In Touch: How To Tune In To The Inner Guidance Of Your Body And Trust Yourself [Paperback]

Your body has a natural sense of truth. We canfeelauthenticity in ourselves and in others. However, this innate wisdom is obscured by our conditioningthe core limiting beliefs, reactive feelings, and somatic contractions that fuel our sense of struggle and veil who we really are.

In Touchis a groundbreaking, experiential guide to the felt-sense of our inner knowing the deep intelligence available through our bodies. Each chapter presents moving stories, helpful insights from spirituality, psychology, and science, and simple yet potent experiments for integrating the gifts of inner knowing into every aspect of daily life. Join pioneering psychotherapist and teacher Dr. John J. Prendergast to explore:

The phenomenon of attunement how we accurately sense and resonate with ourselves and othersincluding an introduction to attachment theory, mirror neurons, and interoception (the ability to sense into the interior of your body)

Felt-sensing and the subtle bodyour ability to have a whole-body sense of reality and how the seven major energy centers relate to common psychospiritual issues

Shadows as portals how our dark and painful feelings and sensations can point us toward an essential radiance within

The art of identifying and undoing our core limiting beliefs

The four somatic qualities of inner knowingrelaxed groundedness, inner alignment, open-heartedness, and spaciousnessand how these subtle signals, once recognized, can guide our choices and help us to navigate lifes challenges

The fruits of inner knowingthe realization of who we are in our depths and the great intimacy with life we can all enjoy

As we tune into our deepest nature, our body relaxes, grounds, lines up, opens up, and lights up, writes Prendergast. So far this extraordinarily useful subtle feedback has been largely overlooked; almost nothing has been lC3