I really enjoyed this chapter. I found the anchors to be very helpful tools and the body practices to be very connected to the yoga therapy practices that I teach to clients and implement for myself. I do a similar thing as the stop drop and roll which I call a fire drill. Something to be practiced in calm times to help when things flair. I really like the idea of checking in with body checkpoints. I often do this before sleep to care for each area of my life.
This body practice was something I was able to practice in "real-time" recently with my partner. In a disagreement, I was able to identify that in my body I was beginning to feel closed off and panicky. I was able to say out loud "let's stop and start over". This allowed us to both acknowledge what was arising in our bodies and continue on through the conversation without letting it escalate.
Q. Complete the body practices starting on pg. 173, at the end of Chapter 12. Reflect on your experience with the practice.
I am a specialist on detaching from my body I have ADHD and a lot of trauma and I tend to disassociate as a defense mechanism, some times I don't even notice when I'm already gone and catch my self several times bringing me back to here and now, so when someone attacks me or I need to react I don't even know it, I just go instantly into contention and when I realize that that someone is transgressing my boundaries usually is already to late and I already let them overstep me, so then my body goes into this victim and spiraling reaction of feeling extremely wounded and can't take my head out of there, it takes a lot of mindfulness to stay with the feelings, accept what happened cuz it is in the past and it can't be change anymore and if I stay in this I just end up torturing myself, so to get my self out of the commiseration I surrender it to G-d, I understand that it needed to happen for me to learn something and even if it feels wrong I always survive and evolve.