 Your body is a field of intelligent wisdom that is speaking to you all the time, and yet if you are like most people, you don’t live in your body so you can’t hear its wisdom. Here are some of the key wisdom areas in your body:
Wisdom of your Heart Until the 1990s, we were taught by science that the brain sent information and commands to the heart but now we know that it works both ways. In fact, the heart’s complex intrinsic nervous system, the heart brain, is an intricate network of several types of neurons, neurotransmitters, proteins and support cells, like those found in the brain proper. Research has shown that the heart communicates to the brain in several major ways and acts independently of the cranial brain. One important way the heart can speak to and influence the brain is when the heart is coherent – generating a stable, sine-wavelike pattern in its rhythms. When the heart rhythm is coherent, the body, including the brain, begins to experience all sorts of benefits, among them greater mental clarity and intuitive ability, including better decision-making. When we experience sincere positive emotions, such as caring, compassion or appreciation, the heart processes these emotions and the heart’s rhythm becomes more coherent and harmonious. This info is sent to the brain and impacts the entire body neurologically, biochemically, biophysically and energetically! Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama Wisdom of your Gut Our guts have such a rich capacity for registering right and wrong. You've heard the phrases 'trust your gut', 'gut instinct', 'gut feelings'? Well we do have a brain in our belly and its an equally potent metabolic force! As it turns out, gut thoughts and feelings are not a fanciful notion but a physiological fact. Science recognises that we have two brains - with the lesser known one being the digestive tract. The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a rich and complicated network of neurons and neurochemicals that sense and control events in other parts of the body, including the brain. Amazingly, when scientists finally counted the number of nerve cells in the gut-brain, they found it contained over one hundred million neurons – more than the number of nerve cells in the spinal chord. This is another huge source of potentially untapped intelligence! What’s fascinating to note is that researchers have observed a greater flow of neural traffic from the ENS to the head-brain than from the head-brain to the ENS. In other words, rather than the head informing the digestive system what to eat and how to metabolize, the locus of command is stationed in the belly. So next time, you have a gut instinct, don't override it, use the wisdom of your gut! Wisdom of your Bones The ancient Hawaiians believed your mana, your life force, was held in the bones. They believed each bone held wisdom that could be useful in addressing pain or dis-ease in your life. Considering the adult human skeletal system consists of 206 bones, that is a lot of potential wisdom! Bones can be considered a dynamic energy structure charged with sacred and symbolic power and functioning, each with its own need to be present, its ‘own’ dream. Bones are the most solid part of us; our skeletal structure gives us form and structure. You could argue that it is our very foundation. Here we can find the wisdom of support, protection, movement, storage and building reserves (if we but listen). When everything is in synchrony, the ‘sound’ is crystal clear and the bones speak of a more profound healing. Our bones have a clarity of communication whose voice is often not really heard. Wisdom of your Head Wisdom is our individual ability to think, understand and act using experience and insight to make rational decisions. Wisdom is NOT an inborn ability. In order to gain wisdom, we must nurture some specific skills and accumulate experience over the years. Increased attention allows us to consider more aspects of a complex problem leading to a wiser decision. Practising the skills of attention over time, resisting distraction, holding goals in mind, and controlling what we attend to, can help all of us make wiser decisions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov Wisdom of your Feet and Legs It is our legs and feet that reflect our feelings about our own direction, and whether it is the right one or not. When the direction we are going in is uncertain or fraught with conflict, this can be seen in the movement we make as we walk. There is a big difference between taking small uncertain steps and taking large confident strides; or one person may trip and stumble as they go, while another may move purposefully and gracefully. Take some time to listen to the inherent wisdom in your feet and legs so that you can “put your best foot forward” as you step into the world with courage and confidence. A word that I love is RESONANCE. Its dictionary definition is:
(i) The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating. (ii) The ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions. (iii) Sound produced by a body vibrating in sympathy with a neighbouring source of sound Just those few lines have an immense teaching in them, layers of dreaming that we can each learn from. It makes me ask are we deep, full and reverberating? If not, it’d be a grand time to review our jewels, a grand time to renew our heart connections and bondings and a grand time to rest in the stillness of Being. It also makes me ask what do we evoke in each other? Is it pettiness or love? Syntropy or entropy? And what is my vibration and how does it impact on yours? Resonance is more than a word; it is a natural law, determining precisely WHAT IS attracted based on the resonance or the frequency of energy that is chosen by you through your emotional response system. I came across this on the net: “The simplest way to put it would be to say that The Law of Resonance is the law that assures that all energy continuously vibrates at a given frequency and depending on the vibratory output of this emitted frequency is what the Law of Attraction uses to determine what additional energies are attracted to one another which join together, resulting in a transmutation of the energy from the unseen or spiritual realm, producing outcomes in physical form. To provide more clarity, the Law of Attraction will attract to you every event, condition and circumstance experienced in your life which is determined by the vibrational resonance created based on how you perceive what's going on around you.” So my invitation to you is to be incredibly clear and totally focussed on what it is you are resonating with. Let us be deep and full Rich melodic sounds Reverberating Into a symphony of Love For the GrandMother And all of Her worlds Evoking all that is needed To sustain Her through This quantum leap Let us be deep and full Where Hearts and Dreams Fill the Holy Grail With resonance Echoing, echoing, echoing For the Ancients For the Children For each other. Blessed Be I was blessed to be able to attend a recent teaching by Nick Totton (author of ‘Embodied Relating’ among many others), which was profound on many levels. There were a number of threads that were sparked within me that I’d like to bring here. I’ve always felt that we are inherently elemental beings looking to be in relationship with the world around us. We search for resonance and for connection as we also search for reflection to enable us to establish who we are in the world. Nick talked about the three different aspects of relating – relationship with our own process and self, relationship with other people, and relationship with the non-human aspects of the world. This made me think of how we oscillate between balance and non-balance. We can have times in life where we are obsessed about our own process to the exclusion of everything else. What brings harmony here is to be in service of others, or to spend time resourcing in nature and allowing the bigger picture of the macro ecosystem to find a resting place within us. We can also have times where we are obsessed with a relationship with a partner, to the exclusion of everything else. And we can also disassociate from the human world so much that we are just residing in the non-human world. What I was sensing is that this is a continual dance throughout the whole of life and how important it is to our wellbeing to have relationships with all aspects.
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