding of coming together, building and facing challenges that we can love ourselves.

As we grow up our value becomes determined by others, and we value ourselves accordingly.

I Choose Compassion and kindness

Often when we look at ourselves, receive feedback or feel into our feelings we start to judge that reality.  

In the past we may have tried to avoid or bury this reality to simply move on.

TIP: When you start to feel the judgement, rather than push it away, soften your eyebrow centre... let go of the pressure and expectations... and feel into what is underneath the judgement.

When we drop into our hearts we immediately connect with the innocent compassionate parts of ourself, it is harder to judge from this place as it is full of care.

Why is it important for me to make a commitment before beginning every new course?

Each new course offers a diversity of challenges. To reaffirm one's commitment to self is a reminder of the connection.

Your commitment to self has evolved and changed since the first course you ever did even by the smallest amount.

Your perception of the world changes with new information coming in, your perception can revert back to the past but never completely.

Three things to include in your commitment to your body

FEELING - LISTENING - MOVEMENT

Feeling

Feeling is becoming witness to the expression, the experience felt inside your own body,  allow the sensations and feelings to filter up as you keep travelling down. 

The feelings and sensations will activate thought, your mind will want to anchor a story and take you off path, observe this, allow the thoughts to be loose and light. 

Notice if your body goes into shut down, observe this and once you have felt the fear response open once again to the surrender.

Remember to use your breath and muscle tension release to surrender.

Notice if your body goes into a good feeling, a need to play or a desire for pleasure, these are also possibilities.

Courage allows us to open the bottom of our heart to experience the unspoken and unfelt feelings from the past.

Listen to the thoughts without getting stuck in any particular one.  

The more you surrender to the sensations/experience the more your body will let go and find equilibrium.

Our true embodied wisdom lays beneath the surface for us to access anytime, we have the space to venture within with an open heart, ears to listen and true receptivity...

Bianca Moeschinger

Listening

When we open our mind to listen to our reality differently, we then can see our past from a place of deeper understanding.

We listen from a place of what we know to be true, this truth has been cultivated from our past experiences. Conscious memory in the thought form and also emotional feeling.  

How to listen:

• When you listen with your eyes, your ears and your touch you can gain a deeper understanding of not only yourself but of others.
• By listening we can learn to interpret our bodies internal and external language.

Question: Now that I am listening to my body, How do I navigate the world?

This will come. Listening to your body will bring you closer to your relationship with yourself, which will open you up to listening to others from a different place.

Movement

Movement happens consciously by choice or unconsciously when we have a reaction. In all moments the body is moving both consciously and unconsciously.

It is through movement with presence we can start to listen, feel and unravel the secrets of our body.

When we feel stuck, our body is literally clogged up, the pathways of life force are not able to flow and be triggered/activated. We literally get triggered externally to wake us up.

Life becomes really hard and a struggle and we become addicted to the quick release energy.

If we move everyday with presence and purpose we can connect with ourselves, what we are feeling and need.

This movement practice shows you where stagnant energy or pain, or stiffness, or sluggishness is located. You can then take action before you get too still and stuck.

TIP: A ritual does not have to be complex 

It can be as simple as, feeling into your wake up experience in the morning.

When writing your commitment to body?

PAUSE - CREATE SPACE - ALLOW STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

FEEL into your body, what does it need from you? 

Write down:

What is your commitment to your body now?

What do you want your commitment to be?

Our commitment needs to include:

Mentally - Focus versus Distraction

Emotionally - Feel, Sense versus Bury, Avoid

Physically - Rest versus Train

Spiritually - Conscious Ritual and Awareness versus Unconscious living

Remember neither is good nor bad

In the morning we wake up, the sun comes up and the kundalini rises within us...

Sacred practice is about consciously refining how we approach our life/light each day

A ritual in the morning is when we honour that light within,

we move to open up to the new day,

we feel and listen to the presence of our reality

My Commitment to my body

To remember...

When I move and focus my intention on a specific movement or muscle - my body will talk to me.

Pain is a sensation, it is my body communicating with me.

My job is to listen, and bring my body back into alignment.

I notice where I am in tension,  which muscles I need to activate to release the tension OR what muscles in reaction I need to let go of.

I connect with my breath in and out, and keep breathing.

I observe where I am breathing - high in my chest - low in my abdomen or balanced through out my diaphragm

What are my shoulders doing and is there tension in my jaw and neck?

To feel into my body...

I bring my awareness deep into my body and let it's sensations and words to rise to the surface,

In the rising to feel deeply and allow what is there to be expressed.

I soften through my heart and let my arms, hands and legs twitch and move the energy.

I allow my sound to have freedom and to notice when I get scared, run or overreact internally and externally.

Throughout this process I find peace and compassion.

Bianca Moeschinger