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 
I am learning this to 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. This is a new way of living, but an awesome way, which gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life.”
The teaching and presentations of Universal medicine should be taught at nursery and onwards. There is a way to live which is to be in harmony with our bodies when we live this way anything that isn’t in harmony stands out like a sore thumb, so that we can come back to harmony instantly as harmony is a vibration that can be felt.
The body does have such deep wisdom, maybe it is worth listening to what it is communicating with us, ‘The body has so much intelligence, and we haven’t tapped into the enormity of wisdom it can bring to us and it only starts with small, loving steps towards one self and the body.’
‘If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body’. This could be the one thing I focus on and in doing so build a relationship with whole body intelligence that will certainly serve me better than the runaway complexity and drama loving of my mind.
Peggy I loved the simplicity of this blog, and the reminder that it is about the body and the mind is happy to chatter away to distract us from connecting to it at all times. So purposeful done. I totally get about the separation and it doesn’t take long to strengthen a muscle if we are consistent with it.
We have every opportunity to listen and feel our body’s, it’s there all the time and it’s the one part of ourselves that is constantly communicating to us. We just need to stop, listen and feel it more often. Then what would life look like from this livingness then the intellectual mind?
The body is always communicating with us, and I have found it to be very wise, ‘It felt like there were two parts of me: my head, the ruler of my life, and my body, which I was ‘in’.’
I would say Lorraine that most of the worlds population is living from the head, we must be or there would not be such a plethora of illness and disease, when we cut ourselves off from our bodies by living in our minds then is it possible our bodies have to get our attention somehow, to say the way we are living is in total disrespect.
“When I am walking now, I feel my body, I hear what it’s telling me and I love to listen to it.” A beautiful walking companion.
I agree Mary, not only a beautiful walking companion but also developing the intimacy between the two too.
That’s a lovely simple description of our wise body, I will bear that in my body for my next walk, ‘A beautiful walking companion.’
When we disconnect from the body and allow the mind to rule, there is no heart in what we do.
Our current world is one that encourages the mind to take off and ‘show off’ but sadly this is most often done at the expense of the body and then as a sequel and consequence there is a build up of problems that happens in the body that then requires attention (often even medical attention).But is this really a way to live and to continue living when we find or re-discover that there is the simplicity of holding the body as an equal in importance to the mind? I say re-discover as we all had this as a baby or child – we might want to eat or play more but if the body was so tired it would speak so loudly that we would fall asleep on our toys or on our food. If we once had this body connection that was so loud, we can certainly bring it back.
The responsiveness of a young child to what is needed is very inspiring. We unlearn this as we grow older so I reckon we can re-learn and remember it too. The simplicity of this listening relationship with our bodies (wise and clear as they are) is very beautiful.
My body has brought it back in many respects, for the rest I am learning to stay listening, and honouring, ‘we all had this as a baby or child – we might want to eat or play more but if the body was so tired it would speak so loudly that we would fall asleep on our toys or on our food. If we once had this body connection that was so loud, we can certainly bring it back.’
Henrietta I have seen over the years how babies and very young children fall asleep while eating. I remember years ago, my daughter used to fall asleep while playing I would find her fast asleep amongst her toys. As adults we run our bodies on nervous energy which exhaust our bodies and we overcome this by eating and drinking food that over stimulate our bodies so that we fight the awareness that we are actually dead on our feet.
Peggy, I love the simplicity of what you have shared here about the body and the mind and how there is indeed a way to live that hold the mind with a true and simple purpose whilst always honouring equally the body.
Peggy what an offering of how it used to be, to how it is now and, the relationship you have developed by ‘just being with you’. And I loved the confirmation that the mind can’t be stopped, and being present with the body, is huger then this.
How much of humanity spends their time in their minds and think they have the answer to everything, when their bodies are in a mess. I mean we virtually ignore the communications and then we wonder why it breaks down with this condition or that condition.
The body has so much intelligence, and we haven’t tapped into the enormity of wisdom it can bring to us and it only starts with small, loving steps towards one self and the body. By walking with the body and feeling how the body feels is a great simple step towards reconnecting and being in the flow of life, instead of against it.
I have been in the doldrums for the past few weeks. It feels like being sluggish. Is it the drugs that are causing the fog in my mind or my mind checking out?
I find when I’m in my mind, my heart either starts racing because of the adrenaline being released and my body doesn’t like it or it becomes negative and destructive, and then I know what is running the show. When I’m in my body, it’s a lot more gentle and nurturing. Yes the body signals, hey stop the negative talk, come back to me and we can be together as we have work to do, whilst the other leaves us drained.
I work in a real old, big building. I spend a lot of time in the sub-basement. The building is a large rectangle with a curve on one side and straight on the other. There are hundreds of fire doors held back with magnets on the main corridors and even more rooms with doors on both sides of the hall. The main straight side is 437 meters long with ocean blue doors with white walls and battleship grey floors. The stage is set! When the mind drifts just a little as I am walking to a destination, I spend a lot of time missing the door I was going to. It shows how far we can physically drift away from our self when we are not self-aware and lose our way.
Love the beautiful simplicity of your blog and what you share here, Peggy. The other day I was on the phone with a friend trying to work through something that seemed to be stuck in me. On impulse, I felt to get up out of the chair I was in and move to a different place. As soon as I started moving my body, I, and what I was trying to work through, suddenly became unstuck. I love experiencing the wisdom of being present and returning to my body when I find my mind has wandered and become stuck.
The complexity of the mind gets exposed by the simplicity of the body.
Now there is a phrase that needs to be coined, Henrietta! ‘The complexity of the mind gets exposed by the simplicity of the body.’ Pure gold.
There is constant communication in and from our bodies – how much do we actually listen to it?
Now this keeps things simple, ‘ we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do… just being with ‘you’’.
I can relate to what you have written Peggy as it wasn’t until meeting Serge Benhayon and discovering that what I think is actually not who I am. This made sense to me because so often I had random thoughts that would pop into my head and I would wonder where they came from. It is such a relief to know they are not my thoughts but something that I’m picking up from my surroundings.
Thank you for explaining this so simply, Peggy. The impact of being disconnected to our bodies is very clear.
By not listening to our bodies is like driving your car with your eyes shut. There are only two types of motorcyclists: those that will crash and those that have. There is one more group, but the last thing they do is crash once.
Having a gentle physical movement that I can focus on can certainly help act as a bridge to get myself out of my mind and back into my whole body, filling myself up from head to toe.
When I understood that it is not about trying to empty my mind but simply ensuring it is present in whatever activity I am doing it made so much sense. And my mind’s wayward moments, when it is dashing off and thinking about things behind or ahead of now, make life much more complicated than it truly is.
Bringing our mind back, and being present with what we are doing, helps keep life simple, ‘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.’
Sometimes the head and the mind can take over and this is when the chatter does not stop – I call it head noise! And this is a sure sign or symptom that I have been too much in my head and have neglected my body.
Henrietta it was such a relief to discover that the thoughts we have are not ours, but are fed to us from a stream of consciousness that we have aligned to by the movements that we make. These movements can be from past life experiences that we have held onto and brought with us into our next life, so we have patterns of behaviour or movements that are hard wired into our DNA.
Our body also talks to us when we sleep; it exacerbates what we have ignored during the day by waking us at night, to remind us!
I can see now how influenced I was, for so many years, by the societally accepted intelligence of my mind, as to the choices of food I was constantly eating, while all the time my body was patiently trying to get my attention to the fact that there were some foods that were making it sick. But that’s how I was raised, as were my parents, so no blame handed out. These days, my body is my wisest friend, the one I listen to first, and although my mind tries to convince me otherwise its voice is very rarely listened to; and if I ever do it is something which is usually regretted not long after!
Ever since I was a child I have lived in my mind, this was where I could say what I liked back to the people I felt were hard and abusive towards me and others. My mind could make things appear very complex so that I would give up and not be bothered as it as it seemed too difficult, it became my fortress, no one could get me there.
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.
Meeting Serge Benhayon and his family changed all this; they supported me to come down from my fortress mind and occupy my body. This was difficult and it has taken quite a few years to come back into my body. The hard work I put in to bring myself back has been so worth it. I love and honour my body and attempt to listen to it as it has always spoken to me’ I have just ignored it for 50 years. The more I deepen my awareness and relationship with me the more there is to unfold, it’s a never ending beautiful experience and I cannot thank the Benhayons enough for all the support they have given me to come back to me my body.
Coming back to our body is not an overnight task, there are many things we can do in life to help support us being with our body, ‘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.’
How interesting that we think it is initially a tick the box exercise. I suspect it is because we perceive ourselves to be so time poor that we just want it fixed and to make it stop so we don’t have to consider the longer and more time-consuming ‘why’.
We can take a gap year or sabbatical from life/work to expand ourselves, illegally? Or, is this a holiday for the mind to further disconnect from the body? When all that is required is a moment of connection to our body.
We are often doing things at the expense of our bodies, we push, we shove and try to fit our bodies into whatever it is that our minds desires. Life is a lot more harmonious if we flip this perception on its head and use the body to make the choice.
When we are stuck with something in our mind, the world can fade around us as we re-think all of the possibilities. Who has never gone to work and do not remember the trip? Walking and being within ourselves puts the mind in neutral and allows us to reconnect to ourselves. What we fill our space with, determines the quality of our movements.
Being with our body helps us be more aware of the quality of our movements, ‘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.’
Building a relationship with the body is our absolute responsibility- not in a burdensome or serious way, but because having that relationship with what we can feel means that we learn to feel what is truly us and what is not- ie the layers that we put over the top of who we truly are. Through that learning, we feel steadier, more solid, more confident, more knowing and aware of who we are and what we bring.
If there is complexity and confusion, I returned to my body… What a great statement, and this could be the foundation for so much self-care and healthcare for the anxiousness and stress that underlies most of our society.
The more time I spend ‘in my body’ (as in my mind in line with my body’s activity) the simpler and surer life and my place in it becomes. It feels like home.
I had spent a great deal of this life and many other lifetimes willingly creating tension and anxiety for myself. I now know and can feel I had caused the perfect storm within to keep me from feeling everything I am!
I can absolutely relate to what you have shared Steve, the acceptance of which was rather an ‘ouch’ moment. But we can’t go back and undo what we have done, only take the lessons and live them as best we can. It’s not about perfection but about a commitment to living in a way where we live all of us and our amazingness, and not selective bits, so no ‘perfect storm’ required.
I can so relate to causing the perfect storm in my body to stop myself from knowing and feeling the greatness that I am. I like billions of other people have allowed an energy to rule my body believing it was me but then discovering through the presentations of Universal Medicine that actually the ‘I’, I thought I was is not me but a negative energy passing through me giving me thoughts I think are mine that makes me who I am. We have all been lied to big time in thinking we think it is such a huge scam.
Thank you, Peggy, for reminding me the simplicity the connection with the body brings. The mind often gets impatient with the speed of physicality and tries to go ahead of it and it totally makes sense why we would find ourselves in complexity and confusion when we are not all together as one unit.
What can be confusing until we restore a deeper sense and understanding of body and mind again that the mind is abusing the senses to indulge in stimulation that then is felt as a need or desire from the body or as being the body but doesn´t match the natural rhythm of the body to deeply care for itself by consistently maintaining homeostasis/harmony.
This is great Alexander thank you. Another level of understanding the way the mind can pull us out of a flow and harmony that is our natural.
We definitely need to bring the mind back to the body before it knows itself to be a part of it again and thus whole-body-mind-intelligence is ignited again and becomes our natural way of being.
‘we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body with all things we do.’ Our minds can be so crazily busy with things that we want to also escape it. But what happens when we leave ourselves? Who or what gets in the driving seat? In the end we are checked out. When we are present with our bodies in what we do, there is an amazing stillness which is a welcome contrast to the swirling mind.
Making eye contact with people is a very powerful way to bring focus to the connection between ourselves and another, rather than the separation caused by emotions and reactions to what is playing out in front of us. This is a great reminder, thank you Peggy.
Really interesting Simone while at a recent exhibition everyone had to wear face masks which meant that you had to look people in the eyes, rather than distract yourself by looking at another part of their face. I was told many years ago that looking into peoples eyes is to look into their soul.
When we let our head talk we have the idea we have no choice that there is only complexity and we don’t seem to find a way to simplicity, most of the times it only get worse and like you described we get angry on all kind of things outside of ourselves. Whole body intelligence is the answer to come back to a life that is simple and where our wise body do the talking, to connect to every part of this amazing body.
When I am connected and present with myself life has a beautiful natural flow it is the moment I step away from that connection that complication starts to creep in.
We are not taught when we are young to stay with what we feel but to come out and join everyone in the ‘outside’ world which for me means be in our heads, we are actively encouraged to do this from very young. Coming back again to the reconnection to our bodies takes practice but I am finding its well worth the effort
It is so simple isn’t it… And yet, there is that part of us that still loves the complexity and indeed the confusion.
Where in all of nature is there a creature that purposely chooses to make their life complicated… other than, man?
Walking with you as you feel every footstep supporting your body as you move invites your mind to be at one with the body and the movement.
I returned to this wisdom which you share yesterday, when an unexpected incident threatened to wobble me. As I began to feel myself being overtaken by the emotion, I made the choice to walk, not just walking for the sake of walking, but being totally conscious of how I placed each foot on the ground, even down to feeling each toe. And it didn’t take long before I could feel the emotion begin to dissolve and my connection to my body return; my body and mind working as one.
I know what it is like being in my head and the confusion, tension and anxiety that it creates, where when I am connected to my body there is a simplicity and ease fullness to life.
In separation we are less, united we are stronger.
It is so great to read about your journey and appreciating the natural flow that can be in your life. And I understand the challenges that this can bring, especially when a life has been created on dis-harmony and without its natural rhythms. So, to return is a big deal and beautifully so.
The body talks to us. The mind talks to us. Not only do we choose who to listen to and not we also choose a pattern of movement that has an effect over what the body or the mind say to us.
Whole-body intelligence… What a wonderful phrase. Just saying it opens up so many possibilities of awareness.
I have experienced this many times, ‘Because of this disconnection and emptiness, I could react in a stressful way when something happened in my life.’ A few nights ago, I reacted to minor things because I didn’t allow myself to feel what my body was communicating to me. When I reflect back, I can pin point it back to the moment when I chose to disconnect from my body by ignoring its messages. Once I felt disconnected an ill energy then runs the show. This can happen very fast, because emptiness and disconnection gives permission for the ill energy to come in and run the show faster than I can think. It can take a while to clear and shift if I am not willing to be aware of this exchange or until I choose to take responsibility for what I’ve chosen. It was a great lesson and I am constantly learning that the key is to listen, honour and connect to my body.
I love the way you express what you experienced, chanly88. So very profound and yet, so simple what happens when we choose to disconnect leaving ourselves empty and giving permission for an ill energy to come in and complicate matters.
Just completing a walking therapies that deepened our awareness and can also go into the conscious presence basket so as we walked, we developed awareness at our first step felt amazing in our body!
When we are connected to the body there is no space for complication or mind chatter, that’s why what Serge Benhayon presents on whole body intelligence is such an important and powerful teaching that the whole world would benefit immensely from.
When we get lost in the thoughts of our mind we can definitely go off on a tangent and make up stories or complications that take us totally away from the present task or situation at hand.
I agree Suse, and this can happen constantly if we allow it, and if we do not put a stop to it, we can feel exhausted especially when our thoughts are running a hundred miles an hour without checking in with ourselves, with our body and be present with what we are doing.
Yes and this brings a flow which means we are much more efficient. It is letting go of the control, of ‘thinking’ we know best and perhaps surrendering to the wisdom of our own bodies.
Our bodies are actually quite bossy! They tell us when to eat sleep, talk, listen, move… if we listen the ease in our body is felt very clearly and when we work against it the communication is equally clear we have just worked out some awesome life-hacks to bi-pass the communication.
Sometimes I feel a build-up of tension in my body – so it is great for me to read this and understand how important it is to not ignore this and know that we can look at how we are living and the quality in which we are living, and how all this impacts how we are with others.
I endure the same when I am around children – I meet them in the eyes. I could say nearly 100% of the time they meet me back. If children do this where are adults at if this is much lesser the case?
What most of humanity has no idea of, is, that we do have a choice. And this is when it is so important that we live in a way that simply by reflection, offers the possibility that there is a choice.
Oh yes, I can remember feeling this way Cjames2012, I used to think I didn’t have a choice in life and with this I felt disempowered, helpless and I felt like a victim to the misery of life. But now, I can feel that we all have a choice and when we understand this very simple truth, it can be deeply, deeply empowering.
We are never too old to reconnect to who we have forgotten, we all are.
We become the ambassadors of change just by living it for all to see and feel that there is another way.
Thank you Peggy, as someone who finds they are thinking a lot being with my body is something I need to give more focus to. This is supportive and very practical “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.”
” He presented to me after the workshop that we can’t stop the mind, but we can instead be present in our body ”
Thats the key for the mind is part of the body and us been present in out body gives the mind work to do.
The big difference I am noticing is that my mind loves to work in isolation (from the rest of my body, from the understanding of others and from a grand picture of humanity’s future and wellbeing), whereas my body works in relationship with everything, responding instantly to all that is going on and communicating clearly… this is fun to be exploring.
” 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. ”
This is so true a whole body intelligence that we all are .
When we allow the mind to lead us through the day, we can be sure to say that at the end of the day we feel exhausted. As our mind alone will never consider or give regard to the body, for our body will always reflect the truth. In developing a loving relationship with our body, we allow ourselves to be guided by our truth, by a quality that represents the love we are, and knows in absoluteness what will or will not support us to live the love we are. Yes, it is from here we get to live in connection to a far greater intelligence that the mind alone can never ever know.
From an early age, are we taught to listen to our bodies, to build confidence in what we feel (and not what we are told to do), to express our free will and our clairsentience?
What you speak of here Simon is precisely where our education needs to begin in order from us to live knowing who we are with true confidence and true power. If we honestly looked around at the current state of our world, it is evident that knowledge is not working or really supporting us a humanity.
The answer to your question, Simon, is ‘no’ and as Carola says it could be through our education system that we support people to stay in relationship with their bodies and the confidence and wisdom of what they feel. This will be something we realise at some point.
We may have aeons ago listened to our body’s but have chosen to ignore what our body has never stopped telling us. We can choose at any time to hear again.
Brilliant Peggy – you sum up our whole issue with life. It’s like we are trying to run a car on a train track. Whilst that might be an entertaining puzzle to solve – it will never work. Why don’t we accept the true way our vehicle likes to be steeered in this world?
There is an illusion that the body can take a lot of punishment and still continue, i.e. an alcohol binge, or even a chocolate binge. Although the body does recover, each choice that is not loving is recorded and an impact made, and then in the future they come back to haunt us with ill health, or tiredness etc. Each choice makes a difference.
It’s a very good point about when there is complexity or confusion. It is truly incredible how much our bodies will tell us if we are willing to listen to it. We always know the answer, it’s just that we often don’t want to hear or feel it because it might often mean that our truth might ruffle the feathers of another, and here the complexity that comes in and has us move up into our heads hatching a plan to come up with an answer that will keep the peace amongst everyone. But life doesn’t work like that. Or rather, doesn’t work well like that.
Our minds tend to make us into a believer of our ‘emotions and stresses in life are us and without them we are nothing’. When we get out of our head and into our body the opposite becomes the flavour of the day and a way of living is developed where life flows with an endless stream of Love.
Very thought provoking Peggy! Seriously though, I totally agree with the way the mind loves to create a big story, especially when I’m driving in the car and put the ‘analysis mode’ on full volume. When I get out the other end its invariably with a headache rather than an expansion in myself.
Paying attention to the quality of our thoughts, we get to see how our choices impact the quality of our thoughts – the way/what we eat, how we work, how we sleep, what we do in our spare time.. all of these things affect how steady and present we are with our body, the quality of our thoughts, and so, our overall experience of life.
This is great Peggy, when we start listening to our bodies then we get messages that allow a rhythm in our day and this does not cause as many disruptions so that we have “less stress and a more natural flow in life.”
I Love this blog Peggy. My mind has also been running me in circles for most of my life. It is very clever, I have a strong natural intuition as to what is going on around me, my mind has used this in the past to feed me inaccurate stories/information from what I have perceived. It is partly true, yet it always has a nasty slant on it that the intuition I felt is completely misrepresented. So now when I have my mind feed me a story about something I have felt I simply recognise it is a lie and life will eventually reflect the truth to me if needed. The mind constantly feeds us lies to keep us entertained and enthralled in non-existing complexity’s. The one thing the mind never offers is the truth as it wants us to be constantly chasing our tail.
Absolutely Peggy, my body shares so much with me, ‘When I am walking now, I feel my body, I hear what it’s telling me and I love to listen to it.’
The problem is that the body can tell us things which are true and those that not necessarily are. This applies to several spheres of life. We have to go beyond what the body talks to us and be able to discriminate true and false and when is true, better pay attention.
‘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.’ Beautifully said Peggy, any complexity is a great sign that we have gone off track, to stop, and allow the space to return to who we truly are.
Beautiful Peggy, as if our body is constantly inviting us to surrender and be with our body & what we feel.. Hence when we feel depleted or exhausted we often are brought back in a very physical way to be with our bodies.
“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 – and one I ignored for many years as my head ruled over anything else. I have found Esoteric Yoga such a huge support to enable me to align my body with my mind. And now I truly listen to my body’s messages.
I agree, letting go of pictures, and being aware of our thoughts is part of this too – once we’re aware of the quality of our thoughts, we can choose to say no to them.
Walking can be a great tool to help bring us back to our body and our connection, simply feeling parts of our body and how they feel, and then as you added, what you hear, and then what you see, and again back to feeling our body, all gives our mind something to focus on.
Thank you Peggy – this shows how our relationship with our bodies is one that starts within and is then reflected outwards. So the ease you now feel about yourself is expressed by the way you connect with people rather than react to them – what amazing wisdom about relationships our bodies offer us.
The gem that every parent on this planet would love to know about – true connection and true relationship with children and the emotional behaviour is not needed in any way.
“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”.
Children are a constant reminder of our connection to ourselves that never leaves us.
Learning the tools for reconnecting to our bodies… priceless. Be that a gentle breath, walking with this purpose, or simply being aware of how we are moving in the day, there are so many opportunities if we know where to look for them.
Just starting the journey of trusting our body to know what is true and what is not is opening up to really a whole new world… where the heart leads, and the mind knows its place
Bringing our mind back to being aware of our whole body and the way we’re moving, walking or communicating and relating with another in anything we do really helps us to re-gather and bring all of us to the moment rather than be ‘in our heads’ so to speak…
Thank you Peggy for sharing especially the simplicity and truth in these words, “If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body. ” there are times when I go into my head about a decision and become confused as to what to do, in these moments of indecision it certainly is a marker for me to realise that I have left my body. Time for a walk and feel my body.
This is such a great example of how simple is the presentations of Serge Benhayon. His reply was to walk. How gorgeous and sweet because you are fully in command of your walk, no one can rule this over you, how you walk is your own. And so in his most simplest of words Serge has given you the power to transform your life.
Of course… a lived example of how to transform our lives… the simplicity is super inspiring.
Our body knows no complexity or struggle and as such is our dear, wise sage reflecting our every choice back to us and forecasting our future based on our lived way.
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.
Yes Debra, it really makes the difference when we come back to our body by simply paying attention to the way we walk. I do it too in school when I go from a classroom to another, and I feel that in those moments I’m preparing myself for the next encounter, being with me to be with another, and I can see in children the difference. As I’m open from within, they too, and the quality of what is shared from that space is felt in the deep respect that is shared between us.
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 really enjoy the intimacy with my body too, it is the cosiest of feelings. Whenever I have stepped away from this beautiful and true relationship I would go back again, humbled all over and this is a continuous cycle that brings us closer and closer together.
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.
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.
Yes – even if it’s a ‘nice thing’ or thought, it’s still a distraction. Any thought is a distraction away from the simple and direct communication from our body.
Yes, what essential communication and messages are we missing while our mind is chatting away to us?
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.
Connecting to my body is the best way to disarm any negativity I may find myself in.
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.
Peggy, this is very beautiful. I am practicing lately moving in a way that my body naturally wants to move, I realised that I had been ‘trying’ to move in a delicate, gentle way, but that I did not need to try I simply need to be present in my body and allow my body to move how it would like to, this feels very simple and very lovely.
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.
Ha ha Carmel, I know that one, how often do we all override what our bodies say to us and then have to suffer the consequences of that choice?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peggy, yesterday I felt the consequences of not listening to my body; I carried something that I knew was too heavy and this created an achy-ness in my body and I felt disregarding and disconnected with myself and as a result, the rest of the day felt jarring and unharmonious, I can feel how our bodies always know what is too heavy and what is too much for us, even before we have lifted anything; ‘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?’
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.
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.
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.
The body is truly an amazing gift that we all have, it costs nothing and offers us enormous amount of wisdom and growth every day.
A body that is an absolute gift, serves us and is of immeasurable value.
It is not a matter of ignoring the mind per say, but more a matter of bringing the mind into alignment with the body, so you are actually using both simultaneously. That is the key to true wisdom, and the true meaning of what we refer to as contemplation.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I find that appreciation is deeply supportive. Everything that I “thought” I had failed, I turned it around to appreciate what this learning is for myself, so as to not give energy and controlling power to the mind, instead I consistently practiced on what is felt and there is always something to appreciate about that, I only needed to allow myself to feel it and it’s all there.
You describe a battle here between being in the head and being in the body, how much tension and self bashing that comes from being in one or the other. What I loved reading was the ease that came with the realisation that it is not about one or other winning but about both working harmoniously together. The body speaks, the mind hears, listens and sends instructions and the body actions perhaps? Could it be a relationship to explore?
I find it really difficult to feel the difference between by body and my head – because I have lived for so long from my head and try to work things out from there – I don’t or very rarely feel ( I know I feel everything but I very rarely feel what is true for me – I go straight to my head or don’t trust my feelings, look outside myself, as others or seek confirmation) this saddens me at times.
Focusing your mind to what you are doing saves so much energy and things get done so much quicker. We can wonder off for hours thinking about this and that and not getting the task at hand done.
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.
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.
Beautiful Peggy, what your words remind me is how it’s not what I do, but simply the energy I chose to let flow me that determines the joy and vitality I will feel next. Yes, go for a walk by all means, do that work you’ve been putting off – but make sure you do it with ALL of you.
I have noticed that having a shower is a great place to recognise whether I am with my body or in my head thinking about all the things that need to be done that day!. Coming back to being present with myself then becomes a choice and that choice is well worth making. It enlivens the body and supports us in every way.
Giving the mind the power to make decisions is as sensible as asking a thief to hold your wallet.
I am smiling as I type wise words Alexis.
The this or that, the pros and cons, the body or the mind can explore certain aspects of something but never have the absolute knowing or answer – whole body intelligence has as it relates to whole to understand the part and therefore is inclusive of all parts in respect of the whole.
Peggy you have nailed it here – “If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” – is there anything more simplifying that to come back to feeling the soles of your feet as you walk, the rise and fall of your rib cage as you breath, the swing of your arms as you walk…? The body does allow us to keep things super simple and dare I say easy!
I wonder how much our inability to listen to our body is related to that we don’t know who we are or that we think we are our mind? If we think we are our mind it makes no sense to override our mind despite copious evidence to the contrary – the many thoughts we have that are definitely not true.
It’s a wonderful moment when we feel a loving connection back to our bodies. There is a simplicity and stillness that is present, and when this happens after a very busy time it can even catch me by surprise, I can feel the spaciousness and be a little in awe of the instant transformation.
It is amazing how our mind can make something simple complicated, by running with a story that as you say Penny might start small and insignificant, but then becomes like a run away train that can’t stop. I used to do this a lot but now catch myself a lot sooner. It is such a waste of energy and a distraction from moving on and completing tasks.
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.
Simple practical and very loving self healing. Instead of taking a pill to fix our woes why not simply reconnect to our body on a loving walk with ourselves? The mind can say what ever it likes but it does not change the fact that it is absolutely gorgeous to just be with our presence in each moment.
It is a great revelation and learning to discover that our mind simply does not have all the answers that our body’s true intelligence naturally offers us.
And when I feel how grand this intelligence is I am always aware that there is more – left to ask ‘what else is possible ?
Being in our heads calls an energy into our bodies called prana, which in turn promotes us staying in our heads and making our decisions from there. Prana is an energetic source that is pre occupied with preventing humanity from knowing the truth of who they are. On the other hand being with our bodies calls in a fiery energy and the energy of fire is always looking to reunite us with the truth of who we are.
‘Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.’ It is amazingly simple to transform complexity into simplicity.
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.
“My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing.” exactly the same for me, I would be in the drama of all the little things that exploded into being big things through my mind.
We can’t stop the mind but we can be present with the body. It’s a significant distinction to make. Thanks, Peggy.
Yes agree Joel, a complete shift in focus, that makes all the difference. Gosh, how much time is wasted focussing on the wrong things.
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.
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.
To think that children would grow up allowing their bodies to lead the way if we adults did not teach it out of them is appalling really. Not only do we teach it out of them but we bully it out of them, chastise it out of them, threaten it out of them, punish it out of them, lord over them to get it out of them, persuade it out of them, lie it out of them, hoodwink it out of them, trick it out of them and force it out of them and all of this we disguise as parenting and education. Lord have mercy!
It is the pride of the human spirit that we think and can be ‘creative’… Deconstructing this will be a true evolutionary milestone for humanity.
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.
I was walking yesterday and was very focused on being present and feeling my body during my walk. However, I did observe how easily the mind likes to come in and distract with thoughts, which takes me away from feeling my body. Much more aware when this happened and would bring my focus back to my body.
Great example Jacqueline, a rhythm of consciously returning to onself.
‘My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues’. Yes, mine too!. Letting my mind rule, my life was filled with complication and struggle, and I was always rushing everywhere with never enough time as I allowed my mind to push my body to do more, to be better, to have more….this way of life is exhausting. These days I am much more in my body and my life has become simpler and way less stress!
‘The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.’ I love this sentence, it is so true. When present, I feel the expansiveness of my whole body and the chatter in my head can stop.
How natural and lovely it is to be in the simplicity of connection to our body rather than giving our power away to the ramblings of the mind on its own.
This is so interesting. I live the fact how walking is important for us to lessen the thoughts in our mind.
Yes, I agree Peggy, Complexity and confusion are great markers for being aware of not being present with our body.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking”.
Connecting to the body and the love that I am had made me realise that the heaviness that I also feel inside my head, isn’t me. It’s become a habit to connect to the heaviness and talk / live from my (disconnected) mind, at the expense of my own well-being and vitality. There’s a stillness inside that requires deep nurturing to allow it out. Which means nurturing oneself in every move we make in life.
Life can get very miserable and hard to navigate when we let the mind run the show, as it will only get crazier and out of control if we do not bring it back to the body. Coming back to the body either by walking, connecting to another and the Gentle Breath Meditation can help to settle the mind.
The thing about youth and ignoring our bodies messages is easy because we are young! As we age, the body doesn’t bounce back as fast as it used to. We come to the point where we have to change the way we are living and pay more attention to what the body is telling us or medicate ourselves to function at the same level, but at an even greater level of disregard to our body.
The mind will never give us the answers to what we seek. The body instead delivers them with such an absoluteness.
Peggy, I can very much relate to this; ‘My mind loved to make a little thing complex and so created issues.’ If I allow myself to go into thoughts then I can create a drama out of something unimportant, what I am finding lately is that if I choose to be present in my body at these times and know that these thoughts are not true and do not serve me or others then I can come back to the truth of a situation and that I can learn from situations, express how I am feeling and let it go, that there is no need to mull things over in my mind as this serves only to keep me in drama and keep me separate from others and disconnected from myself.
The quality of our lives is a clear indication of just how much we allow our heads or our bodies to lead the way. Our heads usually like to indulge in a bit of complication, drama and control while our bodies invariable offer us simplicity, focus and a willing commitment to our day.
Our minds love to make simple things complex, mountains out of mole hill so to speak but is the mind not part of the body so when the two work in unison that’s when we know what harmony really is.
I have come to understand that when I neglect, over-ride, ignore the call to love more deeply myself and to appreciate and honour what I bring to the world, I am neglecting. over-riding and ignoring the light others truly are and bringing to the world and hence live in re-action. Today that has changed and the lives reflected back to me are full of beauty, opportunity and the potential that others bring to this world that sits so openly waiting.
It really is important to allow what we feel inside our bodies and to ensure that what is in our minds is aligned to that. Education focuses on what we learn from books and TV and other external media, but misses out on the whole body and our true inteligence
Your blog is a great reminder of how walking is super supportive and a simple exercise for the whole body
Hear hear Johannebrown17, because walking is a necessary something that we do a great part of the day, we can take it for granted – and for sure walk around ‘oblivious’ to the fact we are walking. Walking whilst being present and aware of our walk can change the quality of the day we experience significantly – very supportive indeed.
The two things which hold so much power in us connecting to ourselves we seem to take so much for granted and easily over look the magic they hold: breathing and walking.
Spot on Michael!
Connecting to others is deeply important and as you say, begins by connecting within – being present in our body and adhering to our natural flow.
The age old dilemma of body and mind comes to a simple end when finally the both work together as a unified whole. We then have Whole Body Intelligence whereby the mind is a natural aspect of the body.
Great call Ariana, when I ask my self the question ‘is this love and equal to God’s love?’ There is no doubt or confusion in the immediate response. And then the next choice is simple.
Complexity is an absolute gem to remind me to return to my body. Confusion is also a good one to flag – particularly when understanding IT.
I love reading this, reminding me again and again that it’s all about the body and not the mind.
I have been loving noticing the swing of my hips recently as it feels so lovely and a conformation of myself as a woman. I would never have noticed this if I hadn’t been at the different events presentations of Universal medicine.
We are being communicated everything we need in every moment. Free will is the decision about how much awareness we give to that which we are receiving.
We are being communicated everything we need in every moment – such a powerful reminder Michael. How much we are open to that is how much we are open to evolving and feeling everything there is to feel. I have made huge progress from the space of not wanting to feel, to wanting to feel everything that is there to feel and express, and backing this up with continually refining my food choices and being aware of my movements – a work in progress!
Finding less ‘stress’ in my life has come about because I am not ‘reacting’ to life. In connecting to my divinity, life has become more about feeling or seeing that everything is energy, and that energy is only a vibration. When I feel my vibration being lesser, then I have gone into contraction, I know I have to move in away to reconnect to my Soul. We can all feel the energy of ‘anger’ has nothing to do with the Soul so why do we allow this energy to be? Everything is energy therefore every thing is because of energy Serge Benhayon. Love what you have shared Peggy, it is so simple to start to move and walk in the energy of our divine connection.
When I am truly in my body I feel a real expandedness, steadiness and stillness. There is nothing else that compares to this. When in my head I feel none of these things. Slowly I have been tipping the scales as to which one I give more focus to and over time I know that I will get to a point where it hurts too much to be in my head so that I will make the body my every day consistency.
In a world where pretty much everything is set-up for us to be in our minds and let this dominate our bodies it is no wonder that the rise in ill-ness and dis-ease is sky rocketing out of control. Serge Benhayon has presented from 1999 how we are Divine beings with a Soul which we either allow and emanate out of us or we suffocate it and this quality by the mental energy that dominates us if we so let it. You can’t access and connect with your body if you are in your mind.
I havent realised until recently just how consuming it can be to be focussing in screens and phones, the digital life we are calling reality – and the level of detail we are missing out in in the reading of our own current lives, just observing movement in enough.
We are in the process of choosing a house to buy and it is amazing how much my mind complicates the process. All I need to do is feel – my body knows if it is a Yes or No.
Beautiful Carmel, it is that simple!
Even as I am sat here in my chair working at my computer, I have become aware that I often cross my legs when I am working at my desk – and yet i can now feel a strain in my calf, leg and hip that I never felt before – now I could either keep my legs crossed or listen to my body and find a new more supportive posture. As habitual as crossing my legs is, I am attempting to honour my body and possibly improve my posture and the tenseness I often develop in my back and hips.
I love to listen to my body too Peggy. Your blog reminded me of the simplicity of this.
Walking consciously brings us back to the body, a daily therapy that is free and available to all of us.
Walking is a great tool to support us in conscious presence and to shift momentums of ill- energy within our body, restoring our true, natural flow.
Super honest expose of the depths the mind will take us, if we let it. The body is our messenger and friend, if we learn to listen and be guided by it, life becomes that much simpler.
One of the reasons why we do not ‘listen’ to the body is because it is not the only one talking to us. Our spirit does too and it does not tell us exactly the same as the body. It is up to us being able to distinguish our internal voices and give them the value they deserve.
I know for sure that you are not alone in letting your mind speak for your body instead of letting your body, a very wise body, speak for itself for that’s how I lived the majority of my life. To come to know the huge intelligence of the body and the fact that the mind is actually a trickster has made so much sense of how I used to live my life. My body is the one I listen to these days and as a result my life has changed in a myriad of wonderful ways.
“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.” Imagine if introducing this way of walking with ourselves became a standard part of the treatment/support for all kinds of mental illness and its assosciated problems? It would certainly reduce the costs on the NHS!
I have discovered that allowing my mind to be in charge is not wise. My body has suffered a lot as a consequence. Getting to know my body and choosing to care for and respect it has been life changing. I am now more attentive to its messages. When I consider all of me, i operate as a whole, as one, and there is a more harmonious flow that was not present before.
Ah Ha! This makes total sense as to why all those hours spent attempting to ’empty the mind’ in earnest meditation in my younger years, only created more separation in myself and leaving the mind as boss! Being with the body in any action and movement (walking etc) has proven itself to be completely the opposite – it is impossible (and dangerous) to empty the mind and the most gorgeous feeling to be re-connected to God, the Universe and our particles through the body.
“He (Serge Benhayon) 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”.
What a great reminder Peggy – whatever we give attention to is what is predominant (present as the strongest or main element.) in our lives. By switching from giving attention to the stories and fabrications of the mind, to returning to re-connecting and being present with the body, is a key to the true way of whole body intelligence.
“My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing”.
Great question Peggy ‘Do we listen to our bodies?’ I would surmise from our over weight population that many people do not listen to their bodies because if we were listening to them we would not have the obesity problem that we do. Listening to our body is such a simple remedy to so many of our health issues…. We need to ask ourselves why do we ignore its messages?
I love that it is not about emptying or shutting off the mind, but bringing it into what the rest of our being is participating at each moment.
I have found that the more I connect to my whole body and learn to live life via this connection, the easier it becomes to take the unexpected events in my stride, hence continually reducing the need to react and saving a lot of time, energy and emotional distress in the process.
When we start to backtrack as to why some complexity has crept into our lives, we usually find a choice we have made that starts as a snowball, that then rolls down the hill until it becomes huge and hard to move. With the practice of being with our self, we can identify the snowball for what it is and move on.
If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body. Yes, this is a definite give away the we have gone into our heads and don’t have our inner wisdom to guide us.
“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” – I also found/find this too Peggy, whenever i’m in decision or a quandary about something, it’s an indication i’ve left myself and gone upstairs into the attic of my whirring head. Coming back down again to the body through focused movement brings clarity to assess without reaction and improbable knee jerk error as a result.
Student of our own body – how complicated is the education system when we reflect on the fact that we are not taught from young about our bodies and how we can use them fully. We are forced to focus on a small part of our body and being which negates a deep connection with ourselves and consequently leads us to behaviours that are not supportive of ourselves or others.
This is such a gorgeous blog – honest and simple – here we are – living in a body that offers us so much and a quality of life as our body flows in harmony, its when we are controlled by our thoughts, we leave our body and become in disharmony with it.
Thank you Peggy for the wonderful reminder of how simple it can be to return to our body and live life from there. There is so much for each of us in developing this relationship with ourselves, with our body and allowing things to unfold from there.
I’ve not been able to complete a walk as normal over the last few days and I really miss it in my whole day. As I walk in the morning I can appreciate the foundation it provides in me for the day ahead.
“The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking.” This is so true the more we are with ourselves, we have a truer purpose and that supports and stops the mind from wondering. When you are connected to your purpose, you are also connected to your body.
We can often ignore messages because of sadness or hurts.
What you describe could be one of the biggest unspoken diseases of our time. I have noticed it is prevalent in children as much as the elderly. This constant ‘on’ in our heads. There is much to be gained from taking time to make the connection to the body and ensure the mind is connected to what the body is doing and sharing.
‘If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body’. Everything makes sense when we are completely with our body.
Also if we in overwhelm, it is a sign that we are not in our body/not in presence, as the soul does not give us anything we cannot handle.
It’s so easy to allow ourselves to be ‘abused’ by our minds where a small thing becomes huge and actually if we keep it simple, coming back to and feeling in our body what life around us feels like – that’s so simple and as I feel this I can feel a let go of the complications my mind is trying to create. Thank you Peggy and Serge Benhayon for reminding me.
Well said Monica. No one abuses us, but the energy we allow when we don’t choose to be in and claim our body.
‘ The more I am with myself, the less space there is for my thoughts and thinking ‘ I find this too Peggy. Having a decision that felt quite big the other day, I went into my head to thinking it through.. realising this I stopped reconnected to my body and the answer was there, instantly, so simple and it was not big, as I had made it out to be.
If our bodies are talking the whole day to us as you say Peggy, then in fact we can let go of the more rigid planning and timetabling and know that our bodies will guide us in the finer details. This feels a very liberating way to be with the day.
Yes, understanding that my thoughts are not me and that if I stop and feel my body, it brings a very different understanding of what is going on, has changed my life.
It is a very mental world, when things start to get crazy and spin me, I am remembering that simply by feeling my feet touching the ground, I can slow down the spinning and get back to myself. This concept has totally lowered my stress levels, allowed me to get my sleep back on track and changed my life in so many ways.
So much appreciation to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for supporting me to live in way that has allowed me to get back to myself. I am feeling ready to go out in the world and show people there is another way to be in the world, that makes sense and I feel I can deal with all the issues in the world.
It is a study worth doing on oneself to discover how moving in a way brings focus to our body and has an effect on our ability to be more self-loving and to also notice the quality and type of thoughts we receive.
Peggy its quite amazing how when we make quality of movement a focus what a difference the ripple effects are, how much that changes everything and the impact on everything in our lives. I’ve also noticed how the thoughts have far less power over me and are far fewer when I am aware of how I walk.
Yes, well said DN, me too. When we are focused on our movements it seems we have a different relationship with our thoughts.
Thank God for the human body! I absolutely love its capacity to reveal what my choices have been and where I can take a deeper look at things, e.g. self nurture, expression, where I am holding back etc. Without the aches and the tension it would be much harder to work out what I am choosing on subtle levels and therefore work to a new levels of expansion.
Yes indeed, do we listen to the constant communication from our bodies or do we brush it aside as insignificant? I know I have in the past. Learning to honour the signals from my body has been a life changing and deeply healing experience.
Descartes ‘I think therefore I am.’ may need to be re-moved and re-placed by ‘I move therefore I am the quality I move in or actually is moving me.’
Simplicity of the body’s intelligence over tbe complexity of the mind.
Walking can be so healing, its a great way to reconnect.
A very important and supportive realisation. Once we accept this then we should never allow the fox to look after the hens.
It is super simple. If we move, express, act, do anything when we are not connected to our bodies..it hurts. That’s all there is to it; and from that stems all exhaustion, dis-ease and illness. Conversely, the simple act of connecting to our bodies and thus the divinity that can then flow through it, will result in vitality, joy, wisdom and true health. Super simple. So simple that for years I have ignored, fought and resisted this fact, but it’s true, I know it is. my body has shown me.
I’ve made a lot of bad decisions high on caffeine, it used to alter my brain and make me think I was making a great decision, I know this now was a disconnection as I was consuming something that made my body feel less well, and I looked for excitement to compensate for my lack of care and lack of feeling being in my body was enough. It is a great lesson to learn that the real reward is to be with oneself.
As you say – the real reward is if the lesson is learnt – then it is a blessing.
The simplicity of this article and what you have shared, Peggy, is so cool and so supportive, thank you.
“My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing.” And that story, that movie, impacts the way we express, the way we move and if we choose to ignore and bury it, that big thing soon becomes part of who we are not.
Making decisions from the intelligence of our bodies always feels so warm and encompassing, whereas decisions made from our heads can so often feel very clinical and hard.
What a simple but oh so relevant advise / pearl of Wisdom: when we are in a situation of conflict, just return to your body.
At times there are parts in me that don’t like this simple truth, but I’ve come to know that it works, all of the time. Because the fact that any conflict in me tells me something about me. It’s up to me whether I take responsibility for this conflict or not.
There is certainly something to be said about being a student of your own body and learning to walk your own talk. Thank you Peggy, walking while being in a connection of being consciously present definitely sets up the way for our life to steadily unfold.
Giving ourselves time in the day to do things that our body likes is well worth it. I can hear people ask, what does that mean, what does our body like, is it different from the mind? Yet when I do something my body likes there is only ever a good consequence, whereas when I am lead by my mind often I feel less well off afterwards. The mind may find a repetitive exercise boring but the body is never bored, it loves to nurture and look after itself.
I have spent a long time listening to advice from other people and doubting the wisdom from my own body but when we learn to rely on what we receive from within, we have access to everything we need. It is very powerful to then move with this knowing from the body, it confirms and deepens it within.
Although there are no edges to the mind it is incredibly limited and despite the fact that the body has edges, it is unlimited.
Great timing for me to read this as I become even more aware of the mental activity that I have given myself away to for most of my life, rather than just residing in the body and allowing the mind to follow.
Only by living what we know do we start to unravel our complex lives. I remember my body telling me years ago that it didn’t like me putting foods with gluten into my body, yet I refused to hear this,…. after all everyone else around me didn’t seem to be suffering, why me. I didn’t appreciate that this was my body talking to me and gently nudging me to be more responsible in how I treat my body. It is true Peggy when we start to listen to our body life loses it’s complexity, the hardest thing for us can then be to accept this in full as we are so used to the struggle of fighting life
Once we appreciate how the body actually speaks to us through discomfort or aches and pains in various forms, it is the beginning of taking more notice of the messages being relayed to us, rather than presuming these tensions are considered quite normal because of age or working too hard etc. How easy to continue to fool ourselves to avoid taking responsibility for how we treat ourselves.
“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.”
Well said, Peggy, the more we surrender to our bodies the less the world can overwhelm us with stress.
Complexity is a big clue as to whether we are connected to our body or mind. I find complexity only arises from the mind in disconnection from the body. In the oneness of the ‘whole body intelligence’, life is much simpler for it seems to me, the inner conflict is not then present and the way forth is much clearer.
Yes Shirley-Ann – total ‘common’ sense – which in my view we would do well to champion and appreciate much more in our lives.
Our bodies become that reference point of knowing when to stop an ill way of being, and when we are living true to ourselves.
Well said Paula – when we honour our body it becomes a reference point of knowing when to stop, as opposed to overriding what we feel and pushing through.
This is super awesome Peggy… “If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” When we have lost our way, returning to our bodies and honouring what they are telling us, is a great way to bring us back to who we truly are.
When we walk with ourselves, we begin to see everything around us for the amazing world we live in, that is always there for us to be part of once again.
It’s interesting to observe that my body knows when to stop eating during a meal, but the propensity to want to overeat and override this ‘stop’ is strong. I know I use food as the biggest tool to numb or bury what I do not want to feel.
Yes, some things are surprisingly easy to change and they can be different for different people. Alcohol was easy for me, overeating less so.
It does make sense that we use our whole body and the awareness that it has to find true answers to the issues that the world is facing. No amount of “thinking” our way out of things is going to work, we have to feel and care about what is happening and that only happens through being connected with the body.
Elizabeth I agree with what you are saying here, that
“No amount of “thinking” our way out of things is going to work,” History demonstrates to us just how much our thinking has not got us as a collective which is no where. I have discovered that by simply taking care of me in what I say and do is having a positive effect around me. Which proves to me how the micro effects the macro details of life. So imagine just for a minute if everyone took responsibility for how they behaved in life (micro) just how much that would effect the (macro) and if we listen to humanity we are seeking a different way to live, well could this be it?
Movement and presence are extremely powerful tools that we can use to re-connect and hold us in our own truth and then be able to reflect that back for others to know themselves back by. The wisdom of the universe comes through us when we move and align to it, absolutely.
Walking will one day be known as the healing therapy/modality it truly is.
allowing ourselves to breathe gently and feeling the effects in our body takes away the gripping power of the mind and allows a calmness that gives us breathing space and a knowing of what needs to be done.
Over the years I have found that there are levels of confidence – there is a confidence from the mind that can be formidable but is not able to deal with the unexpected. This confidence can expect the lot and can be very flexible but what has not been considered in advance can still surprise and expose a lack of confidence underneath. Then there is the confidence of the body that can deal much more easily with the unexpected, hence does not need to plan ahead anywhere near as much.
Agreed Christoph the mind has an almost fearless way of being while it is on a course it knows – yet the smallest deviation can flood in doubt and lack of confidence and the whole thing turns to water.
The body has a held quality which is aware of what is coming and can navigate with ease when you are connected.
I appreciate the distinction you make here; it is much easier for the mind to draw on a certain level of recklessness that, when more closely examined, turns out to be rather hollow and insubstantial.
When we bring awareness to our body and start to engage with it, that it is actually communicating with us and that it does actually know what feels amazing and what feels like pants. The mind interferes you from being able to access what you are feeling and what the body is communicating.
It really is quite amazing that simply by choosing to walk in a certain way and keeping the connection to our body, we can change so much about the way we feel and how our body moves. Bringing that committment to ourselves can literally be life changing.
Yes and that includes lightening our mood!
Totally and utterly and in-every-single-way, true.
Indeed Sandra, life changing for ourselves, and also it changes so much around us too. Our choices are incredibly powerful.
And, this amazingness is always just a step away!
I am currently experiencing the body letting me know just how much I have allowed my mind to be dominant in my choices and how much i have suppressed in my body. This blog is a great guide for reversing this now.
So true the point about really connecting with people, by eye contact and an open willingness to simply be with them and stay connected to my body. This eliminates any complication and whatever is to be done is simple, with no space for thoughts of behaviour or differences of opinion.
Even when we think we are in our bodies it is still thinking from the mind. Inhabiting our bodies fully is an interior feeling, filling the whole body from within. We experience this feeling, filling with warmth, in an Esoteric Healing session. If this does not happen then usually our minds are in control and getting in the way. Invariably this can be that we are trying too hard rather than surrendering to the process of the healing without thought. The healing comes from inside us, deep in our inner essence, the practitioner supports this process. This way of healing means that because it is coming from ourselves we can sustain what we have experienced in our every day lives, without having to try and control the mind.
I love how you realise that when you are truly connected to yourself and your own body, you are also equipped to connect deeply with the children and offer a space for them to surrender to.
“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.” I find the same Peggy and my commitment to being present in this way is something that reflects to me how loving I am willing to be with myself,
The mind loves to be embroiled in complication, and the more havoc the better, which we can either go with or simply say no – I am sure we all know which one is far kinder to the body in the long run.
How often do we still choose to take the path of more complication?
“Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.” – this is my experience too, that when we re-connect our mind or awareness with our whole body and be present with it in whatever it is we are doing it’s like it brings us a different perspective and a simplicity of not worrying or stressing unnecessarily about things because the connection within gives us the wisdom to know how to respond to what is needed…
It is akin to finding your best friend when you connect to your body and feel your naturally harmless nature.
It is quite something when once we catch those images, picture and even scenarios playing out in our head, that we start to notice how much we really are not left alone, how the human body is literally bombarded by energy that creates those thoughts. Being aware of it enables the choice to either return back to the body (innermost) or get swept up a story.
The more we can stay connected with our bodies, the calmer we can be in stressful situations
Peggy this is so simple and relatable, thank you. I used to not like my body but from listening to Serge Benhayons presentations I am learning to listen to my body more and more and appreciate the wisdom it offers.
“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? ”
It sounds like our bodies are our best friend, always with us day and night and depending on the communication and how much we are willing to listen, the more we have an influence on our wellbeing.
“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.” This so clearly describes what we do every day. Issues are created in the mind. If we stop giving them energy they no longer exist.
Well said – we are the creators of our own issues.
The mind absolutely loves to make things complicated (the more it can chew around on something the more satisfied it is!), but the body loves to keep it simple.
When we allow ourselves to start feeling our bodies on a day to day basis and then getting a feel for feeling them from the inside out instead through stimulation from the outside, we will more and more get a better and deeper understanding of what is good and right for us, or more so truly supportive.
I love this – if there is complexity or confusion I have to go back to my body – so true and it doesn’t have to be hard – it can be as simple as saying okay I’m in my head – come back to my body. I also love the wake up call from
God if we ignore ourselves. Such as your car not starting or a bird catching you eye whilst out walking.
“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.” This is a very common attitude Peggy, thank you for your honesty. Learning to listen to, appreciate and care for our bodies enables us to break down many self-imposed barriers that have prevented us from truly cherishing and nurturing the body we live in. The more we do so for ourselves, the more we are able to truly cherish one another.
I am becoming much more aware of how much I have lived governed by my mind, it can really drive us on when the body is screaming to stop. The more I listen to my body, the more I know its natural intelligence. This true body intelligence you describe is a real marker to feel and learn to live our lives with the connection of all the parts.
Thank you Peggy, the way you talk about the difference between body and mind is very real and so it is very simple. You have managed to take something which has over many centuries been over-intellectualised and brought it back to the basics of what it is to be a human.
When we choose to reconnect to the innateness of our being and the fullness of our bodies it seems there is something greater than the events of our lives ‘at play’. It is a bit like the Earth in relation to the Universe – there is much ‘going on’ on the Earth but in the grand scheme of things – the Universal ‘scheme’ – it is ‘small fry.’
Peggy what you are sharing I am sure most of us relate to. In choosing to live from the head we are choosing not to feel and therefore become disconnected. The stress this evokes builds up over time until we find ourselves screaming at a lot of things! In learning to be more present in my body I now rarely feel stress or react to what is going on around me. There is an equilibrium in each day and a steadiness that wasn’t so obvious before.
I’m sure most of us can relate to what you have shared Peggy, how we seem to be constantly in our minds and actually it seems to be encouraged from an early age especially going to school when all the focus seems to be on ones ability to recall, our minds gets crammed with information. The only problem I had with this is I could never remember anything it was as though it went in one ear and out the other, I was constantly day dreaming and looking out of the window. Coming back to my body has been hard work for me as it seems my mind is fighting the settlement I feel when in my body especially after a Esoteric session I can feel my body and how settled it feels and then this seems to wear off and I’m back in my head again but now I have a constant marker and the times I feel connected to me and in my body are getting longer and stronger, To me the Universal Medicine modalities is my way forward to bring my mind in line with my body when this union takes place my body feel gorgeous and light and I can feel how we are all the same…Amazing!
Peggy, you share a beautiful simplicity about how we can be in life – being present in our bodies and not lost in our minds, I love this, ‘walk, and meanwhile focus on how your body feels, what you hear, what you see and again what you feel.’ This is so practical and supportive, thank you for sharing.
Brilliant Peggy. What you share makes me think of how addicted we seem to be with receiving notifications electronically from an app or our email. We are passionate to know ‘we have mail’ but not so keen it would seem to hear the notifications our body sends. Imagine if it had little red dots with numbers on that appeared every time we moved or behaved in an unloving way. I wonder if there would be enough numbers to go around! This goes to show how this addictive part of us does not behave with care or responsibility and how it’s essential we connect with our whole physical device rather than just focusing on a mental perception of the world. I notice you are a teacher – you have definitely offered great wisdom here.
Are we herded through life like sheep? We are born soft, fluffy and cute. Then life, that looks like a border collie guides through life, where someone that is blowing the whistle has decided where we should be going! Where is us, in this scenario of life? Our body will always be the master; we just need to tell the dog to sit and stay. And, the mind can do what it does best, autonomously running the processes of the body in the background.
There is a beautiful symbiosis when we bring awareness to the body and bring the mind to that.
What freaks me out is how easily influenced I can be by a thought entering my head from out of nowhere if I am not connected to my body and let that thought run. Life for me would be so chaotic without knowing that the connection back to the body is just a breath away.
Peggy I know of that for me a large part of why I ignored the messages from my body was because they were cancelled out by the ideals and beliefs that I held. Like a game of cards, each card my body laid down was crudely trumped by an ideal or a belief that I held. Now that I have systematically let go of so many ideals and beliefs, my body is free to speak and be heard. True freedom beckons.
“If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body” – agree Peggy, coming back to the body and bringing it back to the quality of gentleness by moving in this way like the way we walk, talk, eat, and so on is such a great tool to know and to use. The simplicity that gentleness brings.
‘Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex’ we have, as a race, marvelled over the power of the mind in recent years however just how misplaced is this when it has been our trusted guide and look where we find ourselves. The simplicity of reconnecting with our body is where real wisdom and true answers can be found.
I have never known, felt or understood the power and healing that walking has when we are truly connected with ourselves until meeting Serge Benhayon. It seems ironic that 7 billion of us walk every single day and are not aware of this but instead walk being mostly checked out (mind somewhere else and not with our body) when walking.
The particles of our body are one with and constantly vibrating with the natural flow and order of the Universe. Our thoughts, emotions and hurts can lead us astray, yet we always have through our body access to the steadiness and absoluteness of truth. Through our body we can know at all times whether the dynamics at play are in line with the love and magnificence of the All that we are part of.
After reading your blog yesterday Peggy, I was appreciating the times I have listened to my body and I appreciate how supportive this was. Now I am learning to listen to my body more consistently.
It was such a relief to me when I heard Serge Benhayon share that it is impossible to empty the mind but it is very possible to have the mind focused on what the body is doing, ie being present with ourselves. I had been trying unsuccessfully for years to empty my mind – loads of different meditation techniques were tried, none of which worked and so to bring presence into my life and find just how simple yet powerful this was, allowed the constant chatter in my mind to drop away.
1 moment of flippancy, reaction or aggression can have a serious impact on another person (or animal actually, as you’ve shared), and we really don’t have the luxury of these off-moments to vent our frustration… It’s a fundamental responsibility we all have to always be respectful and not lash out because of our own emotions or issues, but sometimes this is overlooked.
Yes, Peggy, the natural flow of life never leaves us. In fact we are surrounded by it at all times, and to let go of our control and protection allows us to enjoy in our bodies being a part of something that feels beautifully familiar to us.
‘If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.’
Do I live this way? Er no. Could I live this way – yes! Currently there seems to be building more complexity in life but I don’t have to what feels like succumbing to this way as the way of dealing with the world. So, as I face a lot of work ahead of me, what if I come back to my body and respond from there because the other way – going into my head and problem solving what the mind cannot handle – feels like drowning.
Peggy, you’ve just given the answers as to how to be with children – be fully connected with yourself through your body and movements, and then meet each child by looking into their eyes.
So true Sandra, when we look into someone’s eyes and feel who they are then what we see is an equal or twin, therefore a child is never any lesser than an adult!
Living from the head is such a place of tension – it has to nut things out, find answers, be rational, be right…there isn’t much space in there. From the body things are entirely different and when living from the body, things may not always make sense to the mind but often they do in hindsight. The body has a knowing that the mind tries to, but simply can’t compete with.
Nikki I love your comment about there not being much space in the mind. How true this is and feels! Why not respond from the vastness of space the body is connected to instead I ask myself. I usually get stressed by time limits but I wonder if they become manageable when I connect with my body because it is aware of that too – like I can guess the time when I am present. It’s when I get lost in my head I can’t. A level of trust here is being asked for that I’ve not previously allowed myself but can now.
We can be rather selective with our body choices and what is needed and not always listen to its promptings, especially when we have something we want to finish, we then override the bodies impulses to get it done. This is something I am working on after a lifetime/s of needing to be doing without feeling what my body needs.
I love this blog Peggy! I can really feel – by the way you describe it – how the conscious presence, you apply when doing your walk, supports with coming out of the mind and into the body.
Thoughts can really take over, and they can wreck one’s life. They can squash the joy we naturally feel.
It is interesting to see how our default program is to go into our minds for answers. While the body knows best. It takes some reprogramming but when it’s there it is beautiful to have this bodily connection with the truth. As that’s where our bodies are best at, determining truth.
So true Benkt, I have certainly found this to be the case for me where my mind can distort truth and complicate things, whereas when I connect to my body, it delivers truth without holding back.
I can very much relate to letting the mind run wild. I was a pro at taking a tiny detail and blowing it up into a big what if scenario. What I know now is just how much energy that takes up from the body.
We like to use the mind to check out and entertain us. But then at other times when it drives us crazy with worries or stops us from falling asleep we want to shut it up. What we do not realise is that in those times when we use it to escape from the world we stimulate it and it won’t leave us alone, just because we want it to, but simply keeps playing out what we called for.
The body is universally intelligent, beyond what our mind will ever be able to access.
‘If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.’ – I agree, the body offers truth and simplicity.
What a beautiful knowing and simplicity you bring to life Peggy with this very honest true sharing. The power of being in our body and feeling all it is showing us is an amazing gift we all have if we choose to listen to it lovingly.
So many messages are given to us by the body. Thanks Peggy for sharing your story of starting to listen to these messages
Our body is naturally sensitive and delicate and the intelligence we are fed to bash through life with is all about subverting this fact and pushing the body down. If we come to think of it, it’s all about avoiding sensitivity and being in the openness during our whole day.
True – and there is an infinite universe awaiting us when we leave the entrapment of our mind and open ourselves up – listening to our body, being present in our body and remaining connected to what is offered to us incessantly so.
Listening to our body and acting upon the wisdom offered to us is the best medicine in the world, ever.
I have gained so much understanding about the difference between the body and the mind, and how the body is where our intelligence really lies. The more I investigate this the more I understand it to be true. The mind can take me on a joyride, but the body is always consistently showing me how I have lived and what is true from the lifestyle I lead.
‘This is a new way of living, but an awesome way, which gives me much less stress and a more natural flow in life.’ When we stress and react we are fighting what is right in front of us… an opportunity to see and feel the reflection being offered and to learn from it, an opportunity to evolve.
I spent an enormous amount of my life daydreaming, caught up in my mind which took me so far from my body it was sometimes a jolt and a shock to become re-aware of it as it was often in pain. Serge Benhayon’s simple guidance around the fact that we can’t stop our mind but we CAN be present in our body with all that we do, plus the technique of walking in awareness are life changing as I can also attest to. Being fully in my body now and allowing a whole body intelligence to be what guides me rather than just my mind has relieved me of the constant pain which, in part I feel sure, was my body screaming out for some loving care and attention rather than the complete absence and disregard I held it in.I rarely have pain at all now and if I do get even an inkling of it I am onto it quickly, able to discern why it is there and address the issue. So simple as you say and so worth it.
The realness of your experience brings a reality and a tangible understanding to what you have shared, thank you for sharing
When listening to my body food is a simple thing that supports me, but when I am in my head and have just finished a meal then my head is taking me off ready for the next meal and even on occasions wanting to eat more even though I could not possibly be hungry. When I am in my head this is when I also go into snacking mode or eating between meals when, which only makes me tired and lethargic. Listening to my body has become the only way to evaluate my way of eating, when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat and why to eat, so I do not bloat, get racy or over stimulated.
Peggy, I love what you have shared about giving our issues too much attention, over analysing and adding complication was something I had become quite masterful at. I have found that it is understanding the bigger picture which has helped knock out this idea that my issues are dramas which I somehow cannot handle. We can all handle what life throws at us if we understand that we can be in the drivers seat.
There comes a point that listening to the advice of others doesn’t work – yes to be open to hear support – but no to following others advice as a blanket rule. It’s only when we start to honour how we feel and do what we feel to do – without worrying what anyone else says or thinks of you – do we start to truly change.
‘Because of this disconnection and emptiness, I could react in a stressful way when something happened in my life.’ I hadn’t truly appreciated this connection between being more fully in the body and not reacting so much to life any more – although it makes perfect sense and is my experience. When I am connected to my body there is a presence of being that is not dependant upon external events for its self-worth and hence is much less likely to react to things in life. True stress management and beyond.
Our body will always choose simplicity, but so often our heads want to complicate and confuse, to make an issue where none exist. It’s a big clue as to who is ruling the roost when we let go of the simplicity of life.
“If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.” It’s interesting to observe how easily we hand over responsibility for our body to our mind – when we know it can trick us. Coming back to my body and gentle breath can instantly turn around things that might otherwise get out of hand.
When we stop paying attention to our body’s, our life becomes a ball in a Pachinko machine, with the exception that we wear out. There is something about stillness within ourselves compared to the constant motion of falling through life.
So true Steve, to me when we stop paying attention to our bodies we become like a ball on a frenzied ocean being lost from wave to wave no support and little if any stability, bashing into other balls, with no connection. Yet life can be felt from the stillness within when we focus on our bodies. Then like we are on tranquil ocean that is calm with barely a ripple, we are being fully supported, feeling the connection and equality to all the other balls that are also motion-less thus fully connected to their bodies.
It is ignorance and arrogance that gives the mind power to ignore the body. When the body eventually exposes this ignorance and arrogance by simply reflecting the consequences as the result of the ‘mind-ful’ choices and behaviours it is for the mind (i.e. the spirit) to humbly learn how energy, love and truth actually are always at play.
There is a beautiful simplicity in remaining aware of my body when I move and carry out tasks; very supportive it enables an emotional constant when. I do…Although sometimes not always easy to apply as within any given moment I can let this awareness drop and go back into my head and begin to push, strive and do. And so, the choice to come back and connect to my body is a constant one.
Life is not about stopping our mind, but rather re-connecting (back) deeper and deeper with our body. It makes sense! When we’re born we’re very connected to our body and during our lifes we’re challenged and imposed up on to leave our body. Which we do, because every-body chooses this or so it seems. Raciness, negative thoughts, comparing, jealousy, self-doubt etc. They all disappear as soon as we’re connected with our body. How magnificent is this? And the choice is ours, no one can interfere with the choice. They can try or impose, but forever it’s us that make the choice.
For years I ignored my body when it wanted to sleep but now that I honour the signs, it is one of my favourite things, there is nothing quite like quality sleep and the only way to get it is to listen to the body because it knows.
I love what you bring Peggy, the complexity in life is fully our own creation as when we connect to our body life becomes simple once again.
Peggy I absolute love your simplicity . . . it is infectious!
‘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.’ – when we ‘meet’ each other, we are feeling the potential in each other and this then pulls us to be the fullness of who we are – it’s very beauty-full.
Eye contact is so important – we often avoid eye contact with people when we are not feeling good about ourselves, holding back, closing off. Making eye contact with someone who feels confident can be inspiring if we are open to that inspiration, or it can be daunting because it reflects back to us that we are not being truly all of who we can be.
‘My mind would make a story or movie about a little thing, but because I would give it attention, it became a big thing.’ – Peggy, this is such an awesome and very practical example of the lengths we can go to to avoid our divinity.
Getting out of our heads and into our bodies can seem like a tough thing to do but that’s because we’ve made it appear difficult. For example we’ve made it about getting to a state of emptying the mind – which just eight happen! It’s not about getting to a point of bliss, it’s about being present with what we are doing, not going into auto pilot and listening to our bodies in what they’re communicating – that hurts, I’m tired etc. the more we listen to our bodies’ messages the more we are in tune with our bodies and hence in presence.
“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?” – Peggy i ignored my body for years because i was busy in my head, anxious, achieving (mental) checklists i thought expected of me and generally doing things in high speed. I didn’t want to slow down or come from the head into the body because then i would feel the actual state of my life, myself, and also other people too. Listening to the body although simple is a bold move and choice to make, though it’s worth doing in leaps and bounds for the clarity and sanity one experiences over the former heady mess.
What would the world look like if we lived from our bodies and not from our minds? An interesting consideration to ponder on…
I can really account to this truth, it is a beautiful thing to be present and give our mind a task that is in service to our body, not the mind determining what my body does.
Reading your blog Peggy it really turns the latest fad ‘mindfulness’ on its head really because we are going to something that has most likely got us into trouble in the first place… then we stop and disconnect more from the body and focus more on the mind.
Aimee thats so true, with “mindfulness’ being everything and everywhere at the moment it certainly shows how back to front we have things, its only through the body that I find I make wise choices and not the mind at all.
Very true Aimee, the stillness we seek is through the body and definitely not from the mind.
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.
In the end the mind always has to recognise that the body knew all along what was really going on hence it is much about the mind learning to honour the body and its messages. The mind may not like that but eventually it comes around and realises the harmonious interplay only the mind-body-unit as whole body intelligence can provide.
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.
Loved what you have shared Sarah and may I contribute to the conversation. As a forever student of our-self we are building the ‘trust in that inner-knowing’ or progression to our next evolutionary step and this never stops. The true awareness of the responsibility that is required so our lives can be expanded by our, inner-wisdom through the divine connection also never stops.
Nice contribution 🙂
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.
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.
Being identified with our thoughts as who we are and then relating to others from this place that is not us then makes sense to why there is so much falsity and conflict in the world. The body in what it looks like, how it feels and of course how it relates is a dead give away for the energy and thoughts running and being fed to it.
Beautiful how you have shared the truth of what you have experienced. When we are not with our body and our mind takes over life can be very challenging as we truly don’t have control over our actions. It is when we are connected to ourselves and bring focus to our body, we have a truer flow in our body.
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.
Gill the ‘flow’ that you speak of that ‘ comes from the knowledge and wisdom of the body altogether as one.’ can only come when the body has been reinstated as the true seat of wisdom and power that it is. When the mind is allowed to lead the way then we career down the road of life, back firing, kangaroo hopping and stalling as we go! Not to mention regularly crashing!
Gorgeous Alexis ‘body has been reinstated as the true seat of wisdom and power ‘ this is what life is all about. For when we do this we all become part of the one and feel the grandness we are from.
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.”
Indeed Peter, there is a flow in our body that feels so natural and in accordance with the environment we are in as like it is in constant communication with everybody and everything that is around and from that moves to the precise rhythm of the universe.
I have spent the vast majority of my life not only in my head by default but in there because I actively chose to go into fantasies and day dreams about life. I subscribed to the spiritual belief that we create our reality by believing strongly enough that something was going to happen and so would spend most of my time fantasising in the belief that I was ‘manifesting’ my ideal life. What I have come to know through the wisdom of my body, is that our future is governed by what our body experiences, not what our mind makes up.
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.
I love this sentence here Sandra ‘Our bodies offer us a vibrational communication to feel and we have a choice to respond’ – it really says it all. If humanity just followed this then the world would be a completely different place – and that’s the simplicity of it, it is all about choice.
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.
Yes – simplicity brings grandness. This has been my experience.
Peggy the simplicity with which you have shared the truth makes it even more powerful.
‘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.
I have realised in the last while that it’s not about undoing the unsupportive ways, thinking and being to then be with the truth of who we are but to build the body to be reequanted to our true connection through stopping, movement and yes walking to it is confirmed and as it is shatedvto leave less to no space for the mind to have its separated way with the body. Build the love that we are and the rest will just fall away as it does. It belong. This really blows the whole thing about will power out the water.
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
You could say that everyone listens to their body eventually. However, some require it to yell and scream as opposed to listening to it when it is communicating quietly that all is not as it should be.
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.
Sitting down watching a whole box set will exhaust you completely, without ever moving a finger!
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.
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.
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.
It is a grave situation to be in a body which we do not like and it runs wayward in controlling us in behaviours which we detest which then gives us good reason to criticise and judge ourselves for, and so we pretend and cover these behaviours up lest no one can judge us, but eventually paper cannot hold fire when expression is held back and all is exposed and explodes. Is this what we call life? Is this really what we choose and deserve? #WeAreLove
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!
The more we deepen our connection to our body, the more sensitive we become to all the loving messages it is sharing with us and the more awareness we gain on how to truly nurture and support it. Then we start to understand and reflect the meaning of true health.
The more we live in connection with our bodies and are impulsed from their/our innate wisdom, the more we are in the flow of life, rather than struggling against it. There is an ease being in the flow, rather than a tension and complexity, which is felt when we fight against it.
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.
How many people spend their lives like salmon spawning? Putting all our energy into fighting the current and swimming against the flow?
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?
A few years ago they came out with a vibrating platform to use when exercising. Have we become that numb that we need something outside of us to allow us to feel our particles moving? We vibrate naturally, almost like a cat purring and the machine is ruff and abrasive. I know which one I prefer!
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.
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.
Great question Peggy, ‘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?’ It seems that we very often do not listen, otherwise there would not be the high rates of exhaustion and illness and disease, it is beautiful that you are now much more present and settled in your body and this shows what is possible for all of us.
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.”
I love the way you have written about the choice we have between the mind and the body Peggy, it makes sense and if we heeded our body we would not have so many of the issues we manage to create on a daily basis
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.
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.
This is a profound statement: ” Through this re-connection with my body my life became less complex.” Basically it indicates that complexity is created and projected by the mind but not a fact of life itself. Definitely worth to give it some consideration and applying it to situations we experience as complex or complicated to find out for ourselves.
I agree Alex, a revelation to realise that we create our own complications.
“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.
The body never stops communicating ever, we each have a loving consistent companion with us in every step.
That is true and once we start listening, the messages become more detailed and nuanced and easier to understand.
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 used to champion how strong my mind was, not in an academic sense, rather in my will-power. I now see how mis-guided I was to ‘think’ that this was a ‘good’ thing, I cringe at how abusive I was to my body, the part of me that is always there to support and guide me, no matter how ignorant I am and how many stupid choices I make. I had no idea how delicate and gentle I truly am and I so appreciate the deepening relationship that I now have with my gorgeous body.
‘If there is complexity or confusion, I now know that I have to go back to my body.’ – so true, Peggy. Any confusion or complication is a big red flag to me that I have not truly listened, or failed to express my truth in some way. After coming back to my body, I can start to unravel and feel into what is truly going on.
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.
True Victoria we all experience mind chatter it is just being aware of it and be willing to question what it is really saying and where it is coming from, and then bring ourselves back to the body and more often than not, whatever the mind chatter was disappears or has not significance any more.
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.
Serge Benhayon has opened a door we had all closed and exposed the truth of what we have chosen to walk away from. We only have to choose to step through the door to return to ourselves!
“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.
We focus our attention on children and their ‘behaviour’ without looking first at ourselves. When we look at ourselves first and the quality we are meeting the child with the interactions are completely different.
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.
There is a reason why it is common to ignore the body, and why it is difficult to for example maintain a healthy diet. And that is because it is the best way we have learned to cope with the tension of life. But that is only because we are not encouraged more to express about what truly hurts us and to explore life in its entirety. Were one to truly connect to their fiery essence, then one would have a different foundation that would give them the strength to resist the many temptations of life. A donut only tastes great to one who has forgotten the glory of their Soul.
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…
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.
Bring focus back to the body and one’s movements is a sure way to slow down a racy mind.
“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.
Love your blog Peggy I could feel how when we go into our mind we loose connection to our body and how life stops flowing, especially when we allow complication into our lives. Learning how much the mind likes to control the body and our lives, and it is actually the body that has the true intelligence and the one we should look to when life is not flowing is very much ongoing in my life, as I learn to connect to my body again.
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.
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.
Peggy, it is great to read your article, I love the simplicity with which you share and what a difference being aware of how your body feels makes; ‘walk, and meanwhile focus on how your body feels, what you hear, what you see and again what you feel.’ Beautiful to read this, thanks for sharing.
“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 also really important to not be hard on ourself or bash ourselves up for the negative or overthinking we do. This can lead to very serious mental health issues. We need to be far more loving and deeply caring with ourselves and watch out for the critical self talk about ourselves, our body or our thoughts.
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.