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Track Your Path

“Traveller, there is no path. The path is made by walking.”

Antonio Machado
What we are lightly tracking in biodynamic/energetic work writ large is how the original impulse wants to express health with a capital H, as it weaves its way through our bodies and our lives. How do the dots connect, like breadcrumbs on a path, and where do they get hard to track, or disappear completely?

Where do you feel fully coherent (dictionary definition: marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts)? Where do you feel less coherent? How can you create more of that sense of connected wholeness in self and life?
Some simple exercises and practices
Energy Inventory
Start noticing and asking yourself: “Where do I gain energy?” and “Where do I lose energy?”

You may be able to come up with a list right away of people, situations, places, things, activities, etc… that both energize you and lead to an energy loss, or this may be a new awareness. Add to this list as you move through your life, and gain a better sense of what is resourcing for you and what is not, and if that changes. (See also Resource Up.)
Learn the Art of Focusing
“Focusing shows how to pause the on-going situation and create a space for new possibilities for carrying forward…’Focusing’ is to enter into a special kind of awareness, different from our every day awareness. It is open, turned inward, centered on the present and on your body’s inner sensations. When doing Focusing, you silently ask, ‘How am I now?’” (from The Focusing Institute)

Explore this approach on the Focusing website, and how developing a “felt sense” of any situation can become a wonderful resource for you.
Inner Yes/Inner No

Get comfortable, take a few breaths, let yourself settle for a minute or two. Ask yourself “How does my body communicate a ‘yes’?” Take your first impression without judging it. It could be a sensation somewhere in your body, an image, a sound, a feeling, a combination of things… Take a minute to get a good “snapshot” of whatever that is for you. Ask yourself “How does my body communicate a ‘no’?”. Again, let whatever is true for you arrive in whatever sensory channels communicate, and let yourself get a really good sense of that.

We often have a gut feeling about what is true for us in a situation. We also often override that inner knowing due to family and cultural dictates of what we should feel or do. Let yourself increase that natural awareness as a step toward greater connectedness of mind/body/spirit/emotion.

Keep a Journal
Keep a journal of your experiences of sessions and the times in between. Jot down impressions, feelings, body sensations, colors, textures, images… How are things shifting for you? What catches your attention? What is hovering on your periphery?​
Make Art
Start Your Day
Start your day by asking “What do I want for myself today?”. You may easily get an answer, or you can hold that question through the day and see what gathers around it.​

“To Be Human is to Become Visible While Carrying What is Hidden as a Gift to Others.”

David Whyte