The Beauty I See in You

I just got home late last night and am still landing, integrating and recovering.  I attended SoulWork Live with my yoga teacher.  It's part conference, part festival, and part inter exploration.  I've been sitting in circle, learning, dancing, deepening into discussion, being triggered and knowing what it's telling me, truly this experience was soul work.  Again, I am changed. 

I wanted to take today to reflect on one of the first lessons I learned about myself.  I've always struggled with my weight.  I know a lot of what is there now is energetic.  I've been breaking down to see what else needs to be uncovered.  I discovered two things.  1) When I'm stressed, upset, unsure, I take all of that energy and direct it toward my gut/womb.  This I knew, but I discovered that it's me holding on too tight.  I took time to unravel and soften into that area, sending it love notes and being present with myself.  I also looked at the way I nourish myself and how I can bring more presence and pleasure there.  2) I realized I haven't fully mourned the loss of never having biological or adopted children to raise fully (I'm not referring to the way I redefined motherhood for myself, more on that later).  So, I spent some time with that and bringing voice to it.  

Where are you directing negative energy in your body?  How can you switch that to bring in more play, pleasure, joy?