Do you recognize yourself in your actions?

Listening to a recording of one’s own voice can be upsetting for many of us. Discovering, not only that we do not recognize it as ours, too metallic, high-pitched or hoarse, but also that the tone used reveals disturbing personality traits, can raise reasonable doubts about how we are being perceived by others.

We are used to hearing our own voice from within, to observing our actions from the perspective of the utility we assume they have or from the desire for results, but the effectiveness of our actions, and our words can also be considered as such, will not depend so much on our desire, but on their real impact on the world. To put it another way, the reality of who we are, our true self, is not on this side of the playing field. Our true self plays on the other side of the field.

The Somatic observation of our way of being, the reading of the actions we carry out: the degree of anticipation or procrastination in our decision-making, the position with which our shoulders accept a refusal or the openness with which we are willing to receive a proposal for improvement, to cite a few examples, constitute episodes of a Somatic story that always takes the lead.

An embodied story that constitutes our way of being, our visible soul. A pattern that we have built, action after action, throughout our lives, but which goes back to the life experience of our ancestors, adding to our own the somatic legacy of our entire lineage. An embodied story that manifests the result of all those life experiences and that is perceptible, not only in our way of speaking, not only in the language, but also in our physical position, in our gestures or our way of overcoming or collapsing in the face of certain challenges.

The way of hunching our back slightly and lowering our chin that leads us to ask for forgiveness, when in reality we have not committed any fault or offense, is something that we apparently cannot avoid, that conveys our resignation and that is influencing the quality of our actions. The way we raise our eyebrows and become rigid, avoiding contact with the emotions of others, as if we were afraid of losing our reasons if we consider those of our opponent, makes us seem brittle and diminishes our ability to influence, even if at certain times it allows us to impose our ideas.

The acceleration of the pulse, the blood congestion in the upper part of the body, especially chest and head while we speak, forgetting to keep our feet on the ground, forgetting our legs and hips when passionately defending an option, distances us from reality making us the first victim of our manipulations. And each of these physical responses constitute our way of being, which from Somatic evaluation we understand as our Soma.

Cultivating our Soma becomes a necessity when we want to transform our way of being, which, in the eyes of the world, is what we do. To achieve this, the Somatic School is based on the practice of that inner path that takes us back to the playing field, to inhabit our form.