This post is in celebration of my amazing body. Not just my body, yours too, all our bodies are equally amazing! Have you discovered what your body can do for you yet?
My body is a finely tuned instrument that can tell me whether each thought or idea is a good one or not. If I have an emotion, I ask my body to tell me more, whether this feeling means something, whether I need to do a healing, whether it needs my attention or just to let that feeling go.
My body works with me throughout my healing work all the time and I would be lost without it, whether healing for myself or anybody else. I ask my body to show me where in the energy field there’s a wound or trauma, where there’s a blockage, and it gives me a physical sensation at the location that feels like the problem, perhaps a sharp pain or a feeling of constriction or nausea. I know that many physical conditions are really because my body’s talking to me about my needs, whether emotional or physical.
I have a special left hand, it’s my healing hand and I’ve been taught to use it as a kind of radar. It kind of tingles if I ask, when I’m doing the right thing or going in the right direction down a path. I can use it to find my way or avoid danger. Are you familiar with dowsing rods or a pendulum? They are simply extensions of our body, tools that allow us to see what our body knows, that’s also our bodies talking to us. My left hand works like that, I don’t need to hold rods or a pendulum, just tilting my hand gives me answers. I can use it to ‘read’ ley lines and energy fields at sacred sites and standing stones. It was taught to me by the Elemental Kingdom, specifically for doing Earth healing, although I find it can do so much more.
My body gives me sensations like chills up the spine to let me know when spirits who have passed over are near and shows me specific symbols when my guides and soul group are present.
My body is in no way unique, everyone’s body is the same, just as animals and birds have super-senses, so do we, only we question ours and learn to ignore the signals. Bats have echolocation, snakes can detect infrared radiation, bees and certain birds can sense the Earth’s magnetic field and so can we. We all have moments when we get that feeling in the gut or know something is so. We just get freaked easily when we don’t understand what can’t be seen, but bees and bats get on with it because it works for them. When we begin to trust and cultivate what our body can do, it’s like having a super-buddy who’s got our back night and day.
What I’ve recently embraced about my body is something that’s come from the healing work I’ve been doing with Jen Peters recently. That my body is not who I am. It’s a marvellous sensitive instrument that comes with this Earth incarnation, for focusing my energy in the physical experience and providing me with all the feedback that I’ve mentioned above and more. Like many others, I grew up thinking it was who I am, identifying myself with it. And because of my early life experiences, I grew to have a negative view of my body. I got caught in a cycle of hatred and destruction towards my body which manifested as an eating disorder, in my case, an overeating compulsion. Consequently, I’ve abused my body rather badly, to the detriment of my health. But no longer, I’m healing and reframing our relationship. I know now that my body isn’t who I am, it doesn’t define me, and that leaves me free to accept my body as it is. It’s not my body that shows my beauty, it’s my soul. It’s not my body that attracts people or success into my life, it’s my soul. I am a soul with a body, not a body with a soul. I marvel at all it does to support me, I’m literally in awe. And I accept the body I have with huge love and gratitude.
[Image: ‘Dancing Gypsy Queen’ painting by Amenet Drago. Not available for copying or reproduction]
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