Our body shares so much with us and is so intelligent, but how do we make contact with its communication again? Why do we avoid all the signals that it sends, and how do we recognise or feel those signals?
Babies and little children are pure and honest and they show us clearly what their body communicates. Gradually this changes because she/he is imposed upon by the outside world: what can and what cannot be expressed, what is allowed, what is not allowed, how to behave, dress, etc.
Such outside influences made me uncertain when I was a little child and I didn’t know anymore who I was and what I felt. Of course my body sent me all kind of signals, but those were usually avoided, and not recognised. Like the times when I fed myself with a lot of food, especially with sugar, in order to not feel what my body was communicating.
Most days I was tired and miserable. One day I told myself that this was not the way I wanted to live. I started to eat less sugar and that was the beginning of a healthier life.
That same year I began Esoteric Yoga and I met Serge Benhayon via Serge Benhayon TV. I felt immediately that his Livingness made sense. I learned step by step to not be distracted by ‘negative thoughts’ and how to listen to the wisdom of my body. This allowed me to connect to a huge level of self-care and how to take the time to sit down and listen to how I really feel.
For example:
- Where does it hurt in my body (pain)?
- How tired am I, or not?
- What quality do I hold myself in during the day?
- What time do I go to bed?
- Have I skipped a meal, or eaten too much?
- Did I take the time to go to the toilet when first impulsed? etc.
Very consciously listening to the body is the first step and then especially when recognising these signals, to connect back with it. I felt it was important to do this very lovingly and without pressure from myself that something should or not should be a certain way. I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement. I am learning to observe – instead of absorb – all that does not truly support me, and that allows me more space in my body and more love with myself.
For example, when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate. Maybe it could be that he/she is tired, had a bad sleep or feels not very well and the shouting is nothing personal but all about the feelings, such as frustration, in them.
By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.
This builds the foundation of self-loving quality back into my life, a quality that will be naturally for me and for all others equally. What supports me when my ‘self love’ drops is that I stop, reconnect and feel, so I can deepen further that enormous self-care and love.
Allowing this from day to day brings more flow and rhythm into my life – it’s more natural, my body feels less protected because there is less hardness in my shoulders and my back. The openness and space that I feel gives me a lot of joy and love for myself and for everyone around me.
Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.
By Christel Delcroix, Belgium
Related Reading:
Serge Benhayon TV – Whole Body Intelligence
Intelligence – is it Embodied or Embrained?
Coming Back To Whole Body Intelligence
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
This is so true Christel
“Babies and little children are pure and honest and they show us clearly what their body communicates. Gradually this changes because she/he is imposed upon by the outside world:”
you can actually watch the change in children as they try to adapt to school life as the current education is so imposing on them, and we actually allow it because we are led to believe that nothing can be changed. The government might tinker with the system but nothing changes, to me it is a very abusive way to educate our children.
For example, when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate. Maybe it could be that he/she is tired, had a bad sleep or feels not very well and the shouting is nothing personal but all about the feelings, such as frustration, in them.
While I completely understand what you are saying here Christel, I now understand that we are all transmitting energy and there are only two types, energy from our soul or Astral. So what type of energy is coming through the other person? Is it loving or not? If it is not loving then it is Astral. If we react to the Astral energy then they not only own the person they are coming through but they own us as well and in that ownership they take our life force which is what they feed off to continue their existence. One day this will be known by everyone.
I am choosing to deepen my connection with my body, to be aware of what energy is running me, and how that affects different parts of me, what I am feeling with this.
Finding True-joy and Harmony in our lives open the door for our bodies to share much and as we re-awaken our senses through connecting to our Essences, Inner-most / Soul the smallest detail starts to stick out like a sore thumb.
our body is so much wiser than our mind.
This communication with the body is forever ongoing, and forever evolving. Like you have already mentioned, a communication present when we were babies, that feels everything around them.
There needs to be a new heading for magazines, the body never lies or the body is your forever boss.
It’s never too late to build a relationship with our bodies, it starts with an awakening within ourselves and following that impulse to find the truth that supports our bodies and the rest will follow. It can be that simple…
Thanks Christel, I enjoyed reading this, it’s all about the simplicity we can experience in life when we stay connected to ourselves and learn to express how we feel, and to maintain our stillness which supports us to observe what’s going on around us. “I learned step by step to not be distracted by ‘negative thoughts’ and how to listen to the wisdom of my body.” This line got me wondering how much stress and mental health conditions may be supported by whole body connection, and the use of the Gentle Breath Meditation and gentle breath technique throughout the day to assist in this.
Melinda these ‘negative thoughts’ are our minds way of keeping us purposefully separated from our bodies. Soon as we become connected to the body, along comes the negativity to sabotage it. To stop this from occurring, we have to catch ourselves doing it or entertaining it. That stop moment of breathing from our nose has more power than we realise, a simple tool to do anytime, anywhere.
It’s easy to react and take things personally when someone is short or angry towards us, but as Christel has shared in the blog, if we can take a deep breath and just observe the situation and give ourselves permission to understand what could be happening for the other person then it takes away the effect on us directly. Understanding is an important aspect to bring to any relationship including the relationship we have with ourselves. It is one of the greatest gifts to offer someone space and understanding and allows them too an opportunity to feel the situation on hand.
Observe and read the situation, supports us with understanding, which then allows us to respond and offer space.
Henrietta when we react to someone else then we have made it all about us as the individual and we have not considered the other person. If we get upset then we have just exacerbated the situation which can then get out of hand which often leads to right and wrong. If we can just observe then it can change everything, we do not get impacted and it allows the other person to feel where they are. This makes so much sense to me.
When a child needs to go to the bathroom, their body speaks loudly and we act on it straight away. The adult is capable of holding things for longer, which of course is more practical, but how often do we abuse this and hold on much longer than we really should, convincing ourselves that what we have to do is more important than going to the bathroom. As adults we can learn to bring back the listening and heeding of the body in more ways than this – but the toilet example is just one example of how we have learned to over-ride things rather than stay with the body and lend it a true listening ear.
As we grow older many of us females have to go to the bathroom immediately, along with other examples of having to honour our bodies instantly – for me my body teaching me what I have not always honoured.
Watching children grow up it is so easy to see just how much we impose upon them so that they start to shut down what they feel and what they seem to know instinctively. I don’t think we fully stop to appreciate just how much time and care it takes to raise a child to adulthood.
I’ve discovered too that sugar takes me away from the connection to my own inner wisdom. I cannot expect to live a harmonious life if I partake of this and other foods that effect my body and influence subsequent behaviours. It’s amazing that we have the awareness to counter that part of us that habitually wants to escape from the body’s sensitivity. We can actually move away from what has become ‘normal’ and actually harmful in our culture and create for ourselves a really healthy way to be.
Elainearthy I have made that discovery too, that sugar races my body and when it’s racy it loses that sense it has of itself. After the sugar rush comes the trough and I feel extremely tired. I have at last gotten to the stage where if I crave sugar I stop and look at what is going on behind the sugar craving. What is it I’m trying to not be aware of? Food actually affects us more than we would like to admit.
My body would love to rest now. It has been a big week. I have a long shift today but rather than pushing through I am going to treat myself with care at work, enjoy the day and ensure rest is well prioritised over the weekend. Life is simple when I listen with care and respect the learning offered.
Matilda this is key what you have shared – it is saying loud and clear that we can still work whilst bringing more awareness and gentleness to ourselves. Sometimes we think that when we go to work we must shut down any self care and negate what our body needs, but in fact there is a practical aspect to self care and self love which can certainly be brought with us to the workplace.
Gorgeous to read, ‘I am going to treat myself with care at work, enjoy the day and ensure rest is well prioritised over the weekend.’ I have to rest now when my body shows me I am exhausted, my body making the lesson extreme so I honour it, as I was not always an obedient pupil when younger!
There is a lot to learn from the body, insight that our mind cannot give us.
“By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.” You can see why so many people nowadays are anxious or have a mental health problem, it’s because we do not allow time and space to build that trust and bond with ourselves.
Building trust with ourselves sets the foundation for building trust with another.
LE there is such wisdom in your words, why is it we do not allow ourselves the time and space to build that trust and bond with ourselves. Where does this negation of our body come from? Surely it must come from an outside source because if we actually listened to our bodies we would feel the sacredness within and not wish to harm such delicate beauty.
One day Western medicine will understand that our body is way more intelligent than our mind and that our body speaks very loudly to us and it is from our body that we can understand all illness and dis-ease.
Our body is so much more intelligent than our mind, I appreciate having this understanding and having this body that shares it’s wisdom, which I am now honouring more and more.
I love this – so simple if we are willing to listen; ‘Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’
“Most days I was tired and miserable.” This for me was a way of life that had become so familiar I never questioned that there could be any other way to feel. The degree of course would fluctuate but the misery remained an unerring constant up until studying Universal Medicine and learning how to listen to and respond to what my body was telling me. The degree of joy and vitality I feel today is immeasurable, an outcome that had not been anticipated when initially embarking on this journey of self discovery.
rowenakstewart studying universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon has completely turned my life around. As you say who would have thought that life could be so different and so vibrant. The answers to our woes and life is found within the teaching of Universal Medicine which teaches the principles of the Ageless Wisdom.
It is beautiful to connect to our body and listen to what it has to say, our bodies are so amazing how they talk to us.The more surrendered we are the more we are able to feel what our body is saying.
It is a real unfolding isn’t it Christel? When someone shouts at us, or even when you feel like they are shouting but they have a smile on their face, it is easy to react and automatically presume it is about you, after all it is aimed at you. Yet taking a step back and considering there may be more at work than on a surface level, understanding offers each part in the situation so much more to consider.
This is very inspiring Christel I would love to know how listening and responding to your bodies intelligence unfolds for you.
“Whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so” – this is such a beautiful reminder. Listening to my own body and taking loving care of it is not selfish at all. That is what prepares me to be in the world as I am, in my true essence, and that is the bestest thing I can do for the world.
Whole body intelligence for me is to not hold back.
Learning to trust our whole-body intelligence is such a leap for so many people… So much control has to be surrendered, not to anything outside, but to reconfigure our relationship with the word trust for starters
The more I relinquish control, the sweeter and more magical life becomes… simple.
We’d be wise people if we were listening to the wisdom of our body.
It is only when we honour the body as a vehicle for the divine, that we stop using it as a dumping ground for temporal excesses.
“‘What quality do I hold myself in during the day?” A great question and one we may feel we are too busy to check into. Holding myself in connection make such a difference, not only out in the world but at home too – still a work in progress….
“Why do we avoid all the signals that it sends, and how do we recognise or feel those signals?” A great question Cristel. Listening to my body has enabled me to make new and different lifestyle choices since I started attending Universal medicine presentations – with amazing effect..
Something very different happens when we speak from our body. People can hear much more easily what is being said as it resonates in their bodies too, even if they cannot understand it mentally.
A deeper understanding is offered where the fleeting conversation are just that, fleeted away, and the conversations from the body offered a marker of truth to us all.
I agree as the what comes through our body is from a higher wisdom and that’s what is felt.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so” – totally and agree with you Christel, I have come to know over the years the depth of truth that through our body we live the whole of life … and how the (energetic) quality of the body determines the quality of that life.
We only have part of the picture when we negate the energetic aspect.
Christel this is an inspiring read – I am constantly amazed at how deeply the the body communicates when not allowing the mind free reign in overriding the wisdom on offer from whole body intelligence when the mind is in conscious presence with the body.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so”.
The body loves us therefore we have a responsibility to love it back.
That’s so beautiful and simple, we have a responsibility to love our body.
That is beautiful Elizabeth, ‘The body loves us therefore we have a responsibility to love it back.’
Yes we do have to make a real conscious choice that when we are in misery we don’t want to live like that anymore. And it can’t be a complaining or just from our head, it needs to really come from our body and deep within us. Otherwise nothing will change.
It can take some time and effort on our part to feel what the body has to say in any given moment, and at first, maybe the stronger signals of pain are the most obvious messages but eventually, the more subtle messages will be felt. This to me feels like a forever deepening process.
I agree Julie it is a forever deepening process, as we evolve we are constantly learning from our body.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence ”
And this intelligence never leaves us lesser or more then another it is intelligence that reminds us we are a stupendous part of the whole.
Christel I love what you share, there is something so very powerful yet so super simple in listening to the inner voice of our bodies.
Its because when we truly connect we know in each and every particle that it is true what our bodies are communicating.
I like what you share here about learning to and building trust with ourselves. It sounds a bit odd at first, but it really is a super important skill to develop. I have slowly but surely been building trust in and with my body by listening to its messages, honouring it more and more and the other day I was lost momentarily and was not sure if to go left or right. I stopped, connected to my body and asked it – left or right – the right side of my body felt closed up and the left felt open so I went left and sure enough it was the right way to go and I was back on track. I never would have done that before when I lived much more in my mind and in a disrespectful way with my body.
This is something that is so missing from our way of living and that is staying in connection to our true feelings and understanding that they are our greatest radar to what is constantly taking place around us. When we dull ourselves down we are at the mercy of life, when we take control and allow our true feelings to guide us we are much more aware of our surroundings and therefore much more able to understand and enjoy life.
Whole body intelligence is something we had when we were young, yet we soon learnt to override it, it would be amazing if education was set up in order for us to keep and expand that intelligence, rather than having to learn another intellectual intelligence which is actually lesser than the intelligence that we hold within.
We then have to re-learn to listen to and honour our body, ‘I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement.’
I love how listening to the body allows us to take things less personally.
I had a giggle when I read this line “For example, when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate” because I have done that too but there was smoke coming out of my nose!! I was simmering with ‘how dare they’ underneath the quiet veneer!! However, making space in my life to understand myself and the needs I have has offered me space to not take personally the way other people behave. There are CONSTANTLY layers unfolding and I still find myself with the veneer on the outside and shock and hurt running rampant on the inside but I am a forever student of my why’s and wherefore’s!
Lucy what you are sharing is that words are more deadly than an atomic bomb, something said to us when we are children can be so toxic that we recoil and go into protection mode to try and negate the energy that has just been sent like an Exocet missile. It’s an unseen hurt that if left un dealt with we then carry with us all our lives and the energy colours how we then interact with life and the people around us.
One of the really important things you say here is that you now check in with your body every day, I think this is super important because often we lack the dedication to back something up day after day after day, but our body is constantly communicating with us and if we only check in when we are sick or something is wrong we are not only missing out on having an amazing guide for life, but also we are slowly getting ourselves into trouble.
Great point Meg. Staying in touch with our body – and appreciating all it offers when we are well, not just focussing on it when something goes wrong – pays dividends.
Yeh I am learning to appreciate my body and how lovely i can feel more and more, and then I can sense if I’m not right long before I get ill because I loose that feeling.
Imagine studying whole body communication in schools and learning to go in life paying attention to it.
That would be so amazing, there would be less illness and disease in the world for sure.
Such a cool example you have used of listening to what the person is trying to communicate when they are shouting… not the words, but the energy that they are in. Once that is established then a) we can observe what is going on for them and b) we can choose the right response to meet that with all the love we are. We have not been bashed by it, and don’t have to go steaming in to shut them down. Just super steady and listen to what is really going on
Well said Christel, I love how the most simple of things bring such a great support to our bodies. The things you have listed below surely are quite a natural thing to pay attention to yet for the most part it is normal for the majority of us to ignore them. Imagine if the whole world just paid attention to these few things, what would that lead to? Whole body intelligence isn’t a foreign concept or even anything we need to be taught, it is a very real and natural thing that lives within us all.
Our bodies hold incredible wisdom far greater than the mind’s intelligence, so it makes perfect sense that we listen to it.
Our bodies are made up of the Universal particle, so it has the intelligence of the Universe.
Amita what you have shared is very beautiful and true. However we are born into a life that crushes this knowing that is why we have a world that is so disgusting to live in. It is more toxic than nuclear waste and yet we are so used to the toxicity we have seemingly forgotten that we are universal because we come from the universe. If we talk about the universal man and where we all actually come from society is set up in such a way that you are ridiculed and condemned as a crack pot.
We know when we miss our harmony in our lives, inside our bodies, in our relationships, in our daily activitiies etc. the more we allow those feelings to be there good and those uncomfortable, the more real we become and can actually change things around in the way we truly want.. step by step.
it is amazing how when we feel open and transparent we feel far more empowered, light and safe than when we have our heavy protective guards up.
Practicing each day away from the height of the situation means when we are in a heightened situation the foundation is laid for a more detached response.
There is clearly a deeper level of communication I am being called to go to with my body as I have a tension in my upper back and shoulders that I have not wanted to be aware of…till now. I can go two things with that information. I can dull it by activity that distracts me, I can numb it with pain relief, or I can work with my body to be open to understanding what movements have caused my body to feel that tension and take it on as normal. Simply the awareness and the willingness offer me a door of communication to step through.
Thank you Christel for giving us some real practical examples of how we can be with things that come our way. For example when we are rushed, feeling stressed, to actually take a step back and breathe, breathe gently through our nose and feel our feet, to than feel what is needed from this stiller place within you.
Danna stepping back and just taking that time to be with ourselves reconnects us back to the stillness that is always there. No matter that the world is in a rush the stillness is always there waiting to be felt. The more times we reconnect back to the stillness then we can feel it within us no matter what is happening on the outside there is the stillness which becomes our focus so that we are able to move in and with the stillness. Learning to reconnect back to the stillness is like learning to walk again, sometimes we lose the feeling and fall out into the Maelstrom of motion but the more we practice the more we are able to move in the stillness which is very beautiful and is part of our natural way of being that we have forgotten.
That our body has such extraordinary intelligence is something that , if instilled from our early childhood, will surely lead humanity out of the morass it is in.
The body does have great wisdom to offer and you are correct in saying how we all have done much to avoid hearing it, but once we do start to listen it is our greatest ally.
Shutting down my feelings as an infant and all I could feel around my innate sensitivity crushed me. Its devastating to reach a point as an adult from such a long momentum from childhood and not be clear how I feel in my body. It requires an absolute honesty to express my feelings. This is not so easy having a habit of not being honest from the body. What’s worse than this is now your new normal is being hard on yourself.
Life is so very simple and as you show here, everything we need is with us to understand where we are at and what our next step needs to be.
Not allowing ourselves to be distracted by negative thoughts- this is a huge one for so many people, and once we’re in the pattern of negative thoughts it can feel like we’re in a rut. But just by moving differently, we can change the quality of our thoughts. I’ve also found that connecting to purpose changes the quality of our thoughts: there’s no time for negative thinking because there is work to be done and it’s our job to get on with it.
Yes, it is always a choice, and that is important to know so we can, no matter in what situation we are in, always bring ourselves back, step by step, to what we know is true. And as you say it is in the way we move the thoughts that we receive.
It is true Bryony, as some years ago I was having a terrible time with my thoughts and just didn’t know what to do with myself, and then I chose to move ever so gently as I went about getting ready for work and the thoughts disappeared. I also agree, there is no time to wallow in our own negative thoughts – there’s no point to it.
It’s beautiful how whole body intelligence is as you say communicating with us not only what is harmonious for us and our body but for all of us – being considerate of the whole we are a part of.
It is important to make the communicating with our bodies loving. Otherwise, we can put undue pressure on receiving the answers in the ways we want them to be and not how the body communicates – it’s like learning a new language.
Listening to our body should be one of the first things taught at school! How many times has the body got to feel tired and lethargic after a sugar fix, desert, chocolate and or other stimulants before we get the message our body is sending us?
When we start to make steps back to connect to a body that we’ve long left behind, not judging ourselves in this process is so crucial – otherwise we just add to the hardness, the tension, and the overall dis-ease that we’re already feeling. Allowing ourselves to feel whatever we are feeling, without needing to feel any other way, helps us to let go, move on, and deepens our self-love and acceptance – and that is very beautiful to feel.
“One day I told myself that this was not the way I wanted to live.” Do we wait till we have no choice, have impaired function or a great loss and pain? Sadly I suspect this is the largest catalyst for change.
Yes its the most common catalyst for change, but equally we are all being shown that there is another way.
It is such a profoundly beautiful feeling start to drop the hardness, and to feel the tenderness and delicacy that is within.
This is gorgeous Christel. I love how you talk of your experiences of how there is a natural flow, rhythm and freedom in the way we move and live when we listen and honor the messages from our body. I also have experienced that without a doubt the more we are open to respond to the truth from our bodies, the more we live in harmony with the oneness that is the light of our Soul, our true power.
Finding our feet and walking in a way that continues to support a life of being at-least self-loving starts us “to listen to the wisdom of my body.”
We’re so used to getting by on ‘crumbs’ and it’s true, we can because our body is so remarkable. But instead of championing our ability to come up with cheap workarounds and ‘life hacks’ what would our world be like if we embracing connecting to our body and living in full? Amazing! Thank you Christel.
so painfully true – we are 1st class honours degree of life hacks for not listening to the steady, quiet communication from our bodies.
It is amazing how the human body responds to judgement, and this of course can be different for each person, but I see similarities amongst us all, such as closing in around the heart area, perhaps bringing our arms in tightly to our sides, clenching the jaw. These reactions signify a tension or a stress that the body is enduring and the key is I suppose, in learning how to not react, how to remain open and playful even in the onslaught of the judgements that we place upon eachother, how to be seen and not be accepted.
” Our body shares so much with us and is so intelligent, ”
This is so true and the day of true intelligence is approaching when the brain will be know to be part of the body and not commander of the body .
“I learned step by step to not be distracted by ‘negative thoughts’ and how to listen to the wisdom of my body.”
This too for me has been life changing not to get so caught up and distracted by negative thoughts and the biggest take away is to know that they are not actually my thoughts, they are dropped into my body via a pool of consciousness that I have aligned myself to. The more I listen and reconnect back to my body the less influence the negative thoughts have on me.
I like how you show that we don’t ever have to accept anything in life we don’t like, like being tired or miserable, that we always have to power and the potential to make a new choice.
Yes Esoteric Yoga as presented by Universal Medicine trained practitioners is an awesome way to reconnect to the whole body and whole body intelligence.
Our body is a vehicle for divine intelligence to flow through, if we numb and clog it with excess food, emotions or drama then we are disturbing the natural flow and communication of what our body is designed to do.
There is a huge difference between controlling our minds and body to feeling what is true whether that is through the loving movements with ourselves or with another. When I move in a way that is controlling it is very limited, superficial and comes from a picture of what I want whereas when it comes from a connection of truth from within my body it is real, natural, expansive and for the all.
We gain accolades for analysing and critiquing life, yet everything we actually need to know is delivered instantaneously to our body. We’re like someone who’s played the lotto for years, but can’t believe we’ve had the winning ticket the whole way along. Thank you Christel.
This is great Joseph, and do we even know we are holding onto a ticket?
Yes.. when we’re in harmony with our own body, we’re naturally in harmony with others, and the greater rhythm and flow of the universe, too. Thanks for the reminder Christel that we already know and have within us this alignment, and that our body is always calling us back to this harmonious state – all we have to do is listen to it, and then make our choices accordingly.
The practice of Self-Care is a sure way of fine tuning our ability to sharpen our whole body intelligence.
Appreciating and responding to our whole body intelligence does connect us to the greater intelligence that is available to us all. Far wiser and more loving than the minds limited edition of what it thinks it knows.
‘there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so’. How different it is when we drop into our body from our head, where we might have been caught up in some thought processes. Being in the body, the whole body, invites the multidimensionality aspect of our being to awaken and lets us communicate in a holistic way.
Yes we listen with our whole body not just our ears, we feel, we sense. I have found my anxiety has eased from opening up to this whole body intelligence rather than relying on any one sense.
I love the title of your blog, ‘communicating with whole body intelligence’ as this offers a great expansion to the concept that we only communicate with our eyes, ears and speech… that in fact every inch of our physical body and thoughts are spherically expressing, And like a radar dish, our body receives and processes energy coming at and through it.
“Like the times when I fed myself with a lot of food, especially with sugar, in order to not feel what my body was communicating.” This is great Christel, for so often we fed our body with substances that have replaced the “sugar” as it has the same racy effect. We then can still live in denial that it is good for the body and continue to dull our-selves by the high provided. After a high or racy feeling there is the crash from a lack of energy seemingly so but when we listen to the body it is easy to not go for foods that have those effects on us and thus we can live consistently with no peaks or troughs.
Christel, what you are sharing here feels so simple and true, how amazing to live with this level of understanding and observing – being able to be unaffected by what is going on for others – not taking it personally; ‘when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate. Maybe it could be that he/she is tired, had a bad sleep or feels not very well and the shouting is nothing personal but all about the feelings, such as frustration, in them.’
I find when I listen to my body I am less likely to react to life. It is in the small details that I feel is as equally important as the big ones when I listen to my body. When I feel anxious, tired, heavy, racy or hard, the best thing for me is to stop and feel what is going on. To give myself space to take the next step with more love and awareness. Listening to the intelligence of my body is deeply supportive for me and people around me.
Something I too am learning to stay with, observing and not absorbing, ‘I am learning to observe – instead of absorb – all that does not truly support me, and that allows me more space in my body and more love with myself.’
I now understand why people don’t feel their bodies. Living in your head is something we learn as kids. It becomes a safe refuge, where we don’t get to feel the constant dishonouring of our feelings that happens from others. Being in your head offers control, where you feel you can plan and manipulate life. Yet while it seems to work, this creates a prison of our own making and we lose sight of our true feelings and essence.
Why is it important what the body communicates to us? Because, the body is not just our vehicle in this plane of life. It is one that not only loves to work orderly in sync with the universe but it is also one that holds a deep understanding of how things work in the universe. Nothing that communicates to us is capricious.
Gosh what we have decided to not feel is more exhausting then I thought. And is actually creating a barriere in our life as we disconnect from the flow of all what we are feeling and can act on. It is a simple observation that we can do. What is holding us back from our responsibility is judgement and condemnation. So lets keep it light and simple and connect to our feelings and see what happens.
I agree listening and feeling everything that our body communicates is supporting our self-care,’ Very consciously listening to the body is the first step’.
Listening to our body is a master-full approach to living in a way that allows us to except what True wisdom is all about. So much can be learnt from our body in the simple approach to life as you have shared Christel.
“Have I skipped a meal, or eaten too much?” – Often we just look at one side of the coin rather than the full picture of both extremes of disregard, and thus it’s usually more difficult to know what is TRUE for us at that time if ideals are clouding our judgement.
The more I stay with my body, the more I feel what is going on around me. It is fascinating how as soon as I try to rush I start to make mistakes and lose track of what I am doing. Yet when I am present I feel super alert and very clear about what I am doing, it is such a big difference and more and more noticeable the more I stay aware of my body.
Rushing relies on a reaction that rarely relieves the True relationship we should be having with the body. Responding to the impulses from the body on the other-hand allows us to be “alert” as you have shared James.
It is amazing the difference when we respond from the body as I find I have everything at my finger tips yet the moment I disconnect and rush it is like I am grasping at things and tripping over myself, quite literally at times. For me one of the 1st obvious signs I am starting to rush is I write things down or type things wrong so have to delete it and start again.
Agreed James, and may I add that I also find when I sleep in for those extra minutes it can put my whole day behind schedule so I am then rushing from pillar to post to catch up, which inevitably never happens.
The more I stay with me the more I feel able to observe situations and not react, when I’m being critical of myself and I’ve got caught up in negative thoughts Or the busyness of my day I find it much harder to remain steady and not react.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so” – beautiful Christel… the moment i started to really listen to my body was the moment i started to fall in love and treasure what was truly within the confines of pure physicality, a body… I started to love the being; the quality of me through my body.
Our mind can be coerced with ideals, beliefs, seductive speech, we can fool ourselves with clever ideas and reasons to override our inner knowing that something is not supportive of us or others, and through our emotions we are as good as being hijacked since often find people find themselves in a situation they have been instrumental in and wonder how it happened.
Yet our body is the one place when truly honoured and connected to, which offers a harmony and steadiness from which everything else can be felt and known. Is it true, loving and supportive of self and all others? Our Whole Body intelligence will not let us be fooled for long.
Our body is infinitely wiser then our mind and never ceases to communicate with us. The learning aspect is therefor not with the body but in arresting the mind’s domination and learning to adhere to what our body is asking of us even if that is something different then what we wanted, planned, thought we needed to do etc.
We can learn or re-discover so much about ourselves and life by connecting back with our whole body – being aware of and observing the signs and signals that we are getting and reflecting on what is being communicated with us!
Christel, you ask an important question that is rarely considered “What quality do I hold myself in during the day?” How often do we go about our days on automatic pilot, ticking things off our lists but pay no attention in how we are in all that we do? The quality we hold ourselves in as we move through our day is even more important that what it is we are doing, and that could be very important. The impact that this has not only on ourselves but on others is huge and we can feel every single bit of this in our body.
This is key: “Very consciously listening to the body is the first step and then especially when recognising these signals, to connect back with it.” And once we have connected to this, we then also need to be aware that the mind is very quick to override and may entice us to make choices that ignore what we have just listened to…
Yep listening to the body and true body intelligence is where it is at.
The incredible depth of universal expansion, knowing and observing life that I’ve built up as a result of all that Serge has supported me to develop in myself is without words yet is everything that is true in the world.
Life becomes simpler and simpler the more I listen to my body; the way it shows me the impact of my choices and makes decision making very practical and clear.
We tend to reduce our communication with the body parts we use explicitly to do so. Yet, in truth, our body communicates in a way much thorough way even if we may not intend to do so.
Understanding how we had to start with being Gentle with the Gentle Breath Meditation has honestly provided the platform for the last 14 years as I connect more to my-self-loving aspects, which is all so we can evolve.
My body has recently communicated something loud and clear to me with severe toothache, and once I opened up to feeling what it was about, an enormous healing process occurred.
What a beautiful sharing Christel with Serge Benhayon and Esoteric Yoga we are offered so so much with such simplicity and love. “This allowed me to connect to a huge level of self-care and how to take the time to sit down and listen to how I really feel.” And this is the catalyst for a true living way.
‘Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’ Yes Christel, our body is our best friend.
‘What quality do I hold myself in during the day?’ this is a great question because we can be so distracted by all the doings of the day we forget to tune into our bodies and feel the quality of everything as we are doing it.
That question we can connect to throughout our day, allowing ourselves to check in and feel where exactly we are at with that. Feeling if we are off or our quality is not supportive of us our others, we then have the choice to reconnect and start again – a constant process of checking in and adjusting.
Great tips about how to remain stable and connected to our body, and if we lose it to support ourselves to return to that connection. Without this stability we are like a boat without an anchor or a paddle, left at the mercy of the elements.
So true Golnaz, we have so much to appreciate about what we have learned about being connected and what we have been given for our evolution.
Esoteric Yoga is an awesome way to reconnect back to the way our bodies naturally want to move through life. It inspires a deeper contemplation too about what is the purpose of life if it is not merely just about function…
I agree Shami, the Esoteric Yoga modality is a powerful way to reconnect back to our body and supports us to then change the quality of our movements throughout the day.
Yes, this modality has opened up a deeper conversation with the body about what it holds as it’s normal in stillness and in movement. An exquisite offering.
Christel, it is beautiful to read about the understanding that you now have for others and how you read the situation rather than react; ‘For example, when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate’, I love this, thank you.
” Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so. ” I have found the same , and it makes sense , in that surly we are meant to be in harmony with ourselves and our environments.
Looking after our posture and body is so important, because as you’ve shared even having tight shoulders for example can make an enormous difference to how we feel and our mental health too.
Another prompt to check in with my shoulders and the amazing sense that there is always another level of release and surrender to go to.
When we are at-least being “honest” we are starting to use our “body intelligence” and for most, listening to our body started with The Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon.
I love to know that my body will always give me the messages to return to the intelligence inside me. The understanding that the body is supporting us, is very different from what a lot of people may think, that the body is letting them down when they are unwell. . The whole body intelligence is very powerful to feel, and keep us on track.
Many of us settle for a low normal concerning our health and vitality, we think this is life and every now and then we might think , “there has to be more than this…” but we often attempt to quell the tension by choosing food or activities etc that override it. So how do we break this cycle….connecting with our breath and not ignoring our body, simple practice, along with encountering inspiring people such as Serge Benhayon and Esoteric Yoga presenters make for the potential of great life shifts.
The day I started to give up sugar, was a life changing day…. It did not happen overnight, but I prepared myself well knowing that I was addicted to sugar, as most people are. I started to cook everything from scratch, ( no sugar, no salt), I always carried something like nuts when those cravings came, and I never went hungry. I have been sugar free for around 7 or so years, and my body loves me for this loving choice.
. . .”there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so” If we ignore the messages from our body we are in fact inviting disharmony and chaos into our life and the lives of others. .
Yes and once we truly understand the impact that has on our selves as well as others, we can then begin to really understand the responsibility that this understanding brings with it.
‘ I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’ And to keep this deeper awareness in all situations. In social situations, the workplace….with others, by myself…. I have found that at times it can be easier in some places more than others. So it is seeing where I give myself away or go into my head, in even the smallest way…. and then bringing myself back and returning to my body. It is a beautiful process.
There is a super intelligence available when we connect with our body and not solely rely on the intelligence that comes from our head (knowledge). Intelligence is both head and heart.
A gorgeous reminder that we are always communicating from our whole body even when we are not aware of it.. The key is to build a rhythm for ourselves that each day, each moment and each week, month, year supports us to have more space so that we can actually feel more and more what our body is communicating to us (by sending signals).
Starting out listening to our body, then being “honest shows us clearly” with the smallest thing that we need to pay attention to what our bodies are sharing. Honesty is a key and then starting out with at-least being gentle so we can feel when we go into any type of hardening in the body. So starting with the Gentle Breath Meditation is sharing an honest approach to the body that it cannot deny, for being gentle is the starting to being self-loving.
‘I learned step by step to not be distracted by ‘negative thoughts’ and how to listen to the wisdom of my body.’ – The mind will always try to find ways to distract us and if we don’t have a loving foundation in our body and knowing that our true intelligence and wisdom is actually found in our bodies, we can easily be tricked by our minds.
Very easily indeed as the mind is very clever in trying to control and override all that we truly feel.
There is much more intelligence outside the mind than there is within.
Haha so true – as the mind holds mostly learnt stuff rather than the felt intelligence with instant feedback that the body gives us.
It is a great moment when you discover just how much the body is communicating to you… It is the ‘U-turn’ point back to trusting yourself more, and the start of self-care and self-love.
I agree Johanne – learning to explore and understand the grandness of our bodies has been and continues to be an amazing journey.
“Babies and little children are pure and honest and they show us clearly what their body communicates.” I met a friend recently who was looking after his grandaughter of about 18 months. He was carrying her, and she was holding her drinking bottle. On seeing me, she gave me the most gigantic smile, and held out her hand, offering me her bottle to drink from. It was the most endearing of gestures which melted me to the bone and it lead to a beautiful although brief interaction between us. Not that we as adults would offer the same to each other, but I wonder how many times we feel to share something with another in the same way as this gorgeous little girl, but hold back from doing so because of the condtions we have put upon ourselves over the years.
Making contact with the communication our body offers us feels so beautiful to be shared “I felt it was important to do this very lovingly and without pressure from myself that something should or not should be a certain way. I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement. I am learning to observe ….” an amazing sharing of the simplicity of returning home to our bodies and our true intelligence and a very real reflection.
‘Babies and little children are pure and honest and they show us clearly what their body communicates.’ I love being inspired by children’s transparency. This reminds me that one day I too lived in that transparent connection to my body… and that I can come back to it whenever I want.
No matter how much we try and hide things our bodies reveal to us how we are living
Coming back to the body can often break that negative loop we have with thoughts and allows for the opportunity to listen to the wisdom of our whole body intelligence.
A return to harmony is not some kind of idealistic pipe dream. When I live in tune with my whole body nothing feels more natural.
What feels natural and what feels forced are great signs of Whole Body Intelligence communicating. This applies to every little detail in our movements.
There is such a sweet and respectful relationship to be had with our bodies when we start to listen to what they have to say. And this does of course impact all our other relationships: if I am hard with myself then undoubtably I will be hard with others; if I am tender and caring with myself then that becomes my natural expression with others.
So true Matilda – I gave myself a hard time and judged myself harshly, needless to say this is how I treated others…Having healed my hurts, I love giving to myself and taking care of my own needs, now having a deeper connection with my body, I have found I easily connect with others even in the smallest of exchanges – like a simple smile, it all counts.
True, babies and young children don’t walk in hunched shoulders slumped, chest protected, we do not just get these postures from old age, we get them through our choices, emotions and behaviours, it is wise to be aware of what our bodies share with us.
This is really timely to read and the simplicity of it is precious, to simply take the space to re-connect.
Listening to our bodies is a responsibility we all carry as it is our marker of all truth and something we so often want to avoid and the reality of this feels very silly as then we miss the really beautiful amazing bits of feeling who we truly are.
I love the example of observing someone who is shouting at you and observing what might be the reason for their behaviour; reading the situation instead. This is an act of self-love in itself as it allows us to not be affected, but to understand, as is our natural way to relate. It gives us the space and grace to understand another person’s behaviour and to connect to ourselves more.
To communicate with whole body intelligence we first need to know the wholeness of our body. This may sound ridiculous as how can we not know the wholeness that we are but after having identified ourselves by fragments, ie only relating to parts of our body, feelings and perceptions and ignoring the rest we need to reassemble before fully activating and being aware of the whole.
Could it be possible, that in all honesty as we reconnect slowly our jealousy is replaced by a feeling of isn’t that great, another has connected to there divinity? Then we also learn that we can only advance our own relationship with our Soul, so what ever anyone else does is perfect for there own evolution so no judgement.
“Sugar” acts like a diuretic in my body and I feel this is because sugar for me acts like a poison.
Giving up all white sugar over 30 years ago then over the past 30 years eliminated all forms of sugar substitutes and sweet fruits so that I really feel the high from a sugar fix and then the tired and lethargic feeling.
Even though my body understands what is happening my head tries to find different tastes so energetically I have to get honest and find the root cause of my food cravings.
‘Of course my body sent me all kind of signals, but those were usually avoided, and not recognised.’ – As children we can even get confused by the signals received from our bodies because the outside world is showing us that it is better to ignore what we feel, pull ourselves together and that the most important thing is to not make any ‘fuss’, but be nice, kind, polite etc. etc. and so we learn very early that the normal thing to do is to override what we feel. We learn to live dishonestly.
The moment we are aware of something, let´s say a signal and message of the body, we are asked to be responsible and take care of what is needed. Most effective way to avoid responsibility is to avoid awareness is to avoid the body.
In the past my way of avoiding my body and responsibility was by over eating and chucking things down my throat – oh and my drug of choice to numb my awareness was sugar – lots of it! These days I value my awareness and all my body is communicating as it keeps life super simple.
This is gold, Christel – “when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate”. Can you imagine what a difference this would make in the world of politics!?
What I am beginning to come to terms with is that my body has being trying to communicate to me that I am the complete opposite to how I have chosen to live my life. I have spent most of my life withdrawn, hiding, boxing myself in and trying not to be noticed when actually I am very vivacious and joyful. I have at last started to allow myself to see the energy that is pulling the strings behind the life that we all currently live and its not pleasant and too be honest I have run away from this energy out of fear; hence my hiding and contraction. Turning to face my fear and confronting that energy and seeing it for the utter evil it truly is I know will eventually free myself from the illusion I have been party to.
The whole body intelligence that you have shared so beautifully about Christel, is very special as it is always there no matter what we do, no matter what choices we make. The question really is: how often do we tune into it, and actually listen and THEN…how much of it do we actually put into practice? This for me is a constant learning!
Consistency builds trust and allows us then to have a foundation to make the changes that are needed.
It is this daily practice that will bring about true change and deepen our apprecaition and awareness for what we know and feel all the time. When we start to take care of the details, and build a solid foundation of our committment to this, the bigger things in our lives in general, become much simpler to deal with.
It is interesting to read how you rebuilt the trust and bond with yourself Christel, to return to that connection you knew so deeply. We can all return to feeling the connection to the whole body intelligence because we may leave it but it never leaves us.
“Why do we avoid all the signals that it sends, and how do we recognise or feel those signals?” I’ve never really appreciated just how my body is there constantly supporting me to deepen the love and care I have for myself, provided I listen to that.
‘Communicating with whole body intelligence’ takes the ‘I’ out of any interactions, as we naturally express from the all.
“Especially sugar” and carbohydrates have become foods that I am finding dehydrate me. When I don’t go near any sugar or carbohydrates the amount of water I drink is much less to stay hydrated and therefore I also urinate a lot less. When I have any form of sugar or carbohydrate I am constantly urinating.
It’s amazing how good it feels and how much space there is around something when we just allow ourselves to be in whatever is going on as the observer, holding our own divine love, and we do have absolute control over whether we allow that or not.
It is not just the body communicating with us, ie its inhabitant but it is the universe communicating with and through the body and hence the dweller inside that needs to learn that it never cannot be part of the greater whole it belongs to.
I remember when I first heard the statement the only person directing the life you have is yourself, you are the driver in the drivers seat, so if you don’t like the direction your life is headed then change the way your driving/your choices and actions. So simple but was a huge revelation. When first listening to the body it can result in admitting your life is not how you want it to be ie full of love, harmony filled relationships, simplicity and ease, next comes the awareness it was of our own choosing and forming. Then comes the understanding and healing of why we chose such a life and then comes the openness to life anew and all the possibilities on offer. The connection to our bodies communication makes this all possible
Yes, Yes, Yes to more flow and rhythm in life through self loving choices and listening to the constant communication of the body.
We can learn so much from our bodies if we are willing to listen.
Whatever the body communicates with us it always is without judgment, it is very matter of fact for us to consider and make choices that are either in line with the truth presented or not. And so the next communication will be an immediate response to our choice. The body educates us (the spirit) with all the patience and understanding one could wish for and it never ceases to do so. The spirit thinks the body to be its playground but eventually has to realize that it is its school room.
If we communicated with the honesty of the body, we would not have the strife in the world that we do today.
“Very consciously listening to the body is the first step and then especially when recognising these signals, to connect back with it.” Yes connecting back is the key, if we feel out of sorts more so than trying to solve the problem, connecting back to our body and our delicateness is a direct way of coming back to ourselves and often the problem is not a problem anymore!
Being aware of the body and its communications is a beautiful part of our foundations, but it is our movements thereafter that then solidify our awareness by moving in a way that supports true self care and the bodies optimal vitality.
It is so important to build a loving relationship with ourself so we can stand in the face of adversity and not get sucked in. It all starts with us paying attention to our body and not overriding the messages it is sending us.
The listening and honouring of our body shared here is very beautiful and a joy to read . It is real inspiration and well worth bringing into our livingness.
Christel what I enjoyed in reading your blog today was the simplicity, to simply breathe gently and be with the body and all it communicates, and to listen to how we feel and to honour this.
When we start to re-learn listening to the body it can be like learning a foreign language. First we only understand bits and pieces eventually, we become quite fluent and then we discover and restore the subtleties. With the subtleties, we can also raise awareness to the multidimensionality our body is communicating, realizing that the body is a radio for more than just the physical realm. It is one of the most fascinating and enriching sciences we can dedicate ourselves to.
Beautiful. I love it. What’s important to remember is that other peoples reactions is exactly that, other peoples reactions. Our whole body intelligence knows this, and it’s beautiful to read how your body responds when you listen to it. Awesome.
It’s amazing how resistant we can be to whole body intelligence. The mind really doesn’t want to allow us to know this. I love the small steps approach in reconnecting to the body. It sets us off on a path leading to a lived way where our body leads.
Love the example questions you pose. Choosing to “very consciously listening to the body” and making self-caring choices promoted by such questions is a great place to focus on, after a while of ignoring the wisdom communicated by our body as many of us have done through most of our lives.
This description feels like absolute magic.
“By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.” This feels like a powerful choice to make in life for your own best interests and the quality of you. It’s choosing ‘you’ rather than choosing other distractions like overeating, stimulants, movies, overworking etc.
‘Of course my body sent me all kind of signals, but those were usually avoided, and not recognised.’ so much to appreciate about our body, always giving us messages.. when we are ready to listen.
I love how real and accessible this is Christel. Sometimes we can make things too complicated when what support us most is simplicity.
Even with all the knowledge and capability, I still find myself ignoring the messages my body delivers to me so gracefully.
Beautifully and simply presented and without complication. This is our natural way and so once ‘the penny drops’ and it is felt in the body there is a truth that surfaces and claimed. It is all about returning to what we all already know – the wisdom held in the body.
It really does just come back to living in a way that we appreciate, respect and love ourselves. I have come to an understanding that unless we have this deep regard for ourselves we cannot in all honesty have any appreciation, respect and love for others.
I agree Mary, it starts with ourselves first, the respect, love, and appreciation, it is then a lived quality that extends out to others.
‘Why do we avoid all the signals that it sends, and how do we recognise or feel those signals?’ – too much responsibility; every move would be under the awareness of the quality of energy we chose knowing precisely if we were in harmony or not with the universe, ie aligned to creation or co-creation. As long as we want to keep creation, comfort, individuality we need to ignore the body´s messages at least to some degree as the body will only ever present the truth and ask us to be responsible.
Christel, this is so gorgeous to read; ‘For example, when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate’, I had this experience with someone who was going through a very hard time in their life, they would get very angry and just shout at people, it felt amazing to be able to stay with me and not react but just observe, breath and be present, what resulted was that this person would calm down and be aware of how they just were, over time this behaviour stopped and this person changed from someone that was so often shouting and getting really angry to someone that was mostly calm, caring and loving – the change was incredible to witness.
I find it interesting that our world currently does not recognise the science of the whole body intelligence. I can imagine a lot of businesses, industries and corporations will have to change the way they market and operate their business if everyone started to connect to their whole body intelligence. This form of intelligence empowers people and it makes me wonder, could this be why it is not being recognise?
I am appreciating my body more and more it feels more open, more surrendered, more expansive, more love and right now pretty darn good. I have the Universal Medicine Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities to thank for a lot of this they are so amazing for clearing out all that is not us and leaving us to be all that we are.
The body is our best teacher; we only need to learn to listen and honour the lessons.
Imagine us all being taught this in school.
We’re already all enrolled… We just need to stop skipping class
When we seek to know ourselves again it makes sense to stop seeking outside of ourselves as we have separated from our inner essence that knows ourselves as love.
The depths of wisdom of the body is staggering. The more we are willing to listen to it the deeper it will go.
I love the reminder here that we can observe life in a way which means we do not take it on or change ourselves because of what we have around us. This means that we experience it as ourselves, unchanged, rather than us being different in one particular situation to another.
What I love about this is that it’s very practical and very real. I know it took me a while to actually want to listen to my body and let go of some of the habits and things that let me stay in that drive or disregard, but once I could look at this and gain understanding, the loving choices fell more easily into place, and listening to my body became second nature.
Our body gives us signs and signals of what truly works for us and this is something that can change and evolve over time as well – so rather than having a rigid set of beliefs about what is and isn’t good for us it makes sense to me to keep tuning into and being discerning of what our body is reflecting to us…
It is so simple to do and yet I have overlooked this intelligence for most of my life. It has been a great relearning of how to listen to and be in one’s body.
Is, in connection with our whole body and our whole body knowing, is very powerful, and we avoid this by bringing in complications that don’t allow us to confirm what joy already lies within.
Being truly obedient to our body is such incredible medicine.
I agree Jenny, the more I hear, respect and act on what my body is communicating the more it is supported in its truth – which is to be love.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.” it is in taking the stop moments throughout the day that we can reconnect to our bodies and really feel what the body is communicating to us.
We have ye to explore and expand our amazing potential as human beings when we aren’t fully connected and guided by our innate whole body intelligence.
Several years ago I became ill and the first thing my body communicated was that I ate far too much sugar and sugar had to go….. I listened to this message and began my journey of going sugar free. I started to cook everything my self, made lots of soup and nut porridge for breakfast which was filling and satisfying. And the other important point while I was giving up sugar – I never went hungry which served me well, because when those hungry pangs come and you don’t have anything, you walk into the staff room at work to see chocolate cake and biscuits on the table, and before you know, a slice of cake or biscuit would find its way to my mouth! I didn’t make that mistake again.
How can we empower ourselves to respond to situations based on an impulse that something needs to be expressed, changed or introduced, when we let self doubt run the show 24/7?
Hmm very wise words Susie. Self Doubt is the opposite to our whole body knowing, which knows the impulse for what to express.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so”. Yes, I have discovered this too, and it is a beautiful way to live, bringing simplicity and a knowing of our next steps.
I agree, it brings an absolute and unwavering confidence in self which can be strongly felt in Christel’s words “I build with myself a trust and bond”.
Listening to our bodies is not only about clocking when something does not feel great, we can also appreciate and confirm things that do feel awesome and harmonious.
Our bodies are constantly communicating to us and the more we honour this with stop moments the more the body is willimg to share.
I have found one of the most powerful forms of honouring a feeling is simply to follow it through, so if I feel something has come to it’s natural end I respond by ceasing the activity, honouring is that simple.
I often see this in children. A willingness to stop and listen rather than allowing the head to push forward and respond disconnected.
This blog is such a great ‘how to’ for people who are realising that the way they are living is not supporting their body but don’t know where to start. Listening to your body is very practical, such as drinking enough water regularly through the day or going to bed when you feel to not hours later. Then as you listen, the messages don’t stop as they get more refined.
How much does being the observer Truly serve the relationships we have? And do we appreciate the ability to not get into a dilemma over another issues? Or as Christel has shared; “Maybe it could be that he/she is tired, had a bad sleep or feels not very well and the shouting is nothing personal?” So is it possible if we do not hold our-self in the observation of any situation we are at that point in time less being than Love? Then being Love is the key to observing and appreciating that we can be with another and not absorb.
Isn’t it amazing that we all have this ‘whole body intelligence’ constantly informing us how to be in harmony with our own body and all others equally so. This intelligence is in tune with the whole, with the universe and takes each of us into account.
Listening to our body is the best investment ever. Sometimes just taking one moment (less than a minute) to reconnect can make a HUGE and powerful difference. Our bodies or exquisitely responsive and very deserving of our respect.
This article offers us a whole different approach to life and I am inspired to give more attention to my body and its sign posting throughout the day; always there and always willing to guide and support.
Our bodies are always there offering information – why is it the mind thinks it can over-ride the innate intelligence that actually operates our amazing system?
This works, it is something that I have been repacking and experimenting with for years “For example, when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate.” I react a lot less when I am able to stay present and in the moment, berating supports this and when I am supported I do not react as much and so I am able to respond in a way that is supportive.
When I disconnect from my body I feel miserable and grumpy and busy blaming everyone else for my woes. When I clock this and realise I am disconnected, all I have to do is go for a walk in Nature, feel my feet and my whole body and harmony is restored.
There are many schools of thought and differing guidelines around what is and isn’t good for us which can be confusing and contradictory but if we listen to our body we have a true marker for what genuinely supports us – something that we can continually refine and learn more about…
Those loving self-care inquiries (like did I go to the loo when I first felt I needed to?) all support us to go deeper and adjust our movements according to the body, and so they’re crucial in building a loving flow in our day.
“I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement.” This openness to the truth that is being offered by our bodies is the greatest foundation, which helps us navigate our way through life with confidence and authority.
When we bring an awareness to something, and are honest with ourselves, it offers us the opportunity to hear, feel and sense what’s happening for us – we’re then listening to our bodies.
I live in London and people here seen to not be able to exist without using their car horn or verbally commenting on others driving abilities! I have received their ire myself and accepted the constructive criticism as a learning opportunity. It is a great place to practice daily my connection to myself without absorbing what is around me.
My body is communicating loud and clear about a certain food that I have been happily eating for a long time… I am now getting bloated with it and will need to cut it out of my diet. It’s quite amazing how the body keeps refining and changing, so nothing is a constant but a forever evolving.
Understanding people is so vitally important in life and this is the most easy when we feel our own body and feel connected to that. Then there always is a foundation to come back to and we are not at the mercy of our minds just reacting to the words said without feeling where the person is coming from.
Christel, it feels really important for us have understanding about how others maybe, rather than taking things personally, the taking things personally can cause separation, frustration, self doubt and a whole host of other issues or we can stay steady with ourselves, not take things personally and live more consistently and joyfully as a result; ‘Maybe it could be that he/she is tired, had a bad sleep or feels not very well and the shouting is nothing personal but all about the feelings, such as frustration, in them.’
We can use food and drink as a way of dulling our bodies, so that we don’t get to feel the tension that we are constantly living in because we are living so very far removed from ourselves. In this disconnection it is harder to feel our bodies and to listen to what it always wants to share with us. I have discovered we discount our bodies at our own peril.
It is interesting to notice just how much response that happens from the body when in conversation, its not just the processing of information from the head, but other parts of the body all become active, such as the stomach, body posture, heart palpations, emotions… there is so much going on when we pay attention to the body.
The more we connect to our bodies the less likely we are to cause it harm, I used to be a heavy drinker and in all honesty at the time I really couldn’t see how I was going to be able to stop drinking but I slowly began treating myself better and then the connection to my body became stronger which could not allow this abuse to carry on, so in the end it turned out to be an easy thing to stop.
There is such a sweetness and simplicity in this… when we get to know someone or something (in this case our body) really well and realise how much we do actually care, then it becomes more and more difficult to do anything to harm.
Indeed Christel connecting to the our body and the intelligence it is connected with is a wise thing to go for in life instead of resorting to the mind and try to better your life from that place which in fact never delivers what we are striving for.
It is for all of our bodies to reverberate with the vibration of God until we can join together in one collective throng.
“Maybe it could be that he/she is tired, had a bad sleep or feels not very well and the shouting is nothing personal but all about the feelings, such as frustration, in them” – such is the beauty from understanding to allow another and ourselves space from perspective.
Listening to our body is key to then honouring our body’s messages. And I find when I stop and ask my body, ‘how does it feel’ or ‘how would my body do this?’ it is naturally right there with me, knowing what is needed in that moment, with an ease and flow that is just gorgeous to feel and most certainly something to appreciate.
Stopping and checking in for a moment with how our bodies feel is time well spent.
Absolutely Fiona, it is simple, takes a few seconds, totally portable and absolutely full of power. What other man-made commodity/must have item that we may spend time, money and effort on offers this great wisdom, insight, support and results (if we listen)?
“Very consciously listening to the body is the first step and then especially when recognising these signals, to connect back with it.” Being aware of these signals is really key here as it is then that we can begin to make significant changes to the way we live.
It is a great moment when whole body intelligence is listened to and we simply realise that being tired, unwell, moody etc. isn’t how life is supposed to be lived.
Yes and how often do we accept something that is not quite right and believe that’s just how it is, like accepting tiredness as normal.
‘Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’ I love how you say this naturally teaches us to be with others Christel.
It’s crazy how we learn to follow ‘societal ideals and beliefs’ over the incredible wisdom that we naturally have flowing through us. It’s such a gift to have the truth of what we are doing explained so clearly and openly, making it so much easier for us all to find our way home to our divine selves and once again trust in all that we are.
A beautiful sharing Christel. We do need to be reminded to take heed of the messages that our bodies send us. Our lives will be much richer all round if we take the time to listen.
‘Did I take the time to go to the toilet when first impulsed?’ – when I read this, I was struck by the ‘obviousness’ of doing so, why would we not go when first impulsed. What an insult to my body, yet, as I sat with the question and allowed myself to be honest, I know that at work, when I am really busy, I do override the impulse to go to the toilet when first felt, as I know I can wait, if I have to. Accepting that I put my work over honouring such a basic impulse from my body is shocking and also an opportunity for me to explore and be honest about any other ways in which I am being so dis-regarding of my beautiful body.
“What quality do I hold myself in during the day?” A great question and one that I will take into my day today and explore, like a Scientist, as to what quality I am holding myself in, and possibly hypothesise as to where I drop it, pick it up etc…
It’s very simple really… connect with the body, listen to what it’s communicating, honour that in some way, move with gentleness and that creates flow. Life doesn’t get much more simple than that… and what’s particularly beautiful about it is that it works! When I think of all the years of psychotherapy and rumination over what was wrong with me, over my issues and hurts… and it comes back to the simplest of movements.
I have a similar experience Jennifer looking back on the 20+ years of psychotherapy where it was all about being the victim and poor me, it wasn’t my fault. Looking back it was a waste of money but I allowed myself to be hooked into believing that I would someday improve and everything would fall into place and I would be able to cope with life again. What I have learnt from my experience is that psychotherapists and psychologists do not have the answers in spite of all their years of training and all their qualifications.
Yes if I could have back the amount I have spent in my days on modalities, remedies and therapists who in truth offered little more than a short, temporary fix, l’d be quite wealthy now. Education and training do not equal having the answers to our ills… aside from the responsibility we need to take for what has got us to where we are, there is a far deeper understanding of the energetic interplay of life needed before a therapists can be truly effective.
I found it quite a leap to realise that when I feel tired and miserable, that this is both a message from my body and that I can sustainably change it. What stopped me in the past from using more than quick fixes is that I lacked any confidence that there is a permanent and easy way to live differently.
Our socialisation tends to teach us to not trust what our body tells us, thus leaving us as anxious adults who are unsure of who they are and what they feel. We are often told to believe what we hear, what we can see over what we can feel. You have described well the process of starting to reclaim our feelings from the body. I agree that we need to feel everything it has to say, not just the bits we want to feel. This honouring of our feelings definitely builds the trust and love we have for ourselves.
Sometimes because of the choices we make in life, be it what we eat or how we react, we can feel so stuffy or racy or just numb that the bodies communications can be harder at first to hear, but the more space we make for the body, clearing away some of the things we use to muffle it, the clearer and more precise the messages become.
We can not always change what is happening around us, yet a great example offered here that when we have built a rhythm of ongoingly connecting to our own inner awareness, we are supported to know how to be in harmony with our own self as well as everything we are faced with.
Yep, our bodies know it all.. we just need to listen.
And trust that listening actually works and that the benefits are much bigger than commonly realised.
Christel, it’s a very valuable observation you make that when someone shouts at you and you don’t understand why, that by consciously bringing in your presence with a gentle breath through your nose, you give your self some distance and a perspective from which to feel and read what is in fact going on.
I love the way babies and small children don’t try to hide anything. Whatever they feel is expressed without the filters we adults learn, such as putting on a brave face, being polite or brave.
Yes a great observation Fiona… we are going back to something innate, not developing the ability to be in the world through being polite or brave as you say.
Being aware and in touch with the whole body intelligence gives me a way to be supported, flounder and return, understand why and how things happen, observe the patterns I repeat, and learn a different way to be. It is huge how much we are given when we listen to this intelligence.
“By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.” the same here I’ve noticed not one overnight change but a constant deepening, every day I learn something new not about a topic but about the depth of my connection and what that means for me. Each day life gets simpler not from knowledge but from valuing and appreciating the inner knowing and wisdom that is naturally there when I deepen my connection with myself.
Recently on my day off I got an unexpected calling to attend a meeting and had to make a decision there and then, although I was busy I was going at a gentle pace. With this decision my body said clearly to go, it started moving more actively, my cells were zinging my body felt very light. I had a choice to travel by tube or take the bus, the tube seemed the immediate best option but my body said take the bus, it felt like doors were opening with this option, so I did. With focus and purpose I got ready and left, the next few hours flowed beautifully, travel, finding the destination, arriving on time. I love how the body gives such clear messages, if we’re open to listening and trusting.
Whole body mindedness is natural and very healthy; it is a source of great vitality and immense ease and joy.
Opening up to the communication from our bodies allows for an ever growing steadiness which is an awesome foundation to move forward in life and supports us whatever challenges life presents us with.
‘I am learning to observe – instead of absorb – all that does not truly support me, and that allows me more space in my body and more love with myself.’ … and also allows us to bring more understanding to every moment for ourselves, and everyone else. It’s through deepening our understanding that we evolve.
I can remember when I started to shut down and ignore the extraordinary wisdom my body shared with me, it was when other people became more important to me than myself – when all I wanted was to fit in and be like everyone else.
Staying open to, and curious about what our bodies communicate with us builds an incredible relationship with ourselves that is a strong foundation, whatever comes up in our days.
Our bodies are in constant communication, with us, with one another and with the space flowing through us. We are part of one ginormous conversation going on all the time, learning to tune in and join in is the most fascinating activity we can do.
It is with our whole body intelligence that we communicate with the whole and it is through our whole body intelligence that the whole communicates with us.
This is key ‘I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgment’. Having pictures on what something should or should not look like is a major set up for us to be disgruntled with ourselves. Whereas if we accept and allow, the bodies messages get easier to understand.
It never fails to amaze me how far removed we can get from our own bodies and how shut down we can get by letting life rule us instead of us being the masters of our own choices. Getting back to feeling everything the body has to offer is a journey all of us must make.
And when we do, life will be so much simpler and we will be so much more connected and collaborative with one another.
The body speaks to us, sometimes powerfully, other times subtly. Yesterday morning was an example of where my head was leading one way and trying to do too much, but my body said no. I listened and simplified plans for the day.. I moved through resistance and surrendered. Making this choice opened up the day that was waiting for me, at a flow and pace that was still, supportive and free of tension. It pays to listen.
There’s no other way to communicate with God other than through the body, therefore anyone or any practice that purports to being connected to God, without having first connected to themselves through the body is not coming from truth.
Honouring and appreciating our bodies is awesome medicine for everyone.
To be in harmony with our bodies and all others equally so… that is how we can live and the reminders here that we discern and read below the surface what is going on is so important, often it’s not about us at all and learning to be with others observing is very supportive of us, our bodies and the other – whole body intelligence.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so” – when i read this i get the sense of how our bodies are like earths.. that inside our own (body) earth, can be the earth/planet we see in nature in all its natural order which we love so much, and love to be in too. What we see in nature is the true nature of ourselves.
I do a similar thing Susan, if I feel myself getting tense then I move my shoulders and change position or go for a walk and move in a different way which makes an enormous difference to how I feel and often my level of focus.
What you have written reminds me of the simplicity of coming back to my breath when I feel I am in a challenging situation, I know when I am with my breath I am able to be far more detached and observe what is going on rather than taking it all on.
I think it’s a great point about not imposing on our body how we think it should feel – as in not judging what we become aware of when we tune in with our body, but instead to really observe it and learn from it…
Thank you Christel. This is a beautiful blog, I can feel the harmony that you are already embracing in your life as you deepen your relationship with your body.’ Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’
So true Ariana, could this be the story of Jeckel and Hyde, would the True person stand up and be felt for the Truth there body Lives?!!!
You know those times you are talking with somebody else but find yourself checking out, and going off into your mind? I find this happens a lot to me when I feel that’s what’s been said is yucky, or said without Love. When I think about what you say here Christel I can see I avoid listening to my body too because I don’t want to hear what it says. But really this is futile, like turning off the news. It doesn’t stop reality from being there asking us to change.
There is so much to share based on your blog, one beautiful quotation from your blog is: ‘The openness and space that I feel gives me a lot of joy and love for myself and for everyone around me.’ This shares with us that when we connect to love there is joy — and that this joy is innately us.
The old say of “don’t shoot the messenger” with our body continually sending us messages it comes to me how much do we listen to our body in every aspect or do we avoid the true stillness our body can deliver when have listened to it? “Shooting our self in the foot” is another saying that seems to go along the same lines? We would rather endure the pain than put our best foot forward and this is like normal for us. Thus we are avoiding looking at our issues and in Truth this is because like our shooting of our feet our issues are not real or seemingly so as we can choose to hit the delete button with different choices. So like you say Christel; “By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.” And may I add True feelings that are divinely connected!
Learning to trust ourselves and be aware of our feelings again through re-connecting with the body, supports a release of a lot of inner tension that just hardens in our body.
“it’s more natural, my body feels less protected because there is less hardness in my shoulders and my back. The openness and space that I feel gives me a lot of joy and love for myself and for everyone around me”.
Gorgeous sharing- I love this- thank you
This is such a simple wisdom to apply to every moment and movement – our whole body intelligence is fully equipped to support us is every way as to what works and what doesn’t. There is a point in our lives where we get to choose our own innate wisdom over the outside should’s and should-nots.
It’s great to consistently check in with our bodies as we learn to stay with it more and more through life and feel the benefit and how amazing we feel when we choose to stay with us, not only for ourselves but others.
I love this part: “By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.’
Without a foundation of connection to the body where I listen and respond to the communication I get, I can be caught up in dramas of life. From there it is easy to take on what is not of my making, destabilising the steadiness that is there.
Love this part: ‘By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.’
Christel, your sharing is an invitation to be more honest with myself about how my body feels. It invites me to be more attentive to the body’s communications.
“I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.” i am learning to take the time to really be with what my body is telling me and learning to not judge myself about what I am feeling but to bring loving care back into me body so that the body’s harmony can be restored, for this is its natural ways of being.
Recently I have been noticing parents who inspired by the teachings of Universal Medicine parent their children with the care that is described in this blog, where the self-care questions listed are a natural part of daily conversation. The honouring and the deepening awareness in these interactions is a joy to witness.
It is not commonly taught or acknowledged that our body is highly intelligent. The only place I know that teaches us about the intelligence and wisdom of our body is at Universal Medicine and this has made a massive, massive change in the way I live, my relationships and the way I now view the world with love instead of reactions.
When someone shouts at us or reacts in any way – how much it changes things when we stay with ourselves and do our best to read what is truly being communicated and what is going on for the person. We can get pulled into the drama of it all and we’re gone, or we can stay solid in ourselves and then we have clarity on what is going on.
Our inner connection is more powerful that we realise.
It’s lovely to feel the spaciousness and flow that can occur simply from listening to and honouring the innate knowing of our body. Thanks for your blog Christel
I love the awareness that when someone shouts at us it isn’t necessarily anything to do with us. The more I understand about such things the clearer it becomes that how a person expresses reveals them, rather than defines anyone they are speaking about. Somehow we learn to take on what others say about us – but this is not necessarily wise because as Christel says here, they may just be having a bad day.
“Babies and little children are pure and honest and they show us clearly what their body communicates. Gradually this changes” it can hurt to feel just how much kids change, how much I changed and the fact that when I was young not only was I deeply connected to the wisdom of the universe but I then didn’t hold onto that. What I now feel is as I’m reconnecting to this inner knowing each day to hold it like the gold it is and in that support my daughter to celebrate the wisdom she has and not get confused why life does not make sense.
Knowing ourselves is an ongoing process – what helps stabilise the relationship with ourselves and our inner connection is re-learning to honour what we feel, whether be a situation, about people, environments or something internal – each time we just feel what we are feeling, we are saying a big YES to the body and our inner connection.
Yes it is as simple as feeling what we are feeling – not needing to react, justify, interpret, judge or think it should be different – simply feeling what we are feeling.
There is nothing more grounding in life than whole body connection, this is something we can only choose for ourselves.
I love observing how negative thoughts can’t enter our body when we are honoring what we truly need to love and support ourselves. Our body immediately thanks us and we get to enjoy the clarity and openness this invites.
Thank you Vicky, that is something for me to ponder on that honouring our bodies stops negative thoughts from coming in
I’ve spent most of my life living in my mind and trying to defeat my body, hating myself, feeling very low self worth and even now I can indulge in self destruct behaviours like overeating to numb any feelings I might have. What I am learning though is to trust my body when it comes to major choices like where to be at any moment in time – I have had some amazing constellations happen because I felt to move somewhere. Some major life choices have been a whole body decision that my mind was not allowed to override. Fortunately the more I allow this, the more trust I am developing in the knowing that my body is the wisest part of me and slowly I am allowing my body to lead the way.
Understanding, self love and absolute appreciation along side true love and transparency should be the cornerstones of human life. Why are these virtues so rarely practiced despite their commonly held importance in life?
I love the example you give if someone shouts at you, that is to not react but to feel/see instead what is going on for the other person. Not only are you not taking this on (the shouting etc) in your body but you are giving the other person space to be, to let go of what is not them and to come back to who they truly are. If we all just even did this, not react to others or take others emotions on, the change in the world would be noticeable.
Self love is the key to us evolving and moving on from the misery many of us have lived in and do live in. Listening to my body has been invaluable in exposing the little nuances that creep in to try and bring misery back into my life.
Having ‘checks’ and foundations in place, such as touching base regularly with how we feel, is a huge support when we go out and sometimes get caught up in life’s affairs.
Being more connected to my body definitely allows me to have a steadiness that means I can read life on a deeper level and understand why things are occurring.
I can remember when this concept was first introduced to me not quite understanding what it meant to ‘feel or listen to my body’. It wasn’t until I started to attend Esoteric Yoga sessions and seeing an Esoteric Healing Practitioner that I began to realise and appreciate what this meant and how far away I had been from actually listening to what my body was telling me and how much I had ignored it.
It is clear that when we disconnect from the body, we can be very dismissive of the messages, it is giving us override and actually cause it physical harm it.
Well said Julie.
I love these words, Christel – “Very consciously listening to the body”. This feels like a true relationship rather than a quick check in once in a while.
It does Janet – A loving relationship that means we are willing to feel more and more and learn more and more as that relationship develops.
Completely agree – it start with quick check ins and eventually becomes a 24/7 way of life so we have whole life whole body intelligence.
The way we hold our bodies communicates a lot. When I bring awareness to how my body feels I am often surprised to find how tense and shut down I feel.
I can certainly relate to that one Leonne. However, in those moments I find I can be very hard on myself. Simply clocking this honestly should be a cause for appreciation since in this honesty a choice can be made to feel into why the tension is there. In this process of the nomination we begin to lighten up and become more open again – beginning the process of healing and letting things go.
Making the shift from navigating life from the mind or head to gauging things from the body is quite a step. Thanks for the outline of how it can be done and the very clear benefits to all. Understanding that as small children this is exactly what we did makes it clear that we are returning to something innate, rather than learning something new.
This blog is great at exposing the negative thoughts that invade our minds and how we just accept them as being part of us. I am learning that they are not part of us at all but are dropped into our consciousness from a source other than us. For years I have had such negative thoughts about myself and I took them for granted believing them to be mine. I have learnt that these thoughts are actually not mine and if I turn my attention to my body and listen to what that is telling me I get completely different thoughts which are much more self-caring. I’m beginning to appreciate my body is actually my best friend that I have been ignoring all these years by focusing on my negative thoughts. Listening to my body has opened up so much space it’s unbelievable. This understanding of myself is all due to the presentations and workshops of Serge Benhayon
What a gorgeous revelation that how we move and how we nurture out bodies impulse the thoughts we have and therefore the choices we make! What could be a more simple science to apply to everyday life to ensure vitality and quality relationships?
Christel, I have found this too; ‘Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’ I can feel that my body is constantly giving me messages, whether it is that I am too cold, too hot, tired, ready to stop talking, that it’s time to move on, time to go to bed, that I have had enough to eat or that something doesn’t feel right – there is constant feedback from my body and so all I need to do is listen and honour this feedback.
From birth life says “you are not allowed to be yourself, you can be anything at all, as long as you are not your true self”and it dedicates itself to ensuring that it is as hard as possible for us to remain connected. Universal Medicine is as equally dedicated to supporting people to re-connect back to the truth of who they are and hence to the truth of life. Two opposing energies.
How we view the world and how we communicate is massively effected by how much we choose to understand how much we know and feel, and how much better we do feel when we give massive respect to this capability we have.
As you say, Christel, self-love is the foundation from which the rest expands.
Just stopping to feel, ask and respond to some very simple questions about how we are feeling brings about deep change. When we understand that how our body feels is a direct consequence of something we have done, then we empower our selves to make very different choices.
Once again I have to thank Serge Benhayon for without him yet another life would be passing me by with me totally disconnected from my body and totally ill or with disease. I know I still have a long way to go but at least I’m aware that the body knows everything that I need to know.
That is beautifully expressed Kevin. Knowing that our body knows everything we need to know is a great, solid foundation to expand even with the awareness that there is so much to let go off.
Love the Honesty Kevin, as I feel the same. We are at-least now start to understand what our body represents and how to listen to and treat it!
Wow Christel you really showed us with your honest and clear blog that our body is truly intelligent. I love your lived examples as they are so comprehensible and particularly I love it that it is without fighting against yourself. “I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement.”
Awesome blog Christel, I love the example you shared in how you observed what you were experiencing instead of reacting by staying connected to yourself.
Great blog Christel, and a key point is how when a child, “… Such outside influences made me uncertain when I was a little child …” It is these influences that may initiate a feeling of vulnerability and a low grade anxiety in children that can continue to affect a person into their adulthood. Building resilience is an important lesson for us all.
“Communicating with Whole Body Intelligence” – communicating with my body, or listening to my body has opened up my world entirely and unfolded the deep and meaningful relationship I have not just with myself but also with other people too.
‘…there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.’ This is gold, and so inspiring to really embrace this whole body intelligence and let go of the mind only intelligence that can imprison us in a lack of awareness and understanding of the intelligence we could otherwise connect with.
Very beautifully expressed, Christel. I love how practising to observe life, and not absorb it, gives us so much space to feel more deeply what our body is trying to communicate to us.
“there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so” it is beautiful how we are constantly informed by our body to be in harmony with self and others, when we stop to listen to our body’s intelligence we are the natural flow to take place, when we ignore it we allow obstacles to come up.
Thank you Christel for your writing. I am always impressed and amazed by how much there is to learn.
It’s great how you show that by not taking things personally and not judging others you give yourself the opportunity to observe more clearly and have a deeper understanding and awareness of what is going on and how you can respond to that.
Great blog Christel, so simple, yet something that many of us do not do consistently enough….listen to our body and respond to its wisdom.
Agreed Mary-Louise, could it be the drugs, sugar and the addictive-nesses that are freely available that keep us numb to what we are Truly feeling, I know this is how it was for me? How simple life can be when we do listen to our bodies.
Feeling my body without judgment is a big one for me just the other day I realised how much I still judged myself at times, in the past I would be measuring myself with the good and the getting it right a huge judgment, the other day I felt this awful feeling of judgment in my body so instead of beating myself up for judging i decided that my body needed some loving tender care and as I did this I felt the ugly energy disappear.
A beautiful reminder to not judge myself and simply feel what lessons are there to be felt.
Christel, I loved reading about the development of your relationship with yourself and with your body.
As soon as we go into judgement we are gone, we become further entrenched. It’s very beautiful to allow ourselves the space and honesty to feel what is truly going on for us in our body, even if the feelings are very uncomfortable, allowing ourselves the grace to recognise they are there is the first step forward to dealing with whatever is getting in the way and ridding ourselves of these suffocating patterns that have held us hostage for lifetimes.
‘I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement.’ …. the true way forward to break down all the deeply ingrained patterns that we have been living in for so long.
Simple and true, when we care for and listen to our bodies without judgement we are able to see clearly what is fuelling our behaviours and the effects these have on our well-being.
…. and the greater wellbeing of us all, including the space we share here.
Truly listening to our bodies messages, and honouring them, is a game-changer.
We may not like the messages as they expose the truth of our choices, how we have been choosing to live… however we cant avoid the consequences of those choices as our bodies will force us to take notice at some point with some form of dis-ease or illness.
“One day I told myself that this was not the way I wanted to live.” – sometimes we have to hit a certain point in life before we are willing to really look at what is going on and make a needed change. And even then we may often make a few seeming changes which appear to make a change but have not shifted the underlying energy and hence do not really make a difference in the long run – so it is about being very discerning about the changes we are implementing and ensuring that they are coming from our true and natural source of inspiration and done in a way that truly supports us on the long run.
Thank you Christel for sharing your experience – an experience that shows how simple and straight forwards this can be to listen to the body and heed the messages. It may not always be easy to heed the body’s messages as we can be in a habit of over-riding them and doing as we please with our heads, but the message is clearly simple and a question of how much we really want to make a change in life!
Self-care is the path back home to true love, the place where our true self – the Soul – resides. What you have described for us here Christel, are very simple measures that have a profound affect on the way we live and thus determine the volume of this love that we can express through our physical form.
Spot on Liane, everyone could do with a back-pack that is full of self-care and self-love, so that our first response to every situation is at-least self-caring.
I wonder whether it is important to have physically experienced how amazing a deep connection feels? This would then allow us to feel and respond to everything else our body tells us.
Spot on Christophe – this gives us a reference point to work from and is invaluable!
Beautiful, inspiring and practical sharing Christel, thank you.
This feels like a chapter from a very practical, relatable, guide book to life!
Or Hitch Hikers Guide to Truth!!
Indeed!
We are indeed on a universal path that will reconnect us to the universe!
Our body’s job is to simply communicate. We may not like what its saying – therein lies the dilemma. Do we accept what it’s saying and continue to listen and accept that we have lived in a way that has resulted in this communication or do we ignore it or numb down the very clear messages.It is a process of listening and letting go of any judgments and expectations of ourselves. No matter all of this our body will continue to simply communicate.
Love what you have shared Jennifer, and may I add that stopping long enough so we do not numb can be the starting point. Most of us are on the fast ‘travelator’ to the ‘indulgious’ way of living that keeps on repeating every day. Getting off is the first step so we can listen to the communication.
Great example of staying with your body and choosing to remain open instead of going into reaction and hardness.
And showing that this is possible.
I love the concept of ‘whole body intelligence’, which means for me the intelligence is not in my brain, nor in 1 other place in my body, but the body as a whole. This makes sense because from our body we can connect to the whole we belong too: the universe.
Yes love that Monika, we are body’s within the one universal body. Everything affects everything because we are all connected. This brings awareness to how key it is we look after our own backyard.
When we listen to our whole body intelligence it is difficult to go into comparison but if we just focus on our mind’s intelligence I find comparison with others jumps in in less than a split second. I find our mind’s intelligence has different level’s you could say, for example our level of IQ, whereas our body’s intelligence is accessible to everyone.
Great example, Ariana, makes you wonder where the ‘do nothing from years ago’ came from, since our bodies love to move and exercise in support of our way of living and working.
Our body is the tool through which our clairsentience resides. If we can nurture and honour the body then we can have access to much awareness. When we want to put the breaks on that awareness, however, we all know how to dull the body to override what it is communicating. The fact that we know this without being taught it says much about how much we really do know and how aware we really are!
From ‘Most days I was tired and miserable.’ to ‘The openness and space that I feel gives me a lot of joy and love for myself and for everyone around me.’ is to truly value and appreciate. You are an inspiration for other people in your life now you are walking joyfully with your eyes open to the world, observing and not absorbing.
What a great example you have offered: “when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate”. This way of stopping and sensing what is really going on rather than getting caught in the dynamics of the moment, could be applied in pretty much every aspect of our daily lives.
Listening to the communication of our bodies makes so much sense. I find great wisdom is available when I am connected to this ‘whole body intelligence’. Thank you for sharing your story here Christel – very inspiring.
There really is an abundance of communication our body is never ceasing to share with us.
The wisdom of my body is vast, way more vast than my mind can ever imagine. For with the body I know nothing, until it is needed, or called for and then everything is there to offer myself and others. The way this works is too beautiful for words, but requires me to be in a constant state of surrender, not needing to know or plan the words I want to say, for the words that are needed are called for, and are never what my mind thinks should be said.
Connecting to who we truly are is a very joyful experience and I thoroughly enjoyed reading and feeling your experience Christel.
There is more space when I have no judgement to myself, there is more understanding and through this understanding my body feels more open, more connected and I build more love with myself which allows me to feel on a deeper level my essence. When I feel the essence of me, I feel also more the essence of our brothers and there is more understanding.
“I now allow myself to feel everything that my body communicates with me without judgement.” This is key in becoming aware of our body and the world we live in. The moment we judge we have hardened and shut ourselves and the world out, we allow thoughts to enter our mind that seperate us from others, but so much more insidious is that judgement separates us from our own body.
I love the way you strip this right back to basics Christel, knowing that in this fundamental detail lays the wisdom that is foundational, yet is far, far from basic.
Thank you, I find it helpful to be reminded of our responsibility in all matters of relationship, that it is up to us to stay steady, stay connected no matter what. Today in particular I’ve noticed how much I feel irritated with the smallest thing that’s come my way and my normal reaction is to go away and hide. That’s no good if I use the time to get up more steam and totally indulge in my irritation and frustration, but if I use the time to reconnect then I can stop blaming anybody else for my mood and restore harmony.
It’s amazing to ponder on how intelligent our bodies are. I know I am only scratching the surface of this in my own life but I know without a shadow of a doubt that what my body communicates is highly intelligent, honest, never holds back or tells lies and quite frankly is the bestest friend I have ever had. But in all honesty I haven’t treated my body that way. My body has been something that has come along for the ride of the emotional rollercoaster, sugar high, physically draining high.
This is so relevant for our daily life, Christel, because that is what is important, how we are with ourselves and others in our every day. And the body always give us the direction when we allow it. It is a great learning not to go into reaction when someone shouts at you for no known reason. By not reacting, it completely changes how the other person then responds, I am working with this too.
Christel, it is beautiful to feel the solidness of your connection with your body. Your connection is easy to feel through what you have shared and I feel that it is underlined when you say “By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings”. A gorgeous sharing.
Letting go of the judgment of others and even of ourselves and instead coming from a place of understanding has the potential to change the way we live and the quality of our relationships. And if we add to this understanding the wisdom of our amazing body then life will definitely, as I have discovered, will never ever be the same as it was; and that for me was so very welcome.
I also relate to what you share Christel and find it does not make sense whatsoever to abuse the body as is so the norm in humanity at this time. What benefit does it give us when with abuse comes a lack of loved joy and a life that feels more like a mere existence?
Thank you Christel. To work on being present with the body as you have allowing you to feel what is going on with another and not take it personally but read the situation so you able to respond is a big shift in relationship with others and allows the truth of what is there to be dealt with, as felt from the body, rather than reacting.
Gorgeous and from experience I know that when we start to question is how we are living the way we want to live if you have found Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine you are definitely on the right track to living a more loving and purposeful way.
Thank you for writing this beautiful blog Christel. I especially love the way you explain that we’ve often already disconnected from our bodies as children. When I look back on my life I can see that most of my choices have come from disconnection to my body. The choices I’ve made in connection to myself and my body stand out because they always prove to be truly wise.
In a world that is mostly water and air, and thus space, why do we focus so heavily on the ‘mass’ (i.e. ground level material, attachments and distractions) and complications rather than what we do with the space available to us?
I can relate to this very much, Christel – “The openness and space that I feel gives me a lot of joy and love for myself and for everyone around me.” As I too let go of hardness and protection in my body, the love and joy naturally bubbles up to be shared with everyone.
The body is an amazing communication tool. Re-learning to listen to its messages and taking action on what is being said. is a much more supportive way to live than ignoring it and overriding with the head.
I agree Rachel, although it seems utterly ridiculous that we have to ‘re-learn’ to listen to the messages of the body. The point at which we chose to sever our connection with our bodies is the equivalent to being in a boat in the middle of the sea and throwing the rudder and the compass over board! It’s no wonder that so many people feel like they are being constantly tossed in turbulent seas, energetically they are!
So lovely to come back to the simplicity of listening to our bodies and what they have to share with us. We can continue to ignore these oh so wise and age old messages, or we can choose to listen and act on them. Choosing the latter can only benefit us and everyone else.
“Through listening to all that my body communicates, I have found that there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so.” Beautiful post Christel. When we listen to our body’s messages – and honour them – life can transform
The key word for me here is to track what the body is feeling without judgement. When I put that judgement stick down I can be so much more honest, when I am carrying it I lie to myself to avoid feeling what is really going on.
Very true Simon. Self-Judgment brings us in for a re-run of the behaviours that we are examining with a fine tooth comb. But in an even more cementing fashion, It guarantees that we keep going round in circles without change.
Judgment of self is a form of self-loathing designed to cap us from evolving any further than where we have set the marker. This is chosen due to our need for comfort in the sense that we do not want to be taken out of the arms of what we deem ‘secure’ and back into a space which has far less ‘self’ at the wheel.
That’s great Simon, well spotted. Judgement definitely does breed dishonesty.
Yes ‘without judgement’. You build with yourself more love when there is no judgement and it gives more space in the body to feel your essence.
‘Did I take the time to go to the toilet when first impulsed? etc.’ This is such a great question, along with am I drinking enough water? Two very basic levels of care for the body that we can so easily override if we get caught in our heads doing rather than being with ourselves.
We could spend our whole life gathering outside information and yet our bodies can show us so much more and deeper understandings of life greater than any book or university.
Simple love-packed science
“Allowing this from day to day brings more flow and rhythm into my life – it’s more natural, my body feels less protected because there is less hardness in my shoulders and my back. The openness and space that I feel gives me a lot of joy and love for myself and for everyone around me.”
As we build & deepen this union with our bodies, we begin to move in a different manner and our expanding awareness soon clocks the movements & momentums of old that no longer support the body. Indeed Christel we are constantly guided by a wise & all knowing body.
You beautifully describe how simple life can be when we allow ourselves to check in with ourselves, instead of going through life from reaction to reaction. There is so much grace when we hold ourselves in love and allow ourselves to feel.
Not taking on someone else’s stuff is huge, we don’t really realise how much this can affect us. Stepping back and seeing that that person at the time is not them and that there is something going on that we may not be aware of stops from absorbing other people’s emotions. These are the types of discussions we should be having amongst ourselves and not bottling them up, because it is the small incidences that can play out and affect us for the rest of our lives.”Such outside influences made me uncertain when I was a little child and I didn’t know anymore who I was and what I felt.” I remember feeling this too Christel and how confusing this was.
Our body communicates so much and relearning to listen to it is amazing as it responds magically and offers so much wisdom.” By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.” A very loving whole body intelligence can then be lived.
Doing Esoteric Yoga and the Gentle Breath Meditation has helped bring stop moments into my days so I can check in with my body. If I let my head rule it usually ends up with me getting exhausted very quickly. I would say my body is the wise one.
“Very consciously listening to the body is the first step and then especially when recognising these signals, to connect back with it.” This first step on a marvellous journey of discovery to improved health and much more.
Christel, this is beautiful to read; ‘when someone shouts at me and I don’t know what it’s all about, I breathe gently in and out through my nose, and feel what the other person really is attempting to communicate.’ How amazing to observe and read the situation and person in this way and to have this level of understanding, I can feel how this can make life more even, consistent and more joyful because we are not taking things personally and are not up and down in reactions.
Thank you for sharing Christel and I love how you make the connection that the more you are able to observe and not absorb others’ issues the more space is created in your body and you can feel what it is they are trying to communicate instead of adding to the tension by reacting. If we all did this we would instantly have a more harmonious existence.
Over time we become experts of our body and the limits that we can push it beyond! When tired, we just add sugar and caffeine to force us to carry on. We know every method to cheat our body from years of practice. If we did what we do to ourselves to children, we would be prosecuted for abuse. Ignoring and abusing our body is like watching TV, a wasted time you never get back.
“Most days I was tired and miserable. One day I told myself that this was not the way I wanted to live.” If we really want to change there are so many ways in which we can by taking more care of ourselves in every part of our lives. The action is really simple and clear the question is more if we really choose to change or not.
Great what you shared and an essential way of being throughout our day: the listening to our bodies. Our bodies communicatie 24/7. What I experience, is that it is just my choice to listen to it or not. Something so simple, as you mentioned, going to the toilet. I can ignore it and immediately I can feel the pressure on my bladder and how it expands to the rest of my body. Or the impact of negative thoughts giving me anxiety, especially if I feed the thoughts. These are just two example and there are so many more. I have started to truly appreciate my choices of listening to my body and the effects it has on my well-being.
As children we have a very direct relationship with our bodies and have no shame in expressing what is being communicated. It is our adult world that struggles with this honesty. What a joy to reclaim it and restore the graceful ability to observe what is felt and express freely, appreciating what your body is saying, while understanding what is happening for other people too.
Christel, I love the fact that you found Serge Benhayon through Serge Benhayon TV! What a turn around for you from a TV show! Love it.
What truly supports my way of being present with the body is keeping my focus on the purpose to my actions eg. it certainly is beneficial to focus on having harmony in and maintaining it in the body. Feeling great and / or amazing is the ultimate. Once a marker is made and truly appreciated in the body this is hard not not to dismiss.
There is such simplicity in the way you have expressed this blog Christel and I know what you say is true because I have tried this way of living. Being in constant contact with my body is like having a best friend with me where ever I go, it is quite delightful.
‘A best friend with me where ever I go’: so much power and wisdom in it.
“I am learning to observe” a great lesson in life and the more we observe the more we are aware of.
Like you mentioned Esoteric Yoga is a great tool to feel the body and its needs and the impulses we get. Its also a great tool to feel the distractions we often create through our thoughts in our head to make life complicated and racy.
Caring for the body out of love would naturally be what is perfect for our body, and for others. Who would have thought that a self-loving choice to breathe gently would help us be more understanding of others.
It is an amazing thing to do, if we don’t react to the way another may address us, but instead feel where they are coming from. From here we can build understanding. The more we listen to our bodies the more there is to listen to; we have a really good Indian takeaway near us and they do an amazing lamb and spinach curry but the time before last when I ate it my body was saying no more, but me being me,I had to try it one more time just to be sure and sure enough I got heart burn and didn’t feel that well so I have to say a final farewell to my beloved curry house.
“… there is a whole body intelligence constantly informing me how to be in harmony with my own body and all others equally so…” This is a standout statement… A statement to inform us all that we can be proactive in our individual health care and wellbeing.
A beautiful blog Christel, thank you for writing this. Indeed our bodies know how to be in life and as you say when people for instance start to shout it is important to not take it personal put as you say, to feel in the body what truly is being communicated which takes away the need to react to it in any way shape or form and brings understanding of the situation and possibly healing.
So important your point on not being distracted by negative thoughts and I would take it a step further, including so called positive thoughts as well. These also take us away from the wisdom of the body.
Subtle, but oh so super important Mary-Louise. Those positive thoughts seem so much better, but equally they take us away from the experience we feel in our body.
Being able to not take someone shouting at you as something personal is a powerful thing in order to allow oneself to feel and read the situation more clearly with more understanding. But as soon as we react emotionally to these situations our true senses are dulled and/or confused as we have then absorbed the yucky energy coming towards us. Also, even though we may stay as the observer in this kind of situation we should never accept abuse and be willing to call it out for what it is.
Self care is something we can always go back to and constantly deepen and refine. It’s something every single person in the world can do and every single person has their own relationship with themselves in it. There are no rules in self care but a constant deepening in the relationship we have with our bodies, it is a very intimate and inspiring process.
Thank you Cristel, I really enjoyed your blog and the understanding that by taking care of our body we allow more space for love, not just with ourselves but to share with others. Whole body intelligence is key to human beings returning to living in harmony together, and that begins with being in harmony with ourselves.
Yes and when we allow ourself to deepen more care of our body, then is the reflection more visible and touchable.
Wonderful Christel, the body’s so amazing, precious and wise.. it’s a crime to reduce such whole intelligence through vanquishing into the solo-playing mind.
Great questions you have asked Christel, and for me it all started with The Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon. “Our body shares so much with us and is so intelligent, but how do we make contact with its communication again?”
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Yes, I can say the same, Greg, and it is a grand invitation you offer. The Gentle Breath Meditation was my introduction back to appreciating and responding to my body’s wisdom.
True Jonathan, learning to appreciate what our body can share with us is a definite learning curve.
Being as lost as I was Gentleness had to be where I started from on my way to returning to being at-least Self-Loving and these steps are very simple when we start with The Gentle Breath Meditation!
Thanks Christel, this is a piece of wisdom that never gets old. Or rather it is as ancient as all time but we have ignored it for as long as we’ve been alive. Every day you can pretend it doesn’t exist, that you know what you’re doing and have no constraints. But life has a way of reminding you ultimately your body is the boss.
As children, we have a lot of vitality and bounciness, a very natural oneness with our body that is what it is and doesn’t need questioning or doubting. It is only later that we burden ourselves with beliefs, images and norms and their accompanying mental constructs.
Honestly I very rarely if ever stop to consider how I treat my body, and as I become more aware of how much I need to build my body to support me I know I need to invest in it and support it to be a fit vehicle for all I have to accomplish in my life.
Our bodies are so very wise and inclusive of everyone… unlike our minds which are all about ‘me’ the individual. Our minds will never fathom the wisdom and truth our bodies so naturally and innately offer in consideration of the whole.
Christel I love how you ‘met’ Serge Benhayon and that could feel his realness, genuineness and love through the medium of streamed TV. There aren’t many people you could say that about.
‘By practising this each day I build with myself a trust and bond and I deepen the connection more and more with my own feelings.’
The consistency that develops in us as a result of our decision to practice feeling and listening to our bodies is nothing short of divine. It’s an absolute gift to get to the stage where we are able to trust and back ourselves 100%.
Thank you Christel for your spot on blog. It is wondrous what the body communicates and it is such an awesome vehicle if we commit to staying with it, nourishing it, looking after it, and listening to it. Thanks be to God for the divinity of the particles from which this body has been constructed.
When we stop and appreciate what our bodies continuously communicate we begin to see just how much our movements thereafter either support or hinder our whole body intelligence and it is from this greater awareness that we begin to see the purpose we hold and the simplicity of life unfold.
Our bodies only ever communicate truth, unlike our minds, which can very artfully convince us of absolutely anything.
‘Very consciously listening to the body is the first step and then especially when recognising these signals, to connect back with it. I felt it was important to do this very lovingly and without pressure from myself that something should or not should be a certain way.’ – I love how you allowed yourself to listen to your body without any expectations, lovingly learning to trust in everything you were feeling, in the moment.
Yes, listening without judgement is crucial.
And it deepens step by by step. It gives more space in the body.
An inspiring blog Christel – overeating sugar, feeling tired or in pain are a great markers that we are not bringing true self love and care to our precious body.
“What supports me when my ‘self love’ drops is that I stop, reconnect and feel, so I can deepen further that enormous self-care and love”.
Self care is key in restoring that natural connection with our body we had when we were born which will restore that natural flow in the body and will stop us from bringing abuse to it through overeating or eating the wrong foods or through being hard and tough in our movements or having abusive thoughts from the mind to name a few.