Whenever I care to carefully listen, my body speaks to me in mysterious ways!
Charlie Badenhop, the Seishindo Guru,
states that at every moment in time your subconscious mind speaks to you through your body, in a language that is as refined, systematic, and complete as your verbal language.
This "somatic" language that your body communicates in forms the basis of the non-cognitive wisdom known as sixth sense, intuition, or "somatic intelligence."
Becoming fluent in somatic language can help you to think less, yet know more. Understanding the subtle yet systematic communication of the body can help you achieve breakthroughs in your personal health and well-being, as well as adding significant value to the existing abilities and skills you already manifest in your life.
The language of the somatic self is the pre-verbal communication that allows us to make meaning out of our experience prior to learning our native tongue. It is part of our mammalian consciousness, is intuitive and relational in nature, seems to direct us to join with other life, and it remains our primary meaning making language throughout the entire course of our lives.
This language forms the foundation of our memories, verbal communication, learned responses, and our ability to live and sustain ourselves. Much in the same way that words are systematically joined together in infinitely varied combinations, to form the content of our verbal language as used by our cognitive self, the various components of the building blocks of consciousness are systematically joined together in infinitely varied combinations by your somatic self, to form the language of your somatic self.
This is a language of immediate experience as compared to verbal language being a communication of abstractions.Verbal representations are
an edited, convenient, synopsis of our somatic-emotional experience, and lead us to pigeon hole our experience as a discrete event in time. Having forgotten this we think that our verbal language is our experience.
But in actuality our verbal language is one step removed form our actual experience. It is an abstract description or labeling of our experience.
Charlie Badenhop is the originator of Seishindo, which is a discipline that was designed to help people cultivate their ability to live in a generative, life-affirming manner, in order to more consistently live with passion, clarity, and commitment. Seishindo is a Japanese term which can be said to mean "the cultivation of a pure heart and simple mind" or "the cultivation of the whole self".
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