What is Emotional Anatomy?

EMOTION IS MOVEMENT - THE BODY IS ITS EXPRESSION

Emotional Anatomy is the study of how emotional experiences are expressed through the physical body.

Every emotion carries a response. Our body changes, prepares for action and adapts. Through repetition and experience, these responses become familiar ways of holding, moving and responding.

Our Emotional Anatomy is the living expression of this history.

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The Body Carries Our Emotional Story

From our earliest experiences, we are continually discovering how to meet life.

Over time, repeated emotional experiences shape our posture, breath, movement, expression and behaviour.

Our emotional history gradually becomes part of our physical expression.

WE EXPERIENCE

Life happens. We perceive, interpret and respond based on our unique history, needs and environment.

THE BODY RESPONDS

Perception and meaning trigger emotion. Emotion moves through chemistry, the nervous system and into the body.

PATTERNS FORM

Through repetition, responses become familiar patterns of holding, moving and responding to life.

The Language Of Our Body

The body communicates through posture, breathing, movement, muscle tone, facial expression, gesture, voice, energy and behaviour.

Rather than deciding what it means, we begin by observing with curiosity and respect.

Observation comes before interpretation.

Listening creates understanding

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Awareness Changes the Conversation

AWARENESS

We become aware of what is happening.

+ UNDERSTANDING

We recognise why it may be happening.

= CHOICE

We choose how we wish to respond and live.

Awareness gives us greater choice:

As we begin to recognise our patterns, we can better understand how we have learned to respond to life - and whether those responses continue to support us today.

With awareness comes understanding.

With understanding comes choice.

Emotional Anatomy is Individual

There is no one meaning for every body.

Each person brings their own history, relationships, beliefs, culture and experiences.

We don't tell the body what the story is.

We listen to the person whose story it belongs to.

What About Triggers?

Sometimes the present reminds the body of the past.

A smell. A voice. A facial expression.

A place. A touch. A particular conversation.

Something happening today can remind us of an earlier experience.

And sometimes, before we've consciously worked out what is happening...

our body has already responded.

The body may respond before we have words for it.

Or perhaps we simply notice that we no longer feel quite the same.

The response is real - even when the original experience is no longer happening.

We don't need to judge the response

Rather than immediately asking "How do I stop this?" or deciding what the response means, Emotional Anatomy invites us to become curious.

What happened just before I felt this?
What changed in my body?
Does this response feel familiar?

What is my body responding to?

Your Emotional Anatomy Can Change

The body is always adapting. New experiences create new information, new pathways and new possibilities.

The same intelligence that helped shape our adaptations also gives us the capacity to continue adapting.

We are always becoming.

Emotional Anatomy & Psychosomatic Therapy

Two ways of understanding the same human conversation

Emotional Anatomy helps us read the expression

Psychosomatic Therapy helps us understand the wider conversation

Together they help us understand the whole person.

The Key is Awareness

Psychosomatics & Emotional Anatomy is about learning to listen - to recognise the relationship between what we think, what we feel and what our body expresses.

We don't teach you what your body means.

We teach you how to listen.

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