2. I had a curious experience with this exercise. Even though I was lying on a couch on top of a sheepskin, covered in blankets, and the front of me felt warm, my middle back area (adrenal/kidney area?) seemed to be ice cold. On both sides, as I sank into the exercise, I noticed a lot of jerky movement inside, which would then settle. When we moved to the left side, and I placed my hand on my pelvis, the heat felt intense. Again, there was an internal jerkiness, which eventually settled. I noticed my breathing, and the impulse to sit quietly after the exhale before taking the next inhale, which I followed. As I then inhaled, my eyes filled with tears and my chin quivered. At the same time, I felt a warm flow of something extend between my head and toes from that pelvic point. A sensation of the flow of life, maybe?

This is great! It sounds like you were really able to tune into this diaphragm, and allow old, stuck energy that was there, to move. This explains the sense of cold and numbness at first; noticing the stuck, or ‘frozen’ energy, and then the physical sensations of heat and jerkiness, which is a common experience of sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight) discharge. It’s really great you were able to stay with this, and allow the emotions to emerge! That helps flow come back into the system, and that’s what it’s all about!