🌳🌺🌻🪴 جنين مكاوي

Thank you @tonyannnn for putting the invitation out for all of us, for sharing your amazing magic/gift/medicine, and for the inspiration🙏🙌deep gratitude. If y’all haven’t peeped @tonyannnn’s work you need to go check it out like neow.

Lyrics written were inspired by 2 things: 1) a convo earlier relating to racial trauma so i was already thinking about links between trauma and the body, and how for those who don’t know the trauma personally can show up to listen, learn, understand. And also in order to understand see/hear/feel another we also have to be able to feel & listen to what’s going on within ourselves which is connected to 2) the body communicating to us directly, but are we listening before we burnout, or get sick, or betray ourselves, before it needs to get loud.

So the body is the speaker in the beginning. Asking for the Soul of that body to listen to it, as emotionally, physically, mentally it’s being pushed to the limit & it’s trying to communicate that in different ways, so it says hear me, see me, feel me. For ex. sometimes I feel anxious which can show up as tightness in my chest, can’t eat, rushing thoughts. Body just needs me to listen w/ compassion, not to a story my mind is making up, but to listen to what is needed as if I were taking care of a child. To regulate my nervous system by breathing to affirm I’m safe. Grounding. Calming my body, taking care of it. Then continue to listen so it’s not stressed, my body’s part of me.

Lyrics I wrote to this:
My body it aches
Words it tries to speak, in movements
Hear me
See me
Feel me
Will you listen?
Day in and out
Pushing me to the limit
Do you know what it’s like in this body of mine?
Do you really want to know?
Then be with me…

Each of us has a story to tell from so many different perspectives & realities inside of this big one we all live in and Co-create. And how beautiful to get to step into another’s shoes and see things through their feet, steps, eyes, mind, heart, hands. And how beautiful to see, hear and feel within ourselves so we can do that with others🙏I hope everyone is abundantly well. And where ever you are, if welcomed, sending loving energy.

#somatics #healing #trauma