Is it possible that we have subscribed to the thinking that having an intelligent mind is a great thing?
Do we think that having a great memory, like being able to recall many things, is what makes us more intelligent than someone else?
What if we are more intelligent than what we currently give ourselves credit for, and what if this form of intelligence has nothing to do with the mind?
Serge Benhayon presents on ‘Whole Body Intelligence’ as something that we can all be connecting to and living from. This form of intelligence honours, loves and supports us and our body in a way that is beyond that which most are currently living. Whole Body Intelligence is everything working together so that every part of the body is harmony and love.
In anything we do in life, Whole Body Intelligence would look at how every aspect of that choice would impact on the whole body. It would consider how the body would respond and react in detail, right down to the tiniest of the body’s cells. Whole Body Intelligence is always communicating to us… however, we can very simply choose to not ‘listen’ to it. We seem to be trapped into a way of thinking that glorifies the mind and the decisions that it makes, but the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.
Here are some examples of the things we choose to do which highlight that we often think about one aspect of the body rather than the whole body:
- If we are tired we go for the quick pick-me-up; a sugar fix, a coffee or energy drink to keep us going. This may give us an instant energy burst, but what is it doing to our nervous and digestive systems?
- We go out into a cold day without enough layers on to stay warm – how often do you see people out at a party or down the street with very little on when it is freezing cold? Being numb from the cold has consequences on the body.
- We are allergic or sensitive to a certain food but we eat it anyway and then put up with the pain and reactions that inevitably occur in the body. We do not consider our stomach lining, gall bladder, oesophagus, liver or intestines when we make this choice.
- We do not go to the toilet when initially impulsed to but hang on for long periods of time. Have you heard about grown men wearing adult nappies so that they can sit in front of a computer – gaming – not moving to go to the toilet? This places undue stress on our bladder and pelvic floor muscles.
Where does this intelligence come from?
- We injure ourselves while playing sport, using drugs and other means to keep the body moving and in the game. We only need to look at the use of drugs in sport and the necessary banning of such substances to know that we are pushing beyond our natural limits. Look at some of the gruelling sporting events we participate in; pushing the body to extremes, becoming delirious, disorientated or enduring heat exhaustion at one end of the scale, to frostbite at the other. We are putting undue stress on muscles, bones, ligaments as well as our heart and vascular system.
- We drink so much alcohol that we make ourselves sick, pass out and suffer from a hangover and memory loss, or even worse resort to domestic violence. What does this do to our liver, heart and gallbladder? Let alone our relationship with others?
- We choose to drive while tired, pushing on rather than stopping and resting. Often this can have dire consequences as driving while tired has claimed the lives of many people. This places tension in the body and enormous strain on our vision.
Where does this intelligence come from?
- We smoke cigarettes and pollute our lungs with toxic smoke. Do we realise our lungs are made of very thin, transparent and fragile alveoli that cannot tolerate the poison that they are being exposed to?
- We eat greasy, fast and unhealthy food regularly, regardless of how much weight we put on. The fact that we may have diabetes or heart disease or that our blood pressure may be sky high doesn’t seem to matter because we can pop a pill or go on a diet when we feel we have overdone it.
- Too many commit suicide, thinking that this is the only way out or an answer to our problems; many highly educated people like doctors and dentists commit suicide.
Where does this intelligence come from?
- We think it’s ok to lie, cheat and steal and this ranges from small things to big things, but it’s still being dishonest. Some people may live their whole lives in a lie and will rationalise that they have no choice. What pressure does living a lie place on the whole body and your mental health?
- We allow our emotions to get out of control; we can burst into rage or get so angry that we commit acts of murder or cause grievous bodily harm to others. Our emotions do affect parts of our body, for example our lungs, spleen and pancreas.
- We inject or take drugs that completely disconnect us from our bodies and the communities in which we live and then we carry out horrendous acts while under the influence of these drugs. Drug use places enormous stress on our body and our mental wellbeing.
Where does this intelligence come from?
Would our health and wellbeing improve if we knew how to make decisions based on the intelligence coming from our whole body? When we look at the types of choices we are making as set out above, is it not obvious that the mind is not that intelligent and can make not so wise choices? Have some of the choices that we make in life become so ‘normal’ – because we see people making these choices every day – that we don’t stop to think about the consequences on our whole body?
Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people. It is an ancient way of being that has been lived by many people over the course of history; we simply have to re-connect to this wisdom that lives inside us all. There are people living Whole Body Intelligence today. Thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and The Way of The Livingness, more and more are connecting more to their bodies and learning to love, honour and support the body in every moment.
Inspired by the work and teachings of Serge Benhayon, who lives Whole Body Intelligence like no one else I know, in every aspect of his life.
By Sally Green
Further Reading:
Whole Body Intelligence – Choices Between the Body & Mind
The Body’s Intelligence
The Body’s True Intelligence
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
We have subscribed to a way of thinking that is based on recall and regurgitation of information and figures; we have fallen for the mandate that a good education is necessary to get us all secure jobs for life. We are becoming more like machines and less like Human-beings. Why hasn’t anyone stopped to wonder what is this way of life actually doing to our health, both mentality and physically? I know that it wasn’t until Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine came along and started to quietly question life and how we were all living did I stop to consider that actually maybe we are not so smart and intelligent as we think we are. It is a proven fact that we are getting sicker and sicker and yet we obstinately stick with a way of life that clearly isn’t working. If it was working, then can someone tell me why are we all so sick and unhealthy?
Consideration of anything less than intelligence being from our whole body reduces us to the Darwinism intellect of the survival of the fittest and finds us involved in things that are less than True-love for our bodies.
Thank you Sally, there is a lot to ponder on here and it really challenges the common ways we abuse and neglect the body, ways of treating ourselves that are considered normal. But if you consider the care we take with our cars, yet not with our bodies, then self abuse and self neglect doesn’t make sense at all. This is a great line “Inspired by the work and teachings of Serge Benhayon, who lives Whole Body Intelligence like no one else I know, in every aspect of his life.” Serge is very inspiring and it’s a wonderful reminder of how much more I have to learn from my body.
I love the illustration that goes with this article, it highlights how crazy and unnatural it is to use only our head to guide us. Using our whole body to guide us and make decisions makes much more sense.
This is beautiful; ‘more and more are connecting more to their bodies and learning to love, honour and support the body in every moment.’
Whole body intelligence is so important, having not honoured and listened to my body last week I now have a cold, when I listen to my body and use whole body intelligence I stay cared for and well.
Sally, this is a great question and the simplicity with which you write helps me understand whole body intelligence because we are basically making the decision from only our mind and not with care for the rest of our body; ‘If we are tired we go for the quick pick-me-up; a sugar fix, a coffee or energy drink to keep us going. This may give us an instant energy burst, but what is it doing to our nervous and digestive systems?’
You raise such a good point Rebecca, that when we are tired we go for the quick pick-me-up; a sugar fix, a coffee or energy drink to keep us going. This may give us an instant energy burst, but what is it doing to our nervous and digestive systems?’
I know from the way I was running my body it was in constant nervous tension and the more nervous tension I felt the more I would load my body with something sugary as I felt it would take the edge off what I was feeling and of course it did. But when the sugar levels dropped the nervous tension kicked in again. I was on a treadmill which definitely harmed my body without me even considering what I was doing, it was so automatic. I know I’m not the only one who lived in this way, we all do it as a way to survive and that’s the problem, we are in survival mode, ticking boxes and not actually enjoying life. I have discovered thanks to Universal Medicine that there is such an incomparable difference between surviving and enjoying life.
Your picture of mindfulness vs whole body intelligence says it all Sally for we are so much more than just our mind.
We have to question again and again the intelligence that has us making decisions that harm the body we live in. We know what is supportive and we know what is not, therefore when we find ourselves doing things that are not supportive, just taking a moment to ask I wonder why, offers a momentary pause of potentially enormous healing.
I didn’t understand this whole body intelligence until I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I started to connect with my body and yet all along it was communicating the whole time, I just chose to ignore it despite the ramifications it was having on my body.
Even though I am not perfect, I certainly know I now treat my body much differently to how I used to treat it many years ago. The kindness I bring to my body, yet my mind loves to interfere has evolved. This process is being refined every time and it’s never too late to start this, just ask your body and it will tell you. It is that simple.
The mind wants to concoct a solution and it thinks time is of importance, but the body already knows the answer and it is just waiting for us to surrender into that vast well of wisdom known as space.
Serge Benhayon is a perfect example or role model of using whole body intelligence, and his courses and presentations change people’s lives.
It doesn’t make sense to override the body and then feel miserable. I’ve had a sinus problem for a month and put it down to a cold but after weeks of post nasal drip, I considered that it could be an allergy to a food I’m eating. Sure enough after nominating what I thought it could be, the next day I woke up without sneezing.
I have woken up today feeling like I have hay fever. Reading your comment now I know why, and I know that it will not be part of my choices any more.
It has taken me a while and there is still more refining to do, about trusting the body’s signals more as it does not lie.
There is a marked difference when we listen to our minds to when we listen to our bodies, as already shared in this blog.
Mind over matter overrides it all.
Its about re-developing our relationships with out bodies and placing the emphasis that the body does not lie and frankly won’t let you down.
Shushila I agree it’s all about developing a relation with ourselves something many of us have never contemplated because it is not encouraged when we were young, everything about life is set up for us to look outward to the world and not inwards. That’s the lie/ trick humanity has fallen for.
What a list of crazy things we do to our bodies all the while while considering that we are intelligent human beings .
These are really great questions we should be asking ourselves and discussing with everyone we meet. How is it we have accepted a reduced way of living that for some is barely living at all, just existing.
When combined with love and a commitment to truth then a mind with excellent recall that is agile and skilled is actually a very useful tool, like any other ability that can be employed to serve humanity.
Whole body intelligence is what is needed in a world that is harming itself with the irresponsible choices that people are making. We have made so many things ‘normal’ for the body that in truth poison it, the wisdom of the body offers us so much if we are open to listening to its supportive messages.
Intelligence is always related to movement. It is part of a movement. Yet, the question is what is that movement all about? The nature of the movement is what truly defines the type of intelligence and what is the intelligence we are talking all about. We do not pay enough attention to our ability to ride on a wave (of purpose) as an act of intelligence in itself that allows humanly accepted high level forms of intelligence to come through.
We’re sensing all of the time, from our whole body, so the only thing we can do to not feel what we’re sensing, and make ourselves believe that we don’t sense, is either override or try to crush that sensitivity through how we live – the activities and behaviours that numb, dull, race the body – in other words, all that we do that de-sensitises or over-loads the body, so that our communication with our senses, and ability to interpret what we’re feeling, isn’t as clear.
I have always looked up to intelligent people thinking that they know so much more than me and they have a piece of paper to prove it. I have always admired how they seem to talk with such ease, such knowledge at instant recall. That was until I met Serge Benhayon his knowledge does not come from recall or regurgitation of knowledge, but from a source that he aligns to that knows everything there is to know in an instant and then is gone, as it is constantly changing and evolving and this to me is fascinating that if we got ourselves out of the way and stopped wanting to control and own our thoughts as being ours, then we too could have this communication with an intelligence that is far greater than our minds can perceive. To be able to converse with the universe and be at one with it is my greatest desire.
This is a great question to ask where does this intelligence come from and really this intelligence that we call intelligence is not so intelligence at all, but we fall for it every time rather than making choices that are much more respectful and loving for our bodies.
There are so many choices we make that we turn a blind eye on the consequences, but our bodies experience them anyway. I love your question: ‘What pressure does living a lie place on the whole body and your mental health?’ We think we can get away with it when another doesn’t find out the truth, but our body gets the bill of this behaviour.
A great question to ask ‘where does intelligence come from?’ Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present this beautifully from a known and lived wisdom and truth. Something every one of us on the planet should be wised-up on and which should be the foundation teaching in schools and education. With whole body intelligence it comes from within our being and innate knowing. I love the picture of the whole body intelligence .. very cute.
I was listening to a mindfullness presentation and what occured to me is that is creates a state of bliss and checking out from feeling the tensions of the body- yet in feeling the body and connecting to the body we are given the clues to be able to make the changes that then allows us to live in a way that does not accumulate struggles in life.
The worth of knowledge comes to life when it is employed with true wisdom – something not owned by any one person, but something we all can access by being more in tune with our whole body.
Beautifully put, Fiona, so different from knowledge that is based on a academic title (or other accolades) without any connection to any form of livingness.
‘Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people.’ It doesn’t make sense to listen and connect with anything else. Any time I do it never ends well. Might as well just admit nothing else feels so lovely as whole body intelligence. Time for me to let go the pride and admit I got it so wrong chasing all sorts of ideals and pictures of how to make life a success when none of it did.
Yes, with the body’s intelligence as a basis and in harmony with it, much is possible.
If we approached life living the knowing that how we move, everything we do affects us and to note those affects, what would we decide, would we eat that thing that tasted great but gave us belly ache later? Not likely and that’s the thing we live life in parts and we also do the same with our body, and coming back to treating our body and life as a whole brings all of us and life to everything, no hidden corners, living our natural way, everything connected.
Whole body intelligence opens the door to the wisdom of the universe.
The best examples of whole body intelligence I often see in small children: they make decisions from their body and express and communicate with their whole body. And I love the joy that beams out of them because of this (honoring).
“Have some of the choices that we make in life become so ‘normal’ – because we see people making these choices every day – that we don’t stop to think about the consequences on our whole body?” – Great question and one well worth considering. We can dismiss what we’re really feeling about something, just because we think that is just the way life is, or that it has to be, but if we let ourselves listen and tune into our whole body, we can open up to being inspired to live in a way that really feels true to us.
What I love about decisions being made from whole body intelligence is that they are not only perfect for ourselves but equally take everyone and anything else into account, so a real decision from the whole and for the whole.
The one thing we seem to fight the most is our own bodies, I say that because we seem to trash our bodies to such an extent that they become ill and diseased. But what if, as you say Sally, we are more intelligent than what we currently give ourselves credit for, and what if this form of intelligence has nothing to do with the mind, but is actually our bodies? What if we have all got this round the wrong way? What if we took more notice of our bodies than our mind? What if when the body throws up because we have drank too much alcohol, it does this because it’s the quickest way to expel the alcohol from the body? What if we took notice of this? I wish I had taken notice, I wish I had taken notice when my body was telling me loud and clear about so many things, but I chose to ignore it. But not any more, I have made friends with my body and we are now best buddies. No more listening to my mind.
While we may think that all behaviours that are listed in this blog are normal to human’s because of the number of people doing it, the truth is that all these behaviours are there because we live from our mind, in complete disconnection of, and without any respect to the body we live in. The body that is actually our true saviour if we are ready to go that way and let go of the insidious way our mind wants us to make life to be.
Yes.. amazing how making a choice that nourishes and supports us then supports others, because we’re more vital, more connected to what’s actually needed in that moment.. all our choices have a ripple effect.
I know the discrepancy between mind and body very well and there is such a strong mental will – that seems to be fostered from every angle of society – that overriding the body is not only the normal but often championed as being a ‘strong person’. There is nothing glorious about defeating the body as in truth it comes at great loss of love, health and wellbeing.
“It would consider how the body would respond and react in detail, right down to the tiniest of the body’s cells.” So very beautiful, down to the smallest cell, every thing is considered and honoured and included. And the beauty is when we live this with ourselves, we quite naturally bring this quality to everyone and everything else. It shows the power we have in the choices we make.
I can definitely say that I overrode what my body was trying to tell me. When my friends suggested I should be drinking alcohol, it tasted ghastly and my body immediately reacted. S, sugar in the way of a cordial was mixed with the alcohol and my mind over rode what my body was trying to tell me, which was no matter how alcohol was disguised it was still not good for the body. Looking back, I can say without question, my mind did not consider the whole of my body at all.
‘It is an ancient way of being that has been lived by many people over the course of history; we simply have to re-connect to this wisdom that lives inside us all.’ This is what I love, that this intelligence is inside us all, waiting for us to connect to and listen, and the potential for the vastness of this wisdom to guide us to live truly loving lives and the impact this would have on us as a humanity and our world. It is within, waiting for us…
I was recently able to view a Kindergarten child’s school award and it was begging the child to become a good student and concentrate as it was priding the child for doing exactly this while calling them super, awesome, fantastic and another eight similar descriptive words…. the way we think can be soo sneaky, but made to look “good”/supportive/encouraging…..
I’m currently on a sales course and it is all about the mind, regurgitation of knowledge, and getting it right. The body doesn’t get a look in at all, I have this vision that soon we will just be floating heads, I have an image of a jelly fish. We do seem to live in such disregard to our bodies and I have to wonder why this is.
I have been observing people on a ‘smoke break’ standing outside a building in the freezing cold without a coat, hat, gloves or scarf. It is seemingly more important for them to have a cigarette than it is to stay warm. So back to your question Sally where does this intelligence come from?
We are not equally ‘bright’ people. This is because we do not all cherish light equally in spite of the fact that it is offered to all of us equally.
So what you actually say Eduardo is that it is our individual choice to accept what is on offer or not. So no one to blame at the end when our choice did not bring us what we thought it would bring. Only honesty to the fact that we are the creators of our own life will help us to make the choices that will make us equally ‘bright’ as the end point of our evolution here on earth.
Nico I feel that we do not want to take responsibility for the fact that we are the creators of our own lives. I know from my own experience that I blamed everyone but myself for my woes, they were never my fault I could always find someone else to blame. Now when something comes up the first question I ask myself is what part have I played in the situation, this is a completely different way of living where I accept responsibility for my choices and actions.
So no excuse to play dumb for any of us.
Your list here really exposes how much of what we do and accept as normal just makes no sense to our body. Really, where do they come from? Who is in charge of our body?
The definition of true intelligence needs to be redefined to be that which comes from the connection of our bodies, for it is only then that we can truly honour and appreciate the wondrous nature of who we truly are.
I experience whole body intelligence in a very physical way. When I put all my efforts in understanding or communicating something from my mind, my body contracts and I feel pressure in my head (sometimes even headache). When I surrender in the feelings of my body and express from there, I feel expansion and unity in my whole body. Something that feels very natural and without any ounce of effort.
Whole body intelligence makes perfect sense to me, if more began to live this truth we would have a decrease in the illness and disease statistics I am sure.
In all the examples you have laid out here Sally, clearly the mind is not so intelligent. The body will show up the abuse, whether manifesting in illness, psychological disorders or emotional outbursts. We have been shown a more expansive and wise way to live which not only brings vitality and purpose to our lives but to everyone.
When we commit to our body being the most intelligent part of us we find ways of being and doing things that we have never before thought of. Our mind is truly very limited, where the intelligence that our bodies offer is limitless.
Whole body intelligence really is shown here so simply and makes so much sense to our lives and the choice to live our innate way of being. It is here for us all waiting to be acknowledged, by bringing awareness and responsibility to all that we do and live.
Every little detail matters in how we live and living with one area more prominent be it the mind or even our taste doesn’t work. It’s not intelligent despite what we might tell ourselves and we arrogantly assume we can get away with it but our wise bodies show us otherwise.
Is there intelligence beyond the mind? Or is the mind the only repository of intelligence that exists? Is the mind the main and only gateway to it? Or is it the body as a whole, that is also its particles and nadis (energy centres)? What does open the doors to greater knowledge? Our capacity to know things by learning and relating? Or our innate knowing and wisdom, our capacity to connect to them by virtue of how we are living and, hence, moving? Is intelligence something we produce or something we connect to? These questions confront us with a more general question? What is intelligence and is it related to our body, our way of living, our choices; that is something we could all have equally, or simply an endowment that someone has and others do not?
This is a great topic of discussion as more often than not as a society we champion intelligence to be that of having the ability to recall and know things but as we have all experience intelligent people have very little regard for their bodies and abuse is more common in their lives than the deep honouring that we all deserve. Whole body intelligence is the true way of living that allows us to connect deeply to what lives within and is encompassing of everything so there is no need for self but everything is for the good of all.
And we can become so attached to thinking that it’s all about the mind that we stubbornly refuse to see that ‘real’ intelligence is whole body intelligence even though we have fine examples here where we know we are abusing ourselves yet we carry on doing it.
Whole body intelligence seems so obvious and yet it’s so usual to compartmentalise out bodies and life. So splitting up the day into compartments and not seeing the connection between how I eat affects how I work, how I am at work affects how I am when I get home and so on in a continuous cycle that isn’t reccognised as such but more often than not seen as a linear forward line from one birthday to the next. How different it is to understand honouring myself in each movement is, something I never saw the significance until I listened to the teachings of Universal Medicine.
Instead, I was caught up in perfecting one segment of life at the expense of another – so, for example, trying to do well in an essay but staying up too late and not eating well. And though I may have made the deadline, and I may have produced what was asked, the quality of the essay was impacted terribly and nobody got to feel quality in what was written.
Whole body intelligence opens us up to feel and know the interconnectedness we have with all of life, our planet and the Universe.
I agree Jill we are so much more! And it is only through the connection to our bodies that we can access that which is our natural right – to be the all-knowing beings that we truly are.
Whole-body intelligence is an absolute delight… It is the ultimately refreshing awareness that is so different from what humanity has been conditioned to.
Whole body intelligence has nothing to do with doing but an acceptance of our beingness, for when we do that we realise that we are interconnected with the all.
The fact that whole body intelligence is a practical and obvious way to live, is a cool thing. What is interesting is before Universal Medicine I had not heard anyone present on this subject or even talk about it, let alone live it. Once you do hear it though, you have to wonder how everyone in the world missed it. We are not in charge; we think we are making all these “intelligent” choices but we are owned by whatever we align to and there are energies that only allows us to see what it wants us to see. This blog is an asset to history, as it exposes how we, as a humanity have placed far too much emphasis to one organ, that to put it bluntly, is a glorified radio transmitter.
It is quite something to realise how blind we are to the blindingly obvious which for me starts with a willingness to see what is there, rather than the convenient truths I have seen instead so I don’t stand out from the crowd.
When we observe something or are a part of something happening. If we pause for a moment and let ourselves feel from our whole body, it is remarkable how we receive much more awareness and insight than if we just solely rely on our mental intellect – The body really has an untapped, unlimited intelligence to support the human being.
Whole body intelligence is a way of living where there is no individuality but a knowingness that we are multidimensional beings and it is through the connection to our bodies we get access to the wisdom of the universe.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and The Way of The Livingness, presents to humanity that there are two types of energies in the world and that we have a free choice in which one we chose. And this teaching is not new, it has been handed down through the generations by the masters that have lived amongst us by living in a way that proves this way to be true. Serge Benhayon comes from that same lineage of masters and again humanity has been presented with the truth of life. My question to humanity is are we ready to listen and make the choice to return back to the Universal mind which is God or will we choose to live in the irresponsibility of our choices? If we were to all stop and take a close look at the rot in our society it would appear that irresponsibility is the choice of the masses.
There is only one organisation that I have known of for a long time that teaches Whole Body Intelligence as a natural and normal way to be. This organisation is Universal Medicine and many more are catching on and starting to also offer a reflection of that way being lived. But this in itself is startling because the way of Living from our Body as a Whole Body Mind and not just our head is in truth natural and ought to be normal yet for majority of humanity it is not just unheard of but in many ways resisted.
If we looked at our choices from a whole body perspective – I wonder if it would influence the choices that we make? The mind does not consider anything below it, but the body considers every single part of us – surely we would want to make a choice that considers every part of us, and not one that compromises part of who we are.
I have experienced a disappointingly large number of these situations in my past! I could get a big stick out and feel bad for having fallen down the same rabbit hole, but instead choose to appreciate how far I have come and that I’m now connected to that intelligence that informs me of what will support and what does not.
Can you imagine animals kicking back with couple of drinks and a cigarette at the end of the day or a stiff coffee to get them going in the morning. Nature is reflecting a wisdom we seem to have lost connection with, a body intelligence that is natural and in harmony with all that it is part of.
It’s incredible that we call ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, and yet the choices and behaviours we do, as you have listed, are not that intelligent are they!
So true, I loved reading this. Great read!
The Universe lives within us and never solely without. This means when we look ‘out’ to the night sky and the stars ‘above’, we are actually looking in to the Universe. When we can get our head around this then we begin to see that things are not as we have been sold them to be and that what we think we know is not what we truly know but simply what we choose to know in order to not know what we know!
It great to know about whole body intelligence as I never did have a very good memory making me unintelligent in the temporal world.
It is so true that we are always looking for a solution to fix a issue but when we live life in this way we are fighting flames at every turn. To stop and look at the whole picture and come to an understanding and realisation that everything we do effects our being and body then when we make those choices we can make them more lovingly and support for the whole.
Susan, this sentence caught my attention today
“…but the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.”
To me the mind is very cold calculating and selfish, and we can all relate to this and have stories to tell of just how cold and disregarding to the body it can be. I remember seeing photographs of young women in the National papers who were lying in the streets with very little clothing on in winter after a night of drinking too much alcohol to celebrate the New year. Too me that is the mind being in total disregard to the body, where we can kid ourselves it’s okay to get drunk and the body is allowed to become so cold because all awareness of ourselves and surroundings have been lost. If we listened to our bodies I’m sure it would not put us in such danger.
Truth comes from our body, which is always communicating with us. The more I take care of my body the more I connected to it and understand it’s messages, unlike my mind which can take me off on tangents through lies.
The Way of The Livingness all in all is quite simple, but quite detailed in how it applies to life and all that we need to do.
“…Whole Body Intelligence is always communicating to us…” Yes, agreed, communication that is displayed in a number of ways, from physical responses relating to reactions, to those quiet subtle felt impressions, as absolute as a knowing, a sense, a word, a repeated dream… there are many to discern and pay attention to what is being presented.
Whole body intelligence does not need a university degree; it lives within us. We can all access it when we listen to the body and not allow the mind to take over.
So true gillrandall for I have met many people over the years who may not have a University degree but are extremely wise – so measuring a person’s intelligence for how many letters or credentials they have at the end of their name is therefore not so wise in itself.
If every choice impacts every cell in the body, we have much to consider about the way we are living.
‘We seem to be trapped into a way of thinking that glorifies the mind and the decisions that it makes, but the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.’ There are so many examples of when I have allowed my mind to take over at the detriment of my body some of which have been quite serious and I’m fortunate that the results were not more severe. So why do we give so much importance to the working of the mind and dismiss or override the wisdom of the body?
You’ve described two very different types of relationship we can have with ourselves; 1) where our decisions are based on instant rewards and outcomes, e.g. living in a way where we eat foods which taste the best, do things which earn the most money etc., and 2) a universal approach to life, considering the after effects our choices have on us, others and our environments. Is short term relief really worth long term emptiness, sadness, discomfort or irresponsibility?
It’s true. A great deal of our behaviour is not very intelligent at all. If all our choices were made from the respect and love for the body our lives and behaviours would look very different.
If I listened to my body my life would be simple and harmonious – so why am I choosing to fit in with the world’s appetite for complication? Is there something I am actually enjoying – the intrigue of being able to create and dictate my life according to my actions, that no matter how obscene these actions may be at times, there is a part of me relishing in the fact I can choose to make them. But there is another part of me that is suffering greatly because of the physical toil and the knowing of how irresponsible I am when I am like this and how much suffering I am effectively fuelling and condoning.
Listening to our whole body and all that it communicates to us is an amazing way to live and bring the understanding and love to our life and that of others by reflection.
We are intelligent equally, no more one than the other.
I’ve often heard that we only use a small percentage of our brain so I always thought there was more possibility to expanding our intelligence. What I didn’t appreciate before is that this actually comes from the whole body and not just one part. The body is amazing and the millions of things it gets on and does every day is huge. So it really is a question of when will the way we live, walk,move, eat, sleep catch up with the wisdom we hold within.
To not listen to our whole body and the wisdom it offers, is missing out on the opportunity for change on the deepest level .
One simple fact that is a great example of many facts that I have encountered, developing my body awareness and intelligence….”We are allergic or sensitive to a certain food but we eat it anyway and then put up with the pain and reactions that inevitably occur in the body. We do not consider our stomach lining, gall bladder, oesophagus, liver or intestines when we make this choice.” I didn’t listen to my stomach…I do now, its with me, I am with it, I do not discount, ignore or deny areas of my body, I am becoming a whole aware being, not a separated human stuck in my head.
Sally this is an excellent blog, thank you for writing it and highlighting just how unintelligent our minds are, to me you have completely unwrapped and exposed the games the mind is playing with our bodies. Somehow been hoodwinked into believing that our minds are more intelligent than our bodies, however science has shown that the body is just as intelligent if not more so.
From your sketch Joel whole body intelligence looks so much more fun!
Yes much more joyful and naturally more attractive too.
We limit ourselves vastly when we think that our mind is it; whole body mindedness is what delivers a lived, sensed and felt way of knowing what is of truth and what is not. The mind just succumbs to what is normal, accepted and meets the preconceived ideas and pictures of how people and things should be.
Dull is the mind that is not impulsed from the love within our hearts.
‘Harmony and Love’ provide the platform from which the body movements can be felt so that our true expression can be appreciated cementing the way we move in our Livingness. Then is it possible to move in a way that aligns our intelligence to our body? And if so what impulses this way of moving, could it be our Soul which has always remained as a reflection of God on earth? Then our Soul, which is Harmony and Love must be embodied in part or in full, so we can be connected to true body intelligence to the best of our ability and anything less we are completely open to a way of thinking we are it.
The key really is to feel feel feel.
… rather than think, think, think and rationalise, i.e. make excuses.
and then repeat, repeat, repeat until . . . we decided to choose again how we treat out bodies.
It really is that simple, feel, feel, feel…. we all have access to the same intelligence if we so choose
Feeling from the body is step one, being honest about what is being felt is another and honouring what has been felt is the key.
What I love about working with whole body intelligence is that the more confident I get with it the less doubt there is in my life, and to start living free of doubt is remarkable and inspiring.
The mind if let run can be like an evil dictator completely out for itself, in the case of people gaming, there is absolutely no benefit to the body sitting in a chair all that time while the mind is stimulated in checked out land.
So many times I have over-ridden the body, it’s fascinating how much self-harm we can inflict by constantly ignoring the messages from our bodies…
We accept abuse from others because we are willing to abuse ourselves. Change the way we treat and love ourselves and we change what we allow from others.
It has taken me a long time to see that the body talks to me all the time, yet now it is part of a way of living that is a solid knowing. I know that my choices have consequences and I am accountable for those consequences so they come with a responsiblity. I now see that as a gift not a punishment.
Listening to our body is so simple, why is it that we find it so hard and prioritize the mind when the truth comes from our body not the mind?
Whole body intelligence is exactly that – the whole body in communication with its every part and the greater body of intelligence it belongs to – the Body of God/ The Universe we all live within and that lives within us all.
Therefore any part of us that is not in communication with all the other parts and the whole of which it is a part of, is operating under a reduced form of intelligence that is in reaction to, and a fragment of, the greater intelligence it has separated from.
I love this… our working with our bodies brings us into relationship with the body in which we are all held. The body of God… The Universe.
This is gorgeous Liane. You have captured the essence of what whole body intelligence is about so well.
We are divine Sons of God living less than who we truly are. Our whole body intelligence connects us squarely to our true essence.
I love the way whole body intelligence takes everything into account. With equal consideration it includes us, everyone else, the universe, the future that is already coming towards us, universal laws etc. It is way smarter, broader and more harmonious than anything our mind can come up with.
It is interesting that we treat babies with such care and tenderness and attend to all their bodily needs as much as is possible when they need it, but as we grow older we do not treat ourselves in the same way. Our bodies still require this level of tenderness and caring, and send us messages all the time, but we seem to think that because we are older we don’t need it and so ignore the messages. But to our detriment though, as one day the messages will be so strong we won’t have a choice and will have to stop because we will end up getting sick.
Our bodies contain so much wisdom within we just have to learn to treat it well and appreciate all it does for us.
The drawing that goes with this article sums it up in a nut shell. You can either feel heavy and bogged down or we can feel light, alive and open depending on which intelligence we connect to. The Universal vibration of truth or not.
Yes I love the illustration too. It is super playful and super profound and I am definitely keen on living with my whole body not burdened under my head!
Living from whole-body intelligence makes life so much simpler and easier as one is in flow and harmony of the body and thereby with the Universe.
Daily I am reminded of my choices (both loving and unloving) through my body. Through my body, I get an immediate message when something comes up for me to look at, of issues to clear, as well as confirmation when they have cleared, of who I am and where I am from through its natural intelligence. To me not to appreciate or celebrate this would be to not accept and appreciate that one of my greatest friends and allies is, in fact, my amazing body!
I agree Michelle. starting to listen to my body was the turning point in my life, and has continued to be an evolving life transforming way of living that I appreciate so much. I have healed many illnesses from doing this and now have a quality of life I wouldn’t have imagined.. and it continues to deepen. My amazing body.. here here.
A very strong question Sally; “What pressure does living a lie place on the whole body and your mental health?” Living a lie is to live without truth, in denial of who we are, and therefore is a constant pressure and impact to live out everything we are naturally not. This cannot but have a huge impact on our mental and emotional well-being, let alone the constrictions in our physical body too.
The examples you give Joel of how we override the whole body for the sake of one part are really quite shocking. How is it that we have got to this point that we literally ignore the needs of the body in favour of our wants and desires? Whole body intelligence is always there for us to tune into, but it is up to us to make the choice to connect to it and not to override the bodies needs.
When considering the many ways and reasons we choose activities that we think are what we want for whatever reason, that have no regard for our bodies well-being, then this is a moment to appreciate that we know the difference, and from here the next choice can include our whole body intelligence.
With true intelligence everything is very simple and includes all and the all. The other form of mental intelligence likes to make things complicated and focuses on self which is actually harmful and not intelligent at all.
The cartoon beautifully demonstrates how the body gets forgotten about or lags behind when we just put all the focus and attention on mental prowess, compared to how the whole body has the capacity to be alive with intelligence.
A body that is respected and listened to responds in kind, and there is a natural ease and flow in its movements. Whatever we feed it, how we speak to ourselves and each other, what fuel or energy we use to move it all has an impact. If you look around at the state of our bodies you can feel how we have laden ourselves unnecessarily.
Love the drawing Joel. There is such a difference in thinking we know something, and knowing it from the body having lived it. It takes awareness and re connection to the voice of the body to be truly intelligent.
I love the cartoons, my whole body smiled at the whole body intelligence drawing. It liked it for sure.
I love the cartoon – it says it all. With ‘mindfull’ intelligence one gets a big and eventually sore head and with whole body intelligence one beams and beams with all the rays of sunshine. Connect to your whole body intelligence and you’ll beam the joy of the universe – for that’s what can then come through you.
I see the body considers itself as whole, whilst the mind considers itself as all & mighty and in parts – it considers not for the all.
I understand this well and the more I tune to the body’s language the more I learn something new about myself. This blog is a great reflection of how my life has changed from being under the control of my mind and being cared by my body, so loving and supportive.
I know that when I am connected to my body I think in a whole different way. My movement is different, my food choices are different. I feel different in myself. When we are disconnected to the body our mind is free to create or desire anything it likes. If this is not inline with the truth of the body then we are already in disarray.
I work in health and still struggle to come to terms with the fact that many people do not know that certain things they do are not supporting good health. For me this stems from the education we have that places all our learning away from the intuitive quality held in our bodily signals, towards a mind centric approach telling us constantly what to do, which leave us as a society impotent and not capable of living the powerful intelligence that is our natural born right, available to connect with at any moment.
“What if we are more intelligent than what we currently give ourselves credit for, and what if this form of intelligence has nothing to do with the mind?” A great question to ask at this time, when there seems to be more attention than ever being give to the mind. I am finding the more that I following what I am feeling rather than trusting what my mind is telling me to do, that so many more opportunites are opening up and I am experiencing more and more moments of beautiful synchronicity that couldnt possibly have happened even if I’d planned them. To trust what we feel and to follow those feelings is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves as it results in so much more than we could ever imagine.
Our current societal definition of intelligence certainly does not do justice to the true intelligence that lies within us all.
The intelligence of our minds seems to only consider the individual and in contrast the intelligence of our body considers the all, everyone.
Would our health and wellbeing improve if we knew how to make decisions based on the intelligence coming from our whole body? this is something worth pondering on and putting into practice as it would expose the ways we have learnt to manage life through indulges and addictions when we rely on the intelligence as we know it today purely from the mind in disconnection to from the wisdom within.
Yes, Sally, there are indeed many people who are living today with whole body intelligence, and you can tell straight away because there is a natural ease in their bodies and a confidence in what they present as the truth of what they feel.
Why is it that we can look at a monkey that has been trained to smoke cigarettes and see the ludicrousy, harm and abuse of this yet we cannot see it when we are doing this to ourselves?
‘If we are tired we go for the quick pick-me-up; a sugar fix, a coffee or energy drink to keep us going. This may give us an instant energy burst, but what is it doing to our nervous and digestive systems?’ It was amazing when I started to feel how tired coffee and sugar actually made me feel. In the past I would go from one quick fix to another, coffee to sugar back for another coffee and so in so I didn’t actually feel what my body was showing me. Now I’m far more aware and willing to hear the messages rather than run it ragged and crash at the end of the day.
“Where does this intelligence come from?” This is a great question. It is not the mind itself that is the problem, but it is like the computer, rubbish in equals rubbish out. But what source are we using to feed our thoughts and choices? Most of us have experienced being in a downer and all we can get is negative thoughts, and in contrast being on a roll of being really open and loving regardless of what is thrown at us. But it is not the cliche of being positive or negative, it is literally aligning to a different source of energy and being fed the thoughts in line with that. Our thoughts are directly dependant on the quality of vibration we choose. Our Soul or our spirit. There is a world of difference.
I have just had a whole body experience and my body is amazingly cool! I had a session with an Universal Medicine practitioner and a few hours after the session I felt a cold coming on. I had to go off on a trip and throughout 7 days I could feel the cold in the back ground but it didn’t develop into anything. I came home late on a Sunday night went to bed and in the early hours of Monday morning the cold broke over me. I had a runny nose, sore throat, headache sore eyes you name it I had it. My body had waited for me to complete my necessary trip and as soon as I was home let it all out of my body. How neat is that!!
Sally, this is awesome and clearly shows us areas of so called “normality” where we totally ignore our bodies and its messages in order for a temporary relief or fix offered to us by the mind which often is in total disregard for the body in which it lives. It does not make sense.
‘We drink so much alcohol that we make ourselves sick, pass out and suffer from a hangover and memory loss, or even worse resort to domestic violence. What does this do to our liver, heart and gallbladder? Let alone our relationship with others?’
Domestic Violence is rife in Australia with one in three women over the age of 15 having experienced it. On average in Australia one woman a week is killed by a current or ex partner. This is clearly one of many huge issues we need to address and unpack as a society. Why is this level of abuse so prevalent?
Reading this is exposing the rot of beliefs I’ve subscribed to that I use to not live this whole body intelligence in all I live. The main one being this world is based on intelligence from the mind and all the systems that promote this and all the complication that ensues, so I think I have to fit in. Trouble is this way I don’t give my body the chance to communicate if I am stressed and adding to the world’s choice to be mentally driven not impulsed from the body. So, unless, I give this new a chance I’ll stay stuck in the merry-go-round, never offering a different reflection for others either so we all stay stuck.
But I’m being given the most amazing reflections from Universal Students and the Benhayon family of living another way. I know it can be done so it’s about me choosing it, fully admitting the mental intelligence does not work except as imprisoning us into its own repeating energies that feel horrible.
There are so many occasions in my day when I am unintelligent, simply because I have overridden my body and the truth of what it is communicating to me. Every day, I am committing more to listening to my inner knowing rather than the dictates of the world.
I can totally relate Janet. I do the same thing and sometimes I get lost in my thoughts. When I snap out of it, I feel the disconnection in my body and a feeling of emptiness instead of a fullness when I am more connected to my body.
Janet I feel the same, to live with whole body intelligence is not necessarily easy in life as there are constant distractions that can take us away from ourselves if we let them. It requires awareness and re-education and then the moment to moment choices in respect of the body that then start to become a more natural way of being. Bringing focus back to the body makes life simpler.
Usually when I write comments, I just write the first thing that comes to me. However, sometimes I find myself trying to calculate and write the perfect sentence, something that is wise or that will show how intelligent I am. That calculation is not wise nor intelligent, knowing that the wisdom that comes through my fingers is far greater than the one coming through my mind when I am trying to be perfect!
Love this Elizabeth, and so true.
It’s so strange that we’re knowingly (or not) abusing ourselves – we talk so much about abuse and bullying others, but that’s exactly what we’re doing to ourselves.
Great point Nick and it is only when we start to stop abusing ourselves that we feel how much we are actually abusing others.
Re-connecting with our whole-body-intelligence can be quite exposing of the ways chosen in the past which perhaps were not so loving, but this should never mean that we do not make this choice, but simply that when doing so to bring with us the deepest and sweetest forms of understanding.
There is an answer for every example you describe – it may be checking out so as not having to deal with life, pushing ourselves to the extremes in the name of recognition or taking part in certain activities to fit in and avoid confrontation. I feel it is my purpose and responsibility to live a life which shows others that we can live differently – and that it’s okay to do so.
It doesn’t make sense that we tend to focus on our mind as being the intelligent part of us when in every moment we have the most amazing body, all of it, sharing messages with us that if listened to can change our lives and well-being. You only have to read a couple of your everyday examples to realise that whatever is running the body in such a disregarding way does not come from a place of simple common sense. To take the time to listen to our body and then to act on its messages has the potential to be life-changing, something our mind doesn’t seem to care about in the least.
Re-connecting to whole body intelligence that lives and thrives with-in us each is our own unique individual choice. From here comparison, competition, keeping up, copying, recognition and judging have no hold over our own choices discerning what is true for us or not.
“…what if this form of intelligence has nothing to do with the mind?…” a great statement to make, as love communicates much faster than any mental capacity… and where does love emanate?… from the heart… in the body… which shows why body connection is so vital.
Whole body intelligence communicates so so so much.
What you share here Sally paints a picture for me of a natural place of beauty, like a grand old tree, with graffiti scrawled all over it. The mind likes to graffiti our life in a similar way with a million different colours and paints to distract. Yet the whole time underneath lives a natural wonder that is remarkable and deeply wonderful. If we can just stop the mental vandalism of the thoughts we allow we may start to finally see the flower petals on the tree and find a way forward where we can’t help blossoming.
“Do we think that having a great memory, like being able to recall many things, is what makes us more intelligent than someone else?” Sally spot on this is how nearly all of society think, how we live and how we run all our institutions from education to companies. The body is put behind the mind, the mind being what gets us through life when the truth, as I’ve come to understand, is we have it back to front.
Really awesome blog Sally. I love the way you demonstrate that whole body intelligence always considers the whole body. If something is damaging for one cell of the body it is damaging for the whole body. I can also feel that whatever harms a single cell in one body is harming us all.
” The body is the marker of all truth ” as expressed by Serge Benhayon , I have always known this to be true , for my body could always feel when a person was lying or not being sincere . When I would falsely believe someone and then learn later the truth of a situation. I would say to myself as we say in hindsight I knew that there was something not right and as the phrase goes ” I smelled a rat ” . Truth is knowing by the “whole body intelligence ” as lived and expressed and shared by Serge Benhayon
Yes, Sally. We are so used to going along with the accepted norms that we don’t stop and question everything that does not feel right in the body – time for this to change! The Universal Medicine teachings thankfully always bring it back to the absolute truth that is innately there for us to connect to within.
Our body is steady, deeply aware and wise, our mind is clever. There is a world of difference between the two.
Yes I agree – one energy allows us to know innately we are part of the world and the universe, the other hasus thinking we can own these, conquer them, or avoid responsibility of being part of the world.
I love the way you put this Golnaz, we have a choice to opt for the clever mind in lieu of the vast wisdom our bodies will share and as tantalising as the mind may appear to be there is no steadiness, spaciousness or stillness when we do.
There is a huge belief system that memory or re-call makes us more intelligent than others, and on the other end of the spectrum if we do not have a decent memory then we consider ourselves stupid or less than those who do. And those of us who fall for the belief that we are less because of our lack of re-call skills can if not careful give our power away to people who come across as knowing and authoritative. From this angle it is clear to see how the intelligence keeps us separated from each other, and is set up to do just that.
I love the pictures to this blog as well, it shows us how one choice will determine the quality in how we feel and how we are going to be in the day. Accepting and allowing all of us is super powerful, and yet we are told we are not to be this, that we are not good enough. When I stop listening to those messages and thoughts it is easy to be all of me and I feel incredible when I do.
‘Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people.’ This needs to be included in our education system – first educate the parents so they can pass that awareness on to their children or at the very least, allow their children to express from their own full body awareness, and to listen deeply.
Wow Sally a great blog exposing how irresponsible we have become, it is quite humbling to read just how far humanity have strayed from whole body intelligence. Thankfully Serge Benhayon has been presenting on whole body intelligence for many years and the importance of building trust with the body and listening to the wisdom and intelligence it is constantly communicating to us – this is key to true health and vitality.
Considering the whole body in how we live feels so inclusive of not just our body but how we are in our whole environment/ community.
I’m remembering how even with exercise I compartmentalised my routines – this one for a stomach, for the thighs etc. I compartmentalised my body in the way I thought about it and kept it separate to being responsive to the type of thoughts I was having. But if I am stressed it has a huge impact on me physiologically. So coming from my body first is excellent medicine.
Whole Body Intelligence is universal – it considers us all equally and never does it hold another more or less than any other – different to how we can be identified by what we can recall or regurgitate and use that to either put ourself ‘above’ another or below them by thinking that we’re not ‘intelligent’ or clever…
Yes. Since by working with whole body intelligence we are simply tapping into Universal Intelligence, then we are of course equal and competition or comparison have no place in our lives.
We have made knowledge the most valuable currency in the world. It will be through understanding that this level of intelligence is so far reduced from what we actually innately know that we can start to build on the foundations that Universal Medicine is setting for humanity.
I love the fact that our bodies function and renew and heal its self with the knowing that it is a whole, the everything works together, nothing is more important than the other part…we can learn a lot from observing the body.
Learning to live from the body instead of the mind is a total shift in the way we’ve been brought up to prize our minds and intelligence above everything else, but so worth it, as we start to feel more, and to open up more to life. That’s not to say we can’t be in the world using our minds, but it’s when we use our minds at the expense of the body, overriding its messages, that things start to go awry.
Full Body Intelligence is something we can instantly trust because it takes the whole into account. Mindful intelligence however, always leaves something as lesser because it takes the whole to consider the whole.
Basing our way of life on whole body intelligence is super simple, always accessible, totally dependable and always truthful. It taps into the innate power that we are living with all the time .
Until we truly feel and accept that the choice of intelligence we have chosen is not entirely intelligent, but it is okay and yes we have chosen it–for a long time; until we come back to a true humility of accepting we have made some unwise choices, but it is okay; in short, until we come back to a place where we are ready to truly accept that we are love by starting to love ourselves no matter what our choices have been, will we be ready to see what is truth.
This is really beautiful to read. I’m also feeling how it is for me about choosing to love myself no matter what, whatever the circumstances I find myself in. I can often go into blaming the world for my choices, even subtly, which doesn’t support me in any way. This is something I am learning to observe and notice and come back to love with.
My body feels, much sooner than the mind can make a lot of assumptions about what I think or do not think. This is why I trust my body and have begun listening and feeling what it shares. It is priceless, wise and deeply sustaining.
Thank you Sally for your honesty in exposing precisely how we have all been living, taking no responsibility for the impact of our wayward behaviours. It seems that very few have made the choice to stop and take stock and realise and understand precisely the effect that this way of living is having on our body and our overall well being. As we begin to build a foundation of whole body intelligence we can begin to live with more humility and love for ourselves and for all others who inhabit our planet.
The beauty of our whole body intelligence is shown here so simply and makes so much sense to our lives and the choice to live our innate way of being is here for us all waiting to be acknowledged.
I am often blown away with just how intelligent my body is and how much it loves every single part of itself.
It is interesting that we rely on just one little part of our whole being to provide us with everything we want to know, while we have a whole body that can bring us all that we need to know.
Today I will listen to my whole body, and see where it takes me… thank you.
We are already living with this amazing ‘whole body intelligence’, All we need to do is surrender from the controlling mind to the body’s natural flow.
Absolutely relate to this Shirley-Ann – I too grew up thinking I was less intelligent than my older siblings who were way more ‘intelligent’ than I was, but as it turns out it seems that I was in touch with my true intelligence all along, always feeling what was right and what wasn’t. How amazing would it be if we honoured all of our children in this way and allowed them to express what they felt from their bodies rather than dictating to them that they had to ‘learn’ things from their mind?
‘The decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.’ From observing life I would have to say that this is a very accurate statement and one that needs to be considered deeply as many of us blindly follow our thinking with out looking at the consequences on the body.
We have explored pushing our body to its limits, but have we explored working with it, in line with its rhythms in as much detail?
I keep finding the point that my body is smarter than my mind quite humbling but also enormously useful. A good mind is not bad but can be turbocharged when fully co-operating with the body.
Sally this is a great blog because it asks us all to stop and consider what is actually going on with us and how we behave. I can so relate to this
“If we are tired we go for the quick pick-me-up; a sugar fix, a coffee or energy drink to keep us going. This may give us an instant energy burst, but what is it doing to our nervous and digestive systems?”
I know going for the ‘pick-me-ups’ doesn’t work because I then feel extremely tired and sometimes this has happened when driving my car and I have had to pull over and take a nap before continuing my journey. It took a little time for me to admit to my self that having a sugar based snack is not conducive for my body.
The benefit and value of whole body intelligence is something that I completely passed over as I grew up in school, life became about the mind and what I learn and remember. The problem with that is that I was always seeking to be more, to learn more and to be better. When I allow whole body intelligence I have the answers to what is needed next.
The benefit and value of whole body intelligence is something that I completely passed over as I grew up in school, life became about the mind and what i learn and remember. The problem with that is that I was always seeking to be more, to learn more and to be better. When I allow whole body intelligence I have the answers to what is needed next.
It makes no sense to expect to get away with abusing the body to such an extent and then not understand why we got cancer, or diabetes, in fact any illness – how is it that we have not put two and two together.
What I really enjoy is the simplicity of whole body intelligence – when something is felt, there is no doubt, which makes making choices super simple.
It is also apparent that the intelligence of the mind is keen to gloss over its own shortcomings and simple pursue increasing its activity to find the problems that it is actually creating – never looking at itself as doing so.
We make choices from our mind and ignore the consequences these choices have on our body….and then wonder why we get sick!!!!! And we think we are intelligent.
It’s incredible when you look at things as simply as this that we have continued to trust one way of doing things, driven by our intelligence, considering all that is not working – until it becomes apparent that perhaps the source of said intelligence doesn’t really care about the consequences.
We may be quite a while for that appearance to have wide acceptance.
Collectively we all need to be really honest and wake up to the fact that the world we have created is a mess and the loveless choices that we make every day only serve to feed that mess all the more – but the time has come to start clearing away and correcting this mess, again collectively.
How much we override our bodies intelligence, yet it consistently keeps showing us the truth through illness and disease, pain and exhaustion.. or if we listen: vitality, health, connection and deep wisdom.
It makes me consider why have we been pushed, educated and encouraged to override this intelligence of the body – why is there an energy at play that has most of the world believing that what they think is intelligent is not?
All the examples you give here Sally of the crazy (and very unintelligent!) things we do really brings home for me the question of what do we call intelligence? And what unnatural pressures are we putting ourselves under when we try and fit an ideal of what we consider intelligence to be rather than living from the intelligence of our whole body. We are taught from young to use our mind in isolation from our body and that we are more ‘intelligent’ the more we can recall but surely when we look at the state of the world today we can see that this limited form of thinking is doing much harm to people and that there has to be another way…
Interesting revelation for, me as lately I have realized I do not love my body as I thought I would love it, I just care for it so that my body is able to function. To love it is another energy.
If we look at the state of the world, and the way people are living and the amount of illness and disease it certainly isn’t showing us that we are an intelligent race of beings. Humans yes, but we have left the Being out of the equation that is our innate quality within. The all knowing.
‘Whole Body Intelligence is always communicating to us… however, we can very simply choose to not ‘listen’ to it.’ – And I would say we are brought up not to listen to it. Our society is at large based on pushing through and stretching ourselves beyond our limits at any cost.
Whole body intelligence – that means connecting in with our bodies constantly. In relation to what we eat and drink we are usually only using some of our 5 senses to see it, smell it, taste it but it stops there. We don’t then tune into our body to sense how we will feel AFTER consuming it, and we do know but when we are using our mind, it’s like we get amnesia and forget what the last time was like when we consumed a certain food or drink (e.g. alcohol).
The picture says it all 🙂
I have found Esoteric Yoga an amazing help in me connecting to my body and feeling my divine connection so that when I move my whole body feels connected to the Universe.
Perhaps real intelligence lies in our ability to support others to also feel their intelligence. Forms of intelligence that need to measure against another are false, as truthfully we are all intelligent on a monumental scale and only live less than this when we get bogged down in getting it right, recalling and regurgitating rather than responding and communicating.
So important to consider just how much the source of the ill intelligence we have allowed to dominate us does not want the way it is currently to change.
When we listen to our body rather than our mind and align to its absolute innate knowing we then realise how controlling and dis-honest the mind really is and how little it truly knows. Whole body intelligence is the answer to our wayward spirit for it is through the mind that our spirit runs the show.
Anyone can become book smart, but can they tie their shoes?! But, living life in full, is an education lived, not learned. And, you can enrol anytime with just a choice!
Love your illustration Joel, that’s sure what it feels like!
The education system would need to function in a completely different way if we all lived from our Whole Body Intelligence. Rote learning and regurgitation of information would not be valued as, let’s face it, it is largely not needed because we can access information so easily via the internet. Sure, knowing my time’s tables comes in handy but I could easily look it up if needed and I am more likely to remember them if I have an understanding of the magic of numbers.
“In anything we do in life, Whole Body Intelligence would look at how every aspect of that choice would impact on the whole body. It would consider how the body would respond and react in detail, right down to the tiniest of the body’s cells.” If we consider that the body is working away 24/7 to keep all of our internal systems working as effectively as they can regardless of how we are living our lives, this makes complete sense. Because the body knows exactly what it needs and doesn’t need for it to work efficiently and effectively, anything that we do will either support it or it won’t. And as a result, it will respond accordingly.
We are so convinced that the brain is the receiver of our intelligence and everything we know comes through it. But what if the whole body is receiving wisdom and by only relying on our brain we miss out on the greater whole? As is shared in this blog it is actually very simple to put this to the test and experience the intelligence of our bodies.
“…what if this form of intelligence has nothing to do with the mind?…” It appears that the intelligence of the heart is far more Universal and ahead of time.
Sometimes that make sense to the body don’t make sense in the mind. As an example you may feel to have a bath but your mind may think that you are too busy. Yet when you have the bath you feel restored from the overwhelm of your workload
These are great examples, Sally, of how often we compromise what we know to be true and numb what our bodies are telling us. There are in fact whole industries designed to keep us from feeling the reality of what is going on in our lives.
I have been taking a deeper look into being tired and wanting a sugar fix.
“If we are tired we go for the quick pick-me-up; a sugar fix, a coffee or energy drink to keep us going. This may give us an instant energy burst, but what is it doing to our nervous and digestive systems?”
Stopping to take a look at what I have taken on that is draining me to such an extent that I feel the urge to snack on something especially if it is sugar based; as sugar makes me racy and takes me even further way from myself.
It makes sense to listen to our whole body not just our mind. So often our body is treated as just something that will get us from A to B, but it actually contains so much wisdom if we choose to connect to it.
Whole Body Intelligence is the foundation for our next education system; we simply have to let the old one go…
I can’t wait for this education system Matilda.
The whole body can discern far more than the mind, therefore the quality of what is brought through from whole body intelligence is far far greater than that which is brought through the mind.
No wonder we have assaulted our bodies in an attempt to remain unaware, or else we may feel the responsibility which comes with full body intelligence. I’m speaking from my own experience here.
I love the image of Whole Body Intelligence – it shares much about the qualities that are innately ours to enjoy, express and live to the fullest. Why would we choose anything less?
‘Look at some of the gruelling sporting events we participate in; pushing the body to extremes, becoming delirious, disorientated or enduring heat exhaustion at one end of the scale, to frostbite at the other.’ We push our bodies to its extremes rather than stopping to feel and deal with whatever it is there for us to feel.
There is nothing smart or intelligent about abusing our body. It is in fact the opposite. True intelligence takes into consider how much we care and not how much we can recall.
How much longer can we rely on the same form of intelligence while our bodies, society and even the world itself continues to suffer and deteriorate? At what point do reevaluate, if not right now?
When science, and therefore people in general, accept that the brain is not the centre of our body-universe but a member of the body intelligence what a revolution there will in so many ways in the understanding of the body and of life in general.
If we are so smart, why do we spend lifetimes disproving it with our actions to ourselves?
To me all we have to do is look at say the Pyramids to know that at some point there was an intelligence far greater than we currently have today. My reasoning for this is that even though we pride ourselves on having the fastest computers, latest technology and with all our modern day building equipment we cannot match the exact precision that people 10,000 + years ago used to build such magnificent buildings. So how could they build something all those years ago and we cannot replicate it today? And what if the way that historians portray that era have got it all wrong as to me they clearly have.Maybe it’s time to revisit and pick apart how people were really living then and not guess……. after all, enough clues have been left within those buildings for those who have the eyes to see and understand.
One of the key points I found is that whole body intelligence is easily coupled with normal intelligence which is largely or perhaps even completely a form of recall. The whole body intelligence points the way while the recall then gives details or choices. I found they work very well together when it is clear that whole body intelligence is in charge.
I used to pick up so many niggles when I played football, it frustrated me but little did I realise at the time it was my body’s intelligence system warning me this wasn’t a healthy activity for me. If we get a strain or a niggle it always means something, and it is our choice whether we display whole body intelligence or choose to ignore what is on offer.
It’s very clear that intelligence from the mind doesn’t consider the body’s well-being of the person let alone others. Some may say that those who sacrifice themselves for others are considering another but I would ask questions like, when a parent runs themselves ragged for the sake of the child what are they actually teaching the child? The are communicating it is not ok to be self-loving but to do everything for others at one’s own expense.
And when the mind tries to be self-loving, because it doesn’t come from the body, it follows rules that may or often may not be in tune with what is actually supportive and loving. Relationships too, if they are from the mind will be all about conforming to ideals and beliefs about what should things be life rather than the intimacy that is felt from the body knowing where another is at and responding. Our health and our relationships are fundamental to who we are and from reading this article I’m so inspired to be more in tune with my whole body intelligence than go to my mind for instruction.
It seems strange that we should teach this harmful intelligence to our children.
It is so common to override the small things for the short term pleasure and not want to deal with the long term consequences.
‘We inject or take drugs that completely disconnect us from our bodies and the communities in which we live and then we carry out horrendous acts while under the influence of these drugs. Drug use places enormous stress on our body and our mental wellbeing.’ It is a very interesting point raised here. Most drug users will be honest enough to acknowledge that their behaviour is abusing their body, yet the choice remains to use.. which makes one consider do drugs really feel that good? or is that feeling more of an escape to not feel something else?
My body cringes with the thought of living in my head like I used to. Feeling from the body constructs a divine vessel for the will of God to be lived, so our Livingness, becomes what is most felt in the body.
This is a very interesting blog post, but I must say; Some things that people do isn’t necessarily unintelligent. Like eating fast food, doing things out of peer pressure, drinking ourselves into a stupor or lying. Not defending this at all, but isn’t this all in the name of survival? As for drinking, isn’t it all about fun? I don’t know, I just feel like the mind isn’t all about doing what’s logically “right”, it’s about what the INDIVIDUAL think is right. So is lying really wrong, or not smart, if it meant saving your life? You gotta consider EVERYTHING, including things outside of your own life.
It’s a great question Sally; if the version of ‘intelligence’ we currently rely on is harming our bodies, others and leading to empty relationships, then is it not time to seriously reconsider this intellect and explore other options of living?
Yes, especially if those alternatives work really well and often lead to clear improvements in the body and in life.
It interesting how many and how un-nurturing each dot point is towards the human body when they are written down in black and white… yes indeed… where does this non-intelligence come from?
I agree that we seem to consider the disregarding choices in our lives to be perfectly okay, and when we take a close look at our society, these choices are in fact the norm.
Yes indeed, Sally, the intelligence of our bodies knows the instant we move or treat ourselves without loving care.
As I was reading this blog I was feeling cold on my back and my mind ‘reasoned’ to not place my jacket on? When, my jacket was over my chair to easily reach and put on. Why? It was my lack of responsibility and commitment .. it just goes to show there is a difference between the intelligence of the mind and the body, and the major difference between harmony in the body or not – the body cannot be in harmony if it is ‘forced’ to try and keep warm.
It is clear we are not very intelligent at all when you stop and consider all the illogical choices we make.
There is no one left out when it comes to whole body intelligence but simply a choice there for each and every one of us.
If we choose to ignore our body’s intelligence we then open ourselves up to energies that do not support us… do we ever stop to question that which enters our mind is true for us or not?
This playful illustration very clearly points out the enormous difference it is to live from ones mind or from the whole body – to be trapped in our minds keeps us measured and small whereas truly living from our bodies makes us emanate far beyond our own bodies.
Great questions, what kind of intelligence will ignore and abuse the body in the many ways you described? What is its goal that we are able to override simple truths we all know (like we know smoking is not healthy)?
I feel the body’s intelligence works well with the mind, if the mind is ready to understand the signs and signals. The more the mind understands the body the more the body can understand the depth and detail of the body’s intelligence and co-operate.
If our body had a voice, Sally, these are exactly the questions it would be asking. But wait a minute… our body does have a voice, it’s just a question of whether we are willing to connect to our body and let it express some of the simple home truths that are so obvious.
This is such a great dissection of intelligence and the mind Sally. I’m considering some of the decisions I’ve made from my mind and the impact on my body and for sure if I considered it from the whole body, the decision would have been very different. There is an arrogance with our mind in how we treat our bodies and how we consider it our ‘slave’ to do the bidding of our mind and how we get annoyed when it reacts to what we put upon it, and gives us symptoms to show clearly the impact of our choices, and still we continue, until we get another stop. That’s the thing our body never stops communicating with us showing us the impact of what we choose and the choice we have is to listen or not?
Simply by connecting to our very essence, everything is known. Yet we spend endless days months years and lifetimes lost in the distraction of the mind.
I can feel that each time I allow myself to connect more and more with my body there is resistance, usually coming in from my mind. Surrendering therefore has become a daily focus.
We would have to question our “intelligence” if it makes decisions that harm the very body it is a part of. After all if the body dies so does the mind that enhouses that form of intelligence. It doesn’t make sense and it highlights how natural whole body intelligence is because it preserves and cares for itself, but the intellect alone does not. Animals live in harmony with each other and their bodies, yet the intelligence we champion does not, yet it claims it is higher than animals – hmm!
Being able to recall things actually makes us more disconnected from our bodies.
well, when you put it like that, yes, it is well worth asking what type of intelligence is so disregarding of the very body that enhouses it, when logic would say that the intelligent thing to do would be to preserve it at all costs.
Yes, this logic comes into play when we are very sick but there is a huge benefit to actually listen to the body on top of preserving it.
“We choose to drive while tired, pushing on rather than stopping and resting.”
True, I have even observed that at times I drive too fast for where I am at and my body tenses up or goes into stress mode, this exhausts the body faster than if I would drive a little slower and in rhythm with my body. So really whilst trying to save time, I loose that time at the other end because I am exhausted and need to rest.
It is great that you are pointing out that the subtle disregard, such as not going to the toilet when it is due time, can be equally harmful to ourselves and our bodies, eventhough it does not stand out as extreme.
As you describe how we live, Sally, it feels like anything but intelligent, when you expose what is really happening inside our bodies. Whole body intelligence is what it says, living by embracing the whole body and knowing everything we feel within it considers the whole.
We just need to drive by the local hospital and see the patients with lung cancer hanging out at the entrance hooked up to their drips smoking a cigarette….does not make sense, that you are dying and you continue to do something that is contributing towards your death.
I really love the drawings that go with this blog – they sum up our choice to be in one or the other.
I would like to see the introduction of the possibility of whole body intelligence into mainstream education and what the outcome might be when this was trialled …
Some of these points certainly make me cringe as they are very relatable to, for me especially eating the wrong foods or too much and every time telling myself I won’t do it again! But I can honestly say that as the love for myself and the honouring of my essence has deepened, I am much less likely nowadays to compromise the quality that I have come to treasure so dearly.
Sally I love how you bust through our perception of intelligence to reveal how very unintelligent it is. There can be no doubts reading your lists that something very foundational is missing in the equation of human life as we know it. Understanding that true intelligence comes from connecting to the body is an absolute game changer.
I like your simple and common sense examples. We can not champion our mind when our bodies have to suffer so tremendously. It is time that we give our whole body credibility and start to always include the whole of us with every decision we make.
True whole body intelligence is an amazingly beautiful realisation that we all have and are born with and if only this was nurtured from birth what an amazingly real and honest way to grow up and live lovingly in the world. A stark contrast to the intelligence of the mind that is considered the most important in today’s society and way of living that leads to ill health, stress, suicide, general unrest and lack of worth and appreciation for all we are and know naturally.
‘Where does this intelligence come from?’ – I like the way you repeatedly ask this question. We can so easily and arrogantly dismiss the signals our bodies are constantly offering us – we need to ask ourselves the question, WHY is this? And WHAT is it we don’t want to feel?
Living that lie – is it like being continuously poisoned?
You can have an incredible mind but be not very functional in life and you can’t have a high level of whole body intelligence and be withdrawn from life.
Well said Christoph. And this completely exposes what intelligence someone is coming from.
Clearly the ‘intelligent mind’ does not consider the well being of the body otherwise we would never have invented cigarettes, computer games, alcohol, extreme sports and so, activities that deeply harm our delicate and super intelligent bodies.
And we would not have ‘professionals ‘ totally abusing their bodies.
If whole body intelligence considers “how the body would respond and react in detail, right down to the tiniest of the body’s cells”, then we can know for sure that when we settle for what suits us, or ‘this little bit won’t harm’, or ‘I’ll just do/eat this or that’, we are deliberately ignoring the whole that the body is always aligned to.
Yes filling or indulging one area at the expense of the whole.
Great blog Sally. I like how you give examples of the ways we abuse and disregard our bodies, we go to some very extremes, clearly coming from an intelligence that is not from the body. Why do we over ride the innate wisdom we all have that comes from the body and is always there just waiting for us to listen?
Whole Body Intelligence is not some flaky, New Age idea but, as you say, Sally, “It is an ancient way of being that has been lived by many people over the course of history; we simply have to re-connect to this wisdom that lives inside us all. There are people living Whole Body Intelligence today.” Knowing this one cannot help but ask, ‘What has kept this from being generally known and practised?’
In allowing myself to connect to and feel my body this morning I can clearly feel my choices of the last twenty four hours and longer in how my body feels. This clearly shows me which of these choices is and is not supporting me to connect to and feel my body.
To quote from Serge Benhayon ‘the body is the marker of truth’ this needs to be taught at schools from day dot
Such a simply tool and exercise to use Michael to be able to see if and how we can get back on track if needed .. just by stopping and feeling the choices we have lived in the last 24 hours.
Great points that you bring to awareness Sally and the illustrations by Joel Levin are brilliant too.
The mind does not consider the whole, so true. What it does it fills our heads in way that magnifies the minutiae of life and completely hooks us into believing that to be the whole. The mind is the master of deception and trickery and we have to be super aware of its games and not become routinely seduced by it.
‘Whole Body Intelligence is always communicating to us… however, we can very simply choose to not ‘listen’ to it.’ The choice to listen is super simple and can be made in any moment.
Mental intelligence is clear. It is about allowing our mind to lead/clear the way. Hence, it is a way of moving that consecrates the primacy of the mind over the body. Whole body intelligence is about maintaining a level of alignment of our particles that make sure that no part of us is ever left behind or considered of second order.
Years ago when I was working on my BS degree, in one of my classes, we were told by the professor not to get over-educated because it could make you hard to employ, if you had too many initials after your name. He also had different names for the letters we strived to put behind our name; AS = Assorted Stuff, BS = Bull Stuff, MS was More of the Same and a PhD = was just Piled Higher and Deeper. Why should we need a piece of paper to prove something we already know. The diploma for Whole Body Intelligence is the life we live!
Your lists certainly expose the stupidity of the mind. Thank you Sally.
When it is listed like in this article what mere “brain intelligence” does to us it is shocking how this overrides the body as if it is not there. How different is it to listen to the body and care for it.
truly insightful article bringing light on human intelligence !!!
Education has so gotten it wrong about intelligence being about having a good ability to recall information. Once we are connected with our body everyone is intelligent, an intelligence that is based on wisdom and not simply knowledge.
Great example with the cold, it is very easy to allow ourselves to be cold and just accept it. We can be influenced by the behaviour of those around us or we can listen to our bodies and adjust as we need.
“Whole Body Intelligence – it Lives within us All” – agree Sally, and also something that’s felt too in the solid confirming ways like the heartful resonance of a voice and the language/vocabulary used, or the depth and gentleness of touch and the fullness of spark seen in the eyes.
Do you ever get that feeling when you are searching for something, that you are looking in completely the wrong place? After hours of scrummaging through drawers and shelves it’s like it suddenly dawns on you where it really is. That’s what I hear in reading your words Sally, that we are not as limited as we might seem, we’ve just had our head buried looking in the wrong cupboard for our true feelings. Instead of trying to dig our way out using our head, perhaps we should just stop, and give our whole body a chance to have its say. It might move us and guide us in a whole different way.
‘Have some of the choices that we make in life become so ‘normal’ – because we see people making these choices every day …’ – absolutely and we can always justify our behaviour as being ok, when our body questions why we are abusing it, as there is always someone else going ‘harder’ than us. Hence what we now, as a society, accept as normal is very far removed from our innate divinity. We have, collectively, strayed very far away from who we truly are by dismissing our whole body intelligence in favour of being lead by our minds.
When we override the wisdom our body is sharing with us, constantly, not only are we missing out on the magic being shared, but the astronomical rise in illness & disease reflects the toll this is taking on our bodies and how our ill-choices are truly affecting us.
I love the list of things you point out Sally and how truly unintelligent these choices made only from the mind can be. “Have some of the choices we make in life become so ‘normal’ – because we see other people making these choices everyday – that we don’t stop and think about the consequences on our whole body?” And therein lies the problem that we accept that these harmful behaviours are normal, when what we are really choosing is to be dishonest with ourselves to justify these irresponsible patterns. Is it because we just want to fit in? Do we stop and ask ourselves at what cost this is on the body and if it is really worth it? Our bodies are miraculous barometers in letting know the effects of living in a self-loving, responsible and harmonious way or the consequences of choosing to live in dis-harmonious disregarding way and true intelligence is to listen to and take heed of what the whole body intelligence is revealing and make this our normal way of being. It’s commonsense really.
Great that this awareness can be brought to the fore now so it can be a choice for all to return to.
It is so interesting how we allow our head to make choices and how convincing our thoughts can be when we want something. It shows that our mind works in collaboration with our spirit, yet when the body is allowed to speak the communication is much different.
A great article Sally showing all the abusive behaviours that we as humans call normal daily life, living from the mind which is a part of the whole with no regard for the whole, whole body intelligence is connecting to that inner part of us that takes in the whole of life, considering the effect of choices on everything and everyone,
The cartoon accompanying this piece says it all. The body on the right is bursting with life; the fellow on the left looks drained and dissipated. Actually, I imagine he is what our mind-driven spirits would look like if given physical form, with the over-sized head symbolic of the mind that runs the show, capping a body that is only there to do its bidding – and hang the cost to our health.
Outstanding article Sally, thank you so very much. You have made it super, super clear that our version of what we THINK is normal and acceptable and ‘just the way life is’ is off-the-Richter scale out-of-whack with what our bodies truly need for us to live with the harmony and vitality that is naturally ours.
The more I hand decision making over to whole body intelligence the greater my sense that I am in fact handing things over to God. I am stepping to the side more and more and feel that as a result God is able to step forwards to take centre stage, a place where he should so rightly be, considering that God is in truth all that truly exists.
The list you have up there is pretty sobering. The way we live is illogical sometimes and yet we justify it as normal. Thank you for the recallibration.
“we simply have to re-connect to this wisdom that lives inside us all”…. it really is that simple yet we make it so complicated.
True love is a beholding love. A love that simply loves. Which is an energy. It doesn’t want any outcome, not a result, nothing. It simply loves and beholds. This intelligence is obedient to do everything that’s needed without giving our power away! In fact this form of obeying is in fact empowering and building confidence in the most natural and loving way we can ever imagine.
“Would our health and wellbeing improve if we knew how to make decisions based on the intelligence coming from our whole body?” – yes definately. Listening to my body has been the most life changing thing I’ve ever done.
We all know innately that reciting memorised information is very different to true wisdom and intelligence. When someone brilliantly spouts facts and figures or is stunningly dexterous in a skill, perhaps we marvel at the act, yet we instinctively know if this amazingness is limited to that one area and not to the whole of their life.
In contrast, with Whole Body Intelligence there is a wisdom, grace, presence and loving expression emanating from the person that touches every aspect of life. It doesn’t command adoration or praise, instead it offers inspiration for you to ignite that same intelligence within yourself.
I’m loving the illustrations by Joel Levin. They say it all. We either shine from every cell of our body or fill our heads up so we can’t think straight! Or allow our thoughts to come from our body’s intelligence. I know I get stressed any time I live from my head. It gets easily clogged up with what I’ve got to do -like a traffic jam where nothing flows or gets done.
Love the cartoon here – it illustrates beautifully the point of this blog. Coming from the body as opposed to the head is so much more liberating and nurturing.
“We are allergic or sensitive to a certain food but we eat it anyway and then put up with the pain and reactions that inevitably occur in the body. We do not consider our stomach lining, gall bladder, esophagus, liver or intestines when we make this choice.” I can fully relate to this, in terms of eating foods at the moment and travelling I know I’ve been sacrificing the quality of food for the taste of food and as a result feel the strain this causes my body, but until reading this I’d not considered the depth of that strain and pressure, however it is clear it wears down on that spark I normally have, the day after a big meal.
It is certainly true in my experience that the more I connect in full with my body, the greater the wisdom I can connect to. The ‘proof is in the pudding’ so to speak – it has to be lived.
The education system reduces intelligence to a competitative framework based on ones ability to recall information. This is not intelligence at best its compliance. Recall doesn’t develop understanding or confidence.
An exposing blog, love it. To expose our “intelligence” and show how it is not working in all the ways it is not, this is so needed to break the ignorance that has us carrying on and repeating the same ill ways of being. If we were not affected by any substances such as alcohol, drugs, sugar or weren’t dulled by over eating we would feel we are full of reactions and are holding our bodies in ways which are hurting it.
It is indeed the most unintelligent way we are living if we just stop and truly look. An example of arrogantly choosing a blinkered reality in life is exemplified by the idiom “get back on the horse” when it has bucked you or you have just fallen. It does not say stop, observe what has happened and ask was I meant to be on the horse in the first place?… or examine the way I was on or with the horse…. It just says get back on the horse, i.e. we are telling ourselves: if what how you did something clearly did not work, do not lose hope, simply do it again with more force and gusto!! This is the mentality with which humanity approaches so much of life. In my view it is the polar opposite of intelligent.
Why do we not question the intelligence that makes choices that harms the body and others? Whole body intelligence does not split our body into parts as it knows that every part is connected and held as sacred. Whole body intelligence lives with absolute honesty, energetic responsibility and integrity.
‘Whole Body Intelligence is always communicating to us’, yes it is. Regardless of your financial status, rich or poor, regardless of your culture and background, your gender or age, we all have bodies, therefore we are all equal in accessing the lived wisdom we all carry within.
Great blog Sally! We pride ourselves with the attributes of our mind not realising that the intelligence of the heart is far greater and could advance us beyond believes.
Your simple example of say, driving when we are tired or not stopping to rest was something I know I done, pushing through, forcing myself to stay awake and putting a lot of pressure on my body – however recently I was able to change this, to make the choice to honour my body and rather than see it as a inconvenience to have a body that requires sleep and food and care, to listen and act accordingly.
Very often I find that the thoughts of being right or wanting life to be a certain way, plans to go ahead in their perceived ‘perfect’ construction in my head – often are 1. not true 2. require a lot of force for my body to achieve 3. create a lot of tension in my body and in my relationships with others 4. often never achieve themselves as life has a way of breaking up those constructs to which my body is constantly appreciative of. Life becomes far easier when we give ourselves over to the flow of how the body feels to be in life.
Leigh I love how you’ve expressed this as it so shows the amount of force I know I have used to get a certain outcome. So much grace when we allow and follow divine impulse!
All your examples illustrate clearly how compartmentalised our minds are Sally and how this leads to so much harm to our bodies that then have to try and deal with the consequences and increasingly are not able to as is demonstrated by our escalating illness and disease rates. It is only when we chose to re-connect to the wisdom and communication that is available 24/7 from our bodies that we can start to live in a manner that supports not just us but also society.
Gosh, I was shocked to read about grown men wearing nappies while gaming so they did not have to get up to go to the toilet. This is a powerful example of how disconnected from and disregarding of our bodies we can be, dishonouring of the preciousness and wisdom that resides within.
Me too Janet, this certainly exposes the extreme disregard we can go into.
This morning I am experiencing a feeling similar to a hangover. I’ve not drank alcohol for over 10 years, so what could have caused this? The body is showing me that over indulgence in any food is as impactful on the body as overdosing on alcohol. Whole body intelligence at work and message received loud and clear.
The wisdom of the body, our whole body intelligence speaks to us in many subtle and not so subtle ways, if only we paused to listen and not override the call when it comes. It tells us which foods support the body and which do not, which ignite the fire and fuel vitality, and those that dull and deaden the way we feel inside. No need to beat ourselves up when we revert to old patterns, become playful and masterful scientists with our own bodies, constantly refining and simplifying towards a way of being that confirms the love we are.
I love this blog Sally, simple in its delivery yet it packs a powerful punch. There is much to ponder on and to really look into our so called ‘intelligence’.
The way the human race self abuses makes no sense, why would we inject drugs, cut ourselves with razor blades or even swallow them if we were making our own intelligent choices. We have a choice, a choice to listen to our heart or our head, it’s that simple.
As a child I believed I wasn’t intelligent because I didn’t have the academic mind of those around me. I wonder what the world would look like if we taught children from young the meaning of true intelligence and supported them to trust what they feel.
I am really getting a sense of this form of intelligence that has nothing to do with the mind.
I was listening to someone reading the other day and it was full of intellectual knowledge. It felt to me as though the person was trying to out do the people that had set the questions, with their prowess of manipulating words so that they sounded clever and as though the person knew what they were talking about, and they clearly did. To me, it was a mind battling with another mind to see who held the most temporal intelligence… a game of one-upmanship. But something was missing because the words felt dry and meaningless.
I have come to an understanding within myself that we intellectualise what is going on and it’s like a battle of words, rather than feeling what actually is going on. When we truly feel in our bodies we can tap into a ‘Whole Body Experience’ then we will really get to feel that as a society we are failing to look after ourselves and our children. If we take a hard look at our current way of living it sticks out a mile that we are not coping with life; this is definitely the proverbial big’ White Elephant’ in the room and we are all ignoring it at our peril.
Your lists of what we have accepted as a normal life show our level of disregard we have had for not listening to our bodies for a very long time. But, is never too late to make different choices!
Well said, Steve, every moment in every day we have the same opportunity to exercise free will. We can repeat patterns and continue to do things in the same way or stop and choose to do things differently.
It freaks me out that there is only such a small, tiny, minute percentage of the world’s population who are even aware of body intelligence when most are literally ruled by the mind; the world is ruled by people making decisions from their heads and look at the state of the place.
The little picture of the man in the zig-zag bubble really does represent how we feel when we finally choose to surrender to our whole body intelligence. Whole body intelligence is naturally very perky, joyful and playful, quite the opposite of being stuck in your head!
This is such a great blog. Simple and revealing with many truths. It is an opportunity for us to make a difference in our own lives and then be the reflection for others.
We worship at churches, pray at football matches, pilgrim to the moon, look here and look there and yet all the answers and everything we seek can be found within. Our bodies are the gateway to true intelligence and an endless source of knowing.
‘Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people.’ This needs to be part of our early years education, in fact small children already know this, we just need parents who listen.
‘We seem to be trapped into a way of thinking that glorifies the mind and the decisions that it makes, but the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.’ – the mind likes being in control, it’s become used to it and like a spoilt child, it likes to get it’s own way, irrespective of the damage it causes. It is a master in manipulation and can twist and package things to justify its every move. Our bodies only know truth and any communication from the body will always be loving, to support and nurture, with consideration for everything and everyone.
As you have outlined here Sally there are clearly two forms of intelligence, one works for us and the good of the whole and the other works against us and affects the whole.
‘Is it possible that we have subscribed to the thinking that having an intelligent mind is a great thing?’ – we don’t just subscribe to it, we celebrate it, compare and compete with each other to see who is ‘best’, refusing to acknowledge or even be aware of the innate wisdom that we hold in our bodies – a wisdom so vast and expansive that it would make our mind seem like a speck of sand on the beach.
As I read this I couldn’t help but wonder what is the mind and is it a part of our body? Our brain is definitely yes, but our mind?… and is our brain and our mind the same thing? I don’t feel it is. When you see someone with a brain injury it can affect everything about the body from how we communicate, how we eat, if we can eat, how we move, how we speak, even aspects on how we relate to ourselves and others. But none of this has anything to do with our mind. Our mind and our intelligence are often interlinked and as so clearly spelt out here we very often place our mind and intelligence above that of the wellbeing of our body. This itself shows us that we need to question the value we place on this for this very thing results in most likely the highest rates of illness and disease seen in history. But then again our mind and our intelligence (as we currently know it to be) would probably say something like “well that’s what happens when you get older” or “I’ve got to die of something”. But this is impacting greatly on how we can live our every day and even though we all do die at some point until then we still need to live our life every day. So the question is how do we want to live and experience life?
I love it Sally a great blog, exposing and explaining the difference between whole body intelligence and the minds form of intelligence and choices that make no sense when in abuse of the body.
A mind left to run renegade to the body it lives within is an act of pure rebellion whereby the human mind and the spirit that runs it, seeks to move in opposition to and make choices that do not honour the integrity of the whole (Soul) that it fragmented from. In order to return to ‘whole body intelligence’ our task is to bring the mind back into synergy with the body and from here allow it to receive the impulses from the foundation of love being lived. The repercussions for not doing so are becoming louder and louder with each signal we ignore.
Awesome blog Sally. I know my mind has allowed me to do some very harming things to myself and it is so true what you say, things have become normal because other people are doing them, but they are far far from intelligent choices.
It is so clear that our currently accepted form of intelligence is truly not so when you expose it as the guide which makes so many harmful and disregarding choices knowingly.
The example of being considered intelligent for an ability to reel off a maths formula or recall a novel verbatim and yet smoke a cigarette or eat unhealthy food should stop us in our tracks. Intelligence should relate to wellbeing, living optimally well as the least of our capabilities. The fact we are sick as a planet, obese and full of dis-ease shows that intelligence is not what it seems, and that whole body intelligence as taught by Serge Benhayon is at the very least worth considering as the way forward on planet earth should we finally choose our investment in this way of living is not worth the cost it is incurring.
The body is so wise and knows exactly what it needs and in truth the only thing that we need to do is to be able to listen to it which is not difficult. We just have a tendency to make it more difficult than it is.
Whole body intelligence, it is alive within us all.
It is indeed but so many of us are choosing to be deaf or dead to it!
Thank you Sally – your blog offers a stop moment for us all to go; where indeed does our so called intelligence come from when we see the consequeses of the choices we are making?
“This form of intelligence honours, loves and supports us and our body in a way that is beyond that which most are currently living. Whole Body Intelligence is everything working together so that every part of the body is harmony and love.” This is such a powerful and truly supporting understanding. What would the health and well-being of people be like if we started learning this and living this way from birth?
And another one to add to the list Sally… we seek to live a “higher standard of living” yet neglect the fact that it is a state of well-being within ourselves that cannot be defined by a financial figure or amount of material wealth/comfort.
The quick fixes you describe Sally are typical of the short term gain but longer term burying of our issues, because once in that pattern, we are likely to repeat the quick fix again and again. ( I know I have). The problem is that nothing changes and we get caught in that repetitive cycle whereas connecting to the whole body intelligence the issue gets sorted out.
Often we can make quite stupid decisions from the mind, ones in total disregard of the body and yet this form of intelligence is championed and rewarded.
Whole body intelligence, it lives within us all”, yes it does. It is the aliveness of God, a living vibrancy that is forever seeking to reunite itself with itself. An intelligence that knows that it is the only thing that truly exists and therefore would never carry out an action or even have a thought that impacts negatively in any way on another. It is the one God who knows that there is nothing other than love and so treats every-thing as the love that it knows it to be.
Whole body intelligence takes the whole of life into consideration when making a choice, whereas the compartment of the mind only considers itself when working out what to do. And so looking around at life it seems glaringly obvious where most of us are making our decisions from.
“Is it possible that we have subscribed to the thinking that having an intelligent mind is a great thing?” I would agree that we have, we have made the mind and what we can “think up”, to be the most important thing on this planet and in that we ignore the great wisdom that comes from the body. In fact the body would not go to war, rape, murder or overeat.. so maybe, just maybe ignoring the body has been what has got us into the mess we have today.
Great question…”Where does this intelligence come from?…” that gives us the idea to push the body to extreme measures…
Indeed, there is more than one form of intelligence. One who will happily destroy the body the other than cannot do anything but support it.
We do currently base intelligence on how much we can recall information, which focuses completely on the mind and consequently leaves the rest of the body out of the picture… when in fact the brain/mind cannot function without the rest of the body – which would surely mean there is a whole body intelligence.
Pushing ourselves beyond our limits is something that is often encouraged or seen as strong and resilient but the long term damage that is done can break us in the long run.
There has to be something very wrong with our thinking/intelligence when grown men are choosing to wear adult nappies so they can stare at a computer screen for hours on end!
Great reminder Sally how our intelligence works and has an upper hand in all our decisions if we do not connect to our bodies and feel what it is that is needed at any given moment. It is a constant awareness that requires loving dedication. With the inspiration of Serge Benhayon I am developing and committing more to listening to my body, the deeper I go with this the more I realise how much I have dismissed such a powerful inner knowing that is so precise in everything.
Yes reading these examples makes me go, “hello fellow human beings, it’s time to see how ridiculous our behaviours are!” How we are being fooled thinking there is no other way because there is and it does come from honouring the whole body deeply so.
Very true Sally that the temptation is to ‘just do it anyway’ because we need the short term satisfaction and relief as a higher priority than what the body knows it actually needs for true health and wellbeing.
Thank you for this very factual blog, Sally. I love that you simply list all the things we do, that we just do, often on a day to day basis, and don’t think twice about but that are very harming to ourselves.
‘Have you heard about grown men wearing adult nappies so that they can sit in front of a computer – gaming – not moving to go to the toilet?’ No. I had not, but shows how addictive gaming is. Imagine if all the energy that went into gaming was focused on connecting and expressing love in relationships instead.
While body intelligence is something that is rarely taught or encouraged at school, because education is a controlling, moulding process and not a true unfoldment to the amazing potential we naturally are! Whole body intelligence is the way to go, that is for sure.
Watching one live with full body intelligence just puts into perspective the reduction that is the minds intelligence.
It feels like while we are ‘giving in’ to the whims of our mind, we are like petulant children, we actually know better and are aware of our irresponsible behaviour, but our mind likes being in control it wants to be ‘recognised’, to be an individual, but this comes at an enormous cost to us and, therefore, to everyone else. ‘Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people.’ – how amazing we truly are.
Yes a great deal of our choices are not very intelligent at all. It’s ironic that we celebrate an achievement like graduation from University with alcohol. We are celebrating supposedly being intelligent, but the way we do it does not consider our body at all. Something does not make sense here!
For so long we have championed the intelligence of the mind which has led us further and further astray into the current predicament that humanity finds itself in. Embracing and returning to the wisdom of whole body intelligence offers us all the true way to live in harmony with ourselves and others as well as the environment.
We have been championing our ‘mind’ intelligence for way too long, it starts at school and then continues through life with awards and accolades being given to those who perform to the highest level …. not only are we congratulating ourselves for being so much less than we truly are, but we are causing separation and disconnection when we single out a few as being ‘better’ than others – where does that leave everyone else? There is no consideration for the whole or even each part of the whole. Thank you Sally, love everything about what you are sharing here, it’s huge and so important for us to hear and understand.
You really show the absurdness of the way we, as a humanity, are choosing to live…so far away from what we, deep down, know to be true and healthy, and yes, there is another way, one that would allow harmony and love to reign. Switching our awareness away from the clutch of emotional and mental chatter and allowing ourselves to feel what the body is communicating is huge. Serge Benhayon through Universal Medicine and its practitioners show us the language of the body so that we can glean a greater understanding of its workings and its wisdom. Listening to the body, living from the body and enjoying and appreciating our body brings a whole new perspective and a way out of the struggle of existence.
Health of ourselves and our society is so simple coming from considering our whole body. I only have to look at sports to know people are pushing their bodies beyond what is healthy but often considering that they are being healthy.
Love all the more subtle examples of how we put strain on our bodies when only considering an aspect of them in order to achieve a gain of some sort. So not exercising at all or taking breaks, toilet or rest breaks in order to get a project done etc. and the energy or force we use to get a task done in. This force actually harms the process and what’s produced but if we judge something as satisfactory by the fact it is done and not its quality, this way of working will continue.
Whole body intelligence lives within us all, absolutely and this is something that is taken away from us mainly through our education system that makes us believe that intelligence is something that we acquire and need to strive always from a lack of when in truth we are all knowing and have access to wisdom of universe when in connection to our souls. Thank you Sally!
The body speaks loud and clear and isn’t shy to let us know whether our choices have honoured the body or not.
Question is, do we care to listen?
Our body doesn’t make judgments on what we have done. It simply presents the truth. Bring in the mind however and it will criticise the body at every opportunity for not living up to expectations and for letting us down. This in itself highlights the need for us to see the body as a loyal and trustworthy friend that is consistent and never holds back.
Yes Abby, it’s loud and clear and the more we listen the more detailed the messages become.
Brilliant blog Sally! Your examples expose the many very unintelligent choices that can be made by a so called intelligent mind.
Over a period of 11 years, I have been revisiting this whole body intelligence, re-building a more honouring and aware connection with my body and its constant communication. Through the inspiration of Universal Medicine presentations, I have been given permission to be my own scientist, to appreciate the deep wisdom that is the very frame we inhabit – as Serge Benhayon has presented “the body is the marker of all truth”.
This is a great question to pose “Is it possible that we have subscribed to the thinking that having an intelligent mind is a great thing?” I have always disliked education, to me, it rots the body because we are taught to think lineally and we are encouraged to memorise and recall, and our bodies naturally have a knowing that is a constant; there is no trying or recall involved because it is in connection with everything the universe is. I think it was Einstein who said that:
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
It is this that we tap into when we stop thinking with our minds and feel with our bodies and Einstein had a great understanding of this. It is a great shame that Einstein’s great work does not seem to be taught as part of the Education curriculum.
We have so invested in the so-called intelligence of passing tests that we have narrowed our focus and intelligence on many other levels…. how intelligent is our education system?
Until it is based on love and becomes about people and not systems first – not very intelligent at all.
Not only is it reducing us to be so much ‘lesser’ than we truly are, but it’s the first measure we have to compare our perceived ‘intelligence’ with each other, producing a ranking and those at the top are seen to be more valuable than those who haven’t done so well. Once we are open to the falseness of this set up, we get to feel how destructive and soul destroying our education system truly is.
Great to ponder on why so many of us still turn to a book for an answer far more readily than seek the wisdom our body has to offer.
Whole body intelligence does consider the whole, the brain can get the body to do all sorts of things, but if you ask the body whether it wants to do certain things it answers often clearly no, and the more we push it the more separate we become from it. Forcing the body in an abusive way to do physical challenges or use it for checking out with drugs etc stops us being with it, when we begin to listen and follow its cues we regain a deeper wisdom that is something no one would want to give up….this is my experience.
It is interesting what we call intelligence and how intelligent we really think we are. Especially when we look at the way we treat our body, something we live with 24/7. Surely we would logically want to look after the vehicle that is going to carry us around, after all we more than anyone feel the effects of the way we treat it and what we put into it. Yet we so often override it so what is this telling us about the source of intelligence we are choosing? Is this source truly caring for us?
What great examples you give here Sally of the myriad of different ways that we use to override our whole body intelligence. Imagine how different our lives would be if we actually listened to our bodies and acted on what they were telling us instead of ignoring these messages.
There is a very distinct knowing when listening to another speaking from the mind and when speaking from the body. When coming from the head it feels cold and separated but when coming from the body it feels all encompassing and it simply sits with me. What determines this knowing is the connection to myself.
It’s our mind’s intelligence that says ‘have that drink or piece of cake…or in the gaming example, wear a nappy so you don’t need to leave your gaming station to pee’. But what is going on here? As an ex-drinker, I always felt so disgusting the day after I’d had a drink, even just 1 or 2. But each time, my mind would justify why I would do it again. It was only when my body really screamed at me that I listened. But I didn’t listen to the subtle, gentle messages, I waited for the big and painful ones….not so intelligent.
What I got from this amazing and powerful sharing is that we’re able to listen to our body and that not listening creates enormous pressures on the body. No wonder that our biggest need is to be heard. This is a great indicator that we don’t listen (enough) to our body as well are not truly being heard (enough) by others. This has consequences, obviously. How amazing would it be to allow ourselves to listen to our body just a little more each and every day.
These questions would make a great questionnaire for patients while they are waiting to see the doctor. The answers are obvious, but clearly highlight how we are ignoring our whole body intelligence most of the time. With the rates of illness and disease as they currently are, this urgently needs to be addressed.
It is never too late to rediscover the whole body intelligence the lives within us all; it has always been just a choice away!
So many great questions Joel, how am I going to find the intelligence to address them. I recalled when reading about the extreme pushing in sport many examples where athletes are applauded for pushing beyond their physical limits to the point where they don’t know where they are; I have seen triathletes stagger across finish lines, and be considered courageous. However my definition of courageous is found in those who choose not to submit themselves to punishment, but stand for a different way of living, even though they know this will subject them to ridicule and hate from their standing out and exposing our crazy behaviours. That to me is real courage, being near collapse in a race is just stupidity, and I say that as someone who has been that stupid.
If we chose to be deaf we might think that to be a bad choice – but if we choose to not ‘listen’ to our whole body intelligence, is that not an even worse choice? I see a picture of people walking around with their fingers in their ears singing ‘lah, lah, lah, – not listening..’ Is this how so many of us are living today?
Whole body intelligence innately knows and respects just how sensitive, delicate and sacred our bodies are and will always direct us to take absolute care of our selves. The harmful habits we have created and continue to create just goes to prove how strong our resistance is to this intelligence and how far off track we have deliberately drifted.
Using whole body intelligence would change the world dramatically as if we truly loved, listened and respected the wishes of our own bodies it would then be impossible to harm another, steal from or go to war against our fellow brothers and we would all realise we are all one and help each other in truth to get back to where we belong.
Thanks Sally – this simply brings up one question for me and that is: ‘ Why are we choosing not to listen to our whole body intelligence?”. Every person has felt and knows that moment when the truth speaks to them or is felt in the body and so we say ‘yes’ to that or ‘no’ to that. It’s time to take responsibility and ask why we are choosing ‘NO’.
I have come to understand that there is a vast language and way of communicating that my body uses. When I connect to this resource there is a wealth of wisdom and a new way of living.
‘We go out into a cold day without enough layers on to stay warm’. If you asked me I would have said that I am one who always dresses really well to stay warm and form the most part this is true. However, I live in the UK and the more aware I become of my body the more I clock the times when I haven’t taken due care to check the weather forecast and be properly prepared for our constantly changing climate.
“. . . but the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.” This is what most people like to deny as if they would allow themselves to be aware of it – it would change their entire way of living . . .
It is the ignorance of this whole body intelligence and the fact that we can choose differently because of our free will, that makes us do all the not so loving acts and ways of living. We exploit these to its full extent until we are stopped, by illness, disease, and accident or natural disaster and are brought back to that intelligence that will show us the way to who we truly are.
There is so much in this but I am a bit shocked that adult men would wear nappies to keep gaming. Sometimes we need to take a step back and ask what good is being achieved for this?
There are some extreme examples offered here, that I no longer participate in, but I always considered myself intelligent. I have a very poor memory, so my intelligence was never based on recall, but on my ability to work things out, to be able to see how things worked and therefore repair what is broken. The same with relationships, I always felt I knew how people could resolve arguments and I always want to ‘fix’ people. With true body intelligence, I would know at a deeper level that people can only fix themselves, and by using my clairsentience and reading situations, I would know to give people space to unfold everything for themselves.
Thank you Sally it makes total sense, what you say but the examples that you give emphasise it in such a profound way. It’s not a case of improving the current way we live, but just stopping and seeing we are potentially missing out on the real deal in life. I don’t want to settle for wise words anymore but make it a wise energy my whole body lives.
Maybe we should call these harmful choices out-telligence rather than in-telligence as they do not come from our inner wisdom.
Maybe these choices come from something false we have taken in from outside of our ourselves so we could call them out-in-telligence. As you present they are certainly not truly intelligent.
Sally I love the way you ask, and ask again: “Where does this intelligence come from?” – and then write the list of absurdities to nail the falsity in which so many of us, and I catch myself on here too, have been and are caught up in. Living from and with the body [its intelligence] is the greatest counsel we have.
“In anything we do in life, Whole Body Intelligence would look at how every aspect of that choice would impact on the whole body”. . . . now this is truly intelligent! This is the form of intelligence that is needed in governing a country . . . oh wait on . . . with this kind of intelligence there would be no countries there would be a world government that would govern taking into consideration the impact their policies would have on the world as a whole body.
Thank you Sally for your sharing! Our bodies intelligence make much more sense than our minds in many cases. We need to trust our bodies and learn to connect to the truth it shares.
Whole body intelligence requires a connection and relationship with our bodies that is both deeply honouring of who we really are, our multidimensionality, and our human physicality. Without this dual relationship, we do not activate or access this whole body intelligence.
I love this statement…”the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole…” How often do we allow one part of us to make decisions for the whole…
Thank you for sharing this – it puts into perspective all the things we do that are truly intelligent. And wow there is quite a list! We have such an opportunity to use intelligence in a totally different way and come from our whole bodies not just our heads.
It can be a painful path walking back to whole body intelligence, for it’s our connection to God that connects this intelligence, and it’s the walking away and the abuse we have allowed that one resists to feel, for we have strayed so far from the divinity we all come from.
I agree it can be and is at times very confronting to face the choices we have made and seeing quite how unloving and destructive they have been not only towards myself but also towards others. Knowing that I am love, as we all are, is the key to staying with myself and not getting caught up in the guilt or trying to fix things from the past.
Totally James, if we don’t have appreciation for the love that are, we can get lost in all that is not of our very divine essence that we are made of.
Appreciation is such a key and important building block to confirm the love that we are. Whilst other people can appreciate it is only really felt when first we have stopped to appreciate ourselves. And it’s not a one-off thing rather a continual deepening of appreciating the love we are.
Spot on James, we are the ones that build the very foundation upon which we live. The very essence of this foundation is appreciation, for it goes hand in hand with divine love. It is the water that feeds the magnificence we are.
And wow we truly are magnificent! Yet it can be soo easy to get caught up in life and forget this. I find something simple like taking a few steps appreciating myself and it can be like a switch as suddenly I feel expanded and not simply stuck into whatever I was in.
Multidimensional intelligence is the only route out of the mess we’ve made.
Yes it is that simple and all it takes is love!
When we listen to and honour the wisdom of the whole body intelligence within, we are forever guided through life to move in ways that will truly support us, impulsing us to make wise and loving choices that are never disregarding or lead us astray from true health and vitality. A powerful and life changing teaching.
We need to bring in more of a whole picture and this article supports it. It’s not to say we are dumb or don’t know it all but more to say we are focused on a part and in that focus there is a disregard for the other parts. We can all see that things are going astray, some may say they are way out and others may so they are only just. It doesn’t matter what your awareness is to this fact we need to see the whole picture and what part of us is there through every detail of life? Our body. It would make absolute sense then to take a deep care of that body and also to listen to it. So in one example if something is making you sick then it would make sense not to do that ‘something’ and if you did then that should be a red flag to you that something isn’t ‘right’. As is being say our body is the marker and all we need do is honour what it’s already saying.
What a great insight into understanding and appreciating our ‘whole body intelligence’. It certainly takes the shine off the mind that thinks it can run the body. The understanding of the motivation of why we would do this is very worth discovering, but simply appreciating this truth and choosing what is supportive for the body is a fantastic choice and one our bodies respond back to with glowing well-being.
“Do we think that having a great memory, like being able to recall many things, is what makes us more intelligent than someone else?” – our current intelligence is based upon this very fact of how well we can re-call and regurgitate information. All schools and academic programs classify someone as intelligence if they have the capacity to recall information, and the more they can recall then the more they are deemed intelligent, and it matters not if their life is in shambles, if their relationships are rotten, if they care not for themselves. When intelligence is taken to be only from the mind, we make it all about knowledge and superficiality, rather than true wisdom which always considers the body, and everyone else around too.
Yes, we are all a bit mental – pun intended! When our choices are listed out like this we realise just how non sensical they can be! I’ve made many of the above listed, mind driven choices. I can appreciate that these days that’s very different, and I absolutely adopt the whole body intelligence philosophy to the best of my ability, and I’m refining and improving it all the time.
I love that Elodie, ‘we are all a bit mental’, I used to be very mental and it showed. Living from my body is so completely different to living from the craziness of the mind.
Sally I love the examples you have given here that relate to the intelligence of the mind…our world is centered around such intelligence that is ‘mindful’ but which puts the body constantly at risk as your examples show. I could not agree more that true intelligence is that which is from the whole body – though I wonder how long it will take us as a collective humanity to realise this, put it into practice and successfully so. I know for one that after living for years from an intelligence governed by the head and the mind, though I now know that true intelligence comes from the whole body, I still struggle to fully accept and embrace and put into practice the full body intelligence and that I keep slipping back into old habits. But at the same time, I also know that when I do put into practice the whole body intelligence, everything in me knows there is nothing but this that matters.
That is true Henrietta, it takes some time to restore ourselves from that mind driven way of living and to return to the intelligence of the body instead. But the important thing is that we do it, we understand that this is the next step in our evolution back to our natural way of being and that there will be many more steps to take. And in doing so, we show to the world that there is another way, The Way of The Livingness that we all one day will live because of us living this as an example for others to follow and in that we are the role models of the future.
When you list the examples here given, its clear that we are not so intelligent as we like to believe.
And that Rachel is because the belief that we are intelligent comes from the mind.
I was struck by how ‘normal and accepted’ this form of mind-intelligence that you write about is in our daily lives. It is how we (mostly) live and get by. Trillions and trillions of dollars are spent around this way of life, and countless hours of investment. But it is not working, as evidenced by high rates of illness and disease, modern day slavery, suicide rates and domestic violence increasing, cyber abuse, etc….., yet we continue to invest in it (emotionally and financially).
It was not until Serge Benhayon entered the scene and questioned this way of life and then presented the Ageless Wisdom of whole body intelligence and The Way of The Livingness, giving humanity a ‘new normal’ or a return to the ‘true normal – the true way of life where the whole body is considered.
Indeed Sarah, Serge Benhayon offers us a benchmark, that exposes the mighty ignorance and superiority with which we have chosen to live here on earth.
A beautiful blog debunking our mindful society; we are living a lie in so many ways. Life isn’t about the mind, as we are not just a mind, and the way we live currently is not proving that this is the way. While seeing people that live a different way, from the body, does prove to be successful in more ways than one.
We have a world-full of examples that are proving every moment that using anything less than ‘Whole Body Intelligence’ does not work! Sally this blog has hit the nail on the head or is it that you have nailed it, either way works when using our divine connection or our inner ‘wisdom that lives inside’.
I totally agree the mind on its own literally despises the body, the mind impulses by love and whole body intelligence is loving and caring of the body and couldn’t cause it harm. It really isn’t intelligent to ignore this natural way of living.
Super clear Sally, any form of disregard and self abuse comes from a individualistic mind. Really it’s simple when we see it in this way, because when we know what Whole Body Intelligence is everything that is not that is harming the body.
Wow what an exposing list of the crazy behaviour we have been calling normal. If anyone subjected another person to such things, they would be pulled up as an abuser! Without connecting to whole body intelligence we are truly lost.
Absolutely great great blog , I love this : “Thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and The Way of The Livingness, more and more are connecting more to their bodies and learning to love, honour and support the body in every moment.”
It is true it is exactly that – showing us that we can only truly move on from whole body intelligence.
With our mind and body aligned we can access a greater intelligence than we currently living with. It is possible to live in a unified way within our bodies and within the world. Do we not have a responsibility to do so?
Great blog Sally. When you look at some of the choices we (as one humanity) are making they could not be considered intelligent… and are not sustainable. We have a body that is so willing, and our greatest support when we listen.
The intelligence that comes from the mind is the intelligence that is set in motion by what’s known as astral energy. Astral energy being the energy that impulses us to be everything that we are not. Whole body intelligence is impulsed by a fiery or true form of energy, an energy source that impulses us to be the truth of who we already are. One leads us back home and the other leads us down the garden path.
“What if we are more intelligent than what we currently give ourselves credit for, and what if this form of intelligence has nothing to do with the mind?” That’s a really great point, I used to think I was “stupid” as I didn’t have a great memory, in that I missed out on how amazing I am in all that I know and feel in life; that is when I am connected to my body it’s like everything that I need is there.
What a beautiful sharing Sally of whole body intelligence that makes absolute sense and is known within. I love your examples in our daily lives and the way we can live in harmony and flow with the whole universe we are part of and where true intelligence comes from.
Hear hear Sally! Where does this consciousness come from? A consciousness we have all said yes yes yes to and not taken a moment to discern what it is we are in fact saying yes to, but instead accepting it as normal simply because everyone else also has said yes and it looks a bit strange to say no. But the result is a world we want to check out from, escape or even kill ourselves in order to deeply avoid being here. In truth though it is not the world that is ugly that we are escaping from but an ugliness within that is not in truth who we are.
It is more than possible that we think having an ‘intelligent mind’ is a great thing. At school being one of the smart kids is one of the two main options (the other one being sporty) to be recognised by the teachers. Then our whole system of valuing one profession more than another seems to be based on how smart someone is or how much they have had to learn at university. Being able to recall or even analyse things does not make you intelligent, if that word is defined in a more holistic way. True intelligence would not smoke, drink or abuse their body, it would not live in a comfortable marriage that lacks true love and it would not cause disharmony on any level. I don’t think there are many in this world who can claim that yet. I feel a bit more evolution is required before we as a species can really claim our intelligence.
This is an inspiring piece of writing that cannot help but invite me to consider the impact of living in obedience to whole body intelligence… it simply makes sense to consider the whole.
Thank God for Serge Benhayon, a man to be studied in detail – the enormity of the inspiration he offers has no bounds.
Fantastic blog Sally, exposing the fact that not all ‘intelligence’ comes from the same source, in fact offering, if not exposing the fact that intelligence is something we tap into, and not something inherent within us. The question it leaves me with is ‘what intelligence is the one my whole body can tap into, that seemingly my mind cannot?’
Thinking we are intelligent is not intelligence – in fact thinking we are thinking is not intelligent. Anything that separates out a part of us is not in line with whole body intelligence.
So beautifully said Sandra – intelligence is getting completely re-defined here, and though it appears that we are stepping outside the box of the definition and understanding of intelligence, in reality we are simply returning the meaning of the word to its rightful owner, which is true whole body intelligence itself of each and every one of us!
‘Have you heard about grown men wearing adult nappies so that they can sit in front of a computer – gaming – not moving to go to the toilet?’ NO! Really! This is shocking! OMG what has is come to that we are actually designing and making such things let alone people using them. WOW
I agree Sally, the intelligence from our mind is not that intelligent because it drives us to make unloving choices like the ones you’ve listed. Whereas our whole body intelligence is always calling for us to be love. No wonder our world is a mess, we are predominantly driven by the intelligence of our minds, that turns out to be not so intelligent.
Great expose Sally Green asking us to take a long, deep look at just what it is that we’ve prized so highly – that can lead to such rampant self-harm and harm to others. And we think ourselves ‘advanced’… hmmm…
I look forward to a ‘part 2’ to this article, outlining more of how ‘whole body intelligence’ actually works for us and lovingly with us in our everyday lives.
When seen in such clear and undeniable clarity, it makes no sense that we override the intelligence of the body in favour of the mind. It occurs to me that our minds are just a bully – they are deeply insecure because deep down they/we know it is not the greatest intelligence of the whole being, the body is, so they become dominant and bullying to hide this fact. Like any bully they can be silenced by exposing them for what they are and not accepting their behaviour.
When you actually look at the structure of the human body and the way that signals are picked up and translated to the brain, everything originates in the body from feeling the changes of energy in our environment – and often there are signals that the body sends that get blocked or turned down by the brain, which we may become increasingly aware of when we connect more to the body and leave the confines of the mind.
It’s simple listening to our bodies – yet we override and complicate it so much. Often part of it to not stand out and keep others happy in their own comfort.
One look at the wonderful illustration in your blog Sally and we can see which choice makes sense for our whole body.
This piece of writing is pure gold in what it presents for humanity to consider.
We have tried many things to change our ways, improve our lives and bring peace but nothing has worked to bring sustained harmony to our human situation that is not at the expense of some for the benefit of a few.
Having spent time around Serge Benhayon, his family and others who are living from this whole body intelligence and having developed more of a connection to this wisdom within myself, I feel an absoluteness of knowing in my body that this is the path to a one-unified way for humanity to live.
If there’s an image in an article it’s very often the first thing I’ll scroll to for an overview; your choice of Joel’s sketch to support your blog has simplicity and humour. “Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people.” Our choices summed up in a few simple strokes 🙂
My experience is that when connected to the whole body intelligence I am aware of a deep sense of wisdom that is very different to the mental knowledge I store in my memory. This wisdom has an innate capacity to impulse a way of being that lives in consideration for everyone rather than just me in separation from the all. It is my feeling that this innate wisdom is a source of intelligence that serves us all equally rather than individual desires.
I love these examples, it really puts us on the spot of how many choices we make without considering our whole body. Considering the delicacy of our organs, bloodvessels etc. really supports to maybe not have that food that we react to, thank you.
Gosh when I read this it really made me stop and consider what ‘intelligence’ does not do and that thinking isn’t always or mostly very helpful since my mind can play with my emotions like nothing else can. Whole Body Intelligence on the other hand feels lovely, open, expansive in fact it feels like it holds freedom to be me without trying to do something. Simply honouring my whole body. Thank you Sally
Reading this really takes the pressure of feeling as though we need to ‘know’ everything. Knowledge is not power. Power is power – our ability to truly represent others.
Great to continue this conversation on whole body intelligence and deepen our understanding of how it differs from mental intelligence (brilliantly illustrated by Joel Levin). Mindfulness, ‘the new black’, now taught in some schools and businesses focuses on mind only and neglects the body. Whole body intelligence flows from the whole body, not just a part and in so doing connects us to universal intelligence. It is not just about focussing on a single thing but being aware that everything we do has a consequence and impact on everyone else.
A great expose of the ways we abandon our body and run it without love. Over and over I would choose the sparkly whole body intelligence, the one that shines when it walks, talks and lays down for bed.
This is so clear Sally and makes so much sense. The way that we behave is not intelligent. Connecting to and considering the whole body gives us a different way to make choices.
“Whole Body Intelligence knows exactly what is needed for each one of us in life to make choices that honour, support, nourish and love ourselves and other people.” I so agree Sally and you lay it out beautifully – how we can ignore our body – but at what expense? When we make new lifestyle choices our health can improve dramatically, as witnessed by hundreds of Universal Medicine students who have chosen a different way.
Sally your blog give us all a lot to ponder on. Just picking up the point about the intelligence of the mind; our whole education system is based on it and gives no time or consideration for the whole body intelligence we have. In one way or another, as a result, all of us suffer the consequences of ignoring the body.
Understanding whole body intelligence is the answer to so many of our problems and issues in life, especially regarding our health and our relationships. Our mind sees its self as separate to the body and yet it is the one the majority of us listen to and live our lives by the most. We let our mind overrule our body in favour of a quick fix and then react and get upset when we are sick or our relationships fail. When we truly understand and start to live by whole body intelligence, is the time when we truly start to take responsibility for our body and the choices we make.
This is a great list, Sally – clearly exposing how unintelligent the consequence of us using our so-called intelligence is. And I can imagine quite easily that probably a few years ago, I would have used my intelligence to counter this argument and tried coming up with all kinds of reasons and explanations to justify our intelligence – and I can clearly recognise there being a sense of ownership of this faculty – our/my intelligence. The intelligence of mind cannot better itself to outdo the whole body intelligence – they come from two very different places.
Reading this blog reminds me of TV game shows that I used to watch when I was a child, where people would win a lot of money and accolades for remembering or recalling information and these people are generally hailed as being smart or intelligent. However it is pretty clear that this form of intelligence has not been able to resolve the world’s problems and so it is time to consider a much broader and deeper form of intelligence which is available to us through our bodies.
Sally just reading the first few lines I was nodding my head in agreement especially when I read this
“but the mind is one part of our body and the decisions often made from the mind demonstrate that it does not consider the whole.”
I know from my own experience that the mind has no consideration for the body, as an example when I first went out to work I did not drink, I did not like the taste of it and I knew the effect drinking had on people, they were not themselves anymore and could become quite aggressive. I got in with a group of people that in the winter time liked to play darts and as it was something my parents had done I joined the group who also drank while playing darts and I stood out like a sore thumb because I didn’t drink. So the group got me a ‘Shandy’ which was made up of mainly lemonade with a head of beer and said try this and as there was so much sugar in the lemonade I couldn’t taste the bitterness of the beer. My body was not at all in favour of this arrangement but my mind overrode this by reasoning that it got the group off my back because I wasn’t drinking alcohol; by drinking the Shandy they were all mollified to an extent, I was still considered a ‘pansy’ but the ribbing was less. Now my body had to deal with the sugar and the alcohol and I would get so racy with the nervous tension in my body that was a result of so much sugar in my blood while I was waiting for my turn to play darts I would rip up the beer mats into tiny shreds. This was all so that I could fit into the group; my mind completely overrode what my body was feeling and telling me and this is just one example of how my mind did not consider the rest of my body.
Strong and powerful writing Sally. Your bullet points make it very clear about the shocking choices we choose continually when not honouring the whole body intelligence that is innate within us. We remain disconnected to this whilst the mind is the supreme ruler, leading us far away from this inner wisdom we all have.
“Have some of the choices that we make in life become so ‘normal’ – because we see people making these choices every day – that we don’t stop to think about the consequences on our whole body?”
Whole body Intelligence can only come from the way we live our lives.
And the way that we live our lives is dictated by whether we live from the intelligence of the mind or the intelligence of the whole body.
Whole body intelligence.. a choice to align to our bodies’ natural rhythms that are naturally in sync with the universe, or to fight, suppress or ignore this natural and innate wisdom.
Whole Body Intelligence introduces an understanding of the Ageless Wisdom that humanity is a part of the Whole that is the Universe and we all have an energetic responsibility to live in harmony with the whole body of the All.
Beautifully said Mary, for the whole body that we live in is far, far greater than the physical body, but the door to it is through our whole physical body and not one part (the mind) in isolation to the rest. Thus it is always about the whole and never a part. A whole that is constantly expanding.
You have made it very simple and clear to acknowledge we have chosen the wrong direction by following our mind without being in connection with our body or even considering we have a body to take care for. ‘Talking and walking heads’ we seem to be, nothing more when we don’t come from our bodies and the wisdom that lives within.
Superb article Sally that fully exposes the short sighted and indulgent choices we make when making decisions from our heads. Serge Benhayon has restored to us the option of living in accordance with our Whole Body Intelligence through his living example, a way we know and instantly recognise because it resides within us all.
Injecting drugs has become so normal to some, people can function (to a greater or lesser degree) and continue to inject substances until the point that they either choose to stop or they overdose and take too much. How on earth has this become even remotely normal?
‘We choose to drive while tired, pushing on rather than stopping and resting. Often this can have dire consequences as driving while tired has claimed the lives of many people. This places tension in the body and enormous strain on our vision.’ In the past I would drink coffee and eat sugar to override the tiredness and push on through which would ultimately leave me more exhausted at the end of the day. Now however, my relationship with tiredness and driving is needing to change as I no longer drink coffee and would not enjoy the sensation of a cup of coffee or pick myself up with sugar and so if I feel tired driving stopping and resting will be essential which means I will need to allow longer to get to my destination so that I am not concerned about the time for my journey. Thinking ahead, being prepared and planning are things in the past that I would never do, now I love them as they support me to stay with my body and to be honest that feels so lovely that why would I not?
Thanks, Sally. Your presentation on whole body intelligence makes sense on so many levels, and makes one wonder how we could possibly live any other way.
When put so plainly Sally it’s not hard to see that the so called intelligence that most of us live by is not very intelligent. Putting the body and all its mechanics at risk at the whim of one of its parts doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Yes Kevin, the intelligence that makes all those unloving and often illogical choices ought to come with a disclaimer… ‘DANGER! Decisions made from here are a risk to the health and safety of you and your loved ones!’
It’s an eye-opening reality that so many of us know full well what duress and assault we place on our bodies but go about with what we choose to do (which bashes our bodies as a result), regardless. That’s the depth of this lack of intelligence, of a species that is very very clear on what it is actually choosing: to disregard the body continuously so that it keeps itself perennially separated from itself.
“Serge Benhayon presents on ‘Whole Body Intelligence’ as something that we can all be connecting to and living from. This form of intelligence honours, loves and supports us and our body in a way that is beyond that which most are currently living. Whole Body Intelligence is everything working together so that every part of the body is harmony and love.”
This form of living is far from what most people live and I haven’t lived for many years. To live like this is like decluttering a whole house so that ideals and beliefs are more and more exposed. This form of living gives me freedom and harmony, even if I am not perfect and still in the process of decluttering.
The mind is very limited and limiting when it comes to accounting for the whole body, our being and true welfare; the mind basically acts like its own agent and pushes on, regardless. And this is all epitomised in the expression “mind over matter”.
Awesome blog Sally. ‘Do we think that having a great memory, like being able to recall many things, is what makes us more intelligent than someone else?’ I used to think this form of intelligence was it but now I realise it is simply just an ability to recall information. I agree Sally, the greater form of intelligence is our whole body intelligence. This is accessible to all but not everyone is utilising it.
The most unintelligent choice made by the mind is to convince ourselves that everything you mentioned Sally is normal, when it is not.
I agree Adele. We either convince ourselves its ok because we look around and see others doing it, or we calculate that the compromise is worth it. For instance to fit in and belong to a group, we decide the expected behaviours are worth it in the short term for the longer term pay off.
Agreed Adele and when we reconnect to our bodily sensitivity, this normal becomes so far from who we truly are.
Brilliant blog Sally! The examples that you give of the disregarding actions that many of us inflict on our precious bodies is so confronting and it is great that it is. Maybe having the lack of intelligence of these actions being spelt out so clearly will allow people a moment’s pause so they can ask themselves the question – if I am living my life thinking that I am intelligent but at the same time I am harming my body in so many ways – “where does this intelligence come from?”
Super post Sally, agree, in true connection via awareness through understanding the body and oneself, there is no gap in which ill can enter to disrupt and do all those things to de-harmonise that you gave as examples [and much more too].