What is 'authentic resonance'?
A conversation with Aspasia Karageorge that moves from ideas to body to ground
Last week I had the pleasure of being in conversation for the second time with Sydney, Australia based psychotherapist Aspasia Karageorge.
We’d spoken once before, comparing notes about the work in our respective domains of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and the Feldenkrais Method.
On this occasion, Aspasia wanted to explore an idea - that was actually more like a feeling - something she was referring to as ‘authentic resonance.’
But what is ‘authentic’?! What is resonance?!
Right from the beginning, we knew that what we were looking for couldn’t quite be captured in words. So our dialogue ended up mirroring the processes in the body she was pointing to, a kind of sifting through sensations to clarify a path for action.
Authentic resonance might be described as a moment of becoming completely ok with ourselves such that our action in the world can become spontaneous and creative. Hesitation and resistance drop away into a kind of embodiment that is something like the opposite of “analysis paralysis.”
It’s tricky to talk about felt sense experience through the vehicle of words and yet the words can be pointers that work as somatic cues in two people’s bodies. In such a conversation, two people might eventually reach a point of saying something like:
Yes, we understand each other. Your words and mine both match the feeling in my body.
This was essentially the experience that Aspasia and I shared and I think you’ll feel it too when you listen.
Incidentally, the possibility of this kind of energy transfer to the body of a listener of such a conversation was our jumping off point just a few minutes before we started to record. Podcasting has created a new form of energy transfer in the world today.
In this case, being willing to dive into this energy, knowing others would listen , but without knowing exactly where we were going, seemed to help us get there.
To me, dialogue on this level is an important way for us to educate our bodies about what it means to create harmony in a world that seems to get noisier every day.
I hope you enjoy it.
Connect with Aspasia:
www.aspasiapsychology.com
sydneycitypsychology.com.au
https://www.instagram.com/aspasia_psychology/
I love this description of how resonance arises between people, and the central role of the body. Inspiring!