882 thoughts on “Connecting to a Body more Intelligent than the Mind”

1. It is amazing what we can feel if we allow ourselves to stop and really feel our body, ‘when I allow myself time to stop, to breathe gently and to reconnect to my body, I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me.’

2. “Our body is in constant communication with us,” And the mind can be a constant distraction from being aware of the communication passing through the body.

3. How important is it to bring a focus to our body especially how we breath and also not to stray from the True teaching about body awareness and being present with what ever we are doing, such as when we are walking to the fridge what are we thinking about?

   1. Focusing on our breath helps us to feel and connect with our body, ‘I allow myself to become aware of my breath and then to breathe gently, allowing my breath to return to its own natural rhythm. I often find myself focussing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath’.

4. The simplicity of this blog is offering us to make a choice and every one of us have this ability innately to make that loving choice. We ALL have this body intelligence and it doesn’t require any stop moments that asks us to reconnect to our bodies.

   My relationship with my body has vastly improved over the years and it beats any pictures of how it needs to look or be shaped like. As you become more acquainted to your body, you become more astute to the communications it has with you and as that becomes stronger, we live from a different place, then from our heads.

   It starts somewhere and as already stated, it starts from a single simple choice, you…

5. Knowledge may bring security and success but it doesn’t bring Wisdom or contentment like the body does when connected to.

   1. Thinking you know it all brings more restrictions upon our bodies. It kind of feels like having an affair with something else, when the affair needs to be with oneself first – the love with you and the body is unfathomable.

   2. The body is amazing in the wisdom it shares if we truly listen, ‘ What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.’

6. With the exquisite level of sensitivity that we can hold, if we are not feeling like we know how to handle it, then we can more easily turn to abuse – for the abuse numbs us out and hence we think we are not feeling the initial sensitivity. This then in a perverted manner makes sense as to why we abuse ourselves so much. But would it not make more sense to then love ourselves up more and allow the space to understand what one is actually feeling? Such a conundrum for us to live with on a daily basis, and yet the answers lie within simply waiting for us to activate them.

   1. Not connecting to our body, and listening to its wisdom is a form of abuse, ‘You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body.’

7. Stopping for a moment to just check in with my breath is so revealing and supports me endlessly to navigate my way through my day without losing myself by the end. I enjoy building this awareness and consistency.

   1. Thank you Michelle (M) and Matilda (M), you give a truly deeper meaning to M and M as you are both in the Mastery of your breath and our breath is super important to stay connected to our bodies.

   2. Stopping to connect with our breath really supports us to be with our body, ‘I can start to become aware of other parts of my body – my shoulders, arms, feet, back and how they are feeling – deepening the connection with my body’.

8. How can we consider ourselves intelligent when we learn to switch off from the communications of the body and instead turn towards abusing it? This form of intelligence to me is very limited, and why prescribe to that when we know there is an even grander option that encompases the other intelligence but also holds the body as equal in importance?

9. Michelle, the first paragraph of this blog is a simple and beautiful summary of how to connect back to the body .The breath and then feeling the rib cage as it moves gently up and down is super powerful in re-establishing our natural rhythm and from here there is no end to how the body can awaken. The key thing is to make that choice, to let yourself remember this, do this and enjoy it.

10. We have been tricked by an intelligence thinks its intelligent. But when this intelligence places itself above others, does not allow others to make their own choices, tells others what to do we need to question the intelligence of this intelligence. Our body communicates simply and honestly. That’s all it does, with no judgment or opinion.

    1. You have nailed it here Jennifer – when we put it in the words as you have above, we get to feel what a restricted and controlling form of intelligence we are dealing with – one that wants to be the only form and the dominating one. And it simply does not have to be this way. Body intelligence holds a care and warmth whilst never negating the intelligence of the mind so long as it is holding all as equal in importance.

    2. Yes Jennifer, our body communicates simply and honestly.

11. The intelligence of the body doesn’t play ball with the self-absorbed and self-gratifying focus that the mind when in isolation from the rest of the body can run with.

    1. The wisdom of the body is beyond what the mind can offer, ‘I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within’.

12. Our own bodies are the ultimate encyclopaedia of life.

    1. Thank you Andrew, and may I add Universal Wisdom and the volumes it brings!

13. What a gift our body is every single day again. We have the opportunity to connect to ourselves every single day.

14. Yesterday I was in an expression workshop with Chris James where one of the participants shared that she was surprised she could express great stuff while being connected with her body, that it wasn’t nonsense that came out of her mouth.

15. Education can be so overwhelming, there is always so much to do and a striving to be better. Yet who sets that bar? I have realised that there has to be a dedication to staying present and aware of the communication from our body when studying to ensure you don’t drive yourself so hard that you break down in the process.

    1. Absolutely Lucy, ‘ there has to be a dedication to staying present and aware of the communication from our body when studying’.

16. It is simply a choice to be aware and from there the magic can happen because the communication never stops!

17. Yes, I can fully relate to this blog Michelle. My body continues to reflect the wisdom of true intelligence and is getting my attention these days. The mind is not in the slightest bit concerned with the pain of sitting awkwardly for hours on end, as long as something is ‘getting done’.
    “I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence”.

18. The body´s intelligence has a simplicity and profoundness to it that is easily ignored or dismissed by the sophisticated (or basically arrogant) mind – in a world we have made complex the mind likes to indulge in its own version of complex intelligence, the simplicity of the body puts a stop to that. And it is actually easy to do for everyone, just as you describe, but will the mind give permission or make it complicated as well as often can be for people who have not yet connected with their body in such way.

    1. quoting again: ‘..in a world we have made complex the mind likes to indulge in its own version of complex intelligence,..” We have found ourselves in a situation now where we are more familiar with complexity than with the simplicity of our true inner-heart.

19. “What kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony?” – this is a great question. It obviously is disconnected with the body, and very likely is in opposition to the intelligence the body is in its particles. The simple fact that I don’t have to keep reminding my body to breathe but it just knows how to keep going at a pace it needs to is a miracle that the mind cannot even begin to fathom, and the mind on the other hand needs constant reminders.

20. When I feel my mind running away with me, I find the Gentle Breath Meditation a great way to bring me back to my body, which then allows me to hear what my body is saying.

21. When the mind is running the show the body has to shout very loudly to make us aware of how we are treating ourselves.

22. When you come to realise the intelligence of the body is the true intelligence it can often be a very challenging time as it goes against the societally accepted belief that says that it is the mind which is the seat of our intelligence. But once accepting this absolute truth, the connection to the body becomes the most amazing relationship ever. It’s like you’ve met your best friend after a very long absence only to realise they have been with you the whole time, you’d simply forgotten they were there.

    1. Ingrid this is a very gorgeous way of expressing our relationship with the body and how it is like our best friend that stands by our side all of the time, patiently waiting for us to turn towards it and realise that it is holding our hand the whole time. A very humbling realisation and a symbol of our relationship to the Soul, for the relationship with the body is indeed the bridge to our relationship with the Soul.

23. Reaching the understanding that our body does not punish us is huge. Therefore, when its communicating a truth that we don’t want to hear, its important to not judge ourselves or what is being communicated because no matter what, it is a simple communication. Sometimes the more we ignore that the louder it can become.

    1. Yes, and when we hear something from our body we don’t want to hear that is often a nugget of gold that can explain a pattern of behaviour we have used to avoid feeling something for a long while. Being kind to ourselves and not being afraid of what we feel puts us in the driving seat for change in our own lives.

24. It is possible to have a great career if we choose our mind. Yet, choosing the mind is a choice than runs deeper than what is understood. It is saying no to our divine particles; it is rejecting everything that holds true in us to satisfy a spirit that wants to convince us about The Way.

25. Michelle, you’ve raised such a strong point about WHAT intelligence actually allows us to treat the very thing that carries us, and basically lives life for us, so poorly. What exactly are we listening to that tells us to eat that sugar snack or drink that caffeinated drink? Surely the body, knowing how damaging those substances are would never want to do that to itself as it also knows that it’s the one who actually has to deal with the consequences, the raciness, heart flutters and anxiety brought on by those ‘foods’.

26. Connecting with my breath when I feel a settlement within my body is a marker that I am clocking to assist and support me so that I become more aware of the natural rhythm of my breath. Becoming more aware of the natural rhythm of my breath then helps me to be steady in my connection to self during my day.

27. With our ability to be more and more aware of what actually is going on in the world we see an enormous rise of things that actually harm the body: self-harm is rising, the amounts of food and the quality of what people eat and drink is not truly supporting our body, the gaming and amount of television we watch all keep us far from connecting to our body. Our bodies are copping it, which is confirmed by the numbers op people being sick, having mental health issues, have eating disorders etc. All of this makes it even more clear how powerful the connection to our body is.

28. The counterpoint is remarkable when we compare the cold, clinical feeling of an intelligence that comes from the mind and pure knowledge vs the warm, spherical feeling that is so natural in a whole body intelligence. Quite the difference, and very much a choice each and every day.

29. When I have expressed to Serge Benhayon assisting his support for a reading on what is being shown to me his depth of love from the intelligence of the body is confirming — my attempt is usually not so confirming. The body does have an intelligence of truth that is beholding and not negative and lessoning like the mind is.

30. The set up in education trains us to be absent from the body and to put all the knowledge ahead of the health and well-being of our physical body, which actually doesn’t seem to be that smart. If education was that smart then surely the system and those who keep it going, could see the harm it is advocating.

31. Wherever we go, the body is always with us, although it may be ignored and overridden by the mind. I love the simplicity you share here in your first paragraph, Michelle – “I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so.”

32. The more humanity awakens to the truth of whole body intelligence, we will see how we have limited ourselves with investing in the intelligence of the mind.

33. “I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life,” The mind is reluctant to accept that it does not hold the natural intelligence of the body.

34. Oh dear, multi-tasking, like eating whilst doing something else, is such a familiar way to not hear, feel or listen to what the body is communicating. Perhaps it is time to lay a committed foundation by not doing anything when I am eating other than focusing on the quality in which I am eating. Nothing to lose and everything to gain.

35. Simply a choice to stop and feel – yet we have to consider that we are masters of making choices to override our bodies communication and that these choices happen quicker than we can realise. So perhaps the choice needs be to take a step back and give the mind a second place to the body and see what comes, not think but observe and allow it to be just that, an observation.

36. I am doing some study at present and can relate to that body numbing you speak of Michelle. So this is a very timely read and a great wakeup call as when I started the study I had all these lofty ideas that would surely keep me focused and take care of my body at the same time. But I now realise I haven’t put any of that awareness into practice. That’s ok because though I may not be able to change the past, I can change how I do things from now on.

37. Connecting to our own breath is such a simple yet powerful way to connect to our bodies.

38. The fact that our mind can run its own story irrespective of the body can be easily felt when the body feels a steadiness about something, but the mind wants to make the very same thing complicated.

39. It is a recognised fact that our body goes with us wherever we go, and yet the mind is often so busy in thinking about what is ahead, what should have been done or an event that happened sometime back etc, and this separates the body and mind from being in union together. After a while there is little or no connection with the body, only the energy of push and rush – disharmony and exhaustion become the normal.

40. I’ve found that bringing my thoughts/ mind back to being aware or more aware of my body, with all of it, does connect me with a different kind of intelligence than if I let my mind run disconnected so to speak. It’s like there is an innate wisdom we can access from inside of us, something we can bring our mind back to. The true unity of our mind with our whole body gives us the harmony of knowledge alongside the wisdom to know what to do with it.

    1. Thanks for the reminder about that innate wisdom – we don’t credit ourselves with the gold that is naturally there when our bodies tell us exactly what is going on through our feelings. We all have it, and its equally available. Its just a question of activating it.

41. “is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.” When we listen to our bodies, it can reveal so much to us. I know when I listen, it shows me what to do next, what to eat etc… and when I choose not to listen to it, and do the opposite, it reveals how that feels with no judgement, through the the simple laws of cause and effect (i.e. I feel tired, bloated, sore etc…because I over ate, stayed up too late etc….)

42. When we loose the connection with ourselves we are in discomfort and this only since I came to the teachings of truth, the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, that I understood what true connection is and made effort back in establishing a connection with myself. Ever time I drop my connection I can instantly feel how actually unloving that is and choose to come back to myself again. It is not about perfection I am starting to understand, but the willingness to come back every time again.

    1. “It is not about perfection I am starting to understand, but the willingness to come back every time again.” Yes, and yes to this. So beautiful and simple, just coming back instead of meandering further away.

43. ” I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so. ”
    Its that simple , just sit down and catch ones breath and re-connect.

44. Only if we acknowledge the fact of energy, and our choices being the end result of energy, can it make sense that we maltreat our own bodies, for we are always the ones paying the price.

45. Indeed a good question to stop and ponder on: what kind of intelligence is OK with putting the body in a state of stress, disease or even discomfort? What kind of intelligence holds the arrogance to think it can use and abuse a body at it’s will? If we are open to ask these questions so much is revealed in what we are willing to go through to have our goals met, our pleasures and our securities.

46. Wow is that body more intelligent than the mind!!! The mind is overlaid with ideals, assumptions, beliefs, consciousnesses and so what it produces (if by itself and not connected to the body) is sheer rubbish and damaging to our health – may as well be eating boiled lollies. But that body is open to the communications of multidimensional intelligence. I know which one I now prefer.

47. To live and move from the body instead of from the dictation of the head is deeply satisfying and nourishing and there is a richness in everything experienced.

48. Hmm – our mind is a part of our body, we are not just walking / talking heads. That seems so obvious to say, but does not stop me from spending 45 years getting the wrong emphasis.

49. Living from the whole body is a completely different way of being than when just relying on the brain.

50. It just doesn’t make sense to oppose a relationship with our body, which only has our best interest at heart, as our bodies are designed to enhouse our Soul, in order for our being to be able to move through and live in this world, this plane of life in its fullness. Regardless of all the knowledge in the world available to us, that the mind attempts to attain supremacy with, it will always come back to our bodies knowing and communicating the absoluteness of truth through which we have an unlimited and constant access to. The awe of this is that this truth holds all equal and allows us to know all that we are, all that we are connected to and are here to live.

51. What makes us think we are ‘intelligent’ even when we are well-regarded in our professional work in society, when we wake up with a hang over from let’s say a works party. If we are truly honest, and feeling the effects, is this the role model we want to offer our future generations?

52. Call out that which separates us out from the connection to ourselves and we give ourselves an opportunity to connect. It is being loving enough with myself to be present to tap into the awareness in my daily living so that I can sense that which I allow takes me away from myself. It is a commitment to loving myself in every moment.

53. I love the title of your blog, bursting the bubble of the belief that the mind has all the intelligence with one loving statement: “Connecting to a Body more Intelligent than the Mind”.

    1. I agree Esther – when we are able to overcome our pride and accept the possibility that there may well be a greater intelligence than that of our minds, we will the realise and be in awe of the real potential that we as a humanity can be living. As even through my own experience with developing a loving relationship with my body, I am awe-inspired by the intelligence that is available for us to be guided by, and when I do, I am in awe of the magic that follows there after. This surely has to be our ‘normal’ as is feels so natural.

54. A beautiful sharing Michelle, bringing me back into my body to feel the warmth, the love, the glow of connection to my body and its innate wisdom.

55. In my experience my body knows exactly what is needed in any given moment and has the most up to date super fast all encompassing wisdom that considers the whole picture where as my mind can only rely on recall and past experience for its sources of information and tends to narrow and reduce things down to a part of the whole therefore missing out on the greater knowing that is available to know.

56. Connecting to our bodies is something we would have done automatically when we were small children.

57. It is quite clear to me that while the mind is amazing at analysing, logical argument, and problem solving, it is unable to make a decision! There have been many occasions where my mind gets caught in the headlights trying to decide between 2 or 3 finely balanced options… and that is where my body kicks in and provides the feelings I need to actually make the decision, and it does it quickly and with no nonsense. The best partnership is when they work as a whole.

58. Yes.. connecting to the body is a very simple thing. As soon as I try to work out ‘how’ I need to connect with my body, instead of just feeling my feet on the floor, or my fingers as I type, then I’m bringing in a layer of complication that doesn’t need to be there and takes me further away from just being with my body. Simplicity is what the body thrives on and with.

59. We can live a life in dis-connection to the body, the people and God. Or, in connection to the body, the people and God. It is just a choice.

60. I am choosing to put my attention on my qualities as I move like you describe here,’ I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me. In feeling these qualities, I am inspired to move and act in a way that allows me to maintain them throughout my day’. Very beautiful.

61. The body is like a wise best friend, ‘I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.’

62. Innate in the physical body is an intelligence that far outweighs the human mind which, after all, is merely confined to the space between our ears.

63. “Our body is in constant communication with us, however we tend to ignore it at the expense of our own health and well-being”. We ignore our body’s signals to us at our peril – then we wonder why we get ill…….

64. How beautiful to live in this way – from the simplicity of connection with the body first and foremost. It consists of “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence”.

65. Connecting to the body is child’s play and children do it naturally, we did it until we allowed the world to dictate otherwise.

66. ‘What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books’. Absolutely true, it has been life changing for me when I made the shift from being in my head to being in my body and being present as opposed to checking out in life, with no commitment to life, which was an old habit of mine!

67. There is so much direction and instruction for how to ‘connect’ to the body and our being – so much so, that people end up being more confused and in their mind about connecting to their body instead of simply just doing it.

68. There is a richness and warmth in how I feel inside, often found in my breath but always there if I connect to it. Its precious beyond words and can act as a bell weather for any situation… all we have to do is take a moment to connect (or never leave the connection in the first place!)

69. I find it very inspiring to be going everywhere with the body. The body always gives me opportunities to do that and always remind me if I have gone with my head and left it behind. Every single day I am learning more about myself with these reminders.

70. Thank you Michelle for sharing about whole body intelligence, it is amazing and so simple to stop and come bach to the gentle breath and just feel what the body is saying, sometimes I get so caught up in the mind with what I am the doing that I am reminded as I kick my toe or bump my hip that it is time to come back to my body and just feel.

71. I did a 5 minute meditation with a class of teenagers recently. It was interesting to note how many of them found it uncomfortable at first to sit still and bring their attention in to observe how their body felt. Eventually they did all settle, and at the end said they would like to do it more often. In this current fast paced way of living, where its all about ‘doing’ many don’t give themselves an opportunity to check in with how they are feeling.

    1. What you are doing Debra is amazing and at the same time very simple and real. Giving the opportunity to those teenagers to go deeper in their body awareness now, is key for their future life, as they already find the tools to come back to their body, simply by starting from their own breath, having more clarity in their choices and life. This is a big gift for them!

72. What I’ve noticed when connecting to my breath is that it reminds me that I have a body dangling below my head. I’m most aware of this when I’m doing exercise. To the best of my ability I breath through my nose and not through my mouth. This allows me to stay connected to what I’m doing and also is a clear indicator of when I’m pushing my body too hard, as it’s impossible to over do it when you are solely breathing through your nose. With practice my fitness has increased and I’ve developed a greater awareness of how my body is feeling.

73. It is simple to re-connect to our bodies once we stop and allow ourselves to simple sit and feel. Sitting and feeling can be a stark contrast to how otherwise we may be living and sometimes it makes me squirm. But it can be only a few minutes before the squirm settles and then the connection is restored. It truly is the most valuable few minutes of the day.

74. “These qualities are always present in my body, but if I’m not connected and present with my body, then I can’t feel them and I’m more likely to do things that may cause me pain or discomfort.”
    As I choose my qualities to lead how I move my body, I am literally ‘gob smacked’ as to feeling the stark contrast between moving with my qualities and without them. It is almost rediculous just how far away from our bodies we stepped. Thank you Serge Benhayon for again reminding us that we hold a quality, and it is up to us to move with it.

75. All the intelligence and support we need flows through us when we choose to self-love. Love is the key that opens the door (heart) to the ageless wisdom within giving us access to an awareness of knowing exactly how to handel whatever life presents us with and at the same time, an awareness of how to live and be to remain open to receive all that we need. We are truly taken care of.

76. How can intelligence be only intelligent to one part of the body? If it forgets the rest of the whole body? This same applies for all the other matters in life and exposes us that the intelligence we have allowed to be running the show – is not actually intelligence. Ouch, and quiet an exposé to what this “intelligence” have been doing: divide, instead of connecting together to its whole.
    So, what is the true intelligence that is pulsing to be lived ? Inside you, in your heart, in all that you breath forth.. You choose the form of intelligence all of the time. Remember it can only be one or the other. One that is and one that is not. So which one will you life by?

77. We’ve placed the mind on a pedestal of something that is highly intelligent. Commonly, the body comes in second place or sometimes doesn’t even get a placing. How wrong we are and when we honour the body’s intelligence, we’ll see the mind is not all we’ve made it out to be.

78. “Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body, allowing an awareness of how or what the body is feeling at any given moment.” I understand this, but there was a time when I didn’t even know I had a body, I mean that I was so far in my head all the time that I couldn’t feel my body at all. What turned it around for me was having supportive sessions with Universal Medicine therapies and practitioners. It was with the support of therapies such as chakra puncture that turned my life around and was able to be in my body and redevelop a loving relationship with myself.

79. Michelle, this is so simple and beautiful; ‘I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so. I allow myself to become aware of my breath and then to breathe gently, allowing my breath to return to its own natural rhythm’.

80. Connecting to the intelligence of our bodies allows a certain a certain quality in our movements to dispel that which is corrupt or not from truth.

81. Ignoring the body and instead to give precedence over the mind is a way of living we see a lot in our nowadays societies. We do conform to this way of being as we think that this is the way to comply to the demands of society. While we think we are doing well because we have found ways to cope with these demands, we are actually not much better off than those who have chosen to not participate and are the so called drop outs. We think they are the losers in life but maybe have listened to their bodies instead and have found ways to honour that. But fact is that it is hard for our societies to honour these choices, that’s why we still see it as a problem but not as a way to go all of us.

82. ‘ It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent?’ No it’s not! This is an intelligence that is not worthy of such a name. It is full of wilfulness, desire, protection, and lots of other rubbish, you name it. True is intelligence is our and it is based on and in Love. Love is the highest form of intelligence.

83. The mind is quite often like an evil dictator and the rest of the body is like the people who have to go along with the laws and decisions made up by the evil dictator with no regard for the people, even though the people are more intelligent than the dictator.

84. Interesting – I was at a University open day yesterday and the 5th year students we met felt very much like walking brains with little or no connection to their bodies. It was not a great advertisement, although as you say this is what is championed out there in the world and particularly at this University. We watched a mock interview and one of the questions was how do you deal with a stressful situation… the answer is simple – connect to my body, to allow myself to be absolutely present with whatever comes up.

85. Beautifully expressed Michelle. It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by how far we have strayed from the natural intelligence our body offers. I can feel I have a lot of ingrained behaviours to deal with. Your blog reminds me that it isn’t difficult to reconnect to my body and the wisdom it offers.

86. I truly appreciate the quality this sentence reflects: “I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so.” It is so simple – reading one sentence brings me deeper into the connection with my body. I’m just pondering what a day with conscious stop moments will feel like and how the quality of everything I do will be deepened.

87. That’s just it what type of intelligence would ignore the vehicle that allows it to move, to communicate, to live in effect – when the question is put that way it exposes the fallacy of our mind centric and driven society and how we effectively live as a mind on a stick ignoring our greatest asset our body. And this is no accident as our bodies clearly tell us (often through pain and discomfort) how we are in fact being and what is going on around us; often we do not want to know this because it rocks our ideas of how we are and how Love is (it braids a picture or ideal we have), but thank God for the body which shows us how we in fact are and allows us to consider and choose another way – it is indeed our greatest treasure.

88. This is so lovely to re-visit in the morning before the mind starts with the list of mentally calculated activities. When taking a moment to feel my body and observe for a few moments my gentle breath, I usually can feel an instant re-write of the ‘list’ and while some of the task might be the same, the push and intensity are no longer there.

89. What I love about the body’s intelligence is that it never stops it’s loving messages and as we get more refined in our treatment of the body so too do the messages get clearer so we are always given support by it to treat it even more lovingly.

90. Whole body mindedness is the way forwards or back we could say to an intelligence that is harmonious and encompassing of us all.

91. Knowledge to what the body needs only come so close. The body responds much more to Surrender, and this is not taught in health books.

92. It is also interesting to see how we can glorify the body and seem to consider it yet, it is used as a means to an end- to achieve our preferred image, gain us something, use to get us somewhere or someone and the list goes on… all in all an abuse of the body and still at the body and therefore our beings expense.

93. A super supportive blog Michelle on how the body is communicating with us all the time, and it is our own free will how much we listen to it. Like yourself I have also discovered; ‘that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books’.

94. “Connecting to a Body more Intelligent than the Mind” – as i’ve learned, when you get to become aware of this you start to really look after and appreciate the body instead of looking after the mental mind keeping it alert, stimulated and distracted thinking you’re remaining being ‘switched on’ — though in truth switched off in connection to the body whilst it withers in illness or dis-ease; the mind whirring on in trapped belief.

95. This blog made me so aware of where my mind can wander and it takes me a while to actually notice! I would be reading, what was written would trigger a memory, I would head off and investigate that memory, play out a scenario or two and then realise that I was still reading! How often does this happen in other areas?! Worth being honest and eating a slice of humble pie!!

96. I love how you bring the gentleness and loveliness our body provides to the for and how this is for all to have and experience when we dedicate ourselves to truly look after our bodies and nurture, honour and cherish them for the delicate, sophisticated and intelligent vehicles they are. It is like a precious car that deserves all our attention to the littlest detail.

97. “It seems that pain and discomfort quickly bring us back to being present in our body.” I know this to be the way of our bodies to communicate to us that we have to stop with what we are doing as it is dismissive and in disregard with it. But to my own experience I tended to, and sometimes still do, not to listen to what my body has to say but feel annoyed by the discomfort it brings and from that I look for the quick fix to relieve the pain instead.

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99. I agree Michelle, we have been tricked into believing that intelligence is the equivalent of knowledge and that there lays real success and security in our lives, when in truth, success is when we can live with others openly and harmoniously with an open heart.

    1. Success redefined; ‘ success is when we can live with others openly and harmoniously with an open heart’. Very, very true Francisco.

100. A truly intelligent mind would never disregard nor put at risk the very vessel that enhouses it.

     1. That exposes the non intelligence of the mind we tend to connect to the most as when I look around I see people, including myself that that is exactly what we in general are doing. And through this disregard we bring to the body by that ‘false’ mind we are numbing our body from feeling and connecting to that inner spark that actually is that truly intelligent mind you are talking about.

101. No university degree is required to live the universal intelligence that is available to all. All that is required is a body, which we all have, the will to surrender to the communication that is forever offered to us, which we also all have, and honesty in order to honour the truth that is felt in our bodies, which is a choice that we also all can make. When we study the quality of our movements in relation to how we feel in our bodies we discover that there is a far greater intelligence at play, one that we are already a part of as such have access to. True power and wisdom is lived when we honor our connection to this quality, the universal truth of us all, guided by our whole body intelligence.

102. This is great what you have shared about body intelligence as our feelings from within give a clear indication of who we are and our thoughts from our head seem to keep us in the illusion that this life is all we have.

103. The intelligence of our body, that inner knowing that knows so well and so much, is the voice that humanity must listen to, to pull itself out of the morass that it has willfully ended up in.

104. Our body and all of it’s communications is something that needs to be very deeply appreciated. If it wasn’t for our body and its unending communications, we would never know that we are so much more and connected to so much than we could ever imagine.

105. ‘Our body is in constant communication with us, however we tend to ignore it at the expense of our own health and well-being.’ Well said and very true Michelle, it is crazy that so much emphasis is put on the intelligence of the mind and so many ignore the whole body intelligence as this is truly key to great success and joy in our lives.

106. Apart from the fact that all of the true riches of life such as love and the intelligence of the Universe are connected to through our body, what is the point of being very rich or so called successful if your body is unwell or suffering. It simply does not make any sense to not take care of our bodies.

107. “…it is in this connection that the intelligence of the body is revealed…” An intelligence that is all about awareness and a knowing… not an intelligence that has to prove, to be better than or to conquer. There is a difference in the quality of each isn’t there…

108. The more aware, honouring and connected to my body I am, the more I can feel the struggles of control the mind demands.

109. And once we make that gorgeous connection with our body, it becomes a forever deepening – an intelligence that comes from and is full of Love.

110. “What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.” This is so true Michelle. Nothing can replace the lived experience of what we feel and know to be true in our bodies.

111. When I am in a rush or pushing myself to get something done I easily disconnect from my body and ignore the signs and messages it sends me. Which often leads to sore backs, sore neck and shoulders or sometime injury. I am learning to not rush or push my body and take more care in listening to what my body communicates to me. When I do listen, the quality of what I do improves and I feel I have the energy to do more. Interesting how exhausting it is to rush and push our body when we can choose to work with our body instead of against it.

112. I thought connecting back to my body was hard – but actually it’s really simple – all I need to do is say I’m in my head.

113. I ask myself, how am I really feeling this moment? And am I respecting what I am truly feeling, do I dare to change the rhythm of what I think I have to follow and truly just respond to what my body is saying?I am feeling hungry, but I don’t want to stop commenting because it is a tight schedule this morning my mind tells me. Right, I am going to stop writing this comments right now and go and replenish with a nurturing breakfast, and resume comments after 🙂 Let’s explore and let you know how that experience is later.

     1. Great reminder Adele to regularly ask ourselves how we are feeling. I have found by sharing with people around me how I am feeling especially when I am feeling out of sorts, it supports me to be more aware of my body and reminds me to be gentler on myself.

114. I just love the title of this blog – says everything straight up – ‘ Connecting to a Body more Intelligent than the Mind’ Yes, my body holds true intelligence – what a revelation! Turns everything that is taught in our education system on its head.

     1. Yes agree Jenny, now if only we could bring this revelation to the education system, how different schooling would be for all children.

115. What if we would all honour our body while we work and go along our day? I think we would be just as productive or even more without the push and drive that makes our body need caffeine and sugar to be able to keep going. Haven’t we been settling for so much less ?

116. This is a great sharing on the true connection of our bodies and all it shows us as a living way and the difference this makes in our lives with the connection to the all that we are so intrinsically part of.

117. If we don’t connect to what our bodies can communicate to us, we are lost in a jungle of competing forces all trying to hold sway over our being, dictating what we are to think, and act – and the greatest trick, and imprisonment, of all is that those forces can even make us feel that we are in complete control of our lives. Yet deep down we all have a truth that knows itself and it is this that we can connect to through the body, which will for once and for all guide us out of the darkness and back to the light we came from.

118. It is interesting to observe how we feel intelligence brings us success, yet when we stay in our mind we miss many opportunities that are actually telling us that we are overriding what our body needs in order to support ourselves, and through building a connection within myself I realise that success comes from within, because everything we need to know is already known.

119. It is life changing when we make the shift from our head to our bodies, it certainly was for me. Listening to my body I make choices that nourish and truly nurture my body. Many years on my body shape has changed to a perfect weight that suits my height and I look and feel younger.

120. I agree that it is not always pleasant to feel our bodies when we have not been looking after ourselves but when we choose to I find the amount of support my body offers me is huge. It is like a super fast track wise assistant back to love. Otherwise I can choose to override it and eventually be stopped by exhaustion or some kind of illness.

121. It is worth remembering that our actual body extends beyond what we can physically see. It has, what is esoterically referred to as an atma. Some people call this an aura, although our atma is much bigger than that. And it is actually within that atma, or field of universal connection where we can access true intelligence, which then in turn is communicated to the body, and the mind, if so aligned. So how do you form a relationship with your alma. For one, you have to open up, and you do that in part by creating a body that is not dense. Thus why a tender state of being, where the muscles are not held tight, is more akin to such expansion than a state of hardness. Equally, if you open yourself up to feeling life, you open yourself up to the field of life, known as atma. So part of the esoteric way is learning to feel and accept both things that you don’t want to feel and things you might like to feel – equally so. And so I could go on. But it is in such expansion of our awareness beyond the plane of physicality that true intelligence is offered to us, and all the answers to life that we eternally seek revealed in an instant. Only ironically, once such answers are offered to, you realise by virtue of the simplicity of that which is offered, that there is nothing enlightening about access to such knowledge at all. And so your thirst for such knowledge is revealed for the very first time as completely unnecessary and superfluous compared to the connection to life that you now hold and embrace.

     1. Accepting what we don’t want to feel as well as what we do want to feel – unless we’re prepared to accept feeling everything, including the momentum of our own past choices, we’ll find a million ways to dull our awareness and choose not to feel it all. That’s why self love and self care are so supportive in increasing our awareness. They provide the bedrock, the foundation, to come back to, when we start feeling more. We can either freak out and react to everything we can feel, or come back to that feeling of solidness and stillness that is always within and waiting to be connected to.

        1. beautifully expressed byroninge. It is self love and the foundation it provides that assists us to deal with all that there is to feel and life, and not be affected by it.

122. It is very common for people to sit in front of the TV and consume huge amounts of food not even considering how much they are eating or if the food even agrees with them. We need to ask our self why do we allow this level of abuse? We may not do it to this degree, but how often do we go to dinner at some one’s house and eat what is put in front of us, even if it does not agree with us, all in the guise of being polite? Same, same, just a little different. There is a myriad of ways we abuse ourself by not listening and responding to what our body is telling us.

     1. I know exactly what you mean for me if I start having something I find it hard to stop, give me a chocolate cake and I will eat the whole thing I could never stop at 1 slice, or in front of the tv a bag of popcorn – its always been all or nothing. I know this has to do with the fact that I feel the effect of a small amount in my body and so go to the extreme to override it in a way to numb my body so I think I can’t feel it – it is crazy really and the next day and even longer is then when i really feel it!

123. “Our body is in constant communication with us.” Very true Michelle. What if we had listened to our body when we tried that first puff of a cigarette? Or a first sip of strong alcohol? Would we have persevered? We all know our stomach speaks to us when we have overeaten. Why do we override these feelings and ignore or deny them? There may be many answers, from peer pressure to comfort, the important thing is to listen to what our body tells us – and then honour it. If we don’t then why do we act surprised to learn that we have a disease diagnosis?

124. I have experienced the same thing Michelle – by reconnecting to my breath and my body and accessing a state of steadiness or settlement in my body, opens up a depth and breadth of understanding of life around me and within me that I did not previously believe was possible.

125. The enormity of our bodies intelligence is something that I have found difficult to get my head around so to speak because I’ve spent so long focusing on the intelligence of the mind and how intelligence is related to academic achievement. Connecting to our bodies intelligences brings an equalness to all.

126. Abandoning the body for the mind leaves us able to treat our bodies with disregard, drive and hardness, Livingness connected to the continious messages our body is giving us leaves reminds us to connect to our innate qualities of stillness and tenderness.

127. How we run our bodies with our minds at our bodies expense when we do not connect and feel where we are at in any given moment.

128. I am loving the fact that I have finally figured out that my “body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life” but it’s has taken me quite a while to get to this understanding. My job is simply to learn to listen to it, to get a sense of what it is asking of me and then to take action. After working so often in separation to it all I need to remember is that my body is the wisest friend I could ever have and together we make a great team.

129. Michelle, I really get that the body comes distant second to the mind. To me the mind is always wanting to take control of the body at all times, it doesn’t want to let go and allow the body to feel what is going on. I have discovered that the mind hates stillness and there seems to be a constant need from the mind to be distracted, if there is a lack of focus there is a lack of purpose. It sometimes feels like a flow of distracting thoughts and so I’m learning discipline, that when these thoughts come in to cut them off and to come back to me, how does my body feel. Actually a great way to bring me back is writing my comments.

130. The mind won’t communicate to us when we are sick, but our body is very quick to let us know our lifestyle choices are hurting us.

     1. True – our mind is more likely to compel us to keep going in an ill pattern and momentum or to override any feeling we may be aware of… our body is transparent and hides nothing.

        1. And to take it even further, the mind will defend and justify the fact that the body is sick to begin with. To hide these lies, and the loudness of the body, it has many ways to numb, dull and distract the awareness that is being constantly received. This is not so intelligent after all.

131. I work with people and their bodies everyday. The one thing that I do notice is the hard time we give ourselves because of our body. We think that our body has failed us when we become sick rather than simply communicating. It’s a very big difference and we can’t see the communication when we don’t have self-care and self-love as a foundation. The problem is with that hard time we give ourselves, this self-critique affects our body even more.

132. A beautiful reminder of how powerful it is to stop and feel the body. It’s something that most of us do not do, but from experience when I remember to stay connected in this way my whole life feels so much easier and I have way more energy. It’s strange that our default is to ignore the very vehicle we walk around in.

133. “I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life…” It is remarkable Michelle how much our bodies know and communicate to us all the time, and the more we listen to them the more we can understand how much we tend to let our minds run the show instead, and consequently life is much more complicated and stressful than it needs to be.

134. It is a supreme arrogance when the mind disregards the body over and over again, over-riding the constant communication it so lovingly supplies.

135. Recently I have had a sprained ankle and it has been a great way to get me to pay more attention to my body and honour it more deeply. We can so easily take our body for granted and it is only when things start to happen to the body, for example, we eat something and we bloat that we begin to pay attention to what the body is trying to tell us. The truth is the body is always communicating with us, it is a question of whether we want to listen or not.

136. We have a habit of ignoring the body and driving everything from the head, one small part of the whole. And that small part thinks it can call the shots, supported by a total absence from our very physicality, much to our detriment.

137. For me just the title says it all
     “Connecting to a Body more Intelligent than the Mind”
     I disliked school so much as a child I constantly ran away out of class all the way back home. I have had an aversion to education all my life. I am coming to the realisation that my body had an aversion because it knows to it’s very core that the current education system actually crushes our innate knowing which does come from our bodies. And for me reconnecting back to our bodies is the most intelligent thing we can do.

138. “It seems that pain and discomfort quickly bring us back to being present in our body.” I had never thought of it like that before Michelle but it is true the only time I used to be aware of my body was when it was in pain, but even then it would be isolated to a specific area where the pain was and didn’t connect to my whole body. The body is super intelligent and pain is its way of saying something is not right and is sending us messages all the time, learning to listen to them has turned my life around.

139. Yes indeed, Michelle. Whole body intelligence gives us a much clearer picture of what is actually going on within and around us.

140. The intelligence that we know is not true intelligence it’s all from our mind, for true intelligence we need to drop into our body and connect to the wisdom that is available to all of us.

141. It doesn’t make sense on any level that we would see intelligence from a part of us being greater than an intelligence from the whole of us.

142. It seems so automatic to reach for knowledge from the experts when our body breaks down in its function in some way. Yet we ignore the inner wisdom that is naturally there if only we take a moment to connect.

143. Connecting with our body is the most simple and easiest of things but we like to make it more complicated by thinking that it needs to be done a certain way or in a certain place, time etc. Connecting with the body is simple and takes seconds, and can be done through our movements and breath. It might take a while to consistently live this connection, but that’s okay. In my experience the more I connect to my body and feel what to do instead of trying to work it all out, the more I want to connect to it because it feels so lovely, and means I just know what I need to do next: no floundering, just getting on with it.

144. How wise it is to listen to our body and to become aware of the depth of intelligence on offer – guidance, foresight and instant feedback on all of our choices and how they are living us.

145. It is so true what you share about the fact that pain or discomfort bring us back into the body quickly. I have heard it said that this is the case, this is the actual reason for pain- so that we cant ignore or neglect our body or continue with how we are living if we choose to take on board the messages we receive from pain and are prepared to go deeper.

146. It makes sense that there is a universal intelligence that we all belong to and are part of.. What trips us up is trying to ‘know’ this and to own it from the physical, temporal viewpoint, as our intellect would try to have it.. This is not knowledge we can own, but rather a knowing we can choose to live from and by, and it cannot be lived from the self, only as part of the all.

147. Beautiful Michelle. Connecting to my body has recently revealed so much to me about how I can sometimes suppress bodily feelings because of some idea or ideal about the world. I have to go to a number of different homes to tutor my final year students for the HSC. I didn’t notice it in summer as it was warm but now as winter draws near the houses I visit are becoming colder and and no heat is being turned on there! I already have a log fire laid for when I come home from work so that I can just put a match to it. So when I am going to work I put on plenty of warm clothes but still notice that I am cold in these homes. So far I have been gritting my teeth and bearing it (though of course observe I am doing this and letting go) and have clocked that I feel awkward about the thought of asking them to put some heat on, as I do not want to dictate to others how they should run their house – it may be a kind of politeness thing, an ideal I am carrying. I do know this that my body does not like to be cold, it likes its fieriness to be held and supported. So yesterday I went and bought another down jacket and will see if that works.

148. What you read in a book might ‘work’ on a functional level to achieve a certain body shape or energy level, but it does not reveal to you the great depth of what is there to be felt. We need to care for our bodies, but not for the sake of glorifying it. Our body can receive the intelligence of the universe if it is cared for and listened to, This feels like the real purpose of body connection.

149. ‘ I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.’ Absolutely Michelle – a grand, universal intelligence . we have access to all of the time.

150. Its like through connecting to the physical body and feeling the essence from within, you can not deny that you are connecting deeply to a vast and spacious body of the Universe. The intelligence of this is the quality of a knowing beyond words.

151. I agree, one can truly settle into their body.

152. ‘This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows.’ This takes big decision-making to a whole new level. Buying a house, for instance, do we go through our list and see what boxes are ticked, or do we walk around and FEEL how each house feels.

153. It is true the body has all the intelligence we need, but we are brought up to push to be intellectually smart, and this way of being has become far more valued, but with this way of being, those that are not book smart are seen as less.

154. Since attending universal medicine courses I have started to become aware of just how much I check out. I can be driving or doing any number of tasks when I notice I have gone into auto polite. This is not healthy for me or those around me. Coming back to me, staying connected and listening to my body allows me to be prepared for life and all that may get thrown at me.

155. Feeling from the body makes so much sense, thats when I feel my inner-wisdom; there is a glow that comes from connecting to my body, which is felt in my whole being. Then especially when we think we are thinking, and all we are doing is regurgitating something that is at best someone else’s knowledge, this takes away any glow, which starts to make me feel numb in my body.

     1. I agree Greg, the simplicity of connection to the glow of one’s body and hence the inner-wisdom.

        1. Thank you Mary, and may I add this feeling starts out as a part of our healing, which is learning to be honest so that we can let go of our ideals and beliefs that we have held in our bodies thus keeping us from our inner-wisdom.

156. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence” – breath awareness, is awareness in and of life.

157. The concept of body intelligence is something not really appreciated by the world. Its not taught in schools, not really addressed by the medical areas, its just not seen. But there is no doubt whatsoever that the body is intelligent. It offers us wisdom every day. It is our choice whether or not we listen, observe and embrace it.

158. Our body is in constant communication with us…and this constant flow of information can be there to guide us home, literally to our true destination as a race… now that IS a big picture.

     1. Perfect timing to read this Chris, there is a true purpose to connecting to the communication our body offers.

159. When I’m not connected with my body, my mind takes over at my body’s expense and before long, I will feel tension in my back and shoulders. It’s very simple to reconnect back to my body and my breath.

160. Thank you Michelle, I love the simplicity of the way we can reconnect and bring ourselves back from all the motion of life, it is always so simple and it just takes our willingness to connect to that which is natural within us and the more we appreciate this, the more we will want to hold that quality and stop oscillating to that which is not of our nature.

161. Reading this is a great reminder to connect back to my body at any moment when I realise I’m not. Yesterday was a great example of loosing connection – for a moment and the tension in my muscles responded immediately, but with this loving reminder there is more I could have done at the moment of realisation to check in and feel what was going on, rather than a pseudo awareness to placate the discomfort.
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162. I don’t even think we have got close to understanding and realising the depth of the intelligence of the body – it’s kind of hard to when we come at it from the mind.

     1. I agree Nikki, an intelligence that all can access equally that is unfathomably vast in comparison to our current constraints of believing our heads have all the answers.

163. I found your blog very refreshing to read Michelle, and so profound in its simplicity. Connecting to our body will provide such common sense wisdom with regard to the ageing process.

164. Michelle I feel that what you are sharing here can ring true for many of us, how we use our minds to drive the body. As a human race we have been taught from young to use the mind which we do constantly at the expense of our bodies and we are now paying for this dearly in the rates of illness and disease, we just have to look at what we actually put into our bodies in the way of food and drink. We know that we are really eating rubbish food with very little nourishment in it yet we continue to do this in spite of all the health warnings from the health care experts. There seems to me to be much more going on here than meets the eye, why are we eating and drinking ourselves into poor health and an early death? What is it about our current way of living that we don’t want to own up to?

165. I used to have a complete different understanding of the word intelligence as being a quality of the mind but in fact the mind is not intelligent at all, it is my body that holds a real intelligence that is connected to the grander whole such as nature, the universe and more, and thus with an all knowing that is just available to us by connection and does not need any study or regurgitation of matter learned from books, but relies on the level of our connection with our bodies first and almost.

166. The body is essentially our connection to the deeper parts of ourselves – when we stop to honour and care and deeply respect the body, then it communicates clearly with us and allows us a direct communication with our soul. The mind on the other hand can easily take over and give us an impression that we are connecting with something deeper – however this is the connection with our spirit, which really only ever skims the surface of what the soul is capable of. We of course have a choice – we can stay with the superficiality of the spirit, which many do (whilst believing that it is the soul), but when we truly connect with the deepest recesses (the soul) through the body, then we get to feel the fullness of what we have to deliver and once this has been felt, there is no turning back, there is only the complete and absolute care and honouring of the body with tenderness and delicateness. Soul can only work through us if we live the care, honouring and tenderness on a day to day basis with our body.

167. Re-connecting to our own breath, and breathing gently, stopping to feel our bodies and our breath is one of the best gifts you can give yourself in my books. And the best part about it? It’s free, and quick and quite easy to do – no gurus, long sittings/meditations, nothing else but you and your breath. Not sure how? http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation/the-gentle-breath-meditation-in-5-simple-steps.html

168. The way you descibe to how we can connect to our bodies feels very loving, rhytmical and supportive. A great way to introduce more stops during the day.

169. Thank God for the divine particles that make up the human body. Without this intelligence available to us ‘in our face’ so to speak, it is likely that we would ignore the truth of the way we live without energetic integrity, and just keep on circulating the sun in misery endlessly. And thank God for Serge Benhayon who has alerted us to this truth.

170. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.” The beauty and simplicity of this is life changing and something presented by Serge Benhayon and all this allows and means both in our lives and that of humanity as a whole.

171. It has been proved that there are nerve cells in the heart and the heart has its own nerve supply to work independently from the brain. The cardio-centric approach is by connecting us to the heart instead of the brain and allowing everything to flow: this connection then reveals the whole body intelligence.

172. Michelle, I love the simplicity with which you have written this, ‘Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body, allowing an awareness of how or what the body is feeling at any given moment’, I can feel how important it is to stop and allow ourselves to feel the natural stillness and harmony in our bodies, I have felt that if I do this at work even for a minute or two it completely changes how I feel, if I have been rushing it can bring me back to my natural stillness.

173. To consider the body as more intelligent than the mind…on first ‘thought’ doesn’t seem plausible yet, when stopped and felt, to realise that the body is communicating in a way that we have chosen to not fully translate is a bit of a stopper. We carve a whole way of life and being that completely dismisses or ignores the wisdom of the body…and we are missing out…big time.

174. “Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body, allowing an awareness of how or what the body is feeling at any given moment.” This is a quote of the day – whilst I have also had to be very understanding and patient with myself as I have deconstructed so many poor and harmful habits that have interfered with my ability to be still. The more I do stop and allow that stillness out, the simpler life becomes.

175. You redefine the word ‘intelligence’ and the prerequisite is not how well you did in your exams, but simply being aware of the body and learning to listen.

176. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.” The body’s ‘very loving form of intelligence’ and in turn it is a ‘very loving form of intelligence’ for us to choose, confirming back to our bodies that we are appreciating all that our bodies offer us. Our bodies intelligence doesn’t impose we have to make the choice to be loving or not.

177. I have not spent a long time in academia and can say I have spent the majority of my life living from my head – this is across the board no matter what walk of life one so called comes from.

178. My breath as you rightly shared Michelle, is a continuing focus and is something that I am always returning to; this is a glorious part of the order that I do my best to be part of my daily rhythm. With a focus on my breath I can feel much more what my body is telling me, so breath is an important part of me staying connected to my body.

179. Sometimes my head wants to take a certain direction, which is not always a direction supported by the body, the body however always knows which choice is a loving choice to make.

180. Bringing our awareness to our bodies and what they are communicating to us is key, honouring them is even more important and this is where true intelligence comes in because we know what is true and the right thing to do and we do it. When we override this with our mind we can harm ourselves and this becomes a no brainer.

181. Nature shows us all the time how divine intelligence works to ensure that harmony is in its correct balance between every element of life. We can, as humans, impose another form of intelligence on to this divine nature, but we cannot alter it or take it away, it remains constant and there for us to re-connect with at any given moment, because It lives within our inner-hearts where the Esoteric resides, a place that leads us to universal order and an intelligence that surpasses the need for knowledge because everything is known.

182. It is true that our minds can have us thinking we are doing great, just getting on with stuff, but when we actually stop and feel, it doesn’t take long to come to the realisation that we there is an anxiousness or a reaction held in the body, or something as simple like absorbing music whilst out shopping.

183. This is redefining intelligence…”when I allow myself time to stop, to breathe gently and to reconnect to my body, I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me…”

184. There is no limit to the true intelligence that the body can receive.

185. This blog gave me a perfect reminder of how to go about my day whilst reading on my morning commute. Thank you for sharing.

186. When I am not in connection with my body I drive my body from the mind and what I then experience is a tension or an anxiousness because my body is placed in a movement that is not natural to it, probably against it and therefor harming.

     1. Driving our bodies from our minds is a reflection of how we live our lives in separation from one another. Until we are willing to consider everything and everyone in our choices and decisions, we are going to perpetuate the divisiveness and separation that has got us into our current mess.

        1. Exactly Matilda, it is not only that we do not connect with our body, but with that we also do not connect with all that lives around us and are part of as our bodies are naturally connected to all of life. So you can say that the fact that we are not connected to our body is actually the result of us choosing to separate form that life we are naturally part of but instead of that have created another way of life from our mind, a way of life that actually is harming to us as it is a much lesser form than we are designed for to live. This actually is the responsibility we are here talking about, to take the responsibility to return to live the life that we belong to and in that have to say goodbye that the separative way of living and thus to the abusive drive of the mind.

187. I have heard the phrase “the body never lies” many times since beginning my studies with Universal Medicine but it has taken me many years to fully appreciate the weight of what this truly means. The reason I am sharing this is because your blog has encompassed this phrase in a big way. My understanding is that although we may think we are getting away with treating ourselves like rubbish, our choices always show up in our bodies at some point.

188. “I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.” An intelligence that is truly intelligent, I would say.

189. Michelle, I know that numb feeling you speak of here so well. I loss myself in it and then when I move I become aware of my body again, but as you say, what type of intelligence allows us to get to that state where we need pain and stiffness to tell us we’re ‘out of whack’ and Thank God for pain – can you imagine if we did not have it, we would not know that how we’ve been with ourselves and our bodies had hurt us, and that’s an eye opener for me to see the service that pain is to us and our bodies.

     1. Monica so well said It is amazing how quickly we can disconnect from our bodies in order to complete a task, and find afterwards that our body is hurting somewhere and as you so rightly say thank heavens for the pain because without the pain there would be no awareness to look after ourselves. But even pain is not enough to deter some people such as athletes don’t they have a saying “feel the pain and do it anyway”? This makes no sense to me.

190. The whole body intelligence should be confirmed in our education system and families, so that we are reminded that this our natural way and inner wisdom.

191. I have also found it very supportive to keep checking in with and connecting to my body during the day and I find I am more steady and settled and able to make clearer decisions and read situations more fully and clearly when I am connected to my body compared to when I try and figure life out from my head/brain/mind.

192. I believed it was really difficult to come back to my body when I was in my head. Until someone pointed out it was really simple, all I had to do was say ‘I’m in my head’ and come back to my body, it might be as simple as feeling my feet walking.

193. I too have been completed fooled by the intelligence of the mind, and spent much of my life chasing academic accolades and wanting to be better than others in such pursuits as that is where i thought I obtained my sense of worth from. I am so glad that is not the case any longer. although its taken a long time to loosen myself from the mental binds of my head driven ways, i am committed to working on listening to my own body, step by step, day by day. I do love how I can make this a continual commitment and take it step by step, allowing so much learning along the way.

194. I love your comment Sandra. I agree there is a treasure-box with in, ever awaiting our choice to connect….so simple to drop out of the head and into the body and choose the Pure Gold within….beginning with the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great first step.

195. This is very inspiring! To realize again that the qualities I am longing for (like stillness, power, connection, gentleness and so on) are always present in my body and it is just on me to choose to connect to them and ‘let them out’. Becoming aware again about what is there to me to express brings off cause all on the table I did live that did hinder those qualities to come out and that can be uncomfortable to feel. But when I do not shy away from taking responsibility here, my gift is the access to the treasure-box I am inside. Pur Gold.

     1. Indeed Sandra, we have a treasure box inside us and it is just to all of us to choose using this treasures or not, all by our own free will.

196. The relationship we build with our body is the truest relationship we can have in my experience. The mind can be a trickster at times when it tries to override the body’s wisdom, yet when they are in union there is harmony that follows.

197. “Connecting to a Body more Intelligent than the Mind” – i know this is true Michelle with the example of unfolding myself towards public speaking and also naturally confident being seen in front of an audience to deliver a presentation — when i’m connected to my body i feel prepared and steady within myself; everything feels natural. When i’m not and away in my head, my mind takes over and find i go bananas with thoughts creating anxiousness to prevent what needs to be delivered or said.

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199. It is very easy to know what is good for us to eat when we can read from the plethora of health related books, web pages and TV programmes, but if we do that we miss out on the most intelligent source of all, our body. Each of us will have slightly different nutritional needs depending on our activity, our lifestyle and our physiology, therefore there is no one recipe that fits all. When we make space to listen, the information is there – we know before we even walk down the supermarket aisle what we truly need and what we don’t.

200. I remember when I got first introduced to the Gentle Breath meditation (http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/meditation-for-beginners/introductory-gentle-breath-meditation.html), I struggled because it showed me how little I had gentleness and stillness in my life. But I stuck with it, partly becuase it was easier than all other meditations that I had tried (because of its simplicity) and I liked how it felt. Now I dont’ practice the full meditation but I often return myself to breathing my own breath, and doing the gentle breath to the tip of the nose. It connects you to you like no other modality I have tried.

201. I often sit at my computer for hours and when I am working away disconnected to my body it aches and my muscles feels tight. I get tired easily and my quality of work is often compromised. But when I stay connected to my body, take regular breaks and regular check moments on my posture and thoughts, I feel energised, my work improves, no stress and I feel great.

202. How simply we can drop back into our body, through the connect to our breath. It is amazing how quickly and easily we can all do that, no matter how far we are out from our body, just bringing that awareness back to our gentle breath can reconnect us back to our body.

203. ‘Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body, allowing an awareness of how or what the body is feeling at any given moment.’ – It is amazing how quickly our body can turn around and respond to a true and loving quality of movement, no matter how long we have neglected and dishonoured it.

204. Being absent from my body by being in my head thinking has brought a great dullness to my life. Coming back to my body after such escapades has felt uncomfortable as I’ve had to feel the energies that I let run it in my absence. Ironic because I left in the belief that that was what would make life less painful if I wasn’t present to experience it. Now I’m rebuilding a trust with my body and God that there is nothing too awful I cannot stick around for and nothing too awful to return to feeling. Being connected is being connected to the forever deepening love we all are. The choice is love or letting through all that is ugly and harms oneself and others.

205. I agree its not always pleasant to check in to what the body has to say about certain things especially if we have less and less things to numb what we are feeling. I do a physical job and many years ago now at the end of each day I would hit the pub and I soon wouldn’t feel the aches and pains of the days work or the exhaustion from over doing it but now I am instantly aware if I have lost myself during the day and over done it feeling the consequences.

     1. And when we allow ourselves to feel the consequences of our choices in our body, instead of numbing it then we are more aware of what needs to change to better support our body. Every ache, pain or discomfort is our body communicating to us and if we listen and honour these messages we learn to work and live in a more gentle and loving way that truly supports every part of us.

206. The more I listen to and honour what my body communicates to me more amazed I become of its intelligence.

     1. I know what you mean just honouring what my body is communicating and listening to it, the amount of intelligence constantly pouring through is just so beautiful. There is no end to what is given to us.

207. “…..what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent?” This is a great question Michelle. We rely so much on the mind for intelligence, but ultimatley our body will always tell us what is true and what is not, however much we try to ignore it.

208. Anyone who relies on the intelligence of the mind to get through life will deny that the intelligence of the body even exists. It’s so easy to override the body with the mind, but ultimately the body has the last say. If we have ignored the body for too long then illness occurs. At some point we do have to stop and listen.

209. Connection so we can be on our evolutionary path instead of the treadmill that life used to offer us brings the warmest most blessed feeling to our bodies. When I feel the pain, which brings disconnection in life, life gets complicated, and then when I am connected life is so simple. Our divine connection is guarantied and simple when we choose to call god with the intent to be of true service to humanity.

210. We have our choir meeting today and I am feeling how important it is to be connected to and aware of our ‘instrument’ – our body – in full before and as we sing. Traditional teaching methods only connect singers to aspects of the body but my feeling is ‘the whole body loves to sing’ and when we do use our whole body, somehow we are able to unite more naturally with the other singers in our group. For me, there is no part of life that this ‘whole body approach’ does not apply to and when we are connected to our bodies we are equally connected to life.

211. Respecting and honouring the wise sage that my body is and responding to its signals has changes, and continues to change, my whole relationship with myself, life and purpose.

212. I have found Esoteric Yoga – http://www.esotericyoga.com/ – one of the most supportive modalities to support this connection to the body. I lived in such hardness and disconnection to my body, that I was rarely present with it, and only listened to my body when it screamed pretty loudly. Esoteric Yoga sessions have supported me to let go of this momentum, and learn how to be with my body so those stop moments don’t feel so impossible.

     1. Yes I am with you Sarah, In an Esoteric Yoga session we get to feel exactly where the body is at in relation to how we have been living. It can be difficult to feel at times though brings us back to an honesty and we can re-establish a more supportive way to be with our bodies. So much can be accessed from the stillness within us.

213. Connection with our breath is the bridge to knowing and finding God within.

214. We all do know what is good for us but we do not allow it to come naturally from our body but instead let the head calculate what is best. To accept that our bodies know and can show us the way is a very far away concept in our world today where everything revolves around our mind and the intelligence it can produce.

215. ‘In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power.’ It is this kind of intelligence than inhibits us from seeing so much more.

     1. This type of intelligence is so sought after in our society that people spend decades gathering knowledge in the pursuit of feeling more intelligent. Meanwhile, the tension of this limited way of living becomes so unbearable that other unintelligent behaviors are engaged in, such as drug taking, drinking poisons and eating foods that are harmful for the body. There is clearly something wrong with this equation.

216. Michelle, I agree with this, ‘I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.’ I had an incident yesterday where my body was clearly saying it was time to leave where I was with my son and go home, I started to feel a tension in my body and having felt this before knew it was time to leave, I over road this to be polite to the person I was with and then my son hurt himself and it started raining, this kind of thing always happens when I do not listen to my body and instead listen to my head.

217. We totally underestimate what we are capable of when we truly appreciate and care for our bodies as we start to tap into a universal wisdom that is endless.

218. Just reading your words here Michelle, has brought me back to feeling my body. I needed this, this morning and to be honest it happens a lot, that I drift into emotions or living from my head. Yet every time I get to see the truth you present, I feel ‘oh yeah – life is so simple! how could I ever forget?’. And yet I find I invariably do. To me this is real proof that there is a part of us that is always looking to distract us from our body – because when we live in relation to that, this selfish greedy bit is no longer in charge. There truly is a battle going on inside of us all, no wonder our society has conflict too – it just reflects the unintelligent way we let our mind rule the roost.

219. ‘connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence’… we don’t describe the intelligence of the mind as loving (it is more so a calculating form of intelligence) – and yet the intelligence of the body cannot but be loving.

220. it is a destructive cycle – when I have been reckless and disregarding of my body through stress, overwork and worry and wrong foods, to then seek to escape from it but engaging more mental energy, stress or poor food… but taking those steps to nurture the body first, and reconnect to its wisdom and it becomes a natural progression to honour its communication and support it.. Turning this simple equation around has turned around my life.

221. Far beyond its physicality, which in itself is amazing, the body carries – and is – a vibration first.

     1. Yes so true, and our instruments can either express in a rhythmic melodious way, or be discordant to our natural harmony depending on our tuning.

222. Some where along the way, many of us have become seriously distracted by the ideas in our head…whole body intelligence developed through a reconnection and awareness in movement alllows us to feel and so understand so much more about life. I know this and I say this from a few years of practice and there is still much to learn.

223. When we think from the mind we will always be using a lesser form of intelligence, feel the power of the body and we will always deliver more then any mind can ever perceive.

224. Yes, I know for me, when I’m slouched or walking while in my head, my thoughts and movements definitely change, as opposed to being present with myself and enjoying every movement because it is full of love, joy and purposeful.

225. It has been deeply empowering to discover that it is our movements and quality of being that determines the types of thoughts we will then experience – instead of thinking we ‘think’ our thoughts and therefore are owned by them. Learning we can change our thoughts by how we live and move brings the focus right back to the choices we make in each moment and the quality we choose before we move, act, think, speak and walk. This has been life-changing.

226. It is worth considering that the thoughts we experience are less to do with the power of our mind than they are the movements of our body. This philosophy as presented by Serge Benhayon is at first a little confronting. However, here is two things to consider. Firstly, one needs to consider how difficult it is to stop thinking certain thoughts, or to try to change your thoughts from negative to positive. For years, positive thinking has been seen as the answer, but anyone who has really tried this can seen it is prone to failure. Thus, it is perhaps worth considering that our thoughts are controlled by more than just the mind. Secondly, consider the effects of body position on your mood. For example, cross your arms, frown, and then try to think loving thoughts. It is invariably difficult. Proof in its own way that our body and its movements has more effect on our thoughts than we may at first like to think.

     1. Yes. I agree with this Adam, but only on the basis of experience. As I sit here typing I can slouch and feel the despondency in this or open up my shoulders, lengthen my spine and feel the willingness and enthusiasm to engage with life… totally different ‘thoughts’, totally governed by my relationship with my body and my choice of movements.

227. Through connecting to my body and my movements I am discovering a whole new way of living with an awareness and feeling far greater then anything learned and read about that is deeply honouring and known inside.

228. One day the only type of intelligence that will be lauded by society will be body intelligence – Its already becoming my most trusted guide to life.

229. It is interesting that so many ignore the body and often drive it to exhaustion instead of allowing the body’s wisdom and intelligence to inspire all our movements throughout the day.

230. Connecting to the whole being, body and mind allows for a connection to an intelligence and wisdom way beyond my experience and recall.

231. Currently in our society the intellectual mind is glorified and academia is sold as the highest achievement. Something I could never relate to – and so I held myself in a less-than energy at school. So, in protection I turned into a bit of a rebel – but that was also a rebelling against the true wisdom of my body. Now, my body is my ‘go to’. I now know that I can truly trust my body and have an ever deepening and loving relationship with myself that allows more and more access to the true intelligence being offered in every moment. Thank you Serge Benhayon for introducing me to me.

232. It’s so true – the body is super intelligent, the fact that we can just know things before we even think is evidence of this. For example we know exactly what choices we need to make through a day to ensure how we live tomorrow.

233. Despite my body’s communications being uncomfortable and/or painful at times, I know it is telling me to stop, listen and honour these feelings, whereas my mind would try to tell me to keep going. But at what cost?

234. It is often a challenge to stay with discomfort in the body because it may be communicating to us there is something that we need to look at or address. We often want to avoid what we are feeling as we do not want to feel the choices we have been making that have led to the unpleasant feelings. There is a level of honesty that we need to go to at these times knowing that the body is the ‘marker of truth’ SB

     1. So we build a relationship, respect and dialogue with our bodies that support us when there are ‘big’ things to explore and feel. I know that my building commitment to live and work with my body, rather than in disregard and ignorance of it, is supporting me to move way beyond the struggles of my own little world and become aware of the part we all play in a much bigger picture.

235. When we consider how a baby knows what it needs in terms of when its hungry, needs a cuddle, is too hot or too cold etc, and that it knows because that is what it feels, then it is not so out of the ordinary to consider that as adults we too have this ability to feel the truth of what our bodies are asking for rather than relying on our minds to tell us what we ‘think’ we need. Its just that we have learnt to override what we feel.

236. The body is communicating with us all of the time and it really is as simple as choosing to stop, listen and focus on the breath. Breathing gently is the first step to coming back to feeling the whole body and to being self-responsible by deeply honouring what we feel and nurturing ourselves. It is so loving and easy to do, it is also easy to choose to ignore/disregard the body, but then if not straight away, there will eventually be the consequences – the self inflicted harm felt in the body through back-ache, exhaustion etc., that will make us have to stop and be addressed.

237. So simple to do and yet so profound are the feelings our body offers to us when we connect to our innate essence of divine love.

238. Thanks To The Livingness ‘I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me.’ As a work in progress I also feel that it is time for me to feel what is happening to my body, when I have ‘eaten too much and are feeling bloated’, so that I can deepen my connection and not be distracted by indulging in anything that can be a distraction, which to me at present is food and over indulging.
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239. Michelle, reading your blog again I realise how often I choose to stay in my mind and thoughts instead of connecting to the intelligence of my body. Like you shared it is a simple choice to connect to my breath and to my body but why I am not choosing this as often as possible throughout my day is something I am going to look at and bring more awareness to.

240. I agree, when we feel pain in our bodies, some times it can be challenge to stay with it, I know I have attempted to avoid it or ignore at times. The more that I pondered what it means and why it is presenting itself the more I have been able to understand, in the whole of life, no doubt the bodies divinely intelligent.

241. I love this Michelle. It’s amazing how such a simple thing to stop and feel the movement of my lungs, changes everything. Thank you for sharing.

     1. I agree. I am developing such a reverence for my body as I consider what it is up to the whole time… the miracles of our hearts, the fine tuning in our kidneys, the balancing of our livers and the consistency of breathing…

242. Funny, as I started to read this article I started to become aware of the uncomfortable way I had been sitting for an extended period, and how I had been completely ignoring/ shutting off from the signals telling me so – and as soon as I shifted everything changed in how I was working, and how much more freely I was able to write. we can sit in a configuration that enforces old patterns, and modes of thinking, or sit in a way that frees us from those old patterns and allows a different, clearer and present state of being. Awareness is key.

243. Listening to someone speak from the knowing in their body, as opposed to the knowledge in their mind, is radically different. I prefer body intelligence any day.

244. Every movement we make is registered in the body by its quality and vibration, and ripples out to everyone and everything around us. It is up to us to simply observe and read what we are feeling as we interact with each other and the world in daily life.

245. “You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body” – I was similar to this too.. or if I did feel pain tension like at the gym after an exercise class, then I would note that physical sensations, usually a ‘loud’ one as being a sign of a “good workout”.. and carry on. The more true connection and slowing down the pace I brought to my body i.e. actual presence through listening to it and responding to it, the prior absence is occupied with me, and I find my body exchanging now on a more subtle and less noisy or loud level. Connection brings awareness, that brings the change of choice.

246. The rhythm of our breath is a great marker for where we are at.

247. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.” – the Gentle Breath Meditation has been the single most life changing tool for me. When I was first introduced to it, it felt so alien because I was stimulated to the eye balls with nervous energy, caffeine and sugar a lot of the time and the gentle breath meditation was offering me quite the opposite.

248. Being a student of my own body is the most incredible learning experience – and super empowering as I realise what an amazing teacher my body is. .

     1. I agree Jenny, I am discovering the same thing about my body. I am also realising how often I am choosing to not listen and connect to the intelligence of my body. This blog and your comment is inspiring me to be honest with myself about what is going on and to make a very simple choice, to connect to my body and listen to it more consistently and lovingly.

249. I’ve always found it hard to do exactly what my body is telling me to do, for instance I would have so many signals about changing the foods I eat and allowing more rest for my body, and carrying it in a less hardened state. The beauty is that this relationship is an open book and can be revisited again and again.

250. I have also found it very supportive to stop during my day as often as I can and reconnect with my breath and the gentle movements that my ribcage and stomach make when I am breathing. I have learnt that if you allow your body to breathe its own breath, it finds a very natural rhythm or breathing and moving that feels great and very steady and still.

251. To connect to the body is crucial and there are moments where I do not like to feel how my body feels because of past choices.

252. I have found that in reading this title, “Connecting to a body more intelligent than the mind” actually offers you the stop which allows you to drop into your body and then you get a moment of feeling the spaciousness and steadiness of yourself in connection. There is a difference felt between interacting with life in a whole body way as compared to just being driven solely from the head and not paying attention to the body.

253. What a beautiful feeling it is to drop back into one’s body after being in the head. There is a feeling of expansion and openness, freedom and surrender. There is a feeling of coming home and settlement.

254. It is amazing to come out of the confines of a life lived from my head alone and into a life lived with all of me… my mind an integral part of my whole body intelligence, not the ‘go it alone dictator’ that had scant regard for the well-being of my body.

255. The beautiful thing that I have discovered is the clarity of mind I feel when I choose to be with my body. This shows me clearly, that a mind, without connection to the body is cloudy and unsure.

256. There is ‘deliciousness’ in our bodies that is described so well in this blog and it is a deliciousness that is so much greater than anything we can eat and so long as we keep choosing to stay connected to it, does not melt away after a few ‘mouthfuls’. How much do we trade this more permanent satiation for a few morsels of sensation on our taste buds?

257. There seems to be no intelligent understanding of the body in educaton, which begs the question, is education in its current form intelligent at all.

     1. Well said. And because of this lack of understanding the body is dramatically deteriorating. We are not taught to truly care, nurture ourselves or hold ourselves in regard and honour our body and feelings first. If we were taught this and told to learn the tools we needed for our profession from this foundation we would not have eg medical students trashing themselves to complete a degree. A profession may I add that puts one in a position that is suppose to support health.

258. It is tempting when we have been recklessly trashing our bodies, to then check out, numb, go into the mental realm to avoid feeling the abuse we have have been visiting upon ourselves, because it feels horrible. However this solution is not going to change anything only leaving us vulnerable to further assault, not only from ourselves but others. First we need to stocktake and become aware of the abuse down to the minutest level, and from there choose, and start to live and move from a different energy, one that starts with true self care and self nurturing. This way we allow our body to live a level of love that it is designed to live, and we can truly enjoy the deeper connection, vibrancy and joy of living that connection. This is the greatest foundation to live our true selves and remain unaffected by the assaults and abuse of the external world.

259. From my experiences with university and academics, there sometimes seems to be a badge of honour worn in lauding the world of books and intellect, working late into the night, eating poorly, living at the expense of the physical being. Yet what if, as you say, the true intelligence is actually to be found in the body and a way of living that will nurture and make accessible that whole-hearted intelligence, the intelligence that holds all, takes all into account, and does not miss anything. How have we been short-changed to consider the first as aspiring to the peak of academic success when it truth it is burying true wisdom and the profound intelligence, that is there within all equally. We know what we have is not true, but how many academics are willing to speak up and say so, at risk of their positions, security and illusion of prestige.

     1. This kind of university intelligence is outside of us so the badge feeling makes sense. The difference and truth comes when we live who we are from our heart, listening to our body and being with our Soul, then and only then do we get to feel the fact that we bring the most amazing intelligence to absolutely everything we do. Yes we need a degree to do a job but no one ever said we had to lose ourself in that or identify ourself as being our job yet this seems to be so common in society today.

     2. Annie I have found that there are some academics that hide behind their intelligence and use it as a bettering ram so to say to bludgeon other people who do not have formal qualifications as knowing less and therefore somehow seen as a lesser species. So how interesting to read that the body actually knows more than the mind will ever know. And how was it that people who did not go to universities managed to build the pyramids? Which even today with the greatest minds and technology we cannot replicate to such detail!

260. I love how you describe connecting to the body so simply Michelle, as making a choice to stop and do so. I have made to heard work sometimes in the past, focusing on the distractions so choosing to connect appears less easy. Once we know we are being tricked by the mind, we can start to see the game being played out and not get fooled by it so much.

     1. And it is that simple isn’t it. Being connected to the body, surrendering and being present with our quality in our movement allows divinity/Soul/ our most natural way to be right there with us. It is only when we choose to not be with our body does the opposite energy then have permission to be there with the mind then Consuming us with thoughts and drive and a so called intelligence that really is destroying us the world over. Whole body intelligence is the way to go – for our bodies, for our relationships and for our world societies.

261. To truly appreciate ourselves and honour what our body is consistently communicating with us is super important and a true game changer.

262. Honouring our bodies is so important and has such a significant impact on how we feel and relate to everything.

263. Michelle I am absolutely fascinated by my body, I always went against it as a young adult it would communicate with me and I would ignore it most of the time. I have learnt thanks to Universal Medicine to appreciate the wisdom that I have within me. And as I come to this greater understanding I want to cherish my body even more as it feels as though there is a deep well of knowing that is starting to flow in my body and the feeling is so exquisite that I do not want to disturb or stop it for anything. And this has naturally led me to want to cherish my body in a completely different way to anything I have done before. I could say I’m falling in love with me at last and there is nothing akin to this feeling in the world. With deep appreciation of all that Serge Benhayon is and brings to the world.

264. Staying with our bodies can be a challenging task, when we usually do most things to stop us from feeling our bodies. Either through distraction, eating food, conversations, but when we do make the choice to stay with ourselves, feeling that whole body intelligence, it is incredible to feel.

265. Having several University degrees in my pocket, one could consider me to be very intelligent. However, I don’t feel I really got a full grasp of what intelligence actually means until I encountered Universal Medicine and the teachings of Serge Benhayon – from here I got to feel that the body presents an intelligence that cannot be ignored for our own sake, for the sake of our species and also for the sake of humanity.

266. True intelligence encompasses far more than just the intelligence of the mind. Without the body, and its enormous intelligence, we are missing out on such a substantial portion of intelligence, it begs us to consider if we can call the remainder intelligence? What I feel is that both together are needed for true intelligence that will benefit mankind.

267. Staying present with my body feels amazing. Yet my mind can pop in with enticing distractions. Choosing to be aware of my breath, stopping, connecting and feeling enables me to return to my body and the real me.

268. To finally experience living in my body as Love is amazing… and natural. Thank you Serge Benhayon for showing us that we truly are Love.

269. The mind can make us believe anything it wants us to believe depending on the situation and what is going on but the body can’t disguise or hide what it feels. The body will be very clear and precise yet the mind will over ride this and push on with what it wants out of the situation. ‘Mind of matter’ is a prime example of this.

     1. True Natalie, the mind can even persuade us that the body has nothing to say. I know I’ve convinced myself to partake in certain foods or behaviours, which I know just drowned out the voice that my body so naturally communicates with.

270. Connecting to the body can be a challenge but it is worth it.

271. Thank you Michelle, I could so easily sweep over the majority of my body’s conversations, particularly when I am studying. Yet I have noticed a pattern. I find when the study gets heavy I want to eat more and when I get stressed I feel like I might pass out if I don’t eat. Yet on both occasions I am not actually hungry because I know when I last ate so it would be illogical to be hungry and certainly not at the pass-out stage. So having seen this pattern I am starting to understand that when my body gets uncomfortabnle because it is feeling more heavy due to the stress or pressure, it feels ill-at-ease with the tension and my coping mechansim when I feel ill-at-ease is eating. I am learning if I name it and own it then I have a choice next time round.

272. I find it easier connecting to the mind. When I was younger I did not like my body so the mind was the best option. And now it’s more comfortable.

273. ” I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.” Amazing Michelle so true and such a gift to share with the whole world putting the mind first and look at the mess we are all in.

274. It is certainly hard to believe and fathom how much junk we have dumped into our precious bodies and why we have dumped it. We just haven’t wanted to know, haven’t wanted to be aware of the truth of how we live. Whenever I feel my feet travelling towards the fridge, because I am taking it there, I ask myself to deepen my awareness, and then see what happens with my feet.

275. Contrast to popular belief, great wisdom is not accessed through the mind alone but through every cell in our body working together in harmony with every other cell. A simple gesture such as pausing to draw breath and feeling our connection to our body and thus the greater All that we and our physical form belong to, is enough to start us well on the way to accessing our true Universality – the whole body intelligence that is our true norm.

276. “I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so.” Its crazy, that for something so simple we can put so much energy into avoiding what is there to be felt at all costs. But we are the ones who will feel the consequences of our avoidance, and often sooner than later.

277. The difference of bringing focus to being connected to my body is profound however the more I focus on doing this the more I am aware of just how much I have negated this relationship up until now.

278. There are two types of intelligence available I reckon, the clever type that allows us to excel in academia, or in constructing a tall building, or our political system of deception and self interest, or anything really that gives us recognition and drive for success, and then there is the intelligence that puts our bodies needs first, where we don’t sacrifice wellbeing on any level to achieve an outcome because we know that outcome will be tainted by our lack of care and so then not truly intelligent. I am all in favour of a move towards the latter, as the former intelligence is bankrupting our health systems and sees our world in a state of disharmony and inequality.

279. The flow within my body when I’m connected is warm and glowing. And the intelligence that comes through my body is often – even for myself – full of Wisdom. To surrender to our body is the most beautiful gift we can give ourselves, yet we fight the surrendering to the oneness within with everything we have. Our body is our vehicle that relates to the universe and to the divine Wisdom. And from there, our mind aligns. Definitely not the other way around.

280. I am finding that the more I return to my body, the louder the messages from the body become. Like anything, when we use and practise it, it becomes more easy to do. I was talking to a friend, and we knew we were on track with the subject because we both got tingles all over.

281. I had no idea how amazing it can feel to connect with my body until I began receiving Sacred Esoteric Healing, this modality has support my awareness of everything. With greater awareness comes greater understanding of things and less time wasted in reacting to people and situations.

282. It will be a refreshing day when it comes that science can firmly claim the mind is not where true intelligence lies.

283. I, as many others, have reached a point in life where I started looking for something because my life felt incomplete, something more had to out there. Was I refusing to see or just blind to its existence? A lot of time and money was spent in this quest and it was always just a breath away!

284. It is crazy how we are taught from very young to not pay attention to what our body is telling us, to pull ourselves together, to stop crying, to basically act as if we do not feel what we feel – is there any wonder that we loose the natural connection to ourselves and who we truly are?

285. Even when I think I am in my body I am still often in my head theorising or in truth fabricating lies that are covering up the truth and utter honesty my body so naturally seeks and endlessly communicates. It’s like the mind is the filter of truth spitting out lies that do not equate to the who reality the body is actually experiencing.

286. “what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony?” That in my opinion is definitely not the form of intelligence I would accept in my life today, but it was the level of intelligence that I lived with for so long with my beautiful body suffering the consequences because I wasn’t listening to it, the conveyor of such incredible wisdom; or in other words, true body intelligence..

287. Our current view of intelligence is also hampered by our current view of the body. We commonly assume that our intelligence arises from the brain, but the more you study anatomy the more you realise that the surface of our skin is just as fascinating as the brain, with thousands of nerves embedded within it that have not been properly identified and that the way our liver functions for example is still not completely understood. We walk around in the most awesomely complex, multidimensional, interconnected piece of living scientific art, so it makes sense that connecting to it rather than just living in our heads opens the door to a whole Universe of Intelligence just waiting to be explored.

288. “Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body,” another great line to consider and reflect on, in this you share to us all that there is nothing secret about whole body intelligence, nothing we have to learn and no exams to pass, it is available to us all, was what we grew up with as we came into this world and were a baby and so the choice is do we want to live whole body intelligence or not?

289. It sounds outrageous to suggest the body might be more intelligent than the mind, but who in their right body would ever agree to do half the things we do when in our so-called right mind? The mind can only ever be right – as in correct or true – when it is a mind acting under the impulse of the body, the soul and divine will. Any deviation from this path is a straying off into the domain of the individualistic, recognition-seeking spirit which uses the mind to run rampant, using and abusing the body – and the innately harmonious nature of all things – in the process.

     1. Wow! Amazing comment Victoria.

290. It is through learning to honour what the body is signalling rather that placing an external need, deadline, goal, desire above the wisdom that is being offered, that is allowing the body the space to restore to its naturally vibrant healthy state. In this I am learning a deeper understanding of true self-nurturing and self-love to then know love – and it is only from founding a platform of love that we can really step forth in service.

291. Our body and how we move is the key to our truth. How long have we been misled into thinking it came from the mind?

     1. So very true Irena!

292. it is interesting that even with this understanding of the body’s intelligence and the support we can offer ourselves through simple self-care, when things get stressful and busy at work, the default behaviour is go into mental and nervous energy, neglect proper sleep and exercise in a bid to get things ‘done’ – but at what cost – of the quality of what is then brought to the work, and the ill consequences on the body that has been abused.. it is pointless ‘sacrifice’ and does not help anyone or anything.

293. Your sharing is spot on Michelle. What you have shared here Michelle would be beneficial to so many people who are studying or just engrossed in their work and not considering their bodies needs or even that it has needs and intelligence. To know that we can connect to our bodies through our breath and the difference it makes would be life changing.

294. Connecting back to my body through the gentle awareness of my breath my body is given permission to clear any feeling of pressure thoughts, angst or brain fog, and the bonus is it tears up the ‘to do list’. Then the whole body intelligence can guide the next movement and life unfolds magically if I choose and allow.

295. Michelle, it is great to read how you are a super smart woman, with degrees and probably a few letters by your name but really, the smartest part of all is your body…. not what you know but what you are able to feel.

296. I know also Michelle, that I gave my body little attention when studying, focusing only on getting the work finished and I continued the pattern with many jobs where I did not consider my body but focused on the list of jobs to be done. In fact, a good day was one in which I had achieved the most no matter how I felt. I now know it cannot be intelligent to live like this with such inconsideration for the body.

297. Our body is the best friend we could ever have, always truthful. Supportive to the nth degree no matter what we do to it, but with that always sharing with us the consequences of our disregarding or abusive choices/actions. I am recognising more and more how wise we would be to appreciate this gift it gives us and honour what it shares. As soon as we take steps toward noticing and bringing more loving care to ourselves it gifts us back one hundredfold.

298. This morning I connected with two people and in both conversations it was so clear that our conversations came from our bodies first, then put into words. This intelligence supersedes all the intelligence of the mind. The energy is super powerful and healing. I love love, the energy that comes through our body if we allow it so. No way that our mind can truly outsmart our body, yet it does as if it is the ‘owner’ of the body. How arrogant is this?

299. Thanks Michelle… Our body is indeed in constant communication with us… and we are surrounded by energy within and without, and for most people , at the moment, these words hold no meaning , and yet , they are truths that are innate to our evolution.

300. The breath is now much more to me than being able to breathe, it is of course life sustaining, but also now it is a pathway that bridges between my body and my soul.

     1. Beautifully described Heather.

301. Without a connection to our body, the mind can run wild with heartless thoughts. To avoid the emptiness one can invest more deeply into knowledge (I know I have) in the belief that ‘knowledge is power’. Power is power and it comes from living with a deep openness, care and love for all. We must never forget that we are an equal part of the all, no less or more than anyone else.

     1. ‘Without a connection to our body, the mind can run wild with heartless thoughts.’ – Very true Abby, the mind does not care about connection and it is easy to get lost in the never ending pictures of how things should be and what makes us ‘look good’ in a temporal sense.

302. Our bodies are so intelligent, when I connect and honour my body through the day, I always feel more settled and steady within myself and sleep much more sound.

303. Carl Sagan said ‘we are made of star stuff’. So, when we speak of body intelligent’s, that becomes a whole lot bigger than just the tiny vessel we occupy!

304. I am forever learning to open up to truly trusting the signals of my body, and understanding that all I need, to be able to deal with any given situation, is already known within.

305. in making the choice to connect to my body in full and to claim the power in the essence I can feel I am empowered to feel the enormity of who I am. This can all be felt in a moment. The choice then becomes one of choosing to connect all the time!

306. That awareness of what is in our body I feel is key. Because we may not like what we feel but the more we allow ourselves to be aware of it we become aware of the fact that the body knows how to deal with it in a way that is healing rather than burying the feeling only to return again later.

307. We can go through life so disconnected to our body it is as if we are living a short distance from it. And all the while we are missing the deep wisdom constantly on offer to us.

     1. When we disconnect from our body it is a choice to ‘not know’! What hurt keeps us from reconnecting? The longer it is repressed, it then just becomes a pattern we live with and accept as our normal.

308. “From here I can start to become aware of other parts of my body – my shoulders, arms, feet, back and how they are feeling – deepening the connection with my body; it is in this connection that the intelligence of the body is revealed.” Just by reading this my body has settled. Now that’s intelligence in my body being revealed.

309. With the state of humanity at present it would surely be prudent to reflect on what we understand intelligence to be – because very often we do not make very wise choices. So, is what we currently consider to be intelligent the same as what we consider to be wise – or are they different? If they are different, what is the difference and how is this difference created? In my experience, wisdom comes from this whole body approach to intelligence and leads to choices that serve the all rather than just part of me. Perhaps we need to explore whether we choose to be wise or intelligent and where these two diverse paths will lead us.

310. When I consider how I used to live, consuming umpteen cups of tea and coffee a day, buckets of red wine and worse, swamping my liver with toxins and eating copious amounts of sugar, dairy and gluten it’s no wonder I felt so ill, depressed and lethargic. These weren’t just messages from my body, they were sincere cries for help. How odd that it took a very wise friend to point out the correlation, but how awesome that they did. It simply flagged up my level of self-loathing, which was very intense. The shift in self-awareness came when I was supported to see and feel just how gorgeous and precious my inner essence is and was inspired to start listening, responding and nurturing my body instead of attempting to drown out the cries with yet more toxic substances.

311. As you say, no book in the world can replace the intelligence of our body and the way it communicates with us, ever-supportive and confirming of our every choice.

312. I used to drink up to 8 cups of coffee a day, chain smoke, eat toast and vegemite and/or hot chips most days and wonder why I was depressed and tired most of the time. I was so disconnected from my body and not willing to receive any of the body’s intelligence thus only listening to my mind and it’s wayward ways of self abuse and indulgence.

313. You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body. This was absolutely me several years ago, never once connecting to my body and not paying much attention at all to it unless I had to. But when I learnt about the Gentle breath meditation, I felt for the first time, me, and it felt so very natural and simple to connect to me in this way.

314. It is sometimes so easy to forget about being present in the body, especially when there is a situation when a multitude of things have to be done and ‘fitted ‘into what appears to be a small ‘about of time. But this is the very time when it is most needed to come back to the presence of the body and expand.

     1. So true Lindy.

315. ‘You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body.’ Sometimes as described here this is a by-product of focusing on purely what our mind is driving us to do however sometimes this is the reason behind the drive – simply to not feel and be aware of our bodies because of what is revealed in this.

316. Although it can be painful to feel the disregard I’ve chosen and can feel when I re-connect with my body, there is always a beautiful loveliness beneath. I can let go of the made up barriers I put in the way of re-connection: the regret, the self-bashing I may do on top of the disregard and simply accept how lovely I am and live inspired by this to take loving care of myself and others around me. There is nothing to make up for, no white knuckled determination to never to x again; only loving understanding and the simple feeling my breath as I breath if life starts to feel complicated and stressful.

317. I spent several years at University where it was considered completely normal to spend a week cramming, pulling ‘all nighters’ to get assignments done by the deadlines, fuelled on caffeine, sugar (and for others various drugs), finishing the school year in absolute exhaustion – yet not one single lecturer at University ever mentioned the topic of self care and self responsibility, and how that might support ourselves, and our fellow students. If we bring this as the norm in our academic institutions, then what quality will the graduates be bringing out into the world and into their workplaces. Loveless behaviour begets further lovelessness if unchecked, and there is no coincidence that the world is rife with depression, anxiousness, chronic ill health and mental illness… we have to start at the beginning and ask how is it all going so wrong?

     1. How very revealing Annie C. It seems to me that Universities teach knowledge but do not nurture wisdom. If our education systems did the latter rather than the former they would be very different.

318. The body leads us home and the head leads us into the wilderness.

319. “It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent?” this is so worth asking Michelle.. and what kind of intelligence can continue deliberately to ignore the very clear communication the body signals that all is not harmonious.. that encourages practices that are destroying of the body and lauding the pure mental intelligence and intellect that the mind is capable of producing – there is a mass delusion at play amongst academic institutions, made more possible by this very practice.. and yet a 3 year old could tell you this is not wise.

320. Elizabeth what you have just shared is the difference between the truth and a lie.

321. Bringing myself back to the quality of my breath, how my lungs feel and from there checking in with my body has in itself been a show stopper of a technique. Using this simple tool has completely transformed my relationship with my body and supported me to feel and read a massive array of messages that my body has been sending me for years, some of them very extreme, that I had been ignoring for years. The Gentle Breath Meditation is the most simplest self help tool one could ever wish for and a superb way to rebuild a relationship with our very own vehicle of divine wisdom.

322. Recently I have been wondering more and more whether we can sometimes live our whole life without considering the intelligence of the body. I wonder if part of the shock that comes with an incurable diagnosis is the question – how did I get here? It might be the only time in our lives that we start to feel the bodies’ communication and then we try to numb it as much as possible because it hurts! I know pain is incredibly confronting and debilitating, but it is also the thing that makes me the most honest – both emotional and physical pain. I know that I treat myself differently, I care, nurture and move differently. Pain has taught me so much about the intelligence of the body.

323. Part of the reason our understanding of the world of energy is so limited is that much of the way we live is actually designed to crush our relationship with our body. From taking on emotional states of being that keep us consumed, to eating food that corrupts the natural functioning of our body, to hardening up in order to get on with life, there are a myriad of ways to shut down our ability to feel our body, and thus corrupt the very one instrument that is sensitive enough to understand life on an energetic level.

324. There’s one simple choice I am to make, constantly. To connect to my (lovely) body. When I make the choice, I feel the love, the warmth, the understanding, the tenderness. My mind is fully understanding life and what happens in life. True compassion. But as soon as I don’t make the choice I feel hard, cold, judgmental of myself, ignorance etc. I might have proud myself on the intellect of my mind (disconnected from my body), but definitely is there something missing: L O V E, the true F L O R I S. I am love, even though I choose to disconnect from me more than I choose to connect (yet), but I’ve definitely found me again. And with that, my true intelligence.

325. Michelle, I have found the same, ‘What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.’ I spent many years reading books on health; on diet and exercise, what happened was that I read too much – too my different opinions and I forgot what was true for me and my body in the process, this left me feeling exhausted and unwell. Since this experience I now listen much more to my body and I know that my body knows what is best for me and so I eat foods that feel good in my body, not what someone else has written are good for me.

326. I love feeling myself breathe… until I heard Serge Benhayon present the Gentle Breath Meditation I actually never thought about my breathing – I don’t think many people do – it’s just something our bodies do that we don’t ever pay much attention to. However if you break it down, without breathing you wouldn’t be alive, and we breathe more than almost anything else we do, so surely it makes sense that the quality we breathe in will effect our whole body and our whole lives.

327. The body always knows, and is always communicating to us..

328. A very common example of this is when someone says what foods are good and bad for you, how many calories you should be taking in etc. All championed by academic intelligence but it does not pay credence to the fact that the body already knows what does and doesn’t work and if our bodies know it then so do we!

329. It’s not always pleasant to feel what’s happening in my body, but I’ve come to understand that what is shown to me is because I’ve been open to knowing, and that whatever is presented is what I can learn from.

330. What our bodies communicate is so much grander than any thoughts we indulge in from our mind.

331. I love the term ‘whole body intelligence’ and how it indicates that the entire body needs to be taken into account, no part is less nor more important.

332. To take to heart to connect to our body brings so much freedom, thank you Michelle.

333. In my own way I can see that I’ve also “held the intelligence of the mind as the marker of success” and whilst I rebelled from School I still got straight A’s, then after school in business it was what would and could i come up with. It was not about the whole or my body or realising that actually whatever I do is fed to me and therefore what quality is my body and are my movements as that will be the quality of intelligence that I have.

334. Bringing our focus back to our breath is so important for our connection and this is no matter when or where because surrendering to our breath is life changing.
     For more on breath go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=BREATH

335. Unfortunately, many of us wait till there is pain, discomfort or a critical illness to commit and develop a supportive and loving relationship with our bodies, or we can do this by simply creating stop moments where we can reconnect and tune in our intelligence within.

336. The business of connecting to ourselves is big! Retreats, outings, presentations, books galore, bonding weekends, when genuine connection, is always just a breath away!

     1. There it is-pure and simple.

337. Love the simplicity you offer here Michelle… connecting to our “body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so.” We can make life so complicated and yet this is the simple truth of how life can be – connecting to our body and honouring the truth it offers.

338. When we connect to our body and note the quality of energy we move in, we are able to know if we go below this quality and ask our self what is going on. This supports us to not go below our norm and inspires us to expand to a higher vibration.

339. Ultimately connection to the body leads to connection with everybody.

340. We’ve indeed accepted that intelligence is held in how much people can remember or know from their minds. We’re giving little credits to love and loving deeds. Our love that lives inside us is so so super understanding and always connected to the All. Never leaving anything or anyone out. This intelligence feels so so super lovely, yet I haven’t accepted for myself for a long time that this is my true intelligence. As soon as I step into the work place or walk through the door of a friend’s home, I switch off the intelligence (to a certain point) and pretend to be smart from my mind. This is slowly changing, but the pattern to choose the intelligence of the separate mind is quite strong… Thank you for writing such a clear blog on this very important topic.

341. What a difference connecting to our bodies first, makes to what is next, and comes from the flow of what was before If I’m connected with by body the next movement is with my whole body intelligence and the mind is a part of the whole. If I’ve lost connection with my feeling my body the next choice comes from what the mind thinks should be done. These two, while at first seem like a subtle/or in fact no difference at all, until we actually stop to feel the connection with our breath and body we can’t mentally feel what it is that hasn’t yet been experienced.

342. Everything stands still when I am in my body. The clarity and awareness this brings is worth everything.

343. We can become so focused on doing things that we disconnect from appreciating our bodies. Without appreciation it is easy to make choices that are to the bodies detriment.

     1. How true Abby. It is easy to disconnect from our body when we focus on things, and I find if I don’t disconnect, the way I move and my choices tend to be naturally far more caring of my body. What is great is that at those times I find my breathing and my general awareness is also far more expanded.

344. What is connection? Is the question I am starting to become aware of what connection is and how it feels in my body. Also when I loose it, I become aware of the moments I choose to disconnect and wonder off for instance. Like reading these blogs allow me to re-connect again to myself and my body if I loose it or have lost it, or at times when I am connected – it deepens it equally so.. This is learning and showing me that connection has no end- and that it is endless.

345. If the body is more intelligent than the mind – which it is, and we all know this – why on earth do we then override what we feel and absolutely know with our head? Does that go to show there is a part (for us of a better word as we are all whole) of us that goes against everything we know to be to be love.

346. Excellent Michelle, connecting with our body, and our whole is as simple as a choice to do so. It doesn’t seem rewarding at all to choose a life where our body is hauled at our expense, a slave to what we want to do, and the only pleasant things are ‘down time’ and ‘treats’ but why not live a life that is whole? It is a choice.

347. Connecting with our breath is a great place to start, it’s simple and everyone can connect, or reconnect, to it. This natural stop allows the space to become present with the body, and allows us to make choices in respect of what we can feel.

348. When I connect to this ‘whole body intelligence’ the word that arises in me to describe it is wisdom. It is so much more than knowledge – as in something I have learned in this lifetime. There is depth and richness about it that is much more than a thought or memory based process. It feels like something deeply anchored in the very particles of my being and it is very clear that this wisdom is not just mine but is in everyone equally. Whole body intelligence feels like the future of true education.

349. I love how you simply feel your breath to get back in touch with your body and how that opens a door to be able to feel your whole body. It is simple and allows oneself to drop deeper within oneself without any expectations just the breathing of the breath and how this breath is the rhythm that determines how we walk through life.

350. The disconnection from the awareness from our bodies is really to our cost and is clearly evident in the strain on the NHS in the UK and other health and social care systems. A simple choice to listen to our bodies would have a profound effect on our way of living.

     1. Yes, agree, and an improvement on the way we live would put less strain on any health care system.

351. “I know when I allow myself time to stop, to breathe gently and to reconnect to my body, I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me.” The new definition of Intelligence, qualities within that then impulse our thoughts, movements and interactions that expand themselves through connection and expression, an intelligence that seeks more of itself via every possible avenue.

     1. This is so beautiful. What a way to live with yourself.

352. ‘Our body is in constant communication with us, however we tend to ignore it at the expense of our own health and well-being.’ I love this clear reminder that we have our greatest guide and ally with us always and that it is our choice whether we nurture, respond to and respect this relationship or not.

     1. Matilda you’re so right when you say “we have our greatest guide and ally with us always” and yet how far and wide do we all repeatedly trek in search of something that’s going to point us in the direction of home? Ironic isn’t it that the very thing that we trek in, is the very thing that’ll take us home.

353. “…Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence…” Yes…. this is the place to start!

354. The revelation by Serge Benhayon of the difference between the Soul and Spirit and how our body is affected so adversely by the Spirit’s wilfulness, and so healing-ly by the Soul, is the greatest truth and changes our relationship to the body ad to intelligence. I can remember in the days before Universal Medicine I would have moments of totally and deeply appreciating the body, and how it had kept on going no matter what I had done to it – in other words I was recognising the difference between the Spirit and the Soul and the value of the body. But it wasn’t until Universal Medicine and the teachings of Serge Benhayon that this truth really came home to me and I could begin to live that way.

     1. I love this, Lyndy. Confirmation that we do naturally know and that our bodies guide us endlessly… the life and work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has supported many people to honour their innate wisdom and to respond and live it in their approach to life.

355. I feel very sad when I realise just how disconnected I am. So many times I have cried because of the pain that I have inflicted onto my body, one day I decided that I cannot continue living a life that is full of so much self harm and I sat down to write a letter to my body. I cannot explain just how amazing that experience felt.

     1. It is perfect to allow ourselves to feel uncomfortableness or tension in the body as it lets us be honest and make a new different choice. I’m learning to not judge myself in these moments but be appreciative that I am allowing myself to feel and be honest.

     2. What a beautifull thing to do .. sit down and write a letter to your body, its a way of stopping and listening to what is truly going on, giving ourselves some time to feel. I have just decided to print out an image of the front and back of a woman body and write on this everyday. E.g. any areas that are aching, any areas that feel good (this was something we were given to do as an exercise in Women in Livingness Group in London and I felt inspired to do it every day as a diary and connection with my body. It would also say, although you are being honest there is nothing to be sad about as when we feel just how disconnected we are from our body that is when we start walking back towards and with it so really it is a time to be joyful 🤗

356. I love this blog as my body is constantly showing me how much it actually cares for me and how beautiful it holds me. I love it when we’re together in union. There’s nothing more powerful than the connection between my body, my Soul and my spirit. Boy oh boy is my body intelligent. In stillness.

     1. Floris thats the amazing thing that I am constantly blowed over with, the incredible love that my body has to show me exactly what is going on all of the time. In that I find I get an understanding of so many things that I “should not” know about.

357. I am working more and more on building connection from the start of my day in order to support me throughout. Work in progress.

     1. Michael great point and what I often feel are those times when I am loose and am not in connection, something feels wrong, empty and missing yet that was how my entire years used to roll on with. Yet yesterday when I felt like I was not connected it was horrible.

     2. For me I’ve found there are so many areas where I can build this connection from waking to getting ready to driving to walking to engaging with others to preparing food to eating to putting myself to bed to name a few. I like to focus on one area and then move to another when I feel I have embodied being connected in a particular task. It’s not the doing of the tasks as such but the way and quality I am in doing each task, how much I allow myself to surrender, be delicate, tender and honour my preciousness.

358. The gentle breath meditation is a great way to return to the body and reconnect. It is so simple to do anywhere and anytime and through this, we access the wisdom from the whole body intelligence.

359. The presence of yourself within your body is not something commonly understood, and yet it brings an awareness to life that is a game changer. Its also really simple with the Gentle Breath Meditation.

360. Connecting with my body is consolidating and how we truly build confidence.

     1. Well said Abby. When confidence comes from the head, it is very fickle and can be easily lost, whereas confidence that comes from the body is absolutely rock solid and immovable, as Jesus proved, even in the face of death.

     2. I agree Abby, and true body confidence is an embodiment of stillness.

361. When job security, prestige and power are valued above much else there is inevitably a push towards knowledge as a very high currency. Whereas if we were to accept that true intelligence comes from the body we will inevitably drop the pursuit of power, prestige and security and instead know ourselves by the loveliness in our own bodies.

362. The more I learn to follow the feelings and messages my body sends me, when to action tasks, when to rest, when to prepare for something without questioning the time frame or sequence of events, the more I am in awe of how much my body knows innately. We are walking around in these tiny space ships that are inherently aligned with the order and wisdom of the Universe, hence tuning into their biofeedback provides us with the ultimate in wise and knowing counsel.

363. As I walked through Kew Gardens (in London) yesterday, I was surrounded by a sea of rich greens and stunning blossoms. As I walked with my body if felt like I was walking with the universe I could feel the innate joy and harmony within me, it then dawned on me that this feeling of joy is always there. It doesn’t come and go because of external influences, it goes when I no longer feel connected to God when I allow what is going on around me to be of greater importance than my connection to me.

364. It is through the current form of intelligence that we have so many wars, people disconnected to their heart are then able to make decisions that can harm others. True intelligence works to bring us all together not to separate us.

     1. Indeed Samantha – we only need to take a look at where our current so called intelligence has taken us, humanity as a whole is very far from true co-creation and harmony.

365. If there is no connection to body in our experience of life then we are little more than an apparition, regardless of how great or wonderful we perceive ourselves to be.

366. We often forget what an extra-ordinary instrument the body is and how much we can learn from it. Since reading this article, I’ve become more aware of the quality of my breath and connect to it more often than not. Being attentive to my breath connects me more deeply to my body and this changes how I feel, my posture, relationships and way I move through the day. Thank you.

367. This is a great sharing and no matter how big the workload is there is always and in any given moment the possibility to reconnect to the body and listen to its voice.

368. My body offers me the constant choice to be aware of how I am being with myself in all my movements and ignoring my body by letting my mind override what I am feeling can and will play havoc with me and this is when I am more likely to either create stress or tension within my body and/or make mistakes. Coming back to focusing on my breath is a great way to keep me in control of the mind and not the mind in control of me. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.”

369. The sad reality for so many of us today is that the body is like a long lost friend who we occasionally send a post card to, every month or two. Connecting is a novel thing that only occurs when we happen to check in. Like partners who have split up, but still live in the same house, we spend time with our body but we have developed a technique of blocking it right out. Your words inspire me Michelle to see, just what would it be like to spend a day, maybe even a week just making connecting with my body the main thing I do every day. I for one am intrigued to see what would happen.

370. “…Our body is in constant communication with us, however we tend to ignore it at the expense of our own health and well-being…” Yes, have to agree here as once you start becoming aware of your body, you start to notice more and more detail.

371. My body’s very clear that it loves to be in a warm environment. If it isn’t, it’s contracting and what I experience is a lack of flow within. My body is very clear that it loves to be nourished, loved and cared for all day long. Because when it’s treated this way, my love’s able to flow through me. Which makes me much clearer and focused. And often also much more productive. To me this is true intelligence, true science. Are we willing to listen to the most precious vehicle we have, our body and everything within?

372. Appreciating Whole Body Intelligence is a choice, not one that is demonstrated obviously in everyday experiences of many people. But just because it may not be familiar it doesn’t mean it isn’t absolutely real. My body for one tells me loud and clear when I’m not honouring the innate intelligence that is being communicated to me.

373. Our ability to connect to our body is one thing that we all have in common, with none more advantaged than another.

374. The body really does never lie – you cannot get away with anything, at least not for long. We can turn a blind eye to all that it is telling us but at the end of the day if we choose to listen, the body will tell us what is truly going on. 

375. A mind disconnected from the body is capable of much harm.

376. My experience of academia is the same Michelle – an environment where it is all too easy to slip into living caught up in the mental activity in complete neglect of the body – thus losing out on the true wisdom and guidance we could otherwise be living with. – the result being a couple of degrees and an exhausted worn down ill body and very little to no progress in the way of wisdom – in fact I could say that the more years I spent at University the less aware, understanding, confident and present I became.

377. ‘It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony?’ – This is a great point Michelle – isn’t this solid proof that the mind is not very intelligent?

378. ‘I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so.’ The is such a simple statement, yet so profound.. especially when one considers how much we resist living in connection with our body – yet we are always being pulled back to honouring, whether it is feeling tired or just knowing that we have been pushing ourselves too hard.

379. I know my body literally breaths a sigh of relief each time I connect to it. It is like it says, thank you, you have remembered me. No matter what is there to be felt my, body rejoices in every moment of connection.

380. Reading this blog instantly brings us to the awareness of our lungs and our breathing, all within a couple of seconds, and that’s how easy it is. Thank you for highlighting the stark difference to running with knowledge in the mind at the expense of the body.

381. Yes, Michelle, The Gentle Breath Meditation is a starting point for me each day in connecting to the body and choosing the quality of my movements.

382. It will take us a while but we will eventually get to the point that we will realise that in championing the intelligence of the mind we have been praying to the wrong God, whilst all along the intelligence of the body has been quietly waiting to lead us back to the real God.

383. Learning to trust myself has come through learning to nurture and listen to my body. When I am truly connected to my body it is easy to express what I am feeling as the stillness that I can feel confirms the truth of it.

384. I say yes to whole body intelligence! It is inclusive of every part of our body right to the level of our particles. Now what could be more self honouring than that?

385. In my daily life i use and rely on many of the tools of the ageless wisdom, many of the teachings of Universal Medicine and the wisdom that I connect to from the presentations of Serge Benhayon. It’s my medicine chest and I never really appreciated just how much I use this, how the more I make it part of my livingness as in learning and feeling how each technique supports or helps me unfold, until I open my eyes and see life with all the abusive and issues and remember the state I was in when i relied on my head and not my body.

386. The thing that I find about re-connecting with my body, is that it is a very personal thing to do. No one knows or needs to know that I am doing it, it is just a choice to ‘drop in’ and be present. So the quality of me changes but that’s it – everything else stays the same in that I still work hard, still communicate effectively and I still carry out my responsibilities – it’s the way that all of this is done with a greater purpose.

387. Our body is subject to Universal Laws and so holds a wisdom far greater than we have allowed ourselves to be aware of.

388. I have known and met many intelligent people that have spent lots of time, effort and lots of money filling their heads full of stuff to be regurgitated at will. The acquisition of all of this knowledge has always been at a cost to our body. But have always been more inspired by people who live what they speak from their body’s not their heads.

389. “You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body.” It is quite puzzling how we do this to ourselves, I know I did and what a revelation is was when a very wise friend pointed this out to me and encouraged me to start listening to the messages in order to understand why and how they happen. Our bodies are deeply connected to the immense wisdom of Nature and the Universe. When we start appreciating this and respecting them as the precious vehicles of expression they are, miracles happen.

390. There is such a sense of ‘coming back’ and connecting inwardly and more deeply in your description of choosing your own breath and then becoming aware of the rest of your body.

     1. I agree Rosanna, I love reading this blog for exactly the reason you describe. In a couple of sentences I can feel the deepening connection to my body and with this I am lovingly offered the awareness to choose this for myself through the day in any moment to confirm or re-connect back to my whole body intelligence.

391. Being connected to the body is an amazing thing and I can’t help feel a little stupid that I still do things that take me away from this connection. Taking stop moments to reconnect have become part of my day when I feel myself leave me and race out of control.

392. “Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body, allowing an awareness of how or what the body is feeling at any given moment.” Lets teach our children this – for this is the best education we can give someone.

     1. Agreed Samantha, but not just the children for it is never to late for a Leopard to change it’s spots so we can by feeling the movement we are in and spot the difference a mile off by being aware!
        For more on movement go to;
        http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=MOVEMENT

393. Very true.. ” it is in this connection that the intelligence of the body is revealed…”

394. Getting knowledge from books and then holding that as an ideal or belief of how we should be living or could be living has no reality unless it can be anchored in the body and activated as a reality that is not mind-driven but whole-body-connected in every moment.

395. Our bodies bring an honesty and transparency to all our choices that creates space for evolution, whereas our minds are the exact opposite – avoiding, ignoring, denying and justifying our every choice, keeping us in a cycle of disregard and neglect.

396. This says it all Michelle … “This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows.” How grand is the wisdom of the body – it makes the minds ‘intelligence’ pale into insignificance.

397. Our body never gives up on us, yet we often make the choice to give up on ourselves and our body. Simply by ignoring the communication that our body constantly offers.

398. Having been inspired by this blog I am committing to making space to reconnect to my body each morning and can feel the difference this makes throughout the day – interestingly I can also feel that there is resistance to doing this too.

399. It is true that this connection reveals the intelligence of the body. In my experience, after a while of connecting this way I don’t need to do anything – the body ‘speaks’ up quite loudly without prompting and it is up to me to listen.

400. I agree that it is the gentle breath that is a great support to returning to feeling your body, and often feeling how horrible it feels or not is then deepened and cleared by simply nominating what is there to feel and then you can go to another depth of ease in the body. It is so beautiful how we are designed to be in harmony.

401. This is so true in that it is our body that we need to honour and listen to not books etc ‘What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.’ However I am deeply inspired by the books Serge Benhayon writes as well as Universal Medicine practitioners because they live what they teach or speak and show there is a far more loving way to live and be.

     1. That is true – having both, the knowledge and the understanding – is very powerful. It gives us more avenues to express ourselves.

402. The times when I do not over eat is when I have more vitality so maybe my body is telling me that it is okay to eat less. With vitality I also find that my divine connection through how I breath is simpler to maintain so eating has a huge role in how I stay connected or more correctly the focus on what keeps me connected has direct relationship to how much I indulge in the pleasures that come from what I eat. As I become more away of what food does to my body the simpler I eat and the more yummy each food becomes as a pleasure in the mouth but this again cause me to tend to over indulge as the food becomes a focus and not nurturing my divine essence. So maybe if we bring back the conversation that starts us talking about how much our body really needs how often it needs it and is it better to simply apply a few simple points about what we feel when we eat so we can all evolve. When we eat together without any distractions the causes of over eating and disconnection are felt for what they are so staying with our breath and connection can be more focused. Then with a deeper connection eating and life can become about evolution.
     For more on breath go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=gentle+breath+meditation

403. Our mind can get us a short term benefit of “fitting the picture” or getting through a situation but our body holds the truth and thus has a way which is sustainable for itself and harmonious to others.

404. Scientifically a lot of the brains information originates in the body – it is how it knows about the changes in its environment – it makes sense that the more we connect to the body the greater access we have to those messages and therefor to a knowing/ intelligence not based on the mind.  

405. It’s so gorgeous when we call something out from our mind and don’t entertain the thought. Your whole body lights up and you basically give yourself a healing right there, which is an awesome confirmation, that you have hit, truth.

406. I agree, it is not always pleasant to feel what the body is communicating, which is why it is so super important to be aware that this is actually a good thing and not something we should attempt to numb or override – it is simply a call for a stop, to give ourselves a moment to reflect on what is really being shown to us.

407. ‘In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power.’ – there must be enormous pressure on academics to reach the top of their tree. It seems like such a waste to have such fierce competition, all these brilliant minds competing with each other causing exhaustion, frustration, not to mention the politics. How much simpler if the purpose was less about self and individual accolades and more about casting a far wider net, with people working together on projects that will truly serve mankind as a whole.

408. It’s amazing to consider just how intelligent our bodies really are when thinking of all the process that go on inside of us to work towards keeping us healthy and it does beg the question what kind of intelligence are we tuning into when we choose to go against this and fill ourselves with poison in one way or another instead…

409. I LOVE the whole body intelligence. It does not dupe us like the mind, we do not have to work at it, it is all there when we connect to it, and it supports us every time 100 % when we choose to access it.

     1. Gillrandall that is so incredibly true and the part i love the most is how with the body all is known and there is nothing to learn, just connect deeper with. It feels so yummy just appreciating it.

410. ‘You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body’ I recognise this and it is only in recent years that I have paid attention to the more subtle signals that my body has been sending me for years. It is so easy to override but so effective when we pay attention and respond with more self care.

411. “I often find myself focusing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath and then it is easy to feel when events of the day, such as driving my car or pressures at work, have affected this natural rhythm.” It is remarkable how by focusing on such a simple thing as the way that we breath that we can become aware of how we are interacting in our day to day lives. But by bringing our focus to this most natural and essential bodily function, comes an awareness of how beautifully rhthymical it is when it is given the space and respectfulness it deserves. There is an ebb and flow to our breathing, similar to that of the ocean tides, and the waxing and waning of the moon, and the rising and setting sun, none of which are ever interrupted, regardless of what is going on in the world. And if we were to consider that our bodies are also a part of this same beautiful rhthym of nature, maybe we would become more respectful of what interruptions we will allow to our own natural flow, and would start to make choices that would not allow such interference.

412. For most of my life I had successfully managed to hide away the fact that I could stop and make a choice to connect to my body, and that with this connection I could unlock the beauty that is within. With deep gratitude for the moment Serge Benhayon passed by and quite simply reminded me of this choice, that has had the most profound effect – The simplicity and matter of factness of his passing comment reminding us that this is our natural way of being.

413. “Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body, allowing an awareness of how or what the body is feeling at any given moment.” So many things in life remain a mystery or the way they are presented is mysterious, what you share here however is the opposite its simple, practical and I know from my living experience that being present with my body is one of the greatest gifts I can give myself and everyone else.

414. “What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.” In 2011 the US Self help, personal development and lifestyle book industry was valued at around the 10 billion dollar mark. There is a mind boggling array of potential paths and practices; formulaic manuals for happiness, weight loss, success, money, or spirituality, but as statistics tell us that the most likely investor of these books is the same person who purchased one 18 months earlier, it begs the question “How much have you really changed as a result of reading these books?”
     What better, truer manual than the pure intelligence of our own bodies, the development of a constantly evolving and communicating relationship, a manual you can’t put down, its totally free and never lies.

415. Reincarnation and Karma, are they not just smoke and mirrors? The smoke we create not to see the true reflection and the truth? We can’t escape the actions of our choices, and we cannot ignore or deny we are coming back. So, we can keep getting on the same roller-coaster again and again or search out the next new one every time.

416. I sometimes do not like to feel what is going on and it needs only a little bit and I am out of rythm.
     interesting to observe, but the body is very delicate and expresses what is not a loving choice.

417. When I have listened and honoured what my body is communicating and telling me this by far has been more a loving way to be with myself than to listen what my head wants to believe.

418. “What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it needs to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books” – our body is our book, and turning the pages of the many chapters reveals (quality of) the ending…

419. It is quite strange that we use copious amounts of tools to numb our perception of our body in its normal state by heightening aspects of it (coffee, sugar, emotions etc) or by dampening aspects of it (alcohol, smoking, excessive food etc). Why do we need to suppress the signals from our body so much?

     1. Good question Christoph, why do we put ourselves on a ‘see saw’ of substances that create such an oscillation between raciness and lethargy? It seems we are continually seeking to avoid feeling the effects of the emotions, thoughts and actions we choose to indulge in that smother up the true stillness and harmony that naturally resides within us. The real courage lies in choosing to reduce and then eliminate these roller coaster substances and hence discover underneath this self made storm a rich completeness and all encompassing wisdom that knows exactly how to honour life.

420. When I realised that the body has far more intelligence than the mind, it was undeniable, quite a stop moment and I realised I’d let myself be hoodwinked by the mind my entire life.

421. Connecting to our breath and our body in the way you describe, Michelle is an intelligence, ‘not as we have known it’ but deeply significant in living wisdom of life. A wisdom that top trumps the intelligence of the mind at any time.

422. When reading the word Body I realized that I’ve always had quite a denigrating judgement towards this word and so as well to my own body. When I feel the word it feels actually really powerful. Very still, very knowing, very unwavering. A lot ‘bigger’ so to speak than the word ‘mind’. Could it be that our body actually holds our mind rather than the other way around. This holding is a loving non-imposing holding, yet the mind is trying to convince us that ‘it’ owns the body, which is very imposing. Wow.

     1. Love what you have shared Floris it opens us up to many questions and I feel when you say our body is ‘this holding is a loving non-imposing holding,’ so our body is ‘very still very knowing very unwavering’ and this is our essence, our body, our wisdom!
        For more on essence go to;
        http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=essence

423. It is great to bring attention to the intelligence of the body as it is mostly taken for granted that the mind is the seat of intelligence. But what gives our mind the messages that it then relays? What drives our thoughts and therefore our choices? And why are they often ‘not so intelligent’? I do know that my body is honest – it provides is a constant reflection of where I am at physically and emotionally. And it would be, and has proven to be, ‘not so intelligent ‘ to deny listening to that wisdom.

424. As we let go of control there is more space for a connection to feel our body and allow a huge shift to take place as we surrender our mind and feel what is truly taking place.

425. I have also found that when the body serves me up any pain or ailments – it is something for me to look at. Of course there are many messages before this point – but it is what I choose to see. The body in pain is he last straw if you like in an attempt to lay it out loud and clear. And what a gift that is and true intelligence at its finest.

426. To connect to my breath is just the most powerful tool to feel my body again and feel at ease with myself. We forget so often to notice how we are breathing and just choosing how the breath enters can make a huge difference in how we feel.

427. Just re-visiting this blog Michelle as I love the simplicity of what you’ve shared. We expect ‘intelligence’ to be something we have to work hard for or be naturally talented to have, but it is none of this by your account here… “It is in this connection that the intelligence of the body is revealed…” This is so true, it’s an intelligence right under our noses, literally, and just requires connecting to, to tap into it and utlilise it to navigate a way through life that is with vitality, joy and ease. And to do so without study, knowledge, rules or discipline is a remarkable show of ‘intelligence’ in fact.

428. The very notion that our body is more intelligent than our mind stops me in my tracks but it doesn’t take long to recognize how much quicker our bodies are than our minds. Our minds are often playing catch up days later.

429. When I am present in my body and listening to it I find it is nearly impossible to over eat, as my body lets me know when I have had enough and if I eat any more I feel uncomfortable. The problem is that it is easy to check out when eating as there are other distractions, like conversations that are not evolutionary, that take me away from my body, rather then staying with my body and feeling what is going on around the table with self and others.

     1. Great point Mary-Louise I also find when I get distracted I over eat and my thoughts are generally around will I get enough nourishment if I only eat a little bit. When the real question for me is when I over eat can my body digest properly what I have eaten and thus nourishing me properly? Evolutionary conversations about food are so important with many of us overindulging to the point it affects our health and vitality.
        For more on nourishing go to;
        http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=NOURISHING

        1. That’s a great point Greg. Overeating puts a strain on the body, which means what has been eaten and the nourishment that is possible is reduced. The more present we are as we eat, the less those intrusive thoughts can dominate and feed us the lies about food and what is truly good for our body and expression.

        2. From what is felt within my body, when I over eat is that in no way can I fully digest all that I have eaten as I feel dull and lethargic, because my system has been put under strain and energetically I am caught in the lies that are so dominant around food that society feeds on.
           Eating is to nourish and enrich our divine body so our essence can shine and we can still feel the connection.
           When we dull, bloat and eat without conscious presence we are giving our power away and allowing thoughts that ‘dominate and feed us lies about food’.
           This is great what you have shared Vicky it has allowed me to deepen my wisdom about my body so I can connect with conscious presence when I eat.
           For more on conscious presence go to;
           http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=CONSCIOUS+PRESENCE

430. I have discovered that the choice to connect and living this with greater consistency is the rock bed for true confidence, before this I have always looked to my achievements, to recognition from others to build a sense of myself but inevitable this proved to be wafer thin and i found myself knocked back and having to start again.

431. It’s true, pain and discomfort quickly bring us back to being present with our body and I know that to ignore the discomfort, that eventuates in pain is so easy when we get engrossed in something – and let that ‘something’ become the be-all and end-all. I’m practicing staying present with my body, listening to it’s messages and finding that what once felt impossible, is becoming a naturally loving way in my day.

432. The fact that the body is constantly communicating to us shows us that there are no real mysteries in the world, it shows that all that is needed to be known is already known but we choose to ignore that which is known playing ignorant to the fact, a fact that by the virtue of all being known is not infact a truth. With everything there for us the question really comes to why choose the mind over the truth of the body.

433. It is so very humbling to discover that our body has access to a greater intelligence than our minds, and it is in surrender rather than doing and acquiring knowledge that we can re-connect to the ageless wisdom.

434. Something that came up while reading this was that in that awareness of my body, sometimes it doesn’t feel nice what I say or how I feel after doing something. But I am noticing that my body is far more sensitive to what doesn’t feel right than what has been accepted in the world around me. So I may feel hurt but no one else may bat an eyelid. In these instances I have a choice, honour my own sensitivity or ignore it in order to fit in with a mind that says everything is fine. But that pain mechanism shows us repeatedly that we cannot escape our sensitivity and trying only brings more pain! My bodies intelligence has more than proven it’s worth standing by.

     1. Yes, that is very true. The more we listen to our body, the more it reveals.

435. It is through embracing the intelligence of the body that we all will come to know the true wisdom that we all possess in equal measure. This wisdom is the intelligence of love.

436. ‘You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body.’ I would say you have pretty much summed up everyone here! This reminds me of how much we champion physical adversity, or pushing through or disregard pain and yet the body speaks very loudly in these moments.. Learning to listen to the smallest signal my body gives me, like a bump or a scratch or a muscle twinge or a feeling of warmth, space or expansion supports me in understanding my awareness of the choices I have made or confirming my connection and essence.

437. This is an inspiring blog and comments to bring more focus to developing the relationship with my body and to watch carefully the tendencies of the mind to predominate.

438. “In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power.” This form of intelligence separates us out into individual units that compete against one another and so we commit ourselves to a lifetime of competition, drive and ambition at the expense of our quality of health, relationships and our innate knowing of community. The intelligence that resides in every cell of our bodies only knows the science of harmony and brotherhood and when truly honoured reunites us as one huge global family.

439. The realisation of truly listening to my body and connecting to it was not something i really understood until meeting Serge Benhayon when I found that I was living my life increasingly disconnected to it. The beauty of coming back to my self my breath and feeling my body is a constant journey and choice and discipline of a living way and this is the true intelligence, inner knowing and wisdom that is everything and comes from the way one moves. An amazing choice for us all to return to living who we are and very beautiful to feel.

440. The thing about relying purely on the intelligence of the mind is that the mind rarely considers the rest of the body with equal regard, if indeed it considers it at all – which is peculiar in many ways, for the brain is an integral part of the body, which it cannot do without, and vice versa. To me this in many ways leads one to ponder on what Serge Benhayon has presented for many years, that our thoughts our not our own. For if they were just our own thoughts, then surely they would be thoughts that considered the body that en-houses it. If we open ourselves to the possibility then that we are fed thoughts, or if not thoughts, certainly a stream of consciousness to which those thoughts belong to, and that such a consciousness is fed to us from outside of ourselves, then it makes sense why we can make decisions that are so detrimental to the body. For such thoughts originate from a source that does not have to feel the effects on the very body they are imposing themselves upon.

441. ‘But this wasn’t always the case. For most of my life I’ve held the intelligence of the mind as the marker of success,’ this Michelle was also true for myself and from which I lived mostly from even though the way it presented itself was not quite with the same parameters as you but still the same energy. Now that I connect with my body more, and this is always a deepening and unfolding progress without perfection – I am well aware that the body is our key to being present and with our whole body intelligence. I am also very aware of the grandness this allows us to connect to.

442. Revisiting this today I have an awareness that I have resisted our purely mental version of intelligence in this life. I have connected with it enough to ‘get by’ but I feel there has always been a sense in me that true intelligence is not something we gather and hoard but more something we connect with and tune into. I feel there is an innate call in us all to return to this way of being, this natural knowingness – something we might one day realise is the truth of ‘common sense’ – a wisdom common to us all.

     1. Beautifully said Richard, i too can relate to following the flock and buying into the mental version of intelligence in order to get by but never feeling a full bodied trust in what i witnessed as the benchmark of its following or the widespread separation of owning knowledge.

443. ‘Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.’ This is such a simple and effective way to connect – we breathe all the time, so it is a simple technique we can apply wherever we are in the world and whatever time of day it is. Becoming aware of our breath and deliberately making it gentle helps us to feel so much more in our bodies.

444. The body is a binary system of muscles that contracts or expands! It does this with feeling. There is a bit of the brain that keeps things running that need to be all the time, and it is just a clock that doesn’t think at all but does adjust with messages from the body to increase or decrease functions. There is another part of the brain that thinks it can improve this system!

445. I have found my mind many times feeding me thoughts that are self critical and unloving, whereas my body only speaks truth.

446. Watching a screen and distracting myself while eating is a big one. That inability to just be and enjoy my own company if I am eating alone. And yet in this I can feel the food I eat is less nourishing and the tendency to overeat is much greater.

447. I hesitated, followed my head and bought a bunch of flowers knowing they were not what I wanted for the person I was visiting in a residential care home. I placed the flowers in the vase and a little unsettled left the room to do something. I came back to find the flowers had disappeared and was told a resident walked into the room took the flowers and crushed them out in the corridor! I immediately read this, smiled and went out and bought a beautiful bunch of pale yellow daffodils and cream hyacinths more in tune with what was needed by the patient. Rather than follow my head, when I couldn’t find the right flowers, I should have followed the message from my body, to do nothing.

448. And now we are being sold artificial intelligence (AI) described as the future and answer to all our problems, where we increasingly use technology tools to manage finite details of our lives. It seems everything can be answered at a touch of a screen. But do we need it? We already have a magnificent intelligence available to us in our human body, it is already there. Its just a matter of making connection with and using it. We need more education on the wisdom of body over mind.

     1. It would be amazing if we maximised our relationship with our bodies’ innate wisdom before we distracted ourselves with technology and artificial intelligence…

449. Hi Susan, I do agree with you, my body gives me far more information how to keep a healthy body then any book ever has been able to provide me. The one thing I always experience when reading any Anatomy and Physiology book though, is the amazingness of the utterly precision our bodies are working up to the tiniest particles of it.

     1. Indeed, Susan, and, it not only blows me away it also makes me even more appreciative and humble to the beauty and grandness we are part of as is constantly reflected through this precision of our bodies.

450. From reading this blog it becomes actually very simple to me, you are in and connected with your body or not and when you are not you are able to abuse your body to such an extent that it leads to serious illness and disease, especially when you live like this most of your life you can end up with the multi symptomatic diseases that many in our societies are faced with nowadays.

451. I’ve read and heard many people share about the significance of being aware of their body and breath. It’s easy to feel ‘oh yeah what’s the big deal? After all, we all breathe to live, right?’. And it kind of sounds so simple it should go without mentioning in the handbook of life. But it is not. When it comes down to our everyday, do we live with this stillness and deep connection? Do we actually stop and truly breathe our own breath? Speaking for myself I know I do not but when I am able to, my whole life is changed and my view of things turns around. So thank you Michelle for this reminder of how simple life can actually be.

     1. Joseph we do seem to take breathing for granted and I know I have never put any thought into what or how was breathing. I used to breathe very shallowly and get very anxious and hyperventilate and that was quite unsettling to say the least. I used to carry a brown paper bag with me for those times. With the support of the Universal medicine practitioners and the esoteric modalities hyperventilating is a distant memory of a former life, now I love having an at one moment with me all the time, I am falling in love with myself and my breathing feels very deep and powerful.

452. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence” – when i started to connect to the quality of my breath, and breathing me, i.e. my own breath, as opposed breathing (in) the situation, drama, excitement, my anxiousness started to reduce and i felt clearer in what i was doing, choosing, and the every day decisions i was making in life. I walked, and moved differently which affected my overall body. It really does all start and begin with the breath and any off-key-ness can be easily restored through it.

     1. It might seem so simple, but how many times in our day are we aware of this most basic of functions – how often is our breath determined by anxiousness, stress, anger or frustration rather than connection.

453. My life took the opposite fork in the road to academia and I became caught up in a way of living that kept me in my head, which was all about self interest with no self-loving aspect towards my body.
     For more about being self-loving go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=SELF-LOVE

454. How amazing that we have available and accessible to every single one of us an intelligence that not only supports us to live in deep connection to who we innately are, but also allows us to equally live in the power of who we are without the need to overpower, compete, or control another. Thank you Michelle for sharing how this intelligence is accessed and lived through simply connecting to our bodies; something we all have the opportunity to explore.

455. I can remember people often saying that they do their best work under pressure. On reflection, this can only be said by someone who hasn’t experienced what it is to work with enough space to work in a well-rested body with a steady and focused mind. Working under pressure and stress ‘to get the job done’ is when I do my worst work, not to mention how awful it feels during and afterwards.

456. It is in this connection to our bodies that we know we are part of something greater that is at play and it is through our consistency of living that we inspire our brothers and sisters to be who they truly are.

     1. Very true Francisco. The deeper we go, the more responsibility we can feel we hold because it becomes more embodied and consciously known that everything absolutely everything means something and that we are all very much connected.

457. I too used to put getting a good grade first and my body came second. When studying I had very little awareness of how my body was. I no longer do that but I have noticed there are certain things I do where I get so engrossed in what I am doing that I loose connection. At work I have trained myself to be far more conscious of my body but there are other things that get me – when playing lego with my son, I often notice afterwards I’m hugely uncomfortable and have been for a while. The lego became more important than me. Another one is gardening. I can get so focussed on what I want to do that my body gets pushed to the side in favour of getting certain things done.

458. What I am learning is to connect to my body and giving myself permission to move and live with my body. Rather than observing my body from my head – which means being under the constant illusion that my mind is controlling the body. Which isn’t true. Neither of them are ‘in control’. They’re both receivers of energy. The body is forever aligned to the grander life, the universe and thus is far more intelligent that the separate mind. So imagine if the two work harmoniously together.

459. I just love and appreciate reading this and the first paragraph is a pearl – a simple gem of an invitation. It’s like a moment of meditation, connecting more deeply to by body and feeling what is there to be felt. And it takes all of 30 second, making me feel how absolutely simple it is for me to do this through my day – anywhere, any time.

460. Question of the year I reckon’ – “It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent?” Could you imagine if everyone asked themselves, and each other, this question? And what could be revealed if they did?

461. This is such a great blog Michelle, something everyone can relate to and really practical in the bargain. A complete package. I am sure we all have felt what you have described here, long times of being quite out of the body only to come back and face the damage. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great place to start to bring us into the body and out of the head.

462. Of late I have been noticing how much I still make decisions and communicate from my mind. I notice that when I am connected to my heart and my body life has a different flow and my body communicates much and then the words that are needed come. However, when I live from my head this flow isn’t there and then I want to control life or try to get my point across but it does not come with the lived expression needed that allows true inspiration and communication.

463. Thank you for the tip of connecting to your lungs first. Normally I focus on the more external parts of my body first but I’ve just tried that and found it very powerful. Straight to the source!!

464. My body is without any ounce of doubt far far more intelligent, wise and loving than my mind. My mind has me believe – or justify foods are okay for me when my body clearly tells me they are not, by becoming racy and hard – and craving more of the same. Now that to me is a best friend, it’s truth and love – which are both one and the same.

465. It is interesting how we can live in a body but be absent from it paying little or no attention or regard to any physical sensations or signs from the body Michelle. The mind can be so tricky and deceptive when we allow it, and it has taken me down many rabbit holes in the past. I can catch it earlier sometimes now, and find the messages from the body get louder when I listen more and pay more attention to them.

466. Indeed, there are a number of communications that we can listen to at any one time, one from the mind, seems to egg us on to dismiss and at times destroy the body and the other from the body itself, all and forever supporting us….which one is more truly intelligent?

467. Connection… to me the word was just about a mechanical thing – one piece of equipment connected to another, it never occurred to me that we humans are all connected, let alone that we could truly connect through our bodies and by energy. Connecting within, as I am finding, leads to an inner stillness, and when I take that into my day, all sorts of connections happen: things constellate, I meet just the right people, amazing scenes from nature open up right in front of me, and awarenesses I never could have imagined are right there at the right time.

468. Connecting to our breath and just observing how we are breathing assists us to register the quality we are choosing to live.

469. I personally still have a ways to go before the intelligence of my body takes over permanently from the recklessness and non consideration for other body parts, dished out by my spirit driven mind. True evolution will come once this happens.

470. We have been sold a version of success which involves achieving through our use of recalled knowledge, totally missing the opportunity to living connected to the wisdom of the whole body intelligence and experiencing the success of being ourselves.

471. I love the relationship that continues to deepen and develop with my body since attending presentations by Serge Benhayon. The steadiness and solidness in the inner foundation is a joy to experience.

472. This morning for the first time in a number of months I made the time and space to sit down and reconnect to my body through the Gentle Breath Meditation and found this very difficult to do, finding myself away in thoughts of this and that rather than being present with my breath, let alone bringing a quality to it. I fully appreciate how much this shows me that I am being dominated by thoughts rather than feelings.

     1. Me too Michael. All to easily I choose function rather than purpose. But if I have not actively chosen which energy I am going to ‘function’ in, then by definition there can be no true purpose. I have had some major wake-up calls recently. Back to basics with purpose, simplicity and commitment.

473. For so many years I would over ride my body’s signals, pushing it, wanting to do what I wanted, not actually wanting my body because it hurt in many ways. When I realised my body was actually letting me know how I was living, the choices I was making like you say in your first line ‘ I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so’ I made the choice to connect to my body and listen to its wisdom and changed my choices… the pain and health problems have resolved. Now my body is my true guide in life rather than what my mind wants.

474. “This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows.” how great is it that the body knows everything well before the mind, it’s obvious that listening to our mind has not worked so if we all tried listening and living from our bodies what have we got to lose?

475. Yes, indeed. When we have a tendency to be absent from our body, we really have to ask ourselves what is informing and impulsing our choices.

476. Studying wasn’t for me. Although I did do some revision I found it challenging and would rather withdraw from studying than push myself. Pushing myself in work, now that’s a different story and I still find myself at times going into raciness and drive to get things done at the expense of my body. This is when my mind is in control and I feel the consequences at the time and afterwards feeling tired with an aching uterus. Even though I feel the impact from the choices I am making from the mind I am in deep appreciation to myself because I am choosing to go there again (after withdrawing from life because I got ill) to give myself another opportunity to commit to work and other areas of my life but this time round learning to develop a relationship to myself first and setting this as a foundation in and for life.

477. Michelle, I am finding this lately too, ‘I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so’, after years of making ‘connecting to my body’ a complicated thing to do, I’ m now realising how simple it is, it is simply about feeling what is going on in the body – I feel my legs as I’m walking, my feet on the ground, my shoulders and I feel now is that I’m with and in my body, rather than ahead of myself, rushing about, not present with my body.

478. These words are are so sweet to my whole body “an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows.” It is great medicine to know and live this connection.

479. I loved your opening paragraph too Michelle this is what I feel when I stop and connect to my body.The fast pace with which life is lived in our technology driven world offers very little space to stop and take stock of our selves. Just stopping and feeling the breath, how we breathe can reveal a lot about ourselves and how we are living. I still don’t do this enough in my day but when I do, I love to feel the warmth and glow in my lungs that then radiates through my body. When I don’t feel this then I know I have not been truly connected and it offers me a stop moment to feel what has got in the way.

480. I realised I had become highly trained at ignoring or pushing to the background what my body was feeling. My body is always doing something it has to, to be able to function. I had trained myself to load me up with sugar and caffeine and nicotine to ignore the fatigue. To use alcohol to dull the restlessness and agitation. To use exercise to push away the bloating and self loathing etc. To stop and learn to accept those feelings and understand that they weren’t the core of me but a reflection of how I was living and that I am completely able to change this situation has changed my life.

481. Why do we let the small thing between our ears make decisions for the rest of the body? Should the body be the Organ grinder, with the monkey being the dancing brain?

     1. Love this Steve (as I love so many of your expressions). It’s insane that one muscle (which is ultimately all that the brain is) should have become the boss of all the other muscles. Muscles are purely mechanical so what we need to be looking at is the energy that is driving them. If we are prepared to see that, then we might start to get to the bottom of the chaos in which so many of us are living.

        1. Muscles also only have two states, they contract or expand. The whole body works in a binary system of 1s and 0s! you can get any simpler, it is or it is not!

482. “… what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony?” Evidently the kind of intelligence that only has its own agenda and cares nought for the precious and sacred body that is slave to its very whim.

483. It is a great question to ask what intelligence is it that is ok with disregarding and neglecting the body, which is the very foundation for our existence here?

484. The intelligence of the mind is championed as being the intelligence here on earth, but in truth it is not able to even grasp the extent of the universe, how fast we are moving through space on our spaceship planet earth or how our bodies actually work as being a make-up of billions of cells that all know what to do when they are at a certain position in the body. But to me there is an intelligence in the universe, that constellates the stars and the planets as they are and our planet and our bodies are equally part of that and correlate to that grander order which to me is true intelligence, but unfortunately it does not fit into the concepts of the intelligence of the mind as that is not connected to that grander whole but lives in its self-created isolated world instead.

485. Why is it that we seem to resist listening to the innate intelligence of our bodies over the constant chatter from our mind? Is it because our mind allows us to ‘justify’ what we think we want to do? But what if that choice isn’t supporting us on any level, which deep down we know, we can feel we are tricking ourselves and ignoring the truth, if we are honest. Is it because we want to stay in the perceived ‘comfort’ we have created for ourselves? What if that comfort is actually living in a dark cave, when, with different choices, we could be out in the warm sunshine, feeling lighter, more vital and full of joy. Choosing to connect with our body is the first step to appreciating how much we already know, the infinite intelligence and wisdom we hold deep inside that has and always will be there for us to listen to.

486. ‘This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows’ – it’s a way of living that is always expressing truth. A truth that is lived, unaffected by the conflicting influences that surround us in everyday life, a way of living that inspires others to connect to the truth that lies inside them too, waiting to be expressed.

487. Just reading the first paragraph of your blog, naturally puts me more deeply connected to my body… What a great opening paragraph as there is a body felt experience to exactly what you are describing!

     1. I agree Johanne, I had the same very tangible experience of immediately feeling into my lungs and the rhythm of my breath, taking a moment to stop and just revel in that.

488. Our bodies connect to a universal wisdom, harmony and rhythm of life that no individual mind could ever conceive… our bodies know what is needed that will support everyone.

489. Our bodies certainly have an intelligence… ‘that inspires a deep love, care and honouring” of ourselves “through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows.” There is a wisdom that comes from our bodies that no mental intelligence is ever capable of perceiving.

490. More and more I am learning to step out of way and hand things over to the wisdom and very practical know how of my body. When I feel myself going into old patterns of worrying about how I’m going to fit everything in then I stop and remind myself that my body’s got it covered and invariably it has.

491. I feel that your examples are something we can all relate to Michelle, especially eating while distracted and feeling bloated afterwards. I get it that these are choices that only the mind could make and they are at the expense of our bodies. I find myself doing deals with myself, Ill push through to get the job done then I will take care of myself after. It is not a good trade and is always at the expense of the body and the task I want to do is always compromised along with my body. Do I get away with it? Not really, I am always left lesser. I love how Michelle has described another way where the intelligence of the body is used to find a way to be active in life in harmony with our bodies and thus others around us.

     1. Hi Bernard, sure when we make the connection with our body first and foremost we are connected to an intelligence we call love and love that will not harm but heal. So when we connect to our body and move in correspondence with that we are living a healing way of life, compared to when we rely on the intelligence of our mind, that lives in disconnection from this love, in its self-created world instead, we are actually living in abuse with the way we are actually designed to be.

492. Michelle it’s very true what you wrote about a whole body connection supporting us to also be connected to our true qualities such as our inner stillness and loveliness. Those qualities cannot come from the mind, we are much bigger than what the mind can do and staying connected to the body honours that.

493. This is a beautiful reminder of the simplicity of reconnecting to feeling your body through the Gentle Breath Meditation. I know I sometimes fight the sensitivity of my own body and would do well to surrender to it instead. Allowing such moments to stop and check in are all it can take to do this.

494. It always takes me a bit by surprise when I finally move after sitting in a position and realise how uncomfortable it is and I have not realised it. It is a good reminder to keep checking in with the body.

     1. Yes, especially sitting in front of a screen (computer, etc.) tends to really glue me to that activity and I often find my feet getting cold, but ignoring it because I am so engaged with what needs to be done, instead of taking a break and honouring that my body needs some movement.

495. So true, love this line – “What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.” I went to self-help books and diet books in the past to give me the secret for a healthy body and mind… or how to parent better or how to be a great partner etc. but all I really needed to do was throw them away and start listening to my body. The thing was is that I wouldn’t trust what my body was showing me because it didn’t fit my picture or made me unpopular with family and friends, so I ditched the body and went with all the many varied and doubting stories from my mind. The body is so much more simple, direct and clear.

496. As I read this blog I could feel my breath, my lungs and the rest of my body, I did a little check in and noticed a tension I had not been aware of. How often does this happen and we carry that tension all day? How tiring, and, unless we take time to connect deeply with our bodies, we wouldn’t necessarily know where that tiredness had come from because the tension would feel ‘normal’. I have to wonder in that case, if that triedness, when lived as a long-term problem, leads to more debilitating chronic illnesses?

     1. Good point Lucy. I had the same experience when reading the blog offered a moment to stop and feel more deeply. Choosing such moments to connect to our breath are so vital. I have found when I carry on with the tension and the tiredness unchecked, it is a downward spiral. The longer it is left the further from the natural rhythm and harmony of my body I get. And it makes total sense that this way of running the body will end in “more debilitating chronic illnesses”.

497. How incredible is it that my body constantly shows and confirms me in my choices. If I’m making loving choices, the body responds with fiery energy running through my body. If I don’t, I feel much heavier and ‘stuck’. Isn’t this the ultimate intelligence. An intelligence that doesn’t lie, never ever!

498. Thanks, Michelle. Even when I do have quite severe pain, there is still a joy in listening to my body and accepting the consequences of my choices and where I am at, all the while knowing that with every breath I can choose to be more loving in the here and now.

499. It seems like our body is way more connected to life than we are. We can hide in our body but we cannot hide from it.

500. Just the first paragraph of this blog itself is amazing. I love the description of how you stop, let your breath return to its natural rhythm, feel the gentle movement of your lungs and go from there. It is remarkable how simple this choice is and how profound it is in helping us “to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.”

501. Nothing can sway me when I am living the Love of the intelligence of my body. But there are times when I realise I have been ‘out’ and it is trickier to re-connect to that deep inner stillness that is truly me. It’s times like these that I first ask myself , ‘what am I avoiding, what do I not want to feel?

502. I really appreciate what you have shared about the realisations, after the event, of how dis-connected we can be from our bodies: the numb backside after hours of work; the shoulders tight up to our ears after a drive; the teeth clenching after mulling over an issue at work… The support in this article about the simplicity of re-connecting back to our bodies by bringing awareness to our breath is gold dust.

503. I just read a blog on Karma, and reading yours here Michelle on the intelligence of the body and our connection to ourselves, I can see a link between the two. If we connect and know what is being communicated, our journey through the karmic imprints, to re-harmonise what we have left behind, moves with more ease and flow.

504. “intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power” what an insightful framing of our current education system, intelligence seems to be something we use to bully and coerce one another, coming from our own need to rule and suppress, yet this is so different from the intelligence I am starting to understand more fully, where the choices we can intelligently make come from what is supportive to our body and are intuitive, responding to each moment with regard for ourself and deep respect for other people.

505. For most connecting to their body seems to be a strange or unfamiliar thing to do, so it was for me, but it is not difficult in any way. Getting to understand what we then recognise and feel, to find the words and express can be like learning a new language, also this is not difficult but rather a very joyful thing to do. It helped immensely that I was supported by Universal Medicine and people who already were familiar with the expression of this body language as sometimes I was feeling something but couldn´t put the right words to it and by someone suggesting some possibilities of what it could be I learned to recognize and differentiate my feelings and sensations. Interesting though that these feelings can also be felt and recognized by someone else; they are not hidden but emanate from the body and actually are part of the communication between everyone; the only difference is in how aware we are to read them.

     1. We all come from a place where everything is communicated by feeling, there is no speech. On earth we have slowed down and interfered with our ability to feel to such an extent that most of us rely on speech to understand life but most of what is being communicated is not true and so we are in a dire situation of relying on speech to communicate mis-truth.

506. The beauty of the whole body intelligence is that everybody can reconnect to it, it is something we are all naturally equipped with from the day we are born. Babies know it and live it naturally, and then slowly we start to adjust to the world around us and learn to override our own body intelligence. The great thing is that it is never too late to reconnect.

507. Our bodies are worth appreciating as they are with us every step we take and allow us to do everything we do.

508. To me a key experience was that the body is not just a machine but that it actually has an intelligence that goes beyond the most sophisticated machine.

509. Our particles will always be divine and therefore will return to God.
     For more on particles go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=particles

510. The ashes to ashes, dust to dust, feels so relevant as I read this blog as our body particles are from God and when we re-connect to those particles our body awareness becomes a connection to the divinity within. So taking this forever deepening awareness to the grave and beyond is so freeing for our next life and our body can be free of this so called intelligence, which is only the mind. Life before Serge Benhayon was only games to keep us fooled about who we truly are so as a Son of God from the particles of God I get and appreciate the depth of my responsibility to stay true to my last breath and beyond!

511. This can bring in religious ideas as well. Good post and enjoyed reading it. The mind is a very powerful tool at our disposal and we have just cracked the surface in understanding it.

512. Whenever I follow my body I feel amazing. Whenever I follow my mind over my body I get into trouble. My mind tries to find solutions, or has a desire, or decides what is best, whereas my body simply knows what is true without an attachment to any outcome. Overriding the body with the mind is what we do a trillion times a day. It takes dedication and true care to really stop and listen to the body and love ourselves enough to live from there.

     1. That is true. The body is present, we sometimes (or more than sometimes) are a little absent.

513. In the past I had placed so much emphasis on being smart. I was also very much in comparison with others and worked hard to make up for not being the smartest in the class. But I must say there was a sense of relief – or a sense of surrendering – when I began hearing Serge Benhayon present on the body and our awareness. Listening to my body has made me more intelligent than I would ever have believed – and we can all do it equally.

     1. Absolutely Nick. Our bodies are so switched on its quite incredible what we find we know when we choose to tune in to them. I never thought of myself as being intelligent or clever, but having being able to accept that I do know everything I need to know when I choose to connect to my body thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon, has given me a whole different level of appreciation of myself and what it means to be truly intelligent.

        1. Absolutely Sandra, what a life changer, eh?!

        2. Indeed it is Nick!

        3. I second that Sandra – reconnecting with my body is the greatest choice I have ever made.

514. Coming back to the body at times can be a bit uncomfortable as we will be challenged by the harm and the effects we have done to it. So, as part of restoring harmony we first need to be honest and willing to face our own doings and learn to endure the moment of discomfort before it is cleared and we eventually get to sense the yumminess of our natural unimposed body. In fact, the discomfort is not the body as such but what has been imposed or introduced to it, ie. it is nothing that belongs to the body but the body now has to deal with.

515. I think it is a great error of our education systems that often they are about fostering the mind in separation from our body. There is a wisdom that comes with the intelligence of our whole body, from our innermost, that is sorely needed in our world today.

     1. Agreed and this wisdom is innate and lived by many kids… so does our education system actually ‘teach’ them away from this whole body intelligence?

516. It is so true that not any book can give to us what our bodies already know and can tell us in an instant. I find that most self-help or self-care books, although well intended, do not really fit in to my life. They can make great suggestions but these are never realistic or sustainable or generate genuine lasting change, they tend to be more of a distraction from what is really going on. The body, my body, however knows exactly what is going on and is telling me so all of the time and so it is only a case of am I willing to listen to it or to defer to another source that thinks it knows but actually does not – how could it? The well intended authors of the many books available simply do not know me or what challenges I face, whereas my body is living these all of the time and due to its immense wisdom, has all the answers – this is what I have learnt from Serge Benhayon.

517. “For most of my life I’ve held the intelligence of the mind as the marker of success” And what a transient intelligence this is, based on facts, figures and abstract theories that seem to exist somewhere outside of ourselves. When we tune into the quality of intelligence within our bodies, we connect to an inexhaustible well of wisdom that knows everything there is to know about the past, present and the future, a wisdom which does not seek to work in isolation or champion itself, but in unison with others as the power of one becomes multiplied exponentially when we open heartedly work with one another.

518. Are we a bit like Spiderman? We all have a sense we continually receive from our body about ourselves and the world around us! We just need to choose to connect to what it is telling us!

519. Michelle your blog is a beautiful read, it confirms what i feel and the amazing joy to allow my body and whole body intelligence to lead the way instead of my mind. The feeling of re-connecting and being connected, letting go of the tightness in my shoulders is something that I love to feel and it reminds me that I can always be living in this way. The quality I feel when I reconnect to me is more yummy and something far greater than anything on earth.

520. I love the feeling of the air in my lungs expanding my chest and lower rib area with the gentleness of the in-breath and the gentle release and sense of surrender with the out-breath. It brings more awareness of what is in disharmony in my daily living.
     “I often find myself focusing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath and then it is easy to feel when events of the day, such as driving my car or pressures at work, have affected this natural rhythm”.

521. “You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body.” – does this translate into how we are with moments in our day, absent from them because we are thinking of something else? If we are doing this in our 20s, 30s, 40s & 50s, is it any surprise that dementia rates are on the rise for people in their 60s+?

522. I love the honesty you have in your sharing Michelle and the real and practical ways of how connecting to whole body intelligence has supported you. There is a lot of understanding in this blog which makes it so relateable for others to connect with and then know another way is very much possible.

523. I have also found that connecting with my body gives me great marker of where I am actually at – and this is at times not so pleasant to feel even though I might appear cool, calm and collected on the outside. It is easy to run a marathon while sitting at a desk, the mind is good at whipping things up into a frenzy while the body is always there, steady, seeking homeostasis with all means available but under attack.

524. I agree, Brendan, society strongly encourages us to place the needs/demands of others above our own, but at what cost. When we dis-regard ourselves in this way, we loose touch with the essence of who we truly are, everything we do, say, think is missing our divinity and everyone looses out, big time. The answer, more self-care through re-connection with our bodies and listening to its innate wisdom.

525. ‘ Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence’. The breath is such an indicator of how connected we are to our steadiness and truth. Our breathing gets more rapid when we are in an emotional state, or we can find that we are holding our breath in tension. The very act of being aware of this and coming back to the gentle breath is a great stabiliser, clarifier and balancer, linking us back to our mainstay – our body and its intelligence.

     1. I agree Lyndy. Our breath is always with us and a perfect marker really to how we are feeling and how connected and surrendered we are. My breath and how much I allow myself to feel my breath is always a great reminder to bring more connection to myself and day or it’s a beautiful confirmation of how much I have held my natural connection in my day.

526. This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows’ – we know we are always feeling truth from our body, it cannot lie. Unlike our mind, which is frighteningly adept at rationalising and justifying whatever we think we need, our body communicates to us what we actually do need, what will support us to be more of who we truly are.

     1. And the fabulous thing is that our body always communicates to us in the exact way we need it to. Firstly with little signals that we can choose to listen to or ignore and override and then very big stop moments or signals if needed. Either way we are lovingly forced to feel the consequences of how we have been with ourselves so we can then make adjustments.

527. Like you Michelle, and no doubt the majority of humanity, “I was absent from my body,” for a huge part of my life. But my body wasn’t absent from me, it was always present, totally aware of what I was inflicting on it even when I wasn’t, and letting me know regularly that it was struggling. Unfortunately it used to take a huge stop sign from my body to bring my ignoring of it to a halt but by that stage there would be so much more to heal. Listening to my body and then acting on the its wise and truly intelligent messages has been one of the most life changing choices I have ever made.

528. It is so simple to use our breath as a way to reconnect with our body. Breathing is something we do automatically, like walking or sitting, and when we do any of these activities with full conscious presence, it enables us to feel our bodies at a deeper level than normal.

     1. It is in the detail Carmel. Our ability to bring our awareness and presence to the detail of what is already occurring in our bodies – like breathing.

529. Life is like a macabre game of rounders. The body is home base and the pranic consciousness will do anything to prevent us from getting there.

530. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence” – absolutely Michelle, from the breath, life and its quality, is.

     1. How we are in life is reflected in our breath.

531. I love the simplicity of what you share here and the depth of the opportunity it offers. Taking time to be aware of the connection we have with our bodies offers an honesty which leaves room for real and lasting change.

532. How we choose to move, treat and use our body enables us to connect to a greater divine multidimensional intelligence or not. Our minds alone does not connect us to this. It is through listening and connecting to our body’s intelligence that will truly support us and humanity.

533. Reading your blog Michelle I am struck by the fact that we are all inherently the same, and that the commonality is our divine qualities. And only through the sort of relationship with the body you describe, do we really get to feel them.

534. These are beautiful qualities you refer to Michelle that are always with us if we choose to connect to them.
     So for the choice of holding this awareness with intention or allowing distraction of mind to run in any and every direction which ultimately brings pain and exhaustion in to the body feels like it’s time to ask why would I offer myself the second choice?

535. I love connecting to the body’s true intelligence because it is no effort at all, it is all already there. When have tried to learn things in the past, my memory is poor or my recall of information can be slow. But all we have to do is connect to the intelligence of the body ad we have all the wisdom we need to know.

536. Whenever I choose disregard, I’m disconnected to my body. Only recently I’ve noticed that if I choose to come back to the (self) nurturing area in my body (just under my lungs), I come back to feel my own love and my worth again. It’s been a long, long time ago that I choose my body over my mind. There’s so much intelligence wanting to come through my body, but this is only possible when I’m connected to this love. What an intelligent and magnificent science. It leaves us completely and utterly free to choose, yet when we don’t choose the connection we are forever there after looking for the connection.

     1. What you say Floris make sense to me, what I have noticed is that we are so busy looking outside putting great store in the hands of others to tell us how we are doing and if we have got life right or wrong. Are we not giving our power away by not trusting that we have a knowing that comes from within; that we are all ready complete, we do not need any outside influence to judge us?

537. What you share is so true, Michelle. I have often sat doing something to the point of discomfort or numbness and only become aware when there is pain, and that is not very smart, and I would be considered ‘intelligent’ but that’s the thing our views of intelligence are completely lost as we support those who show great cleverness and talent but do not consider how they treat themselves and their bodies, even to the point of expressing shock later if some of them become ill. This is not smart and we have an epidemic of this as humans, all of us on varying degrees on this scale of elevating the mind and it’s intelligence over our whole body which makes no sense whatsoever. If we were to have the mind as just another part of our body and we worked with it, in how you describe here as one where we work in tandem, not that would be smart! And loving and this is the thing missing from most of our view of intelligence now, it lacks love, and if love is added to the mix then there is no way we can have the body suffer while the mind does it’s thing.

     1. Reading your comment Monica what also came to me is our body posture and how we hold our body during tasks. If we are sat at a computer we can hold our body in a way that is contracted and keeps us small or we can hold our body in a way that is expansive and allows love to freely flow through us. Movement and the way we move and hold ourselves is everything as I have beautifully learnt (and continue to learn) from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine 💕

538. “I know myself that I gave my body little attention when studying, as I would focus only on getting an assignment finished on time or getting good grades.” I know myself how important it is to know where my body is at now before i write anything- i too used to simply make it all about the mind, now i know the best and wisest form of thinking comes from a deeply rested body.

     1. It’s not just assignments that we focus on getting done, it’s literally everything. We are like race horses galloping towards a finishing line, a finishing line that keeps moving further and further away. What’s incredible is that once we let go of rushing through everything and start to focus on the quality of whatever it is that we are doing, then the imaginary finishing line dissolves and space starts to open up. We start to feel that it is the actual rushing itself that causes life to feel frantic and hemmed in and that once we change our pace, our experience of life also changes. Amazing, amazing stuff.

539. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.”- So true Michelle. In reconnecting to my body via the gentle breath my body reveals the state I’m in – whether I have tension in my shoulders, neck, across the chest – letting me know that I am out of my natural rhythm. In nominating how I feel, I then have a choice to move more gently, in connection with my whole body and the tension is then gone.

540. The body is intelligent however ideals and beliefs are working against this intelligence.

541. It takes a discipline to stay deeply connected with our bodies consistently. When we live inconsistently it can often feel quite disencouraging to connect with our body, because when we do we are always feeling and having to deal with the consequences of being disconnected. It is important for our healing in these moments to recognise that we create this ‘disencouragement’ through our choices.

     1. Great point Abby, very insightful.

     2. It takes a lot of strength as well, not psychical but energetic strength. It feels like training my body to hold that connection, as anyone trains psychically-at first it can’t be maintained for long but with repetition we can hold it for longer in a world that is completely geared to keep us maintaining the disconnected shape as it were.

542. ‘It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent? ‘absolutely – and also causes itself so much distress and anguish such to cause mental health to deteriorate – this is not true intelligence.

543. The hardest part for me is making the choice and connecting when I have lost it. It is a real skill and dedication to actually change your choices and I have found that can be very difficult. What I have found helps is the daily rhythms of life, walking, care taken in getting ready allowing the time for this to occur with out rush. Preparing for sleep and winding down, if I live like this then when I find myself reacting I am much more able to come back to my breath and body, but if i rely on it in isolation it doesn’t really change anything.

544. ‘In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power.’ – And hence they have a lot to ‘lose’ if they admit they got it wrong.

545. Sadly, knowledge is the most valued currency out in the world.

546. ‘reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body’ this is so simple and it’s accessible by each and everyone of us equally so. This is the beauty.

547. “I often find myself focussing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath and then it is easy to feel when events of the day, such as driving my car or pressures at work, have affected this natural rhythm.” This is something I am becoming more aware of. There are times when I can drive my car at a certain speed and it doesn’t affect my rhythm and other times especially when I am late or in a bit of anxiousness or aware of someone behind me in a hurry I can feel how there is a slight vibration in my body that is asking me to align with the rhythm of my body again, if I don’t usually there is a tractor or a slow moving vehicle that will force me to slow down and listen to my body again

548. I know what you mean here Michelle – I have often found myself stuck in a certain awkward posture with pain and fatigue in my body that I have not noticed before because I was so engrossed mentally in what I was doing at the time. Great question to ask is it really intelligent to be clever at the expense of our bodies?

549. Yes I agree, Michelle, that it is not always comfortable to feel what the body is actually telling us, and I have spent a lot of my life ignoring its messages. I can now see how I simply did not want to take responsibility for the choices I was making and the way that I was living, but it is actually very empowering to do so.

550. Just in this this one small part, a very ordinary thing, a tiny everyday example that most of us can recognise, highlighted for me how much of life is spent, globally, disconnected from our body: “eating while reading a book or watching TV, only noticing you’ve eaten too much and are feeling bloated when your plate is empty AND you haven’t even tasted the food.” Our body is our forever compass that knows how we feel and what is going on, it reconnects us to the reality we live and from there we can make the changes needed.

551. There is no comparison between the wisdom that comes from my body and the heady thoughts that come from my mind. My body knows truth.

552. I love this sense that true intelligence leaves nothing out. Intelligence is only truly intelligent when it is in consideration of everything and not neglectful of parts of who we are. Somehow when we accept this and honour it, we are able to tune in to a deeper sense of beingness, something that is much more balanced and harmonious with all things. It makes perfect sense that true intelligence is something that honours this harmony with all life and does not harm or negate any part in its wake.

553. We spend a lifetime of stuffing things in our heads! We have been told this the only way to get ahead and be successful! When this pursuit requires us to sacrifice the body! So, you wind up with a head full of stuff and a body that can’t do them!

554. It is through the connection to our body that we connect to the intelligence of the universe and it is through our connection to the mind that we connect to the limited intelligence of the human being.

555. ‘This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows’ – this has been a building practice in my life and although it is our natural way, it has been something over centuries we have become slowly separated from. As I re-connect to this natural way I have observed it has been a slow and gentle process as I regularly have to bring ‘stop’ moments in to support this return. The wisdom of the body is common to us all and the power of this feels amazing – the love, the care and honouring is something that the mind has not and can not ever emulate.

556. “I often find myself focussing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath and then it is easy to feel when events of the day, such as driving my car or pressures at work, have affected this natural rhythm.” Such a simple and very empowering way to return to our selves and become aware of how we are living, stupendously life changing in fact.

557. The intelligence of the body is so very important and most of us just simply override and ignore it to our own detriment. If we do choose to reconnect to the wisdom our bodies present we would save ourselves so much grief.

558. It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent? I do love this question that you pose Michelle, as it offers us something to ponder and and perhaps bring us to a stop point to check in with how our bodies are actually going when we are doing something. This stop moment, can make a huge difference to our next choice.

559. It can be as simple as a movement to adjust our posture that supports us to re-connect with our bodies and the vitality and clarity that we all equality have access to.

     1. It is amazing to understand how true intelligence works. We don’t own it, everyone has equal access to it and it is constantly available. It is multidimensional and it is through our body that we can access true intelligence at any time. The opposite of this is the intelligence of our minds, often claiming to own it and think it is the creator of intelligence, a version that is flat and restrictive.

560. For many years I lived from my head in disconnection from my body. Some years down the line, I now realise the folly of not listening to the greatest friend and teacher (my body) when it was asking me to do so. Through Esoteric Yoga I have been able to bring more awareness and conscious presence to my body, which continues to be very healing.

561. “…intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power…” yes, indeed this is a very misplaced idea. Knowledge not necessarily equates with truth for it only comes from the head whereas truth is heart-body felt knowing.

562. Your writing has a very tender quality Michelle. A quality that can only come from being in deep and tender connection with our body.

563. The simple act of choosing to stop, now, close my eyes and focus on my breath in my body highlights to me how easy it is to get caught up on what is in front of, or, all around me, rather than choosing to consider how my body is feeling on a deeper level. There is a difference between feeling that my body is ‘good’, because I can’t feel any pain, versus choosing to stop and be aware of the subtle nudges I am being given that will enable me to bring more tenderness in my day, preventing a sore arm or neck later on.

564. ‘In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power’ …. but at what cost? In our struggle to ‘do well’ in life, we can so easily leave ourselves behind, neglecting to take care of the very ‘vehicle’ that is trying to support us to take care of ourselves. Maybe we achieve enormous success and gain immense recognition in our field, but is it really worth it if it’s at the cost of our own health and well-being?

565. I’ve never been an academic however my mind still ruled the show, and still does if I let it, and so it isn’t just ‘mind intelligence’ that takes us away from what we are feeling in our body. Our mind can use anything – other people’s or our own life dramas, worrying, obsessing over something, perfection and even positive thinking and mindfulness – they all keep us stuck in our mind and not connected with our body.

     1. So true Sandra, academics are not the only masters of a mental fuelled life….

566. I agree Michelle with your sharing and the fact that the body knows we just have to trust it and listen.

567. These stop moments to connect and be present with our body do not necessarily mean we have to stand or sit still. We could be moving and still be connected to our body. It is about stopping the constant chatter in our mind and redirecting its focus to the body and bringing more awareness to our innate intelligence and the expansion this offers.

568. One can easily get focused on a task and override the body especially when studying or working on the computer. I used to set an alarm to remind me to pause, get up and stretch every half hour and I was amazed how fast the time could go sometimes. I realized that I often lost connection to my body and it did affect the quality of my work as it was coming just from my head trying to get it right instead of from the whole body intelligence.

569. ‘Everyone can connect, or reconnect, to the innate whole body intelligence, simply by making a choice to stop and become present with the body’ Michelle it’s great how you make it so simple and present the fact that we all are innately intelligent, we just need to reconnect to it and not allow the mind to override the natural wisdom housed in the body.

570. Our bodies know everything instantly, but our minds know how to over ride the body and with this the door opens for doubt to come in, the magic happens when we learn to trust our bodies more than our minds.

571. ‘I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so’ It is that simple and for some reason we avoid this. Is it about not taking responsibility because when we check out we are not aware of the energetic imprint we are leaving on the planet?

572. When I look around it is very revealing to observe the discomfort, pain and abuse people are inflicting on their bodies through lifestyle choices in their persuit of a so called ‘better’ life, and yet this could be achieved in a way that is far more loving and honouring of the body – choosing to reconnect to the beauty and stillness of their body.

573. When I over look the messages my body so very clearly gives me I am smashing myself, going against every fibre of my being – and it is never a good outcome!

     1. I really appreciate being able to listen to this communication more and more. Today when I look back I can see many times when my body was communicating with me but I was in too much of a race or drive or distraction to clearly feel these messages for what they were at that time.

574. If you consider that our body is in constant communication with us and the messages are coming thick and fast as they do, we have to ask our self what is stopping us from listening, responding and evolving at the same consistency as the messages are being given to us?

575. This is absolute wisdom Michelle. The whole body intelligence is far superior to the mind, and our movements verify this if we ever need proof. By stopping listening to the head, and simply taking a walk in connection or focussing on a certain movement with ourselves, we can completely alter the way we feel as the body communicates another way to be in itself.

     1. And it only has to start with one thing or small choices for it to grow and expand. For me I started with the gentle breath meditation ten years ago and from there I wanted more of that gentleness and connection in my body.

576. Michelle, you have nailed it here with understanding academia: “In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power. ” – Sadly this academic world does not tend to include the warmth and care of the heart. This is not to say that some don’t bring that in at all, but predominantly it is a cold hard environment to be in and it never asks of you to bring more than just the knowledge and the prestige. Having spent 11 plus years on University campuses studying various degrees, I have found academia to be like this, and so Michelle, I love what you present here about whole body intelligence – making it about the all and not just the head and the brain!

577. ‘I often find myself focussing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath and then it is easy to feel when events of the day, such as driving my car or pressures at work, have affected this natural rhythm.’

     Having read this the other day I took a walk and could feel my lungs and then my soles of my feet in my shoes and how I was walking. I felt how simple coming back to my body is and reflected on how I also avoid this. Why? because I can feel a tension from what I think the world around me is asking of me and the only way I can deliver what it asks is to abandon the beautiful connection with my body. But is this true?

     Much of my life I’ve handed my power over to what I thought was being asked of me (which has had health implications like feeling stressed and exhausted). I’m choosing more to stay connected with my body but know I can really go for it. The quality I bring when I am connected is just beautiful and the only way I get to feel this truth is by living it.

578. Our current ‘intelligence’ does seem to reward us when the body is under strain, discomfort or outright disregard. We get awarded degrees, certificates, medals etc even if we have put our body through intense times and hurt ourselves in some way or another. It would make more sense to gauge this form of study/sport etc and make sure that if we completed a degree or completed a race or what ever it is we are undertaking, that it was done with full care and consideration of the body and the being rather than just a focus on the finally physical outcome such as the thesis or the amount of time we clocked off on a race etc. How different would our world be then? How differently would we be asked to do things? There is an immediate accountability that we would have to look at – and then it would not be something that catches up with us years later, wondering why we get an ill condition or a disease later on in life…

579. What if we would all been taught from day 1 that our truth lives inside our body. That whenever we’re connected to our body, we’re actually connected to the Divinity that lives inside. Wouldn’t this change everything, wouldn’t this put our world upside down? Our body more intelligent than our mind… But fact is that this truth. There’s nothing more yummy to feel the love and intelligence inside of ourselves. And to me this makes perfect sense.

580. A big quote but I like it…..”I know when I allow myself time to stop, to breathe gently and to reconnect to my body, I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me. In feeling these qualities, I am inspired to move and act in a way that allows me to maintain them throughout my day, to the best of my ability.” This is why I keep holding the qualities that you express here…because they support me, they feel true and when I am away from this, it does not feel true. And so I keep coming back to it, again and again, I return to the foundation that I have built up…no perfection, but this truth I feel is something that I keep finding my home to, now that I have developed these qualities.

581. It is amazing the way the body becomes desensitize when we meet life through our heads chasing the ideals in need for recognition and identification that will give us that false sense of belonging when in truth true intelligence is that which is innate to us all and accessed through our connection and honoring of our bodies and allowing us to know our part in the whole universe.

     1. This desensitisation is a strong veil that stops us seemingly from feeling the depths of wisdom that lays within but once we begin to allow ourselves to stop and feel then we discover what is there to be reconnected to – a well of whole body intelligence and wisdom.

     2. We say we have a sense of belonging through the identification and recognition our brain registers but is it really a sense of belonging when that very same mind has thought of does that person like me, what do they think of me really etc etc. How did we fall for an intelligence that can be exposed at very turn?

582. When first reconnecting to the body the best start is gentleness as it has become so far removed from our society to be gentle, then if we allow ourselves to go deeper there is an inner stillness and harmony.

583. The ashes to ashes dust to dust feels so relevant as I read this blog as our body particles are from God and when we re-connect to those particles our body awareness becomes a connection to the divinity within. So taking this forever deepening awareness to the grave and beyond comes from our body so our next life can be free of this so called intelligence which is only the mind. Life before Serge Benhayon was only games to keep us fooled about who we truly are so as a Son of God from the particles of God I get and appreciate the depth of my responsibility to stay true to my last breath and beyond!

584. “It seems that pain and discomfort quickly bring us back to being present in our body.” I hadn’t really clocked this before but its absolutely true. If I overeat for example, in the act of overeating I am trying to dull out or numb something i do not want to feel, and in doing this I have to disconnect from my body and disregard its signals. But what I hadn’t appreciated until this moment is that despite being stuffed full and abused, my body will in the calm after the storm, when it can get a signal through to me again, will reconnect by showing the discomfort, the bloating, the effects of what I have done to myself, and it will not hold back a thing. I can choose t this point to go into self-loathing, ignoring once again the messages of love from my body, or I can take note, truly feel the consequences of my choices and commit to letting myself feel whatever it is I was trying not to feel in the first place.

585. This is such a beautiful invitation to re-connect back to the body – simply by reading what you share Michelle. And it is that simple if we allow ourselves to feel our breath, lungs, feet on the ground, shoulders etc. The body responds by showing us any tension that is held and then we can choose to let this go. Then staying connected with this quality is our next choice. The simplest part is if we miss a beat we just come back to our awareness of our connection, as it is always there waiting for us to pick-up where we left off.

586. If I give my body a chance there is a wealth of intelligence that it is constantly sharing. If I try to pretend my body is not there by distraction and numbing then the clarity is gone and I’m left with the fog that follows.

587. You say that your body is a much more supportive guide than any book – and I would agree. I was always looking for a program to tell me how to exercise, a diet plan that tells me how to eat, a magazine to tell me how to dress – but all the while my body was there letting me know what works and what does not. Rejecting the excercise that hurt me, showing me when food was no longer right for my body and even giving me pains when I wore shoes that were not comfortable. So all the while I have my very own amazing connection with my body and it is only depending the more and more I listen to it.

588. What becomes clear when reading your words is that it takes time and dedication to get to know our body and the more we allow ourselves to be present the more we will understand and discover about our body and be able to work with it/live in a way that truly is beneficial to our well-being and health.

589. Its only in recent year that I have started paying attention to my body and actually listen to its constant communications. Its well worth it as it has helped me deal with many issues and change the way I live. Yesterday was a very busy day for me, so this morning I allowed myself an extra couple of hours in bed and didn’t push to do what I had planned. I left my shopping trip for the afternoon. Its simple things like this that have made all the difference to me.

590. Yes Michelle, I too have re-discovered how truly intelligent the body is. By re-developing my relationship to my body, my relationship with every one and every thing has lifted.

     We have created a world that seems always to be beckoning us to disengage, disconnect and disregard the wisdom we each cary in the very cells of our body… a set up for disaster and disaster we have…

     … to come back out of such dis-harmony amongst ourselves and each other and rebuild our health on all levels we need only to begin by re-establishing a deep relationship with our body and therefor re-gain a relationship with all others as we are all made of the same stuff, molecules or Divine sparks which are endowed with the wisdom of how to live life as who we are together in a True way.

591. Most valuable answers come when I am not thinking about it but just let the question or issue at hand ‘cooking’, i.e. going along with what I am doing while allowing the topic to be ‘processed’ in my body; a very different intelligence than just mental reasoning.

592. It is great to read this just after working on my thesis for my degree in dentistry. It is so easy to feel like it is all about getting it perfect and finished rather sooner than later and getting trapped or hooked into the feeling of ‘can’t stop now to drink or move or do whatever’. It is true though that it only takes to focus on my breath and my posture, how I hold myself to change this feeling of not being able to move or stop.

593. ‘I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.’ – Intelligence indeed, today I am in constant awe about the communication my body offers – however it has not always been like that, in the past I was totally checked out from my body, I did anything I could to not feel it. Thanks to Serge Benhayon’s profound teachings I have discovered the great importance of being one with my body.

594. We can never have too many reminders to take care of and respect our bodies.

     1. Abby that’s so true, especially as we ignore most of the reminders that our bodies send us.

595. We’re so conditioned to ‘think’ that intelligence is about knowledge but what’s being discussed here is saying that true intelligence is actually in our body, and not in our mind. If our body knows that something is going to make it sick, it wouldn’t choose to have it and yet our mind conveniently forgets this and goes and has it. Who has to pay the price, our body through symptoms.

596. How intelligent is it to ignore one part of our being the body and only focus on the mind to provide solutions for things which were created by itself in the first place. Bring back the wisdom of the body in union with the mind.

597. Eating without conscious presence is something I’ve done a lot in my life. In the past I would eat to numb myself, nowadays I eat less, but am often thinking about something else while I’m eating, which means I am not fully nourishing myself with the food. I used to watch TV while I was eating, as a lot of people do, and it makes me wonder what are we absorbing from the TV.

     1. I completely agree Carmel – I wonder how much TV we would watch if we could really see what we absorb from it.

598. It always did confuse me that the so-called “most intelligent” of us were the ones who would smoke, drink, take drugs, abuse others…. It’s certainly not the sort of intelligence I would like to subscribe to!

     1. The form of intelligence our society celebrate is one that doesn’t seem to have much common sense and accepts self abuse as normal. But our body’s intelligence is the opposite. It constantly reminds us to be love and nothing less. Now this to me is true intelligence, choosing to return to love.

        1. That is universal intelligence you speak of Chan Ly.

     2. When I was younger I used to smoke, drink alcohol and eat in a very self-abusive way. I knew it was not intelligent and even abused myself further with self-critique for my harmful choices not understanding why I was making and so owned by them. Thank God for Serge Benhayon who showed me another way, a way that has freed me from these harmful choices and introduced me to true intelligence and a loving connection to the wisdom of my body.

        1. Amen to that Nicola!

599. Yes our bodies are amazing and incredibly responsive. For example sometimes I can just make a tiny movement such as relax my shoulders or change my position in my chair at work and suddenly I am more clear and have access to different thoughts and more vitality.

     1. So true Nicola I just read your comment, adjusted my posture and feel way more energised

600. Beautiful Michelle. An essential part of this picture is we need to be willing to listen to all that the body has to say. We might like this bit but not that, and like to select sections we prefer. But it simply doesn’t work this way – when we censor and pick apart we effectively shut the cover on the book of the body and the wisdom of what it has to say.

601. I have always been fascinated by the signals of the body, the constant communications that we can place on mute when we go into our head – and much like a radio, when we connect to the body it is like tuning into a channel and turning up the volume – everything is there to be felt.

602. I love reading about the simplicity of our breath and how it can bring us to a stronger awareness of our body. It is easy to do too much and put our body in stress, but I have found the more I focus on breathing gently the easier it becomes to not go beyond my limits.

603. It actually very very exposing reconnecting to the body and the breath and hence feeling the simplicity of its natural innate rhythm once again. It shows that no matter how much might our mind may have been exerting in its tasks, the intelligence is exposed when the quality of the body that results from these tasks is felt

604. Try as we may, we can’t ever erase the truth of who we are.

605. Our bodies holds the truth of who we are, which is why life is purposefully set up to constantly lead us away from them. The only way back to the truth of who we are is to dedicate ourselves to the body.

606. Michelle simply a stunning article written from the intelligence of your body and understood from the intelligence of my body. It’s when we communicate body to body that the truth be known.

607. A great question, Michelle, to be posed to any supposed intellectual who does not look after themselves – “what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent?”

608. The choice to reconnect to the wisdom of my body is always there, the question is why I still so often allow myself to let the connection go. Sitting at my computer at work I can get caught up in how much there is to do and resist my body’s messages to get up and move or even go to the toilet despite ‘knowing’ how supportive this is and how my productivity drops when I lose my connection. Observing how this unfolds and not beating myself up for being a slow learner is allowing me to make changes that build my connection with my body and my appreciation for its innate wisdom.

609. “… it is in this connection that the intelligence of the body is revealed.” And what immense intelligence it is, born from a multi-dimensional awareness that our little minds struggle to truly comprehend, our bodies are our very own walking, talking, feeling and astutely aware encyclopaedias.

610. “Connecting with our breath.. is a very loving form of intelligence.” One day they will teach this at schools. In some, under the inspiration of students of the Way of the Livingness, they already are.

611. ‘In the world of academia, intelligence is synonymous with knowledge and is linked to job security, prestige and power’ – This is very true Michelle, and what’s crazy is that this category of ‘intelligent’ individuals are the ones that are particularly good at reciting information, solving mental puzzles and understanding intellectual theories, but I could learn everything in the world there is to know and this wouldn’t necessarily support humanity to go anywhere

612. Whole body intelligence and connecting to the body is so very natural. If we look at toddlers and how aligned they are to this we can see that no effort is involved at all as they are so in the moment. Fast forward 40 something years and learning to undo the “intelligence” of the mind at the expense of the body is taking some doing! Because this is a daily and moment to moment reminder for me to come back to the body it exposes just how far away I have been living from what is truly natural, and the fact that this is news to most of us again exposes just what we have been accepting as normal, which in fact is alien and counter productive to our natural state of health and well being as a whole society.

613. Reading your blog Michelle, reminded me of a conversation I had recently with a client, they were telling me how they are encouraging their children to go to university to get a degree as this will ensure they get a secure well paid job with prospects. And this felt very cold and lifeless to me and I said so. Surely life is more than raising our children in such a way that they have good well paid jobs? But actually that seem to be just what we are doing, we are perpetuating a way of being that is so very far removed from who we are and what we are supposed to really be doing here on Earth.

614. “I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so.” this sounds so simple and it is however I used to spend so much time “escaping” my body, going into fantasy land that it takes me time to deepen my presence with myself again.

615. The Gentle Breath Meditation establishes a foundation for connection to the body’s intelligence.

616. It is easy to see how when the intelligence of the mind is held in such high regard, people who do not excel in these areas are seen as less, and we also see ourselves as less for not having the academic achievements. The words menial, labourer and manual worker, or plebeian (Pleb is often used to describe a person who appears to belong to the lower or middle classes of society), are typically used to describe the workforce who have not been high achievers at school, and who have taken to using their hands for a living.

     1. Hmmm I wonder who came up with these derogatory terms ??? The academics?

617. This has been and continues to be the most fundamental learning of my life; rebuilding that bridge of communication back to my body and honouring, with a deep commitment, the wisdom that it imparts. I still have along way to go.

618. Michelle, I am realising this too, ‘I have found that connecting to my body is as simple as making a choice to stop and do so’, lately I have been choosing to connect to my body much more, so when I am in conversation I am not in my head and rushing to say something, instead I am aware of how my body feels and I have noticed I am much more calm and aware of my body when I’m speaking, I have noticed at work that instead of getting caught up in rushing around, that I am staying with myself as I am moving, that I can feel the steps I am taking, this feels like a very simple, loving way to move and I have noticed that I am much more steady and do not get overwhelmed with tasks when I move in this way.

619. Oh so often I have sat and vexed over an issue or a task, thinking I haven’t got time to exercise, stretch or look after my body….only to then find when I do get up and move and walk and be with my body, the solution appears immediately! Chasing time is a fruitless task – creating space is the answer.

620. Eating ice cream! Did you ever have ice cream frozen so hard you could not fill a bowl? So, you would just get small little bits from the edge of the container and scrape the top a little at a time, shaving it. All of this while waiting for it to defrost so you could get a bowl full and at some point, you find half the container had vanished! When we are not in connection with ourselves, the question why we wanted the ice cream to start with, let alone why we eat half the tub never gets asked!

     1. I can so relate to what you are saying here Steve. I don’t know how many times I have done exactly that with a tub of ice-cream and only to spend the next few hour beating myself by allowing my mind to come in with all sorts of self abusive thoughts rather than stopping reconnecting and feeling the emptiness I was feeling in the first place and choosing to reconnect with the love I naturally am.

        1. And it’s this simple Margaret, thanks for the reminder….

621. I woke this morning and I didn’t need to think that I had overridden my body for the last two days and over did it at work as my body was letting me know. My body ached all over and looking back I realised how much I was in my head, the head that doesn’t take the poor old body’s wellbeing into consideration.

     1. What is gorgeous is however much we can kid ourself that we are doing great. There is no escaping our body. It either feels vital, harmonious, tender and open, or it doesn’t. And when we have really overridden all its subtle messages it becomes load and clear. If we don’t numb ourselves to it, it is our greatest marker of the quality we are choosing in life.

622. I speak as one who for years prided herself on the number of books on her shelves yet lived in a body empty of true intelligence,to one who has emptied her bookshelves (apart from twenty books) and draws from the natural intelligence of her body. And yes, information via the internet is accessible to all, but is not my first point of reference.

623. What you are talking about Michelle makes sense. Studying makes only sense when we also are connected to our bodies otherwise the mental energy of our so called intelligence can make us ill.

624. My own experience is that my body knows so much more and so much quicker than my mind what the next step is that I am astonished that I forget this for most of my life. And I can admit that my body knows how to flow and not how to function through life – how wonderful is that.

     1. I quite agree, Ester, it is quite remarkable that we can forget something that is so wonderful and which we all experience as a child. It is no wonder I felt so confused as a child endeavouring to fit into the world that did not accommodate this amazing way of being as the way to be.

625. One has to wonder what the ‘intelligence of the mind’ might conjure and craft in its pursuit of knowledge, when the body has been so deeply negated… There is so much knowledge at our fingertips in these times, yet is the way and quality in which we are living truly changing? Is it more loving? How is the quality of our relationships, our health, our well-being?
     It seems clear that we are not utilising the full intelligence – inclusive of that of the body – that is at our disposal, and most wise that we embark upon doing so. Great to read your blog on this Michelle, thank-you.

626. Love what you’ve shared here Michelle. That the simplest of choices to connect to our own breath, especially when we stay with this over time, can make a vast difference – to how we feel and our relationship with ourselves, our bodies and indeed everything that it is that we may ‘do’.
     We’ve become a society largely running around like a ‘chook with its head cut off’ – to use the Australian saying (!), bodies running on nervous energy, autopilot, propped up by sugar, caffeine… I agree in full, that it is a mark of true intelligence to actually listen (and then respond) to our own bodies, and not negate them, as has so often been the case.

627. The whole body intelligence is simply divine and one that does come a close second to the mind’s knowledge for society today. What is so great about the body is that it keeps chatting with us constantly and through its unwavering conversations we can begin to choose what feels supportive for our health and wellbeing or we can continue to ignore what it shares. The choice is ours and it’s as simple as a yes or no.

628. “To be honest, it’s not always pleasant to feel what’s happening in my body, but I’ve come to understand that any pain or discomfort is my body’s way of communicating to me that I’ve not been connected and, therefore, unaware of how absent or present I am in my daily life” – so true Michelle, and i recall as a student not ever wanting to stop deliberately rushing and moving myself quickly, speedily, or engrossed in completing a piece of work for hours, revising for exams – to not feel not just what was happening in my body, but also around me too, which got reinforced as i entered professional working life. In later years, slowing down to feel (myself, the quality of myself) was one of the best things i learned to do, because i got to see what was there as well as appreciate (myself) too.

629. “… I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books…” Yes, this is quite an empowering thing to notice, as i too have experienced how when you connect with your body, it informs you very clearly what choices work and what does not, very obviously, for example what foods leave you feeling bloated compared to foods that leave your gut feeling unaffected. A book may tell your head this info, but there’s nothing clearer than feeling the truth of it in your body.

     1. There is nothing clearer than the all-knowing of the body which is equally available to all when we take responsibility and choose to connect with it.

     2. Correct Johanne the book may tell us the same information but it is not likely to give us our exact tailored diet our body’s asking for and if it does it will be of new use when our body changes and requires different foods. So your point the body is the key is spot on.

630. A few years ago I would have thought I was always very body aware as far as the physical activities I used to be involved with. Exercise, dance, yoga etc, yet when I truly felt the effect some of these practices had on my body you could not really call them healthy or intelligent. The mind can be a trickster and override the subtler or not so subtle messages from the body. Through reconnecting with my body more deeply through Esoteric Yoga, I can now very clearly feel the constant communication from my body. I love the honesty of the body.

631. I clearly show how unintelligent I can be when I choose to ignore my greatest teacher, my body. When I do listen I feel harmony restore – no matter how jittery I may feel on the surface from disregarding, abusive choices like feasting on emotions.

     1. It is a stark reminder of how we treat ourselves as the dunce of the class when we are the only student in the room! Where else do we get one to one teaching, 24/7 free forever?

632. The mind can be a very hard taskmaster, yet the body in all is wisdom is lovingly reflecting the quality of our every choice 24/7. Each day I appreciate my body as I continue to learn to listen more intently and live in respect of you.

     1. Love the ‘you’ in this comment. A profound acknowledgement of the relationship – one that if we commit to in full will deliver more love than any other relationship in our life.

633. This blog conveys a lot of power given your background Michelle. It is amazing that one with so much experience of ‘intelligence’ in the temporal sense is able to see that a mind based approach does not work when the body is not considered and listened to.

     1. I agree Leonne, we can muster much temporal intelligence, and yet still pay greater respect and adherence to the intelligence inherent within the body, one that belongs to us and is not given or gained.

     2. It is quite amazing that we have schools that see it intelligent to simply teach math english science art etc without touching on brotherhood or love. No wonder bullying is growing in savagery, we teach our kids how to manipulate to get a desired outcome (this is required in all subjects if we look closely enough), without first teaching they are love first a foremost and the person sitting next to them and across from them is one of their many brothers in our family of humanity. Young children have this understanding yet school slowly erodes this. Simply because this system has been built by adults who have learnt to become number one, to protect oneself and to succeed and have forgotten that they to are part of our enormous family that doesn’t share a surname rather shares love.

634. No matter how hard we try to ignore our body and all its signals to us, it does get louder and louder until in my case, it stopped me and I couldn’t but listen. In hindsight, I should have listened a long time before but I am learning now, and pay a lot more attention than ever before.

635. We use the intellect to hide from the great love we instantly feel when living in connection with our body. We do this because there is a part of us that knows that the moment we allow ourselves to feel this almighty love, there is equally a responsibility to express this love in all that we do so that others receive the reflection that they are also of this great love. There is no love found in the mind alone, but the human mind when impulsed from the inner heart, has access to a far greater intelligence than that which we seek to hide in. This is what whole body intelligence is really about – complete transparency, zero hiding.

     1. Thank you Liane that helped me understand transparency… zero hiding, and if there is any justification for my hiding then I am already in my loveless mind, and disconnected from my body.

     2. Beautifully said Liane. Our whole body intelligence is that impulse from the heart that works with the mind and body together. Without the heart, without the body we are just letting the mind drag the body with it thinking it’s intelligent when in fact it is not even near the divine wisdom we can access. And it’s the body that suffers when we allow the intellect from the mind only to dominate.

     3. What can be better than total transparency. Giving too much influence to our mind has taken us down some very shoddy paths, the more that whole body intelligence is our way forward surely the better.

636. ‘I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.’ This is a very powerful statement, the body actually can show us how to live in life, with ourselves and others in a more harmonious way. When we ignore our body, we actually fight with it and this fight is taken to everything in our lives. As we are governed by our minds, we are ignoring our body that offers us so much, a marker in life.

     1. So true Karoline, when we fight our body’s intelligence and ignore the body the fight appears in our daily tensions i.e. the frustration we feel when driving- this frustration is really our body screaming it is missing connection to our innate intelligence within. Another example is the fights we have with our families, work colleges ect – once again these fights are the end result of the building of tension we feel, our innate intelligence is showing us the grind it feels in relationship with others thats replace the flowing connection of harmony we would naturally share with these people if we were connected to ourselves.

637. “Connecting with our breath is a great place to start to connect to the body and its very loving form of intelligence.” So true Michelle… I find when my body shouts loudly enough and I pay attention to its messages, my breathing has always become shallow and tense. To register changes in our breath and breathing when they first happen is a great tool to support our bodies from pain, discomfort, and the potential for illness and disease – for this is the path we head down if we ignore our body’s messages for long enough.

638. “These qualities are always present in my body,” such a simple truth that offers the universe if we but appreciate and allow ourselves to connect to this.

639. Our intelligence, or current form of intelligence should indeed be redefined for its natural and original meaning. And not the limited edition we have made it to be. Hence it requires honesty and observation to peel off anything that does not belong to true intelligence. Thank you for bringing this subject up.

640. The body’s intelligence never fools us or lies to us, it is there, waiting for us to connect to it and then gives us the answers. It couldn’t be more simple, but we can make things complicated by confusing the signals and listening to our noisy heads. Returning to the messages from the whole body intelligence is the way forwards.

641. “I know when I allow myself time to stop, to breathe gently and to reconnect to my body, I have rediscovered a deep stillness, warmth, delicateness, loveliness, lightness and vitality within me.” – and this is always there, it just takes us to stop and come back to our natural breath.

642. Brilliant blog Michelle. Awesome timing for me to read this because I have been working on my computer for long periods. I noticed how my body felt after awhile and tried to correct my posture to support the rest of my body but I also noticed how quickly I lose connection to my body once my mind is focusing on the task. I find it super supportive to be reading this. I realise how important it is to stay connected to my body as much as possible to avoid injuries and also it increases the quality of my work and how I feel.

643. I loved this it was a gentle reminder of how I can let the momentum of the day affect me. ‘I often find myself focussing on feeling my lungs as they move gently with my breath and then it is easy to feel when events of the day, such as driving my car or pressures at work, have affected this natural rhythm’

644. Once I make the choice to connect the actual connection part is very quick and I am always blown away by how different I feel after simply one or two breaths!

645. Sometimes it can be so hard to stay connected with the body because we get to feel so many unpleasant things – no one likes to feel grief, sadness, anger, frustration, tension, irritation, annoyance or anxiety etc. But in my experience I have had to sift through these emotions in order to feel my own deeper connection with my essence. It has taken a long time to develop that connection and build that relationship back with my essence, with my Soul, and there are still many a times when I get fooled by other energies that mascarade as the Soul…but with practice, it is getting easier to know which is which and stay true to our original impulse, our essence, the Soul. For me it is not about perfection and about staying in that connection with Soul constantly, for this is near impossibly in our current world. However, the ‘trick’ for me is in practicing and noticing when I have dropped away from this connection, and then with this awareness, making constantly the choice to re-turn. Time and time again, moment and moment again, life time after life time again. Strengthening this relationship till I know I stand next to the Soul and take each step in line with a true life as a Son of God. This is whole body intelligence – for the Soul encompasses the all, our physical body as well as the mind and holds self and all others equal in importance, care and deep deep respect.

646. It’s true, we can connect at any time. I have noticed there are times when I am completely disconnected and then I’m reminded I can change that in that very moment…and then I don’t. It’s so very clear how aware I am of not wanting to feel what I’ve actually done to my body by disregarding it, and so I will sometimes continue to ignore it, and essentially take it for granted and let it just get on with it’s job. It’s actually pretty awful, neglecting it in that way. Or another good excuse is that I will stop and connect to it ‘when’ I have more time, or when this happens or that happens. Crazy really…because I’m just further adding to the dis-ease as opposed to checking in and dealing with what’s there straight away rather than allowing a banking up of stuff.

647. Honesty is a great start to connect and become aware of the whole body and its intelligence. It is a simple choice to feel and know what is going on in your body. Every time you do it offers the potential for others to make that choice also.

648. Michelle, I can connect to so much of what you have shared here – I have done lots of University study and in the process have spent hours upon hours on a chair and compromising the comfort and the wellbeing of my body by neglecting proper posture and movement, neglecting proper eating and hydration and even sleep. All this in the name of intelligence? Knowledge gained that can be shown on a piece of paper? I know that in today’s world degrees and certificates do hold an importance, but I too question the means we use to obtain these certificates and degrees, and why we do it in a way that undermines the intelligence of the body itself.

649. I love the term ‘whole body intelligence’. It is true that it is the ‘knowledge’ or level of achievement one can attest to that gains attention but when investigated there is a reaction happening within the body to the pursuits this required. The response from the body shows us how we have lived in denial of our body and also how we can use it as a dump spot for what we don’t want to take responsibility for. Living from the ‘whole body intelligence’ brings awareness of the quality of the choices we make and as the symptoms experienced in the body speak to us we are called to a stop. The more I invite ‘stops’ in my life the more my appreciation and awe of the wisdom of the body grows.

650. In the past I ignored almost everything, well probably everything my body showed me, Along with this disregard and self abusive behaviours I was left feeling unwell most of the time and eventually just accepting this must be how life is. However once I started the gentle breath Meditation I discovered a body that is feeling and sending messages to me ALL the time. Whether I listen is a choice but the more I live in connection with my body the harder it becomes to overide the messages. Just writing about the way life was and how it is now shows me how whole body intelligence is actually what intelligence is.

651. I can relate to so much that you’ve shared here Michelle. I too now take the time to stop and feel my body, the breath through my lungs just as one example. When I connect with my body in these simple ways i cannot but feel its preciousness and delicateness – qualities I know I want to cherish and honour because these qualities are also of me – as they are of everyone else.

     In times past I would push through and override all the signs my body would scream at me – and i still need to watch how that will creep in now.

     We have not nurtured the intelligence we all equally have within – rather we have championed an intelligence that comes from the mind alone and that can never be equalising or harmonising because it always seeks to better itself by being the best — and this is what our society thrives off, very sadly so.

652. Very true Doug The Livingness as is portrayed in the http://www.unimedliving.com web sight has been a definite game changer for me and has so many life changing perspectives it will one day be the go to for any information on every topic!

     1. Truth is difficult to find and to discover so much truth in one place is definitely a gift from God.

653. The Universal Medicine teachings are constantly and forever reminding me of the innate wisdom that lives within me, which has no limits. Choosing to be guided by this intelligence in every day life is the greatest of gifts I can give myself.

654. “This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows.”

     Beautifully said. There’s a knowingness in the body, a connection to the absolute truth and ‘the all’. I’ve learnt (and am still learning) that my body’s my one and only instrument that I can truly rely on. Not just at work, but also everywhere I go and whatever I do. There’s a grace and spaciousness within that eternally offers us moments to choose more of the Love we already are.

655. Having this true understanding of how the body has always been sending me messages and I would override them with my mind or so called intelligence that never served all of me. Finding all of me has been a life long search with me asking many questions that all came from my so called intelligence and the truth about life was only revealed to me when I found the teaching by Serge Benhayon. Now I listen to my body to the best of my ability so that I can truly evolve which is me reconnecting to being a humble student of life then as a reflection others also can feel there is a different way.
     The Way of The Livingness is delivering an unprecedented focus on body awareness with an open transparency that is so tangible because healing only transpires from an openness to express the truth.

656. Thanks, Michelle, I couldn’t agree more. Whole body intelligence is such a far cry from the rationalising, controlling, measuring mind, and once we re-connect to the constant feedback system of the body we are reminded of how natural it is to live and love in this way.

657. I find that in moving my body it can be done as one whole body or in separate parts which is like the difference between spirit and soul – a choice to be made at every moment of the day.

658. How true is this for us at the moment – “It seems that pain and discomfort quickly bring us back to being present in our body.” It is like the only time we are with our body when it is almost shouting at us, like we can no longer ignore what it is sharing with us. What I love that you are offering is another way to be with the body, to listen to the wisdom it is sharing so quietly and adjust ourselves accordingly and not have to wait until the pain and discomfort is there.

659. In my experience after a while being connected to the body becomes the norm – only in exceptional times do I need to consciously come back to the body.

660. Sometimes connecting to my body is the last thing I think about when the day is in full swing. But just a few moments to check in can make all the difference to the quality and the outcome of the day. The more I do this the more I remember to do it. It then starts to feel like a normal way of living.

661. I find connecting to my breath feels very nurturing, it supports me to get out of my head and back to my body. When I’m in my body what is needed then has a flow.

662. An intelligence that is in ignorance of the body is in separation to the whole it belongs to like (a mind located in) the head from the body. In separation we can harm ourselves or others without even being fully aware of it, although the body cannot but register and reflect it.

663. What sits in a tiny space really, at the top of our heads should have no greater accentuation or credence than any other part of the body. None of the parts would work without any of the other parts after all. Knowing this brings us back to the simplest understanding of equality. If this is known and understood in our body, should this not prepare us for knowing the same with our brothers, animal and plant life equally? It all matters and none of it can work in its true divine design and order without any other part. What would life look like with all working together in equalness, in harmony and unison?

664. Reading your words Michelle confirms for me that you truly feel that your body is your temple; the respect and honouring in your expression is heart-warming. Thank you. ❤

665. On a walk with a friend they brought up the fact that I walk with slightly turned in feet – only a little, but still noticeable. They gave me a technique to focus on how I put my feet down, from heel to the ball of the foot, evenly and with awareness and I found instantly the arches of my feet felt higher and my feet where naturally not turning inwards – amazing what some connection to the body can do.

666. The body is super intelligent and always and forever ready to enhouse the essence of who we are. But we are quite often resisting letting that essence out into our bodies, and we do all sorts of silly things like putting things into the body that will retard that process.

667. Beautifully expressed the intelligence of our body in such a simple way. Bringing it back to basics rather than getting lost in jargon of modern intelligence. Life feels wholesome when we start feeling our body as marker of truth.

668. A forever learning or a forever returning to how our bodies feel. It would seem at times everything is against this or in a way every thought avoids this but when you look at the size of our body comparable to everything else as a human being it would make sense to give our body more of the say, if not for the only reason of size alone. As the article is saying where are we when after a period of time we can feel exhausted, injured or ill and then realised we shouldn’t have done what we did. Most of the time only to get better and go back and do another version of the same thing hoping to get away with it this time. It’s a funny world we live and the ideals we place on ourselves no matter what the age or what is going on around us. It would seem we are always playing things small, like not listening to our body when it comes to things because of it’s size. Take this then to the world and people around us, it would make sense again to connect or stay connected to everything around you, well because it’s everything. Yet we go off and do what ‘we’ need to do and then again at some point awake to find ourselves standing in a place we don’t really want to be in or don’t really like. There is always a deeper and bigger connection to have with everything around us. The world is constantly turning and so in that life is always changing and it makes sense to always connect.

669. What you write here Michelle makes so much sense, we can have PHD’s and achedmic qualifications coming out of our ears yet if we have not listened and honoured the body then what’s the point? It is never worth pursuing knowledge at the expense of the body.

670. When we use our mind to be aware of our body and connect with our innate whole body intelligence we connect with an intelligence that is universal – considering of everyone and everything equally, something that I would call truly intelligent for sure. Rather than seeing it as mind versus body the question that I ask myself is what source or quality of intelligence am I connecting my mind with…

671. So beautifully simple, thank you Michelle. When the aches and pains, be them physical or emotional arise I have, and still do, use the mind to purposefully run away from that awareness. But I’ve learnt that this does not make the pain go away, only when I stay with my body, stay with that pain and not in the craziness of the mind saying what the pain is but feeling what it is, then it starts to fade away and I return to that warmth and loveliness you mention.

     1. And I should mention, in the feeling of it, when I voice and describe the pain out loud, be it to myself or with the support of another, it releases it from my body almost instantly. It’s like my voice helps clear it out and allows me to return to that lovely connection.

672. Very true Michelle, my reconnection with my body all started with connecting with my breath and this is what brought back my knowing about how to care for my body and although I do not always listen, I do come back time after time to this whole body intelligence.

673. ‘Our body is in constant communication with us, however we tend to ignore it at the expense of our own health and well-being.’ There is no greater joy than connecting to our bodies and listening to it.

674. I love the simplicity in which you reveal how to connect to the intelligence of the body Michelle. Our bodies do indeed tell us far more than any book what supports us to be vital and healthy in all aspects of life.

675. ‘You could say I was absent from my body, paying little or no attention to any physical sensations or signs from my body.’ – What you have described in this one simple sentence Michelle, feels to me like a symbol of the modern day plague – most people are not present in their bodies, i.e. they have no true awareness of their body in what they are doing, and every movement or every desicion is made from the mind.

676. I have overridden my bodies communication due to studies and getting things done. I have also pushed my body physically very hard. None of which is enjoyable. But the very beautiful thing is how honest our body is. It is always honest, without any doubt, it never holds back. How we read these messages however is what counts.

677. It is the stop that is needed in order to be able to feel what our body is saying. A body that is racy with stimulants or a mind that chatters constantly doesn’t allow us to feel what our body is saying. The stop is the start in this.

678. “It has to be asked though, what kind of intelligence is OK with allowing the body to reach such a state of discomfort, pain and disharmony? Is that really intelligent?” this is a stand out line for me, and reminds me of a family photo I saw recently where all these super intelligent people doctors, lawyers, architects were very overweight and unhealthy, what intelligence is that?

679. I have found one of the best ways to connect to my body is to stop poisoning it with emotions, reactions and food that does not support. Then we are both more clear and so is our communication with each other and everyone else.

680. Intelligence was made to be “the highest faculty of the mind” only in the XIV century. Prior to that, it was used in the sense of intelligentem (nominative intelligens) “discerning, appreciative.” If this is so, intelligence is very much related to movement; with a specific way of movement, one that is able to discern energy and move into the appreciation of what it brings our way. Intelligence can only be a whole body way of moving.

681. When I connect to my body I feel so much. At first I did not like this at all – I felt uncomfortable and it was easier not to feel anything – I felt like I wanted to keep moving all the time and wriggling about. Sometimes I still feel that. But I know this is my body bringing to my attention how I have been living – how I have been pushing myself and not settling. It is truly a beautiful marker to know when the body is calling me to surrender and feel everything and bring a stillness to my movements.

682. “What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.” I can so relate to this Michelle. And I also used to wonder how someone else told me how to feel, or that they knew how I was feeling. How could they, if they weren’t me?! The fact is that we all feel everything, it is simply a matter of whether we are choosing to feel or not, and this is the key to unlocking the wisdom that lies within us all, and then to share it with whoever we meet.

683. I often feel like we talk about our body as something separate to us, without tenderness.

     1. Very true Gyl because we like to get a-head of ourselves, literally (!) and in so doing, leave our body and what it is communicating behind. Yet another clever trick on the human spirit’s behalf to ignore the divinity it has chosen to withdraw from.

        1. If I was honestly to talk about my body just now it’s exhausted. But there’s something deeper a pulse – and I don’t mean the one in my wrist or my neck.

684. Thanks for the reminder Michelle that connecting to the body is really simple and doesn’t take a long time. When I’m in the spin of trying to ‘get things done’, it doesn’t feel good but the momentum is so strong that I’ll find excuses to keep it going, and tell myself ‘I don’t have time’ to stop and reconnect to my body. We are always only ever a simple choice away from stopping and reconnecting.

685. Intelligence is a powerful thing. When we are invested in the intelligence of our minds, we will literally resist if not completely deny that the body could ever have any intelligence at all. We would not even be open to hearing its truth. Yet when we surrender, let go of the control and the investment in self and the mind, we open up to our body and the intelligence it shares which is natural, common sense and very simple anyway.

686. This is just gorgeous. The simplicity is divine. This is all we need to do to live a life of true intelligence.

687. I can relate to being absent from my body, I could feel I dragged it around, looking at who I was retrospectively…I am deeply body aware now, but have so much more life and being aware of, it is a process. I work in massage and much of the tension and harness I observe in peoples bodies, comes from a momentum in life, of how they lead from the head, and embody issues that have been percolating in the head. It’s astonishing how much this impacts on posture…something to really look at and research I feel.

688. Since I have been a student of The Way of The Livingness presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have much more awareness and connection with my body and all its communication with me, and have come to appreciate the whole body intelligence and just how much it truly supports me in all my activities throughout the day.

689. Thank you Michelle. The greatest support, I find in this area is in the courses, and retreats with Universal Medicine. The Retreat in Vietnam is awesome at bringing us to a new level of connection to our body and it’s delicate yet infinite wisdom. It is not something we ‘get’ and can’ forget’ for it takes the kind of awareness and continual connection of which you speak in order for us to make this way of living our daily experience and to feel the evolution that it offers.

690. Since I have been a student of The Way of The Lvingness presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have much more awareness and connection with my body and all its communication with me, and have come to appreciate the whole body intelligence and just how much it truly supports me in all my activities throughout the day.

691. Intelligence only truly works for us if it is impulsed by the soul, connected to the divine and supported by a harmonious and congruent body. Anything else is simply the outpouring of a force that drives the mind – which then pushes the disconnected body and has nothing to do with the divine or the soul.

     1. And, Victoria, we could say that the intelligence of the Soul encompasses the wellbeing of the body as well as everything else. What more can we ask for? I love how you have used the words ‘harmonious and congruent’ for the body!

692. Beautiful Michelle, thank you. I was at a Gentle Breath Meditation Group last night and we had a discussion about peace and harmony. Peace we concluded was a mental state but one of the participants had felt something deeper, something that was inclusive of the whole body. We decided as a group that this was in fact harmony – harmony being inclusive of the whole body and mind together. We then discussed further how this harmonious state is not just confined to the body, but can be felt in the energy surrounding us too. Once we have connected to harmony within, we have access to this whole body intelligence – something that is felt not thought about – full of feeling, not mental constructs. As you share, it is a very different form of intelligence.

693. I’ve spent similar countless hours hunched over books and computers. And as research student I’ve seen both staff and students crash and burn – often quite critically. There is a stubborn insistence that mind-driven intelligence is the epitome of human endeavour yet those who exalt it fail to count the costs to human health.

     1. Yes, the idea that effort and understanding are directly related goes very deep.

     2. Me too Victoria, I would sit for for hours pouring over books studying for assignments and exams totally disregarding my body. And we can do the same with computers to. We could ask ourselves how intelligent is it to spend most of our days seated on our bottoms, hours on end rather than standing, moving, walking, exercising, doing physical tasks around house, garden or community. A doctor recently suggested we rename type 2 diabetes “walking deficiency syndrome’ as it is caused by the modern environment and sedentary lifestyle.

694. I’m with you on this, Michelle. All it takes to connect to the body is a few breaths or as I sometimes choose, a short walk. All is then clear. Admittedly, there are times when I know what I feel but still choose to go with my eyes/head, but I do not lose sight of the fact that I connected. What I’m saying is that I’m not perfect at listening to my body, but I’m still fully aware of what it’s saying to me.

695. Our body IS our intelligence; it teaches us everything we know about life, relationships and the world because it responds and reacts to it all. We feel things on so many different levels that we take for granted, thinking that we are thinking and that our intelligence comes from the mind, when actually it comes from recognising and feeling how things move, interact with each other and then with us too, and what’s really going on/driving this behind the scenes.

696. You have asked some pertinent questions about an intelligence that will allow us to disregard the one and only body we have. Having spent decades being focused on the intelligence of the mind and now bringing attention to the intelligence of the body, I know without a doubt which one feels better and has me living in a more harmonious way.

697. I can relate to what you are sharing with us Michelle I drive a lot around the country, up and down the motorways and sometimes after a long drive I can feel that I have driven in a way that my body feels tense and braced and there is a underlying shake to my body. And that’s when sitting quietly in the car and just allowing the body to come back to it’s natural rhythm is so important and bringing focus to my breath is the first step to support myself to reconnect back to the stillness within. I like to get to my appointments early so I have that time to be with me and this makes all the difference to the meetings I have that day.

698. Michelle this is a straightforward, simple and practical blog and the opening paragraph really shares a ‘how to’ re-connect and access the intelligence of the body. A great read to start my day and supportive blog for all who would like to feel ‘whole body intelligence’. Thank you

699. I go for a walk most mornings and the way I start is to focus on my breath. I find this a great way to start connecting with my body. Sometimes my breathing is easy and the air feels like silk passing into my lungs; at other times my breath is short and laboured and my chest feels tight. This is one way that I check in with how I am feeling and it’s a great indicator of how I have been with myself in the lead up to my walk. Maybe I’ve eaten the wrong food, or eaten too much, or maybe I’m tired or anxious about something. These days I want to know why and make adjustments so there is a feeling of harmony again.

700. Connecting to the body is a hugely important step in starting to reconnect to our true sense of being. However, it is only a first step. The most important part of this first step is not to place any expectations on what you might feel, or you risk developing a dishonest relationship from the beginning. Thus, at first, it is not always pleasant. This was my experience, and why it is often hard to stay connected to the body in the beginning. After all, who wants to feel their anxiety, or grief, or emotional tensions with the world. This is what is at the core of the beginning of the esoteric way, or Way of The Livingness, and without first developing this connection with the body, it is impossible to feel the fact of energy, and thus be able to discern the Fire of your Soul, from what is otherwise referred to as pranic life-force, which is the life-force of physicality. On that note, this teaching has been bastardised by detractors who do not understand the true teaching of the Ageless Wisdom. Prana, or the life force that gives things physicality, is not evil. It is just that it is not our highest form of expression, which is actually the energy of fire. The Way of The Livingness in summary is about learning to discern the energetic roots of all life, and thus learn to feel the fact that there is a difference between our true divine state known as fire, and the world of prana of which we are equally a part of. It is about living in a certain way, and with a certain discipline that allows your natural sensitivity to flourish to the point where the fact of fire can actually be felt in the body. But before that point can be reached, the very first stepping stone of The Way of The Livingness is to learn to reconnect to the body, and be willing to feel whatever state it may be in, even if it is totally disharmonious. Without that hugely important foundation, it is too easy to be fooled by the many illusions that await the initially spiritual initiate.

     1. Adam, your comment is like a mini blog. I love the way to express with wisdom and true intelligence. Very inspiring.

     2. Beautifully expressed Adam. A very important detail to make clear for all taking the step to reconnect to feeling the body. Thank you for explaining this all so clearly so that all may come safely held along the ‘way’.

     3. ‘the very first stepping stone of The Way of The Livingness is to learn to reconnect to the body, and be willing to feel whatever state it may be in, even if it is totally disharmonious’. Adam I can relate to this. I know for myself a degree of arrogance held be back and until I faced the immense discomfort and hurt I felt I was unable to move forward. And as you say it is foundational to do so if we are to deeply connect with soul.

701. There is nothing lovelier than to feels ones own breath, lungs moving and the body letting go. The stillness that results brings a fullness and steadiness.

702. Michelle, gorgeous, thank you, ‘What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books.’ This is also my experience, for many years I read about nutrition and the ‘best’ things to eat, I lost too much weight and could hardly walk at one point, this taught me that in books there are many different ideas about what true nutrition is and that following all of them does not work. In the end I found that the only diet that worked was me listening to my body and noticing what foods worked and did not work – I discovered that my body knew exactly what to eat and when and how much and that I did not need to follow anyone else’s ideas on this, a big learning for me.

703. Indeed – just by choosing to connect to our body, feeling into what is there, so much gets revealed. So simple and amazing, yet so normal. There is so much more that is available to us than what we can fathom. We are so much more than this.

704. We have constant access to our body’s intelligence if we but choose to be aware. Having spent years overriding its communication it is sometimes uncomfortable to feel the reality of the choices I have made and the impact on my body but the more I choose to re-connect the more harmonious my life becomes.

705. I am finding the more I connect to my body the more aware I become of my ‘oops’ moments! I go to work and have my morning rhythm. Then on the days that half way to work I realise I have forgotten some small item… like my VDU glasses, and at that point I just have to go back to why I allowed my rhythm to be affected. In the past I would have just been a short expletive to myself and carried on. The mind doesn’t matter when we feel from our heart.

706. Thank you Michelle. Learning to take that moment to connect to the quality of our breath is both life changing and very painful at the same time, because when we finally stop to feel our bodies, we often find that they have been crying out for our attention for a long time and hence we have work to do to restore harmony to ourselves. However, it is well worth pursuing because the more we do tune into this inexhaustible well of bodily intelligence and pay attention to it, the more it guides us towards a true way of life, one lived in honour of ourselves and one another that cannot help but restore true values to our societies and our connection to a vast wealth of Universal wisdom previously unimagined.

707. Thank you for the sharing the simplicity of connecting back to our body. You’re absolutely true to say there is more intelligence in connecting to the body than the mind. That speaks loader than words, communicating through feelings and physical symptoms. When we stop to listen we can feel and hear what it has to say, when we ignore those signs the physical symptoms show up.

708. Michelle I love reading blogs about whole body and body intelligence, for me they really help my body settle and feel at ease. The pressure to “be” intelligent, to get things right starts to fade and the power and strength of living the truth I feel comes forward. It is a slow and steady process but one that reminds me of honouring all the feelings I had as a kid.

709. Honouring and living guided by the body’s intelligence is what children naturally do and hence learning as an adult to do so we are, in fact, returning to our true way of being. Therefore we are not learning a new way of being but re-learning an old, forgotten one

710. So true Michelle, our physical body is an ever present, ever loving parent letting us know if we are learning the lessons of living in harmony with the natural rhythm of our being.

711. It is definitely time for us as a society to question what true intelligence is if we can have so called very intelligent people do things that are very harming for the body. The moment we connect with our body a different sort of intelligent can be felt, a wisdom that is available to all of us. It is interesting how so many religions deny the body or see the body as less when it is our body that holds a wisdom that can truly support us.

     1. So true Elizabeth religions even hand out crackers as being the body of some type of deity representing a body and to then drink wine in some other bizarre ritual all in the name of being religious? I remember feeling that I was coming of age as this became something that was only a confirming of what was in the mind and never about truly connecting with our body and thus with a full body connection allowing the divine intelligence of God to be felt in our body.
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712. Great blog, It’s so good to read so much about the bodies intelligence as for to long we have let the mind run things and the minds so easily tricked or buys into something but the body just is and it can’t be fooled and will let us know when things are not right.

713. I loved reading this Michelle. It is great to ponder on the fact of why we would ignore our bodies and just focus on using our minds because we need our body to live. So it is important to take care of it. Plus when the body is cared for and relaxed it can do much more. I find with studying often I have to stop when my body gets too tensed, I can’t work with my mind anymore!

714. When I allow myself to connect to that inner knowing, the intelligence within which I often experience as a stillness, then I feel I do connect to my body that simply knows but also allows me to make my own choices which in turn could be not that intelligent as what my body is presenting to me.

715. It’s amazing that our body has its own intelligence and all of the systems have their own form of intelligence – like the lymphatic system, the cardiovascular system, the endocrine system etc. this is intrinsically connected with how we experience life through science, relationships and activity – and there is a natural flow which we are and going against this flow goes against the body and it’s systems.

716. Beautifully expressed Michelle. I too have been in my head for most of my life, only connecting with my body through accident or illness and majorly taking it for granted. Through the Universal Medicine presentations I have found a new respect and honouring of my body and its particles; its subtle ( and sometimes not-so subtle) messages. It now feels really beautiful to stay present and connected with my body as I breathe, walk, and generally go about my day. No perfection, but I can now bring myself back when I wander off down the rabbit holes of my mind.

717. When we honour our body and not let it come second, or at all, after the mind all that what we need/want to learn comes more easily to us, we spent less time exhausting ourselves and living far more effectively.

     1. Great point Esther. I am currently practising mind-fullness as I am fully aware that I am not honouring my body as I should, because I suddenly become aware that my mind has been wandering and I have no idea what I have just done. As a result I am now using my eyes as a tool: no matter what I am doing (whilst i remember!) I am putting my total attention to my hands; I have permitted my eyes to follow every movement from my hands, because most of what we do is with our hands. Obviously there are times when prudence allows my eyes to actually focus on what my hands are doing or holding, but I find an easy exercise is to just watch my hands as I wash them! I can now feel the muscles beginning to ache behind my eyes as they are being used so much more. I am also beginning to see more, paying greater attention. Very small steps, but I am more mind-ful than I was! 🙂

718. This is a very common testimonial that the mind can make unloving choices, but the body cannot. Whenever my body feels stressed about something, my mind would frequently come up with a recurrent message: to further not respect my body, that is, to ignore it or to not bother with it, don’t eat, but to continue to indulge in thinking how I could get myself out of this stressful situation, usually from berating myself further. This message from the mind is obviously not loving, since how can alienating the body when it is suffering ever be from love and from care? Therefore, in such situations I would choose to go back to the body and to care for it deeply. Sometimes I don’t even know where to begin, as the body is simply in disharmony overall, but still I would tend to it just like I would a baby. I would let it know it is safe, I will keep it warm, rested, nourished, hold and hug myself and be very gentle, I would talk to my body and I would listen back. Keeping this routine, the thoughts from my mind that could be harsh or judgemental start to change and I feel the natural joy of myself returning.

719. It is quite ludicrous to think that we have a body that has all the wisdom we could possibly want and on the whole we choose to abuse it and/or ignore what it is telling us. Like having some-one following us around every where,constantly telling us all the answers to life and us ignoring the stream of messages.

720. Two things I noticed today: (1) working on my laptop on my lap – my head is down, I tend to slump, and end up with backache and rounded back and that widow’s hump at my neck. Often I get an itch somewhere in my stomach – nothing is there, just this itch. And sometimes my right kidney hurts, but that may be because I am trying to please or impress somebody while I’m typing. (2) This morning I ate something that was pure indulgence – it tasted yummy and my mouth loved it but I instantly had a rotten stomach ache and had to go and lie down and fell asleep for over an hour. Some reaction!

721. I love the way you offer such practical steps on how to start a conversation with our body – with the breath, allowing ourselves to stop and connect to how are bodies are truly feeling. Once we start to feel and listen to our incredibly loving impulses, it really begs the question, why have we all allowed ourselves to be tricked into thinking that our minds hold all the answers. In truth, re-connecting with our whole body intelligence, we can feel that the wisdom available to us is infinite; it’s all around us. There is no beginning and no end.

722. ‘This is an intelligence that inspires a deep love, care and honouring of myself, my body and others through a way of living that honours what the body knows before what the mind knows’ …. thank you for the gorgeous reminder, Michelle, that our bodies are all sharing incredible wisdom with us, constantly. It’s our choice to stop and listen.

723. It is quite incredible what we can put our body through at times, those long hours without any awareness of our physicality and totally engrossed in our mind, that bit of so-called intelligence that sits between our ears.

724. The title of this blog says it all! The question one wonders is would intelligent arrogance prevent one from testing this for themselves – having to let go of the know-all in the mind and surrender to the heart which has been discovered to be quicker and more intelligent than the mind?

725. Thank you for your much-needed blog Michelle. I can certainly relate to all you say here. Especially in my days at University, and also later, I would live anywhere but in my body. The only time I paid it any attention was when surfing or making love! The rest of the time I was completely captivated (i.e. captured, imprisoned) in the realm of the mind. Now I live in a completely different way, though recently with a huge amount of computer work to be done and a deadline I reverted to my old ways, which in the end was not worth it. This body is most precious and it runs the best on the fuel of love.

726. Superb and much needed post Michelle, –“I know myself that I gave my body little attention when studying, as I would focus only on getting an assignment finished on time or getting good grades” – that was my entire education including the two degrees i read too Michelle… and i recall how miserable i was internally and felt, and how cold, harsh, self-critical i was during this time of ‘self-perfecting’ for what i thought was required as a ‘smart and intelligent young woman’. Abusing, disrespecting, dishonouring what the body feels and communicates is the least intelligent, or not even intelligent at all, for the ill and negative side effects this has either at the time.. or later on in life where exhaustion from all the pushing, striving, self-harming of the body and being, catches up with you, and is most likely why we (do) have such high levels of burn out at work these days.

727. So true Michelle! We need to recognize how disconnected we are from our bodies most of the time.
     As you suggest we need to take the time to connect back to our bodies through the Gentle Breath Meditation or taking a stop moment .

728. It is beautiful to feel my body and know that this is the most important aspect of life, to learn to live from the body. It is our connection with what we allready know deep within, caring for it shows us the way forward and brings us closer to who we truly are.

729. Beautiful Michelle, your words here remind me of the amazing way our bodys support us and ‘feed us back’. The more we are willing to listen the more wisdom that is there. How different this is to the knowledge we chase in books – the intelligence of our body ‘just is’.

730. I love the concept of a whole of body intelligence that when connected to inspires us to deeply love, care and honour ourselves and guide us to move through life in a way that remains present and aware so that we can choose what is true for us based on love and not allow the abuse that the mind can so easily fall for.

731. Just about everyone could relate t this story and have their own examples of being completely unaware of how they are feeling in their body until they stop. We all have the ability to feel, so there is nothing we need to learn. It is firstly a matter of admitting the body knows more than the mind, and all the abuse we inflict on our body comes from the mind that doesn’t feel the consequences. We then next have to catch ourselves when we are being driven by thoughts and choose to stop and feel. This isn’t a big deal or anything that interferes with your day. It is as simple as Michelle described, feeling the breath, or areas of the body and making adjustments according to what our body says. Its really just flipping the focus we have with our mind back to our body.

732. “What I’ve discovered is that my body feels far more what supports it to be vital and healthy in life and relationships than anything I’ve ever read in books”. I totally agree with you there Michelle, our bodies are a great vessel to hold wisdom and the body is what experiences the living of that wisdom if we stay with it and allow it to guide us, no question.

733. ‘I’m learning that the body knows exactly what it needs to support it to be in life, in complete harmony within, and with others, without stress and tension, moving through each day with ease – this is what I call intelligence.’ Wow, expressed like this I have such a deeper respect for the body to the point where I have to concede the body has true intelligence beyond anything my mind can come up with. And it has to concede defeat as it would see it because it has tried its darndest to succeed in life and failed miserably!! How lovely to realise this and let go of trying to work everything out in my head.

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