Where do you feel it? School shootings

I don't know if anyone's noticed.....but it seems like we might have an epidemic of violence breaking out in schools throughout the country.

The phenomenon is deeply disturbing and one that deserves a great deal of attention in our national discourse.

I have a lot of ideas about what I think is helping to create the conditions for these acts of terror.

But what I'm interested in right now is this:

Where does this live in your body?

Where does it live in mine?

All of us are having to process the information, digest the information if you will, to absorb the information into our brains.  But where does it go from there?

Unfortunately I don't believe that it just disappears into thin air.

I believe that this information that is part of our collective consciousness is being interwoven into our very cells!  It is irrefutably a part of our collective and our personal experiences, and yet, where can we go to discuss the impact of this information on our systems?  Where can we go to release the shock of these reports?

Make no mistake:  school shootings are causing a shock to our systems on some level, certainly some people are more sensitive to it than others.

For example, one thing it is doing to our systems is making us numb.  It's a great way to deal with shock!  Very clever design.  Of course when intense things happen, it's a survival instinct to go numb, to go into automatic, to "get busy".

But when events of this nature begin to become common occurrence, is it a good sign we don't feel it as intensely as the first one, or the second one......or the third?

How can we pay attention to the news these days and not go either numb or completely crazy?

Reflections for our times.  There are no easy answers.

But I encourage us to look for ways to support each other to stay more present, to stay more embodied, through these types of events, in which we are all collectively unwitting participants.

Therapeutic touch is a great way to manage this type of stress and I would particularly seek out a Cranio-sacral therapist (I am not certified although I know some of the theory and points).  Cranio-sacral works directly on the nervous system and has a very calming effect on the body over-all.

How do you manage these types of events in your life?  Do you talk about it with people?  Do you feel like you hold this type of stress shock in a particular part of your body?  I look forward to reading your comments below.