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The Challenge of Words

October 13, 2022

I would prefer to not write about Selfunwinding, if possible. Clear and accurate language about this experiential process is difficult to find and to form.

But as I continue to share this unwinding with others, I find myself wanting to connect deeper in the knowledge and understanding of it. And in seeking to do so, I have looked for a single source that discusses this process in a way that fully resonates with my experience, but I can't find it.

There are books and instructors that are close, but they seem to miss this essential point: Selfunwinding is inherently part of our DNA. It is natural. It is how we are made.

And something so foundational to what we are and how we are built is hard to describe. So in attempting to describe it, I must speak from my own experience, rather than as a scientist quoting years of research, a phase-three randomized study, or a shared belief system.

Here is my experience…

To some degree, I unwind almost constantly. My body is always trying to move into wholeness.

Many times I have doubted myself because my thought process questions the validity of this experience. Maybe it's too “out there,” or doesn't make sense, or others will think I am crazy.

But then Selfunwinding happens—over and over again, of its own accord, into layers and layers of this organization we call a body. After so many cycles of unwinding it just feels natural to me now. And I wonder why we fail to recognize this phenomenon.

I see an image of a statue in the middle of a small town that no one even remembers or recognizes anymore. Or a speck in our eye that we cannot see, no matter at what angle we look.

Here is a concept that helps me recognize this bit of insecurity in sharing the experience: our ability to unwind has simply atrophied over time.

There are probably many skills we have lost in our transition to a contemporary lifestyle, and it makes sense that this type of embodied movement is one of them.

I imagine there are many terms for this natural capacity in other cultures—some forgotten over the millennia. I imagine a person from thousands of years ago having a good laugh at this discussion of the self-healing properties of the body through sensation, feeling, and movement. Without the concept of modern medicine, we were completely dependent on finding our own healing. It was all we knew and all we had.

My intent is to bring this experience of Selfunwinding back into our consciousness, recovering what the body already knows and innately does.

And although finding words for that is difficult, it is possible if we connect first through the shared experience. Words then can become helpful pointers to what we have already shared.

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