Do you find that your body knows before your mind does?
My body sends me clear messages.
If they are very difficult messages, like ‘you need to leave your husband’, it can take a very long time for my brain to acknowledge and act on the guidance of my body. The time between can feel like an uncomfortable yet necessary dissonance.
If they are more day-to-day issues, my body’s guidance can be received and actioned very quickly, such as:
🖤 When I overbooked my diary with work, I felt sharp pain in a particular place in my body (the place where I feel all stress), until I amended the decision and cut down my working commitment by half, and then the pain instantly disappeared. 🪄
🖤 I met a woman on the dance floor at an ecstatic dance event in Stroud recently and her energy took my breath away. We didn’t need to chat. Our bodies just knew we would be friends. So I now have a new friend from ecstatic dance. Brains/words not needed to connect. (Turns out she is a powerhouse of a brain as well as an embodied goddess but that’s neither here nor there.) 👩🏼💼🧜♀️
This makes sense because the body can’t lie. It can’t intellectually layer thoughts, processes and stories on top of one another, and then spin them around in a super complex minefield of possibilities. 🤪
The body knows the truth.
The soul and body are the same thing.
The body knows the truth of your soul.
So our bodily senses are portals to the divine. Gateways to understanding soul. Keys to the truth.
Can we be conscious enough to allow our senses / our bodies to guide us?
In the words of Mary Oliver, can we let our soft animal bodies love what they love?
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