by Rosanna Bianchini, Gloucestershire, UK
A few years ago my body was much harder and more rigid than it is today. I had tightness in the muscles in my neck, shoulders and chest, which was causing both aches and a stiffness of movement in my upper body. My body felt hard and unyielding. As a result I could say that any movement took more effort than would naturally be needed, and the demands on my muscles and my energy were therefore greater.
I had begun to understand that if my body was as tight and as toughened as it was, how could I possibly feel or know what felt right for it and what did not? – just like calloused, leathery hands with their thickened skin cannot allow full sensitivity to feel what is there to be felt. I also noticed that with this hardened and stiffer state the sensitivity and movement-flow through the muscles was being affected, and it was more difficult to be gentle just doing simple everyday things because of this.
For many years I had also a feeling, somewhere inside, that something was very wrong on a deeply fundamental level – from a place more profound than the consistent aches and pains, and deeper than the history of past depression and illness. In very quiet moments, when I was doing yoga and focussed on the deliberate and slow movements in my body, I connected to a place where I could feel there had to be more, another way to live, that did not result in feeling as I did. In that connection lay both the inspiration and the answer, which I was to later discover.
However, the question remained; why had my body ended up in such a way? I wanted to find out what was really going on: what had I been doing for my body to be showing me now, so loudly and clearly, that it was not OK?
But where to start? It was becoming clear, simply through a process of elimination, that any lifestyle choices I was making during the day, like what to eat, when to sleep, how to exercise (or not), must be having a consequence that showed up sooner or later in the body… so how could I become more aware of this? And how could I begin to feel what was really going on in a body that had become stiff and hardened?
I began by paying attention to myself to learn what was happening – but I had to discover a way back to having a body that could feel, and so initially I took my clues from observing Serge Benhayon and others who I could clearly see were making responsible and loving choices for themselves. And it was from their consistent reflection of love, which came through in the way they lived their everyday lives, that the ‘more’ – which I had, deep inside, known there to be – was confirmed. It was confirmed as being love… and with this confirmation my trust in that loving way was re-kindled.
Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.
I put a focus into bringing a deliberate gentleness to the body and making choices that I had observed were more loving and nurturing, choices that would support my body rather than choices that ignored the physical consequences of them. To build this discovery of what was more self-loving, I took feedback from the body itself. For example, I would experiment with food to feel how what I ate affected my physical state or the way I felt emotionally, I would take notice of all the signs my body could give me, like how ‘bunged up’ did my nose feel on waking? How stiff were my muscles? How runny did my eyes feel? What were my periods like? How creaky were my joints? Did I feel bloated in any way? What did my skin look like? How dry was my hair? How regularly was I going to the loo? Every part of me, both inside and out, had a story to tell. I listened and experimented consistently, checking back for what may have caused the change (good or bad), and adjusting accordingly what I ate, how I worked and how I interacted with people, based on what my body was feeding back to me.
Over this initial year or so, because I had been willing to give myself the time to listen to myself and my body, and in response make choices that were more loving, harmonious and supportive for me, I started to feel more harmony and balance within myself; my hardness and tightness eased and my body became softer and easier. Physically I began to feel more open across my chest and less restricted in my back and shoulders. I also noticed in my relationship with others, feeling less guarded and protective.
I can honestly say that feeling what my body has to say and bringing in more loving choices to live in a more loving way, has brought a profound, positive effect to the way I feel – in all senses of the word. With the self-proven understanding that every choice has its effect, it has been very lovely to explore the benefits and support we can bring to ourselves in such a simple way… I can also say that I am still enjoying this connection and a deepening of that honourable relationship with myself.
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
Thank you Rosanna, as it is amazing how we deepen our gentleness with the techniques that have been shared over the years by Serge Benhayon such as Walking Therapies and The Gentle Breath Meditation and thus “enjoying this connection and a deepening of that honourable relationship with myself.”
Our body’s inner wisdom is our true support guiding us back to who we are in truth.
Honouring our body is worth it. Everything and everyone gets enriched by this choice.
Our body is so wise, it therefor makes sense to listen to it and honour its’ wisdom.
I enjoy and get inspired by reading experiences like this. My body recognises the gentleness, the love you shared from and say ‘yes, this is the way to be’. Thank you Rosanna
This morning I made the choice to honestly listen to what my body was clearly communicating to me without hiding or overlooking the truth that was there. This simple stop moment has given to me a great realisation about the energy I was in and thanks to that, I’ve made the changes I needed to come back to love again. This kind of adjustment makes a great difference throughout the day, as it sets the standard of how I want to live and relate with others, which consequently establishes a new order in my life that effortlessly discards what is not from love.
When we listen to our body with love we can playfully make adjustments to how we move rather than trying to bully it into submission.
I like that Mary, listening to our body with love then allows us to, ‘we can playfully make adjustments to how we move rather than trying to bully it into submission.’
It has amazed me just how much we take our bodies for granted for most of us we don’t really stop to take notice unless we have a stop moment such as an accident, illness or disease that brings us to a halt. Some people use these moments to reevaluate their lives and some people expect the health service to make them better so that they can carry on with life where they left off. I have noticed with elder women in particular that when they get a stop moment it is very hard for them to actually stop at first as their bodies are still racing but over time they are more accepting than they need to slow down and come to an understanding that they don’t have to do everything for everyone that there can be a time in their life when they can allow others to take care of them. For many elderly women, this is a new concept.
‘I had been willing to give myself the time to listen to myself and my body”. This is so important, we allow such little time for reflection, we are ‘so busy’ as they say, and even when relaxing we are engaging in TV, screens, or worrying, and thinking. We don’t give ourselves the space to just feel, to be with ourselves, our body and our being, and allow what’s there to be communicated and felt.
It is key to be with our body, to feel our body, and to give ourselves the space to allow this connection.
Thanks Rosanna, this is a very foundational way to live sourcing our choices from the feedback of the body. “Every part of me, both inside and out, had a story to tell.” I love this line, and it makes sense to me to observe everything the body communicates and what it is offering back to us in terms of the choices we make, from our hair and skin, to joints and muscles and the inner systems of the body, it has a lot to say. It is a deeply honouring way of life to be so dedicated to ourselves.
Even just reading the details you share here, Rosanna, took me to a little journey of observing my own body and I am feeling so much more connected and supported by myself. I am getting a sense that, really, the body is not asking for a lot, it has the ability to magnify even just a simplest inward looking to a profound realization.
Thank you Rosanna, it’s almost like you were a detective examining every clue provided by your body to continually adjust your lifestyle and the way you were with yourself and others. It’s truly amazing to know the profound changes we can make with the support of our body at any stage of life, and begin the healing process back to living from our loving selves.
Our body is such a wise and loving friend.
Listening to our bodies is so simple when we start to understand that it has been telling us simple things all the time, and it has been up to us to listen and discern for ourselves what we are learning and if it is beneficial or evolutionary.
Our bodies continually speak to us, how much do we listen and honour what they say?
Thank you Lorraine, and a great way to start listening to our bodies is through the stillness that is connected to when we have used The Gentle Breath Meditation as presented through the Ageless Wisdom Presentations, and the innate nature of the connect we feel through and after these connections.
So true Richard yet in general so many people have numbed themselves so much with alcohol, drugs, TV, pornography, abuse, war, etc. etc. – in fact the whole set-up of society – that, that ‘… feeling, somewhere inside …’ is so buried they are longer aware of feeling it.
And those who have realised this; to live expressing that love so that by reflection those who have not, are shown that there is something different to the ‘norm’ of society.
“With the self-proven understanding that every choice has its effect, it has been very lovely to explore the benefits and support we can bring to ourselves in such a simple way” Making the truth that ‘ that every choice has its effect’ the reality of the way one lives is deeply empowering and life enhancing.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” A way of living that is always helpful and very natural to us.
When we become willing to listen to the constant communication from our bodies and honour the relationship we are building with ourselves, we build a strong foundation to support us as we move through life. For me this has transformed my experience of constantly feeling a victim of circumstance, to appreciating the support that my body offers me on our journey though this life.
Our bodies speak and as they do we are offered an opportunity to listen, to hear what they say and decide what is needed – it’s an amazing feedback mechanism which never stops speaking; the question for all of us is do we listen and do we honour what the body is telling us.
Universal Medicine teaches that to love the body it is not to love it’s outer appearance, it is to live in the appreciation of the wisdom that every cell holds. This is my understanding and developing relationship with my body, in that I feel more beautiful, sexy and vital than ever before.
When we live in a way that takes more effort to move and do things than it naturally should, is it any wonder that we are, or that we get exhausted.
Thanks Rosanna for that inspiration. I will try this out for myself, observing how my body feels. I thought I did that but after reading this I realise there is a deeper level I can go to, a more dedicated way.
Your blog says a lot about musculoskeletal conditions worldwide and how we might alleviate much of the aches, pains, stiffness, etc, we experience by listening to and responding to our bodies.
Absolutely so many live with chronic debilitating pain that means they do not feel productive members of society and struggle to have a sense of purpose. Introducing the simplicity of listening to what our bodies are saying would save a lot of heartache and money if they were willing to give it a try.
We tend to get satisfied when we get to a given point and find our way around it. There is always more because we are more than any single point we can get to.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” So true and yet as adults we forget this important and natural way of being and learning about life.
It is very simple, connect with and feel our bodies, listen to and honour what the body is telling us.
I love this … to be our own science experiments, to stop and see and feel how our bodies are and from there to get to a deeper understanding of who we are, how we live and how that impacts on us and others, a study for us all.
Slowing down movement is a bit like putting on a magnifying glass – we see more, and there’s perfectly designed beauty to be marveled at.
That we have a body is a fact, but even then I have lived in the past with little to no awareness of how important my body is in everything. And how it is the marker of all truth. Saying that our body can not lie and if we don’t want to hear our body communicating to us, it is not the body who is resistant but we are not obedient to it. We can only tell that by becoming aware of things – life can truly change.
Yes.. getting feedback is one thing, what we do with it is quite another. While changing our choices does depend on how much we appreciate and accept ourselves, it’s also a cycle: the more we value ourselves, the more we want to make self-loving choices, and the more we make those choices, the more we value ourselves. Every time I make a choice that is self-loving, I’m basically giving myself a message that says ‘yes, you’re worth loving’… and this inspires more of those same flavoured choices. And it can be as simple as starting to observe one thing, consistently.
I so appreciated reading this today. I haven’t wanted to build a connection with my body at times because it’s felt like an arduous thing to do, but really, what I haven’t wanted to connect to and feel was the hardness and disconnection. Faced with a choice between feeling numbness or feeling stimulated by something outside of us, I think most people would probably choose the stimulation, because the whole world is set up for us to choose that, first. But in my experience, the stimulation is only ever temporary, and it’s insatiable. It doesn’t ever fulfil the deep dissatisfaction of knowing there must be more to life, and more to feel. A deeper level to live our lives, and a fuller way to feel. The steadiness, consistency and deeper knowing of myself feels amazing and is what I get when I make choices that help me to stay connected to what I can feel.
Observing the body and it’s feedback in regard to my lifestyle choices has changed my life. In fact for many decisions I consult my body before acting. Never steers me wrong.
Before Universal Medicine I would have thought I was relatively gentle as I wasn’t rough or tough. However, boy did I then feel otherwise once I started to feel my body. If there was something that I wanted done I would put my body under such intensity to complete. For example, moving large pieces of furniture or cleaning the house until late at night running constantly on nervous energy. It was very awkward and quite mechanical when I first started to be consciously aware of how I closed a drawer or carried groceries from the car or washed my face and put moisturiser on. I was inspired to start making changes when I first saw the quality in which Natalie Benhayon, Miranda Benhayon and Deborah Benhayon moved, spoke and held themselves some 10 years ago.
Lovely appreciation of the body and everything we can learn from it when we truly pay attention. Thank you Rosanna.
Making loving choices has a powerful effect on our health and wellbeing, but much more is the power of reflection that is offered to another, as it is through this that they too know that there is much more to their being-ness as sons of God.
Absolutely, making loving choices has a powerful effect on our health and wellbeing,
Body-awareness supports us to create a new marker of gentleness in our bodies through which we can get to know who we truly are.
Roseanne, what a gorgeous blog, it is like gentle breathing in and gentle breathing out with a natural appreciation for the body with simplicity as the key ‘Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.’
The consistent commitment and dedication spoken of here is so supportive and great to read and get an understanding of this in hearing how another has applied this. Right now I’m listening more clearly to what my body offers and beginning to be more open to it, rather than looking at any pain or stiffness I have as something to fix, looking more widely at how I might be moving and being in my day to day life which may in fact compound this, in other words observing without expectation what my body is saying and being willing to hear it.
Our body is very responsive to our choices, as this blog illustrates. When we listen to our body it speaks wisdom on loving ourselves deeply which not only supports ourselves but everyone else too.
The greater we build our awareness and connection to our body, the easier it is to feel what the body needs to support it and at the same time the things that don’t.
Very true Sally, the stronger our connection is with our body, the easier it is to feel the body’s many messages.
Rosanna, what a simple and very dedicated way of working with your body and building a deepening relationship with it. You listened and the more you listened the more you heard.
’Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself’. I love this quote because it brings it back to the beginning when there were no influences
‘I took feedback from the body itself’ – this is gold. How often have we overridden what the body has been signalling for years and its only communicating to us what didn’t serve it – simple.
What a great relationship you are forming with you and your body Rosanna.
This article brings things simply to an almost common sense. If you treat yourself in a way that almost deliberately prevents you from what is very natural, feeling then this would make sense on some many things. Like the example of your hands as the article gives us, it just made so much sense. We desensitise ourselves which then makes it appear we are less sensitive and yet just like the hand this is only the top level. In other words you can’t obviously feel it on the surface of your skin but that doesn’t mean you aren’t feeling it, it just means part of you can’t feel it. As we are seeing and as I know we can always feel things and we can only try and stop and perceive that this isn’t the case.
A beautiful reminder Rosanna of how life changes when we live in connection with our body and listen to the wisdom we are constant receiving.
Living with connection to our body is an essential foundation to build.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself” . . . this is a beautiful way to learn as we then become our very own scientific experiment and our learning gets registered in our body so it is not just knowledge from the head.
A honourable relationship with yourself is so key, so needed, as we are so precious, so it is time to realize it again – claim that fact, and walk our life in a way that honours every cell of our being – without perfection, but true commitment.
We are very clever. We manage to shape and create a body that supports us moving in a way that guarantees not feeling it, hence not being discerning about life. So, everything is fine, while in truth it isn’t.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” Our own body is a true scientific laboratory for life where we can observe the cause and effect of all we do.
I love the dedication that you brought to yourself through simply observing absolutely everything about your body and listening to what it is telling you. This is how we learn: with no judgments and expectations, and no need to get it right, just an absolute holding of ourselves and a trust that where we are right now is where we need to be – and appreciating all the learning we are getting.
I loved what you have shared Rosanna about your commitment to observing your body and what it is feeling then making self loving choices accordingly. Thank you for the inspiration to look deeper.
This blog has blown me away, it honestly is something I will go back to read again and again. I have been having a hard time lately, feeling like I just can’t get a clear feeling on things, what you describe and the way you observe your body and experiment with it is beyond inspiring and completely simple. This is the stuff we should be teaching our kids.
Looking around at our world as it is today, many live with the tension, tightness and hardness in the body, with no connection to it being there because of how we live. To make the changes from the awareness as shared here requires first a dedication to ones body, and a humble attitude that allows one to accept what is felt and adjust ones life accordingly. Rosanna’s experiences are there for any who are willing to be inspired by.
Sometimes I feel I am too quick in wanting to get things right. When we allow space for whatever there is to be acknowledged and felt, there’s so much to be learnt. Allowing of that space is already a loving choice that we can give to ourselves. It is very inspiring and beautiful to read how your relationship with yourself has been deepening.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” A great reminder of our natural childlike curiosity and exploring our old habits and or behaviours and returning to the gentle, joyful way of living in connection to our bodies and the true love and support needed to live a vitally rich life.
Esoteric yoga is such a great way of connecting to the body and allowing all that is there to come up and learn to let go and surrender so that the body is in a state where it can look at and process what is going on.
It’s a great question Rosanna about the body when it’s been stuck in a momentum – “so how could I become more aware of this?” It is a constant choice; and only when you are willing do you become aware of it is a moment to moment choice to forge together a new momentum and body. Both bodies (self-neglect or love) are a choice that is saying yes to either. The trickery here is if your not saying yes to love your saying yes to indulgence or contraction. That’s the point – you are always making a choice.
I love your expression of the “honorable relationship” with you self. The experience you share is very similar to mine and I have discovered the two most essential qualities to support any choice is ‘observing – lovingly’. Without these I can turn it into should’s and should not’s which doesn’t truly clear the attraction to eat or do things that don’t sit well in my body.
“With the self-proven understanding that every choice has its effect, it has been very lovely to explore the benefits and support we can bring to ourselves in such a simple way…” I love that Rosanna as to self-prove something with the body is so much joy-fuller than only imitating and thinking it – for me, it is lived and so it can not be challenged anymore.
Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself. This feels so empowering, but so much can be felt when we start to listen to our bodies from which we can make different lifestyle choices that truly support us to grow and evolve.
When we approach anything in life by observing, listening and feeling what is going on, trying, pushing and pressure doesn’t exist.
Every lifestyle choice we make our body clocks and accumulates. In the big picture, we have made the correlation as to the long-term effects of these choices in regard to health such as smoking and obesity but we also have to open our eyes to our growing awareness that the little details of our everyday including examples such as the way we move and treat our bodies physically, the emotions we indulge in, the way we interact with others, not just what we eat but when and how accumulates just as much.
What an awesome experiment. Feels like true science to me.
Every choice we make either supports our bodies or harms our bodies, and the body always lets us know what supports it and what doesn’t, we just have to listen for the body is always communicating with us.
I know my body has a strength in how I know every minute detail of what it requires to support it. I, however, have become aware of an underlying arrogance in how at times I don’t listen to my body’s messages. There is a much deeper understanding being offered here of the level of honour that is being asked of me of the ever present knowing that my body holds.
What I have noticed is that by freeing up my body and in that allow it to express in its true movement, not only makes my body more supple but also my mind, my body and my whole way of being and in that being able to make truer choices in life which are in correspondence to my body.
What a beautiful and supportive blog on listening to our body and the wisdom it shares with us . Since meeting serge Benhayon i too have began to do this and the results are so deeply rewarding supporting the way i live and the changes are ever evolving and beautiful to feel and i can so relate to all you share here Rosanna from before and after and reclaiming our bodies inner wisdom and knowing .
Thanks for the inspiration and great practical examples of how you built your relationship to your body. I am also deeply exploring this and have recently found, with much delight, how simply noticing and letting go of hardness in my body immediately reconnects me back to my gorgeous presence. I also notice how painful my calves get when I hold back all I have to express. Everything is interlinked and has a purpose if I listen.
Lovely sharing Rosanna, thank you. Yes, our bodies are in constant communication with us and they are full of the deepest wisdom. And they don’t lie to us about overeating, lack of exercise, drinking too much et al – the just give us their honest feedback. How amazing to start to live in harmony with the body, rather than see it as something we can abuse.
Our connection to our body is much simpler than we think and you have captured this beautifully Richard in sharing how it provides such honest feedback, in the way of bloating, tiredness and insomnia …and also so many more other ways when we are listening.
I’ve been feeling how my movements can be very hard and jerky disjointed even. Rather than go into self-criticism I’ve been allowing myself to observe and am opening up to there being so much more that can be connected to through this space to observe and allow my body to move how it feels to. Anxiety can come up because it’s like I’ve thrown the rule book out which I’ve allowed my head to govern me by. But now what? I suspect my fears of anarchy will actually subside and a gracious harmony my head could never have connected me to, will resume.
Our body is an amazing vehicle offering us so much when we take loving responsibly and listen and appreciate all miracles and blessing it offers us.
For most of my life I have listened to others and done what others asked of me without first asking myself if it was true to me. This long held behaviour I am becoming more aware of every day as I re-learn to listen to my body and respond accordingly. It is my guide and marker and it is only I that can choose to listen or over-ride it and give my power away to the outer.
I love coming back to this blog again, reading it reminds me how amazing our bodies are. To take care of it and listen to its message is a massive support for us for sure. I have experienced this and I am learning to care for my body more and more with my understanding of how sacred our bodies are, I am totally inspired.
Observing our body and honouring the messages we receive supports us to build a deeper loving relationship with ourselves. I have found it is vital to observe our body and be aware of how sensitive our bodies are. It will guide us and will always communicate truth, it will not hold back telling us what is true and what is not. Really it is an incredible vehicle which we are to take care of in every way possible.
I lied to myself in thinking I didn’t live by a rule book of ideals, pictures, and beliefs of how I should be, and what I should do – notice the word ‘should’ – but I often do and this comes from my head, not a deep connection to my body. Being honest with myself in this allows for far more reality and far less perfection and judgement of myself and other people. Living from a rule book allows no room for truth, growth, expansion and evolution. We will never know who we really are and whats true for us if we live this way, always trying to fit a picture of how we think we should be, or please other people, the only truth, and our only truth can come from listening to and honouring our body, and making life as simple as possible.
This is the key – “I had been willing to give myself the time” – so often we put so much pressure on ourselves or another to be ‘perfect’ in a day. All these pictures we have in our heads aren’t real and are simply being fed to us, and we knowingly buy into them for comfort, to stop us connecting to the grandness of our truth, and evolving.
There is such joy and space in being caring with our every action.
Making simple loving choices will lead to truth, and out of creation, into the arms of God and co-creation.
I had begun to understand that if my body was as tight and as toughened as it was, how could I possibly feel or know what felt right for it and what did not?” This is a great question to ask, for if we are not deeply connected to ourselves, to our Soul, how can we know what’s true for us? How do we not know we are aligned to another energy and thus thoughts that are given to us, but not from the divine plane of life. But the thing is, we can and do know, and use this as an excuse, for we always know deep within our heart what is true and what is not, our bodies are aligned to every particle of God and the Universe, it is us who fights it using every excuse, distraction, and numbing we can get. These can come in a plethora of forms, from pictures in our head which are incredibly evil, ideals, beliefs, ways of moving hard and harsh, food, work, busy-ness – we all exactly know what we go to, our little bag of tricks, or comforts, to delay us from deeply connecting to our body, our Soul, and thus absolute clarity, responsibility, and evolution.
Esoteric Yoga is an awesome modality that supports me to reflect on what is going on in my body. It is a stop moment. Having a stop moment gets me to check in with my body. How am I doing? Am I racy? Pushing? In anxiousness or am I with myself and in stillness? It can be a confirmation but can I go deeper? After beginning an Esoteric Yoga program for Women last night I feel inspired to be more consistent with my stops during the day and reading this blog this morning has beautifully confirmed me to do so.
Esoteric Yoga provides a stop moment and an opportunity to connect with our body, a very beautiful modality.
Love the title of this blog Rosanna, and like you and for many others, until we came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, we had no connection , respect or awareness of our bodies. The Way of The Livingness presented by Serge is the way in which I choose to live now, which is a true and very simple way of living in this world which supports me to be myself.
I’ve being inspired by this blog and others I have read, of the power and beauty of truly connecting with my body. I’ve still a way to go with body awareness and connection, but learning and feeling more than ever before.
We can certainly deepen our awareness with regards to our body. The more we are willing to observe our body the more we will learn and be able to discern truth.
Rosanna, I loved the way you returned to learning as a child does: I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.. To place yourself on a year-long programme of self reflection and tender re-connection to your body was a precious and loving life experiment we can all learn from.
From my body I know everything of life and from there I know how to be or what to do in any situation. When I compare this way of being with living from my mind then I always feel incompetent and insecure, so no question anymore what connection to choose for!
It is these aspects of life, like how we walk, how we sit ourselves, and treat our body, how we eat, and the thoughts we have about ourselves that are making a lot of difference either for our benefit or our detriment! Love your story Rosanna as it is inspiring to look towards our actual movements. Going from hardness, harshness, and protection to gentleness and acceptance is a wonderful change for the body and brings new life to everything we do.
Loved the blog Rosanna, it is so profound what the body is telling us, if we just but listen, I feel from your blog how much more aware of my body I can be, thank you.
After many years of taking my body for granted, pushing it harder than was necessary and abusing it in a myriad of ways, and then wondering why it wasn’t feeling all that great, I finally began to wake up to the truth of the way I was living. The waking up came in the form of the very wise presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, which offered me the possibility that there is another way to live. I took that offering with both hands, and slowly but surely I have learned to listen to my body more than I have ever done and in return the quality of my life has improved way beyond anything I previously thought was possible. I have no doubt whatsoever that my body is my greatest support, a lifelong friend whose wisdom is on tap in every second of my life, and is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow I was always searching for.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” Taking loving responsibility for your choices, instead of waiting for the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff scenario. Great blog Rosanna. A wonderful exploration of yourself and so worth it.
Our body gives us all the clues we need, it tells us everything all of the time, constantly communicating. What I find endlessly fascinating to observe, that even though I may be aware of what my body is saying, I still override what it’s saying. I have to say that I don’t always honour my body’s messages even though they are very clear. But the overriding never comes from my body, but my body is what cops the brunt of the overriding. It’s interesting to consider that our mind, which is highly exhaulted in society, is the thing that overrides and treats the body as a second class citizen. If our mind was as incredible as we think it is, why would it not even consider the well-being of our body?
I like that you gave yourself space to observe your body over a year. We put so much pressure on ourselves, which I feel comes from school, to get things done in a certain time, overnight, we want changes to happen now, or yesterday, without giving ourselves the loving space and understanding that there may be a lot more and a lot longer, years or lifetimes, of similar choices that have lead us to be this way. By wanting change immediately and beating ourselves up we are perpetuating the cycle of the same energy we are in, rather than choosing another energy and making true loving lasting changes.
“loving choices for themselves” sometimes I make life so complicated and difficult, trying to work out in my head all the things or ways I need to change – but the truth is – it is very very simple, it’s about making loving choices and how we live. It’s not some huge grand massive change, but it starts with the very simple day to day things, as in how we drive, get in and out the car, do we pee when we need to or keep doing one thing more, resting, going to bed when we are tired, and not letting negative thoughts or over thinking beat us up. The big one for me is not living by all these ideal pictures or beliefs in my head of how I am meant to be, with this I completely override my innate delicateness, absolute knowing, God, and the innate wisdom of my body.
What you describe Rosanna is the way to return to who we truly are and where we belong to as our body is our guide in this is our connection back to Soul.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” The perfect recipe for life – pure and simple.
It is a big realisation to feel how much we are actually not feeling and how much we have gradually hardened against the onslaught of the world. The problem with that is, although we think we don’t feel the bad things, we don’t feel the beautiful, delicate, loving things either and these things are still coming at us while we are oblivious. It takes true dedication and courage to turn this around which is why I find this blog so inspiring.
Rosanna I just loved your analogy of how ‘calloused, leathery hands with their thickened skin cannot allow full sensitivity to feel what is there to be felt’ for this is not different to the energetic layers of protection and hurt we place around our body.
I recall walking down the street one day and feeling so light and open within my body, I had to give myself a moment to acknowledge how lovely I felt and all this came from simple self-loving choices. How simple and empowering our choices can be and the effect can be quite profound.
Our bodies really do tell us everything we need to know (and more), but do we listen? I know I was convinced that I did, but I was very selective as to what I listened to.
Really lovely to come revisit this blog, a beautiful reminder – as I have been feeling some stiffness in my neck since this morning, and I could see how I was more interested in removing the pain than understanding what was going on.
It is such a simple thing to do to really study how each choice affects the body. To do this with a view to deepen your love for yourself and to discover that doing this makes such a difference to the wellbeing of your body and improves many aches and pains seems evidence enough that this is a worthwhile and loving thing to do.
A beautiful article about reconnection and rediscovery. I loved what you shared about both the inspiration and the answers laying within the connection… for we underestimate the wisdom and power within and suffer from too much time spent looking in the wrong direction.
Our bodies are truly amazing, they are divine and show us forever how we live the divinity we are, or not, without any judgement – they just present to us the truth of what it is we have been living and the more we engage with and honour them, the more we can live the truth of who we are. They’re our gift to remind us that we are from God and we are here to live that Godliness, and in doing so we expand who we are individually, as a humanity; our bodies remind us we are here for a purpose and tell us softly and loudly as needed when we live that purpose or not.
This is such a connected way to live. Being honest with every choice and discovering the truth for your body feels very open, expanding and very very worthwhile.
How wonderful to feel that freedom in your body all because you were willing to listen, to feel and explore what did and didn’t support you and take loving responsibility for your choices.
If we ignore the obvious for too long the obvious becomes un-obvious, thereby the long road back to what was already obvious.
Rosanna observing your body in this way is key to true healing – very inspiring to read your journey with this.
“I can honestly say that feeling what my body has to say and bringing in more loving choices to live in a more loving way, has brought a profound, positive effect to the way I feel – in all senses of the word” Our bodies know- the question is do we listen and make changes accordingly?
There is never a dull or lonely moment learning with the body, through this inspiration and relationship with ourselves, we open up what is connection, not only with ourselves but with the whole world to discover that we can never be alone.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” This is so true Rosanna. When I became a student of Universal Medicine it was with a childlike delight that I observed, listened, noticed and chose to experiment for myself all that inspired me in the way that Serge Benhayon lives. This experiment, or choices, brings me to a forever deepening of knowing who I truly am.
This blog feels so innocent and with it so powerful, that there are so many messages being communicated by our body in all sorts of ways and that we can actually change the quality of how we live through true loving choices. It actually makes no sense to override these messages at all as all we are doing is just accepting the ill as being normal while staying in the comfort of keeping life the same
“I had begun to understand that if my body was as tight and as toughened as it was, how could I possibly feel or know what felt right for it and what did not?” having a body open and aware can bring much healing. Our body has much to say and it’s definitely worth listening to.
Our body has so much to say, it is very strange actually that we often don’t choose to listen, as it gives us all the answers.
Most of us only listen to the body when it breaks down or is in pain but we get a lot more out of life by paying close attention to the little details as you have so well described Rosanna. Our bodies are constantly living the consequences of our choices, it is wise to work with the body rather than against it.
Listening to our body sounds so simple but can offer profound results as you have experienced Rosanna. I loved reading how you experimented and listened to your body and made changes from that, its such a gentle and honouring way to do it. I experiment in that way now but to start with I put pressure on myself to jump from unloving to loving ways overnight. This was just another form of hardening.
There is nothing more simple than listening to and observing our own bodies’ responses to determine what works for us and what does not. The ever deepening sensitivity of my body is a wonder to me, where I was once only able to feel and observe physical sensations in my body, I now find that I can distinguish more and more subtle energetic responses, and I know through listening to the experiences of others that I am only at the beginning of this unfolding.
What a beautiful inspirational piece Rosanna. Thank you. I love how diligently you observed, applied these observations to yourself and dedicatedly listened to what your body was communicating.
I agree Lucy. This is beautifully practical and shows how our bodies do indeed have a story to tell when we take the time to stop, notice and listen to what they are saying. The rewards are immense and clear to feel.
“Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.” How often do we forget to do just this when we ‘grow up’? I am so thankful for Serge Benhayon and fellow students of the Livingness for being there to observe, listen to, notice and learn from.
The greatest science project ever, experimenting with oneself and studying oneself – the results continue to be stupendous and the learning has been immense but so worth it.
Thank you for sharing your experience Rosanna – it has been very informative and helpful. Particularly this part “But where to start? It was becoming clear, simply through a process of elimination, that any lifestyle choices I was making during the day, like what to eat, when to sleep, how to exercise (or not), must be having a consequence that showed up sooner or later in the body… so how could I become more aware of this? And how could I begin to feel what was really going on in a body that had become stiff and hardened?” I can no longer ignore the power of observation.
“Every choice has its effect”. With this simple truth I’m observing myself more and more, being a student of myself in effect. I had the occasion of react to a colleague’s comment that was unjustified. In the past I would have felt hurt and would have either retaliated or rehashed it in my head ad nauseam. I decided to let it go. What she expressed was her choice to do so and so was my choice to either create a barrier between her and I or accept her expression and move on. As it happened shortly afterwards an email confirmed that she was mistaken so her remark had been unwarranted.
So truly tender and beautiful. The gentle guidance and nurturing that you supported yourself with is truly felt on the receiving end of your blog. Over time the observations that were there that you listened to and honoured, really seem big milestone changes. It’s beautiful to read of such change and growth in someone’s life.
Every choice has an effect and every choice is our choice. Life is not something that is forced upon us, but something we built by the choices that we make.
To taste the freedom that comes with self-empowerment is a very joyful experience. It’s a confirmation of the blessing, Universal Medicine brings to us all. And the freedom is reflected in our bodies, as well.
What I still find often challenging is, when my body is aching – that I don’t judge it. There is no necessity to feel in a certain way. The challenge for me is to accept whatever I feel and to check my choices, which have let to this condition in my body. And then slowly with loving choices to allow my body to heal. This is an unfolding way for me.
Yes alexander1207, I can so relate to what you have shared here – acceptance really is key. When we feel aches and pains it is easy to jump to judgement or feeling like our body has let us down in some way – but this path only leads us to disconnect further from our bodies rather than rather than supporting our bodies to heal. This is an unfolding way for me also.
Yes and this is so common, to abuse our bodies even more by dismissing and criticising it when it doesn’t live up to our punishing ways. Really when we do this we are saying ‘I don’t care and I’m not going to listen to you’, this is something that is unfolding for me also. I find if I’m invested in eating a particular food or doing an activity that my mind still wants to do, then I’m not open to listen to how my body responds.
I agree, I tend to be quite critical about my body when it’s sore or achey. The key is very much to not judge but to help support with clocking what could be done differently.
Such a beautiful understanding of observing and learning with the innocence of a child Rosanna : “that the ‘more’ – which I had, deep inside, known there to be – was confirmed. It was confirmed as being love… and with this confirmation my trust in that loving way was re-kindled.
“With the self-proven understanding that every choice has its effect, it has been very lovely to explore the benefits and support we can bring to ourselves in such a simple way.” This is such an important awareness for mankind Rosanna. How often do I hear people complaining about their body’s not functioning well and how they are disappointed in their body or felt let down by it, without considering that the state of their body is a reflection of the choices they have made.
It is very inspiring to read your journey to connecting back to your body Rosanna. And how this is in reach for everyone if we choose it.
I loved reading this blog and the observations you made Rosanna. As Serge Benhayon presents the body is a living science, and all the answers are there for us when we truly listen to the wisdom our body offers.
Rosanna, I just love how you demonstrate the power and importance of observation – so easy and simple to do – it just doesn’t make sense that we choose to ignore such a powerful and essential life skill which we are all gifted with equally.
Yes Tamara, it most certainly does not and we begin to think that some have it more than others but this is simply not true.
Absolutely agree Tamara, it makes no sense at all!
After reading your blog Rosanna my body is asking me “Well then – why don’t you fully commit to making loving choices for yourself each day – I’ve been trying to tell you this for years!” (followed with a huge sigh).☺
I found exercise makes a big difference to my whole wellbeing. I don’t talk about boot-camp here; just because it’s fashionable, doesn’t mean it’s what our bodies need. No, my body clearly loves gentle exercise, working with awareness and care, with light weights, with walks and loving flowing movements. When I get caught up in what I ‘believe’ my body needs and try and push harder, it doesn’t have the same effect.
A beautiful blog Rosanna; I love the bit where you describe exactly all the areas of your body you have been checking in with; thank you for the loving reminder.
What an amazing experiment! And who can deny the facts if the choices to be more loving with yourself prove to result in a far more supported and held body with less tension, stiffness and rigidity?
I love reading this blog Rosanna and often come back to feel the inspiration fire up in my body to be the observer and not the fixer. When we allow our body the space to speak it can really dissolve the tension and hardness that we brace ourselves with by living outside of ourselves. Your playful experiments really highlight a fact of wonder and is so much more supportive than the old self-bashing and condemnation thing we can do when looking at our choices. Very cool.
That’s beautiful Rachael, being the observer and not the fixer. Yes, I can still get caught in looking for a ‘Solution’ and a ‘fix’, rather than the truth of what is really going on, going deeper and accepting what’s being shown, appreciating the awareness and bring love to it, starting with gentleness.
Well shared Esther in that ‘accepting what’s being shown’ – it’s quite simple and doesn’t need to have a big story or issue attached to it, just to feel and acknowledge the feeling. If it unfolds then great but we don’t need to try or force ourselves to dig the issue out. This has really been highlighted for me at the moment and I’m loving the simplicity in coming back to and sinking into my body instead of the stories in my mind.
Thank you Rosanna for sharing the change and how you have done it to yourself with patience and commitment. I realized, that some connections I did not consider before, become more obvious, when I am observing myself and make more self-loving choices during the day. As for example I realized a kind of stiffness in my face and an habit to push my chin forward. As I am wearing contact lenses, I then realized, that I was not able to relax the muscles around my eyes, because the lenses didn’t fit properly.
So these chains of tension normally just have their impact automatically and unconscious, because they have become deeply ingrained protection patterns. To solve them with awareness, patience, gentleness and self-love is beautiful and reveals another way to live and a new relationship with life.
I agree Stefanie. It’s amazing how different our whole body can feel by simply relaxing just one muscle. Worth dedicating ourselves to observing and making adjustments to the way we live.
Rosanna great blog and I am so glad I read it today. I am feeling tight in my shoulders and jaw line and I have had this tightness for a little while now and I have been ignoring it. Your blog has given me a reconnection back to my body and reignite my choice to begin to listen to it again and become tender and more loving.
Same here lindellparlour; reading this blog has brought me straight into my body, feeling tightness that I have been ignoring too. I can feel a bit of anxiousness leave, as I am now allowing myself to feel my body.
Rosanna- I love the depth you went to and attention to detail in discovering your body’s needs, to truly support it. Very inspiring.
This is very timely for me to read Rosanna. There is such simplicity and honesty in how you started, and I love that how you started is how you have continued. ‘I began by paying attention to myself to learn what was happening.’ Often we pay attention to everything going on around us, we take on advice regarding health, we even pay attention to what it seems we are feeling such as emotions or give lots of time and energy to looking at how we reacted to a situation or look to the past or future to tell us how we are feeling. I can see how any of these red herrings simply began to fall away when you said to yourself in a gentle way ‘how am I feeling?’ and simply observed without judgement or reaction. That simple choice to stop and observe is so powerful. I have also felt that there was something really missing and something deeply not okay about how I was feeling. There was a tension and a jarring feeling with nearly every step. I have judged myself massively, and in the process been far from a gentle, listening set of ears to myself. it hasn’t been that there has been something wrong with me or that I was lacking in something, it has in fact been that there was ‘more’ as you say and that it is love. I am learning how trusting in ourselves supports us to feel love.
‘I had begun to understand that if my body was as tight and as toughened as it was, how could I possibly feel or know what felt right for it and what did not? – just like calloused, leathery hands with their thickened skin cannot allow full sensitivity to feel what is there to be felt.’ This is a great description of what happens when we harden and tighten up. we can feel that this toughened, tightened state makes us function better and therefore makes sense. This image not only shows the damage of tightening, but shows the true purpose of our bodies- to feel. it also shows that there can be callouses but underneath there is still abundant sensitivity and feeling which we can cover up but which will never go away.
Wow Rosanna, this is an amazing blog, that shows exactly what universal medicine is about. I loved reading this process of realising that something was nor right and having a go at some good old-fashioned honesty. i’ve really enjoyed reading about how you made the choice to pay attention and listen to you, and that this started with the body. it just shows how much is there for us to listen to and how much the body is there to support us. There is a beautiful openness and practicality in how you went about this. I had the image from your blog of you listening to a small child that was telling you the truth, and you were making that choice to simply stop to listen, to pay attention to a lovely, delicate voice that was lovingly imparting wisdom to support you- and it was coming from your body.
I totally agree Simone – Rosanna’s blog does so simply and honestly show exactly what Universal Medicine is about.
Thank you Rosanna for your beautiful blog and the depths of sensitivity that is expresses. I am at present reviewing my way of being with myself and the food that I eat and I found your approach very inspiring. The detail that was part of your connection to a deeper understanding of your body allows me to feel and appreciate how much our body is talking to us in every moment of the day.
A beautiful response Susan Lee – I felt this also in the inspiration to actually listen, simply and purely listen, with no reason condemn or judge my choices – my body is softening already! This is a breath of fresh air for me and one I am actually excited about starting my day with – in appreciation of all my body tells me, over and over again until I get it.
Yes Susan, our bodies do talk to us every moment of the day, it’s up to us to listen. If we actually did that, there would be much less of the serious health issues that just seem to appear out of nowhere. Like if we allowed ourselves to feel when our body is tired – and consequently re-assessing where we are wasting and losing our energy, how we can re-plenish the body with rest and care, instead of making it keep going with the help of sugary foods or caffeinated drinks, we would have less flus and endocrine issues.
Oh yes Esther that is a good point, our health issues do not come out of nowhere, they are the consequence of overriding messages from our bodies.
I agree Susan, and what I also found very inspiring is that it is about observing and then experimenting with what works for you. This way you live your truth and not what is told by someone or read from a book.
On re-reading your blog Rosanna the one thing that stands out to me is the importance of consistency both in observing what is going on in our bodies and also in terms of making constant adjustments as we go deeper and deeper into what our bodies are telling us. This is inspiring me to work on consistency in my own life, especially when it comes to connection with my body. Thank you.
Yes indeed Helen, one of the most vital ingredients in the recipe for Life is Consistency, Consistency, Consistency!
Consistency and routine, the two most support elements within our lives. I agree!
Oserving and feeling into the body is quite a revealing exercise that has enormous benifits. The body will let you know the quality of your choices.
It has been a real re-awakening to discover all my body has been carrying and the fact that through my choices I can either lighten or increase the load it is having to deal with. While I have gotten better at noticing what is going on with my body I still sometimes find locating the source of the hardness can be a real task in exploration. However, what never ceases to amaze me is how quickly my body does respond when I do read the signs correctly and make the necessary adjustments.
Thank you for sharing this Rosanna. Reading your blog it is clear that everybody’s body has a story to tell and we can learn much from observing the way our bodies respond. I find it inspiring when I observe others who have made lifestyle choices that clearly support them. I know what true vitality and wellbeing looks like now and it’s all in the eyes, they sparkle and shine and have an endless depth – it is like looking into a universe. There is no way to fake this.
A gorgeous reminder that everybody’s body has a story to tell and, oh yes, the eyes are the windows to the Soul.
Thank you Rosanna, Leonne and Tamara, I agree, we all have our path to God and the story that goes with it, and definitely ” the eyes are the window to the soul.”
Thank you Rosanna, the attention to detail your bring to your body is very inspiring.
Yes, very inspiring indeed, it makes me curious to go deeper with my own observations. Like today, I noticed some tension in my left upper arm, like something was releasing. I just observed it, felt it and gave my left arm some rest. I felt a fragility and told myself: no need for protection, just stay open with the world, show everything. It’s truly wonderful how our bodies talk to us in every moment.
Observation is a simple and immediate way of bringing awareness to the way in which we treat ourselves, by observing our bodies the aches, pains, bloating in our stomachs etc. we begin to build a relationship that for many of us is new and very revealing of the hard, love-less way we have treated our bodies as a thing that is purely functional in the sense that its there for our use or pleasure. Rather than the divine purpose of expressing and living love on earth.
Observation is what I’ve found is the key here in being able to make different choices because when we simply observe without judgement or being critical of ourselves for our past choices, it allows us to be honest, and to consider making a different choice based on the messages our bodies feed back to us, – and without adding extra pressure on what we or others think we ‘should’ or ‘could’ do. And what a huge difference it makes when we listen to the body rather than others!
What is super-inspiring for me about Rosanna’s experience is her commitment to consistently observe. Consistency and commitment are the other vital parts of the equation. Without them observation just becomes an intellectual exercise.
It is so obvious Thomas – we just have to remind ourselves to take the time to stop and observe.
Yes Thomas, a great point you make here – our bodies have become purely functional tools which we use with little to no regard for their divine purpose. It’s only through being open to truly feeling and being willing to listen to our body that we can then begin to make more loving choices in caring for ourselves – there is a real responsibility in this, not only for ourselves but for everyone.
“…just like calloused, leathery hands with their thickened skin cannot allow full sensitivity to feel what is there to be felt.” I love this simple example of why a hardened body cannot feel as much as free flowing gentle body. I am feeling quite tensed right now and I can totally relate that it is making me a little less sensitive than I usually am. Time for some gentle reconnecting exercise this morning.
It’s a great point Lieke and highlights to me that we not only need to have an awareness our body is hard but that by introducing gentleness as a first step, we can begin to connect back in a way that allows us to feel more…
I loved this example too Lieke. Thought it really captured it- when we are hard we can’t feel all the sensitive and fine details… Everything just seems hard and rough.
Exactly. And how if we feel such a hardness in our bodies, there is no reason to beat ourselves up. It is instead time to appreciate ourselves for being willing to see this. This appreciation and observation will then allow us to make different choices in the future, choices that honour our body instead of hardening it up.
Great point Michael which I have begun to appreciate more and more… simply to learn to observe our bodies more and more without making judgement or beating ourselves up. I have found from experience that when I do the latter and become critical of my choices, my body remains hardened or goes into hardness and I tend to go into protection not to feel what’s really been going on. I contrast, when I observe more, I am more able to feel what is really underneath the choice I made in the first place – yes, there may be some sadness at feeling some of my choices at times, – but more and more it simply offers me an opportunity to let go of more of my hurts and much freer to make a different choice the next time.
Rosanna what a gorgeous testimony to truly taking the time to be with and listen to our bodies. I can feel how your loving patience with each of the choices you made and the consequences of each choice led to a deepening awareness. I am inspired to be more with my body, to lovingly listen to its whispers (sometimes screams) and begin to live more the real me in the world.
I love how you break the process down to a step by step way to self-care, very detailed and very tangible.
I love the commitment you described in noticing all the signs your body gave you… checking in and really listening and feeling what was going on for you and your body and then adjusting accordingly. It’s such a simple and beautiful way to really love and understand yourself and your choices and to deepen your connection. Gorgeous.
This is fantastic Rosanna. You did not leave one stone unturned when it came to observing and listening to your body. It pays off that’s for sure and we develop the ability to know what we need and when, which is very important for our wellbeing. Doing things like eating a certain way and exercising a certain way are never going to serve the body in truth unless we have felt that it is actually what the body needs at that time. Honouring the body and learning to live by its innate wisdom the key to true health.
I love the line..’Just as a child would learn – I observed, I listened, I noticed and then I experimented for myself.’ Such a more loving approach to the self bashing and judgemental rein I can get caught in when looking at my own choices.
Beautiful and fun! What a playful way to get to know your body. Thank you for sharing this golden experience Rosanna, I know many (including myself) will benefit hugely from your awareness.
Rosanna I hadn’t really considered before the simple fact that you shared about how much more difficult it is to feel in a body that is tight and hard but of course that is true. It then leads me to consider that the reason that I was able to continue in my self harming ways was because of the extreme hardness I had built up through exercise, drive and self protection.
Beautiful blog Rosanna, I loved reading it. As I was reading I became inspired to check in with myself every evening to take note of how I have been using my body during the day when doing chores or working. I thought to share this with my 8 year old daughter too and to get her to nominate how she feels. Yesterday, I was cleaning and cutting pieces of wood for the fire and I noticed how my body was so hard and with this hardness I created pain and discomfort. I realised that I must have been hardening my body for so long that it wasn’t aware until now, I was able to feel it and try to change that for next time. I have to constantly remind myself to not go into autopilot and become hard. You’ve inspired me to continuously connect to my body and listen to the messages, to be gentle and loving with everything that I do.
Beautifully healing to read Rosanna. This line is very power-full.. “Every part of me, both inside and out, had a story to tell.” It is so lovely to feel how our bodies are like a huge storybook of truth waiting to share every-thing if we are willing to listen.
Beautifully said Rosanna. I too have been inspired by Serge Benhayon and others at Universal Medicine to pay attention to what my body is telling me about the way I live and make changes. I particularly enjoyed where you share “it was from their consistent reflection of love, which came through in the way they lived their everyday lives, that the ‘more’ – which I had, deep inside, known there to be – was confirmed. It was confirmed as being love” So true.
Great Blog, I can feel how important it is to constantly check in with our bodies about how we are doing and what is happening. I can often feel when I hold back that my body is in distress and that there were things to be done that I hadn’t done. This one is a very clear sign for me to check what is happening and act accordingly.
I do exactly the same too Brenkt. But I am slowly getting better at it, I am practicing to act as soon as I feel something is needed to be done, instead of leaving it until later. That holding back and delaying holds tension in my body and it doesn’t feel great at all when I make those choices. It’s an old habit of mine and it’s time to chip away at it everyday and to be more aware.
So practical, Rosanna, it makes so much sense. Instead of taking the advice or direction from Media and large corporations whose business is about making money regardless of the effects on people and just quietly listening to and observing the impacts of the life being lived on your own body and then choosing from there. I have found that by appreciating everything about ‘me’, the workings and offerings of my beautiful body, I have so much more to give, having first given to myself. Great Blog, thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you Rosanna, a very beautiful description of how and what our bodies are telling us. Connection to our bodies is so important in feeling what is going on.
Awesome blog Rosanna on how we have to be self responsible and start living from our body, observing, appreciating and adjusting to get more and more into harmony with it. Very beautifully described. I love the details you go into as they are very practical and show so clearly what it means to live from our body. Thank you for sharing.
Rosanna what an awesome blog of body-discovery and makes total sense what you say here, your words: “I had begun to understand that if my body was as tight and as toughened as it was, how could I possibly feel or know what felt right for it and what did not?” From experience too, i’ve seen how working on being less hard on myself, judgmental, critical, uptight, stressed, emotional, expectational – things that are then stored inside the body restricting its movement and flow, has freed up my ability to feel, see, hear, sense, communicate and express with clarity.
Thank you, Rosanna. I love that you have likened our desensitised body as “calloused, leathery hands with their thickened skin cannot allow full sensitivity to feel what is there to be felt”. What I am experiencing is that the deeper the connection I develop with my body, the more delicate and sensitive the body reveals itself to be.
Roseanna I love the tenderness you have shared in writing about learning to listen to your body. I am also finding a hardeness melting away as I choose to make more lovingly supportive choices for my body.
Rosanna, I just loved the analogy you made with the hardness and rigidity you felt in your body and how ‘…calloused, leathery hands with their thickened skin cannot allow full sensitivity to feel what is there to be felt’ . When we make choices and live a life being ‘hard, rigid and unyielding’, we are not nearly as sensitive to our own awareness and what we truly feel in our ourselves and others as we could be. Further, when we avoid and hide the depth of how sensitive we truly feel behind all that hardness, we effectively get a dulled down version of both ourselves and others. It kind of makes life feel and look like you are living it in black and white instead of the vibrancy of colour that living the truth of what our sensitivity can offer and bring to both ourselves and all others.
So true Suse, when we shut down our own sensitivity we miss out on so much, as our awareness is dulled down – all those beautiful feelings, fragrances, tastes, colours and sounds that we are missing out on.
Very inspiring Rosanna. I am deepening my connection to my body and am enjoying how when I feel my body show me something it is not hard to follow through with what it is telling me. No more trying to be good. What a relief.
Our body is telling us everything- a better adviser is not possible in life. I know exactly what you mean and it is great to become friends or even lovers with the body 🙂
Rosanna thank you for sharing how wonderful the body is in reflecting the truth to us when we choose to pay attention and listen. And your dedication to patiently learning and committing to love yourself has unfolded into a Livingness that now supports a deepening of your true self – truly inspiring!
Rosanna , its is definety amazing to re connect with our body and treat it with love ,care and respect and openness that i could once only remember as a child until starting the journey back to self love . It is so true that all our choices can be felt in our body , once said by a wise sage .
Thank you Rossana for sharing your beautiful process of discovery! As I was reading I could feel how this could inspire many.
Awesome Rosanna, thank you. From reading your blog here I am reminded of how my body once felt, how tired, exhausted, hard, defensive, painful and distorted I was, and how different I feel now. Thanks to following the suggestions of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, and the inspiration of the whole Universal Medicine student body.
When looking for reasons as to why your body felt the way it did, you went back to the body itself to seek the answers and took resposibiliity for the choices you were making. From the loving way that you were honouring how your body felt , you have developed a deeper, more loving connection with it. Very inspiring Rosanna.
It is very inspiring blog, Rosanna. I like reading how you started looking at your choices and made the connections to your body. It makes me want to go deeper with exploring my body. Thank you.
Thank you Rosanna, I loved reading about how you really put time aside to study what you learnt from your body. You weren’t trying to get somewhere or achieve anything, just listen, feel and learn. Gorgeous. You’ve inspired me to deepen my awareness with my body. Thank you.
I really enjoyed reading about your honouring relationship with yourself. There is a lot to consider here in a world looking outwards to the next idea, book, fad and health craze. I love the simplicity of looking within and listening to the best expert we have – the body.
Thank you Rosanna, what you are sharing here is very familiar – I too am forever learning to observe my bodys responses to the choices I make, and I am blown away by how loud and clear it (yes, the body) speaks.
Hi Rosanna, what I can really feel from what you write is how simple yet powerful listening to our bodies is and that true and lasting change can come from this.
What re-reading this has got me feeling is that there is so much to the body that can be explored if we choose to pay attention. I feel inspired to be willing to learn about my body, knowing that I can feel my body at any time if I so chose to. Thank you.
Again returning to this blog I can feel in my body more of what you have shared in this blog. There is a sense of child-like wonder and curiosity as Monica also mentioned when it comes to exploring and discovering how I feel and why I feel that way. And by looking back from the what I feel to the action before it leaves no questions of ‘How did I get like this?’ there is more understanding and less bashing. It is quite fun getting to know myself in this way! Certainly something I would not want to not have in my life but rather continue to build and deepen this relationship.
I know that by deepening my connection with my body it is now a more integral part of my being and the taking care and level of awareness of my body is increasing as a result of this, without even putting special attention to it, it is just naturally there. You can say that my body’s voice becomes louder and much easier to communicate with and with this it introduces fun and curiosity in me to find what is there more to discover.
Thank you Rosanna. I find this very inspiring not only because of how beautifully and simply you have laid out the choices that are available to us, but also because of the change in you these choices have made.
Rosanna, I love this, so clear, precise and yet concise. I feel the care and dedication in your approach and that most importantly you listened to your body, and were willing to track back and see what needed to change. I am doing this more and can feel that your approach offers a beautiful child-like curiosity to how you work with your body – really inspiring, I’m grinning as I write this and feel my body more. When I have that open child-like approach it feels magical, I am not hard on myself but just observant to what is happening, and it really does change everything, it shows the true power we all have to change at any time. It really is our choices that dictate the body we have.
Thanks Rosanna, this is a great reminder to always listen to what our bodies are telling us and that every choice we make has consequences.
Loving this Rosanna, really loving the almost step-by-step guide you write here on what that deep feeling is, how to tap into it and then the fun to be had with that. Really supportive. I am in that first year I feel, when I am becoming so, so aware of all the noises my body makes through the feelings I receive. Becoming so aware does bring about some interesting bumps but when appreciating such heightened sensitivity and awareness over myself, I can only but smile from deep inside as I feel totally connected to my body. Lovely.
Reading about how much you changed your body and life simply by changing HOW you ‘do’ things, (HOW you live in your body) really shows how much our body is effected by all our little internal ways.
No matter how good the outcome of our efforts, if the body isn’t happy there is indeed something not-so-good going on!
I appreciate how honest our bodied are!
Thank you for sharing your very practical and simple experiments you took to listen to your body. The strongest point I feel in this blog is the willingness to listen is key, for without this commitment we can never learn to hear what the body is trying to tell us.
I really like the practical things you used to observe your body and how that has led you to have a deeper connection to yourself.
I love your last paragraph ‘I can honestly say that feeling what my body has to say and bringing in more loving choices to live in a more loving way, has brought a profound, positive effect to the way I feel – in all senses of the word. With the self-proven understanding that every choice has its effect, it has been very lovely to explore the benefits and support we can bring to ourselves in such a simple way… I can also say that I am still enjoying this connection and a deepening of that honourable relationship with myself.’ The more I have been willing to listen to the messages my body is communicating the more I have deepened the relationship with myself and this is an ever-evolving process. Thank you Rosanna
I have found exactly the same Helen, I have a forever deepening relationship with what my body is communicating, the more I listen, the more my body tells me
I love what you are saying Rosanna. I have had a beautiful healing session this morning and I can’t think of a better way to deepen this ‘session’ on a daily basis than to really feel and listen to my body – Thank you.
This is so beautiful to read, Rosanna. I love your words, “With the self-proven understanding that every choice has its effect…”. You have tried things out for ‘you’, for your own body. It all sounds so simple – as it is, if we are willing! – and yet this can belie the true profoundness of the changes you have made, yourself. And how awesome to have such inspiration around you (am with you on that 100%!), that you can also now be such inspiration to others. Thank you.
We really have all the answers we need if we just stop and listen to ourselves, very empowering…
Hi Rosanna – thank you. A simple honest account of how we can read our bodies.
Thanks for sharing and I agree the own body is the best advice we get when we start listening.
Inspirational reading, thank you Rosanna for sharing.
A wonderful account of an evolving towards love which began with responding to a deep feeling and then child-like curiosity to experiment – and what an experiment it has turned out to be! Full of feeling, response, feeling, response and so on… Thanks greatly Rosanna for sharing your own story of the relationship with the body which is never-ending…
I love the detail in this article, a detail in itself, that demonstrates the loving observation and willingness to find out what is going on with the body and what has caused it. The body is such a delicate amazing register of every physical and energetic substance we put into it and teaches us, as you have so precisely expressed, that we are the ones who cause all its conditions. Thank you Rosanna!
Beautifully said and recapped Lyndysummerhaze – talk about responsibility! I love the gentleness and playfulness that Rosanna possesses in taking full responsibility for her choices. At no time is there any critique, just a willingness to find out more. Love this!
I agree lyndysummerhaze, and if we would all appreciate and treat our bodies in this way, there would be a huge ripple effect on other systems in the world. For example there would not be a demand for unhealthy foods, fast food restaurants and imagine the huge effect on the health care system as well.
Thank you Rosanna!
This is a beautiful explanation of how to listen to the messages your body is constantly giving you, Rosanna. I too made the choice to see what it was telling me and am enjoying my life and increased health and vitality way more now.