{"id":209,"date":"2025-07-01T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-ps.com\/christinespinder\/?p=209"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:45:59","slug":"why-somatics-for-supersensors-leaders-and-change-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo-ps.com\/christinespinder\/2025\/07\/01\/why-somatics-for-supersensors-leaders-and-change-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Somatics? for Supersensors, Leaders and Change Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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the first of a 5 part series<\/em><\/p>

Ever feel \u2018it\u2019 in your bones? Or smelt something \u2018fishy\u2019 going on?<\/p>

Are you a Supersensor, with a huge radar dish for signals, vibes, and messages both said and unsaid, that can take you over with overwhelm?<\/p>

Or are parts of you numb? Are you only ever on Go Do, with your body only an appendage to your will?<\/p>

As a leader or change maker or neurodivergent or creative, do you feel you isolated?<\/p>

Or are you exhausted by giving all your social creation energy to the world, but are unable to receive and re-source yourself?<\/p>

Somatics could be very helpful.<\/p>

Somatics are the physiology of your awareness and connection. Its the practice of conscious engagement with our sensory, felt and expressing bodily abilities, so that we can hone, discern, choose, connect, and learn to work with our senses, our intuition, that bridge us to the world.<\/p>

Constant sensory overload, and suppressing our sensory bodies, exhausts people. It can become depression and cause disassociation and mental illness. I know it does for me. I\u2019ve heard many change maker leaders speaking of their polar swinging these days from hyper sensing to numbing out to survive and keep going.\u00a0 Keep going, keep running. Running from, and to, what?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Somatic Tip of the Week:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0
Consider your sensory intaking as having a volume control.
Start easy.<\/strong>\u00a0Pick a sense that\u2019s strong with you,
for instance, smell, or attraction to a certain colour.
Start with:<\/strong>\u00a0What\u2019s your relationship with that sense?
What are *your* sensations of it? How does it show up in your body?
Now try playing with gently turning your volume up with that sense to bring more information in,
and then down, to limit how much you\u2019re bringing in.
Hint<\/strong>: its got to do with your nerve systems\u2019 physiology,
and how the information shows up for you. It takes practice!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Deep relationship with the world around us is our birthright\u2026 contrary to what isolating colonized consumer culture would have us believe. We are all sensory beings connecting in the wide webs of life through sensory signals. The world constantly communicates amongst its many beings. Do we, too? \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

I\u2019ve trained in somatic awareness and conscious anatomy for 25 years, learning to work with both my super sensing abilities and my trauma, so that I could walk in my neurodivergent and orphan world without being emotionally, spiritually and physically wrung out, and alone. In turn, it enables me to do the work I love better, and be in great relationships. Without it, I really don\u2019t know where I would be.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We have light receptors \u2013 simple eyes \u2013 all over our skin.<\/strong>\u00a0Same with smell receptors, all over our skin\u2026 and those continue on our internal tissues. Yes, our skin sees and our entire bodies smell what\u2019s happening all around and in us. Our bones resonate sound. Our spines build their own magnetic fields. \u00a0Body language announces our egos, identities, beliefs and emotions. Fascia communicates faster than light, even between bodies. We send out emotion and intention vibrations, hormones, microorganisms and signs of about what we\u2019re about, constantly. \u00a0<\/p>

We can do it consciously, or unconsciously. We can temper the volume, and focus on where we want and need to pay attention. We can toss out what we don\u2019t need to carry. We can filter. It takes work and practice.<\/p>

Learning to work with our sensory capacities is like learning to work with our hands.<\/strong>\u00a0Our physically manifested senses of awareness are beautifully capable when we focus with direction, curiosity, and intention. \u00a0<\/p>

Consciously getting into the anatomy, as I do in my Coaching Circles, brings us into relationship with our intricate sensing capacities, so we can work with ourselves and each other, better, more attuned, and more visionary.<\/p>

In this 5 part series on Awakening Somatics,<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ll introduce the gifts of Somatics engagement, Conscious Anatomy, and Mythosomatics, exploring our vastly relational physiology and how it relates to leadership, collaboration, change making, collective evolution and creating our paths for social transformation.<\/p>

Because if we\u2019re going to build better systems, I\u2019m pretty sure we need\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of our full selves, to all be there.<\/p>

Sign up for my Somatics Tip of the Week<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>and updates on my new offerings such as my\u00a0Coaching Circles for Awakening Somatics, Replenishing Leadership, and the Art of Facilitation<\/strong>\u00a0starting in January 2024.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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