Thanks for sharing Jean. Rick, just sent that book recommended to my nephew in GA. Thanks!
I recently vaught oart of the new documentary about Judy Blume, the young adult author. Her books made such a difference in my life when i was a kid. She named things no one talked about and helped remove so much shame for so many of us. I highly recommend the documentary about her no matter what your age. And i recommend all of her books, too. Are you there god? It’s me Margaret.
I loved and read everything by Judy Blume too, Dru. There is a wonderful documentary called Judy Blume forever on Amazon Prime. I’ve watched it once and it was so good I’m going to watch it again. I want to see Are you there God, the movie when it comes out in streaming.
Body guidance definitely brings “data” – meaning, it brings awareness and information that helps reveal more of the whole picture, the whole situation, the options and landscape of our emotional world.
We’ve elevated “logic” and sensory data that is in our head as having primacy. But that is, indeed, like saying eyes are superior to ears… so superior that eyes can REPLACE and even overrule what our ears hear.
Same with head over gut. It’s just as ridiculous. 
This is a core aspect of discernment. “These sensations I am feeling that I am labeling fear… are they a signal that the territory is unknown and I need a bit more Presence and Awareness… or am I picking up active threat?”
I know we can perceive the difference in our body. The “consultation” between head, heart, gut, and groin – and the rest of us, too – reveals differences in primal, survival threat… and fears arising from the part of our cognition that is aware that outside our comfort zone, we are less skilled and more vulnerable.
My body knows that there is so much of a thriving life I can explore as long as I don’t take “too big a leap” – and wishing for a miracle is one gigantic leap.
I say this with tenderness for the me who hoped that lottery ticket would hit. For the me that wished my “incurable” disease would just go away, lifted by God from me.
My body on the other hand said yes to meditating 20 minutes. Kept saying yes to meditating 20 minutes. It said yes to gradual changes to my diet (and some larger changes of elimination). It has said yes to certain supplements coming… and then going… and then coming again as was right for me.
My body goes to the gym knowing that it is right to focus on “less is more” rather than “pushing to failure.” It knows. It grows.
Same has been true financially. $7.11 a day in the right savings vehicle (bitcoin for me) over YEARS is not a miracle – it’s a process of growing into freedom rather than demanding a miracle to release us from bondage.
I know… it’s easier to “sell” the miracle, the one minute wonder. It’s easier to imagine being free from being a wage slave without respecting the work (and growth) required to thrive from season to season as a solopreneur.
But that is what my body knows, and my soul. Freedom is NOW experience. Step by step.
“How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning? I look inside myself and see what is within me.” ~ Wayne Dyer
Go within to know, to listen, to gain clarity. This is core to body guidance. It isn’t “just” feeling for discomforts. It is feeling for the yes, the pull, the inspiration.
Following all of this. Learning from these shares
Your inner light is more trustworthy than any guidebook, and it will point you in the direction that’s most beneficial to you and everyone you encounter. ~ Wayne Dyer
Body Guidance to me comes from the light and sound and divine energy within us (that flows TO and THROUGH us). It is there, intelligently, to give us the information we need to make choices that serve our thriving.
Most people don’t pay much attention to sensations in their bodies when they are upset. Their focus is on their reactive feelings and stories. But it is very useful to become more aware of your body sensations. They are early warning signals that your survival alarm is ringing and a reactive cycle has started. Increasing your alertness for telltale bodily sensations will increase your ability to stop a cycle sooner. It is easier to recover from a reactive incident when you can halt the cycle before falling too far into the Hole. ~ Susan Campbell
