Contact with the Body: How to Learn to Listen to Yourself to Live Authentically

You are fine, but you still feel bad? Perhaps you have lost touch with your body and are struggling with everyday stress and traumas that are usually not discussed in books about PTSD. Even minor traumas, when accumulated in the body, begin to cause background discomfort that is hard to describe in words or resolve with conventional psychological methods. In such cases, you need to go deeper, connect with your body, and restore the lost contact. The ability to listen to yourself helps regain authenticity and wholeness.

Therapist Alexandra Grieva calls this ability to understand the signals of your own and others' bodies "body intelligence" and offers a method for its development. In her book, she details the connection between the body and emotions, explains why we often know everything and yet do nothing, and also offers practices and exercises that will align external behavior with internal meanings.