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The Intelligence Of the Body

Published May, 2024

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The body’s experience is one of connection with the environment; it feels the environment in its entirety.

— What we interpret as pain is a contraction that occurs when the mind, perceiving something as too much or not in alignment with its prescriptions of identity, cuts off connection to the body, disrupting the whole. —

The body contracts—pain—as a way to communicate the feeling of being cut off. Where the cut occurs, the body cannot digest the information the contraction is occurring around. Furthermore, consciousness will issue a command that the body is to repel any incoming phenomena that does not match its perception of itself. Anything too intense, extreme, uncertain, or unfamiliar is constricted against. 

Consciousness and Fear  

Consciousness is then locked out of the slow steadiness of the body; it experiences a shock that registers as fear, or a problem to be fixed, and begins to race for a solution.

— Consciousness misinterprets the offense as originating in the body as opposed to the body receiving information outside the range of consciousness —

This misinterpretation leads to consciousness disconnecting from the source. Inside that source lies the very information that would tell us how to not only meet and respond to it, but also become intimate with and grow from the incoming stimuli. Untrained consciousness aims merely to protect us from the environment by either mastering or moving away from it. The body aims to develop wisdom and resilience through the incoming stimuli.

Conflicting Desires 

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The challenge is that right when consciousness wants to escape—to go into the higher realms, to focus on something calming like the breath, to control the experience by fixing, make sense of things through judging and comparing, employing a “good” behavior to counteract the “bad” that is happening, focusing outside of oneself and body—the body has a different request. It only wants consciousness to remain with it throughout the entire process regardless of intensity, speed, or direction.

— The body most wants consciousness to do almost precisely the opposite of what it has been trained to do—control and protect—and instead, drop in, be with, track, and listen. —

This process of connection is not a healing process, and it is not a growth process. It is the process we are meant to have in this life. It is the body’s imperative.

Holistic Knowing 

While the body cannot demand or control as the rational mind can, it has a deep knowing of a holistic way where both will benefit and get the liberation they seek. The difference is that when life is accessed through the body, it is not liberation from, it is liberation with.

— Consciousness does get free—free from having to operate without adequate information, from having to protect what is in fact the seat of wisdom, from having to resist, restrict, control, and tune out so much of reality. —

This is what consciousness perceives as the ultimate cost. 

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Surrendering to the Body

It is not a matter of condescending to enter the body while reserving the right to direct and control it that is called for, but a full offering over of itself, with its gift of vision and executive functions in service to the wisdom of the body.

— However, because the mind exalts duty and is loath to surrender, it will attempt to bypass the act of surrender and instead act in compliance. —

Not only will it “comply,” it will congratulate itself on how selfless it is in the process. It will continue to hold itself out, not understanding that surrender is the reward and not the punishment. It also doesn’t understand that the schemes of service do nothing for the body; if anything, they are an irritant and always off-key.

Mind's Resistance  

The mind will feel exhausted and even martyred in its attempts to conceal its lack of surrender through performative action. It will bristle at the demand of the body in accepting its one request.

— It is not until the mind has surrendered that it will understand that the perseverance of the body was an act of love for both of them. —

Consciousness, trained to see control and protection as honorable, may perceive this shift in the order of things as defeat. The mind operates according to hierarchy and sees it as a boon that it is “on top” of the body. 

The body does not operate according to this model; it seeks connection. For the body, both mind and body win when consciousness descends. It may not feel that way at first. Consciousness, accustomed to having dominion over its limited territory, is now aghast to discover that the environment of the body not only has its own language but, when experienced on its terms, is resilient, rich, dynamic, coherent, and immediate. This is despite the fact that consciousness has been trying to control it.

— The “knowing” of the body through the faculties of intuition and insight—although they make no “sense” to consciousness—prove to be an elegant and much more efficient means of knowing. —

The body, as part of the environment, speaks the language of the present moment. It does not need to interpret and thus proves an effective guide in navigating experience.

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