Why De-armouring?
Take a moment to notice….How do you feel in your body in this moment? Notice what is alive and feel those feelings.
De-armouring can re-connect you to self and to feel your emotions more deeply. We create armour to literally protect ourselves from feeling the pain, which has served us well in the past, in order to release the emotional charge and blocks to live our fullest expression we need to take steps to ‘de-armour’.
The Somatic Experiencing psychotherapist, Peter Levine noticed that when animals were hunted and chased in the wild by predators if they managed to evade capture or play dead (dismissing interest from the predator), once free they would shake their bodies in order to release the charged energy and thereafter would appear perfectly unscathed. In humans if we do not complete the cycle after a situation which was stressful, overwhelming or traumatic the energy gets frozen in our body which coalesces over time and hardens in the soft tissue. Over time this can create dis-ease and holds us back from living to our full potential.
The de-armouring process works on helping to end the cycle by unfreezing the tension using soft touch on areas of the body where the physical and emotional tension is held. Even though the touch is soft it feels quite deep to the client, because I will hold a point for upwards of 2 minutes and as the client breaths deeply it draws my touch further into the pain body, thereby releasing the stuck energy so that the client can feel more again.
So what benefits can you notice after a few de-armouring sessions?
Feeling your emotions more deeply
Feeling more sensitivity in an area that was tight or constricted
A deep emotional, energetic and physical release which will support feeling more grounded and connected
Enhances your overall well being by letting go of past conditioning and feeling more alive
Ending difficult and traumatic experiences by finishing the cycle which was stuck in time and frozen in the body
An increase in the pleasure zones in the body to enhance your solo or partnered sexual activity
