To reconnect to your instincts, you'll have to clear the past from your fascia. Every time a process begins within your body but doesn't get to finish, it leaves its mark. Even though you can't feel it, it takes some energy to hold in that unfinished business. Sometimes this occurs when we have injuries, surgeries, traumas or highly stressful and emotional events that leave an imprint on us. But it can also happen in much smaller everyday kind of ways.

If you've ever been so angry or scared or in so much pain that you felt your body want to tremble but you shut it down, want to scream or shout but you held it in, or really want to laugh out loud but you stifled it - these leave thwarted energy within you. We suppress many of our innate responses to be part of a "civilized" society which creates unfinished business within us. Once any of these processes begin within the body, if we don't get to carry them out either in the moment or later in a healing way, it actually takes physical energy to hold them in. Eventually the body creates fascial restrictions to hold all these things in for us. Or fascial restrictions are created in the moments of physical injury and the emotions and memories of that event get trapped inside them.

Socialization & Instincts

You can see this start in little kids who we are just being trained to shut down their instincts in order to go to school. They want to laugh or sing or move when they feel it within them. They don't know yet that we don't let ourselves live that freely. So their training begins and we start reprimanding them for following their instincts. They get in trouble for doing what feels innately right to them. And by the time we are adults most of us are so removed from our instincts that we can't feel them at all anymore.