The human body has the ability to learn, adapt and change. We can teach a body how to gain more freedom, through our attention and intensions, training it to expand, relax and be more energized, dropping automatic reactions and irrelevant beliefs.
We as humans are able to experience any moment with all of our body. That is what allows us to adapt to changes around us. We experience everything in life with our senses and filter it through our mind and physical reactions. Our senses are receptors that connect us to the world around us and allow us to react to our surroundings. When we pay attention, we do so with all of our body- we can sense if something harmful or dangerous is happening, we can react to the mood of a person beside us without looking at them, every encounter and every experience we pay attention to is digested by all of our body allowing us to understand, make decisions and react.
The human body has the potential to learn, adapt and change with its surroundings, obtaining knowledge, new abilities and new skills. Our body changes and adapts to its surroundings. Every new thing we experience is learned and thus we can react to it in the best way possible. Our body learns how to fit in its surroundings, what is needed to survive, how to manipulate, how to adjust. Our body learns these things and reacts according to the circumstances reality provides. We have the ability to adjust to even the most extreme circumstances. From the moment we are born, we gain and refine our motor and cognitive skills, but more than that, we learn how to react to our surroundings. A child for example, can learn at a young age that when he cowers, his father is less likely to yell at him. The child's body learns how to cower, and be silent so as not to bring attention to himself.
If we don't pay attention, things that our body learned along the way may become irrelevant, thus interrupting us from experiencing personal freedom and fulfilling our basic potential. During our lifetime, we learn things that cease to be relevant. As our reality and surroundings are constantly changing, beliefs and conclusions we've made in the past may not be aligned with reality any longer. The child that learned to cower to avoid his father's anger can grow up to feel invisible to others, not being able to acknowledge that this is something his body learned and he repeats this behavior, even though it limits him from reaching his goals, and potential.
In order to reach more personal freedom we must pay attention and stop our automatic reactions and old beliefs, which stop us from achieving our fullest potential. In order for us to expand our ability and gain more personal freedom, we must first acknowledge and pay attention to our automatic reactions and old beliefs. This is not always an easy task, as our outlook on life and our belief system are things we usually hold onto strongly until we are able to stop them, either by an experience that forces us to reevaluate, or by paying attention to the things that make us feel stuck, unbalanced or unsatisfied. Paying attention and stopping these old reactions and beliefs allows us to experience reality in the NOW with all the range of our body's potential.
Our body can train and learn how to let go and relax when facing fear that comes with not controlling our reactions. Because our body has the ability to adapt and learn, we can train it to stop reacting automatically, gain more flexibility, range of motion, and allow more intensity, thus allowing our body to expand to its full potential. This process can come with fear, as we just don't know what will happen once we let our body be free from these automatic reactions, we can't predict or control how our body will react, but when we trust our body, and pay attention, we can relax in the "not knowing" and allow for life's new experiences.