Expressing! Practice

This practice is also called 'Sentience-Led Self-Guided Process.' The essence of the practice is to allow the feelings themselves to lead and direct our process. When identified as the resourceful Healer, this practices honors and supports our sentient parts as we give free expression to any feeling or sensation wanting to express. Healing naturally happens in doing this, and we give ourselves more love, freedom, life-force energy, vitality, realness and fun.

Guidelines for practicing:

Begin by setting aside some space and time for free emotional expression. You want to be in a place where you will be able to express freely (and loudly) without being noticed by others, except of course if you are working in a group.

When you are ready to express, locate in your body a feeling or sensation that is currently triggered, or find one that was previously triggered. Notice every feeling as it comes up, find where it's energy centers in your body and feel deeply into it.

As you feel into it, give the feeling/sensation acceptance and expression in whatever way feels right to you. If you are feeling it, it must be right.

Move your body, hands, arms and legs as if you were the feeling itself. Allow the feeling/sensation you are experiencing to vibrate freely in both body and voice. This will enable it to inform you about what feels good to it and what it wants in the moment.

If there is a judgment or deep denial energy, you can either release it so you can more easily love the energy, or you may choose to express from the denial itself to bring more acceptance to the part experiencing the denial energy.

Vibrating the feeling energy and moving with it in loving acceptance is perhaps the most effective way of releasing any denial in the feeling. (This may take some practice if you're not yet familiar with vibrating and moving feelings.)

You can also ask the feeling part what it wants, and give it that in the moment.

It's okay to go as deeply into feelings as you want to.

If you have a fear of feeling too much or too deeply, find the fear in your body, and express and move with that first. Then return to the original feeling.

If you are working in a group: 1.) Direct the group in whatever way will serve your process. 2.) It's okay to ask for facilitation whenever you desire it. 3.) Stop any facilitation that doesn't feel right for you and tell the group or facilitator what you want.

Whether you are alone or in a group, this practice is meant to be an exploration where you follow your intuition and the flow of the feelings. Often you will not know what will happen next, until it does.

You can also use any tool you want in any way you want to deepen your self-acceptance and love, free expression, and free Will.

Here are some possible questions you may ask yourself during the practice to help you stay focused and moving:

What am I experiencing/feeling?

Where am I feeling it in my body?

What is it like to be with this feeling just as it is? And how does this feel to the feeling?

What is like to be this feeling? (Become the feeling and find out.)

What would this feeling say if it could speak in words or express sounds? (And give voice to the feeling.)

Would the feeling like to express anything more?

What does the feeling want? (Then give yourself what the feeling asks for.)

How does this feel to the feeling?

Continue using these questions as needed. Or simply use your intuitive guidance to keep your process moving towards more expression, self-acceptance and wholeness.

Videos of people working in a group with this practice:

Michele Releases Denial

Michele Releases Denial

Kathleen Expresses Desire

Kathleen Expresses Desire