Our bodies are talking the whole day to us; they tell us when to eat, what to eat, when to take a rest, when to go to bed, when to speak… but do we listen? Why do we ignore these messages?
A great part of my life I chose to not listen to my body but rather, I let my mind speak. The talk was so strong it felt normal. I was often in my mind while passing my daily time at work. My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing. My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.
To help with this problem, I followed advice from other people like going for a walk, starting to meditate or doing something in the day that was especially for me. But nothing changed, and I was disappointed in myself because it didn’t work. It felt like there were two parts of me: my head, the ruler of my life, and my body, which I was ‘in’. I had no feeling about this body, which I belonged to. I didn’t like it, I didn’t listen to it and actually, I didn’t want to really look at it or touch it.
Because of this disconnection and emptiness, I could react in a stressful way when something happened in my life. It felt as though that I had lost all control and was interrupted in my own world. So I screamed at my little son when he did something wrong, I shouted at our dog when he wouldn’t listen, I kicked things when they wouldn’t work… and life felt so miserable. I asked my head to stop this talking because at moments it made me crazy and so tired.
A few years ago I attended a workshop from Universal Medicine where Serge Benhayon was talking about our mind and body. He presented to me after the workshop that we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do… just being with ‘you’, and he gave the example of walking: walk, and meanwhile focus on how your body feels, what you hear, what you see and again what you feel.
This way of walking helped me to build more self-awareness in my body and over time I noticed that my mind had less space to overrule me. Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex. When I allow myself to be fully in my body, then I can connect with the true, whole body intelligence that’s in all of us.
When I am walking now, I feel my body, I hear what it’s telling me and I love to listen to it. If children are around me, I really meet them through looking into their eyes, and in this connection there is no space for screaming or other aggressive behaviour.
If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body. The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking. This is a new way of living, but an awesome way, which gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life.
By Peggy, Teacher, Belgium
Further Reading:
Connection to Self Through Conscious Presence
Connecting To A Body More Intelligent Than The Mind
The Body’s Intelligence
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
There is a flow to life when we choose to live from our bodies which simply isn’t there when we shut this down and live from our heads.
I love paying attention to how me body feels when I am walking. Its a great exercise to do and a wonderful way to check in with how I am feeling. I too have noticed that the more aware and present I am with myself, the less reaction I get from the students I work with as a teacher.
I really loved coming back to this Peggy. ‘My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing. My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.’ We create our own reality by the things we give our attention to. Our minds love complex issues and problems but the body definitely doesn’t. When we allow the body to thrive in simplicity and flow, life feels effortless and full, and we feel steady, willing and fully capable to steer the ship no matter how stormy the waters might be around us.
The body is a great marker for how we are running our lives. It is well worth returning to the body when we are creating complexity and stories rather than giving them air time.
How often do we let our mind take control of our life for the detriment of what our being can be? Every walk of life has a different value it places on the things that they do and never is there a true consideration for what it is truly doing for our bodies. Every aspect of our lives has an impact on our body so do we continue down the path that is very destructive towards the body or do we revisit the way we live and start to listen to our bodies. The practical approach is to give your body a go and start to listen when is feels out of sorts and then work out why. And as you say Peggy; “This is a new way of living, but an awesome way, which gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life.”
Absolutely brilliant this teaching is:
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.”
And to add is that the more I breathe me (realizing my rhythm of breath and breathing gentle so through my nose in and out) the more I get to feel and be able to pick up that my body is telling me all of the time. All I need to do is connect.
it really is one of the most rewarding things to do in our life… And that is to listen to our body.
It is so true that building a relationship with the body really supports us in every situation. Yesterday I was on my way to a meeting for an interview and when I asked myself how am I feeling, there was a sense of calm and settlement within my body – the interview went well, the lady I met was gorgeous and it turned out she was really supportive of what I wanted to do and couldn’t be more helpful.
I absolutely agree Peggy, the more I am with my body the less complication and confusion that comes into play. People talk about a desire for a simple life – well this is the key. Yet what unlocks is our ability to commit more deeply to life with simplicity and true purpose, and with this there is no need to escape to what we think is a simpler life.
I love this: “If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.”
You have written a great blog that I can relate to, – but less and less, fortunately. The mind likes to take control, but at a great expense of the magnificent body which always knows best. It’s so easy to be fooled by our minds, but it’s through coming back toour bodies, which you beautifully express, that is he answer.
I ‘thought’ I had been listening to my body for decades… it wasn’t until attending Universal Medicine presentations that I was able to truly start to tune in … what a difference!
I feel is a kind of joy when I am able to work connected to my body, without letting the mind complicate what I am doing, it’s a feeling of how it is supposed to be and it is kind of absurd that I am not yet able to maintain it all the time.
Isn’t this the most simple key to life? Living in the moment and knowing every part of that moment, so what you feel, hear and see. That’s magic.
Complications are a loud and clear sign that there is another energy at play.
It is interesting the behaviour you describe Peggy. While we think it is so normal because everybody is doing it, living from the mind in ignorance of the body, it actually is not. And that is the conundrum of human life we are trying to figure out and in that have created many ways to come to God we think we will find the answer, but in that we have forgotten that God is already in us, we only have to reconnect to it through the body we are so ignorant with.
Peggy, I still can take the littlest thing and turn it in to something big, complicated and confusing. But slowly as time goes on, I am learning that when this happens it is because I have stepped away from that connection with myself, and especially because I have stepped away from the connection with my body which is always naturally there. Learning how to make these simple step-aways and not make a drama out of it, how to accept that this is my learning journey has been a great support.
The simplicity of being with our body occupying the minds focus rather than going of on an abusive chatter I have experienced many times. But I feel the investment I have given to my mind being the place to hang out, and shifting to value the presence and intelligence and life that comes from being with the body will take time to rebalance more in the bodies favour.
Sure Leigh, there is a momentum to break because of the investments to human life. But when we allow ourselves to understand that in the human body is our gateway back to God, choosing for the body is not that difficult anymore. It is then easy to choose for the body that is the closest connection to the truth as it is from truth and in compliance with the universe and with God, that space we come from and belong to.
I was reading in the purple books by Serge Benhayon yesterday called ‘Space’ about the genius of simplicity. It feels key here, the body has simple communications it sends us; we can think otherwise and complicate matters or we can simply listen to our bodies.
‘Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex’ – The body is very simple in its communications and reflections to us, a great example of this being that when we overeat, we feel heavy and the body can gain weight. The mind however is very complex, and when we rely on it for decisions there are so many different considerations, issues, ‘what ifs’ and uncertainties that are fed to us. A connection with our body thus definitely simplifies life.
Finding myself in the same situation as you have Rebecca is very revealing and as you have shared I am going to give more attention to being with time. For me I feel the secret is going to be getting to bed early to catch up on my spleen sleep so that I am able to start earlier in the morning.
Walking the way you have described would be a great support in reducing anxiety, as you bring your focus to the connection and movement of the body rather than focusing on circulating thoughts such as ‘what if?’… thoughts that exacerbate disconnection and anxiety.
Could it be possible that Esoteric Yoga could be taught at teachers college so that the sharp end of the stick gets an understanding of how important connection is when we communicate. Connection when communicating takes away the control and allows the teacher to take command of the situation. To Command is Esoteric Yoga is a way as to not dictating but allow each individual the ability to explore their own body.
When walking and feeling the body we can easily understand what body intelligence is all about as this connection with our body is so joy-full to feel. The body tends to flow as if it is fluid the feet tend to be floating, the spin and hips seemingly wriggles like a serpent and the arm seem to create there own breeze so how would this not feel exquisite in a body. From these movements of our body, and because of the focus on being connected to our movements as we move, we are then deepening our connection to being divine.
I loved what you shared Peggy, I have seen a lot of time in my head, learning to stay with my body is definitely a work in progress, just the other day a thought was triggered and before long a whole story was developed, it was amazing to see how giving energy to that thought followed a path that turned out to be all projection, no truth in it at all. So, back to the body to where truth ultimately lies.
Such a simple wise and inspirational comment Peggy; “if there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body”.
“My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing.” This is key because any worry, stress, anxiety is there when we make it about the imagined thing, even if it’s an anticipated ‘nice thing’ that’s going to happen, we manage to create scenarios around these too! The mind can be lead in all kinds of ways and in all types of circumstance, around and around until we chose to be with our body and movement, knowing this is what brings us to the ‘anticipated’ moment in its natural and easy flow.
Our mind can take us on a roller coaster of rides, yet when we bring our mind back to being in the body, and we feel our fingers or our feet, we are instantly in this moment, rather than ahead or behind us. I have spent most of my life in my head, thinking of this, planning that and it makes me quite anxious and in a nervousness, trying to control. What I have been practising, is being in this moment, feeling now and not getting caught in the what if’s that are constantly there in my mind, if I allow them.
Building this relationship, I am now at a place where moments of complication actually prompt me to return to the connection and simplicity of my body… how cool is that?
Thank you Peggy. I can see that being honest about the futility of living a mind driven life is a step in a true direction. My mind likes to tell me that I’m ‘bad’ because I don’t connect to my body enough but my body simply supports me to feel the truth.
I agree, ‘talking all day to us’….but are we listening to beautiful wisdom our whole body shares…? I know I used to override it constantly, I now live with it and listen and doing so, has altered my whole life…I feel connected, settled and content in a way I never thought possible.
The mind seeks to control, where as the body simply wants to be – be what it is in truth and express from the divinity of its particles.
In “complexity or confusion” we lose the truth and the longer we stay in this state, that is unnatural to our body, the deeper the truth is buried. I have found that when I reconnect to my body, sometimes by bringing my full attention to how I am walking, the complication soon fades into insignificance to be replaced by a natural simplicity which allows no space for the controlling ways of my mind.
It’s definitely a gentle way to live being connected to the body and listening to and honouring it’s needs. We take so much pressure and tension off ourselves by doing this because we are less prone to pushing ourselves and placing ourselves under stress, which means relationships with others are also met with this quality of gentleness because of our gentle way of living.
My body tells me when to stop doing a physical activity like gardening and if I override it, then next day I feel sore and my body says ‘Told you So.
Absolutely this is another way to live life, one free of the impost of the mind in lovelessness or the mind full of love. The loveless mind can easily take over if we give it even an inch.
Our body knows all, it knows who we are, it knows how to move, it knows what is ahead and it knows how to respond to life to the detail. If we manage to not let our mind interfere life will be simple, loving and flowing. This is what surrender is about. Surrendering the mind to the body.
“If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” What a beautiful understanding for us all and a real key to life. So needed in a world where everything is calling us to come from our mind and leave our bodies and all the wisdom and gold that offers us .
I have lived most of my life in my mind, I try to resolve problems in relationships in my mind – it doesn’t work – focusing on a gentle breath and feeling my body helps me to reconnect and then there is an amazing wisdom inside that we all have access to and all the answers are all there.
We teach the world by the way we live. Only that true teaching can come from our body – a whole body intelligence, from there we are truly intelligent, not the intelligence we have made ‘it’ to be.
I’ve just had a big lesson in this one through playing music and singing. When I allow my body to lead the way there is fullness in the expression and innate rhythm and harmony in the music I bring. When I allow my mind to kick in – in separation from the body – this innate rhythm and harmony is affected and hence the music is affected too. Music can be an expression from the wholeness of our being from the body or it can be largely a mental construct. The experience is very different as is the music produced as a result. The biggest marker for me is the joy I feel when playing and singing from the fullness of the body – this to me is an indication of a true way and true music.
Thanks for sharing this Peggy, the way you so simply say how it is, really helps me on my never ending journey to be fully with myself all the time with out letting my tricky little spirit and mind start to make mountains out of mole hills given the chance.
It is amazing how simple life can be when we allow our body to offer its wisdom; the mind creates so many complexities it makes the body ill.
Looking through the comments here Mary, it looks like you are not alone in this! How tremendous that all of these people, and I add to it as well, are becoming more and more solid in their foundations and far less reactive to the world, by choosing to become aware of their body, connecting to it, listening to it, and living from there and not our erstwhile head!
It seems crazy that we can shut our body down to the point that we can say, convincingly so, that “I love alcohol”. How can we possible love something that poisons our body?
I love your ending here Peggy..”If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body. The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.” Staying with the body as much as possible throughout the day makes life a lot easier, it simply seems to flow very easily.
I’ve recently been house hunting and it was making me ill and very tired because we were basing our choices for yes or no on whether or not they ticked our boxes in terms of what we thought we wanted. Gradually I realised what we were doing and began more and more to trust what my body felt. The choice was immediate – as soon as I walked in I knew yes or no. Sometimes just looking at the pictures was enough. The one we are choosing does tick boxes, but is not in the ‘right’ area, but somehow it feels OK for reasons we do not as yet fully understand, but something will unfold, I’m sure.
I so enjoyed reading your blog this morning Peggy. I love the simplicity of bringing the mind into alignment with what the body is doing, and as I choose more and more moments to be present with whatever my body is doing, the day flows and there is an ease and grace with the doing.
The more stressed we become the more we can get caught up in the mind and disconnected from our bodies. The mind may want to provide a short term solution to our stress, and yet the body just feels and holds it, we want to be present with this.
At the time I met Serge Benhayon I was drinking heavily everyday and was so far from myself and I couldn’t figure out why until very recently how I knew he was from absolute truth, but my body intelligence knew no figuring out needed.
‘The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking. We can so easily be taken over by thoughts, run stories in our minds and basically forget the we have a body at all. Coming back to the body earths us so that we can focus more easily and allow whatever we need to do to be done.
Often when we read something it’s like a narrative in our mind. Yet when I do this solely with my mind it gets distracted and drifts off. When I feel my body sat on the seat and read there is no drifting. This applies in all areas of life where my body and it’s sensitivities is my anchor in life.
It’s so very powerful. I am by the week amazed at the grandness of how such seemingly complex situations dissolve or get worked through when love and the body are brought to the table.
It’s so very powerful. I am by the week amazed at the grandness of how such seemingly complex situations dissolve or get worked through when love and the body are brought to the table.
The things we have attached to and think are us in our individualised state are something the spirit at all cost defends. Coming back to the simplicity, listening to the body and knowing we are all the same and equal in our hearts are the ways we can confirm our true state.
The simplicity of the body is so so exquisite! Where we get caught is trying to change life through the complexity of our minds when the power of the simple truths of the body is more than we often appreciate and give credit to.
I recall feeling when I was young that I knew that there was more to me than my body and my mind – that there was another dimension to what we call life. As I learn to feel my body and the messages it’s sending me, I am feeling a greater connection to everyone else as we all explore what is true expansion and the infinity of the Universe.
Making a conscious choice to keep our focus on our movements with our mind so the mind never gets ahead of what you are actually doing at any moment is allowing universal wisdom to be our connection to divinity. Once the choice has been made to connect it is our divine will that is so important as is our true purpose becomes to be connected to our holy intuitiveness or full body intelligence.
Great example Jacqueline, a rhythm of consciously returning to onself.
Peggy thank you for your honesty. I really needed to read this today as my mind has begun to be so full of thoughts recently, and you have reminded me that instead of trying to stop it I just need to bring my mind to what I am doing – thank you.
This is so true Melinda I still catch myself at times trying to stop my thoughts with my thoughts, of course an absolute futile and frustrating exercise :-). To come back and feel the quality in which my body is moving in and then consciously chasing that quality to be as tender and flowing as I can in that moment is all that I have found supports me in such times.
This makes so much sense – the complicated mind causes so much complications it’s ridiculous. Being with the body seems so loving and nurturing to be with. Just reading this blog makes me want to go for a walk…..
Indeed Peggy are we listening to the vast wisdom and heartfelt knowledge that is there in our bodies; more fool us if we are not.
It’s a great reminder that we react when we are disconnected to our whole body intelligence, its something I often forget in that I think I react and then disconnect. The more we make life about the body, in my experience, the simpler things become.
I’ve actually thought that too. The reaction then disconnection. I know I have heard this presented many times but today it made more sense. We are fully able to respond to a moment but choose to disconnect and react instead – instead of what I ask myself?
There are so many versions of a story that can run through our heads our bodies are able to tell us instantly what is true.
“My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.” What you are saying here is so true, if we allow the mind to make the story of our life, it can become so very complex, so very unloving and so very dishonouring. It is very seductive, the mind, the energy that is feeding the mind is one that can be what creates issues for sure.
‘Our bodies are talking the whole day to us’ and we can choose to listen or not. When our minds are focused on what our body is doing and feeling then we have Conscious Presence and that enables us to live with our body’s natural energy and not deplete it.
This is a turn around in everything what I got taught. In every book I read was about increasing the knowlege or expanding the mind, at school its just about so called intelligence and being able to keep things in the head, its never about the heart, whole body intelligence has to start at the heart, which is connected to every part of our body.
Presence is a really strong way of connecting back to the body and I love how you have paired this with movement to solidify it. It seems you are now really connected to yourself and what your body wants to say and that is very cool.
The example of walking is a great way to bring focus, and the mind in union with the body.
Great blog Peggy and it seems to me too that we are all reacting to life sometimes feeling as though we have been dealt a bad hand of cards and that this is not our fault but someone else’s usually God. We seem to blame him/her for most things that go wrong in our lives. And I wonder where this continuous blaming comes from and why do we blame God rather than stopping to look at our part in life and the choices we are making that lead to the situation we then find our selves in?
I completely understand where you are coming from Peggy so thank you for sharing as it is by sharing our lives with each other we get to understand that we are not so very different from each other we have more in common than what separates us.
Yes Peggy, when we are disconnected from the wisdom of our bodies it is very easy to get disrupted in our lives, because there is no foundation of truth to return to. Developing a relationship with our whole body intelligence guides us reliably through life.
If I feel stressed then I can think of no better antidote than walking, and just feeling my feet touching the ground. It sounds too simple but in reality bringing awareness back to the body is not rocket science but just about a willingness to feel our bodies constantly and make life about this first and foremost. Then stress, anxiety, whatever is going on is put into a much healthier perspective.
When having a deep relationship with our body and we accept the fact that we feel energy all of the time, the inner quality in our body deepens and it is simply divine – it makes us realise how much of human life is run in over stimulation and mind distracting ways.
We are taught to overrule the body with the mind and make it adjust and do what we want based on our mind. What we do not realise is that in this way we significantly lessen the quality of the body which not only causes illness and disease but far more important will lessen the quality of our mind as our thoughts actually originate from the quality in the body.
The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking. So very true Peggy, thanks for the reminder.
I have learned to trust my body much more than i trust my emotions or even m thoughts. it sounds unusual but our bodies are such powerful instruments.
I have never considered it before but it is so true, we can seek advice to follow another’s mind, yet dismissing the wisdom of our own bodies.
The detail of being with our body equips us for the macro of the world.
“If children are around me, I really meet them through looking into their eyes, and in this connection there is no space for screaming or other aggressive behaviour.” Looking into people’s eyes is so powerful as you look with your heart.
What you say here Peggy is very interesting for me because I am becoming more aware of just how much influence my mind has over my body and it’s huge. I can feel tired from being on the computer and my body wants a break, but my mind will say I’ll just finish this task and then I’ll stop and take a break, and then it goes onto the next thing and before I know it, it’s the afternoon and I didn’t have the break my body needed as I became completely distracted. I have decided the mind is a trickster and I don’t trust my mind that much because it doesn’t care about the body at all.
The mind is such a vortex of ridiculous thought that’s constantly on chatter mode. I have found by focusing on my body it brings my thoughts into line and easy the anxiety and tension I am feeling.
When we disconnect from the wisdom of our body we are left at the whim of our mind.. and so to the issues and complexities we so easily create.
As you say – the real reward is if the lesson is learnt – then it is a blessing.
The body is what can lead us throughout the whole day by listening to it and connecting to it. It gives us constant information and direction, and lets us know when we are off course, and with more messages, it brings us back. It is amazingly wise, we simply have to listen to it.
It is like the more you are with yourself the more space you have and the more space you have the more choice you have with what to do with that space!
I definitely agree that our bodies are more intelligent than our minds. My body said “no way” to bungee jumping, and my mind said – “let’s do it ,it’s a great way to defeat your fear”, the end result was me being very, very sick for a few days. I wonder what I could learn from my body today if I’m humble enough to listen and learn.
We should have classes at school that support us to connect with and be aware of the wisdom of our body and the intelligence that is innately within each of us – confirming what we already know and have access to so that we have that as our foundation from which to then learn all about our world.
I agree Fiona, in fact if we observe children you will see that they naturally are connected to their bodies and that it is us as adults and our educational system that is teaching them to let go of this and let the mind rule. If we as adults learned to be in our bodies and from there changed the educational system all we had to do is make sure they can stay the way they are.
A body that is an absolute gift, serves us and is of immeasurable value.
It becomes overwhelming when we are not connecting and present within our body for we are not in our true flow and will be pushed and pulled by the tides of life and rhythms of others.
Spot on Joel, stopping ones mind doesn’t happen, but put our mind to work with what our body is amazing. Then we are aligning our body to a movement from within and thus a greater wisdom than the mind.
This is where the presentations of Esoteric Yoga are amazing as they help with the understanding of how our body and mind can work as one.
Esoteric Yoga is a great way to start the understanding of what we are feeling with our bodies.
Yes, Esoteric Yoga is a great vehicle through which to reconnect with our whole body and as such it would be so beneficial if it was taught in schools.
So true Js. but not only schools there are so many institutions that would benefit from Esoteric Yoga. For example teachers college could have Esoteric Yoga classes and then the young would have more of a body experience rather than one that relies solely on the mind.
In a world where the mind is championed to be ‘it’, it is quite challenging to understand that the body actually has all the answers and that it comes back to the mind to align to the body and not the other way round.
Yes Shirley-Ann – total ‘common’ sense – which in my view we would do well to champion and appreciate much more in our lives.
I adore how my self awareness is growing and how I am much more able to ‘clock’ what is going on in the world and with life. This gives me a sense of control that I have not felt before, the out of control feelings of being on a Merry-go-round with out being able to get off is just melting away and in it’s place is a quiet confidence that actually life is not as grim and peril less as it is made out to be. Life is actually quite beautiful, there is so much negativity about we have forgotten to stop and appreciate this beauti-full planet we live on.
‘but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do’. When we are present in our bodies, this changes everything, because everything we do has a quality to it, and this makes a huge difference. There is no push or drive, and we still get done what needs to get done in our day with a lot more love and attention.
To stay truly connected with my body and consequently aware and honouring of the signals it continuously offers, is for me the best medicine there is.
This is so true, I had a day like that yesterday where my mind was in charge more than my body and today I have woken feeling less alert, clear and vibrant as a result. Bringing focus to what needs to be done, rather than delaying what is required makes a huge difference to what we get done and the way we do it which then has a knock on effect on the way we then sleep.
If we being focus to our minds we can blow our issues up into something huge and get caught up in anxiety and stress and yet when we take 10 steps back it is far easier to see that what we thought was an issue is in truth a blessing for us to learn from.
‘A great part of my life I chose to not listen to my body but rather, I let my mind speak. The talk was so strong it felt normal.’ What we have grown to accept as normal is so far from normal. Normal does not equal majority and simply because the majority of us are living from our heads it does not make that normal. The thing is it is only when we start to be more honest with the messages from our body and feel for ourselves what is true that can we see how abnormally we have been living.
And when I feel how grand this intelligence is I am always aware that there is more – left to ask ‘what else is possible ?
So it makes sense to go with and bring our intention to the one we can do. Being with the body aligns the mind and gives it an activity.
When we turn up the volume on the communication from the body, it is like the mind cannot speak as loudly any more and hence cannot take over the conversation – the mind can essentially be like the loud and talkative (and at times obnoxious) student that always has the last word and the loudest comment to say. and is always offering solutions..whereas the body is the quiet student that constantly pays attention and watches and observes, waiting to be asked the answers. The question is, who do we listen to and pay attention to?
Yes, good point Alison, it is never a good idea to put all our focus on the mind, even if it may be entertaining for the moment, as the ‘runaway train that can’t stop’ will be our detriment later.
Yes agree Joel, a complete shift in focus, that makes all the difference. Gosh, how much time is wasted focussing on the wrong things.
It is great how you noticed the effect of the mind on the body and in your life, how it can seem so uncontrollable and controlling of how we feel. As you described it it is clear that we don’t generate our own thoughts but are mere recipients of them. The only way to be in control is through our body, focussing our mind on what we are doing.
As a Student of my-self I find it is becoming more fun to be with my body as I am doing things, for example continuously bring my focus back to what my breath. I can then deepen my focus of what ever activity my body is participating in.
Reading your blog made me appreciate just how far I have come as I used to be a walking head!! Meaning completely ignoring my body and in complete disconnection with my body. Now I am far less of this and instead my body is my voice although admittedly I could definitely turn the volume up on this more and listen more and at times still go into my head but this is far less now. I have definitely felt a transformation of me coming back to the truth of who I am through the guidance and support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
This is a blog that will resonate with everyone ‘Our bodies are talking the whole day to us; they tell us when to eat, what to eat, when to take a rest, when to go to bed, when to speak… but do we listen? Why do we ignore these messages?’. I am still very much learning this one and what I feel it comes down to is …. how much do we love ourselves because if we truly deeply loved ourselves we would not want to override the bodies messages but instead listen and respond to what it is saying.
I realise how much unloving thoughts and energy I allow into my body when I am disconnected to my body. It is then so easy to allow frustration, anger, judgement, jealousy and comparison etc. to run the show leaving me feeling empty and drained of energy. This affects my relationship with people, how I see and relate to the World. This highlights to me how important it is to connect to my body and its natural intelligence. I know the intelligence of our body has the ability to change the world to be harmonious and loving, whereas the intelligence of our mind has the ability to create destruction, war, disharmony, greed, rape, murder and the list goes on. So, when I look around I can see the intelligence of our mind has not evolved humanity but created a huge diversion to evolve through our own choosing. This means we can also reimprint everything we have created, choose to return to love again through connecting to the wisdom of our body.
That’s awesome Peggy. So practical and applicable to absolute everyone.
Today I can say yes I have listened to my body – so the choice is always there in any given moment.
I have found over perhaps the last year or two that the times in my life when I realise that I feel challenged I have also drifted away from the activities which enable me to be connected to my body – just when it would be most supportive and in fact often because of the factors in life I start to let come before my relationship with my own body.
I too Peggy have lived most of my life in disconnetion with my mind and body. But having come to know the difference of living IN connection with the two, although I still have to check in all the time, I have come to love my body in a way that I would never have imagined possible previously. Yet how far are we willing to go to love our bodies to the nth degree, so that we never allow even the tiniest amount of abusive behaviour towards it, either from ourselves or from another? There is always more to realise, and always more true care to be taken.
We’re learnt and reflected from before we’re born to not listen to our body. And we call this intelligence. No wonder we first get confused as children because what we see isn’t what we feel. And after a while many of us give up and choose to play ball with the rules of society which means don’t bother to much about the body. In choosing so, we lose ourselves deeply and to not feel the loss and the missing we’ve got thousands of different vices to go to to not feel the fact that we miss ourselves. By choosing more and more the (innate) connection with our body, we’re opening the gateway to the love that we are.
‘If children are around me, I really meet them through looking into their eyes, and in this connection there is no space for screaming or other aggressive behaviour.’ There are so many parenting books with lots of strategies out there but this is what children can connect to and grow from, being met. Yes, strategies coming from connection can be amazing but when they’re enforced with no consideration of the child they can be loveless power-plays. The richness of delivering consequences from an understanding and loving place provides life lessons that cannot be ignored.Even if they are not incorporated the adult can bring an understanding of free will and choice and know the following consequences will bring further lessons.
Each time we listen to our bodies, and act on the wisdom it shares with us, we build trust in that inner-knowing. This is a loving work in progress for me, and often I still override it, but when I do stop and listen and act, I have found the wisdom never to be wrong – it is always spot on what I need.
Wisdom always builds more wisdom and never makes anyone lesser and this is a normal practice, so the way we all can live and as presented by The Way of The Livingness, which is to build on each others expression.
Beautifully said Alexis, “our future is governed by what our body experiences, not what our mind makes up.” Our bodies offer us a vibrational communication to feel and we have a choice to respond. Our minds demand attention with chatter that can easily over ride the body’s communication if we choose.
Peggy what you offer about the mind creating a whole scenario from nothing is something I can relate to. I can recall the time in my life where I realised this was so acute I actually sensed that something wasn’t quite right with thinking this way – particularly because the way I felt from having these thoughts. This was the start of my ‘searching for life’s answers’ through many forums. I’d pretty much let go of looking outside myself for understanding myself in life after almost 20 years when I was then introduced to the truth. The truth for me is presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, this is when it started to finally make sense that we are not our thoughts. We are whole body intelligence and we have a choice as to which we pay priority attention to.
You describe how I have lived a lot of my life Peggy, with the disconnection between the mind and the body. When they combine, there is a whole body intelligence we can connect to with a flow that comes from the knowledge and wisdom of the body altogether as one.
Beautiful Gill, and our whole body intelligence is deeply powerful. I wonder why not many people are connecting to this, including myself? Because I thought it was only possible to connect to this divine power through my mind’s intelligence and somewhere along the track I have fallen for the illusion that this level of intelligence is only for the selected few, naturally gifted with an intelligent mind. Now I know the truth and that is we all have equal access to divine intelligence which is connected via our whole body intelligence.
I love the simplicity and honesty of your blog Peggy and can relate to being disconnected from my body and becoming absorbed by whatever was going on in my head. Like you, reconnecting to my body and listening to and honouring what it’s communicating to me “..gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life.”
The more we listen to our bodies the simpler my life becomes, thats been my experience so far from all that I’ve learnt through what Serge Benhayon has presented.
‘This way of walking helped me to build more self-awareness in my body and over time I noticed that my mind had less space to overrule me.’ – A great observation Peggy, how important it is to build our self-awareness as opposed to letting the mind completely run the show.
The mind certainly likes to make things complicated. It butts in and takes us down alleys and along streams of well worn pathways of ideals and beliefs. The body on the other hand nudges us gently and talks directly and allows us access to wisdom that, through our movements, is true and powerful.
By feeling our body we will clearly feel that emotions have been the ruling energy of life to date, which causes us constant unrest.
This blows the lid on how we have believed life to be. Our body tells us when to eat, when to rest, what to eat etc.. then must it also tell us how to drive, how to work, and how to study/read? and also how to engage?
The biggest problem is that we do not recognise spending our days in our heads as a problem. This we believe is the norm and certainly is by how the vast majority live. Once you are reminded of the fact that you have a body and can actually choose to feel it and respect what it is saying, then the changes come gradually and naturally. You don’t need anyone to tell you what to do, as you have the greatest personal coach ever – your body.
When I used to live from my head, not only was my health pretty ordinary, but I didn’t make good life choices or decisions either, particularly in retrospect. The clarity and awareness I enjoy now as my day-to-day normal experience of life comes from living from my body, and not my head.
Thank you Peggy, being with the body has so many benefits, I am also still mastering this process and finding less time is spent in the out of control thinking and more of the time I’m feeling steady
A few years ago I was thinking about buying a house as an investment, but every time I thought about it, I felt ill, full of anxiousness. So I pulled out and the anxiousness disappeared. Now I am in another country, this time looking for a house to live in and although many houses have their good points and I could afford and live successfully in any one of them, there is still a niggle in my body that says no and I am learning to honour that. If it takes a year to find a house that truly nurtures us, so be it, I am trusting my body more than my mind in this case. I can’t always explain why, just know something is wrong.
Since I started listening to my body the guidance I get and what I feel has become much clearer, my confidence in life has grown immensely. It is something I enjoying working with.
“If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” Yes the only way out of seemingly intense situations is for me too to come back to my body and literally feel my arms my fingers and how I am moving them. It is such a beautiful gift, I would say, to be able to let go of complexity and confusion in this way.
I agree Lieke and a very simple way too.
It’s true living from our head exhausts us.
I find it fascinating how often I can get thoughts and my mind telling me to do this or that or eat this or that when I know that the body and myself will have to live with the detrimental consequences. It is like the mind can sometimes be so opposed to the body to do things that will harm it that it makes no sense when you rationally look at it. So there has to be much more at play then purely what our eyes see. It also makes me question whether my thoughts are truy mine and if not then where are they coming from?
My mind has always been in control, and has over ridden my body for years. As an example I was offered alcohol when out with a group of friends as a young adult my body knew it didn’t like alcohol but I drank it anyway hating the bitter taste of the beer as I wanted to fit in with those around me. My mind over rode what my body was telling me which was not to drink the stuff. And that is a pattern that continued all my life so far.
Thoughts can be such a killer. If we allow them to dominate us then we are left with a body that is tight, contracted, drained and heavy allowing very little room for our glorious selfs to shine. Being able to allow the body and heart to impulse our thoughts is a totally opposite way of living. One that the world has completely shut down. So when I develop and bring my focus to surrendering and allowing this process I can find it tricky cause everything around us is telling us not to. Hence our connection within is so much more powerful than what is going on in the outside world.
“I really meet them through looking into their eyes, and in this connection there is no space for screaming or other aggressive behaviour.” What a statement. This is the answer to everything – to wars, racism, discrimination of any kind. If you truly look into someone’s eyes and meet them you will see a fellow human being with a divine spark just like you. In this there is only room for love.
I too use walking as a way to feel my body and how am I with it today? From focussing on the body whilst walking I came to discover there is a way I can walk which supports my body, deepens my connection and feels so very harmonious or there is a hard and driven way which comes when I don’t really feel my body and just do things in a rush and when I feel that, it allows me to choose to come back to the connection I have and walk with my body in harmony once more rather than against it.
Peggy what a brilliant description of how the mind can take over, something so relatable for us all. Before I came to Universal Medicine i thought i had a pretty good relationship with my body, i took regular exercise, i ate well, didn’t smoke and rarely drunk alcohol, despite this I had frequent bouts of depression and exhaustion, I couldn’t seem to escape from the emptiness i felt inside. Building this presence with my body has been life changing, the potential for communication, appreciation, honesty & friendship with the very frame in which we live is unending.
“I asked my head to stop this talking because at moments it made me crazy and so tired.” So much of the exhaustion we feel in life arises from the complexities created within our mind rather than being in harmony with our body.
I agree Alex, a revelation to realise that we create our own complications.
You pose a question at the start of your blog Peggy, that says ‘why do we ignore these messages? – from our bodies. One of the things I can feel in response to this are beliefs and ideals that suggest that the body is not primary in our existence and is not to be trusted. I feel sure this arises from some old religious teachings about ‘the sins of the flesh’. Today, I find the opposite to be true. When I tune in and truly listen I find the body to be ultimately wise not ‘sinful’ at all. The relationship with our bodies offers a connection to our true essence, our Divine Beingness. To negate it is to negate this connection to all that we are.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.” Yes, staying connected to the body and treating it with loving care is the best medicine, as it informs us of the truth that our minds cannot access.
This is true Alison, much of what we feel is ‘out there’ we have created ourselves. We do have a choice and bringing attention to the body, not mind is it the way to avoid complications and unnecessary inner disquiet.
Complexity and confusion is an alert which exposes that I am not connected to my body and living in the truth that is there to be known.
The mind left to its own devices takes us on a merry-go-round leading nowhere and can be disastrous for well-being and relationships. Being shown how to consistently keep it in check and bring back from the abyss is the gift that Serge Benhayon offers humanity.
This is a clear description of the dominance of mind over body …”It felt like there were two parts of me: my head, the ruler of my life, and my body, which I was ‘in’…” and how easily it is to reconnect together as one through the simplicity of walking …”focus on how your body feels, what you hear, what you see and again what you feel…”, Esoteric Yoga and The Gentle Breath Meditation.
My mind often behaves like a unruly Jack Russell dog, darting here and there and refusing to walk in unison with it’s owner. However, with immense thanks to Serge Benhayon, his consistent living expression and ceaseless teachings, slowly, slowly I am regaining control over this wayward creature, restoring the joy of simply being present and aware of the quality I walk in.
I have also found how walking with myself in my fullness always brings me back to me and any stress just melts away.
This blog really made me think of some of the many times I have gone into my head about something and made a mountain out of a mole hill instead of remaining with the body and just known everything would be fine.
Once again, I have to thank Serge Benhayon for presenting about listening to the body. At times when necessary I still override what my body is saying but mainly I don’t, if I feel that I need to go to bed as early as seven o’clock in the evening because I need to, I will instead of before watching mindless Tv with a beer or a coffee to keep me going.
Whole body-mindedness makes life simple and over time, does away with the split and disconnect between the body and the mind. The latter still thinks but aligns and is then impulsed by the heart, leading the cardiocentric way of life.
I can imagine there is much resistance to the simplicity of what’s shared here about ‘walking’, and the empowerment available to us via bringing a simplicity of presence with our movements and how our bodies feel, as we do so.
What if, the world ‘walked’ with themselves – in communion and union with their soul – every single day?
Now that would be a completely different planet to live upon, wouldn’t it… for Love would reign.
Phew! It’s so great that you share this Peggy. Until coming to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I had no idea just how profound the life changes could be, in decidedly and committedly returning to a lived and present connection with our whole bodies.
I resoundingly echo your sharings here, that this has also resulted in for me, a far less stressful way of living, and an increasing joy-fullness, that continues to expand as I learn ever-more deeply, what it is, to truly ‘be with me’ and present with this body I inhabit.
Thank-you deeply for sharing your words and experience here.
The most powerful and healing choices are those that are often the most simple such as listening to our bodies – this is key to so many of life’s dilemma’s and issues it doesn’t make sense if we choose otherwise.
A truly inspirational blog Peggy! We all could do with listening to our bodies so much more and giving our bodies due respect. Required reading for all of us Peggy!
This is absolutely true Elizabeth, certainly listening to the wisdom of our body is what will support us individually and our world to heal.
‘My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.’ I have definitely experienced this – creating an unnecessary challenge rather than be seen for the ease in which life can be lived.
Brilliant blog Peggy, I can relate to the yelling and being frustrated when things go wrong because I was mostly running with my mind and living disconnected from my body. Since learning to listen more and more to my and allowing myself to feel what is really going on, I have managed to change the way I express. Learning to express from love and being more aware of what energy I express in. Connecting to my body has hugely supported me and my family to be more harmonious. In the past my thoughts were pretty wild but now I know how important it is to connect to my body and to listen to its messages. Listening to my thoughts was often fear driven, whereas listening to my body supports me to make loving choices. I can see why our world is the way it is. A huge, huge percentage of humanity are running of the fear driven mind instead of the love connecting nature of our body. The only way I feel we can reverse the state of our world is through more and more people connecting to the intelligence of their body and therefore, naturally connecting to more love. Our body is extremely power because every particle resonates love but are we listening?
My mind used to run off with ‘maybe’, ‘what if’ and ‘if only’ over situations and conversations and it would not let up…exhausting and draining. That was when I wasn’t consciously aware of how my body felt. Now if I end up in my head mulling something over, I know that I’m not with my body, and coming back to it stops my mind running off into these future or past scenarios.
Listening to our body when we have had a shower, bath, walk, nurturing cup of tea, an Esoteric Healing session and a myriad of other self-love things for our body, then it feels the true connection that if sustained brings a glorious joy that becomes a part of our Livingness.
Great expose of a great illness that sweeps man kind, a body that is run by the mind and not it’s own intelligence. To change this alone would create a massive shift in human kind.
The solidness and steadiness that you can bring to your life through connecting and being in your body is phenomenal. It is one of the best foundations that you can live your life from.
That is true and once we start listening, the messages become more detailed and nuanced and easier to understand.
The mind can provide almost anything, except love. The mind is also not able to discern truth, it is able to discern inconsistencies but not truth.
Listening to the body doesn’t mean sit still on your own for half the day and try to listen to what your kidneys might be saying to you… It means to be forever in purpose and responding to the call of what’s needed.
Peggy, I love the simplicity in which you write in and it is easy to feel the transformation that has occurred for you. Knowing that it is not a matter of stopping or emptying our minds but instead simply being present in our bodies is hugely supportive. The body simply wants us to be present with it and when we are it responds beautifully.
‘My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.’ This is a great point and highlights that the body never creates issues, and listening to it makes life very simple.
The simplicity of going back to the body is mind blowing!! yes, my mind can’t understand the wisdom that comes through – for example when I’m not sure what to say, reconnect with my body and it knows. My mind would like to send me into a spin of self-doubt, of fear that when I reconnect to my body I’ll lose all cognitive function. But it’s a trick because the thoughts being fed to me will cease and become thoughts inline with mine and everyone’s wellbeing. Best for me to truly acknowledge the game at play and not play it.
Yes the body loves us more than our mind will ever conceive, It is true that when we connect and listen to the body life become more simple. “Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.”
The amazing thing about our body is that not only is it constantly letting us know “when to eat, what to eat, when to take a rest, when to go to bed, when to speak …” it is always also letting us know about the quality of thoughts we are engaging.
“we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do” So true Peggy, I find that my mind will run a mock when I am disconnected from myself/my body. The focus to the mind that connection to the body can bring, is so quick and simple.
Rosanna, I agree: very supportive to have this presented so simply: instead of getting hooked on what the mind is doing ‘ be present in our body with all things we do” When I get lost in my head, I find focussing on breathing gently brings me back to a steady place.
Wow what a blessing for your students Peggy that you can share this understanding and connection with them!
Being present in our body builds confidence in our being.
Marylouisemyers, I love how you have brought the focus to the being, a much deeper aspect of ourselves that is often overlooked.
‘Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex’ Yes Peggy, life is getting so much more simple when we choose to listen to our body and this is what we should teach our children who are naturally connected with the body but our education system is built on using our mind and championing an intelligence which is not intelligent at all. Whole body intelligence is what we need and should never loose.
It has taken me a long time to get away from being so ruled by my mind, the thing that I thought would be my saviour, to get into my body and appreciate that there is far more wisdom in the body and universe than what I can think in my mind. I owe this to what Universal Medicine presents and its great to also read the experiences of others as this confirms to me what I know inside, the mind is what gets me confused when I rely on it and instead its the body that when I let lead the way is truly supportive.
Reading this again I connected with the way this lovely feeling in us grows as we allow ourselves to become more aware of our bodies and live from the inside out.
I think it’s such an important revelation to consider that it’s not natural nor healing to try and ’empty’ our mind or have no thoughts at all but to bring our mind back into unity with our whole body and bring our awareness back to the quality of our movements. I find walking a super supportive tool to help me re-connect if I’m feeling off or my mind is racing, because it helps me to re-gather and bring my mind back in harmony and connection with all of me.
Totally agree Fiona, having recently attended an Esoteric Yoga course presented by Serge Benhayon I can also strongly recommend this is a hugely powerful modality for building this union, this conscious presence between body and mind.
I have to say Peggy I totally get and relate to you finding it difficult to listen to how your body feels or hear it. I have lived from my head for so long that this is the predominate choice I go to – before listening to my body and how it feels – it needs to speak very loud for me to do this. Often people say go with what you feel – but when you have been so head strong for years this can be hard, and doesn’t help, it can get me quite frustrated and sad at times. For me it is about giving myself permission to feel, taking small steps, and be willing to feel everything I don’t want to feel – this is the key as that’s why I went into my head in the first place. Because I didn’t want to feel everything I felt. That’s why I’ve shut down. So it is allowing myself to feel everything – there’s a lot of sadness I avoid feeling too. But I do know the answer is not living from my head as this just complicates things and keeps people out.
If I’m totally honest I don’t listen to my body. I think I do it like to pretend I do but I don’t more often than not. For example my car battery is totally dead – this to me is showing me how run down and exhausted my body is. Now it’s taken my car to make me stop and realise this. I’m not going to lie, it makes me sad, but I have a choice in how I move forward with this.
‘I had no feeling about this body, which I belonged to. I didn’t like it, I didn’t listen to it and actually, I didn’t want to really look at it or touch it’. With the increasing high rates of illness and disease in the world I think this relates to most of humanity…..The disregard and abusive ways we treat our our physical bodies is what causes our sickness and diseases. Being always in my head, and then making the shift to being in and feeling my body was life transforming; my body has so much intelligence and so much to communicate with me, if I live in a way that deeply respects and honours it.
Beautiful Peggy, a timely reminder that my body holds the truth of what I choose, love or disconnection from the love that is me.
‘Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.’ So true Peggy before attending Universal Medicine presentations I accepted my constant mind chatter as an unavoidable but exhausting part of life that was impossible to switch off despite years of meditation. Choosing to become more present with my body has been a gradual process but the more I listen to it the more it shares with me. I can then feel what my next move is and my mind does not get a look in!
I love reading people sharing their experiences of listening to their body. There is always so much to learn when we remain open to the fact that we are forever students of life. Thanks Peggy, great to hear your story.
‘We are forever students of life’ the more I keep this at my forefront the more I am open to learning and seeing what is going on. When I let this go I find I can just try to get through life and not really care yet as soon as I go ok so what do I have to learn here suddenly it is like the universe opens up and everything makes sense. Life goes from the mundane to the magic almost instantly.
I now utilise walking as a huge part of my support system, I feel it really supports me in so many ways, it brings awareness to the body, offers the choice of a new rhythm or movement, space and stillness, gentleness, breathing. I can feel that it massages my whole systemic away, when I gently press my feet on and off the surface. It also highlights as you say, any areas in the body that are in pain or where there is an issue. Body awareness and honouring its intelligence is critical to true health.
It is often as I am preparing for sleep that I can feel how much I have let my mind take over during the day. The only way to support this is to come back to my body.
How beautifully simple this is Peggy, that you simply chose to walk in a different way and in doing so, so much changed for you in your life. It is the simplest of things that we bring to our everyday that can make the biggest differences.
How powerful our movements are when we ‘walk’ through life with the awareness that our ever movement matters.
‘It felt like there were two parts of me: my head, the ruler of my life, and my body, which I was ‘in’’ – We use the phrase ‘finding myself’ when talking about not knowing who we really are and that we’d like to discover this through travelling, religion, meditation etc., but what if we all DO have a sense of who we are but within our body there is separation as you’ve described and thus we get that disjointed feeling?
Peggy awesome blog, the simplicity you present this with is so very powerful. “If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” This is also true of any emotion we feel has grabbed us, our bodies will always hold the key for getting us out of the murky water of the mind we can find ourselves lost in.
Our minds can indeed be very strong and very forceful and can dominate us if we let them and the only way I have found to stop this is to be more connected or aware of my body and really focus on the quality of my movements. This is the only way I have ever been able to successfully lessen or sometimes cease the endless thoughts and images that my mind likes to run with.
When we connect to our bodies it brings a whole new meaning to life, things start to make sense and the extreme wayward behaviour we are capable of doing seems to become less and less.
This is such a great key to life. We can create so many dramas, so many issues and so much misery by living in our minds. Focusing on the movements of the body brings us right out of the head and makes life very simple. Perhaps too simple for those of us who still like to involve ourselves in dramas, but none the less it is still there as a choice, and one that makes such a difference to the whole of our life.
Sometimes the consequences of a loving change take a while to manifest, and in this world of instant gratification its easy to give up and say, ‘this is not working.’ I was someone who started and gave up for these reasons, but eventually I chose make changes just becasue they were more self loving rather than for the result. The consequences were and continue to be life changing.
By attending the presentations and workshop of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have re established a connection to my body. I was constantly overriding it and totally in my mind. And still spend far too much time there rather than connecting to my body. I have come to the understanding that my thoughts are not mine I know they are given to me because they are so random, I constantly ask my self where did that thought come from as it is totally incongruent to my body.
“….we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do… just being with ‘you’, and he gave the example of walking: walk, and meanwhile focus on how your body feels, what you hear, what you see and again what you feel…..”
This remembers me of me being a child. I loved observing flowers and their beauty in detail, even a blade of gras I could spent a long time studying its structure and its movements and responses to the wind. I felt so still inside that I loved observing nature and people.
Is there any human being who does not experience mind chatter or low level anxiety at a minimum? The simple matter of connecting with our bodies in the way described here is surely the key to unravelling the ill mental health conditions that plague us all, and perhaps then some.
Yes, Peggy. Relinquishing the control of the mind and opening up to feeling everything from the body is a life-changing process, and it is not until you start to do this that you feel what you have been missing out on by being held captive by your thoughts.
It seems crazy that the mind, that is as much a part of us as an arm or a kidney can treat the rest of the body with no regard whatsoever, I used to think it was a good idea to wake up with a coffee and a cigarette and race through my day as fast as possible so I could get to the pub as early as possible with no regard for my body at all and my lungs were saying “please no more smoke and my liver was saying please no more beer. My body now shudders at the thought.
Kev, your comment is really inspiring. There are behaviours I do that I know are harmful and it’s coming back to my body that they will drop beside the wayside. I know this because there are behaviours I totally shudder at the consideration of having done them. Amazing to be so free and know far greater freedom is at hand.
Your blog describes clearly what is going on with All of us… the dominance of our mind and thoughts over our body… which leaves one living in a separative way to the love that naturally emanates from the body.
“Because of this disconnection and emptiness, I could react in a stressful way when something happened in my life.” I too used to be very volatile, reacting very quickly to anything stressful or unpredicted. The Gentle Breath Meditation and the Esoteric Yoga has completely transformed my relationship with my body and hence today I feel a steadiness and connection that has empowered me to stay open to the unexpected and hence drop the need to react to life when it doesn’t go my way.
Seeing how we create issues is a key awareness. How would we be if we didn’t habitually create issues?
Hi Peggy, your blog has deeply confirmed how much we miss our connection with our body. It confirms that it is our body that is our best friend and when listened to it brings the most amazing, nurturing and deeply loving relationship we could ever experience in our lives.
So much of today’s problems arise because we listen to our mind and not our body.
The more I become aware of the feelings inside me, the more I realise just how much is going on – at first subtle but then over time there is a cacophony of information that is streaming through all the time, informing me of my responses to the world around me. It can be an unbelievable support and it seems so strange and so wasteful that we are not taught that this is the gold from the start in our lives.
If they were prepared to be as honest as you, this blog would chime with 99% of the world. This is the scale of how wrong we have got it and this is the power of what Serge Benhayon is offering.
“If children are around me, I really meet them through looking into their eyes, and in this connection there is no space for screaming or other aggressive behaviour.” This is a very beautiful advice or more so a very helpful tool.
It always amazes me when to look into a child’ s eyes, as you had told Peggy when they were having a bit of a wobble how they connect and stop! I have had parents that look and me and then their suddenly quiet and still child. Life does simply flow when are connected to ourselves and can be infective for others if they and we, choose to let it in!
In this you have exposed the greatest problem in the world… for so many are being ruled by their minds and as such live aspects of your former stressed and aggressive ways in varying degrees. The power of dropping into the body and living with self-awareness and responding to the impulses of its wisdom instead, is clearly deeply healing and stunningly transformational in how you now move through life.
How lovely is that simple advice for listening to our body, focus on our body and how it is feeling, focus on what we see and hear and then again in what we feel – this so equips us to deal with life. From observing myself I have not wanted to connect with my body because then I would feel that I was ruled by anxiety, so truly connecting with our body is how we start to live truth or “us” 🙂 which is a beautiful feeling
“…walk, and meanwhile focus on how your body feels, what you hear, what you see and again what you feel.” I am applying the same principles right now sitting on a busy train. I notice I spend so much time attempting to avoid the fact that I have a body but when I allow myself to truly feel it, it actually feels lovely.
Wonderful post Peggy and enjoyable to read, your line here: “I had no feeling about this body, which I belonged to. I didn’t like it, I didn’t listen to it and actually, I didn’t want to really look at it or touch it” — what a reality this is for so many of us — and so when we don’t enjoy or like [something, anything, anyone], we’re not going to pay any attention to it, let alone love it.
‘and overtime I noticed that my mind had less space to overrule me. Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.” The difference being we have control of our mind and the mind doesn’t end up having control over us. Is it possible that so many mental illnesses could be reduced or even eliminated it we didn’t allow all those pictures that the mind will continuously feed us be in control? Staying in conscious presence and listening to the body – that whole body intelligence is key to our health, and keeps life simple instead of the complexity that the mind creates.
There is so much focus as we grow up on mental intelligence, which in truth is limited and often complicated… whereas our bodies present unlimited wisdom that is real, open and honest, with a simplicity and natural flow and order to life.
Beautiful sharing Peggy, and so very timely. Before I came to Universal Medicine (UM) I was a head with feet that took me wherever my mind dictated, and there was very little if any connection with the rest of my body. Since attending UM presentations and workshops the relationship with my whole body has dramatically changed – I am now connected to all of it for a start! However lately I have been feeling a little frustrated how much and how often I go into my head… so your walking example is very relevant and timely – thank you.
Amazing Peggy. I have just completed Livingness 1 and 2 with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine in the UK and even though I have done this several times each time I learn something new. Today with Livingness 2 I learnt that if we surrender from our body all that is not us, all of our insecurities and instead re-connect to the love within and make it about our presence (being present in our body) then everything changes. Also if we treat everyone as though they are so sacred (which they are) how this total respect for another is not only beautifull to feel but changes space in and around us. What if everyone in the world treated every person like this!!! Again I walked away feeling incredibly blessed that I know Serge and for everything he is and teaches.
‘I kicked things when they wouldn’t work…’ this has always intrigued me when people do that, but you have explained it beautifully, Peggy, and you are right, we make simple things complex, and simply being with our body all the time creates space for us to live more freely.
It truly is incredible when we begin to reconnect to our bodies again, the enrichment that unfolds for us. As you have beautifully shared Peggy, communication from our bodies is always there, ever-present in fact, it is only our choice and willingness as to the degree that we listen to and honour it through being honest about and what it is that we feel in our bodies. You have highlighted how vital our relationship with our bodies are, in allowing us to be guided to live in a way that is in connection to the magnificence we are in essence, so we can bring this quality to the lives we live.
The more we listen to our bodies the more our bodies share.
Beautiful sharing Peggy, it is true the more we go into our heads to solve things the more complicated or distracted we get yet when we come back to the steadiness of the body things are much more simple and the way forward is known.
I loved reading this blog as it is so real but I particularly love this line Peggy . . .”The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking” . . . as this is so true. The mind then gets behind the body. I liken this to walking a dog and getting it to walk a little behind you so it paces beside you in your rhythm rather than stopping and starting, tripping you up and pulling ahead on the lead.
If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body. The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking. This is a new way of living, but an awesome way, which gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life. Yes, this is definitely true Peggy, and is a great tool to keep you present and away from distracting negative thoughts.
Great blog Peggy – so real and I trust we all recognize things out of it in our own lives. Sharing openly and honestly actually brings the fire back to areas that we loose our connection. And so, when we bring honesty to the place, situation, subject we can more easily deepen the connection with ourselves (our relationship with ourselves becomes easier too). Thank you Peggy for being so clear and open with us.
I just had two days of yoga and an amazing chakra puncture session in which I literally was not thinking it was quite something and my breath became so still I almost seemed to not be breathing, it was a depth I have had before but this lasted quite some time and I feel very different since, like a layer of surrender was allowed in my body, and now I know that feeling it is up to me to treat it preciously and look after this precious body, the mind tends to not want to do this as it knows that the more we lovingly treat our body the less of the mind we use, it becomes extinguished.
How different would life be in in any situation of conflict or disharmony, we would simply return to our body to feel its message? I also feel how I feel completely different when I am with my body. No matter the task at hand. What if appreciation and honour of our body, would bring us the healing and love we’re so desperately looking for? What if in this simplicity lies the answer to all the inner-wars and outer wars? What if issues arise from not being connected to our body and being dismissive of the messages? What if…
I agree with your comment on how the mind likes to control the body and our lives. We certainly get something out of complication that this brings into our life and our mind and our minds games gets something out of it. The satisfaction of control or the fact that it has won over the body again. It just confirms that there is no such thing as mind over matter, just living the awareness of our body and conscious presence.
With a lot of things focused on clearing the mind or emptying your thoughts etc this one certainly turns the table of those. I have never been able to stop my mind but giving it a direction you want it to go certainly seems like a clearer plan. My mind can wander off into all manner of places but I have never seen my body wander off from anything, it’s always there, always in whatever I am in. It makes sense to give it a voice, to check in and see how it’s feeling and to make the mind an active participant in that again makes sense. I know that the more direction I give my mind the less space it has to make things up and take off somewhere else. I don’t feel lock down or hard on myself but more consistently in training to support my body to voice what’s going on.
It’s so true that we can’t stop the mind. It’s incessant, never ceasing. But our mind can follow what we are doing with our bodies so that we can feel how our body is. It’s very simple and a great reminder to how we bring ourselves back when we are stuck in the complications of a complicated mind.
You are so right Peggy when we live more from our bodies it takes the complexities out of our lives created my the over thinking mind.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.” This is such a gem, truly relatable and also to be deeply appreciated. Connecting with our bodies totally changes the perspective on life from having our self-created thoughts at the centre or the co-creation of the universe at the heart of everything.
I love this Peggy. We can’t win a battle with the mind but what we can do is be in our bodies so that the mind has less rule over us.
It is so incredibly simple, and so incredibly power-full. Connect to your body, be present in what you are doing, feel you body, observe it , listen to it, and then take heed. As you write here Peggy, it is life changing.
There is such a simplicity in reconnecting to our body in order to not be dominated by the mind and the thoughts which we at times allow in that we overlook it for the power it truly holds.
Thank you Peggy, what you share is so important. Without the connection to the Love and Wisdom of our all-feeling body we are left to the confusion of our rampant minds.
This is a great marker isn’t it – and an easy way out of it too.
“Our bodies are talking the whole day to us; they tell us when to eat, what to eat, when to take a rest, when to go to bed, when to speak… but do we listen? Why do we ignore these messages?” – Yes why indeed do we ignore, to the point of sickness and disease prevailing – all because we let the mind override what the body tells us. If we choose to listen to the body more and more and follow what it tells us, then in my own experience of this I am sleeping much better, my body feels yummy after eating as I eat according what it tells and my energy levels and health are just top. Thank you Serge Benhayon for showing a way to listen and work with the body – so awesome.
Yes so easy then isn’t it – ‘If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” When we connect back to our body we can feel its communications rather than listening to the mind chattering, and within that feeling we gain clarity and the mind can become less chatty.
It is incredible really to consider how one small step taken for ourselves and with ourselves can make such a difference to the whole of our lives. I have found for myself that whatever we choose whether it is the time we go to bed, go for a walk, brush our teeth with a presence, or whatever, as long as I commit to that one activity to be fully present in my movements, my body communicates more to me, or rather I listen more, and then other changes in my care for myself and in life happen naturally. Thank you Peggy for a beautifully simple sharing.
Since developing a relationship with my body and bringing an awareness to it I have come to understand the enormous wisdom that it holds. When I honour and listen to what it is it is communicating with me life certainly is different and I feel more connected to my inner essence than ever before.
Committing to listening to our bodies instead of our minds is a totally different way of being to how most of us have been raised but so worth it.. the mind will always think it knows what to do, even though it’s not always good for us or helpful. The more I build a connection to my body, the more I learn to listen to what feels good and what doesn’t- and choose from there, instead of auto pilot mode.
‘My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing.’ – Our mind will rule our entire life if we let it, and it loves to complicate things. Great blog Peggy, thank you.
Thank you Peggy for such a real and tangible sharing. I love what you say here about how huge being present is for you – and how it is not about fighting with the mind but not giving our full focus to it. There is so much more going on in our bodies and an amazing wisdom.
There is such a disconnect that happens when we are in our heads. All sorts of chaos can ensue. If I am out of sorts, I find going for a walk and staying present with my movements is a great way to bring me back to my body or confirm my connection if I am already with it.
I agree Peggy, connecting to the body is very rewarding however it can challenge me at times , when there is coming up a problem or I feel stressed and do not want to feel something which is coming up. However to connect to our bodies can be very playful and it is normal, we just have forgotten.
Our bodies, physical matter, flesh and bone as thy are, are in fact divine, made of the same particles as the universe. And so, they flow in harmony, and they jostle in tension and constraint. Our bodies are precious barometers – any answer we seek can be found by connecting with our bodies, by connecting within.
What you share Peggy is so simple yet so life changing. Our mind quite literally has ‘a mind of its own’ and like a dog, needs to be trained to obey the signals that the body is forever communicating from the Universal Intelligence it is designed to respond to.
“Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.” Peggy I love this and all you share, the mind can be full of a constant stream of words and can be hard to steady but I love how its not about trying to stop the mind but instead focus on what your body feels. The effects I find for myself are also life changing and what I also feel is how much more there is to allow and deepen with myself and my body.
Simple and powerful life skill Peggy, thank you, what you’ve shared has enormous flow on effects for the body and it’s health and wellbeing.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.” This is true, and the magic that then happens is even though there is less space for thinking, there is so much more space within our bodies, so we feel lighter and less reactive as we take the space to observe life and not get absorbed by it wherever we go. When I am thinking a lot I feel myself become very compressed and dense – there is an intensity and heaviness within my body that has no space for me to observe life, so I can easily become caught up in and buffeted around by whatever is going on around me, taking on emotions and dramas of others and creating my own. In contrast when I focus on my body the intensity dissipates, replaced with and ease and flow that supports me to feel the space within every cell in my body. I see and feel this space as the space of the universe within each cell – it’s a feeling that knows without doubt we are beyond our physical bodies and live in connection to the ever-expanding vastness of the All.
It is indeed as simple as being present in our body – something for many of us we have avoided doing for eons. Our body holds infinite wisdom and when we are present and connected, we may clearly hear what is on offer.
The more you commit to being with your body the more the body responds what it is that you need to do next.
Yes, Virginia, it is THAT simple and it works. I was completely surprised that it is so simple and works so well.
Yes thank you, Peggy. Our body is indeed our greatest teacher and guide through life, as it never lies and communicates the absolute truth if we are open to listening.
What a great insight gained from your conversation with Serge Benhayon that “we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do”. Without that realization we can follow all the advice that tends to be given such as the “going for a walk, starting to meditate or doing something in the day that was especially for me” until the cows come home, but when we are not present with our body and only caught with the ramblings of our mind we will keep making life complicated and exhausting.
Very beautiful to read Peggy, I love your expression. The simplicity of focussing our mind on our bodies and what we are doing is such a great way to bring the often out of control thinking mind back together with us.
Peggy this is gorgeous! I love the simplicity of how you present this most basic and foundational truth of life. If only more people chose to live this way with themselves and all others. It would be a very different world if we did not react to each other.
‘This way of walking helped me to build more self-awareness in my body and over time I noticed that my mind had less space to overrule me.’ Awesome sharing – thank you Peggy. I have also been plagued by being trapped in my head rather than connecting to the body and I know that what you are sharing here is key to feeling more settled and in having a more consistent equilibrium in life. From here everything becomes richer as we expand our awareness with less reaction to life.
My life has totally transformed in the most wonderful way since I started listening to and connecting to my body. It didn’t happen overnight because after years of overriding and poisoning my body I had to retrain myself. In fact it has taken many years and is still a work in progress – however the benefits started immediately and just keep on showering upon me!
The tricky thing when we start listening to our body is when our mind pretends to be our body and speaks to us. If your body is telling you to eat lots of cream cakes, have a cigarette or climb Mount Everest the chances are it is not your body speaking but an imposter!
The first time Serge Benhayon shared about the fact that the thoughts keep coming and his wisdom in bringing our presence to our body to support us was a life changing moment for me. It is so simple really. Thank you for this reminder.
I can very much relate to this – sometimes we just want to take a break from the incessant chatter of the mind which can seem as if it will never stop. What I found was exactly what you have shared, inspired by the teachings of Serge Benhayon, that as I connected more with my body, my mind had less control, the volume turned down and my body given far more space to communicate.
I love what you say in your last paragraph here Peggy. It is a beautiful reminder that we can always come back to the wisdom of the body by choosing to reconnect.
We can either have our bodies running from the activity of the mind or keep our minds aligned and present with what our bodies are doing as they are doing it. As you say Peggy from what Serge Benhayon presented is that the mind never stops. So it makes complete sense for us to be the driver and give the mind an activity of staying present with our bodies movements and feelings.
This is powerful and life changing….”…we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do… just being with ‘you’,” This enables me to really begin to observe the quality of thoughts I have and also I have found that what I think has changed through more body awareness….there has been big shift, the worrying and the repeating of scenarios that used to be there, is not, I have more space and my thoughts have a richer and more supportive quality.
This is a really great blog Peggy because it brings us all back to the simplicity of being with the body and giving the mind the activity to be with that simplicity of being with what the body is doing and feeling- thus giving it no room to play out its own stories. Thank you.
Beautifully simple Peggy thank you. Tuning back into my body has been a revelation and supports an entirely different level of awareness than I even thought possible using just my mind.
Our bodies talk all the time to us. True. We do talk all the time to them as well. If not many are aware of this fact, I would say that this is even truer regarding the second statement. By means of our choices to ignore the body or not, we talk to it all the time. In other words, there is a silent dialogue all the time between us and our bodies. We confirm our body or we attack and abuse it. If we go the second path, we have to deny the possibility of a dialogue and buy into the image of a monologue. Of course, you cannot do that unless you become an expert in overriding what the body says to you.
For me it is still an on-going process letting go of the impositions of my mind but I too have found that by simply connecting to my body as I walk or observing my breath that I am more conscious of being with me and the thoughts do not have the space to invade and if I do allow them in I am more able to let them go rather than getting caught up in them and the complication that they inevitably bring with them.
How often do we start engaging the body to act on behalf of the created stories and interpretations in life? When we allow this to be outplayed we are not only bringing in complexity but are in the story thus not being present with ourselves and our body and not reading people and situations for what is truly going on but seeing them and interpreting them through the glasses of the story we see them through. Currently I am very much learning to allow each new moment to be just that and read it for what it is and as it happens. I’m learning to respond from the situation as needed but notice the times when it is difficult to do so because perhaps I’ve brought in a hurt from the past or am moving with the story/image/belief from my mind. A great learning and one that when mastered allows our love to be fully expressed all of the time.
Once we start listening to the body and taking steps to honour it, the ill thoughts towards the body stand out and we get to see them for what they are, all lies – the body is the one we can trust not the mind.
It’s true, when we disconnect we know longer have love as our leading impulse so we can react and allow ugliness into our bodies that harms and it is not till we reconnect that we can be a healing body once again.
Very true, letting ‘ugliness’ into the body is so harmful and once we choose to realise that and listen to the body again and make different choices, the body starts to heal again.
The talk of the mind being so strong that it feels normal is an amazing point and awareness you raise here Peggy. That we can actually be thinking and even feeling something and even think that does something in us because of this false talk from the mind.
Thank you for expressing so openly and honestly Peggy. I recognised myself in much of what you shared, especially the tendency to make up stories in my head. When I let my body lead the way I know that the choices I make will be true and supportive.
There is a world of difference to when you are in your head or in your body and the results are like day and night. For example the head likes to make life complicated, and in the complication comes the struggle….. When we are in our bodies, life begins to take on this natural flow and life becomes super simple, and we start to live in a way that truly supports the body and so certain foods from our diet just drop away without any effort. Old habits and behaviours pop up to be reviewed and let go, some perhaps taking a little longer than others, but what we are doing is creating space for more love to flow in our bodies.
The honesty and rawness of what you share, describing how the head (thoughts) can take over the body is an enormous topic… a situation that everyone can relate to. This is the content of true psychology, and understanding this, underpins all human behaviour and choices. Thank you for sharing.
What is worse than not listening to our body’s? Is pushing it to its limits repeatedly. What happens to a balloon that has been blown up to its maximum and kept that way for an extended period, and then let the air out? What are we doing to our bodies when we continue to push it?
This great Steve. I love having a visual metaphor to explain something – brings it to life in such a practical and real way.
What’s so important is putting our care and consideration for others ABOVE our free will to have reactions, and be flippant when things don’t go as we’d like them to. We have a responsibility to be respectful all the time and not just when things suit us, or go according to our plans…
Yes, that is the next stage once we take care of ourselves. Well said.
Great questions in your first paragraph Peggy. I have found that listening to my body has been a work in progress and the more I listen to it the more blown away I am by the wisdom I am being offered.
Walking can be viewed in many ways, for example as a form of exercise, as a means of getting from A to B, or a way of socialising with others. However, focusing on our body and how it feels as we move brings a whole different quality, allowing our mind to be with our body. When I choose to walk in this way, walking becomes a joy.
Very true- there is far more being communicated and imparted to us in every moment that we may become aware of when our mind and body are in sync together and not operating as silos.
A lovely blog Peggy – I have found what you say to be true. Connection to my body and being ‘with me’ is a fundamental key in deepening awareness and presence so that the mind is no longer the exhausting tyrant it once was (prior to attending sessions with Serge Benhayon).
I love this blog, so simple and so true, and very real and honest. This part particularly struck me – something I need to work ” Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.” When we go into our heads life gets so complicated it’s exhausting. There is no joy, simplicity or evolution in it at aall.
Such a beautifully simple and powerful blog Peggy, thank you. I too let my mind rule my life for a long time and it was messy, chaotic and no fun at all. Connecting to our body, holding and honouring that connection throughout our day is far wiser than relying on the thoughts that are constantly fed to us.
I can relate to trying to shut out thoughts and quiet my mind. Going for a walk and coming back to feeling my body for me makes a massive difference – I know when I do this on a daily basis how much it supports me and also all those around me – it is such a simple thing to do yet one I know I have not given enough attention to!
I have made it my commitment to live in my body more and be obedient to its natural movements.
“If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body. ” The simple honesty of the body is a fantastic tool in moments that lack clarity or where life has got slightly off track or too complicated.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking. This is a new way of living, but an awesome way, which gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life.”A great point Peggy. The more I am present with myself – and my body – the less my mind can take over, with its distractions and wanderings. I find Esoteric Yoga a great support with this.
“Our bodies are talking the whole day to us; they tell us when to eat, what to eat, when to take a rest, when to go to bed, when to speak… but do we listen? Why do we ignore these messages?” A great question Peggy. Our mind tends to take control so our body’s messages gets drowned out – and we over-ride those important messages. One example – What if we had listened to our body after the first few puffs of a cigarette, with those coughs? Yet many ignored the body and in order to keep in with friends, to look the part, to have something to do with ones hands, or for whatever reason, the habit continued and became an addiction, ultimately leading to lung cancer for many.
“My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.” Thank you Peggy for encapsulating a very clear sign that we have abandoned our bodies and are living in our heads when we start making ‘mountains out of molehills’. Serge Benhayon gently brings us back to the immensely rich world of our bodies and the environment we are living in. Choosing to stay present, focused and aware I too have begun to build a love for my body, my inner essence and my relationships that hither to has been only a distant daydream.
I can so relate to what you have written here Peggy
“It felt like there were two parts of me: my head, the ruler of my life, and my body, which I was ‘in’. I had no feeling about this body, which I belonged to. I didn’t like it, I didn’t listen to it and actually, I didn’t want to really look at it or touch it.”
Like you I discovered Universal Medicine and its taken a long time and I have struggled with myself but today my life is so very different and I can actually say I adore my body and I am much more willing to listen to it, there’s more to go as I am a work in progress.
I can say yes to all you’ve shared here Peggy as this too has been my experience. However I would say that when in the dislike of my body it’s not because I personally dislike my body, but the mind will speak very derogatory towards the body that I then follow. However the mind is not the bad guy here, it only acts this way when separated from the body because when I am connected my thoughts are loving and light. This experience in reconnecting to my body shows that this is how we are to naturally live rather than solely from our minds.
‘It felt like there were two parts of me: my head, the ruler of my life, and my body, which I was ‘in’.’ I can relate to this Peggy. We give so much precedence to the mind and in so doing disconnect from the body and live from our emotions and dramas. I too am learning from the presentations of Serge Benhayon that bringing awareness to the body and moving in a gentle quality is transformative to how I feel within myself. So, simple really, yet so extraordinarily powerful.
Persistency with being present in one’s body is truly powerful medicine.
I agree persistency which leads to consistency is very powerful medicine – at 1st I know for me a lot of resistance can come up to doing something I know will truly support me but the more I stick with it the more I embrace it and it becomes a part of my life.
Very true – it is our persistence that leads to consistence that slowly repaves the way so that our old momentums fade away replaced by more solid footing.
And with this knowing that there will be challenging times and we will slip back into old patterns so not to beat ourselves up when we do rather go ok opps lets come back to the love that I know I am.
Love your expression Jonathan – persistency with staying connected is key and will truly support our healing.
“Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.” There are so many people in the world who are suffering really seriously from the supposed traumas, dramas, intensities and complexities of life; for whom it is all so overwhelming. What you have shared in this blog is gigantic and is the path down which we can curb the ever-escalating trend of mental health issues, depression, exhaustion etc… Our minds are driving us into the ground.
I think the fact that you even recognised that there were two parts of you – your mind and your body – is pretty amazing in that I reckon that most of us go through life so consumed by the external of life and so ruled by the dialogue of the mind that we are not even aware of our body even having a voice.
“When I am walking now, I feel my body, I hear what it’s telling me and I love to listen to it.” Walking and listening to your body is to be with a dear friend who consistently tells the truth.
Such a simple and beautifully expressed article Peggy which makes sense. The more we are present in our bodies and focus our mind to what we are doing in every moment then the less space there is for the nonsense of the mind. This is a great discipline which has also supported me immensely, as before I met Serge Benhayon my thinking was driving me nuts.
‘The nonsense of the mind’. It really is such nonsense and we can let it play such a large part of in our lives when all the wisdom we need comes when we are present with the body.
It’s the beauty of simplicity in choosing our next movement felt from the body that offers us a greater awareness of the world around us and a confirmation of absolute wisdom that we all hold within. It shows the unlimited possibilities of learning that we have right there within our bodies and all we have to do is stop and listen. Simplicity is the divine jewel in the crown and it is there to have and to hold always.
Thank you Peggy for your beautiful piece. What I can see is how this is an ancient way of living that you are re-connecting with, something that your body innately knows is true.
Peggy, I can relate to what you have shared here so well. Initially, reconnecting to my body felt like an up hill battle, I didn’t want to feel what my body had to share with me. After a great deal of loving persistence I have noticed that I am far more willing to listen to the messages and take rest when I’m tired or eat foods that are more supportive than others.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking” – so beautifully, simply said. It makes so much sense of how the opposite takes place when I am not consciously making a choice to be with myself – I am vacating my mind to be filled with anything that happens to be passing through and I would just become a puppet to that energy.
What you share here is enormous. We all live with our bodies, that is a fact and we cannot escape it, but we have learned to not live in and with our bodies but use them and almost solely rely on outside stimulation and impressions, in particular thoughts and pictures, to feel ourselves and get through life. What you bring us back to Peggy is that there is a way of living where we can actually feel ourselves from the inside out and experience life from there. This is a totally different way of being that is very warm and embracing of all and we have actually all once lived as children where our mind was always in line with what we were doing in the moment.
I have found such power in choosing to walk with me, moving at one with all of me instead of being always in my mind and therefore detached from what my body was doing or feeling. I love feeling my whole body as I move knowing that this movement affects every single particle in my body and so the more gently I move the more gentleness flows within me with this energy being left behind me with every gentle step I take. I have come to know that my mind really doesn’t care how I move but my body definitely does; no doubt for me that it’s the intelligent one!
HI Peggy, thanks so much for writing this…. And as I was reading the words at the start the words felt very similar to one of our new children’s songs…. Which goes like this …
I Listen To My Body
I listen to my body it has a lot to say
It tells me how I truly feel like when to rest and play
How to eat and when to sleep how others feel to me
My body is amazing it shows me all the way
My body feels everything that I say and do
And just as much it can feel other people too
And saying everything I feel, I can just be me,
So caring for my body is where I want to be
Oh caring oh listening, oh feeling , I can truly be
Oh caring oh listening, oh feeling , being all of me
What a truly gorgeous song. Thank you for sharing this Chris.
Love the words to your song cjames.
Peggy, thank you for the simplicity you have brought with this blog. I just love the way you have encapsulated exactly what I have been grappling with of late: Any complexity and it is calling me to go deeper in connection with my body. I have been realising how we use food or emotions instead of connection. I could call it laziness or I could simply see it for what it is and build the capacity to choose otherwise.