How Somatics Helps Us Shift From Fear to Possibility
If you’ve ever tried to “change your mindset” only to fall back into the same patterns, you’re not alone. Change isn’t just mental, it lives in the cells of our bodies. Our worldview isn’t an abstract idea; it’s alive within the nervous system and the psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) system. This is why transformation can feel elusive: our physiology is looping our current paradigm.
It is from somatic practices that emergent and regenerative change becomes possible.
A challenge is that there isn’t a clear start and finish line to this shift in worldview. The message is often “once you see the world differently, your life will change.” But with an ever-looping physiology supporting your current worldview, change feels (and is) hard. Somatics offers emergent change, through various practices of softening what is and cultivating what is desired/ longed for. In other words, somatics offers us a non-linear path to regenerative healing. Through somatic work, my body opened to a new vision of the world, which was a radically different experience than the decade I spent seeking peace with my mind.
As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about and feeling the injustices of the world, it can feel difficult to maintain a sense that the world is good. Therefore, I have a daily somatic practice that reminds me that even amongst the world’s greatest travesties, our very existence is good, miraculous even. And in this practice, fear dissipates and possibility prevails.
“When fear dominates, our sense of possibility collapses.”
It is imperative that we look at the science of regeneration — the vital relationship between the nervous system, the PNEI system, and our worldview — and how the intersection of these three influences our cellular and genetic functions.
From here, we can create the space required to learn how to shift fear dominance in the body so that possibility can come alive again within our systems.
Somatics reminds us that change isn’t linear, but it is possible. By working with the body, we regenerate not just our cells but our capacity for hope, creativity, and love.
Journal prompt to explore somatic shape:
This prompt can be drawn or written
Consider your worldview. All of the beliefs, expectations, perspectives that you hold, as well as the pace and structure of how you are living. In somatics we call this your somatic shape. I invite you to draw, map out, write your current somatic shape. What thoughts, beliefs and values are you currently abiding by?
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Now consider your desired somatic shape. What worldview do you desire to uphold? What thoughts, beliefs and values do you long to live in accordance (or resonance) with?
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Notice the relationship between the two somatic shapes. Where they are the same and where they are different. This is where your practice lies. In the places where your desired somatic shape might emerge from your current somatic shape.
Mallorie Buoy
Mallorie is the founder and lead educator at Homebody School of Somatics. She currently practices as a Registered Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Clinical Somatic Therapist, as well as a psychedelic-assisted therapist. With over 15 years of studying mysticism, movement, and exploring the rich truth of cosmic law, alongside the science of it all, she now teaches others to become somatic educators and therapists without the stress or overwhelm of a traditional university setting.
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