So, I was in conversation with someone earlier and a familiar question came up about Somatics; "is it about the connection between the mind and body?" I happily get this question a lot and there seems to be quite a buzz around this idea of mind body connection which means that people are curious and are open to the idea that our conventional truths are flexible.
My simple answer is yes, it has to do with a mind body connection. But in truth, the idea of the mind and body being somehow connected is as false as saying the mind and body are separated. Simply having separate words for mind and body implies difference, separateness and is indicative of a culture that likes to compartmentalize things unnecessarily.
Long answer, in the somatic viewpoint, there is no connection between the mind and body because they are one in the same. They are both you, a soma. You are a mind just as much as you are a body and so anything that happens to your soma is just happening to... you.
In a similar way there is no connection between the emotional, physical, spiritual because anything happening to you is simultaneously and equally affecting you emotionally, spiritually, and physiologically.
The idea of a split was a construct, designed by Rene Descartes as a way of separating science(the body) from religion(the mind). It is a construct unique to modern western civilization and I would say has been a very dehumanizing construct because what that construct defines is that we are not whole, but rather separate parts working together to a better of worse extent.
So when I use the word soma, it is a way of redefining us as people. A way to bring back the wholeness that we gave up a few hundred years ago. Don't worry so much about how the mind, body, spirit, soul connect because they don't connect. They are one, they are you and you are a soma. It's a lot simpler that way, don't you think?
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