Hi, I'm your Body.

Hi, I’m Your Body.

Wow, being on Earth is really quite the experience. I’m tired! But this isn’t about being tired. It’s about our potential. I hold a millennia of experiential wisdom inside me, and I pulse and vibrate with this magical spark of life. I’m much more than the physical, and I’m here to remind you there is so much Light, and so much more to learn. Follow me?

Beyond all the pains and annoyances of living in the modern world—and being biologically unadapted to it—I’m still a temple and library that holds the knowledge to help us navigate today’s complexities. If we work together, we can support our healthiest, most vibrant Self. I hold all your histories and memories, and even if you can’t consciously access them, I witness you through life, and I radiate all your stories. I’m speaking to you through the language of sensory experience.

To the depths of you and all that you are: I love you. I love to accompany you and watch you grow. I’m always right here, looking out for the best for you. I hold your deepest Truth. Even though our relationship is at times in discord, I still fight and endure for you—at all costs—until the very end. I’m often made a martyr, and yet all my behaviors are meant to protect you. I unlock new layers of myself when you feel safe and supported. I’d love to have a better relationship with you.

Much of the problem is Culture. Did you know there’s a way to move and exercise that doesn’t cost me anything, and still gives you the health you’re looking for? When we repeat the same exercise over and over to get my heart pumping, often my hips ache. My wrists are uncomfortable from the pushups, and my spine doesn’t like that type of downward-facing dog. I’m only as strong as my weakest link, and instead of working around the discomforts, start by working with them. Listen to my boundaries. Following discomfort is my simplest form of Guidance. You can have all that you want—we just need to go about it in a different way. I operate as an interrelated system, so if one part of me doesn’t feel good, it eventually affects other parts, and therefore our ability to live a full, long life. I still have so much to experience with you!

Culture will tell you most ailments are just part of being active, becoming pregnant, aging… life in general. You hear the message to keep pushing through. I like being pushed and expanding my capacity—but in the right way, where you know my consent and when we need to stop. If you are deaf to the patterns, they will become bigger and stickier to get out of. Eventually, we’ll find our options shrinking. What I need is something beyond common understanding.

Grip strength is like soil health. If the soil is thriving, it produces a ripple effect to the apex species at the top of the food chain. If our quadriceps are strong (our apex species in this metaphor), it doesn’t mean our whole ecosystem is. You’ll see soil health drop before the apex species show it—and they’ll eventually show it. Grip strength and soil health are often overlooked areas whose vitality is fostered by a myriad of things in balance with one another. So please, discard the hand grip trainer to increase grip strength and take me to outside to play at the jungle gym! Pretend we are cousins to monkeys. Shaping playdough and crawling are also great. We can have so much more fun together!

Did you know that I can heal—at any age? I’m a battery, and if you change your inputs, you’ll get different outputs. Don’t just muscle the engine; seek the alignment specialist. I’m doing my best to balance your life—but you train me to be still, in the same few positions every day, and yet expect me not to adapt to this sedentariness? You shape me by the cumulative expressions of positions you take throughout the day, so shape me diversely and don’t let me dry into one mold.

I love being outside. I love all of my senses being stimulated by nature. I’m so thirsty to feel the textures around me: the harshness of bark under my hand, the seasonal breeze on my neck, the heavy coolness of dirt on my feet, and the prisms of sunlight edging white clouds. Let me feel. Feeling is the key to healing.

I hear all your thoughts and carry all your emotions. I am your mind—it flows through me from top to bottom, through my nervous system and subtle energies. If you want to access more of who you are and connect the things you’re not aware of in your subconscious mind, you must feel. Notice the flow of your pulses, tingles, and temperatures. Notice that anger has a shape and motion to it inside your body. The neocortex storylines that pop in when we’re feeling vulnerable often distract us from our natural truth. (Remember—I am here for you.) Emotions and experiences are meant to be noticed and move through me. Yes, if you become conscious of them, you may realize you need to adjust some of your habits, perspectives, and deeply ingrained belief systems. These are more flexible than you think.

I cope and compensate so you survive and keep going, but the storage of your trauma is overwhelming if it’s not processed and let go of. I can help guide you. I want us to thrive and feel free! This will require short-term inconvenience and discomfort, but will bring us long-term convenience and peace.

There are people who work with bodies who can support you in our relationship. Trust the ones who are gentle and consistent. Listening to me will require you to go against the grain of normal and familiar, but the actions you’ll take will begin to positively influence us and the world will get brighter. Our inner hero and heroine are waiting courageously to traverse us through the Unknown and come out of it with its gifts. Just how soil relates to the other species, by taking care of our small, single self, we’ll support the whole and learn about the interconnection of ourselves to everything outside us.

Listening is the key to everything.

I know we’re both doing our best. Life on Earth is tricky. Listen for my heart, and just know, I’m here and I’m listening.

As you breathe now,
Let your breaths slow and deepen.
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Imagine the ocean.
Vast. Deep. Calm. and Blue.
Use your breath to merge the essence of the ocean into your body. Start to become it.
Let the expanse infiltrate you. Its waves are your breath.
In and Out.
Up and Down.
Rippling Out and Receding In.
Feel the sun glisten on your skin and kiss you with its sparkle.
Find the space between your cells and let yourself spread out like expanding galaxies.
As you do, you’ll unite with the Universe.

Let me teach you another way to be.

Yours Truly,

Your Body