Rosa Lewis

And if that's difficult for you, find some sad music to listen and feel along with and see if that helps it feel safer and evokes some tears or a bit more feeling.

Yeah.

So the key is it's the presence where we started and it's staying with direct sensation and emotion in the present moment.

And so if someone has an embodiment practice, that might be easier to do through the door of really feeling the sensations in the body.

If someone's more of an

A meditator, it might be like a Vipassana meditator, kind of like noting the sensations as they come or just something that if you're drifting off, just like staying with the body is the clearest way to stay with the thing that you want to be staying with.

One thing I've discovered from working with a lot of people, one-to-one and in groups, is that people experience the world very differently.

And there's a way that it's important to include that because otherwise people are often trying to

be someone else or something.

There's a sort of move away from your own sensitivity, your own... One way I use to help people to get in touch with this is the way that you've always experienced the world since you were a kid.

And it's sort of like, it's a very small part of you.

And it's just before...

you get to the point where you have intellectual overlays and ideas and strong desires and all of these things that are sort of maybe bigger and stronger and layered on top.

It's sort of like a small receptivity that can listen and notice what's here and be present with it and sort of receive

yeah and specifically your unique sensitivity like what does that feel like for you and to be you and what are the things that you're picking up on and just sort of validating that finding that and validating it and exploring it as a topic really

Yeah.

And it has a strong sort of like, it connects to the quality of innocence as well of just this sort of original natural kind of been there since you were a kid.

Just how you receive the world before it gets gunked up with a bunch of stuff.

Yeah, so there's a exercise in the book and it starts with just building some safety in the different aspects of yourself.

So one thing that pulls us out of that kind of sensitivity is that it's just not safe for the naturalness to sort of be itself.