Gratitude

From working with lots of different people, themes emerge.  One is the simple thing about gratitude.  When a client is in gratitude of their own lives, the health of their own bodies, then there's a resonance of gratitude in the room and the healing relationship is safe for deepening into the recesses of the client's body/psyche.  In that deepening, the profundity of what keeps life going is able to do its thing, releasing even very old traumatic holdings. Why wouldn't we want that? I think we all do want that, we just lose connection to our natural gratitude at times. 

Healing is available in us all the time, I do believe that, but something is commonly blocking it.  And what is it that's blocking it?  

One way that I've come to understand the blocks to our health has to do with gratitude, and a misunderstanding/mis-training that might be in the way.  Gratitude is often talked about as being to/for someone or something outside of ourselves, for gifts given to us, or based on someone's idea about God.  But what I learn through embodiment and healing in myself as well as in clients is that gratitude is really our own internal availability to ourselves in full feeling and honesty.  A real appreciation for our very bodies and moments of life.  Real gratitude is unconditional, not hinging on having things just so, nor expecting things to go just as we want.  Gratitude is being truly with ourselves through it all.  

We can train ourselves toward the state of gratitude as a way of opening and allowing the healing that is trying to happen in our bodies/minds/lives.  Biodynamic CST is a perfect body therapy to blend with this gratitude practice.  It certainly helps me!