09/21/2024
Fall Happy.
I saw this T-shirt and knew I had to purchase it. It not only holds rich connotation in a short phrase about our potential between the Yin and Yang of these two words, but it represents my own lifelong learning of somatic resilience and mindfulness.
Looking at it as the act of physically falling, I recognize that when we fall there is often tension and anxiety wrapped up in this unexpected act. Yet after years of practicing somatic resiliency and mindfulness, I know that as soon as the potential to fall begins if I remember to relax my muscles, invite curiosity in the act of falling, and delight in the moment of recovery, the potential injuries become significantly reduced or avoided. I find myself learning more instead, which causes a degree of happiness.
Some might equate the word “fall” with failure, as if to fall from a higher plane. Many during these challenging economic times are facing loss of income and the identity attached to their careers. Employees within a sense of job security are pondering what it might feel like to fall from being a member of a community that they have invested in for decades and may not see themselves elsewhere. How do we even begin to shift from the devastation, anger and fear of this great fall while grappling with economic security, and then consider embracing relaxed optimism, or even the elusive happy state?
At times our own physical inabilities and limitations may feel as if our bodies are falling, temporarily breaking down, or even failing us. We may have a health discovery or an accident that suddenly shifts or changes our well-being and our bodies cannot behave in the way that they have responded in the past. Such sudden changes in the body could bring about high levels of anxiety, fear and bodily traumas. These can take many months or even years to resolve if they are the result of a surgery or an accident. They can be an ongoing lifelong challenge if the condition is chronic. At times like these, and without adequate support and personal fortitude, it may feel as if happiness is too far in the distance to even consider reaching.
These are just a few of the many examples that come to mind with falling and the desire to explore it with joy and potentially end up happy. Having personally experienced many of the falling challenges listed previously, I have a deep respect for how they can impact the mind, body and soul. I recognize that if I invite somatic curiosity into the journey of the fall and apply a generous dose of mindful grace and patience, eventually feelings of enthusiasm, optimism, light-heartedness, gratitude, delight, playfulness and amusement enter my body—leading me on the path towards happy.
I continue to be in deep gratitude for the somatic skills I have cultivated over the years to aid me in such recoveries so that I can eventually find the joy, optimism and indeed a good hearty laugh of the feelings of happy that are on the horizon.
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