“Orient Toward Healing
The body learned in fractions Millimeters from the pain A shoulder raised against the lightning Eyes turning just away The jaw became a gatekeeper The spine became a wall A thousand hidden strategies To survive the shock of it all And underneath the armoring A mammal still remained Waiting for a different ending Not through force But through change Not fixing Not correcting Not pushing through the storm Just noticing What organized The shape survival formed These are the Interweaves The subtle art of release Where the nervous system loosens What it once believed would keep it safe A fraction of a movement A gaze returning slow The body finding pathways It could never take before Not adding something foreign Not teaching people grace Just dismantling the bracing That froze around the pain Orienting interrupted Shock suspended in the air A looming world still living Inside the muscles there The head recoils from impact The chest forgets to breathe The organism holds its history In geometry beneath Then something starts softening The sternum starts to fall And grief arrives like rainfall After years behind the wall Think beneath the ears now Let the jaw release Let the shoulders stop their guarding Let the body meet the seat Whales below the surface Birds adjusting to the wind Nature does not heal through forcing It reorganizes within Some collapse into the silence Some freeze rigid in alarm Some disappear inside themselves Still carrying the harm But attention changes structure Attunement changes sight And the nervous system updates When the body feels the light These are the Interweaves Inside the DBR flow Where observation becomes medicine And subtlety rewrites the soul A clinician sits in stillness Not rescuing the pain But helping the body discover It no longer has to brace The old maps start dissolving A new perspective forms And somewhere deep beneath survival A self begins reborn Bracing… Dismantling… Flow… New self… The nervous system was never broken. It was protecting. And protection… can learn to let go.
