Thanks to the support of Universal Medicine, the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon and the various esoteric modalities, I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way. Hooray!
This was clearly demonstrated to me on a morning walk today.
Before setting foot out the door I had felt the direction I wanted to walk, which was great. I chose to carry a water bottle and not complain to myself that the water bottle was going to ‘get in the way’ or ‘be a burden on my walk’ as I knew I would need to hydrate. I did also get a little caught up planning the walk – where I would go, which nice areas I wanted to visit again from my walk the evening before, how far I would travel… etc!!
As I started to walk, I could feel a drive and distraction in trying to plan steps ahead of where I was… then I simply chose to come back to me. The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound. I stopped to pause and stretch while walking up a large number of stairs and felt no need to rush. My chest felt open and warm and I was able to see more of what was around me than if I was stuck in my mind, focussed on where I was getting to.
When I reached the street where my plan had been to go left, it clearly did not feel right – everything in my body felt to turn the other way down a ‘no through’ road. I at first denied this, but as I started to walk my body felt restricted, without the openness and warmth I had felt moments before. So I turned around and trusted my feelings. Where I had previously hesitated because, “What if the road goes nowhere and I just have to turn around and come back again?,” I chose to make the walk about the quality of my movement and that this was already enough without needing where I was walking to satisfy me.
The street I walked down was not anything I could have imagined or planned. It took me past a beauty-full vibrant and colourful bed of flowers, and at the end of the street, to a small patch of remnant vegetation by the river with a walking track and undercover seating. A tranquil haven all within ten minutes from my home, which if I had not honoured what I felt, I would never have known was there!
So often I have sought to prepare myself, to plan ahead while dismissing to care for and listen to myself, and what my body needs right in that moment. What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.
With much gratitude to the various esoteric modalities for sharing the simplicity of being with and caring for our bodies in movement and daily activity! Thank you!
By Susan Hayes, Wendouree, Australia
Further Reading:
Learning to trust again
What Does My Body Know?
The Body speaks Loudly, but am I Listening?
Thank you Susan as feeling our movements through our feet sets us up to be also using our will to align to God and thus feel the loving impulse that can now be found through our feet from heaven.
A clear and very tangible signal (feeling of restriction) of what happens when we don’t listen and honour our body. I am still very much learning this one! ‘When I reached the street where my plan had been to go left, it clearly did not feel right – everything in my body felt to turn the other way down a ‘no through’ road. I at first denied this, but as I started to walk my body felt restricted, without the openness and warmth I had felt moments before. So I turned around and trusted my feelings.’
How profound is it to walk and feel our bodies with the freedom of movement, and as you have shared Susan, when something does not feel true our bodies let us know we need to shift into another place, and by simply nominating it always alleviates whatever needs to be shifted.
Listening to our bodies, we can feel if something does not feel true, and from there we can then choose to honour the body.
“I chose to make the walk about the quality of my movement and that this was already enough without needing where I was walking to satisfy me.’ This is really great advice for all of life, that everything we truly need comes down to the quality of energy we are connected to within ourselves, and not what is or is not going on around us.
I am starting to do this more in feeling how my spine is feeling when I walk, rather than what are the thoughts I am having.
So key in all of life, the quality of our movements.
I can so relate to this
“Thanks to the support of Universal Medicine, the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon and the various esoteric modalities, I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way. Hooray!”
Letting go of the need to be in control is very freeing in so many ways as it is actually very exhausting and the need to be right all the time is very trying for other people to cope with. There is a flow to life, I have felt it a few times and when I experienced it the day was magical.
Absoulutely Mary as we let go, not only of the control but as we develop our understanding that we do not have to think about things as Susan has shared as we already understand much through our alignment and subsequent movement back to God and the divine plan.
Controlling life can be very draining, and who are we to control life anyway, I am learning to surrender, surrender to God’s plan, ‘Letting go of the need to be in control is very freeing in so many ways as it is actually very exhausting’.
The world has so much waiting for us. When we choose to be open and trust we get to experience this.
It is taking time to discard the layers of imposition I have lived with in life that has continually told me that ‘it’ knows best. Today I am listening and trusting more in what my body tells me, and like you have shared here Susan, there are so many precious moments being experienced.
Yes, I too am staying with my body more, and choosing to listen to its wisdom.
Trusting what we feel is the greatest tool to live life with. It’s the deepest of handicaps when, as kids, we are told that what is felt is not real… we then deny what we feel and override from the head.
I stopped listening to myself in my teens, you could say I gave up on myself. So meeting Serge Benhayon later in my life was to me a blessing. Through the teaching and workshops I have attended I have gradually brought myself back to fully participate in society. There are no words to express my deep appreciation of the Benhayon family, they have solidly supported me to re-engage with life something that years of psychotherapy was unable to do.
Serge Benhayon and his family have supported many people to be able to fully engage in life, to once again love and value themselves.
It takes us out of our comfort when we trust what is there to feel.
And when I have done that, which I am learning to trust more and more, I consistently deepen my confirmation in myself and my connection to the All.
When we commit to walking, talking and moving with a focus on quality, our grace can be felt, appreciated and expanded upon all the more.
Bringing quality of movement to all we do has profound benefits.
Each moment is an opportunity to reconnect to that which we already have inside us. The simplicity of the communication from our bodies brought into movement.
Like you Susan, when I choose “to make the walk about the quality of my movement”, everything changes. I feel totally present in my body, I can feel my feet connecting with the ground, my movements flow so easily and I am open to feeling what comes next, not thinking what should. Walks like these are becoming more common for me, but how amazing if every walk was in this exquisite quality: definitely a very worth-while work in progress.
I so love this – when we just let the body take the lead, and we allow ourselves to be surprised by how it so simply, immediately, joy-fully and with ease knows the harmony.
Allow our body to take the lead, and see what happens.
This was good to read again, trusting what you feel is something we need to learn to accept as our bodies know what’s right and what’s not.
I have much to develop in this and when I do trust from time to time, it’s amazing what is there. Over riding is probably disregarding this. I feel with consistency of trusting, more is offered to us, if we just allow it.
Trusting what you feel, is something many of us are learning to accept and honour.
To let go of a ‘plan’ or ‘picture’ of what we think we need or want to do, allows so much space for what is there to be done to literally unfold before us. Choosing the direction in which we are walking is such a great example of this, and offers us a wonderful reflection of how we can do this in our lives.
I had not appreciated the level of control we take as our normal till I started experiencing the esoteric modalities. Their simplicity highlighted the tension and control I held in my body and I could see how so much of the control was from fear of not being able to determine what was coming and wanting to be prepared for every and any eventuality. In fact, the tension shut down any awareness I might have had and therefore left me more vulnerable. Worth considering as a personal experiment, even if it on a 10 minute walk.
It is well worth looking at the levels of control we have in our lives, ‘What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.’
By planning, controling and thinking in the future we lost the present and the clarity to know what’s the next step to take. Awesome revelation. Thank you Susan
I agree Inma, we definitely ‘lose the present’ when we live in the future – or the past – and these are the times we, more often than not, will trip, fall, drop something, burn ourselves; the list is endless. Staying with ourselves all the time can be very challenging, but oh what a difference it makes to our lives when we do.
We should have sessions/lessons from birth in confirming us to trust what we feel within as I feel this shapes how we are with ourselves, with others, our choices, what we accept and do not accept from a young age through to our teens and adult life. It is really important.
Confirming and honouring what we feel from our bodies is important for all of us, ‘often I have sought to prepare myself, to plan ahead while dismissing to care for and listen to myself, and what my body needs right in that moment.’
As a child you never doubt what you feel or question if it’s right. You just know you feel upset, playful, tired or needing to quietly focus on your play. This is part of what Universal Medicine has supported so many people like me to rediscover. My body thanks me everytime I live in response to what it’s feeling rather than being ruled by external factors.
I had to read this blog again as something happened for me yesterday and I remembered going into reaction of anger towards a person. When I sat and pondered on the whole thing, I realised that I had a feeling, which I dismissed and the consequence of not trusting this feeling, led me to the anger. The anger wasn’t about the other person (which is commonly done by me), but the fact that the anger was towards me for ignoring the feeling in the first place.
What a great example Shushila of what can happen if we ignore or override a feeling from our body.
It is so simple to honour your inner feelings. Plus life is really so simple, there are naturally no issues or created struggles. Our only issue is how simple it is and the fact that we cannot own it or control it, as it does not come from us
It is simple to honour our inner feelings, yet during our upbringing we learn to override these feelings.
I’m also finding when I trust and I act on this impulse, more is given.
Trust is a biggie for me and I can understand over-riding the signals of the body. I have done this many a times and then left wondering if I had gone the other way what would have happened. When you trust and follow there is no wondering of, ‘what if’?
It wasn’t until some years of knowing Serge Benhayon attending the presentations and workshops that I came to an understanding that I did not trust myself but had relied on other people to guide me through life.
I took on other people’s ideas and beliefs and made them into mine and turned my self-inside out trying to get them to fit me. They never did, they never could because what I have discovered is that there is a me which is completely different, I had been trying to fit a square peg into a round hole as the saying goes and denying who I am. Thankfully meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has put a stop to all that as I claim myself back and to trust deeply what I know to be true.
What a lovely example of trusting our inner compass and listening to it’s lead. So many magical moments are left undiscovered when we do life on autopilot.
It’s the beauty of surrendering and trusting love to move you.
When we are willing to receive that which is ‘unknown’ to us and stop controlling the outcome, once we make it about the quality of our movements, we cannot but be open to receive what is planned for us.
Bringing attention to the quality and being present in our body are two of the keys to letting go of control, because the body becomes aware of the poison of the tension.
Living in connection to our body is profound, for if we don’t we end up living from our heads and in disconnection from how we truly feel.
Our movements expand our true expression and the way we walk is re-configuring our body, so is it any wonder Universal Medicine is now sharing walking therapies.
Controlling our every move restricts our experience of the world and ability to respond accordingly. It is a limiting and limited way to be in the world, that might feel safe for a while, but ultimately offers no safety or protection, but is capping and stifling – and offers no room for learning, growth and evolution.
What a great example and rendition of what life can offer when we take the extra time to stop and honour what we feel — what I find invigorating after that is confirming what I honoured to feel.
Life changes completely when we choose to live from what we feel.
So life becomes more full, joyful and enlivening as we live in and with our body.
We may not ever truly know what is before us though we do know the quality we can choose to move in and through life with.
So true Victoria, and what I am learning is that my inner quality remains untouched by anything going on around me, but it’s up to me to remain connected to it and not be drawn out into what’s going on around me.
Only by trusting what we feel, we can truly feel what is that we trust and appreciate it in full.
It’s so interesting that your body felt open and warm when you felt your way and stayed present, and how it felt restricted when you didn’t honour what you felt. I wonder how many bodies are in tightness, tension, and even aches and pains from not trusting what we feel?
In my experience, if there is any resistance to how and what we feel and what this calls us to address in our lives it causes unease and tension in the body. Our bodies are our true markers 🙂
One of the most beautiful things about trusting what we feel and following that impulse, is the simplicity that flows from that. There is such divine and natural synchronicity, where no effort is involved, from allowing ourselves to trust these feelings.
I think this is a big one for everyone and something I am still definitely learning and that is to honour the body and respond to this with love rather than override, ignore or resist! … Which is very tiring!
When we’re so busy in our minds focused on the next thing and perpetually living in the future, we miss out on the simple joy of just feeling connected to our bodies..the sense of stillness, solidity of knowing who we are, that is always there for us to connect to, underneath our self created whirlwinds of busyness.
When we focus on the quality of our movements we then are guided by a quality, a universal intelligence, our Soul, that knows how we are to move, to position ourselves to receive all that is on offer for us to be all that we are, as such reflecting that light of God through how we live.
It is all about function when we plan ahead and dismiss to care and listen to what the body is telling us, this makes the quality second and the only thing that truly supports us is quality first.
There certainly is far more spaciousness created in our bodies and around us when we focus on the quality of our movements rather than being squeezed into time, with the drive required to meet or be attached by any end point or outcome.
Re-learning to trust what your body is telling you is a wonderful experience and way to live. It brings back the innocence and magic of being a child but also allows me to feel the deep wisdom that is always there for me to access. My body knows things I could never know and I love what happens when I am guided by it.
Yes and anxiety comes in when we stop trusting that our body has all the resources it needs to know what our next steps need to be. It is in the relationship with our body that we find the key to so much healing.
There is nothing more lovely than truly and fully being with ourselves in each moment. Life becomes so simple and there is zero trying.
Sometimes we are impulsed to do something which makes no sense what so ever, only to find out that we felt the impulse to prepare ourselves for something which is coming our way, prepare us in a way that our conscious mind will never be able design.
A very wise comment Viktoria. The mind cannot match the intelligence of our heart and the divine source that intelligence comes from.
I have had similar experiences where I have trusted where I felt to go and got marvellously lost but ended up seeing pure magic unfold, so why is it that I slip back into not trusting always what I feel. Is it because everything is a movement and the little voice inside my head casting that shadow of a doubt on what I feel is only there because the wrong moves have been made?
I agree with what you say here Susan,
“What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.”
I know this to be true because I have felt this for myself, but I also get caught up in wanting to control what is going on in my life and then of course life feels flat, the need to be an individual is very strong.
At the supermarket the other day I looked at something and my body tensed up, it didn’t want that food. I put it in my trolley anyway and as I walked around I became more and more distressed and disturbed, It wasn’t a mental criticism over my food choice, but a very clear disturbance in my body. Never before have I felt this sort of message so strongly and shows me how sensitive I am.
I had a similar experience at the supermarket the other day, and then had to somehow ‘justify’ my purchase rather than simply coming back to the body and feeling. I can relate to the body disturbance you describe.
A great example how everything is registered in the body. I find it Interesting to note what was fed to the mind before the choice came to put the food into the trolley…
Yes Victoria, I agree, we often don’t question this and go back to where our ‘choice’ came from but it is only when we are willing to see how we are motivated that true change can occur.
So true Leigh, even the thought of certain foods before I get to the supermarket makes my body feel racy.
Shows how our body is our best friend and will always support us in going forward.
yes, as long as we are willing to listen, this is a very great collaboration.
When we make our movements about quality, just walking ceases to be just that. It is an intimate moment of quality building where we get to enjoy us and our beauty.
Yes, and this is our universal medicine for we all receive the benefits when one moves in a quality that reflects the truth of us.
“Trusting what I feel” has been challenging for me at times because for so long I just didn’t. But coming to know that I have an inner sense that when connected to confirms what is true and what isn’t, has brought an expansion to my life I didn’t think was possible. The crazy thing is that I was born with this sixth sense, it had never gone away, I had simply shut down my connection to it and in doing so made life a lot harder to live.
‘I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way. Hooray!’ Something clearly to be celebrated. Also a great example of when we trust what we feel and and make it about quality and not what we ‘think’ things should be, more is revealed to us than we would never have ‘thought’ or imagined. A reminder to bring it back to the wisdom in the body.
This is very true for life, if we focus on where we need to be, what needs to be done and getting those things done we miss out on the joy of being with ourselves.
This blog beautifully sums up life, where we can choose to walk a quality that is indeed true, or walk a quality driven by our pictures and ideals of how we think life should be, in order to be safe and secure.
I find I can always go deeper with trusting what I feel, what I can learn from it, about myself and how I am in life, with others and what I sense about the world.. and the evolution that comes from this.
Thank you Susan for a simply beautiful blog, when we choose to let the body do the leading instead of our plans, magic happens.
‘So often I have sought to prepare myself, to plan ahead while dismissing to care for and listen to myself, and what my body needs right in that moment.’ This is huge. It is me connecting with myself and knowing I am enough – or connecting with someone who is walking the path I know is true and being inspired to trust by their example. Too often I do not want to be present, I am scared in some way, and ‘live’ thinking ahead of where I am at rather than being present and responding to life. This trusting others who are living what is possible, their quality in how they live is what supports me in times of wobbles when I have not yet built that trust within myself.
This is really magical to read. I love the level of attention you gave yourself to feel what your body was communicating. I am inspired to pay greater attention and get much more familiar with what is there to know that I have been so used to discounting.
Susan a wonderful account of trusting what you felt on your walk that turned out to be such beauty … the more i trust my own felt impulses or messaging the more trusting i am to people too. Trust opens the door to a whole lot more than a closed door ; )
Amazing things happen when I trust what I feel. Yesterday morning I went about my morning without planning ahead, I just followed what I felt to do next, not in a rush or drive to get things done, just enjoying my morning. And then, I bumped into someone I know who I met only just a few hours ago at a meeting. It was a beautiful connection and confirmation of how amazing things happen when I trust what I feel.
“What if the road goes nowhere and I just have to turn around and come back again?,”
” What if ” is such a controlling influence on ones life. One will eventually full fill the outcome of their life and “what if” is not part of it.
It takes quite a bit of practice to trust what one feels. The feeling is there loud and clear, but sometimes even louder is a voice, either from yourself or someone else that overrides it. How many times do we say – ‘I knew that! why didn’t I go that way?’
Walking as presented by Serge Benhayon is such a pleasure that and it will nurture the body, that it should be a lesson in a schools program.
Agree Greg, what Serge Benhayon offers us through the walking therapies is powerful and deeply healing, to learn this at a young age would be a beautiful addition to the school program.
Imagine instead all those tedious games and these days gaming programs – we simply walked with our fellow students and expressed about what was true for us! Our classrooms would be out of this world with the sharing’s and true relationships that would be built. At the moment children are herded around like sheep lined up from head to tail with one teacher at each end.
How power-full would a school’s walking and expression program be, as everything is movement, energy and expressions, which can all come from the same Loving vibration when we are being Lovingly held, so we can re-connect to our essences.
‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.’ I read this line and truly felt the depth of stillness it offered. I often plan the future and letting go of that where I can and being simply with the next step feels very different in my body. Thank you for the reminder to be with me and allow that connection to discern what the direction might be.
Even though I have started trusting what I feel more, I was still having to rationalise what I was feeling to make sure what I was feeling was true, so I suppose not trusting it at all really. But a couple of times recently I have gone with my feelings without the rationalisation as nothing made sense but it all worked out anyway so our bodies do know even if the mind doesn’t keep up.
” What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me ”
This is important for when you are being you, you are expanding and therefore one needs to constantly adjust to that expansion , so the want to control the outcome has a confining effect.
Not feeling life to be a certain way or having pictures and ideas about how life should look, for me is like going back to childhood. Where we would get up in the morning and not care what the day would bring, just being open to whatever presented itself was enough. And I when I first went to work, I met a person who said that they had a five year plan and knew exactly how their life would be, it was all mapped out. And what was my plan? I had no such plan, I just lived life from day to day. I still paid my bills etc., but life at that time just unfolded and I was quite content. To me there is something deeply satisfying, there was a feeling a settlement in the body that surpasses any need for anything else.
This reminded me of a similar blog I have read in that when we walk we can get carried away and not be present with our body and where we are at http://bit.ly/2DYvNKp. Also really ideally we should never loose what we truly deeply feel but currently the on the whole the world does not reflect and support us to do this. I guess this is a lesson in pictures as well… not to have them or live our life by them … even going for a simple walk if we are open, as you discovered, we are given so much more ✨
To trust what we feel opens the most divine door into a whole new realm of honesty, truth and love – all the things we have ever wanted but didn’t know how to name or thought it was something else.
“When I reached the street where my plan had been to go left, it clearly did not feel right – everything in my body felt to turn the other way down a ‘no through’ road.”- The Soul does not follow any set path of logic, belief, or model of what is the best option for us, but simply knows how to support us in full when we allow our body to align with it and trust it no matter what.
I love what you have expanded on here Michael: ‘The Soul does not follow any set path of logic, belief, or model of what is the best option for us, but simply knows how to support us in full when we allow our body to align with it and trust it no matter what.’ True surrender.
And sometimes, my body responds faster than my mind can think in a way that is extremely supportive, it is amazing how our Soul works.
This is a great example of what can happen when we listen to our bodies. Thank you for sharing.
Yes it is a great example Julie and I would like to share another example of how our body communicates to us very loudly. Yesterday morning I was in a meeting, as I was walking around the room to take a seat, I felt my mind was telling me to go and sit on the right side of the table but my body was pulling me to sit on the left side of the table. Before I knew it, I was sitting on the side my body was calling me to and it felt like my body was like a magnet, it was being pulled to sit at the spot it was divinely constellated to. The person I sat next to I met them for the first time and then a few hours later I met them again unplanned somewhere else in a completely different setting. This example to me is a moment of magic because I listened to my body and not my head.
The more we allow our body to take the lead, the more confident we become in appreciating that there is an inner wisdom that we can depend on.
And the more present and connected we feel not only to ourselves, but all others too.
I am continually being shown how not following what I truly feel leads me on a wild goose chase, bringing in complication and tiring to boot. The quality of how I choose to live allows me the knowing of how I truly feel so deeply caring and loving myself and appreciating all that I am offered is power to the course, so to speak.
Caring for our bodies is the most loving thing to do, and guess what love always feeds us back, so it will always return to us. The more love we bring into our body, the more truth we are able to walk and share with others. This is what I am starting to explore now by the absolute support of Universal Medicine, a business that truly cares about people and stands for truth and love endlessly. I am in deep appreciation of those who set this extremely profound business forth.
I can relate to making plans and preparing myself for the day/event ahead of me but sometimes thats not what my body needs or wants in that moment. And because it’s not true for my body those plans won’t go accordingly. But if my plans don’t go as expected were they true to my body in the first place? Something to take note of for my own self observation.
When we bring ourselves fully to the moment then we are preparing for the future.
‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.’ This is a great reminder of the simplicity of moving with our bodies and not from our heads and how powerful that simple choice is.
Thank you Fiona
When we speak from a lived experience of something felt we are able to speak with authority.
I used to use “plans” as a protection, I thought that if I had a plan, then everyone would know what I was doing and in this knowing, things would be safer. I am learning that plans do not always work out the way we might hope and now I have children, I have discovered that a plan can sometimes be more damaging than just seeing what unfolds. For if children think something is going to happen and then it doesn’t happen, they can get really disappointed. Just seeing what happens rather than planning it out, can be a very healing exercise when we are blessed with a day off work or space to do so. Your walk is the perfect example of what it feels like to let go, what occurs after that can only be described as magic.
As my awareness grows and deepens my body guides me and everyday learn from it whether I listen to what i feel and be guided by it or override it. I get to feel and understand more the subtleties at play and of myself and also great joy.
Awesome to hear how much more you are listening to yourself and your body .. this is something which I need to do a bit more!
Actually what you have so openly shared has been huge for me
“Thanks to the support of Universal Medicine, the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon and the various esoteric modalities, I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way. Hooray!”
Getting me out of the way has been a trial to say the least as I have been so caught up in the identification of me. And this still happens letting go of self-identification is the hardest drug to give up. Some days I’m okay and some days I’m not it all depends on how hard I am being on myself. But at least thanks to the support of Universal Medicine, the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon and the various esoteric modalities, I have at least the awareness that I have a self-identification problem coupled with wanting control over how life should be. Actually that’s pretty demanding and arrogant of me. It’s no wonder God’s not playing ball with me because I want to play the wrong kind of game. God is not into individualisation he includes everyone in his games no one is left out. So I have a choice play on my own or join in the fun and be with God and his plan for earth.
I went on a walk the other day as I felt to feel into what I needed to look at about myself that begged addressing. I also felt strongly to take a turn I didn’t usually take and found myself was in a dead end street. I walked back and looked at street sign and found it to be Daydream close . . . I laughed as this was the answer to my question.
How brilliant Kathleen – I love the way hierarchy communicates through the most cheeky and funny ways to us here. I have been often so glad that I do not live in Paradise Circuit – a street I have sometimes passed on a walk when staying with a friend. It feels like the ultimate dead-end trap.
I was just talking about this very subject with my cousin on the phone yesterday and we were talking about the time we were travelling together and stopped in a town to stay the night. From the very start I had a bad feeling about the place and it just got stronger and I had to express to him that I thought we should move on to the next town because I thought something would happen to us in this town. I’ll never know if something would have actually happened and usually I would have just overridden such a feeling but this one was too hard to ignore and my cousin agreed and didn’t protest even though it was getting late and we had nowhere to stay.
What a great moment of appreciation, which all came as a result of honouring yourself and what you were feeling. We are so very much taken care of when we listen to our bodies, like getting the reminder to take a water bottle – it is something we can easily take for granted so to stop to appreciate it is awesome and a great reminder for me.
Our appreciation of our gracious beauty within every movement is key. Thank you Susan Hayes.
I wonder how much ‘magic’ we have missed out on over the course of our lives by choosing to be guided by our minds and not by the wisdom of our body. I for one know that I have missed out on heaps but thankfully these days my mind takes a back seat – well most of the time – to what I now know to be my inner wisdom and as a result the magic is always there waiting for me.
I love the clarity and ease in how things develop when I listen to my body, there is a knowing that cannot be denied, it’s guidance spot on. But when my head takes over and I listen to it, things seems go all over the place and I loose touch with my body and it’s knowing.
Reading this, I really get the sense that our body is to carry and move the quality within, and the purpose is in maintaining and moving with that quality. Executing the movement just for the sake of it has no purpose and does not serve. Thank you, Susan.
“What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me” controlling the outcome is some how playing safe, which cuts us off from our bodies leading the way.
The best of life is there waiting to be touched by our fingertips. We only have to say let’s go.
Trusting what we we feel is simple, and an absolute way to success, the key is in not confusing feelings with ‘being right’ because if we feel we are ‘right’ than this is likely coming from a form of self security, and not the openness which is God, our Soul and the Universe within our bodies.
There have been many times in my life where I have not trusted what I have felt and it has been easy to see afterwards that I should have, but having 100% trust in oneself and what we feel does take trust and surrender and without this absoluteness it is easy to get sent down the wrong path by the mind.
To connect to the way your body felt when you walked in a certain direction compared to another is a beautiful thing but to allow this feeling to lead, rather than your “rational mind” taking over, is actually really cool. It may be simple and some might think, what’s the big deal, so you discovered somewhere beautiful to walk? But that is beside the point, the point is reminding the body to get use to leading the way and you are not only doing this but reflecting this back to us all by sharing your experience publicly.
Susan, I can relate to this feeling; ‘As I started to walk, I could feel a drive and distraction in trying to plan steps ahead of where I was… then I simply chose to come back to me’, I had an experience recently where I realised that I was often walking to get somewhere and that I would be focussed on where I was going rather than with me and so I bought the focus back to me and to my every step, this felt very simple and beautiful and my walk had a very different quality to it.
When we try to plan ahead we can become ridged in our thoughts and less open to change and the impulses from our Soul.
I agree, I find when I try to plan ahead I get focussed on a certain picture or outcome and so am not open to other possibilities and so negate my Soul and arrogantly thinking I know better and so not allowing a flow with what is next.
We can also get caught up in pictures which never materialise and therefore always disappoint.
Thanks, Susan. I still find myself resorting to the mind rather than trusting what my body is telling me, but it is getting less and less, and when I do listen, my inner knowing is staggeringly spot on.
I am learning and appreciating how important, supportive and simple life is when I listen to what I feel.
Could it be possible we lose our-self when we reinterpret words from their True energetic meaning? As when we look up “rush” the Latin meaning of rush we get; “stir up, disturb; discharge/hurl (missile); flow rapidly/strong current; rush; “rush; urge/rouse/agitate; enrage/inflame; spur/impel; summon/assemble; cause; jump/leap (up/on/towards), rush/dash (at/against), assault; mount (male-female);” Understanding the true energetic meaning of words will give a deeper understanding of how we get imposed upon, the “old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.” Our expression is so powerful and we can all learn about language and the way words have an energetic Truth.
When we trust our knowing we can move and speak with authority like no other.
When we do begin to surrender and allow ourselves to be guided by the truth in our bodies, we realise there is a whole other way of being to discover, one that is impulsed by our Soul and supports us to move in connection to our divine essence.
I love the simplicity of your blog as it mirrors the simplicity of simply following our feelings and not let complication lead us of the path that is already laid out before us.
Allowing our body to lead the way , what fun that will be.
Allowing my body to lead the way is fun, joyful and easy. But I don’t do this all the time because I have been so used to letting my thoughts and mind lead the way, sometimes it feels easier to do what I am used to, but as a result this is not always fun.
Walking has always been one of the great ways for us to reconnect to our body when we can get rid of all the idle chatter that is going on most of the time.
I appreciate the moments to allow for planning and moments to simply go with flow and feel. They both have their place in life and in accepting both, it is a greater acceptance of myself.
It is very much thanks to the support of Universal Medicine that I have developed into a mature and confident person, who is not afraid to hold to what they know is the truth
” As I started to walk, I could feel a drive and distraction in trying to plan steps ahead of where I was ” Is it not amazing how forced we are to be one or more steps ahead of where our body is truly at? No wonder so many people feel out of step with themselves.
When we don’t trust what we feel, we expend so much energy on countering that with thoughts, and actions. Then often we can wonder why we are tired if we have ‘slept well the night before’. Doubting ourselves is such a drain on ourselves.
When we are thinking ahead of our selves we are missing the moment that may be the all that we are thinking ahead to.
To trust that inner impulse we feel requires a let go of the pattern of control.
Walking brings so much to us and allowing our body to feel the freedom of expressing when we walk should always be Fully-Appreciated.
Our minds will always want to be in control mode, whereas our bodies innately know the natural flow and harmony of the universe.
When we are mentally ahead of ourselves, planning our next move, we cannot possibly be present within ourselves in that moment.
It is very amazing to honor the body as is shared here. Just how much do we miss by not doing so is to vast to imagine. Sitting here tonight I am very aware of my body being under a tension, the instant desire is to do anything to avoid feeling this, but what I can sense is that my body in tension is even more in need of my full presence in it. The filling of every cell does not remove the tension, but it reveals the choice I have made to create it and this is by far more important.
Trusting we feel and acting on that impulse is very liberating as we start to realise and appreciate the beautiful flow that occurs when we do that, and how much more simple life becomes.
I can feel my body relax when I re-visit this blog, as it is a great reminder to let go of the need to control, plan and anticipate every eventuality, when really we have an inbuilt guide that never lets us down.
“…So often I have sought to prepare myself, to plan ahead while dismissing to care for and listen to myself, and what my body needs right in that moment…” This is a familiar behaviour pattern we can find ourselves caught in, we think we have to plan, organise, be efficient and then the element of ‘control’ enjoins. This pattern completely ‘leapfrogs’ over the important step of connecting with ourselves, becoming the ‘head ruling the heart’ and then we can miss out on so much more there is on offer.
We are so much more aware with our bodies than we think we are with our mind. To me that is the tension I often feel when I do make a choice form my reasoning mind while there is a deeper feeling in me to choose differently but what I preferred not to adhere to.
This reminds me to be more open to going where I feel to go when driving. There are certain routes I take to get from A to B and they are so well known that I tend to follow them as if on automatic. I remember times when I have allowed myself to go a different way and how spacious and liberating this felt. It opens me to new experiences and more appreciation.
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Sometimes it seems that there is just so much in the way of us simply allowing ourselves to feel what is true… And yet it is the way forward, it is the path we all must go on to restore trust and reconnection
A beautiful example of awareness of space Susan.
It’s always worth checking in with the body. It takes all the indecision out of the way. No more head chatter! Ask the body and you get a simple answer. So simple.
“…everything in my body felt to turn the other way down a ‘no through’ road. I at first denied this, but as I started to walk my body felt restricted…” Its clear to see from this example how there are two ways we are offered to make choices and decisions from… either from the head or from the body. Instinct and knowing from our body requires trust and surrender.
Surrendering to ‘not thinking’ and feeling the impulse is a beautiful way to go – one that goes right to the heart and does not dilly dally on an arduous path.
Learning to trust what we feel and acting on it, is such a liberating feeling from living in perpetual self-doubt and holding back.
It really is amazing, the confirmation and space given through the Universal Medicine courses that allow people to come to tune in more and more to their truth and begin to express it, and the truly remarkable transformations that take place as people step into the authroity that goes with that.
When we are “connected” it is our Soul sharing its wisdom, so then we can feel the True path in life as it unfolds as One-Life, which is our Livingness.
Wanting to control outcomes and knowing when we are going in life is based on a longing to be ‘ok’, secure, as a result of feeling an underlying unsettlement, a fear that can only be seemingly assuaged by knowing what’s happening. Control becomes our way. But when we start to live from our inner connection, we realise that the longing to know we are safe can only come from this connection within. It is then that we can let go of this needing to know and control – and living in this greater surrender allows the magic of life to unfold moment by moment every day.
I love what you have presented here Susan – the head can certainly want to do things one way but the body will respond best with a different rhythm – this is a great reminder for me today.
Yes, Henrietta, we can be so accustomed to using our minds to navigate our way through life that we think we know what is best when actually, as I keep discovering, our body might be communicating something completely different, that rings out clear and true once we start to listen.
It is so important to live life enjoying ourselves so we are not swayed by the changing nature of our environment and the world.
Hi Leike, I love what you have shared here as it is so true that we can be so affected by our environment if we let this happen. There is an art in observing things around us and not getting affected by this – having boundaries and holding our own rhythm, yet still being a part of the world.
I thought of your blog yesterday when I was in a shopping centre. I was heading one direction and my body felt to walk the opposite direction, so I stopped turned around and listened to my body. I then bumped into a gorgeous friend, we had the most amazing conversation and connection that felt deeply confirming and supportive. It felt like a magical moment for me and I am very appreciative of our connection and openness.
Love it Chan! I too love the magic in these moments!
The simplicity of life when allowing ourselves to truly feel and be with this in our bodies is very beautiful to experience and so different to the structured rigid ideals and pictures we so often live with allowing this to control the quality of how we move and the paths we take.
I love the playfulness of letting my body choose which way to turn on my morning walk, or what to wear, or what flavour tea to drink… opening up to my body’s guidance and feedback in this way means I hear much more of what it has to say throughout the day.
The fact is we sense everything before any interference therefore it is up to us whether to listen or not. I often surprise myself at how good I am at ignoring strong messages!
My mind can often have a different plan or idea than my body and what I have discovered is that if I let go of my plans and ideas and listen to the wisdom of my body in the moment, things turn out very differently.
Yes… and when we follow the messages of our body, things become even more simple than what our mind anticipated to us!
Why leave the opportunity to embrace what we know life naturally can be from honouring our inner feelings and senses till another day, when we can already activate and bring them into our day today?
It is in trusting ourselves that we find the true way.
When we get down to it trusting what we feel is the only thing we can truly trust
Learning to trust what I feel from the quality of my movements is gold and makes all the difference to life ” I chose to make the walk about the quality of my movement and that this was already enough without needing where I was walking to satisfy me.” Simplicity and love from our hearts very beautiful indeed.
It is beautiful when we just connect to what our body feels and with that allow what unfolds. There is always something beautiful appreciate in the next moment.
Trusting what we feel is having that relationship with our body, in its movements that confirm the quality and essence of yourself… Knowing what ‘this’ (you, your essence and quality) feels like offers that point of reference and therefore the ability to trust what is felt in correspondence to the body..
Reading this I remember being asked where the good walks were, as I had spoken about some lovely walks I’d found. I just got in my car and was open to where I felt to go, going down some country lanes to discover new places. I’d park and walk in directions I felt to. Some were roads were pretty but not long but others the magic kept unfolding. Wouldn’t be able to find them again or explain exactly where they were though!
The road our mind maps is arduous and long compared to the simple path our heart lays out for us.
I agree Liane whenever I listen to my heart and my body life becomes very simple, where as my mind always brings in complexity.
So True Liane, Our-Innner-heart knows, and may I add it is up to us to respond with the level of Love presented.
It’s such an ingrained habit to have to know where we are going – on a walk but also in life. What you have so beautifully demonstrated is that by staying in the moment with your body you were able to really follow your impulses to take you on your way. And it was enjoyable in the process with no anxiety. This is what we can do for ourselves in life without creating all the stress of needing to know where we are going.
‘Not needing things to be a certain’ way sounds minor but is absolutely life changing. So much of our relationship problems come from expectations as well as the resulting giving up, getting hurt and emotional reactions that happen when our expectations are not met.
I start a new job today and this is perfect to read this morning…….So often I have sought to prepare myself, to plan ahead while dismissing to care for and listen to myself, and what my body needs right in that moment. What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.
As I was doing that last night, I was tired and wanting to go to bed but I was in the last-minute dash of wanting to plan/control with a mixture of excitement/nerves etc… It certainly does rob me of the preciousness of simply being with me.
This is further evidence that the truest path isn’t always the ‘right’ path or the one that is familiar to us that we have walked down before.
So basically everything we’ve ever wanted, truly, is not that far away, it might just be around the corner as you discovered.
Love it Matts, we work so hard to find what we think we want and yet if we surrender and let go of the picture it could be right round the corner. It was always there but our thinking there was an adventure to be had or a hardship to experience stopped us noticing it.
Wanting life to be a certain way is a huge trap; because we maneuver and manipulate ourselves to get the picture we want and end up being a pretzel to life. We can chase after something we want or feel we need. May be succeed in getting what we want and then feeling that lack within ourselves because getting what we want is never enough. We see this played out with famous people and film stars they have everything money can buy but they are still not contented with their life. They know as we all do that there is no flow or harmony to life as there used to be when we were kids, we do remember a different way to be and it haunts us and will continue to do so until we start to make the changes to live in a more harmonious way with ourselves and others.
There have been endless occasions when I have felt something and ignored it and then later found it to be spot on. Learning to trust our feelings and to voice what we feel is confirming and a healthy thing to do, as we are no longer dismissing ourselves or saying we are wrong for what we have felt.
“The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound. ” I have found this too, I am back with my body and not on some wild goose chase of thoughts. The change is instant there is a lightness and flow to each foot step and each one feels confirming of the next, and trust is no longer something I think about it is an instant knowing of what will be next.
When we trust what our body is communicating to us, the next thing that follows is often very confirming and nourishing as it unfolds.
I am feeling a little tired tonight and I can feel my body is asking me to surrender, and in the surrender I can remain open to receive all the support that is there for me.
When we surrender our body and connect to the hierarchy we are not choosing our movements we are being moved by and with the universal flow.
I really enjoy everything when my focus is on how the movement feels, rather than preparing for something or getting a task crossed off. I feel for me at the moment accepting this choice of where my movements stem from (to do or to be), will help rather than give myself a hard time for not being in this joy when I move with me.
Yes indeed, Susan. When we try to control outcomes, we rob ourselves of the magic of going with the greater flow of everything that we are a part of.
Yes and having felt that flow, there is no comparison to the trying that is ever-present with control.
When we make life about control, we cut ourselves off from possibilities, from expansion, space and our innate knowing of what to do next, and what to do in any given situation.
A beautiful confirmation of the beautiful unfolding that happens when we honour our bodies.
It is like returning to how we were as a child, no plans no pictures of how thing should be, only just to be with that inner warmth and yummy feeling from deep within.
Yes, this concept of feeling has opened up a whole different aspect of life I had chose not to feel. It was very scary at first feeling all the feelings I had stored in my body, but now I am remembering a deeper level of trust in myself and the outside world that has allowed me let go of much of the tension in my body. Tension caused by not feeling what was really going on around me.
Thanks for sharing this, Ken. It is super important to be aware of the tension that we are holding when we are not wanting to feel everything, so we can open up to greater connection with ourselves and others, let go of any protection and be able to let love in.
Trusting what I do feel from an inner place has brought confirmation and also a level of self-confidence.. I know that when I’m not trusting, my confidence is lost from not feeling ‘it’, not feeling ‘connected’ or ‘a connection’. Get the presence and connection back to trust again.
We innately trust what we feel yet we choose to bring doubt into it. I know that I can have an amazingly strong feeling about something yet still manage to convince myself I may be wrong. Crazy when you consider that we have a body that receives everything it needs to on an energetic level.
‘I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way. Hooray!’ Yes, a celebration Susan! .Letting go of control and expectations frees everything up, for us and opens the doorway for true constellation.
I find walking to be very revealing of exactly where I am at in terms of how I am really feeling. When I start my walk I can really feel the momentums in my body of how I have been living since my last walk e.g. I often feel the drive and raciness you describe in this blog Susan when I start walking. Simply by choosing to move or walk in a different way and staying focussed on my body I have noticed I can actually change these patterns and momentums and by the end of even a 10 minute walk I feel very different!
I love this sharing on trusting oneself and I love learning to trust myself and my inner knowing for honouring what one feels is beautiful and flowing with my whole body. Where as not listening to my body brings a learning of why didn’t i as i knew that and it simply comes back to this learning for next time.
Surrendering to the body is such a natural movement. But there are certain areas this movement is less automatic, those areas are what I have bought into to live according to a different movement, one that was dominated by the mind. This is a way of conflict as there is really only one movement and one energy possible, so it is awesome to be aware of all these areas and in all situations in life, such as your story has inspired.
Reading your blog today Susan, made me realise once again that our body does know what is good for us or not and with that what is good for everybody. We have only forgotten about this fact when we choose to live in our minds instead, our mind that only thinks about itself but never about the body or all other people we live in constant connection with.
Yes I agree Nico our minds are very isolationist and reductionist where as our bodies are universal.
I love those moments when I let my body guide me; when I let my whole body be involved in decision making… the inspiration and revelations that always unfold are remarkable.
Sure Mathilda, I love these moments too as my body feels then so relaxed, vibrant, aware and steady which is in great contrast of feeling the anxiety in my body when I try to make decisions from my mind instead.
All the confirmation our mind ever needs is already in our body and being communicated to us we simply need to connect to what we areas you describe Nico. Thinking it through takes us further from the truth,
I love those moments too as I feel my whole being as part of something far greater then just me.
Our plans and ideas come, but it is up to the way we move and action ourselves that determines the outcomes – for we can never account for the details only watch them in their magic unfolding nature.
Trusting what one feels at times can appear being ‘dangerous’ due to the expected consequences, challenging one´s comfort, leaving one´s safety zone etc The moment I admit what I feel I am asked to honour and act upon it. The question then is how willing am I not to just feel but take responsibility for the truth I cannot deny any longer?
Finding our feet in life is a forever-unfolding journey that will lead us down the many twisted and turning paths in life. It is always up to us, to be at-least honest with what ever is at hand, so we can expand our awareness of what we are feeling.
‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.’ – This is such a great point, to lose ourselves in the future stops us from the most crucial thing, namely to stay present and connected with ourselves and our body no matter the activity at hand.
I have behaved in a similar way Susan, planning ahead all the time, but feeling that now, it feels like I was wishing my life away. always looking to the future rather than living and enjoying this present moment. Dropping the pictures and the outcomes has been a life changer, it looks much the same on the outside, but inside, I have an appreciation of every moment of life.
I can see that my overwhelm of what is to be done is an example of living in the future and not being present with what needs to be completed in this moment. If I focus on this moment I will be far more efficient and there will be less cause for overwhelm.
It is somehow absurd that we need to learn trusting what we feel as feeling was the first sense to know ourselves and to perceive the world as children.
Absurd is indeed the right word – it shows too what extent we have strayed away from our true selves and our innate qualities.
It is an interesting moment when we recognise the 2 different impulses being given from either our thoughts and concepts or from a genuine feeling. It is definitely a moment to reflect on how we know what is true or just an idea and where it comes from.
Relinquishing control has been one of the most life changing things I have ever chosen to do (an ongoing process too) – what happens on a daily basis when I let things unfold rather than try and keep to a script I have designed is really amazing. And there is a humbleness that comes with this that is very inspiring.
The title “trusting what I feel” alone is so very inviting. We learn to constantly react to the demands that life is but never are we allowed to simply be and follow our own inner voice.
I agree Susan, preparing ourselves is not what we thought it was, planning ahead needs to include the body, its preciousness and an honouring of its enormous sensitivity as it knows more than our mind on its own ever will.
And responds in every moment to what is going on, so supports us to be present rather than blindly adhering to a set schedule.
Deadlines usually bring pressure and tension, and its all about time, which constricts space.
Making no plans delivers the best outcome because we have no pictures or investments, but there is lots of space for everything we need to flow towards us effortlessly – therefore we can trust ourselves and all we are feeling to support us to stay in this grace flow.
Susan, what you are sharing here could apply to all of our lives and feels key to living a life where we are not ahead of ourselves, but instead being present with ourselves and enjoying each moment, ‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound’.
For me feeling that we have been distracted is a trick – we make a choice to avoid a situation and then label it a distraction to not take responsibility for the fact that we chose something else.
Interesting how we are never taught to feel per se yet we rely more on what feels familiar to us than we often realise. For most what the mind says is the most familiar and safe yet it is not always a feeling that is true for the whole of the body. A feeling from the body is very very different and not at first familiar as it can challenge our perceptions and ask us to be in flow with who we naturally are. Crazy as this sounds it is most familiar to ignore this impulse.
Susan, i live with 3 young children in the countryside, my youngest son is often spotting walking paths from the car window and asks if we can explore them……..So in the past month we have stopped the car in some awkward spots I might add and honoured my son’s pull towards these tracks. It has taken us to parts of our area we would never normally explore, we’ve walked under motorway bridges where homeless people live, we have found old rugby pitches where we have played on the stands for an hour, it has felt like an equal exploration for us all, rather than relying on myself (the parent) to initiate the route we take and most beautifully it confirms my son to follow what he feels.
Super cute and confirming adventuring. How cool for you all to explore down tracks that have previously been driven passed.
“Trusting what I feel” gives us the opportunity to be truly free.
I love the feeling of breaking patterns of behaviour that have been assumed to be the ‘right’ way of doing things and instead being open to feeling the new options in front of us.
The more I commit to live life with a level of presence that is consistent, knowing that every moment is just as important as the next allows me to naturally trust more deeply that which I feel in my body and express more from that connection rather than rely on the complications of the head.
Being a student of our own inner feelings offers much more to us than we could ever have imagined.
How gorgeous following the impulse of the body is Susan, and what can constellate from that is huge. Thank you for sharing.
How adventurous of a walk, inside and out.
There is such a joy to be felt in trusting what we feel and the often magical consequences of that, in contrast to not trusting what we feel, which so often leads to complications and stressful situations.
“Trusting What I Feel” – has been a challenge since for so long and for many years i dismissed (and had it dismissed by others too) what i felt..where (self) doubt became the constant, not trust. It was an awful, closed-off and encasing way to live.
Yes Zofia, I can so relate to what you are sharing here. I am gradually coming out of this imprisoning way of living and in that there is a feeling of spaciousness, of liberation and a connection to the power that lies within. Trusting what I feel and then expressing how I feel with no attachment to outcome is my new way of being.
Trusting my body and what I feel has become one of the great joys in my life. I love showing the planning and controlling aspect of me that so much more joy, magic and opportunity comes when I trust and follow my feelings.
It is one thing to feel, another to know and understand what I feel, a third to discern if the feelings are genuine or secondary i.e. in reaction to something and forth…. There is a lot to learn about feeling and feelings.
And that is the beauty about life, we are allowed, or more so, here to learn, and learn some more, always.
I was just pondering on this very thing Alex. I am learning that my feelings can be a convenient re-interpretation /re-action that I can run with or I can come back and discern where this is coming from and the types of thoughts it feeds. Discernment is absolutely key.
Great what you share Alex, there is alot to learn about feelings and discerning if the feelings are genuine.
It is the endless unfolding, opportunities to learn and deepen my understanding, that I now find very inspiring. For every revelation there is more and that keeps me in the awe and fascination with the universe.
I have been unpacking the word trust lately. As in the past I thought it was something I had to build with myself and others. My new understanding of this word is to simply move in connection, when my body is following my heart instead of being left behind by my mind, the matter of wether I trust myself or others is then irrelevant, and where to walk or what to choose next is a known and not even really a trust, that confidence is always there, whole and waiting, it does not need to be built up or worked on, just connected to.
It feels so lovely the days I allow myself to trust and all will flow. I used to get anxious about time keeping because I would often arrive late somewhere having fitted in just one more thing to do all the time. The contrast now is that I feel and focus on how I prepare gently for a meeting and then the time I need to take for the journey is allowed and I leave when I’m ready to. I may leave way early, and then I get in some traffic, or it may be that I leave later than I would have planned on my head, but when we allow for flow, it really does work.
“ I chose to make the walk about the quality of my movement and that this was already enough without needing where I was walking to satisfy me.” This is a brilliant understanding of the foundational presentations of Universal Medicine.
We are enough exactly as we are- it is simply a matter of enjoying deeply and lovingly being with ourselves and living the exquisite quality of this through our movements. When this is appreciated and allowed to radiate out we could be anywhere and we will still feel the beauty and magic of God in absolutely everything because we connect to the same divine essence in all as we appreciate in ourselves.
It is very easy to get stuck in the ‘mind’ and allow it to govern our life and yet when we listen to the body every choice nurtures, supports and confirms us. Thank you Susan for this small reminder to trust what we feel.
We lived in a society where from young, we are prepared and educated and rewarded to trust what we think, rather than including the body’s intelligence of feeling (clairsentience). The combination of heart and mind would no doubt develop Universal and Harmonious intelligence that would serve humanity well.
Is it possible one day we will all walk and find our inner-most sanctuary and then our bodies will be in the flow of living that, which is then always supportive of that connection.
Walking is so undervalued. Serge started talking about how we walk and since then I have been more aware of how I am in my body when I walk. It has been extraordinary to feel what changes in my body and how healing it is to be at one with the body when in movement – not from being told but from feeling it for myself. It should be our normal really!
I love what you have brought forth here Susan about ‘the simplicity of being’. By listening to your body you were led to the beauty of the river and the seat – to the haven which is a symbol. The body is our haven in life – the place where we are truly ‘safe’ because we are also following our inner heart which is the power-house for a true immune system.
When we question or override what we have felt then there is the consequences from those choices. This is critical as then is the foundation of what our future is going to present to us. Seeing it like this we realise that life just doesn’t come to us but every choice we make is laying our future.
“The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.”
When our thoughts are nothing to do with what we are engaged in, we have disconnected from the powerful awareness through our body and we are not consciously present in the moment, we are hugely compromised. The drain in our energy and the debilitating impact on our experience of life is greatly underestimated.
Susan its quite staggering how little I used to trust myself and what I felt, I was always wanting other people to tell me what is and is not true. In fact I would play the game of assessing other peoples opinions instead of claiming the truth of the opinion that I know. How different my life is today.
When in my mind it’s like zooming into a picture and only seeing a small part. Being in my body takes me back to be aware of more of the whole picture. And each time I come back to my body the more depth and the different parts of life I become aware of.
When we see how natural it is to care for our bodies, it is much easier to understand why and when we act differently.
When we are guided by our bodies and not our minds we know exactly what direction to move in.
Trusting what I feel and honouring this is the only true compass in life, for without this, we can get so easily lost in distractions and indulgences.
Yes, Susan, when we dismiss what we are feeling and override what our body is telling us it is a form of self-abuse. I am still learning that the hard way at times!
The lessons we are offered are so beautifully and clearly confirmed when we realising what the consequences of our choices are.
It is beautiful when we stop and connect to the knowing inside of us, rather than trying to control the outcome. I use to be so caught up in planning and rules and found out that would stress me out more. Now I allow my body to guide me and I know I would be given the messages as I connect to my innerself.
Walking has been one of my go-to-it’s when I need to come back to myself. Whenever I get too involved in some problem looking for a solution that I just can’t see, its time for a walk!
Walking and feeling our body as you have shared Steve, has the most power-full and clearing effect, so we end up with clarity for any “problem.” And may I add, our body never looks for “solutions” for our divine connection, has clarity in all we do.
How AMAZING that we have an inbuilt sat nav in our body to love and expansion! It is just going with this and not overriding it. I could really relate with what you have shared here and could feel how a lot of the time I am in my head rather than living from the impulse given by my body. However I feel there is something far bigger here in what was the impulse by for you take the turning to find the place of beauty that you did .. after all we are all just vessels for energy so was this impulsed by your Soul or the Hierarchy? This also highlights the responsibility of what energy are we adhering to and what energy are we open to … even when going for a simple walk as clearly you were to find that place.
What I have discovered with parenting is this, whenever I have my kids they ask me, “Where are we going today?” I always say, not sure yet, let’s just see how the day goes. Even if I have a plan, putting a plan into the minds of children, who are actually used to being present in each moment, does not support them. They always get disappointed but when we just stay with each thing and see what unfolds, we find we enjoy the day and each other.
That is a great parenting tip Sarah love it.
The walks when I feel most connected to and present with my body start before i have even put my shoes on. I can feel how the quality of presence I have in our flat leads to how I experience the walk. This mean that I can also read how I have been over the last 24 hours from the quality of the walk.
Michael I can relate to that connection. Our walks can reflect our movements prior, so it is a great opportunity to re-imprint if we are feeling out.
There is a multitude of reasons of why not to trust oneself that we have implemented as if they are belonging to us to such a degree that we may not even be aware of it. So we may face a lot of thoughts, doubts, insecurities etc on our way back to trusting what we naturally feel and know to be true. It is not feeling as such that needs to be learned as we never stop feeling, it is much more the undoing of everything that keeps us from being aware and honour what we feel.
Well said Alex, we never stopped feeling but we added so many layers and then considered them our normal that we forgot the naturalness of feeling! Heavens we are a bit confused aren’t we?!!!
Part of this I have found is also learning to trust when things seemingly go wrong – rather than getting worked up or frustrated, actually being able to remain calm and trust that it is working out this way for a reason and remaining open to what ever that is
So true Rebecca, as everything is an opportunity to evolve there is no real right or wrong, just a true learning, the more open we are the more we are leaning and unfolding to what we already know within.
I agree – getting caught into right and wrong and what should and shouldn’t be, can be a constant struggle and battle that is never won because we need truth to be our anchor.
We used to regularly go on planned excursions around the local countryside only to come back feeling exhausted after walking 10-12 miles, but we told ourselves that we enjoyed it and that it was good for us. But now looking back it was more like an endurance test and a bludgeoning of the body – so far removed from what has been described in this blog.
While preparation and planning can be a useful exercise, I find it so often doesn’t turn out the way I want or expect. So for me, it’s important to stay open to possible changes within the bigger plan.
I have often found myself drawn into a particular shop for no apparent reason and often said to myself ‘I don’t know why I am here’. Moments later the reason becomes clear – I have either found something I need or meet someone I need to meet. Trusting what I feel has become such an important part of my life.
In opposition to my previous comment if I ignore what I am feeling and don’t follow it it becomes obvious that it was foolish to ignore such a clear signal. Many oops moments there!
I can get into those internal tussles with myself. Leaning to trust what we feel is very empowering.
Boy, can I relate to this, Susan – “this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me”. I used to be so anxious that I tried to control everything, but thanks to the Universal Medicine modalities, I have been able to let go of so much hardness and protection in my body, opening up to feeling a stillness and steadiness within me which now guides and informs me all the time.
Trusting what I feel is a very beautiful and honouring of oneself and something to really appreciate as all we are and know from our body leading the way and not from our head and the outside distractions and complications. It brings simplicity and joy into our lives and becomes a loving way of living in connection when we choose this inner knowing guide.
Simple message thank you Susan. I find to distinguish the difference between the ‘thinking’ and the feeling from your body is to stop and just be honest.
Very amazing how we can get a sense of clarity and direction, simply by connecting to our feet touching the ground, and not thinking about the next moment but allowing those steps to be taken with our knowing of who we are.
I love those moments where there is something inside you telling you what is needed and then when you surrender and listen to this- it always shows in some way that this was what you needed to do.
Planning is something that can very much support us through life, however we an also use a plan to attempt to control life and what it brings. Which it cannot. This highlights that we can miss out on many ‘blooming’ opportunities that may literally be around the corner. The other amazing thing with this is that our body knows very naturally where it wants to go. Listening is the part we make complicated.
When walking it will “support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive,” then the joy in our body allows this way of walking to clear so much from the body because we feel the natural order of the universe in our connection.
We can trust what we feel because everything we need to evolve back to who we truly are, is ‘already there’.
That is the beauty, it’s all ready, there for us to reconnect too.The choice is ours to move in a way to reconnect.
What a beautiful confirmation to receive for trusting what you felt. Trusting what we feel is living the future whereas going over old grounds with pictures in our head is living the past.
Thank you Susan! I can see how easily we get taken off track by our minds and how our bodies offer up what we need to do but our minds hijack the bodies wisdom.
Whilst this story is about a physical walk, I feel like it is a metaphor for life. I wonder how many tranquil places are waiting for us to walk down that road that we often don’t open ourselves to?
Saying YES to the whole of what is on offer every day gives such an expanded feeling in my body and results in living and working in space and flow.
When we trust what we feel we will be asked to also express and stand up for the truth we have come to.
I have found on a number of walk I have been in a pattern of ‘getting it done’ and not appreciated the opportunity to be with my body as I walk. The difference when you do allow yourself to feel all of you and be full present when walking is just like gliding through water.
Connecting to our bodies every movement offers us great clarity and awareness for our behaviours and patterns. We have many moments throughout our day to discover the beauty of the body and how masterful our natural rhythm is and how that pulse connects us to the all. A gorgeous reflection offered here Susan thank you.
Beautiful. It’s often a battle between the rational, functional mind and the body that knows. The mind is right but often not magical.
Great thing about the body is that it doesn’t think – it just does what it does and knows. Why leave it to the mind to think things through when the body already knows..?
Beautiful Rachael great reminder the body does not think it just does what it does. It really is a waste of time to leave it to the mind to think things through as it does not know what the body already knows.
I recognise that mind’s tug for distraction, but it’s easily pulled back in line when we call it out and bring presence back to the body/task at hand.
Rosanna thats exactly it, we can be in a pattern of letting our mind run away with itself but through presence and commitment to be present our bodies share much more with us than I had imagined possible. There is far more wisdom outside the mind than inside.
There is so much wisdom in trusting what we feel. My head gets in a stew trying to get it right, saying the right thing, doing the right thing whereas my body simply knows. Why complicate things??
Head in a stew or a steady sureness and confidence in a whole body decision? It wounds weird but I find it is amazing and hugely simplifying to work with a whole body intelligence rather than the machinations of head alone.
Our body actually does know and we accept the simplicity of this and allow our body to guide us we can work out the truth of what we are feeling very quickly.
As someone who used to give my power away all the time by asking others what to do in situations or what they would do learning to listen and trust what I feel has been, and is still in progress, a huge turn around, the more I do it the more I realise all the answers are within me…if I listen. What I feel is my true guide, I can choose to override it but it is always there waiting for me to trust it.
I have noticed I have been a slave to what my head wants to do, set myself a target, or keep in line with a certain plan, even when it is an attempt to maintain my fitness, or was started with good intentions. For example, I started swimming twice a week, which was really good, but then had a heavy cold, so needed to pause the programme. If we are not feeling what is going on in the body at every moment, we are not being self caring at all. It was so simple to adjust to a daily walk while my body recovers.
I know that one so well having a picture to how the day will go and then getting frustrated when it doesn’t work out that way. Letting go of this and doing what feels right creates so much space and everything is completely looked after.
A very different experience to be in the moment and feel what is next rather than planning ahead and being rigid about these plans.
Honouring what we feel is one of the most supportive things we can do both for ourselves and others.
Allowing ourselves to be gently guided by our body offers us another dimension as we realise that life is about unfolding the wisdom within that continually supports us and never leads us astray when we are committed to purpose and not swayed by whims.
Planning can be a form of protection; keeping me in the ‘safety’ of a fixed trajectory.
When we go into drive and push, we constrict our vision and awareness of all that is on offer for us. So often when we stay with our bodies and remain in the present, the way forward naturally unfolds, no push required, just an awareness of how our physical bodies are responding to the space we live in.
Trusting what I feel goes hand in hand with trusting what I know and trusting who I am… and ultimately, just trusting.
I have a sat-nav in my car and often ignore what it tells me to do. When my daughters were young, and I was driving someplace new they learned I was not lost, I was exploring. So, can we ever be lost?
This maybe brings a whole new meaning to living in the moment, for I have also in the past made plans and stuck to them even though they didn’t feel right, no major disasters happened but what could I have been missing out on for not acting on a true feeling?
When we listen to our body it saves so much time and energy and creates an enormous amount of space.
This is beautiful and an inspiration for me to listen deeply what my body wants. I feel distraction is my comfort and it is a sad fact to not know what the body wants.
‘this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.’ – I have spent far too many years living with a mis-conception of what control is actually doing. I believed it allowed me to feel confident in that I knew what I was doing, and could rely on a certain outcome. However, I now appreciate that in so doing I was cutting myself off from the outcome(s) being so much more spectacular for me and everyone else, by being open to the universal support that surrounds us constantly.
So true Alison – when life feels out of control, ‘control’ can feel like the only option, and yet perpetuates more of the same and cuts us off from ‘the preciousness of simply being with me’.
I have planned ahead what I would like to do and where I would like to go but often it doesn’t work out. This can lead to me feeling disappointed or open to embracing the flow depending how attached I am to the picture I had in my head.
The traffic can be very heavy around where I live, with many possible routes to my destination. More and more, rather than trying to ‘think’ which route would be ‘best’, I am allowing myself to trust in which way I feel to go, even if it is longer. It makes for a fun journey, with far less stress and the traffic usually flows beautifully 🙂
Susan thank you, you’ve shone a light on a pattern I can live where I get so focused on the outcome, I miss the particular details along the way, like how I am and the quality in how I move, and if in fact I bring attention to that quality and let go on the outcome, life opens up in a way I do not expect.
It is quite incredible how much more we can feel in our bodies when we bring our full attention to the way in which we walk. To make walking a regularr part of our day can only support us to feel more, and therefore be more in tune with what is going on in and around us.
Yes I agree Sandra and I love going for a walk and simply focusing on my body and how it feels. It is a very supportive thing to do every day.
Love it Susan. Trust is the first step in feeling our feelings and our bodies, and then once we trust the doorway is open to feeling that our every move is known and although we may not have to plan details about our future selves, we can connect to where we are going.
Walking is one of the most divine experiences when we listen to our body and let what naturally flows express through our body. Could it be when we harden our bodies that we shut down our expression and no longer feel our whole body when we are walking? Or as you rightly say Susan: What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive.
I have come to know that trusting what I feel, equates to trusting in God. By this I do not mean feeling, as in emotions, as emotions are specifically designed to throw us off the trail of what we clairsentiently feel.
If the purpose is to be the true you, then its irrelevant where you are going, purpose will get you to where you need to be.
‘…I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way….’
Yes as I take the opportunities given to me to not go into trying to control life, but trust what I feel and follow this, I am connecting to being part of a bigger picture that is far wiser than I can comprehend. What then comes my way I’m willing to learn from, the lessons that I have created that I am now walking into and taking responsibility for. This openness means I don’t have the need for life to be a certain way (ie me wanting to avoid the karma I’ve created). Being open is a work in progress but I appreciating the steps I am taking and the lessons being learnt.
Our minds create tension by trying to control and provide solutions, which only ends up in complication. Our bodies on the other hand, constantly bring us back to harmony and truth… and in that there is an openness, freedom and space for so much more.
Trusting what we feel rather than running with the mind is a game-changer.
Listening to our inner knowing is so important, sometimes I will be at the shop and all of a sudden, I get a feeling to buy new mop or something and then I will deny this, writing it off as a silly thought that came out of know where as I already have a mop at home, then the mop will brake a day later and I am at home not wanting to go out and I will remember back and think, why did I not trust myself?
The other day, my wife and I were in the shops. She said that I should buy a new lighter for my incense. My lighter was working fine so I dismissed the suggestion. The next day it broke. She knew and I didn’t trust her.
It is quite incredible when we consider that this “knowing” if nurtured and trusted, could in fact be a super power of sorts. Imagine making our decisions based on nothing but an impulse, we would be living the future whilst moving in the present. The two examples we both gave a very instant proof but sometimes the plan is so big that that “Ahah moment” doesn’t come for years. The possibilities are endless when we consider the intricacies of Gods plan and our relationship to that plan.
Surrender to the bigger picture.
“I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way.” that is life changing. Quite literally from my experience the trust and then acting on what I feel and know is true has completely changed my life and its a great and inspiring confirmation to read your experience as well.
Listening to our body is an incredibly simple process but with very profound results, as Susan shows. Over time I am realising more and more details and depth in what my body offers me.
Same for me Christoph. Our body is here to support us through life, it is the best tool we have and why not use it to its full potential, trust, care and nurture it the best we can.
The quality of our movement can’t be underestimated in all that is on offer when we connect back to this, letting our innate wisdom lead the way. The world starts to become alive with simplicity, wonder and joy again, the same as when we where little. These qualities have never left us we let go, replacing it with what I’m understanding as artificial intelligence, that is: man made intelligence that we fill our minds with based on what we are told.
One day we will all realise that the only reason our life is not full of love, joy and ongoing expansion of our glory, is because instead of trusting our feelings and surrendering to the natural divine flow that we are part of, we have been trying to manipulate things and getting in the way.
Yes, we can let go of the fight and surrender and feel the beauty being humble celebrates.
‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.’ There is such a beauty to discover when we connect and choose the quality of our being both inside and outside ourselve.
Feeling our way is definitely not something wishy washy or spiritual, it is very much giving space to our bodies to just be and not be so controlled by thinking every step through of our day.
Yes, it allows us to have much more energy.
Pondering more deeply on what your blog offers: whenever you want to repeat a beautiful walk for example, it is never the same. Did you realize that? The key lies not in repetition and controlling things we know, because everything moved on already. So something even greater is awaiting us, if we are open for it.
So true Stefanie. Whenever I try to repeat something amazing, it is always a let down. We keep making it about what we ‘do’ and how we ‘control things’, yet it is all about the energy we are in and the way we are relating ourselves as well as to life.
I love the magic that unfolds when I just follow my impulses. Nothing you could imagine is comparable with what is offered you then.
A beautiful sharing as learning to trust our feelings is a deeply resonating and allowing way to be that is life changing with a knowing and honesty that simply is and brings us back to who we are and all we know and were innately as a child.
I have found it really important to discern what it is I am feeling before I trust it. Quite often I can feel something in reaction and feel it is true. However, if I give myself space to observe the quality I am in, it is that quality that will support me to either trust what I feel or will support me to work on the reaction.
Let’s face it, enjoying the way we move through each day is what enriches our lives as it offers others the inspiration to free themselves from burdens being carried unnecessarily.
When we become focused on a to-do list or a goal, we lose sight of actually living and enjoying the day and what it offers because it is measured in how much of the list we have ticked off and not by the quality of how we felt in the day.
Trusting what we feel builds our own trust in ourselves and from there we trust others also more.
Monika I wholeheartedly agree that ‘trusting what we feel builds our own trust in ourselves’, also for me it also reduces my need for others or things to be a certain way, because I am more solid in myself.
Needing things to be a certain way is not fun for anyone!
I find focussing on being present with my body gives me clarity on the messages given and felt, bringing my mind into alignment with my body.
I agree Ruth, I have also experienced the more focused I am being present with myself, the more I can feel and read. The more clarity I have this allowing bringing my mind into alignment with my body.
One never knows what is round the corner when you trust your feelings other than there will be an opportunity to evolve.
‘Trust’ and ‘feeling’, not two words I would have put together for much of my life. Yet since Universal Medicine is in my life I have reunited these two words and know the significance they offer in every moment.
and I would add a third word into the mix, ‘trust, feel, God’.
Thanks Susan, for this honest observation – “I could feel a drive and distraction in trying to plan steps ahead of where I was”. How many of us live constantly in the past or the future rather than feeling the magic and all-encompassing knowing that we have access to at all times?
I love how simple life has become since I have started the process of listening to my body’s impulses and letting this guide me. The simplicity of life isn’t even the greatest gift I have received from this process. The greatest gift is the depth of wisdom my body shares with me has only kept expanding. Oh and I have felt the trust I had in my body has evolved to a knowing/certainty, pretty awesome.
“Trusting what I Feel” how different all our lives would be if we made this our everyday choice.
Absolutely how different our lives would be if we connected to and trusted what we feel and made choices in our every movement to reflect this. It would be super amazing.
So many decisions I make are based on what I ‘think’ others want from me. My body rarely gets a look in. Your blog has me wondering how much I’ve missed out on because of this and how important it is to appreciate those moments when I let my body lead the way
I love your honesty here Leonne. Yep many times I allow my head to lead the way rather than my body even though I know the truth that lies within my being and that if I live from this there is an order, magic and flow to life.
Our bodies cannot lie, therefore, trusting in how we feel provides us with a very solid and true foundation to live from, when we choose to connect with it and allow the space to listen.
When I look back I am amazed at how often I would dismiss what I felt from my body and align to ideals and beliefs outside of myself. Learning to trust in the wisdom of my body is taking some time to unfold, but I certainly appreciate the markers I have felt and know that when I am in doubt it is my body that I keep needing to come back to.
I agree Michelle, when things get a little complicated and uncertainty and doubt are there, returning to my body is the choice that supports me every time.
‘I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel, and be less caught up in needing life and my daily tasks to be a certain way.’ – I can totally relate to this too, Susan. It’s interesting how oblivious we can be to our behaviour when we are ‘conditioned’ to live a certain way. Until I started attending Universal Medicine presentations and workshops, I had no idea that my life was filled with so many ‘pictures’ that were dictating how I should live. It’s wonderful to let them go and appreciate being me.
A beautiful sharing Susan. The body is amazing with what it reveals to us when we are willing to listen and surrender to its wisdom.
Being with the quality of our movements adds a richness to life that is not present otherwise. Present is spot on because in being with our movements there is ‘conscious presence’ that is otherwise missing. The difference is remarkable.
It’s the moments where we don’t plan but are lead by impulse that can lead to something absolutely spectacular.
Being present with my body gives me the opportunities to make choices that support my body. Without presence I am lost. Developing and building presence where my mind is in line with my body in my day is key.
Interesting that the times when I make a decision differently to normal and without a reason ‘in my head’, but from another feeling, I often find that the real reason becomes apparent later on reveals that there is far more guidance on offer in what we feel than what we can reason with in our own mind.
Susan, reading this I can feel that I can get stuck in my mind, focussed on where I am going rather than being fully present and appreciating all that is around me; ‘I was able to see more of what was around me than if I was stuck in my mind, focussed on where I was getting to.’
“As I started to walk, I could feel a drive and distraction in trying to plan steps ahead of where I was… then I simply chose to come back to me.” A critical point to catch, otherwise we can find ourselves swept off into ‘planning ahead land’ and completely loose connection with the joy of the moment and all it has to offer us.
I so agree with you when you say.
“With much gratitude to the various esoteric modalities for sharing the simplicity of being with and caring for our bodies in movement and daily activity! Thank you!”
My life has changed so much over the last 10+ years, I would say I was a walking miracle. The depression and sadness that has hung over me like my own personal thundercloud has gone. It took a lot of hard work by stepping back and observing how I was behaving which was, I’m the ‘victim’ and to blame everyone else for my predicament. The change in my attitude to life has been due to the support from Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine modalities. They literally are life-changing.
Great blog Susan! We have a whole new way of living and ‘planning’ available here. Living without the tyranny of images of the way it has to be, and listening to the communication of the body. Yes One has to have a kind of ‘plan’ – eg. I am buying a house and I am looking to be in this particular area. But after that no intense planning needed, just a knowing that this house will be constellation (with a little bit of help from our friends!) So simple, no struggle.
Trusting what we feel can lead to surprising outcomes of the most unexpected kind…there is a joy and spontaneity in that.
The only way back to God, is to feel our way back. There’s no other way.
A golden nugget of truth this blog surely is. When we are always relying on someone else to tell us what to do instead of trusting our own feelings first we are destined to be pulled in many directions and are not honoring our innate born ability to know the truth of any situation ourselves.
“Trusting What I Feel” – is the way to having true confidence.
Yesterday on my walk I spotted a footpath I hadn’t seen before and so today when I was walking with a friend we chose to go that way. What a sight greeted us – a beautiful dawn in front of us and, when I turned round and looked back, a full bow rainbow – stunning!
When we trust our feelings there is a natural harmonious flow to life because there is no room for complication.
So true Susan, how the “old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected,”. We can simply be open to observe and trust our movements and feel a difference.
When we dismiss what we feel, we start to erode our own natural confidence and trust in ourselves, so that we become unsure and unsteady of all the bigger decisions we have to make. Consistently listening to what we can feel, and acting on that, and appreciating when we do that, builds a steady foundation from which to grow from.
Beautifully said Bryony.
What I realize in clients that I see, that speaking out/ communicating about what we feel is a great tool to strengthen the confidence. Unfortunately we are not often asked what and how we truly feel, when we are young, so we have to re- learn to express in that way and actually take note of what we actually feel all the time and confirm that we know what is true.
Surrendering to our bodies and letting them lead is an amazing thing to master. I am in training for this, but the moments where I do let go and actually ‘follow my nose’, it’s awesome….and no where near as scary as I make it out to be. We have this idea that letting go of control will end in disaster, but it’s the opposite. I’m always baffled by how simple life can really be and why I so often choose the path with most resistance.
I find that the esoteric modalities also support us to clear the ‘gunk’ out of our bodies (old hurts, stresses, aches etc…) that then allow us to feel and listen to our bodies so much more.
True joy is felt when we allow the flow of life to move us where is needed.
Trust is the bridge back to the absolute knowing of the way things are. Thus trusting what we feel is the first step in re-establishing our relationship with the depth and wisdom of the Universe (God) that pulses within our every cell.
Doubt is the opening to the poison that is unexpressed expression.
I swing from being super controlling planing every inch of my day to the other end of letting it flow. I know that I also need support in preparing for my day and honouring myself in order to be in the true flow of the day.
It sounds so crazy – why wouldn’t you trust what you feel right? But how many times do we override and do something because of what ever reason. For me I am still working on and clocking this override and the more I do the more I feel how impactful it is in how I feel. Breaking such and ingrained habit and behaviour one by one, step by step is super amazing. Thanks to Universal Medicine I have been supported to connect to my Soul and feel the truth of who I am.
…And we get to enjoy all of who you are too! It’s a win win win
It is all about developing our relationship with our bodies, with a foundation where we honour and accept the level of sensitivity within, for once we live with this in place it is natural to trust and surrender to what is.
This is the most natural thing in the world. We just need to get our head’s out of the way in order to be in our natural flow.
Yes, and sorting out/ looking at our believes, pictures and ideals we carry inside us that take over immediately in a situation, so that the innate first feeling is directly overwritten and what then speaks is, like you said, our head= the picture or ideal.
Susan, you beautifully confirmed how magical and empowering it is to trust and listen to our body. I was walking in my local town this morning and I applied what you’ve shared here and I too felt the magic of this powerful tool.
Such a smile and powerful sharing of how we can develop a relationship with our bodies that truly honour them. This is a joy to read and shows that planning should not dictate what actually happens in the moment. Our bodies know exactly what is needed.
Great how you put it: ‘trusting’ what we feel. We could also say honouring what we feel, both indicating that we know by feeling but for some reason may choose to not value it hence it is all about coming back to the truth within and then act accordingly.
Presentations by Universal Medicine offer so much insight into how to simply be in life for the fullness and richness of our innate wisdom to guide us from our bodies out. Thinking has me sinking inwards limiting the wonders and beauty of the universe that are naturally available.
I love this! I absolutely know what you have shared here. I could apply it to my life so much more than I have been. Whenever I let go enough of the control and push, and I am caring, listen to and honour what I feel, I find that I am pleasantly surprised, space opens up and it is as if heaven is able to show the magic that is possible in daily life.
Me too Golnaz. I have been more aware of listening and trusting my body since reading Susan’s blog and I notice the expansion and openness this offers is amazing.
The wisdom of what we know inside is often beyond imagination. If we allow ourselves to listen to our bodies life would be completely different and a whole lot simpler and more joyful.
A beautiful example of trusting the body and learning to listen to its messages.
Gorgeous Susan, to feel the surrender to the body.
‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.’ Yes – those times where I have just followed an impulse from my body rather than a drive from the head has ended up with some pretty cool moments!
I love this and honouring all that I feel even when it doesn’t make logical sense. Learning to trust myself again feels like I’m growing up and not giving my power away to what others’ think. Yes to considering and being open but no to dismissing what I feel without hesitation!
It is so true Susan, when we are focussed on planning ahead we miss all the beauty and richness of where we are.
When I don’t take things personally I find I get a much clearer sense of what is taking place, alongside much more understanding of the situation.
It is such a joy to heal / release tension from our body and to reconnect to the warmth and love within.
Trusting what we feel rather than overriding it, is a great way to approach and live life. The results I have found, never fail even when there’s something to learn and mistakes are made.
Thank you Susan, there is nothing more beautiful than to feel the movement of our bodies in flow with that which is divine, which can only be accessed through our connection within.
Thank you Susan. Such a lovely example of being open to listening to the wisdom of the body. I love what comes when I listen to my body as opposed to what’s planned by what my mind wants.
It has taken a long time for me to relinquish the hold of my mind and the control of thinking my way through life, but the more I let go, the more I can feel how my body knew so much more than I gave it credit for, and that my greatest and wisest teacher was with me all the time.
Beautiful Susan, walking with presence and without agenda is something the body loves, as was confirmed wholeheartedly for you that day.
Yesterday evening I telephoned a store about 20 minutes distance away to check on the availability of an item required for someone coming out of hospital. I was assured there were many of these items in stock, so there was no need to drive there then. I trusted the feeling in my body and followed the impulse to drive there immediately – there was only one item in the size required hanging amongst many others.
Your story is truly gorgeous. I love being reminded how wise and knowing we are in connection with our bodies.
This is an excellent blog Susan covering so much of what is felt when we honour our body and listen to the loving impulses.
Honouring our body when we do anything is amazing and no amount of superlatives can convey the true wonders that living this way holds!
Being guided by the body as to where we walk and when we turn is a beautiful experience and, as you have shown, can reveal some unexpected and beautiful surprises.
Inspired by your blog yesterday I focussed on staying with my body during my lunchtime walk and was amazed how hard I found it to switch off from what had been going on at work and how often I had to stop and come back to myself rather than rushing ahead of myself both mentally and physically going into drive. The difference with how my afternoon flowed through choosing to take a 15 minute break to be in nature was massive and because I was more connected to my body I was much more productive. Thank you for reminding me when I trust my body magic happens.
Thank you Susan, your description reminds me of the joy, freedom and openness I felt as a child, and how the planning and agitation squashes this! I had an experience a few months ago when on a walk to the beach, my body was very clear to go down another road and alongside houses, I tried to dismiss it after all the beach and a sunset was waiting! However I chose to follow this strong feeling and on the way I bumped into someone I know and her daughter, we had the most beautiful interaction and it felt very meant to be. The love and joy we shared was more than any sunset! The intelligence of my body knew that, I just trusted and surrendered, however the intelligence of the mind is more rigid and plan based – it goes from A to B and seems to move towards known outcomes. It’s more like a control instead of the freedom and expansiveness of the whole body intelligence.
A beautiful blog Susan. I love that your body took you to this haven. I recently had a similar strong experience. I was feeling the pull to continue writing an article on Shakespeare for a website. Ideas were flooding in. But I knew that I had to prepare a novel for one of my tutorial students. My mind was insisting that I prepare for the student, but my body was telling me otherwise. I went with my body and kept writing the article, and not long after that the student called to cancel so I didn’t have to prepare anyway!
Trusting what I feel and expressing it has caused me untold problems and issues in my life. If I hold what needs to be expressed in, it just festers and the problem seems to grow out of proportion. The lack of trust in expressing and honouring what I feel is something I am beginning to really look at because it causes un-necessary complication in my life.
“I have begun to trust more deeply what I feel” – the same experience is one that I had, I would always feel things but never trust my feeling. I would always think of what other people wanted or may think and never valued my own feelings. Today my life is so different with a constant deepening of what I feel and willingness to express that.
The shift away from just thinking to feeling and sensing with all of my body has been a very positive and loving one in my experience. We sense a lot more than we realise I would say, and this innate ability to feel is a gift that is so very supportive of our choices – if we choose to connect and listen to them.
There have been numerous times in my life that I haven’t trusted what I feel to dire consequences and hind sight in these cases is not a wonderful thing.
I had a moment recently when I too didn’t trust what I felt Kev, and am now paying the consequences. Its really highlighted to me how a momentary lapse in our focus can have a significant knock on effect, and the responsibility we have to stay present with everything we do.
A beautiful feeling it is when guided by feeling on our walks. When we place trust in the body, the mind is silenced.
Thanks for sharing Susan I am really noticing at the moment how we seek to control the outcome of our daily lives rather than just trusting and being open to all that is on offer if we would just let go of our need for control.
There is definitely a greater plan we can surrender to letting go of the control, it’s more like a flow and very magical.
‘I chose to make the walk about the quality of my movement’ I agree and to focus on this is a meditation in itself.
Wow. We miss out so much when we make choices and move from the confinement of what we think we know. It may look all neat and tidy and “as planned”, but life has so much more to offer than that.
Do we want to take this path or that path, we always have a choice.
The subtly of this is amazing. When we choose to be aware of how our body feels it then becomes easier to have a relationship with that quality and this emphasises the point that building this relationship is so essential. How many times do we override what we feel and then feel the hardening or contraction as a consequence and contribute that feeling to other causes like a headache or ‘bug’.
Susan, what you are sharing here feels really important; living in the present moment in our bodies and not being ahead of ourselves in our minds feels key to live a healthy and joyful life; ‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound’.
This is a great reminder to keep things simple and to not overload our experiences with expectations.
I keep being amazed by the outcomes that occur when I follow my feelings rather than my thoughts.
This could be a symbol of what is awaiting you in your life if you leave known pathes and listen to your body. There is a rhichness , coulourness and abundance in your innermost which comes alive as soon as you let go of roads which do not serve you anymore.
How often do we follow through with something that feels right or wrong? When, we question these feelings have we already lost a moment of discovery?
What a beautiful reminder Susan to make life not about function but rather about the quality of our movements and how we feel in our bodies. Our bodies that will never fail us to tell us the truth of where we are at or what is best for us to choose in life. That said, humanity would be much wiser if we all would listen more to what our bodies continuously are communicating to us.
“…So often I have sought to prepare myself, to plan ahead while dismissing to care for and listen to myself, and what my body needs right in that moment…” Planning is a super part of Self-Care when we take into consideration the feeling and connection we have with ourselves
Great point. When I stay stuck in my head my focus is narrow, when I connect to my body the whole world opens up.
“…As I started to walk, I could feel a drive and distraction in trying to plan steps ahead of where I was…” What a great thing to catch yourself going into a pattern of thoughts that distract one away from remaining in connection with the body.
Hi Susan, we have yet to discover just how wise our bodies truly are and how they are connected to more than we know – allowing constellations to happen as you did is a great way to honour your body and the more you trust it the more it will teach you.
Susan what you have shared is an inspiration to let go of all of this control and getting an outcome It is an invitation to give it a go to see what will happen if we choose to let the body lead the way.
A great sharing Susan and one that leads me to ask ‘who’s in the drivers seat, Mini me or God?’ More and more I am opting to sit in the back seat and hand the wheel over to God. I am finding that he is the most proficient of drivers, never getting lost and always taking the most direct and yet at the same time, the most scenic route!
Haha, I agree, Alexis. It is very humbling to acknowledge that there is a plan that we are a part of, and that God clearly knows what he is doing.
‘I chose to make the walk about the quality of my movement’ … how gorgeous – re-enforcing feeling the exquisite essence of you with your every step.
I can so relate to what you share here Susan… and when we go against what our body feelings are, the tension becomes so strong, we have to turn and follow our bodies lead in our next step – or harden to continue on our minds way.
Our bodies know a harmony to life that our minds cannot ever perceive, and when we flow in that harmony there is space for even more harmonious constellations.
Our minds want to control everything, however…”… this robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected…” So very true Susan…when we go with the flow of what we feel life is magical!
‘I did also get a little caught up planning the walk – where I would go, which nice areas I wanted to visit again from my walk the evening before, how far I would travel… etc!!’ – there is absolutely a place for planning, we all have ‘time commitments’ in varying degrees throughout our day, which it would be irresponsible to ignore, yet, it’s easy for our ‘planning’ to develop further into expected or anticipated outcomes and this immediately shuts us off from experiencing the magic that surrounds us when we are open to life unfolding before us. Awesome reminder, thank you, Susan.
“A tranquil haven all within ten minutes from my home, which if I had not honoured what I felt, I would never have known was there!” – beautiful Susan! Isn’t it gorgeous to truly enjoy a walk, moving freely, expansively, without anything else in the way… you can so often discover and uncover such wonderful surprises!!
I feel I need to take heed in what you are sharing. That is to not push or drive, trust, honour and listen to my body being of the flow and knowing where I am going is all part of the plan. There is a big lesson for me in this. You also show the absolute magic that unfolds in when we do this.
The mind is always seeking to be in control whereas if we choose to trust what we feel magic happens.
When we have a plan of how we want life to go for us, and don’t leave space for anything to go wrong or anything to chance, we leave less space for the magical moments to happen, less space to feel what to do next. We cut short our connections, awareness and depth of our potential learnings.
I find it fascinating how when we truly let go and just go where we feel then what comes our way is exactly what we need to see and feel. Interesting how we can so easily override and get caught up in what we want from our day or outing.
This is a beautiful example how there is somebody very smart and helpful always present – our own body.
Thankyou Susan, your piece is a nice account of how there can be a definite difference between what the mind and the body would like.
If we’re locked into a certain picture of how we want or expect things to go then we can override the feelings or intuition that we get from being in tune with our whole body and being and our place in the all.
I have trusted my feelings especially when walking for a very long time, I used to be guided by them regarding my route home and would never dismiss the feeling that one way was not the way for the evening. It has served me well, even having the strong sense that someone was casing me out in a busy super market with one meeting of our eyes was enough for me to ring my boyfriend who I couldn’t get through to and then when I had a good look around decided I wasnt being followed, 10mins walking I had just said to myself how paranoid I was to then turn around and see the man right behind me, I ran as quick as I could to the nearest place with people our local pub at the time. Totally freaked out but absolutely validated in trusting what I feel and read.
How lovely to find a haven like this, love your story on how you found it, such magic if we allow it.
Susan I love this as it really shows the beauty and magic that is there for us to experience when we choose to honour what our body is telling us. It’s a great reflection to do this no matter the situation.
Indeed DN, life becomes more magic and in fact it is if we observe our lives more openly. I can than say that in every moment of the day i get the opportunity to grow and evolve just by reading what life is teaching me by the magic it presents.
There is such spaciousness in presence where the clear flow of energy and clarity is present, without any interference.
I do enjoy a walk, and the space that I give myself to just walk. No problems, no solutions, just footsteps.
‘The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound.’ – How true, staying present and with ourselves, i.e. in our body and not checked out in our mind, makes an enormous difference and is key to picking up the non stop and important signals from our body. That way we can easily feel where and how to move next.
Beautiful Susan. The difference is remarkable when we are present and at one with the body, it is the quality that is walked and not the focus on the destination that brings the joy of the unexpected.
Gorgeous Susan, a great reminder of the importance of checking in to our body.
It is astonishing how many concepts and pictures we hold about how life should be even with the most trivial things. Without a connection to the body and honouring what we feel we don´t even have a chance to get aware and rid of that mental construct, it is only by learning to trust the body´s impulse that we have a true alternative to the ideas and beliefs we otherwise will consider to be the only way there is.
Thank you Susan for this great reminder to go with the flow rather than have the need to push through what our head wants us to experience.
We have no idea what we are missing out on when we shut ourselves off from what the body is telling us!
It is often the least likely or less traversed option that leads to the greatest richness. And our body knows that and our mind can often fight that.
Short and sweet but with a powerful message that goes against what is our modern trend. We are taught to plan ahead, be concerned if we don’t know, make sure, just get it done, etc, etc and yet there is a far easier and simpler way to move through your day, feel, truly feel. In place of just doing things and getting to the end of the week comes a way of living that strikes at the very ‘doing’ and calls on us to be. No high mountain to climb or trophy to obtain just a celebration in each step knowing that your presence in that step is the only thing you need in any moment. It’s a dedication that has no end and is just an ever expanding build of that presence and an appreciation of all that is felt. Maybe simplistic to some but it’s well worth the feeling.
I love moments like these and they can only come when we go with the feeling in the moment. There is something truly magical and I often wonder how much more magic is available to us when we stop trying to picture the future.
I love how when we allow ourselves to go with what our body feels to do and not let our mind get in the way, how symbiotically beautiful things happen. Allowing ourselves to surrender to this is absolutely key to living a harmonious life.
Yes I have been reminded several times recently that having any investment or control towards an outcome, or end result, is not helpful nor healthful.
There is something about being in the fullness of our beingness that is simply delicious. It is in essence just being ourselves as fully as possible. Then we have experiences like this to confirm the beauty of our choices. How awesome.
Yes, I am exploring this too Elizabeth – letting go of control and being open to being in the moment and responding to whatever is required – enjoying being flexible rather than fixed in the way it should be, is key…
Listening to our body over our mind always pays off.
Not only does it rob us of the preciousness of truly being ourselves and the awe-ness of discovering new and wonderful things, it robs the world of a steady solid person, ready to honour our body and in such honouring what the world needs in that moment. Like the simple choice to drive home a different way, because you feel to, who knows why and it doesn’t matter, maybe the world called for our presence to be in that area at that time.. We can never underestimate the power we each hold and the grace with which we bless where ever we are.
Thank you for your comments everyone.
Whilst we are learning to re-trust what we feel, to have confirmations such as this, Susan is pure joy. Each moment like this keeps building our trust more and more, so that we can live in a way that is truly more harmonious and with less anxiety.
It is true when we live ahead of ourselves.. that is, in our heads, the body will always feel an anxiousness as it is not yet in that future moment and the body can feel this.
What an inspiring and empowering blog Susan. How beautiful to expose and let go of the control and deeply appreciate the preciousness that has been waiting a long time to be re-claimed.
“What I am realising is that this old way seeks to control the outcome and robs me of the preciousness of simply being with me and the beauty that abounds when I support myself to be connected, and to trust and be open to receive”.
Living in the quality of each moment is a great teaching to understand, and live life by… and when I do this I can certainly feel a difference within my whole body.
Awesome blog Susan, what you’ve share shows how intelligent and intuitive our body is to nature and what is around us. I am learning to trust what I feel instead of letting my thoughts override the intelligence of my body.
A beautiful testimony to the fact that our bodies know exactly what we need and when we need it.
Which is why when we are connected with our bodies, feeling the steadiness and anchoring from within, we know what’s needed, what to do and we don’t doubt ourselves in the process.
Spot on Katerina – our downfall is when we allow doubts to come in – building a relationship of trust with the body is a process that is well worth going through!
When we trust and move from this knowing we uncover a vast world of opportunities, great beauty and wonder around us and that is a true gift. Thank you Susan.
It has taken me a while but I have finally come to know that when I trust what I feel, as you discovered, everything flows so easily; there is a divine simplicity that is definitely lacking when I try to plan and control. Trusting our inner wisdom is actually so very natural for us but somewhere along the way, often starting in childhood, we begin to shut down this innate connection; the good news is that it never lost, it is always just one simple choice away.
If we don’t listen to our body we just end up walking along the same path time and time and time again with only comfort and familiarity as our companions. When we listen and honour what we feel, we open up to the universe with all its unlimited potential.
A beautiful reminder, Susan, that there is a constant communication occurring all of the time, that we can tap into simply by staying connected to our bodies. Thank you for sharing this lovely story.
When we feel with our body it speaks very loudly, it is just that we are not used to tuning into this vibration as everything we are taught from a young age is to listen to our mind and follow our thoughts.
Susan, I love the simplicity of what you are sharing here and of the huge difference it makes when you choose to be with you; ‘then I simply chose to come back to me. The difference when I stopped thinking about the future result and chose to feel my feet and body as I walked was profound’,
Just lovely Susan, and a great example of what can happen when we let go of control, trust, and follow that ever-accurate compass of ours – the body.
I love this Susan. This is the natural ease with which we simply and a playfully live as a child. Yet life is geared towards security protection and self, all which take us away from feeling we can live from the natural ways of our inner most feelings.
The ‘right path’ is not always the true path
It is very clear that our intentions in doing something very much influence if not determine the quality in which it is done. I know this from some mornings on my own walks when I can feel when I am walking simply to get it done and conversely when I am enjoying the feeling of being with me in my steps. The latter allows me to feel a flow of my movements and a connection to all through me.
More and more I am finding that following my feelings is greater than following my thoughts. It’s not easy letting go of having my focus in that mental place/space but the more I repeat returning to my body and following how I feel it never fails to highlight the difference.
Trusting what we feel is so important. All to often I have ignored this and paid the consequences… And when I do pay attention what can come feels amazing – and often so unexpected.
If we check in with ourselves in this way our body always shows us the way.
What a beautiful reminder to appreciate the far superior intelligent guidance coming from our body and not our busy minds. My body is letting me know very clearly at present when I don’t stay with it!
Where we live has a couple of parks, a brook, couple of mini-forests, and years ago I would have to walk miles, go somewhere new every weekend for about 10-12 miles but now I have walked these parks for a good few years now but never get bored or crave for new horizons, and I put this down to walking with me and my body. The difference being every time I go out I am not looking for the scenery to give me something because I have everything I need at that moment, and inevitably what has happened time and time again is this sense of wonder and newness comes into my walk, and it feels like I am seeing the beauty of nature for the first time.
I love what you share here Julie and absolutely resonate with it as it’s been my experience too.
The simplicity of being in relationship with a so much bigger picture when we allow our bodies to guide and sign post us… a beautiful, inspiring story to share, thank you Susan.
I love the simplicity of this magical sharing, it is very beautiful to feel the honouring we can allow our body by listening to it in every moment and the gift this allows us. The quality of our movements from connecting with ourselves really is everything and makes such a difference allowing the world to open up with all it shows us as you show here so beautifully. The more i am learning to trust myself the more i allow myself to let go and simply be with the magical flow of life.
I love what you share here, Susan. You so simply present the expansiveness of being present in the moment instead of thinking ahead.
Your blog reminds me of when I was a child everything was done on an impulse, there was never any structure to what we were going to do we just did it and if what we were doing felt boring we just changed to do something else. It wasn’t until we went to school where the rules, regulations and it’s controlling imposition, felt like a straight jacket that we all became incased and then wear for the rest of our lives. I’m just getting the sense of how controlled and manipulated we are in life, thinking that we are in control making those decisions, when it is not us at all.
Yes it’s true, Mary, I too remember as a child an unspoken communication with friends, because we were all choosing what to do and where to go purely on impulse. Going with the flow is definitely something to bring back more into our lives…
A beautiful example of the countless miracles offered to us when we move from our feelings, not minds.
A beautiful example of the countless miracles on offer when we are lead by our feelings, not our minds.
What a gorgeous discovery it is when we put aside our own agenda and follow our feelings instead. Very beautiful how the expansiveness in your body was leading you to discover more in your environment, which in turn is a reflection of you discovering more harmony within your body.
And so the expansiveness keeps forever expanding, as does the universe.
This is great confirmation to trust in what we feel and it is amazing what can open up to us if we do discard our old stubborn ways which bring us nothing but the same.
Great point the old ways of not trusting what we feel does just bring the same old same old. What is around the next corner when we surrender is beautifully illustrated in this case by a beautiful place to be. Yet that may not always be the case if we set up a picture of following your feelings equals success we will be sorely disappointed as there is much at play in life and as simple as it is the flow can also take us into choppy waters. I am more and more aware of how important it is to not have any investment.
Definitely, and it always feel like we are rewarded with a new experience when we are open to something new.
What a beautiful reminder that by staying present with ourselves, the body and the mind working as one, we are able to move in accordance with the flow of life and not against it. This flow then opens us up to all the riches that unfold unto us when we do not withdraw from such beauty.
Like working with a full tool kit, rather than trying to get a hammer to work for every job, our bodies and minds in synch make for a brilliant relationship with the world.
Beautifully expressed Liane, and I am learning to trust my body more and more to allow my body and mind to work as one. If I just follow my thoughts, they could easily lead me astray and into complications.
It is the wonderness that unfolds when we let our body take us for a walk!
This reminds me of going on holidays and needing to plan every detail, instead of allowing ourselves to feel where to go and what to do while we are there. A lot of the time it comes down to not wanting to be still and go with a flow that supports the body.
Using the mind to dictate what we do and how we do things definitely goes never beyond its own imagination of grandness, if we use the body and our multidimensionality there are no limits to the magnificence we can receive.
And once we have that experience of receiving the unexpected and extremely helpful several times we can start gaining trust in the process.
“the preciousness of simply being with me” I love the way you put that Susan. How you describe your walk really brings a sense of flow and how any attempt to take a tributary feels restrictive compared to the natural course being taken.
Walking is a great way of exploring our local area, but it is also a great way of exploring how we feel, what is going on in our bodies, and how tuned in we are to our health. Some simple steps can tell us a lot about how we have been living. I love that sharing Susan of the new area you discovered, I love to explore alleyways and unknown streets, there is no better way to get to know our local area than by taking a chance, or in this case listening to what you felt from your body.
Thank you Susan this simple sharing perfectly illustrates the blinkered way we carry on when we think we have the plan. We don’t – it is given to us through the way we move. Ignoring the quality we live life in, is like going on a drive in a foreign country with the gps turned off. It’s bound to come to a sticky end.